To his friends in Wilmington, North Carolina,+ Greg Toler is a mild, somewhat shy man. To the public, he is womanizer and scandal-prone Dirk Corbin, darling of the tabloids. To his fans he is Dr. Jack Calvin, star of the number-one rated show in television.When Emily Donahay meets Greg, she accepts him at face value, but as time goes on, her suspicions grow along with her love. It is evident Greg is hiding a secret behind his multiple personas and she is determined to find out what...

Kat Knightly has it all: her husband, Jordan, is handsome and successful; their son will soon to graduate from college, and their beautiful home is the setting for popular social events. But Kat's comfortable life changes abruptly when she faces a devastating diagnosis: breast cancer.When Jordan lets her know he will not be there to support her, Kat must cope not only with chemo and radiation, but also with finding a job and a new place to live. When the move turns up evidence that ...

Lily can't forgive her sister for stealing her fiance, but when Jill leaves Paul and shows up on her doorstep, Lily takes her in.Lily secretly hopes that when Paul is free he will come back to her. but as details of Jill's marriage are revealed, Lily begins to see the man she thought she loved was an ideal she only imagined--and that the real Paul doesn't deserve the love of either sister.Free of her infatuation, Lily realizes that her best friend and boss, Grady, is the one ...

By 1895, the United States is in the 80th year of the isolation imposed by King Thomas I and upheld by his successors. But some are chafing under the shortages and restrictions, and when inventor Dr. Featherstone declares he has found a way to override all borders, there are those who applaud the discovery and those who fear it.When Dr. Featherstone fails to return home for an important scientific gathering, his daughter Caroline enlists the help of the member of Parliament from Ch...

Harriet, Melody, Beth, and Jane Anne have been friends since their kids were in kindergarten. So far their friendship has been limited to bragging about their kids and then their grandkids. But with life comes change, and now none of them wants to admit that she is struggling with a personal crisis.Then Melody announces that she was scammed by the handsome rascal she met on an Internet dating site.Seeing Melody's humiliation, Harriet concocts a scheme to track the con artist ...

Seventeen-year-old Bethann nearly loses her life attempting to trace her birth family, and becomes resigned to helping her adopted sister raise her children and occasionally helping Colin McKay at the local mercantile. Life is not all work, however. McKay encourages her writing and Matty Pope, her neighbor on nearby Riverbend plantation, become a close friend.Matty's half-brother, Henry, arrives in North Carolina and Bethann is instantly attracted to his dark good looks and cosmopo...

When her suitor drowns in the Pee Dee River, Morven McAllister accepts the village's condolences, hiding her true feelings. She hated Breen Tarlton, knowing that he was not the "up and comer" they admired, but a bully, cheat, and thief. She also keeps silent about her role in Breen's death—that she may have pushed him off the slippery dock in self-defense.Morven bargains with God as she struggles to make amends. Her guilt leads her to reject a proposal from Luke Forester, the man sh...

Penniless and homeless, Damaris Tilghman answers wealthy planter Matthew Pope's challenge and agrees to become his wife. Her dreams of helping manage a large and profitable plantation are shattered when she discovers that the beautiful slave, Zoe, has complete control over the other slaves. More than that, Zoe also shares her master's bed.Damaris concentrates on winning over the slaves and raising her son, Matty. Pope ignores both his wife and son until Matty is old enough to be se...

Marcie Wicker is just as determined that her husband, Stan, met with an accident or foul play as the police are certain he left his family and assumed a new identity. The detective on the case points out that he methodically withdrew their life savings, a considerable amount of money, before he disappeared.Marcie is torn between her conviction and her family's equally strong belief that the police are right. Her parents urge her to consider divorce and tell her to "move on." Her twi...

When the border between Floriana and the United States is opened after 80 years, Nathan and Caroline visit as official tourists and unofficial spies. Escorted around picturesque turn-of-the-century New Orleans, they quickly realize they are being prevented from seeing the real city - and evidence of an incipient revolution.After two assassination attempts, Nathan begins to question his loyalty to a king who may have deliberately placed them in harm's way. The pair are determined to...

Caroline and Nathan's former enemy Rasmussen reappears as a magician calling himself the Great Manzini. As Manzini, he kidnaps King Thomas Jefferson the Fourth during a magic show at the Ford Theater and demands an impossible ransom. A time-traveler himself, Nathan understands how the trick was done, but when he confronts the villain, Manzini sends Nathan sixty years into the future. Nathan returns, unable to explain his absence, and is arrested as an accomplice to the kidnapping and possi...

A breast cancer survivor, the author embarked on a journey of self-awareness that led to physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. Cancer is a life-altering experience, but it can be a life-affirming one as well. Even if we cannot be cured, with God's help, we can be healed.