... And the Stars Smiled

Connected by the stars, divided by one choice.

Sunny and Jack meet one night under the stars, and they are captivated by each other. Before long, they realize that they are destined to be together. Sunny and Jack are inseparable until distance tears them apart. In spite of that, they find a way to stay connected.

Sunny and Jack make a date each week to listen to music under the stars. It gives them comfort to know they are doing the same thing at the same time. The song in their hearts grows with each day, and their love deepens.

Sunny finds herself facing a difficult decision and she has a choice to make. She believes in her heart that the choice she’ll make is the right one. But will that one choice tear them apart? Can the stars that brought them together keep them united? Will Sunny and Jack’s love survive?

Always My Forever

In her captivating second novel, Always My Forever, acclaimed author Lorie O’Brien masterfully tells the poignant story of Kristin and Britt, childhood sweethearts whose love was once unbreakable. However, as they embarked on separate paths after their post-college breakup, their hearts were left shattered and their souls yearning for what they had lost. Two long and arduous years passed, filled with countless questions and restless nights.

Fate, with its mysterious ways, intervenes when a chance encounter unexpectedly reunites them. As they cautiously re-enter each other’s lives, they must confront the lingering shadows of their past and the unresolved emotions that still tie them together. Will their newfound connection be enough to reignite the flames of their once-unbreakable bond, or are they destined to remain forever apart?

Ambiguous Affair

Magnolia Edwards, a businesswoman, a mother, and a neglected wife, is swept off her feet in a secret, flirtatious love affair with a tantalizing younger man, Aaron Freeman, whom she believes to be her soulmate. Passion consumes the two of them until Magnolia feels deceived after Aaron admits that his intentions toward her weren’t always genuine. Magnolia’s controlling husband, Joe, is acting shadier than usual, which leads her to undertake some detective work, where she discovers a common link between alluring Aaron and her husband, which is far worse than she ever expected. The chemical attraction between Magnolia and Aaron has left a permanent yearning on both of their hearts. Aaron tries to regain her trust, but can Magnolia accept Aaron’s apology and give in to her constant desires, or will she remain in her sham of a marriage for the sake of her children?

Black Switch

Sebastian Sinclair is on his way to becoming one of the greatest spiritual healers of our time. He came down to earth with certain abilities. These gifts he gave himself are an evolution of what normal humans have never seen before in this lifetime. Seeing ghosts and angels are just the preliminary steps of what he will eventually receive in the future.

But he must be careful about the many pitfalls that will arise while trying to fulfill his destiny. Never did he think that Sophia Freemont, the love of his life, would ever become entangled in the extraordinary obstacles that lie ahead of him. Unfortunately, he will have to learn that nothing great ever comes without a price.

In his ambition to succeed, he very well may have taken on more than he can handle. If that happens, it could put him on an altered life course. A path more grim then he could possibly imagine. 

Sebastian is now on the planet Earth living out his existence. He has been alive now for 27 years and is just about to go through his first real painful life lesson as an adult. It is the stepping stone for his enormous transformation to becoming what he was meant to be.

Bloom of the Desert Rose

Marie Bensworth has been married now for 10 long years, living in the Wyoming plains’ beautiful empty spaces with her husband, Lewis. Childless and lonely, it seems her life is faced with replaying the same hot, long days again and again.

That is, until an outcast stranger moves to town. In the weeks to follow, thoughts and feelings arise within her she never knew she had, pushing and guiding her to this new and mysterious man. When their worlds abruptly collide, their attraction, at first ignored, becomes something much more powerful, stirring deeply within each of them.

Now, as the golden band on her left hand sets her life, she must decide if this man is worth the cost of her reputation and marriage. But when Lewis becomes suspicious, Marie will be faced with the choice to stand firm or fall into the strong arms of a man she was destined to love.

Deadly Assumption

When a young man witnesses the rescue of a woman’s body from the ocean, he is shocked to recognize the tattoo on her shoulder as belonging to his prospective fiancé, Sarah. Traumatized, he flees the scene, unaware of the ensuing homicide investigation into the suspicious drowning and its findings.

Having arranged his business schedule hoping for a reconciliation following their disagreement in England, he had planned on proposing to Sarah during her visit to Vancouver Island. Devastated by her loss, he relocates to Germany, committing to a life without his soulmate. Struggling with grief, he is persistently tormented by the circumstances of her death and how her body came to be floating off Vancouver, more than 100 miles from her intended destination. Homesickness eventually drives him back to England, where he learns the shocking truth about the homicide investigation and the twist of fate that forever changes his chosen path.

