Christmas Heroes on Main Street 2020 Long before the current difficult times surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected so many, the Authors of Main Street established their 2020 Christmas collection theme: Heroes on Main Street: an anthology dedicated to the small town heroes who bless the lives of their community in large and small ways every day. Little did they know that the term "frontline hero" would become a part of our daily vernacular. Amazon https://tinyurl.com/yyrlk9vb While these stories do not deal with these particular heroes as the stories were outlined and written before current events, the authors would like to express their awe, wonder, and profound appreciate for the real heroes - nurses, doctors, respiratory techs, store clerks, truck drivers, EMTs and firefighters, and so many others behind the scenes - who keep our country's head above the waterline of adversity in small towns, large cities, and everywhere in between every single day. This holiday season, may you all be truly blessed. 
Christmas Cookies on Main Street 2019
Grab your favorite Christmas cookies and a glass of milk and settle in for this year's Authors of Main Street holiday collection! The Authors of Main Street have teamed up to provide you not only with seven wonderfully sweet stories this season, but cookie recipes to go with them! Amazon https://tinyurl.com/y6xffaqg 
Christmas Wishes on Main Street 2018
The Authors of Main Street and Indie Artist Press are thrilled to offer the latest collection in what has become a holiday tradition. Sweet romances just right for the busy holiday season when you just need a break. So snuggle up with your favorite warm drink and let Authors of Main handle the rest. Amazon https://tinyurl.com/y6odw43v 
Christmas Babies on Main Street
2017 Eight individual stories from the bestselling Authors of Main Street - New for the 2017 Christmas Season! Christmas spirit and warm love stories, holidays, and babies from around the world. From the small hamlet of Eastport in Canada, to the gorgeous landscapes of New Zealand, to Main Street, USA. Amazon http://amzn.to/2xQ5Lsj |
LOVING LEXI
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Journalist Lexi Warner detests dragging someone’s name through the mud. However, due to her shrinking bank account, she accepts an assignment in South Carolina to interview Tate Hunter, who had mysteriously disappeared a year ago. Big hearted Tate Hunter rose above a bumpy upbringing in a Home for Children, determined to make a name for himself. He became the finest sportscaster, ever, at a prime TV station, WCJD, in Miami, Florida. His world is upended after he’s accused of his wife’s death. When Tate is found innocent, he burns all bridges and relocates to Hideaway Harbor, South Carolina, to begin life anew as a Charter Boat captain. Lexi had concealed her reason for visiting the town of Hideaway Harbor from those she meets, and worse, from Tate. Just as they come to be at ease with each other, the town’s hot-headed reporter gives Tate damaging news concerning Lexi. 
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Apple Lake Series - Book One Christmas at Apple Lake Christmas at Apple Lake
Amazon http://tinyurl.com/oza44bz Apple Lake Series - Book One Prologue Coldwater Creek, Georgia 2006 No one ever said happiness was forever. Gage Landon knew all about forever. It wasn’t. Not only had Ken, her twenty-nine-year-old husband, manipulated her life, but he’d continued to betray her, their children and their marriage vows. Ken had put another woman before his family. How had she missed the signs, the clues? A cool calmness carried what little sanity she had left. If only she’d known the future, she’d have taken steps to improve their declining marriage, to develop a stronger independence. They’d argued over money—again. In an outburst of rage, Ken had stormed out of the house without a word, slammed the door behind him, and roared off in his souped-up Chevy. That was the last time she’d seen her husband, Ken, alive. The realization of being on her own hit her in the gut. She barely had enough in the bank to bury her husband. Being manipulated and taken care of had blown up in her face. She wasn’t prepared for changes that were sure to come, but life wouldn’t be put off. She’d been so gullible, because she believed she could change Ken. No more. Never again. The future appeared bleak, but she wasn’t going to bow down to failure. No. She was going to take charge. At twenty-eight, she wanted more for her children. Herself. More than to simply exist: to be what she knew she could be. The time had come to get up off her duff and do something. To find a way to do what she had to do to raise her girls. By herself. Christmas was two weeks away and Christmas was all about her girls, love and forgiveness. *** Three months later. Three months after Ken’s death, her home at Coldwater Creek had burned to the ground. Gage used every ounce of courage within her to climb from the devastation that had battered her the past three months. She’d had no intention of living in the home her grandparent’s had willed to her, but the move to Apple Lake was imminent. To uproot the girls, pull up stakes and move to the North Georgia mountains. To begin again. 
