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Single Parents Can WIN With Money! Being a single parent is really tough. I know that first-hand. And I also know what it feels like to worry about not having enough money to pay the rent, or put food on the table. I'll never forget how it felt to stand in line at the grocery story, and wonder how I would pay for the food that my children needed. When I was growing up, my parents thought they were teaching me about money. They taught me ho...

From somewhere among the colony of North Carolina's Gaelic gentry, twenty-five-year-old backwoodsman Jacob Dare is determined to find a young woman to recreate the home that his father's Dare Castle must have been. She would have to be well bred, well read, and gifted with the ability to turn the primitive into the palatial. If she Is favorable to look upon and sweetly dispositioned, that would be even better. That she could ever come to love ...

Ghosts of the bayou don't suffer fools... It's August of 1850, deep in the bayou country of southern Louisiana. Four good friends are working in the fields harvesting the crops when a sudden thunderstorm drives them all indoors. There's kind, warm-hearted J. P. Ayo, eager, earnest young T-Joe Lirette, wry, hard-bitten Clovis Dantin, and gentle, easy-going Leandre Naquin. "Hell of a night, " Leandre remarks, as they share a drink and wait f...

Never give up, especially not on yourself. Blissful Thinking is the sweeping story of L.L. Kirchner's search for nirvana that took her from university halls in the Persian Gulf to the streets of Manhattan to a sex cult in India. Between her family's gym and the years she'd spent in substance abuse recovery, Kirchner felt versed in physical and spiritual wellness. But when her husband demanded a divorce over the phone, she feared a return t...

Never give up, especially not on yourself. Blissful Thinking is the sweeping story of L.L. Kirchner's search for nirvana that took her from university halls in the Persian Gulf to the streets of Manhattan to a sex cult in India. Between her family's gym and the years she'd spent in substance abuse recovery, Kirchner felt versed in physical and spiritual wellness. But when her husband demanded a divorce over the phone, she feared a return t...

It's never too late to have the adventure of a lifetime With her 70th birthday looming, Lauren Hillard is constantly thinking that there has to be an easier way. She has long felt that her family has simply stowed her away like a precious heirloom. She's had it - she is done. Lauren makes the snap decision to quit managing her daughter's psychotherapist office and answer the call to adventure. It is a risk, she knows. But a risk she is mor...

Everyone is afraid of something. For April Grace, it's mice with scritchy toenails. For her sister ... well, Myra Sue is afraid of so many things, April Grace has trouble remembering them all. Read what happens when being fraidy-cats and getting even can turn a nice summer day into a misadventure neither girl expected. Book Two in the Misadventures of April Grace series is full of fun and mischief! Return to the 1980s with April Grace and ...

Award-Winning Collection of Stories That Grapple With What It Means to Belong Home is a Made-Up Place invites readers into the lives of people grappling with emotional injuries and confronting the past to become who they wish to be. Set in NYC, New England, the Southwest, and rural Alaska, a single mother fights to protect her son, a daughter tries to forget her missing mother, a couple struggles to keep a marriage together and their child...

Ghosts of the bayou don't suffer fools... It's August of 1850, deep in the bayou country of southern Louisiana. Four good friends are working in the fields harvesting the crops when a sudden thunderstorm drives them all indoors. There's kind, warm-hearted J. P. Ayo, eager, earnest young T-Joe Lirette, wry, hard-bitten Clovis Dantin, and gentle, easy-going Leandre Naquin. "Hell of a night, " Leandre remarks, as they share a drink and wait f...

Take a trip back to the 1980s with April Grace and her family! April Grace isn't sure what to make of her gift from Mr. Brett. But she soon learns how much fun it is to care for a new friend. Her imagination starts running away with her as the Thanksgiving holidays draw near, and she begins to fear for her new friend's safety. Are they truly in danger?

Sometimes the hardest battles are the ones unseen until it's too late. Or, in the case of the Pleasant Valley Treatment Center residents, almost too late. After a suicide attempt makes Tobias the newest resident, he's faced with the prospect of healing but finds he's not alone. The one everyone calls Bullfrog is recovering from severe burns, and no one knows why. Matthew, former star of the school football team, struggles with expectatio...

Sometimes the hardest battles are the ones unseen until it's too late. Or, in the case of the Pleasant Valley Treatment Center residents, almost too late. After a suicide attempt makes Tobias the newest resident, he's faced with the prospect of healing but finds he's not alone. The one everyone calls Bullfrog is recovering from severe burns, and no one knows why. Matthew, former star of the school football team, struggles with expectatio...

April Grace is BACK! An accident on the road. An unexpected wedding announcement. A slew of long-term, noisy wedding guests who prefer sports to romance and who take over the house. A cheesy looking school bus parked in the driveway, and messy malodorous malarkey coming from everywhere. A new friend who isn't what she seems, and another who is more than April Grace could hope for. The summer of 1987 at the Reilly home is off to a rousi...

One Minute... There comes a moment in everyone's life when everything finally makes sense. You know that where you are is exactly where you're supposed to be. It's 11:59, and Rob Jackson is reflecting on his life - the domino effect that each event had on the next throughout the years of his life. During his childhood in a small town in Mississippi, he learned how it feels to be an outsider, and the love for his mother, books, fishing, and...

One Minute... There comes a moment in everyone's life when everything finally makes sense. You know that where you are is exactly where you're supposed to be. It's 11:59, and Rob Jackson is reflecting on his life - the domino effect that each event had on the next throughout the years of his life. During his childhood in a small town in Mississippi, he learned how it feels to be an outsider, and the love for his mother, books, fishing, and...

If your father practiced medicine the way you dance, he'd be under a million lawsuits." That's what Miss Lorraine used to tell Kara as a young dancer in between yelling, "Put your heels down!" In dance, criticism is considered a compliment, so as a young dancer with short Achilles tendons, tight hamstrings, and knobby knees she fancied herself a star. Thirty years of leotards and tights later, she had to face some hard truths. Maybe she wasn...

Dead people generally cause Charlotte Franklin trouble... and she's got plenty of trouble already. Her mother's decision move to a town one hundred miles away form her dad and her friends is the worst decision ever. And the house! It's a wreck. Big and old, drafty and ugly, it's the color of a school bus. The boy across the street might be kinda cute, but he's a pain, always on his skateboard, calling her "Kid." Every time she goes outside...

No family is perfect... not even the wealthy and influential Gradys. Shadows from the past have long haunted youngest daughter Shannon, whose very presence within the home aroused long-lived jealousy and resentment. Plagued by the demons of mental illness, she longs for love and acceptance, but does not receive it--the ultra-religious Gradys believe her risky impulses and dark, debilitating depression are sin, not illness. When Shannon loo...

It's Time to Invite Death Out of the Closet! The impending or actual death of someone close to you can be devastating. It doesn't matter if you knew it was coming, or if it was a total shock-you'll never be the same. There is no right way to grieve, and no appropriate time frame. It's different for everyone. Author and therapist gone rogue, Becky Aud-Jennison, the creator of The Death Dialogues Project and podcast, has sewn together thread...

It's Time to Invite Death Out of the Closet! The impending or actual death of someone close to you can be devastating. It doesn't matter if you knew it was coming, or if it was a total shock-you'll never be the same. There is no right way to grieve, and no appropriate time frame. It's different for everyone. Author and therapist gone rogue, Becky Aud-Jennison, the creator of The Death Dialogues Project and podcast, has sewn together thread...