As the story unfolds, it reveals the dramatic impact the deceased woman had on those whose lives she touched, particularly the man suspected of murdering her. The characters are tightly intertwined in this generational, multicultural saga of suspected homicide, enduring love, emotional trauma, and the fight to recapture those closest to the heart. With its roots set in England, Deadly Assumption is a tale rich in history, encompassing Canada, Germany, and France, and spanning the period from the years prior to World War II into the 1980s.

Follow Without Fear

Follow Without Fear is a Vietnam era, anti-war, romance novel involving the lives of two young college graduates recently commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Air Force. It was a tumultuous time in our nation's history - a time of racial tension and riots, assassinations, the draft, war protests, and college campus unrest. America's youth was tested in many ways and lives were changed dramatically as a result of circumstances beyond their control. Stan was a fervent and principled young man who believed unequivocally in the wisdom of his country's leadership. He was hesitant to question authority until his experiences in a war zone opened his eyes to the consequences of blindly following an ideal. The story follows his psychological journey from complete trust in the decisions of elected leaders to the chilling awareness that those resolutions may be utterly flawed.

Hannah's Visions

Hannah is a seventeen-year-old high school senior with everything going for her. She is charming, pretty, popular with peers, a loving daughter, an acclaimed artist, and has a crush on the boy of her dreams, Yigal. She is also a psychic.

Lately, her visions disturb her greatly, especially when she sees grizzly crimes committed, including the rape and murder of a young lady, a near-fatal stabbing of another female, a police headquarters bombing, and being stalked by Leonid, whose goal is to extinguish her life. Hannah predicts her father, Yoni, a lead detective, will be assigned to investigate this case and apprehend Leonid.

A murder is committed, a young lady is nearly fatally stabbed to death, and the attacker is after Hannah.

So Hannah takes matters into her own hands.

Happenstance

Happenstance follows the ins and outs of young adults who make decisions that determine the fates of their hearts, at that moment in time.  
Lori returns home after one year of college, certain that age no longer presents an obstacle to pursuing Branson, the older gentleman she met the previous summer. Unexpected circumstances and moral roadblocks taint the possibilities and expose Lori's own immaturity, both spiritually and emotionally. Unable to find her definition of the perfect man, Lori moves her focus from guys to her career before entering into another relationship, complicated by its own set of challenges.
All seems lost until a chance encounter introduces her to the girl that holds the key to her happiness.

Journey Back to the Sun

On this journey, Rachel White needs to remember her past, but every memory takes her on a roller-coaster of emotions that could change her present and destroy her future.

She must face the truth in her memories and as she is facing the truth, she encounters a battle that could break her mind and her heart. She is divided as her past is catching up to her and her present is starting to crumble.

Can she handle the pain as she digs into her past and discovers the truth about herself? Can she complete her journey and still be sure of what she feels? Will she survive the pain that this journey is going to bring her?

Last Exit to Fate

Just then, a cloud passed over the peak and enveloped them in mist. The light from the bright sun was muted and the cowbells in the distance added a surreal dimension to the overall experience. It was beautiful and eerie, and as he put his ear against her body, he could hear and feel her heart beating. 

“It’s like staring into eternity,” said Emmy. “You can’t see it, but you know it is there, just like the cowbells in the distance. It is beautiful to know that I am destined to spend it with you.” 

Drew Phillips is a broken man, and after a failed marriage to another woman, he realizes that Emmy Lee was his only chance at real happiness. As a result, he vows to find her again 24 years later. However, finding her again is not exactly what he or anyone else would have expected.

Last Exit to Fate is a grand adventure set in the late eighties and into the recent past and includes stops in some of the most gorgeous places in Western Europe along the way. Most of all, it is a story of hope. In this hope may lie the means to recapture the most precious thing in the universe. This, of course, is true love.

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At the height of the Lebanese Civil War, Rola and Paul, two young teachers, were madly in love with each other and were due to marry soon. But the girl’s parents and the circumstances of the war decided otherwise: Rola found herself in Canada as the wife of a rich Canadian–Lebanese man. Twenty-two years later, the story of the couple bounces back in a completely unexpected way. At the university where he is a teacher, Paul meets an exceptional student who seems to resent him. He investigates to find out his true identity, but something dramatic comes up and interrupts his research…