Papa’s Jade By: Patricia R. Liles Family ties are fragile. A telegram informing Millicent Sherman of her brother Caleb Powell’s death and his bequeath of Powell Imports to his only child comes as a shock. Sondra, his daughter, has been Millicent’s to nurture for over twenty years. With no contact to her father, Sondra has denied her relationship with him: “I don’t have a father – he gave me away when I was a toddler. Let his Jade have it.” Siu Lu, Caleb’s 10-year-old adopted child, has lived in California where he could monitor her care under Gem Chang, a Chinese-American woman who Millicent embarrassingly mistakes for his mistress. Sondra, for Millicent’s sake, relents and travels to California for her father’s memorial. As rumors of a priceless jade given to Caleb hover in the air; no one is aware the jade specter will alter all their lives forever. Will love, abduction, and death draw them closer in Caleb’s memory? Or alienate them forever?
For the Love of Johana By: Patricia R. Liles In residence at his Hotel/Casino and mansion in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at Lake Tahoe, multi-millionaire Conrad Heink, informed that he is dying of cancer, realizes that his granddaughter, Johana, will become an heiress to a fortune too large for her to handle. She is 24 years old, paraplegic, and the only remaining member of the Heink family. He immediately begins to secure her future. When a clergyman’s daughter, Megan Curtis, accepts his stunning proposal, he succumbs to Johana’s pleas to go to Brazil by cruise ship. Johana’s pilgrimage, hopefully, will satisfy her yearning to observe the work of a prolific sculptor, a monk with no hands, introduced by Joao, her Brazilian companion who must return to his home. There are many important people in Johana’s life. Their lives are inexplicably changed as Johana’s bizarre story unfolds. At the end of 14 days at sea, and the conclusion to the pilgrimage up a steep climb with a girl in a wheelchair, the world is no longer the same.
A Different Sort of Hero By: Patricia R. Liles Erin’s small figure was walking away, down the pine forest’s dirt road, carrying a suitcase, which struck Katherine as a final gesture. Against the backdrop of New Mexico in 1939, Forest Ranger Patrick Murray, at the death of his wife in childbirth, is left with an infant girl to raise at a ranger station in the Rocky Mountains, northwest of Santa Fe. Having enlisted the aid of his twin sister, Katherine arrives from North Carolina bringing news that his deceased wife’s parents are coming to take the baby away from him. Heartened by Katherine’s presence, he tends to his duties, which include a trip to North Carolina nurseries to oversee transport of delicate pine tree starts. While there, he reunites with his childhood friend, Erin Kelsey, and they plot to save the baby by eloping the night before he returns to the ranger station. It is their secret until needed to protect the infant from the threat. He has sworn to release Erin when there is no longer a threat. The marriage is no longer a secret when Erin arrives with his parents for a visit to Mountain View Ranger Station. Oblivious to Erin’s love for him, life around Patrick is turbulent as he learns the true meaning of love in a place he wants never to leave, and is astonished by Erin’s unselfish bravery.
Footprints on the Heart By: Patricia R. Liles Nola Redmond, daughter of a Forest Ranger, was 17 when she fell in love with Dwight Windham. Seven years later, when she is CFO at a Veterinary Clinic near Denver, they meet again. Doctor Dwight is one of the veterinary partners. Their romance flourished, but lies, rejection and loss bring her grief, not happiness, and leaving tiny footprints on her heart. As a means of healing, she seeks the solitude of a cabin in the Rocky Mountains near Steamboat Springs with her adopted German Shepherd dog, Erly. Four footprints. Ranger Winn Parkhurst annoys her with his overly-protective attitude, while the Joneses welcome her as the child they’d not been able to conceive; and a casual remark in the town market about her hermit lifestyle has generated a stalker from whom Nola fights to protect herself. When he is found dead near her cabin, Nola is suddenly faced with charges by Ned Millhouse’s angry wife in court. Frightful footprints. Despite her own brush with death, Nola is stunned by the outcome of the investigation and the number of people who have worked to prove her innocence. Especially Ranger Parkhurst—what sort of footprints will he leave?
A Bridge Over Satan’s Ravine By: Patricia R. Liles Sam Pasterino has been hired to design a bridge over Satana Ravine in Bolivia. Sam has loved Jenny Bellono since the first grade. Now thirty, he still yearns for her to stop rejecting him and come home to Colorado. Sam is an architect, as well as a successful horse rancher. He can give her an opulent life, but Jenny has chosen Hollywood and a life of fame. To Sam’s surprise, Jenny arrives in Bolivia under her stage name and as a guest of the developer who hired him. With her is Kevin Betcher, her dancing partner. Stunned, Sam is frustrated by secrecy, the abusive Betcher, and ensuing events that will try his patience and threaten his feeling for Jenny. As Sam designs the bridge, all is not smooth going. Difficult terrain and local shamans are grave concerns. Is it over for Sam and Jenny, or will a series of perplexing events reunite them?
Footprints on the Heart By: Patricia R. Liles Nola Redmond, daughter of a Forest Ranger, was 17 when she fell in love with Dwight Windham. Seven years later, when she is CFO at a Veterinary Clinic near Denver, they meet again. Doctor Dwight is one of the veterinary partners. Their romance flourished, but lies, rejection and loss bring her grief, not happiness, and leaving tiny footprints on her heart. As a means of healing, she seeks the solitude of a cabin in the Rocky Mountains near Steamboat Springs with her adopted German Shepherd dog, Erly. Four footprints. Ranger Winn Parkhurst annoys her with his overly-protective attitude, while the Joneses welcome her as the child they’d not been able to conceive; and a casual remark in the town market about her hermit lifestyle has generated a stalker from whom Nola fights to protect herself. When he is found dead near her cabin, Nola is suddenly faced with charges by Ned Millhouse’s angry wife in court. Frightful footprints. Despite her own brush with death, Nola is stunned by the outcome of the investigation and the number of people who have worked to prove her innocence. Especially Ranger Parkhurst—what sort of footprints will he leave?
A Bridge Over Satan’s Ravine By: Patricia R. Liles Sam Pasterino has been hired to design a bridge over Satana Ravine in Bolivia. Sam has loved Jenny Bellono since the first grade. Now thirty, he still yearns for her to stop rejecting him and come home to Colorado. Sam is an architect, as well as a successful horse rancher. He can give her an opulent life, but Jenny has chosen Hollywood and a life of fame. To Sam’s surprise, Jenny arrives in Bolivia under her stage name and as a guest of the developer who hired him. With her is Kevin Betcher, her dancing partner. Stunned, Sam is frustrated by secrecy, the abusive Betcher, and ensuing events that will try his patience and threaten his feeling for Jenny. As Sam designs the bridge, all is not smooth going. Difficult terrain and local shamans are grave concerns. Is it over for Sam and Jenny, or will a series of perplexing events reunite them?
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