Painted LoveLove is in the air in the quiet Los Angeles County city of Vista Beach, home of computer programmer and decorative-painting enthusiast, Aurora (Rory) Anderson.As Valentine’s Day approaches, residents are training for the annual Love Run and expressing their undying affection for each other by attaching love locks to the pier railings. But a string of bank robberies is ruining the romantic vibe.While Rory helps friends prepare for a Valen...

Heaven is listening - don't let life silence your sound.In Never Lose Your Sound, author Sybil Johnson delivers a powerful message of faith, identity, and spiritual awakening. Through heartfelt testimony and scriptural insight, she reminds readers that their voice, their sound, is more than just words; it's their weapon, their worship, and their lifeline to God.From the wilderness seasons that test your praise to t...

A killer heat wave settles over Seagull Lane . . .Summer's sizzling in Vista Beach, the home of computer programmer and tole-painting enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson. The abnormally high temperatures are hard on everyone in the quiet Los Angeles county beach community, especially the city's homeless population. Residents are doing everything they can to stay cool, including leaving windows open to catch the faintest breeze. Not the best idea when a string of burglaries is plaguin...

It's June in the quiet Los Angeles County city of Vista Beach, the place computer programmer and tole-painting enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson calls home. Decorative painters are flocking to the newly built Akaw hotel to attend the Ocean Painting Society's inaugural convention.During the week-long event, Rory plans on shopping the trade show floor, working in her mother's booth, taking classes, and connecting with other decorative painting fans. She doesn't expect to witness her ...

A dead body in her garden and a homicide detective on her doorstep . . .Computer programmer and tole painting enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson doesn't envision finding either when she steps outside to investigate the frenzied yipping coming from her own backyard. After all, she lives in Vista Beach, a quiet California beach community where violent crime is rare and murder even rarer.Suspicion falls on Rory when the body buried in her flowerbed turns out to be someone she k...

She escaped the monster realm.Fate dragged her back—twenty years earlier.Waking up in the past wasn’t on Moriah Shaker’s bingo card, but after surviving a brutal world of cannibals, rabdogs and lethal poppy fields, it happens anyway. Now, she has one chance to save her mother, undoing the death that started it all.First, she must return to Hakeldama, where survival is never guaranteed and destiny always demands sacrifice. At her side is Jasher, the ruthless, axe-wie...

Only teachers know what really happens at a magic school...Chintor Academy is celebrated as the place where the best music mages are forged. But beneath the surface, bullies rule with cruelty, teachers scheme against each other, and the student destined to save their nation is far from ready.Kalina didn't know what she was getting into when she agreed to teach at Chintor. Now, as a first-year teacher, she's tasked with finishing the training of this prophesied viol...

When twenty-year-old college dropout Moriah Shaker runs into an empty chapel to escape an unexpected storm, she’s catapulted into another world Wizard of Oz style. Unfortunately, she winds up in the treacherous realm of Hakeldama, a fantastical but brutal land where justice is twisted and innocents pay for crimes committed by the elites—and she’s now marked for death.On the run and determined to get home, Moriah heads for the City of Lux, where a rumored portal between wor...

Four short contemporary romances from bestselling author Tracie Peterson take listeners to the author’s native state of Kansas. A single mother is braced for spring tornadoes and Stormy Weather when she encounters her son’s scout troop leader. A student finds her King of Hearts while participating in a summer Renaissance festival, but she may lack queenly confidence. Autumn isn’t just about the changing of the trees for a widow living with her mother and aunts on the family farm, it’s all ...

Years after Detective James Ross is murdered, his daughter, LUCY, returns to Griffin Gate—the Ross family home—to find out who killed him. Her only clues come from an old family video recorder depicting her father’s last moments before he was shot. In the process of readying the place for her mom’s arrival, and applying her meager sleuthing skills to the crime, she uncovers hidden gems in the Victorian house. Lucy realizes Griffin Gate is more than just the family homeplace. It ha...

Past and Present Collide on the RailwayWhen life seems weighed down by challenges, there are always pillars of enduring hope and love to be discovered.Lily Mae Dodge flees Wyoming by night to find her mother, who sent her west on an orphan train ten years ago. After she's arrested in Chicago, help comes from a man with a rare vision impairment whom she only just met on a train. Francis Basnett is a roustabout for the famous Hagenbeck-Wallace circus...

Repairs on the Golden Gate Bridge Uncover a Century-Old MurderWalk through Doors to the Past via a new series of historical stories of romance and adventure.Underwater archaeologist Kayla Richardson is called to the Golden Gate Bridge where repairs to one of the towers uncovers two human remains from the late 1800s and the 1930s. The head of the bridge restoration is Steven Michaels, who dives with Kayla, and a friendship develops between them. But as the investigation heat...