Love Stories

The story of little Amy Bac and her courageous battle against a rare disease as told by us - her parents. Amy fought this disease with grace and with courage as her parents faced a stalker meant to bring more harm to their innocent little child. Together, strong in their faith - Amy's parents would fight for their child's very life while their daughter's love for them never faltered.

  Allen Blackburn is forced by his father to marry Alicia, a woman that he doesn't know, a woman that he is certain is not meant for him. Angry and confused, Allen takes his new bride home and over time he finds himself falling in love with her, a feeling that she does not return to him. In fact, Alicia wants nothing to do with the man that is her husband. Determined to find out why he's been forced to be with this woman and battling the love he has for her - Allen learns the truth of why his father forced this marriage - and the truth will destroy Allen's life forcing him to find a new way to live, a way that can’t include his wife – the woman that he’s fallen in love with.

Langston Taylor and his small daughter Amy, return to his hometown after the death of his Uncle. Lang sets up his medical practice and begins his new life which is off to a rocky start as his Uncle has also left to Lang a young housekeeper, Holly Harrison, a woman that Lang cannot understand despite his empathy and his compassion as a physician. He soon realizes that Holly is more to him than a housekeeper. She is also his patient.

Cecily fell in love with Levi on the banks of Cherry Lake near Madison, Florida when she was still a girl. Levi was all she’s ever wanted as she grew into a woman. But she cannot have him, she’s not free to be with him. Standing between these star crossed lovers is a man bent on destroying them both and it will be up to Levi to save Cecily from the silent world that she’s forced to live in, a world that makes no sound.

Christian Brady had been a sharpshooter in the Great War. He had gone against everything he believed in to stay alive and make it home. Ashamed of what he had to do, Christian battles on in a war within himself that seems to have no end. Jordan Kelley is a witness to a crime and she needs a safe place to hide. There was no better place to hide her than in a small farming community with a man that is deemed a war hero, a man that is a sharpshooter. Christian and Jordan, two people that are nothing alike, are brought together in the fact that she needs to be safe and he needs to be saved. 

Shane and Shaun, identical twins, and both in love with Sarah Cartledge. Sarah knew without doubt which brother she loved, and she happily married him. But before they could start their new life together, the brothers had to leave and fight as US Marines in the Great War. Sadly, only one twin would come home from the Battle of Belleau Woods, and for Sarah, it would be the wrong twin. Unless, Sarah had married the wrong twin before the war started.

Allen Tucker, the strong willed handsome grandson of Allen Blackburn, and Levi Tucker, grows up in the shadow of his Grandfathers and his Uncle, Doctor Lang Taylor. Known as Tucker, he's determine to make his mark on the world. And when he falls in love with the beautiful Jessie Fairchild, she's the mark he's out to make. Set in the time of World War II this young man would have to learn that sometimes you don't have to fight in order to win. Sometimes all you have to do is love faithfully. 

Elijah Harding left his abusive past behind him and was ready for a whole new life, which included only himself and no one else. He had made a vow to never love anyone, his life was going to be filled with peace, reading his books, and not having any worries that others brought into his life. And then he bought a haunted house that had a huge garden wall that seemed to moan and cry with a life of its own. And on the other side of that wall was the town mortician; the funeral home. And a girl, a girl named Verily was on the other side of the garden wall, and she held a secret, a secret that only a ghost can tell.  

    He’s the Reverend Paul Mercer, a young man with a good reputation and a solid Christian foundation. And then he met her, Oary Barrow and he would do anything to be with her, to get to know her, and to court her, until she came to his home claiming her child as his own. Paul has to face the condemnation of his church as he is made to look like a sinner that fathered a child out of wedlock. Paul comes to realize as a Minister that we are all sinners, and sometimes, when someone looks guilty of a sin, they might just be an angel in disguise.

Andrew Joyner had an angel in his life that was his wife Rose, until one day she disappeared. Suspected of her murder, though no body is found, Andrew suffers the horror of a mob justice. When he is cleared of suspicion, he becomes the subject of gossip, rumors, and lies. What Andrew needs is an angel to save him, but the angel that is sent to him wrecks more havoc in his life.  This is a story of how gossip is believed, and how the truth is lost in the lies of gossip. 

