The Beauty of Betrayal


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Many people suffer the pains of betrayal, especially leaders. Outwardly, they are cool, but inwardly, torrid waves of anger, bitterness, rejection, and heaviness destabilize their souls. Try as they may to function at work, lead their families, or serve at church, they cannot move past the pain. Whether family, congregation member, or trusted mentor, betrayal stings sharply when its source is someone from your trusted, inner circle. But there is a way to not only heal from betrayal's pain but also embrace its beauty and emerge better, not bitter-even when it comes from someone close like a husband or wife. In this book, Dr. Sandra B. Cook shows you how. The Beauty of Betrayal is every reader's wisdom tool to put your emotions in check, let go of the past, and allow betrayal to be a catalyst for your own deliverance. You'll learn how to stabilize your emotions, drop your weapons, and accept that it does not surprise God that they betrayed you. You'll laugh and cry at her stories of betrayal in ministry and during her career. And you'll identify why your betrayer brings the worst out of you, and areas where you need to heal. You'll journey together with Dr. Cook through a healing process and learn how to mature and walk in wisdom for the future. Dr. Cook will show you the five Ds that are warning signs of a deceiver in your midst and how to respond accordingly. You can have victory over betrayal and experience the beauty it can facilitate. Let Dr. Cook, who has over twenty-eight years of experience, show you how all things, including betrayal, can work together for your good.




The Beauty of Darkness


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Princess Lia and her love, Rafe, have escaped Venda and the path before them is winding and dangerous.




The Heart of Betrayal


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Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Princess Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape--and even less of being together--as the foundations of Lia's deeply-held beliefs crumble beneath her while she wrestles with her upbringing, her gift, and her very sense of self to make powerful choices that affect her country, her people, and her own destiny.




The Kiss of Deception


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The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.




Betrayed By Beauty


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Mirror mirror on the wall, F*ck you.They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I wish it wasn't.The first time my step-dad raped me, I prayed for God to save me... he never came.Instead, my savior came in the form of a Priest. For years we've done God's bidding.Blood coats our hands and souls, Devilish deeds done in the Lord's name.But changes are coming and our time is running out.I'm not sure I'm ready, Not sure I can face the man in the mirror when the mask comes off. I'm drowning in the uncertainty of the future. I need someone to save me. I need them. **This is a MMF love story*




Beautiful Betrayal


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Beautiful lies can disguise the ugly truth...for a while that is. Reagan Moore loves her busy, fast pace Los Angeles life style. She loves her optimistic, single mother, who has served as her best friend, mom, and dad for her entire life. She loves her spunky, rebellious group of friends, who have her back on every stupid adventure she partakes in. She loves everything about her life. That is until she realizes everything she thinks she knows about her family, and herself, every memory, every relationship, every secret is nothing but a complicated, and delicate ring of lies. When Reagan discovers the startling fact that her mother has skipped town without her, she finds herself entangled in a web of confusion when she is forced to drop her whole life and move to Georgia, where she stays with her estranged father and his malicious family. Soon after arriving, Reagan stumbles across some haunting family secrets, which causes her to run in search of her runaway mother, who has some life altering secrets of her very own. A tale of revenge, deceit, and lies, Beautiful Betrayal journeys you through Reagan's life as she fights to learn the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth no matter what consequences she will be forced to face.




Famous Last Words


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During a summer internship as an obituary writer for her local northern New Jersey newspaper, 16-year-old Samantha D'Angelo makes some momentous realizations about politics, ethics, her family, romance, and most importantlyNherself.




Beyond Betrayal


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Responding Right When You've Been Wronged We all know what it’s like to be lied to, cheated, tricked, or swindled. Whether you want revenge or to protect yourself from future harm, Phil Waldrep understands your pain. Waldrep had no idea of the steep journey that lay ahead of him when two men walked into his office and revealed an unfolding story of a friend turned colleague who was living what amounted to a second life. For years following, Waldrep sought to heal the wounds of this broken relationship and confront the pain he felt in the aftermath of this betrayal. Along the way, he discovered God’s solutions to overcoming resentment. In Beyond Betrayal, you’ll learn about the biblical principles and practical tools that can help you identify betrayers in your life and name the pain you feel rediscover God as the healer of your wounds avoid bitterness and express your anger in healthy ways learn to remain open to trusting others again as you build new relationships choose forgiveness and develop strategies to prevent future betrayal Whether you’ve been hurt by a family member, friend, colleague, or trusted leader, you are not alone. Even Jesus was betrayed. You don’t have to let past hurts limit your future relationships—you can move beyond betrayal.




A Beautiful, Terrible Thing


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A woman discovers her marriage is built on an illusion in this harrowing and ultimately inspiring memoir. “Be forewarned: You won’t sleep until you finish the last page.”—Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World One night. One email. Two realities... Before: Jen Waite has met the partner of her dreams. A handsome, loving man who becomes part of her family, evolving into her husband, her best friend, and the father of her infant daughter. After: A disturbing email sparks suspicion, leading to an investigation of who this man really is and what was really happening in their marriage. In alternating Before and After chapters, Waite obsessively analyzes her relationship, trying to find a single moment form the past five years that isn't part of the long con of lies and manipulation. Instead, she finds more lies, infidelity, and betrayal than she could have imagined. With the pacing and twists of a psychological thriller, A Beautiful, Terrible Thing looks at how a fairy tale can become a nightmare and what happens when “it could never happen to me” actually does.




Treacherous Beauty


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Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war’s most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging between England and its rebellious colonists, Peggy befriended a suave British officer and then married a crippled revolutionary general twice her age. She brought the two men together in a treasonous plot that nearly turned George Washington into a prisoner and changed the course of the war. Peggy Shippen was Mrs. Benedict Arnold. After the conspiracy was exposed, Peggy managed to convince powerful men like Washington and Alexander Hamilton of her innocence. The Founding Fathers were handicapped by the common view that women lacked the sophistication for politics or warfare, much less treason. And Peggy took full advantage. Peggy was to the American Revolution what the fictional Scarlett O’Hara was to the Civil War: a woman whose survival skills trumped all other values. Had she been a man, she might have been arrested, tried, and executed. And she might have become famous. Instead, her role was minimized and she was allowed to recede into the background—with a generous British pension in hand. In Treacherous Beauty, Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case tell the true story of Peggy Shippen, a driving force in a conspiracy that came within an eyelash of dooming the American democracy.