Stand - Alone Romance
The perfect marriage. Everyone wants one. Few couples achieve it. Emily and Luke used an online dating app to find each other. It made a perfect match.
After two blissful years of marriage, however, cracks formed in their perfection. The first hit to their heavenly union came from their sister-in-law, forcing Luke to take sides between his new wife and his family.
The second chink appeared when their priorities shifted. While Luke spent his free time climbing the Tetons, Emily grew her business. These diverging priorities left them little time together.
It did, however, create opportunities for Luke to be with his new female climbing partner while Emily strategized with her new male business contact. Too much time with people of the opposite sex created the third, and fatal, chasm in their once perfect marriage.
Family verses bride. Hobby verses career. Spouse verses friend. Will they be able to heal the wounds created by their individual quests for perfection? Or are the new prospects too good to pass up?
The Perfect Marriage is a closed-door Christian romance.
Trust. A skill Jill never learned. Unless she counted the Magic 8 Ball she’d carried around since childhood. The last time she’d made a decision without consulting the toy, someone died. Jill wouldn’t take that chance again, even if it meant abandoning her dream of marriage and children. Living in isolation for the rest of her days meant everyone stayed alive.
Trust. A concept Trey avoided. Without facts, verification, and concrete evidence, he ignored everything he heard. Feelings had no place in his world. Trey’s laser-focus on his career ensured he’d never be tempted with emotional distractions. Distractions that could recreate the trauma he’d endured during his childhood. His career concentrated on ensuring no other family endured what he had.
Jill and Trey never factored romance into their lives. Then Jill lost her job, and Trey’s most loyal employee quit. Hiring Jill seemed like an answer to both of their problems. Yet spending every day in close proximity generated emotions neither of them expected. Emotions that challenged not only their long-protected comfort zones but goals for their futures as well.
Will the pains from their childhoods drive them apart or pull them together? How long can they maintain the walls around their hearts? Can they let down their guards and trust God to heal their wounds?
Don’t Ask Me is a closed-door Christian romance.
Allison tolerated nothing less than perfection. Together with her husband, Robert, she enjoyed their upscale neighborhood in a home three times the size their two daughters needed. Her interior design career was as successful as her husband’s CPA firm. Yes, God had richly blessed her.
Except she hadn’t anticipated the cost. The energy it took to achieving, and maintaining, such a high level of perfection generated unhealthy coping mechanisms. And the need to keep that secret.
Barbara, Allison’s twin sister, dreamed of being a stay-at-home mother. She married Tom with high expectations. Living in their tiny starter home was intended to be temporary. An investment until Tom’s career advanced. Had God exhausted His supply of blessings on her sister’s life?
Tom’s promotion failed to materialize at the same time Barbara lost her job. Allison stepped in to save her twin, hoping this move would provide a lifeboat to her own life as well as her sister’s. The unintended consequences of that arrangement impacted both their lives in ways they never anticipated. Neither twin had predicted the lies, deception, and disappointments hidden within their marriages.
Can the twins mend the cracks in their perfectly constructive lives? Or will the pains from their past, the realities of the present, and the web of lies they created, kill whatever hope either of them had?
Same as Opposites is a closed-door Christian romance.
Ava planned to get her life together once she found time to take a breath. She spent every minute racing from one responsibility to the next, working double shifts just to make ends meet. Her goals of marriage and children raised in a home with a yard disappeared when her sister left town. Now it fell to Ava to take care of everyone else. Everyone but herself. Her schedule, or finances, didn’t allow opportunities to meet a man, no less find time to convince him that she was worth the trouble.
Bradford William Truman IV possessed enough money to hire an army of people to run his business. Except he lacked the ability to release control of his family’s dynasty to anyone. His career demanded his full attention, leaving no time for personal relationships or romance. If not for his mother’s nagging to produce an heir, he’d live the bachelor life until his dying breath. Or until he met a woman who could be a suitable life partner.
Could their chance encounter redirect both their futures? Or would family obligation and duty keep them isolated in their own worlds, destined to lament their unfulfilled dreams?
Four to One is a closed-door Christian romance.
Chelsea’s world collapsed literally in one heartbeat. She’d always dreamed of returning home and working beside her father in his CPA firm. The small-town lifestyle called to her soul. But her parents had other plans. Plans that involved caring for her sister in Houston. Then one day she received a phone call that changed everything.
Trent, like all his small-town classmates, had inherited his father’s business. Unfortunately, it was a funeral home. He didn’t mind the work. Helping people and fixing their problems gave him great satisfaction. But being a mortician meant foregoing marriage. No woman, not even his own mother, wanted to be married to a man whose days were consumed by death.
When Chelsea’s world collided with Trent’s, the sparks flew. Except Chelsea had commitments in the city, and Trent possessed no hope that any woman could tolerate his career choice. Their paths had crossed, but they both knew they’d go their separate ways once the crisis had passed.
Or would they?
Buried Dreams is a closed-door Christian romance.