Travis Baines comes home to find his brother Curtis has been shot in the head and is dead. His brother Liam is missing. Curtis' wife Kirstie is the only suspect, and Travis is determined to see her punished for the crime of killing both of his brothers, even if he has to hang her himself. 

Engaged to his brother Trey, Trinity is in love with Worth Granger. Worth is everything wonderful, the perfect man, while Trinity knows beyond all doubt that she’s not worthy for him to wipe his muddy boots on. With her love for Worth unending, Trinity moves forward intent on marrying Trey, a plan that Worth wants to destroy for the selfish, silly girl that isn’t right for his little brother, Trey.

 He's a United States federal marshal on the trail of a man that is killing young women, and she's the killer's next victim, the woman he's assigned to save. Mark Barrow survived a brutal and violent childhood, he grew up wanting to save others from what he had survived. He became a lawman, a man that would protect the innocent. And she was among the most innocent, the victim of the worst kind of man. Two people that are brought together as one of them fights to survive, and the other fights to keep her alive.

As a child, Sawyer Lambert had hurt an innocent little girl, a hurt that he couldn't undo. Now, as an adult, that girl came back into his life, grown and changed. She would take Sawyer's heart - along with his fury.

Quinn Lambert has everything he’s ever dreamed of for his life. Quinn has it all. And then he wakes up one morning to find that his wife has left him for another man. His world starts to crumble apart. For Quinn, things only get worse. His one of a kind monogrammed knife is found stabbed into the body of a dead man, and he’s being charged with murder. Found guilty and about to hang, the only one that can save him is the wife that left him, the wife that taught him how to hate after she destroyed him with her version of love.

 

Jeff Barnwell was in love with his best friend's wife, if he couldn't have her, then Jeff wanted no woman in his life. Until he was gifted with a little boy named Zachary, and the little boy's mother, Cathy.  This family that Jeff had taken for his own was in mortal danger, a danger that only Jeff's love could save them from.

He was a young boy accused of a crime he didn’t commit and judged guilty because of who his father was. He would fight a battle to leave behind his past, determined to win the war of who he really was by recreating himself into the man he wanted to be. She had a secret past she was running from and battling a war within herself. She couldn’t stay in one place for long, until she met him, a man that could destroy her in the name of love.

Parker Elliot falls in love with the girl of his dreams - Melanie Kirkland. Happy and safe, Parker returns to school to finish his final year of college. While he's away, a tragedy happens, and Parker loses Melanie. Years pass with Parker lost in grief, trying to carry on. Alone, Parker is haunted by a woman that needs his protection, a woman that is nothing like Melanie, a woman named Chelsea with eyes the color of Melanie's eyes. For Parker, with all of his heart, he wishes that Chelsea was his lost Melanie. But Melanie is dead, and Chelsea - she's not and never will be Melanie.

Zachary Barnwell was oblivious to the fact that his best friend's little sister was in love with him. Running from a painful past, a past that held a lot of shame, Zachary would find that the path to healing was to stop - to stand still - and let his best friend's sister show him the way to go, a way that would see a little innocent child wasn't harmed in the way that he had once been harmed.

Caleb McClure was a man out to prove his own value, not to the world, but to himself. He knew what he wanted out of life, he had morals, he had values and he had high standards. And then he met her. She was a flapper, a wild child, and she hung out in juke joints smoking and drinking, she was everything that he was not. Gabrielle was the last woman that he would choose to love and he hated that his heart betrayed what he knew he wanted in a wife. His heart wanted Gabrielle, and he only knew one thing, he had the make the most of loving her. 

Ryan Lewis’s mother was the housekeeper for Eden’s family. As they grew up together, Ryan and Eden knew that they belonged to one another. Their love was strong, Ryan held no doubt. Determined to keep the young lovers apart, Eden’s parents will do everything in their power to destroy Ryan, not just in Eden’s eyes, but in the eyes of the close knit community. While suspended sixty five feet in the air anchoring the cross on the church steeple, Ryan sees the world in a whole new light, while Eden only knows she must do whatever she can to please her parents, even if it means giving Ryan up. 

