A Reluctant Heart


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A sheltered vicar's daughter meets a handsome lord who proposes to marry her. Wooed, won, and wed in hours, Zoe becomes his wife. Unfortunately it was a night the inebriated lord did not remember. Now, seven years later, the reformed lord is astonished to learn he possesses both an heir and a wife. Regency Romance.




The Reluctant Heart


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Don't Hesitate


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Andrew HeartI've always known what I wanted, power, success, and wealth. Nothing has ever stood in my way from obtaining them.That was until I crossed paths with Anne Worth. She might be tiny but she was head strong and refused to bend. I need her to sell me her land or my new development is going to tank. No way am I going to walk away empty handed.But when I learn the truth as to why she won't sell, I find myself questioning my motives. I have a choice to make. Encourage and help her carry her burden or sit back and watch her fail and then her land is mine.There is a price for business, and that is to win, someone had to lose. But the price of getting what I want, might be losing what I need. Book 3 in The Reluctant Heart SeriesBook 1: Don't BreakBook 2: Just TrustBook 3: Don't Hesitate




Caged in Winter


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In this emotional and sexy New Adult debut from Brighton Walsh, the only thing more frightening than commitment is hope... Aspiring chef Cade Maxwell is immediately, viscerally attracted to Winter Jacobson. But it's not her mouthwatering curves he's drawn to--it's the strange emptiness in her eyes. When Cade saves her from a drunken customer with grabby hands, he's shocked at her response... Winter doesn't need Cade's help. After a lifetime of getting by on her own, she's happy to rely on herself. She's exactly seventy-six days away from graduating college, and if she can hold it together that long, she'll finally be able to rise above the crappy hand she was dealt. But now, every time she turns around, Cade is there, ready to push her, smile at her, distract her from her plans. Winter knows she can't afford to open up--especially to a man she's terrified to actually want...




The Heart is a Reluctant Nomad


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Emp-toe's people are suffering; a series of misfortunes has disturbed the peace. Emp-toe has lost his parents. All he has is his grandparents and a female Facebook friend. Shortly before his initiation, the elders reveal the hidden meaning of his name. In order to find a solution to his people's suffering, he must understand an ancestral order "Re-grow our Simot and move with it always if you want to survive." Will Emp-toe take the path his ancestors have chosen or chart his own destiny? In this novel, the author has effectively captured the dilemma of cultural identity.




Come Back, Como


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Based on a beloved ten-part series in the San Francisco Chronicle, Come Back, Como is Steven Winn’s tender and hilarious memoir of his uncommonly rich experience with a dog who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with him. With humor and pathos, Winn describes the exasperating but ultimately rewarding effects the pet had on his family, the ordeals he and his dog endured together, and the greatest lesson Como taught him: that loving a dog can somehow make us more human.




Tessa Ever After


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In this grippingly emotional New Adult novel from the author of Caged in Winter, what you want isn’t always what you need… Jason’s been living (and loving) the rich playboy lifestyle for five years, but now his parents are pressuring him to get involved in the family business. The last thing he wants is another obligation, but when his best friend moves out of state and asks Jason to look after his sister, he can’t just say no. Tessa had to grow up way too soon. After dealing with the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, then becoming a teenage mom, she knows the meaning of responsibility. Which is why, at twenty-two, she’s looking for so much more than a party boy. She’s looking for someone who can stand by her and her daughter…forever. A relationship between them is doomed from the start, but who says they can’t have a little fun? But as Jason gets closer to Tessa—and her daughter—fun starts to turn into something else… Something Jason’s not sure he’s ready for.




Gentle and Lowly


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Christians know that God loves them, but can easily feel that he is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them. As a result, they focus a lot—and rightly so—on what Jesus has done to appease God’s wrath for sin. But how does Jesus Christ actually feel about his people amid all their sins and failures? This book draws us to Matthew 11, where Jesus describes himself as “gentle and lowly in heart,” longing for his people to find rest in him. The gospel flows from God’s deepest heart for his people, a heart of tender love for the sinful and suffering. These chapters take readers into the depths of Christ’s very heart for sinners, diving deep into Bible passages that speak of who Christ is and encouraging readers with the affections of Christ for his people. His longing heart for sinners comforts and sustains readers in their up-and-down lives.




The Most Reluctant Convert


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In his teens, a young man wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “I never sank so low as to pray.” To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, “You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!” This young man was C. S. Lewis, the “foul-mouthed atheist” who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis’s personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to focus on the period from Lewis’s childhood to his early thirties, a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life’s meaning so well.




The Reluctant Parting


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Discover the New Testament’s Forgotten Jewish Origins