"From the author of Bond Girl and Lost Along the Way, comes a fiercely funny and insightful story of marriage, family, and the arduous road to discovering our true selves"--

The word If is a powerful little word. Some people are stuck in if only, trudging through lives marked with regret. But God wants us to live lives marked with possibilities, with the what if attitude that looks forward to the future with confidence. Why? Because the answer to "If God is for us, who can be against us? " is "No one." God is always on our side, every day, in every way. Young people especially need to hear this life-changing message of...

In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. The adult daughter in "Caretaking" remembers her childhood as she learns how to cope with her mother's Alzheimer's disease. Couples whose relationships are at a dead end learn things about themselves in unexpected ways, such as one pair

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"Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family's ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England's Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn't alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine's companion since childhood. When Francine's estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she brings...

Gazing out across these dreary, gray waters as I feel the bitter aggressive wind in my pale white face. I can't help but wonder was it all worth it. Watching the waves crash brutally below me as I stand alone on the wet, damp rocks above. I try to imagine my life as if it were somehow different. Could I have made better choices, a different path? Seems so vague now. Seems like decades, this solitude. So many memories flooding my immortal mind......

You are formally invited to the Highland wedding event of the year.(Regrets Only!) Their marriage was two decades in the making. Elizabeth Hay is young, educated, and has her own ideas about her life. Alexander Macpherson is a Highlander and a pirate and not about to be tied down to some delicate court flower. But honor dictates they go through with the betrothal arranged when they were still children.Now the wedding ceremony is only a week away....

A royal prince, an exotic paradise, unimaginable wealth... and the cartel's most vicious assassin on his tail.Prince Andre is the world's most coveted bachelor with the most recognizable face. On the run with no where to hide.Except perhaps on a Texas ranch with a fiery, trigger-happy blonde--who doesn't need saving.Prince of Solana spins the royal fairytale on its heel, in an exotic tropical paradise with a dark and twisted villain, as epic as the...

"Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. Iris doesn't know how to bake but she needs to...

What if the same money that was used to build a church turns out to be the same money that destroys it? Reverend Gibson and First Lady Victoria's family matters become church matters due to their son's sins ... or is it actually the sins of the father?