Tenderness and Troubling Times is a collection of stories featuring twenty-two pieces, including ten of a series entitled “The Baby Losers Club” exploring fertility struggles, miscarriages and child loss. This book is about breaking and rebuilding, losing and finding, and families: the struggle to have and to keep them, the cycles they sustain, the haven they can be. $9.99 on Kindle.
Tenderness and Troubling Times: A Collection of Stories
The Family Letter: How to Intentionally Develop a Culture of Honor, Encouragement & Value with Your Loved Ones
There is a deep longing in our hearts to be known, loved and celebrated. We want to know what value and uniqueness our life brings to this world. Unfortunately, due to the busyness of life and the impact of social media, we have lost the power of communicating those life-giving words that literally can fill the void in our hearts and our thirsty souls.
If you want to learn how to intentionally develop a culture of honor, encouragement and value with your loved ones, The Family Letter will equip you with a proven method that is both simple and powerful. It is filled with practical steps and strategies to help you understand the power of your words and will help you release them into the hearts and lives of your family and other significant relationships. The Family Letter has become a tradition in our home, and we have witnessed the transforming impact that it has had on our children, our marriage and other significant relationships in our lives. Speak life and you can change a life. It’s never too late! Creating legacy and the richness of empowering another person’s life is all found in the contents of The Family Letter. Free on Kindle.
Under Ten Thousand Stars
“Michael was my love…the perfect man, the perfect husband. I had the perfect life. And then it all went wrong.”
Julia Falconer is an artist married to a successful winemaker in the coastal hinterland of southern Victoria. From the outside, it looks like Julia and Michael have it all ? but things are never as they seem. A storm has destroyed a major crop, Michael is devastated, and is taking it out on Julia. And Julia retreats into herself, taking solace in her work, wine, and the comfort of her friend Christopher.
Having stopped communicating almost entirely with Michael, Julia finds herself grappling with how her feelings towards Christopher are changing. He listens, he cares, he talks. But what does he really want?
Soon Julia will discover how wrong she was about the man she thought she loved…and the man she really does love. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Gift Sag Trilogy Box Set
The Gift Saga Trilogy is now a complete set. Three books: Evanthia’s Gift; Waiting For Aegina; Chasing Petalouthes.
An epic multigenerational love story and family saga set in both New York and Greece, spanning over eight decades with each book’s perspective focusing on a different generation. From Kefalonia in the 1920s and war-torn Thessaloniki in the 1940s to Nostalgic NYC in the 1950s and leading to more current times, follow this large group of family and friends through heartbreaks and triumphs as they find their place in the world.
The Gift Saga is an homage to family, tradition, heritage, perseverance, and everlasting love in all its many forms. Love—unbinding, unbreakable, undeniable—love is eternal. $1.99 on Kindle.
The Sea Prayers
A waitress, a megastar, and an ex-addict wage war for the heart of a young girl.
Thirteen years ago, a spiked drink left Agnes with a permanent reminder of the man who date-raped her.
Her daughter looks like him, sounds like him, and even listens to his platinum records (of course, the dude’s a megastar because nothing is fair) but Brisa is everything Agnes has in the world. At least, she is until the day this music star sets his sights on getting himself a ready-made family. $0.99 on Kindle.
Birdie & Jude
A serendipitous meeting of two strangers results in a friendship neither of them understands, and crooks a finger at Birdie that will summon her back decades to allow her to face the forgiveness she has longed to give herself and her family. It’s a story of reflection, acceptance, and chance. A chance to live our own authentic lives. $0.99 on Kindle.
Wisdom From A Father
I’m just that ordinary Joe walking on the path of life and sharing it with you. There are joys. There are tribulations. There are reflections. There is every day life. In each essay I try to convey a recognition of a greater Power who colors my perspective. My comments are always filtered through the lens of my Judeo-Christian values and largely based on 40 years of marriage raising five children. $3.49 on Kindle.
Free: Harmony to Heartburn
The Girl I Used To Know
A beautiful, emotive and spell-binding story of two women who find friendship and second chances when they least expect it. Perfect for the fans of Patricia Scanlan.
Amanda King and Tess Cuffe are strangers who share the same Georgian house, but their lives couldn’t be more different.
Amanda seems to have it all, absolute perfection. She projects all the accoutrements of a lady who lunches. Sadly, the reality is a soulless home, an unfaithful husband and a very lonely heart.
By comparison, in the basement flat, unwanted tenant Tess has spent a lifetime hiding and shutting her heart to love.