Apple Lake Series -Book Three The Trouble with Wishes Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/yx8jhsct
The Trouble with Wishes - Book Three When we last left Ellie - in book two - The Christmas Stocking,- being a patient woman, she had waited for Luke to mourn the loss of his wife. Waited for him to find a place in his heart for another woman and the chance at happiness again. Ellie wanted to be that woman…and she would be waiting with open arms. No matter how much time passed or how long it took, she prayed she would have the husband and family she wanted more than anything else in life. The Trouble With Wishes Wishes and dreams are held in our hearts. Some we share, others we embrace deep inside. Ellie Newsome has both. One wish she hides well. The wish is hers. Hers alone. One she wouldn’t share. Was it fear or timing that leads her to the secret wish? To conquer Luke Conway’s heart. Luke Conway grieves for the loss of his wife. His goal is to learn to live with the sorrow and find love again. But could he get past the emptiness? The guilt? That was the trouble with wishes. Wishes may not always be realized. Then again, who knows? |
Summer Romance on Main Street 2018
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Christmas at the Inn on Main Street 2016
Indie Artist Press is excited to offer this collection of four Christmas romance ebook novellas for a special holiday price in gratitude for all of our loyal readers, and for all readers who love a great love story. The Authors of Main Street is a delightful gathering of talented writers who hope you enjoy reading this collection as much as they have taken pleasure in creating it for you! Happy Holidays from the Authors of Main Street! Amazon http://a.co/aykVv7V 
Apple Lake Series - Book Two The Christmas Stocking The Christmas Stocking Amazon https://tinyurl.com/y2d8qqsa Apple Lake Series - Book two I had a great time writing this book. Children make Christmas, and this story is no different. Ellie Newsome’s marriage is crumbling, and she’s gone through a few rough weeks. She desperately needs to talk to her mother. But her mother has Alzheimer’s and is in a nursing facility. The excerpt takes place in the nursing facility and Ellie has yet one more let-down. All twenty-four-year-old Ellie Newsome ever wanted was a happy home, a trustworthy husband and the sound of pitter-patter dancing across her floors. She’d never wanted to settle for less…but she had. Had she known Ryan had only married her to give him babies, she’d not have said yes. But she had. Now, her hopes and dreams were gone. Gone as quickly as her husband had taken the coward’s way out, and deserted her a week after the second miscarriage and two weeks before Thanksgiving. Alone, an ailing father, her mother in a nursing home, and with no way to support herself, Ellie had only her faith for comfort. Little did Ellie know, God was about to intervene. One week before Thanksgiving. Twenty-six-year-old Luke Conway has lost his wife in a car accident. Luke is still hospitalized and in critical condition. His two children have nowhere to go but the Children’s Home in Apple Lake, Georgia. Except the Children’s Home is full. And no one else in town has room, or is too old to care for the children. A social worker knocks on Ellie Newsome’s door late at night with Luke’s daughter, nine-year-old Danni Conway and six-month-old Brett Conway, by her side. At first Ellie refuses to care for someone else’s children, but finally gives in when the social worker promises to find the children another home within a week. It’s now two weeks before Christmas, and the children are still with Ellie. She’s determined the children won’t go without Christmas, even if the worker places them before Christmas. She discovers shopping for them and teaching Danni to bake cookies, gives her more joy than she thought possible. She’s had no contact with the children’s father, neither has the case worker informed her of his condition. One week before Christmas Luke Conway is about to be released from the hospital, but he can’t go home. He needs care. The case worker hinted at Ellie to take him in until he is better. Ellie refuses. After Luke is allowed to visit with his children at the hospital, Danni misses her father so badly after they go back to Ellie’s, she cries for an entire day and through the night. Ellie calls her friend Gage Landon, who knows Luke. Gage assures Ellie that Luke is one of the most honest and above board men in town. Ellie relents and allows Luke to move into her home until he has recovered from his injuries from the accident, with one condition. The police must visit at least once a day to check on them, unannounced. |
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Christmas Blessings - Book Four
What had begun to convince Ellie to believe her dream of capturing Luke's heart was real, shifted south abruptly.
Luke had a change of viewpoint where their relationship was headed. Though it broke her heart, there was nothing she could do but deal with it.
She refused to influence him.
The decision must be his, and his alone.
He must want her as much as she wanted him.
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“Are you going to marry my daddy?” Danni asked. On her tummy, feet in the air, chin in both hands, she glanced up from her homework, with an expectant ten-year-old’s expression.
Without warning, Danni’s question hit Ellie so hard her toes curled. If only. My life would be complete.
Ellie squeezed her eyes shut, exhaled the breath she’d held, then closed the computer’s top, knowing this conversation wouldn’t be a short one. Neither would it be an easy one.
“Well, sweetheart, that’s an interesting subject to consider. Why do you ask?” Danni wasn’t a normal little girl, she was in tune with people’s feelings beyond her years.
“I see the way you and daddy look at each other.” Danni, slid her math book aside, sat up with her legs crossed, then grinned. “I wondered if you wanted to be our mommy.”
Ellie wouldn’t lie to her, Danni was far too smart and would see right through her and the answer she’d have to come up with.
Still, she couldn’t reveal her entire dreams and wishes that someday they’d all be a family. A family she could only hope to be a part of and lay her head down at night, in peace. In love.
