Sam Calvert is the only veterinarian within a hundred miles of Rocky Butte, Colorado. He doesn't have time to get involved with anyone, but when a stranger appears at the local restaurant, he can't let her walk out into the night alone. She isn't dressed for the cold, and the look of desperation in her eyes has him worried. Allie Tate has hit rock bottom. The only thing she really wants is a home, but life won't cooperate. When she discovered her husband cheating, she ran. Her car, however, died in the mountains, so she's on foot without money or a friend. Sam and Allie initially butt heads over her ability to take care of herself and earn her keep. To avoid detection by her possessive, dishonest husband, Allie hides her past. Sam, meanwhile, is wrestling with the fact that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Tracy, is on the threshold of adulthood. When Tracy arrives for the summer, their emotional struggles kick off a series of disasters. Allie tries to help Sam and Tracy work out their relationship and falls for Sam in the process. But when Sam finds out Allie's still married, his world crumbles. Can this couple find a way to work out their differences, or will the differences between them be too much for their fragile relationship to bear? Sarah Storme resides in Santa Fe, NM.
Mahalia Strickler is ready to see the world. Modern all the way, she drinks and smokes, loves to dance, and has fought for the right to vote. When she returns home to Marshall's Bayou in 1920, she does not intend to stay long. The Methodist Church has unfairly exiled Daniel Griffin to southwest Louisiana. Still, he'll serve his sentence and use the time to search for his lost faith. The church in Marshall's Bayou is small, but it's his and there's work to do. The town knows Mae and Daniel have nothing in common. She's the wildest girl in the marsh, and he's the preacher. It doesn't take long, however, for the two of them to realize that everyone else is wrong. Still, Mae knows her reputation will ruin Daniel's career. No matter what her heart says, she must leave. Mae's plans are threatened by a Gulf storm that nearly destroys Marshall's Bayou. When the clouds finally clear, many souls have been lost, and Daniel finds strength in helping the town heal. His destiny is now clear, but he must have Mae by his side. Can he convince the woman he loves to stay with him, no matter what the consequences?
The Green Ridge Ranch is more than just a job for Meg Richards, it's home. Working as the lead horse wrangler for the ranch and clinging to the only family she has left, Meg holds tight to her dreams. It definitely isn't in her best interest to become involved with the new boss. Ian Drake, a Los Angeles businessman, has big plans for his new property. By breaking the Green Ridge into cabin sites he plans to make a bundle. But when happiness with an unlikely spitfire becomes more important than business, can he save his fortune and his heart? But before they can ride off into the Montana sunset Ian's former partner, feeling spurned and bent on revenge, threatens to destroy him and the ranch when he backs out of the land deal. And the unrequited love of a ranch hand obsessed with Meg since childhood leads to danger. Sparks ignite into a passion more powerful than either can imagine when Meg and Ian's worlds collide.
When officer Daniel Monroe encounters the woman he has fantasized about since childhood he knows he must convince her to forget a miserable marriage and give love another chance.
Hurricane IKE wiped out the entire Bolivar Peninsula of Galveston County, Texas leaving a mere "bomb explosion" effect on the community. It took over two week before residents where allowed onto their ravished properties, to see the horrendous destruction. It was a nightmare to all that returned. There are stories of our residents that stayed during the storm thinking it was only a Category 2 Hurricane. This book is dedicated to the stories that we will never hear and to all of the survival stories that we are thankful that we do have. The residents of the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas went through a life time experience with Hurricane IKE. On September 13, 2008, Hurricane IKE ravished the entire Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. It left the peninsula bare as if a bomb had exploded. The entire Gulf of Mexico churned with winds reaching 275 miles from the eye. The gulf side of Florida witnessed miles of beaches as the ocean was entirely submerging the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas. The residents of the Peninsula have our own unique stories and memories to share through each of our individual eyes. We lived through the unbelievable, the unknowing, the destruction, the loss, the love, the spiritual and the comeback! These are our stories, as our entire lives changed within a blink of an eye!
Melody had always had a "mother" who was never there, she was always a drug addict and her father who knows? Nobody ever told her where he was or who he was. She finally got her mother in the hospital for help until one day she had broken out, a nurse that she works with offers a place to stay with her brother and the two hit it off after a couple weeks They have family night with co workers like a real family. Melody had always longed for that. Will she find out who her father is? Will her mother ever get clean and become the mother melody hoped for? Is she really even Melody's mother? Find out now!
We all face 'storms', they are inevitable to life. What matters is how we prepare ourselves beforehand in order to live through them and emerge stronger in God on the other side. These 'storms' and challenges offer us real opportunities to shine the Light of Life we carry in our hearts but it will not shine if our foundation is unstable and we do not know the nature, promises, character and faithfulness of our covenant-keeping God. These things are the true hope of the gospel the people around us need too. Some years ago I found a photograph of a lighthouse standing strong in the midst of an angry swirling sea. The waves were so high they reached half-way up the side of the building. When I looked more closely I could see the lighthouse keeper stood in the doorway with his arms folded and every appearance of calm and peace. This image really spoke to me and since then I have been taken on a journey with God which I now share with you in Through The Storm.
Holy sites, both public - churches, monasteries, shrines - and more private - domestic chapels, oratories - populated the landscape of medieval and early modern Europe, providing contemporaries with access to the divine. These sacred spaces thus defined religious experience, and were fundamental to both the geography and social history of Europe over the course of 1,000 years. But how were these sacred spaces, both public and private, defined? How were they created, used, recognised and transformed? And to what extent did these definitions change over the course of time, and in particular as a result of the changes wrought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, this volume tackles these questions from the point of view of archaeology, architectural and art history, liturgy, and history to consider the fundamental interaction between the sacred and the profane. Exploring the establishment of sacred space within both the public and domestic spheres, as well as the role of the secular within the sacred sphere, each chapter provides fascinating insights into how these concepts helped shape, and were shaped by, wider society. By highlighting these issues on a European basis from the medieval period through the age of the reformations, these essays demonstrate the significance of continuity as much as change in definitions of sacred space, and thus identify long term trends which have hitherto been absent in more limited studies. As such this volume provides essential reading for anyone with an interest in the ecclesiastical development of western Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Jackie is on the run; she has no time for romance. Matt has other ideas--there's something about the spunky biker that has him head over heels. They come from two completely different worlds, and hers has danger in it. Is Matt tough enough to cope? Is Jackie tough enough to accept help when she needs it?
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