Mark is a city kid who has come to a small town to live with his grandmother after his mom goes into rehab. Mark has to take a school bus home for the first time. The long, noisy ride home is nothing like riding city transit. There’s some kind of secret code of knowing where you’re allowed to sit, the kids scream nonstop and someone even tries to set Mark’s seat on fire. He quickly decides that all these kids are too strange and does his best to avoid them. But when tragedy strikes, Mark learns that he has more in common with these country kids than he had ever imagined. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
This collection of fictional short stories is a look into the musings of the author. It pulls the curtain back to see past human existence into the spiritual realm of where we reside as tripart beings. We are reminded through these stories that circumstances aren't just what we see and experience through our physical senses, but what we sometimes easily ignore from our spiritual senses that are important. The perspectives shared by the author help to see events differently and provide light to shadows, reintroducing us to the agenda of spirits to derail man's relationship with God. Her stories also illustrate the outcome of those attempts, both successful and failed. The author weaves the reader into simple everyday events to embark on journey after journey of decisions that must be made by the characters, walking us through each occasion with often surprising outcomes. The reader is able to connect with these stories because each one is relatable and touches on some part of their life, whether through personal experience or observation. Each story is an illustration of 2 Corinthians 4:18: "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
All college student Kayla Hartley wants is to go home for Thanksgiving, but moneys tight since her father died. Shes homesick and, whether she wants to admit it or not, still grieving. Out of desperation, she accepts a ride from a stranger whose name she finds on a ride board at college. Despite her roommates warning, Kayla gets into the car with Mark Lawson, a handsome cowboy, who charms his way into her heart. But is he too attractive for his own good? Its 800 miles across an unforgiving, barren landscape from San Angelo, Texas, to her hometown in Arizona, and as night falls and the road becomes more desolate, Kayla begins to wonder if shes made a mistake, a terrible one that might cost her dearly. A wreck leaves them stranded in the rugged Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. Kayla suffers a concussion, and the car is no longer drivable. The nearest town is one hundred miles away. Its dark and getting cold. She thinks theyre alone. Shes wrong. Having grown up in the desert, Kayla knows its dangers. Sandstorms. Flash floods. Gila monsters. And rattlesnakes and other predators, like coyotes. But, as Kayla soon finds out, the most dangerous predator in the desert is human. And hes close. Very close. https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=UUiYZP06xZ-bDVUoSI97hxCQ&v=B-JlpAlWueQ
Looking for love is natural. Finding it about to give birth in the back of a cab is anything but ordinary. Seth Locklear and his vocal group had just left their first televised concert when they came upon a taxi on the side of the interstate. Pulling over to assist, they discover one of their newest fans in the backseat about to give birth. Before help can arrive, Seth has to help the young woman deliver the baby and instantly, a bond is formed between him and the newborn. Now, little Marissa Wilkerson is at the center of Seth's world, but that means her mother, the young, unwed, but beautifully charming Emily Wilkerson, is too. Despite her ungodly situation, Seth can't take his attention away from Emily. Surely God planned for his perfect wife to have saved herself for marriage, and Emily clearly does not fit that description. Seth's stubborn rejection of Emily's favor may cost him the bond with the beautiful baby he helped to bring into this world. Now, Seth must discover if is his bond with Marissa is influencing his growing desire to be with Emily or if he's really falling in love with her. Having a family of his own one day is God's will, he's sure of it, but could that mean falling in love with a ready-made family? In this heartwarming story, Seth finds himself losing all confidence in his preconceived notions about who his future family will be. Emily has made an impact on his life, but will it be enough for him to dissolve his old ways and let himself fall in love with her? Join Seth, Emily, and the beautiful baby Marissa as they endure The Long Ride Home.
The moment the car hit her, everything changed for Charlotte Roach. Out on a training ride with other Olympic hopefuls, elite athletes all of them, Charlotte was just 21 years old with the dream of making the GB triathlon team. Now, as she lay on the tarmac with a broken back, waiting for the air ambulance, she was drifting in and out of consciousness, fighting for her life. Nearly two years later, Charlotte sat on her bike in China, waiting for the sun to rise. Ahead of her was a journey that would span 10,000km. Her plan was as simple as it was daunting: cycle from Beijing to London in a roughly straight line, over six long, arduous months. ‘A Long Ride Home’ interweaves the story of Charlotte’s recovery with the bike ride in all its triumph and challenge. It is a story of the dedication it takes to follow a dream, and the depths of perseverance needed when that dream is broken by misfortune. Most of all it is the story of a woman and her bike and of the healing and redemption found on two wheels. The author’s royalties from this ebook go to Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance.
Book 6 of the Dirty Cruisers MC series He wrecked me in the best way possible. He drew me in like a moth to a flame. I should have known that I would only be burned. So I did what I thought was best for both of us. I ran. But I’m about to find out that the safest place I can be… … is next to the monster I know. The monster that I can’t forget. The monster that I can’t quit. The monster who’ll do whatever it takes to make me his. *** Get ready for rough talking but sweet-loving alpha male bad boy bikers, sassy and strong spitfire heroines, and a pulse-pounding story that’ll keep you hooked until the end. Ride Hard is Book 1 of 6 in the Dirty Cruisers MC motorcycle club romance series. Perfect for fans of L. Wilder, Nina Levine, Joanna Blake, Lilly Atlas, Chiah Wilder, Jeanne St. James, Daphne Loveling, Evie Monroe, Jordan Marie, Savannah Rylan, Lani Lynn Vale, KB Winters, and LeAnn Ashers
On the Car Ride Home (Lyric book) welcomes readers into a world detailed with a poetic yet conversational tone that guides each chapter, as VLNTNE addresses topics such as self-love, imposter syndrome, and motivation. On The Car Ride Home sets itself apart from traditional spoken word, motivational writings with its pairing of QR codes at the start of each chapter offering readers the opportunity to scan, listen and read.
"A novel of defiance and raw emotion : the vivid portrait of a man locked in violent struggle with himsel and the lawless frontier."--Earl Murray, author of "South of Eden."
RIDE ALONG INTO DANGER Traveling under an alias, the last thing gunman Clip Haynes wanted was attention. But Basin City needed a town-taming marshal, and a cold-blooded murderer was hiding behind Haynes’s real name. Now Haynes was coming out of hiding to protect his honor, save a town, and catch a killer—even if it cost him his life. Lou Morgan was as tough as they came. But it wasn’t just the money or the challenge that motivated him to take on a suicide job involving a buried Spanish treasure and two greedy killers. It was love for a beautiful señorita who had left him for dead years ago. It’s not easy being the new schoolma’am in town . . . especially when you’re a man. But Van Brady isn’t quite the tenderfoot he seems, and before he’s through he’ll teach a few hard cases a lesson they’ll never forget. From the rough-and-tumble streets of San Francisco to the dry desert plains of Texas, from a roughshod gambler willing to wager his own life on a single bet to a killer with a heart, here are stirring tales of the Old West as only Louis L’Amour can write them, tales of men and women risking their lives, fighting their wars, and standing tall on the American frontier.
Twelve-year-old Andrea Carter has several frightening encounters after taking her horse, Taffy, and running away from her home at the Circle C Ranch. She begins to realize that there really is no place like home.