Appreciating Danni, and her own hopes and dreams, she knew it would only be a matter of time until she’d ask the same of her daddy. As close as Luke and Danni were, Ellie had no doubt she would share their conversation with him.
To tread lightly, yet honestly, here would be the safest outcome.
Coming up with the right words was the problem.
She wished she’d been better prepared.
She wasn’t.
Christmas Blessings - Book Four
What had begun to convince Ellie to believe her dream of capturing Luke's heart was real, shifted south abruptly.
Luke had a change of viewpoint where their relationship was headed. Though it broke her heart, there was nothing she could do but deal with it.
She refused to influence him.
The decision must be his, and his alone.
He must want her as much as she wanted him.
Excerpt:
“Are you going to marry my daddy?” Danni asked. On her tummy, feet in the air, chin in both hands, she glanced up from her homework, with an expectant ten-year-old’s expression.
Without warning, Danni’s question hit Ellie so hard her toes curled. If only. My life would be complete.
Ellie squeezed her eyes shut, exhaled the breath she’d held, then closed the computer’s top, knowing this conversation wouldn’t be a short one. Neither would it be an easy one.
“Well, sweetheart, that’s an interesting subject to consider. Why do you ask?” Danni wasn’t a normal little girl, she was in tune with people’s feelings beyond her years.
“I see the way you and daddy look at each other.” Danni, slid her math book aside, sat up with her legs crossed, then grinned. “I wondered if you wanted to be our mommy.”
Ellie wouldn’t lie to her, Danni was far too smart and would see right through her and the answer she’d have to come up with.
Still, she couldn’t reveal her entire dreams and wishes that someday they’d all be a family. A family she could only hope to be a part of and lay her head down at night, in peace. In love.
Appreciating Danni, and her own hopes and dreams, she knew it would only be a matter of time until she’d ask the same of her daddy. As close as Luke and Danni were, Ellie had no doubt she would share their conversation with him.
To tread lightly, yet honestly, here would be the safest outcome.
Coming up with the right words was the problem.
She wished she’d been better prepared.
She wasn’t.
Perfect Match
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/y9rwfwcg Blurb Nursing wounds over a broken engagement, twenty-seven-year old Cali Weston, has no inclinations of becoming involved again and submerges herself into Weston Art Gallery, intent in making it the best in Atlanta. Summoned to Crossroads, Tennessee to settle her father's affairs, she meets Trace Robbins, widowed at twenty-six. It's been a year since the death of his wife, Jena. Trace faces raising his son, Dylan, alone. He blames himself for both the accident and Jena's death. Now her memory haunts him. Neither love or marriage is an option. Sparks fly when Cali realizes Trace's interests are centered not on her, but on two-hundred acres of prime farm land, she'd acquired from her father. Cali finds her concern leans toward the heart. She struggles with meeting obligations of the art studio and holding onto last ties of her father's memory. Neither deny a strong attraction to the other. Trace can't let go of Jena's memory, and Cali won't play second fiddle to a ghost. |
A SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/y9rwfwcg Blurb: Think Sandra Bullock meets country hunk. Wacky fresh and funny characters are stranded together in a Smoky Mountain snowstorm three days before Christmas. Tina Cole wants back control of her life, until she meets a country hunk. Falling in love isn't part of the bargain. On the rebound from a fizzled relationship, she lands on writer Hank Gordon's doorstep and finds that everything she thought she wanted out of life means nothing without love. Recently divorced and disillusioned by love, Hank Gordon has sworn off women. He isn't in the mood to entertain a woman with an attitude who frustrates him more than any woman he’s ever met. Hank’s novel deadline is twenty-four hours away and he's cut off from the world with no phone or email service, and a beautiful, aggravating crazy woman to distract him. If Hank thinks his life couldn't get any worse, he's wrong. Not only is he baby-sitting a sassy Southern princess who has no idea what a kitchen is for, but two escaped convicts turn up at the cabin, while Hank’s horse is about to foal. A rollicking story filled with passion, humor, suspense, and zesty romantic adventure. Review June Faver A Smoky Mountain Christmas is a delightful read. Two quirky, misfits on the rebound accidentally wind up stranded together in an isolated place. Over the course of a few days, they grow to appreciate each other and lose their hearts in spite of seemingly overwhelming odds. Two more dissimilar characters I've never met, but they are able to grow together and find that the other is exactly what they need to heal their past hurts and become whole again. A sweet feel-good story for the holidays. |
A Matter of TasteAmazon: http://tinyurl.com/y9rwfwcg Blurb The sheriff turned a blind eye when young Hannah was violated by her drunken stepfather. Hannah's mother, the one person who should protect her, was dying of cancer, but even in her weakened condition, she offered a way out. After her mother's death, will Hannah be able to protect herself or will she be driven over the edge? |
