This is the true story of a young womans fight to survive, and try to live as normal a life as possible despite her medical problems. When I met Rita she was a single mother, held a full-time job, and lived as though nothing was wrong in her life. She taught me not to dwell on the problems that we have no control over, but to look forward to the wonderful world that we live in. She was, and always will be The Wind Beneath My Wings!
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After years of enduring much physical abuse and domestic violence, Rita had reached the decision the only way she was to survive was to get out of Trinidad. She knew that if she stayed in the country her abuser would find her and she would certainly meet a tragic end. She devised a plan to escape not knowing her fate but willing to take the risk for a chance of a better life. Having to leave her three young sons behind, she entered a world of uncertainty and faced one obstacle after another. See the challenges she faced and how she responded to them. Failure was not an option for her. Read this amazing story of a young woman determined to find a career that would sustain her and eventually pave the way for a new life for her.
From the outside, Brenda Stewart has it all. A rich, influential father. Friends in high places. Men clamoring for her attention. But inside, Brenda is miserable. Her father is overbearing, her friends are fickle, and the men want her money and the prestige it brings. Like Jim Ensley. But Jim has his own problems. And fears. If he can’t get that vice president’s spot, all may be lost, personally and professionally. A night of indiscretion and Brenda’s subsequent escape into the Wasatch Mountains causes havoc that Brenda and Jim could never have imagined. And where does God fit in?
Readers will marvel at this truly incredibility original and exciting romance novel that is filled with mystery, comedy and family dynamics. Ritas Saga is a tale about Rita Annett Craighead a down-to-earth, unpretentious, unassuming natural beauty from a small farming town in west Tennessee. She moves to the metropolitan city of Nashville after receiving a full academic scholarship to attend the prestigious Commodore University. Her sister, who lives in public housing ask her to care for her children for two months. Because of circumstance out of her control, she has to get a job as an escort. The characters she dates have eccentric personalities and ask her to perform bizarre task for which she is paid handsomely. The saga takes Rita on a journey through Music City USA. She meets and falls in love with a wealthy and mysterious newcomer, Mason Grant. And when she does, she is unaware of the danger she is in. She is eventually kidnapped, drugged and dumped in an alley only to be discovered by a hound-dog police detective, Thomas Monroe who is convinced that it was not Rita the kidnappers were after, but information from about Mason Grant. To protect herself and the children in her care, she has no other recourse than to move in with the handsome stranger in his mansion in the upscale neighborhood of Belle Meade where she is held a virtual prisoner. Rita soon learns that Mason has a secret pass and in order to protect his true identity he would go great lengths. You will laugh, cry and be encouraged as you read this page turner that will remind you of the value of faith, true love and family unity.
At thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called "Frazier" by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position. In fact, she has everything to live for, but she's lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip in her arm and a life expectancy measured in hours. "Don't die a stranger," her assistant says on her last hospital visit. "Tell the people you love who you are." And so, as her last act on earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself: she's gay. The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.
Best friends Lilla and Claudia grow up on neighboring farms in rural Prince Edward Island, Canada during the fifties and sixties. They spend their free time roaming the countryside on their beloved horses. A tragic accident changed their lives. They guard the secret of the accident which affects each girl in a different manner. Although they follow very different paths into adulthood, their friendship remains. For one of them, working with the special Island brick clay becomes a journey of recovery while the other falls into a self-destructive means of escape.