The love of a mother, whether you've never had it, have it, or miss it, affects us all in a million different ways.Nine authors—USA Today Bestsellers, Award Winning, International Bestsellers, and Fan Favorites—show you their take on The HEART of The Matter: A Mother’s Love.Nine talented authors bring you nine BRAND NEW, fun-filled, suspenseful, romantic, short stories in this awe-inspiring novel, each centered on motherhood. These nine stories are sure to make you smile, l...

Everyone has a dream, but they don't always come true. My dream, from a young age, was to go to Africa, and whenever I confessed this yearning to anyone, I was ridiculed into silence. But the stars aligned, and the dream did come true. I left New Zealand in my twenties to take up a contract teaching English to adolescent African girls at a small mission school in a charming town, named after David Livingstone, no less, a few kilometers from the legendary Victoria Falls that he named after ...

“Immortal Longings” was conceived as a gentle love story. John Ryan, a talented young detective with the Seattle Police, and considered by many to be a playboy ‘ladies’ man’, is in reality searching for his soulmate, and finds her quite unexpectedly in the daughter of one of Seattle’s richest families. From vastly different backgrounds, they seem to be made for each other, but almost immediately their love confronts challenges that test them sorely. The theme of the book is about facing up...

Berlin, April 1945. A terrified young German woman huddles in a cellar as the final battle for the city rages overhead, bracing herself for the arrival of the rampaging Red Army. Her husband, missing in France since D-day, is not there to shield her from the coming hell that WWIIs endgame brings, as triumphant Soviet soldiers make German women the targets of their vengeance. An unlikely savior arrives in the form of a young Soviet officer who takes her under his wing and with whom she begi...

A brutal medieval warlord believes his lost true love has returned to him from the grave. A young girl is uprooted from the sheltered life that is all she has known and must learn to survive in a violent and pitiless world where man is wolf to man. A valiant young warrior loses his heart to her, but the unforeseen tears them apart. Fate conspires to throw all three into each others path with shattering results. A colourful cast of minor characters helps to create a stunning, stained-glass-...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who have homosexual desires are often trapped in a dilemma. While they may have a testimony and even want to live the gospel fully, they frequently struggle with their sexual orientation and feel bewildered and tormented. Loved ones are equally frustrated by their inability to understand or help. Erin Eldridge knows all about that struggle. She was involved in homosexual relationships and other addictions she wasn't even certain sh...