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Print: $16.95 Download: $5.00 Lacy Boyce never feared a challenges. As a firefighter and paramedic she'd spent her life facing challenges, and conquering them. Then one night, that all changed, when her husband, Michael, died in a fire. The same night she gave birth to their first child, a child she would now have to raise alone.
Lacy's Christian belief's are tested. How could God let this happen? How could He turn her life upside down? She forgets one important factor - trust. She must learn to trust God above all others, and stop depending entirely on herself.
Ryan Simon is just the man to guide Lacy to that realization. Ryan and Lacy share many things, not the least of which is the loss the night of the fire. Ryan had been Michael's partner during that fire. He had tried to save the other man's life, very nearly losing his own in the process.
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Print: $10.95 Download: $3.75 When author, Alycia Elliot learns her surrogate grandmother needs her help, even the impending deadline for her latest book doesn't stop her from making the trip to Lewisburg, PA.
However, she's needed far more than she anticipated. Gram Carlisle has been hospitalized for heart surgery. The news comes from Gram's handsome lawyer, Ken Maxwell, who also informers her she must take over running Gram's Bed and Breakfast.
Ken and his large family show up frequently at the inn, offering help that is indispensable, quickly endearing them to her. In fact, the family is so intertwined with the inn's owner, it comes as a surprise when Alycia learns that should her dear friend die, the Pineapple Inn is bequeathed to her.
Her question, "Why me?" goes unanswered due to Gram's slow recovery, and Ken's code of client-attorney confidentiality prohibits him answering.
While she grows closer to the Maxwell family, she begins to unearth answers to her question, and those answers shatter her to her very core.
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Print: $16.76 Download: $3.75 After the ten year old daughter of her best friend, Gracie, witnesses the brutal beating of her mother, she turns to Ashley for help. Ashley knows going to the police is not an option. The girl’s step-father is the culprit and with his connections there is no place to hide in Nashville.
The key on Karlyn’s necklace leads them to a post office box where Gracie has stockpiled money for just such an emergency. They also find a letter that explains where they should go – Paradise, Pennsylvania. Perhaps the only place they will be safe, if not because of the distance, because of the person they will find there. Karl Miller, Karlyn’s father.
They make the long trip north only to find Karl doesn’t even know he’s a father – not that it matters. He takes to his new role as father just as instantly as he takes to his role of protector.
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Print: $14.95 Download: $5.00 Amanda Sinclair and Cole Arnold had no idea their paths were going to cross at a secluded resort in the mountains of Tennessee. Both were there to escape – for different reasons – their lives soon to link as they embarked on a dangerous journey.
Danger was no stranger to Cole, a New York detective assigned to a special unit who investigates industries suspected of illegal disposal of hazardous waste. But, for Amanda it was a totally different story. Her life had suddenly been turned upside down by the murder of her husband and sister. She hadn't planned to run away, leaving her family and home in Pennsylvania. But then, she hadn't planned to be the number one suspect in the crime.
Together Cole and Amanda search for clues and motives. Finding too few of the first; too many of the latter. Their search reveals dark secrets about the people from her town. Some of the people who had been closest to Amanda. Secrets that would have an impact on the entire community.
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Print: $12.50 Download: $4.00 Narissa had never been comfortable with her parents’ adventures on the back of her father’s motorcycle. As far as she was concerned, his ending up in the hospital while on one “run”, as they called it, only confirmed she was right. As she drove to the hospital she made up her mind she was going to demand they start acting their age and stop riding that bike.
Only to her shock that wasn’t going to be necessary. When she arrived at the hospital it her father was weak following surgery, asking her to make his last run. How could she refuse when it might be the last request he ever made of her? The problem was, she couldn’t ride.
It seemed her parents had that all figured out. She was supposed to make that trip to Daytona Bike Week on the back of her father’s bike with their good friend Tim MacFearson. This was not a trip she wanted to make, but felt she had no choice.
She only prayed she could get through in spite of her instant dislike of this leather-clad biker.
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My name is Pam Garlick, and I'm a writer. Of course, becoming a writer doesn't usually happen overnight. No, it takes time; and what I call the Three P's: Practice, Patience, and Perseverance. I'll try to explain how it happened for me.
You see, I always was a bit of a dreamer; however, it wasn't until my teens that I actually started to write. I will admit, some of the things I wrote created quite a stir as I was going through that difficult stage parents dread. But once I got my hormones and my imagination under control, I was able to come up with some pretty likeable characters.
Unfortunately, I learned quickly that liking to write doesn't automatically mean one will get published. That took years of painful practice as I honed my skill.
Finally in 1988 I was published, first with articles in trade publications and local newspapers, and eventually in the confession market, with 200+ stories published in this market.
Ah, but I still have a world of characters passing through my mind on any given day. They have encountered pain and heartache, and also been rewarded with love and great joy. These characters have filled many pages in novel-length stories. Some of these are published here at LuLu and listed on this page.
I look forward to hearing from you with your comments and suggestions.
I'd also like to share a little about my inspirations. I'm blessed to be the grandmother of three beautiful little girls and one handsome boy. Though I currently don't write children's stories, I do want to write things that I can be proud to someday show to my grandchildren. Because of that, and my faith, much of what I write is inspirational in nature.
Then, there's my husband Ken, a man who has made my life more complete than I ever thought it could be. He is the person who stands by me no matter how much time lapse there may be between paychecks. He is also my number one fan.
Our combined family is comprised of five children with spouses who all help keep our family interesting. For us there is much truth to the saying there is never a dull moment. Some our family lives close to home, others thousands of miles away, with a few somewhere in between. It makes getting together as a family a challenge, but it's worth it.
Often it is the travel to visit these many family members that helps spark my creative juices. It has certainly provided many locations for future plots.
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