Sheriff Ty Porter is engaged to a beautiful woman and ready to leave his single life behind. On a train ride home to his small community, Ty finds himself in the position of having to make a difficult choice as a young mother riding on the train that he’s on has abandoned her two small children with him. He can leave the children at the nearest orphanage and walk away from them, or he can take them home. Ty decides to take the children home and that decision alters his whole life as he meets McKenna Dawson, a young woman that is practically an orphan herself, a young woman that he can't ignore.

Chason Lewiston saw the young despondent woman and he knew that she was in trouble. He had once been in trouble and someone had helped him, now was his chance to do for someone else what had been done for him. A man of convictions, a man of peace, and a man of patience, Chase helps the young woman known as Andrea find her way to having her own life while together they fight an evil that would destroy them both.

Adam Hansen rents a beach cottage for a month on a little island in the Gulf of Mexico. Upon arriving he learns that a woman has also been given the beach cottage for the same month. An odd sort of bond forms between the two with Adam living in one half of the cottage, and the young woman living in the other half. As the days pass, the bond between them grows with Adam aware that he's falling in love with the girl that he barely knows. Suddenly the two are torn apart and Adam, unaware of who this young woman really is knows beyond all doubt that he needs her, because without her, he's struggling to breathe.

 Ethan met Liliana on the banks of Cherry Lake near Madison, Florida. He was a Yankee from New York and she was a farm girl from the south that didn’t know he was a Yankee. With the Battle of Olustee raging around them, they find a rare love that could last throughout time, if only the war would end. But for Ethan and his Liliana when the war comes to an end, their real battle begins. A fight for love to survive the prejudice and the hatred that follows any war. A fight to save one another and a battle for their love to win.

Reed Grant had no faith in anyone, not even himself. His past was his shame, and he made certain that no one knew who he really was by keeping to himself. Makayla was a woman of faith, a woman of convictions, and she was in need of help. A man was following her, a man that she didn't know, a stalker meant to frighten and isolate her with evil intentions. When she sought out help, she was made to feel as though she'd done something to encourage this man to stalk her. There was no one to help her - accept a stranger that when she fell, he caught her - a stranger named Reed that Makayla hoped would never let her go.

Hired as a Special Investigator, Carter Johnson is assigned to assess the condition of the prison work camps due to the fact that many prisoners are going into these works camps and never coming out. Carter is placed in a work camp deep in the swamps and he soon realizes that this swamp is where he would stay, he’s on the last leg of his journey in life if his fellow officers don’t come and rescue him soon. As he lay dying, all of his hope gone, he opened his eyes and he saw her, the woman that he adored - Callie -  she was here, in his dreams where she'd save him.

Bailey Traywick had become lost in the new city that she had just moved to finding herself in trouble and terrified out of her mind. Bailey needed a miracle, and her miracle was a man named Collin, a man that she didn’t know, a man that could destroy her, or save her with a single word. Collin Wingate knew that he and Bailey were face to face with an evil meant to destroy them both, an evil that he would fight in order to save this young woman that he barely knew.

Park Elliot was named after the park where he was found with his murdered mother when he was a very small boy. With no memory of where he was from, and too young to talk, Park was adopted by a local police detective. Menda Patton was the little girl that Park gave piggyback rides too, she was younger than Park and he saw her only as the child that she was. Until one day when Menda was older, in a single glance Park knew that she was the girl for him, but was he the man for her?  

Kyle Garrison came home from the Great War labeled a hero, yet he had never carried a gun into a battle. Instead Kyle had been a medic faithful to his oath to 'do no harm.'  Scott Weston came home horribly scarred from a flamethrower and Scott blamed Kyle for his injury. Two men, both scarred in different ways by a war that neither of them wanted any part of, came home and fell in love with the same woman. When Scott realized that he'd lost the woman to Kyle, Scott became determined to prove to Kyle that we all have a killer instinct. Scott takes Kyle hostage and the only way for Kyle to escape is to kill Scott. Kyle holds faithful to his vow to do no harm, and Scott holds firm to the belief that he can turn Kyle into a killer with the woman they both love caught between the two men.

