Christmas Awakenings

Christmas Awakenings is a compilation of four short, uplifting and Inspiring Christmas stories.

A Star Bright Christmas
A young family can’t be late with their mortgage payment again. So two days before Christmas, at the onset of a blizzard, he goes to town leaving his wife and two young sons alone to endure a blackout on the 24th of December. Will he make it back in time for Christmas?

Christmas Promises
When a young newlywed soldier recently returned from Iraq tells his young wife he has to work Christmas Day she goes ballistic. He had promised her they would never have to spend another holiday alone. When she wakes one morning she finds his things removed from the apartment as well as all the furniture and fixtures not the ones they had picked out together. She cries herself to sleep on the ‘new’ couch and wakes up to discover the true meaning of spending the holiday together.

Christmas Salvation
A widower and a younger woman get to know each other better but not until after he accepts the concept that ‘life goes by in a flash and you don’t want to miss anything’.

A Palm Tree for Christmas
A young family travels from the northeastern United States to the hot sweltering south for a better way of life. Sunny days, sandy beaches, and summer heat. Their dreams are squashed when neither can find jobs and their surplus of money from the sale of their house is down to their last pennies. Until Christmas Eve....

The Deadly Series

Human Trafficking: One of the most prolific and profitable businesses in the world and growing every day. But that’s only in third world countries, right?

Isabella Donnelly felt safe in her middle-class Colorado neighborhood until human traffickers drugged and abducted her. After being betrayed by a “friend,” she’s transported across state lines to Virginia to be sold into slavery or worse. With the clock ticking she manages to escape and is rescued by skeptical, but staggeringly handsome detective, Wyatt Bowman. After what’s happened she’s slow to trust anyone. Can she trust him?

Wyatt Bowman, with nothing-gets-past-him blue eyes, isn’t convinced her horrific story is true but the lawman in him demands an investigation. Aware of their immediate attraction and the heat burning between them, he doesn’t want to risk her safety but needs her help to carry out the sting operation. Can he keep her from harm?

The Saddle Creek Series

Rosie’s Diner sits in the shadows of the Grand Teton Mountain range, in the small town center of Saddle Creek, Wyoming. It’s where horse rancher Chase Montgomery first lays eyes on a new waitress’s bruised and swollen face, and beautiful green eyes; his first instinct is to kiss the bruises away.

Lauren McCray flees Michigan and heads west to escape another beating from her ex-boyfriend, Clint Jackson. When she sees him looking inside her car outside the diner where she works, she runs again. This time, jumping into the bed of a nearby pickup truck hauling a horse trailer.

Chase’s life is enriched when he pulls back the tarp in the bed of his pick-up and finds the green-eyed beauty from the diner. Lauren is running from something or someone, and Chase is compelled to protect her, but can he? Will he be in time?
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Samantha “Sam” Williams, aspiring wildlife photographer from New York City, disheveled from a challenging travel day, stumbles into Rosie’s Diner outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming and discovers the only available seat is next to a rugged, stone-faced cowboy, who greets her with a mesmerizing stare.

Elliott Bouchard, a world class outdoorsman trains therapy horses and devotes his life to teaching “city slickers” respect for the wilderness. After he meets Sam, he wants to protect her from the raw elements of the west but from someone who wants her dead.

When Sam’s life is threatened due to murderous evidence she innocently possesses, will Elliott knowingly put himself in harm’s way to save her?
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When Avri Lawrence’s high school sweetheart answers a calling to join the military, she’s left behind to nurse a broken heart and try to move on but when he returns years later, her attraction to him is stronger than ever. Now, she has a big secret, one she’s not ready to share.

Dillon Davidson, to prove himself, enlists in the Army but fails to predict the magnitude of required sacrifice. After he’s captured and tortured while on a mission, he escapes and returns home hoping for forgiveness.

The years of separation have taken their toll, testing the strength of their love. Will she take the risk of revealing her secret? Can he leave the horrors of battle behind?