It takes a bossy doctor, a handsome gardener, a pushy teenager and an abandoned cat to show these two women that sometimes letting go is the first step to moving forward and new friendships can come from the most unlikely situations. $0.99 on Kindle.
Come Home
Nicole Nelson and Ahmed Masud seem the perfect couple—happily married with a five-year-old son, partners in an elite plastic surgery practice in Philadelphia—until Ahmed, suddenly—with no warning—leaves with their son. Nicole’s search for her child takes her to Egypt, Uruguay, Liberia, and back to Egypt to face an unspeakable tragedy. $0.99 on Kindle.
Between the Levees
For Sam Miller, family is what he wants most in the world. Though with his parents deceased since he was a boy, and with no way of uncovering who they were, finding a sense of family is more than a daunting task—it seems impossible. Until he goes to Louisiana’s Cajun country, with hopes of finding a man who perhaps knew them. After enduring blistering heat, torment from mosquitoes, venturing into eerie, backwater swamps, and fending off alligators, snakes, and a few sinister locals, Sam finds what he had sought all of his life. He’s also given a second chance, one to leave behind a pained past that he would rather forget. But finding what he wants most means that he’ll eventually have to lose it. $0.99 on Kindle.
Daddy 3.0: A Comedy of Errors (Fiction)
What a mess. This was not supposed to happen.
This isn’t where Nick Owen thought he would be by this point in life. He used to be a busy web programmer. Now he spends most of his energy trying to stop his three-year-old twins from playing in a dirty sand pit. Nick thinks of himself as Daddy 3.0, a stay-at-home-dad—but he just wasn’t programmed for this.
He must navigate a new world of jungle gyms and playdates while supporting his surgeon wife. He tries his best to be there for the twins, but he can’t stop making a mess of things. He’s just about nearing the end of his rope when the Swing Incident happens. The Swing Incident, spoken of in hushed tones around Nick’s New York City apartment building, has caused the resident queen bee, nicknamed “Supermom,” to declare him an enemy for life. No matter what Nick does to get back into Supermom’s good graces, he fails spectacularly.
Now Nick’s going to have to learn to fight fire with fire and become the best superparent on the block. This hilarious new book by Rob Armstrong chronicles one man’s journey into the world of modern fatherhood—one botched haircut, playground fight, and dirty diaper at a time.
Stay-at-home-dads have a new hero, of sorts.
This hilarious new fiction book by Rob Armstrong chronicles one man’s journey into the world of modern fatherhood—one botched haircut, playground fight, and dirty diaper at a time.
“An appealing comedy delivers many laugh-out-loud moments for the reader who has dealt with a fractious toddler or attempted to cope as an outsider in any type of clique.”- Kirkus Reviews $2.99 on Kindle.
Summer of the Loon
After her mother’s death, 16-year-old Ali Jenson leaves California to live with the grandfather she has never met in Minnesota. She tries and fails to connect with her grandfather, who isn’t happy about having the teen in his home. Can he find it in his heart to accept Ali and leave the past behind? $0.99 on Kindle.
Widow, Virgin, Whore ~ A Novel
A heartwarming story of three very different women who are all at a crossroads in their lives. When one of them learns the devastating news that she is infected with HIV/AIDS, their lives are turned upside down as they all learn to cope with this tragedy. It’s a story about friendship, sisters, family, rebuilding broken relationships, and tolerance. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: A Family for Christmas
Laid off from her job two months before Christmas, Maddie LaRocque sets up a gift wrapping business in downtown Calgary. When she falls into the arms of the building’s maintenance man it looks as though her luck is changing, but she soon learns that Brent isn’t who she thought he was.
Maddie’s roommate Lily hasn’t fared too well in the romance department, having been used for her beauty and Asian heritage. Chase Drummond, the most eligible bachelor in Calgary, is stunned by Lily’s beauty, but she resists his advances, unwilling to have her heart broken again.
Will a young orphan girl be able to convince the two women that love is the best gift of all this Christmas? Free on Kindle.
Skin
The Lawrence brothers expected to have a normal Christmas holiday—that is, until a storm traps them inside their home and downs a local power line. Tensions rise as the temperature plummets, and their true feelings start bubbling to the surface: addiction, remorse, depression.
It’s not long before they realize that although trapped and isolated, they are not alone in the white—there is something out there, something that calls to them, summons them, something that is inherently evil and threatens not only their lives, but the lives of the entire County. $2.99 on Kindle.