He was a man with a past that he couldn’t escape, and a future that wasn’t real, a future that could come crashing down on him at any given minute. She was the woman that he fell in love with, the woman that he couldn’t have. Eric and Carly are brought together out of their shared love of a child, a child that the world views as subnormal, and Carly views as the most beautiful little girl on earth. Carly has to save the little child, and in saving the child, Carly saves Eric.

 Joel and Rachel had been two children that should have been friend, but hurtful words had torn them apart. Words can’t be taken back once they are spoken. Joel and Rachel went their separate ways. Joel became a Federal Forest Ranger trying to forget the hurt that he had caused Rachel long ago. And Rachel, she became someone lost in the world, someone that only Joel could find.

Evan Henderson was alone and he wanted to be alone. Until she appeared on his doorstep. Bronte Hall, a young girl in need of his care, and his care was something he didn’t want to give to her. Left with no choice but to take the girl in, Evan is determined to have her out of his life as soon as possible, and when he loses her, Evan realizes that he'll walk through the fires of hell to bring her home.

 Aaron Reese gladly married Kendra Alexander, Aaron certain that he had won Kendra’s heart. But within an hour of their vows having been exchanged, their marriage fell apart. Aaron didn't know what had gone wrong, but he knew that he wouldn't lose Kendra. He would fight for her, for their marriage, and he would win, no matter the cost. 

Monty Graham has known Fallon Morrison all of her life. He knows that's spoiled, selfish and vain. He also knows that she has to have her own way - and for Fallon, Monty does not want to be in her way. Fallon has a secret - a secret that she might tell Monty Graham - but first, she must survive having fallen into the flooded Withlacoochee River - and the only one that can save her is --- Monty Graham.

Lyric was known as the ghost girl because many people didn't believe that she was real. No one had seen Lyric up close before - until Trevor Graham found her in his arms. For Trevor, Lyric was no ghost. Lyric was the girl he meant to keep forever as his very own.

Yancy was more dead than alive. He was living for the day that he'd be buried. But first, Yancy meant to destroy the man that had cost him everything in life - a man named Monty Graham. And the way that Yancy meant to take Monty down was by taking the one thing Monty never wanted to lose - Yancy mean to take away forever Monty's daughter.

In the eyes of Amy Roston, Tell Reardon was and always would be a hero. As a child, he had saved her, as a man he taught her to love. And Amy wanted only Tell. But Tell she couldn’t have. With a lie she told, Amy’s whole world came crashing in on her, and she didn’t just lose Tell. Amy lost everything.

Selah fell in love with Aiden. She believed him when he said their love would last for all time. But Aiden hadn't told her the truth, and she had lied to him as well, her lie to him making him hate her with a passion that their love had never known. Torn apart, Selah would pay a terrible price for the lie she told. Left alone in a world that isn't always kind, Selah would be broken, broken to the point that when she cried, her tears ran red.

Tate Reardon has been awarded the distinguished cross for an act of valor during the Great War. But Tate’s real act of valor would occur when he returned home. Cilla Ward was a young woman in trouble. She was a young woman that was in dire need of being saved. With no idea of what he had done one night when he was away from home, Tate Reardon had saved the life of Cilla Ward. As her hero she would haunt his dreams. With a scar across his cheek and her scars hidden from view, this couple will come together and learn to live again.

Daniel Kelley was a powerhouse. He was a man that led all those around him. His word was his bond. He fought for control over everything, and everyone, and usually, with ease, he gained that control. Until the day that his beautiful orphan cousin arrived and was left in his care, a cousin that would show Daniel that the world is not in his control - the world is out of control. 

On a dark night, Turner Askew stumbled into a saloon in southern Georgia and onto the scene of a woman being auctioned off to a crowd of men as though Oshe were nothing more than cattle. Unable to save himself, Turner meant to save this woman. After becoming the highest bidder, he became a hunted man with the beautiful young woman at his side. Running into the dark Georgia night, becoming lost and hidden in the thick trees, Turner finds that his past can guide him into the future, and in so doing – that pain of his past would make him worthy everlasting.

