Her marriage was magical. Until it wasn’t…With divorce looming, Paige MacInnes isn’t sure what to do with herself. She’s spent so much time being everything to everyone else that she’s pretty sure she’s forgotten how to just be Paige, the woman.Maybe she’ll be able to find herself again in Magnolia Bloom…With the help of loved ones and lifelong friends (and maybe even a sexy Scotsman), Paige will need to figure out how to preserve the leg...

Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens... in a castle... in East Texas.The MacInnes sisters, different in every way…except for how much they need each otherAlyssa’s country music career was a dream come true. But lately, something’s off. The words, the notes, the passion…they’ve abandoned her. Now, it’ll take some serious soul searching – and maybe a little help from her family – to rediscover her muse and figure out what to...

Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens…in a castle…in East Texas…Lexi Stewart’s lineage extends to the founders of the MacInnes legacy in far away America. A year has passed since she was widowed much too young, but she’s floundering, so she accepts an invitation to escape her beloved Scotland for a needed respite. Surely a visit with her Texas relatives and a stay at Castle MacInnes will put her back to rights.There’s just one problem: Logan Jameson...

Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens…in a castle…in East Texas…Not everyone deserves second chances and a happily ever after, fairy tale ending…right?Kiki MacInnes has burned more than a few bridges in her time. Now, as a recovering alcoholic, she’s dedicated to helping others avoid addiction. She can only hope her temporary role as the new chatelaine for Castle MacInnes will help her stay on the straight and narro...

She thought she knew everything about her ancestors. Oh, how wrong she was…1967Violet MacInnes didn’t expect to find anything surprising when she tackled her genealogy assignment. Everyonein her small town knew her great-grandmother was a sought-after debutante, and her great-grandfather was a sea captain. Everyone knew they built a legacy together. So when Violet discovers just how close that legacy came to never happening in the ...

Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens... in a castle... in East Texas.Magnolia Bloom Beginnings is a compilation of three origin novellas about some of the amazing women who created the magic of Magnolia Bloom. This collection includes Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, Love At Last in Magnolia Bloom, and Sunrise in Magnolia Bloom.

SUNRISE IN MAGNOLIA BLOOM is the third prequel novella in the Magnolia Bloom series.Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens... in a castle... in East TexasDara and Lexi -- two women separated by time – are both drawn into the magical MacInnes family. Both believe true love is out of their reach… but what if they’re wrong?1890 –Dara Doyle will do anything to protect her baby. Sold to a...

She wasn’t looking for love. But will she turn it away when it finds her?Alyssa MacInnes is perfectly happy with her life—just as it is. A proud suffragette, she knows she doesn’t need love to feel whole. Besides, being responsible for the financial operations of several businesses in the booming new city of Magnolia Bloom keeps her way too busy for romance.Then he sails into her small town and makes her question ever...

Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in ...