Sara’s Promise
William Grafton had the perfect life with his lovely wife, Sara, and two wonderful children. But one day his perfect forever was shattered when Sara died suddenly, leaving him alone to raise his children and wonder how he would ever get through life without his soul mate. Five years later, he finds himself looking into a familiar pair of blue-green eyes that remind him of Sara. The woman is the exact opposite of his late wife, yet he finds he is drawn to her. But after a few strange occurrences, he begins to wonder–are these just coincidences or has his Sara come back to him as she once promised in the form of this new woman?
Annie Paxton doesn’t believe in soul mates or fate. She had watched her father die of a broken heart after her mother passed away and has since cast away any fairy tale ideas of love. Then she meets the man who has been haunting her dreams and she begins to see love in a whole new light. But her dream man is still tied to his deceased wife, and Annie doesn’t know if he will ever be able to break away from his past. As strange occurrences unfold, Annie wonders if William could ever truly love her for herself and not for the traits that remind him of Sara.
Were William and Annie brought together by fate, coincidence, or by Sara keeping her promise? $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Loving From Afar
What would you do if your perfect life was shattered by a series of uncontrollable events? Allison Ransome loses everything; everything except her love for Cole Slater, the young man she planned to marry after graduation. Gutted by Allison’s perceived treachery, Cole moves on with his life. Ten years later, he returns home, telling himself he will avoid the woman who broke his heart. But nothing goes as planned. Can Allison and Cole forget the past and come to terms with the events that tore them apart? Free on Kindle and iTunes.
Free: A Family for Christmas
Unlucky in love, Maddie LaRocque’s fortunes go from bad to worse when she’s laid off from her job two months before Christmas. Undeterred, she sets up a gift wrapping business in the lobby of the Drummond Building in downtown Calgary where she meets Annie, a ten-year-old who has recently lost her parents. Will a young orphan girl be able to convince the Maddie and her friend that love is the best gift of all this Christmas? Free on Kindle and iTunes.
Free: “Fallen Angel”
Free: Playing Charlie Cool
Television producer Charlie Trager knows he’s lucky to have a successful career and good friends and family who support him. The man he loves, however, is not so lucky. Joshua Goldberg suffers the spite of an ex-wife gunning to keep him from their two children…and maybe Charlie. Determined not to let Joshua go, Charlie crafts a scheme that could remove the obstacles to their relationship…or destroy their love forever. Free on Kindle.
A Vow of Love
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Holidays are about family, love and giving, but this Christmas The Friessens are in for a rough holiday season. Thirteen days before Christmas, In the mail a letter arrives that was never meant for Candy Friessen. It is for her husband Neil, and when she opens it, she discovers a lie that rocks her world. And she begins to question everything they created together, including his love for her and their family. $3.99 on Kindle.
The Deadline
In THE DEADLINE, Andy Friessen has packed up everything and moved his family two states away, to Montana, to protect his wife, Laura, his newborn babies, and his stepson, Gabriel, from the threats of his mother. What Andy doesn’t know is that they’ll soon face a new threat, one he never saw coming… $0.99 on Kindle
Silent Words
Zelda loves to talk. She always asks a million questions, and her head is full of words like apple, bunny, cartwheel and dwizzledoodle. But when a sudden storm turns Zelda’s world upside down, all her words go silent. Zelda must embark on a quest across mountains, forests and oceans to find her parents—and her voice.
This moving tale about loss and hope will tug at your heartstrings. Author Chantal Fournier’s poetic storytelling style and illustrator Nicolas Lajeunesse’s evocative artwork combine to create a poignant story in which a child discovers comfort in the power of words.
An Embarrassment of Riches
When Ursula Barnett and her husband Jed win the Irish lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they are just beginning. Ursula coerces her Yank husband to retire in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, hoping to atone for her youthful sins as a collaborator with the IRA in the 1970s. At the first sniff of Ursula s lotto win, however, her chronically greedy sister-in-law Fionnuala Flood rallies the family against Ursula.
Fionnuala’s life is a misery. She is married to a boozing fish-packing plant worker and raising seven seedy hooligans, from a convict son to an eight-year-old devil-daughter who will resort to desperate measures to secure the perfect Holy Communion gown. Between two part-time jobs, Fionnuala still finds the energy to put into motion plans which pit husbands against wives, daughters against mothers, the lawless against the law and Fionnuala against anyone fool enough to cross her path.
Family saga and black comedy, love story and courtroom drama, An Embarrassment of Riches will take you on a journey to Northern Ireland and beyond, where Protestants and Catholics wage battle daily, and where crossing family with finance leads to heartache and hilarity, passion and tragedy.