Doctor Jordon Hill had done many things wrong in his life, and he had no idea how to correct his mistakes. With self-loathing, he carried on attempting to do the right thing in the future while struggling to leave his past behind him. Cherish Anderson needed a friend, and the friend that she wanted was Jordon Hill. Cherish will have a part of Jordon, but only a small part, and he won’t know what she means to him until he loses her, and he knows when he does, that he can’t ever lose her.

Leanne Miller was the upstairs maid in the home that Grayson Evers came to live in. They were two people from two very different worlds. And yet the moment they met, they knew that they belonged to one another. An evil would tear them apart. An evil would keep them separated. But Grayson was a hero, and Leanne was the woman that he had to have for his own, even if heaven was the only place where they could be together.

Zayne was a child that had witnessed a murder, and he was a man that had grown up to become a Federal Marshal. His life was lonely, which he didn’t mind. For Zayne, he felt he needed to be alone. Until he met Keaton, unaware that like him, she too was a victim, a victim that only he could keep safe with the secret of his violent childhood between them.

Clint Stanton was a man that had been forced into marriage with Aerie Burns by her father, a powerful man that had cruel intentions. Clint honestly felt at the time of their marriage that things could not get any worse in his life than they already were. Until his brother showed up at his doorstep, and he learned the truth. Clint’s brother, Jason was in love with Clint’s new wife, Aerie, and what was worse was that Aerie was in love with Jason.

Jason Stanton was a man that fought with ease, a man of loyalty standing by and supporting his only brother Clint despite the fact that Clint had betrayed him years ago by marrying the girl that was meant to be Jason's wife. Unable to let his love for his brother’s wife go, Jason moves through life alone on his own – until her - a woman that a man like him should never be with, and yet he was drawn to her accepting that he was meant to protect her, even from herself.

Chad Walsh saw himself in the way that his father saw him – as weak and unreliable. But to her, Taryn (pronounced-tear in) the girl that he had saved from certain death, she sees Chad for who he really is – a man that could be trusted - a man that she could love for all time, if he could survive the evil that meant to tear them apart forever, and then a war that would take him far away from her.

Jonah Todd has been accused of killing a young woman that he meant only to help. Caught up in a time of vigilante justice, Jonah is facing a hangman's noose by a crowd that has gone wild in the certainty of his guilt over a crime that never happened. Only one person can save him, but he doesn't know where she is, and she has no idea how badly Jonah needs her.

Cole Collier thought he knew just what he wanted in life, and for Cole, everything seemed simple and easy to obtain. Until his younger brother listed Cole in an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Mignon – (pronounced Men-yawn) had led a happy life always eager to please those around her until in pleasing her father, Mignon lost a part of herself. Now in need of a place to hide and knowing that she was running away, Mignon answered an advertisement in the newspaper, an advertisement that would see her belonging to a man that she didn’t know in any way beyond a few letters exchanged via the post.

Grady Lawson’s job as a Federal Marshal places him in a small town with a beautiful girl in his arms, a girl in need of a hero. Within a matter of moments, Grady comes to realize that the town this girl lives in is being held hostage by a man protected by a team of bullies. On his own, a lone lawman up against a gang of bad men, Grady will fight to save the beautiful girl that he wants forever in his arms, a girl that is everything he's been searching for his whole life.

Ginny Worthington had been living a contented life. Within a matter of second everything changed. She was left holding a blood-soaked knife with her father bleeding to death at her feet. Running from a crime of murder, Ginny had to be safe. There was more than her life at risk. Lee Lanier knew rejection. Lee knew what it was to be alone. And Lee felt that he knew the woman using the name Hollow Jefferies. But never would Lee have thought that a woman like Hollow would be wanted for murder, and it would be up to him to see that justice was done.

In hurt and anger, Michael Conover made a threat against Romy Dawson, a young woman that he barely knew. He hadn't meant the threat that he had made, yet that threat changed the course of his life, and Romy's life as well. Soon Michael was in a battle to keep Romy safe. And Romy, she would learn that Michael was no threat to her. Michael was her savior. 

 

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