FICTION · GENERAL
Shirley Larson
Shirley Larson always wanted to be a writer. Even while she was studying music in college, she took a creative writing course...and was promptly laughed at and told she wasn't a writer. Much later, on her husband's urging, she quit her dead end job and sat in her college son's empty room in front of a keyboard and wondered if she was crazy. Now, some thirty romances later, three of them historical romances, she has learned the joy...and sometimes the agony...of writing. She encourages anyone thinking of writing not to listen to naysayers. She has met many wonderful editors and readers along the way who have been very encouraging. She loves the thought that she is sharing with her readers her stories of the men and women who find their way through adversity toward a love for all time.
NOVALEE NATION, seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight-and superstitious about sevens-shifted uncomfortably in the seat of the old Ply-mouth and ran her hands down the curve of her belly.
— from Where the Heart Is
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Where the Heart Is
Fore the sake of her child - Imagine losing your six month old son one night after you entrust him into someone else's care. Imagine coming home from work to a dark house, then searching for the next seven years, praying...hoping...when everyone else gives up. Imagine coming home one night and finding a man on the porch informing you that your son, the one you lost seven years before, is safe, and that HE has had them the entire time... An unlikely paring between Garth and Amanda happens when she is forced to marry him to save the life of her sick child. Through her son, the two begin falling in love. But where Garth's past hurts and loss of faith in God drive a wedge between being able to make this a true marriage? Will Jason recover from his illness, or where his sickness become worth, halting any sense of happiness for either one of his parents? Child of her heart - The honeymoon is over when Sonya Dixon's husband makes her choose between him and her unborn child. Now, desperate and alone, Sonya fears her life is over.Then strong, dependable Daniel Massie offers his friendship and shows her the way to the Lord. And soon Sonya knows her life is just beginning. Desperately seeking Dad - Anne, a Philly lawyer, rented a room to a pregnant girl with an unknown heart problem and ended up dying. But before her death, she made Anne promise her to raise her baby. Now Anne has to go to court for the adoption. Except she must find the father and have him sign the papers. So Anne goes to Bedford to get the police chief Mitch Donovan to sign. The only problem he swears that he is not the dad. So together they must hunt for the dad quietly.
See Only Me
IT SEEMED LIKE A LIFETIME AGO Investigating Jessica Moore was the toughest assignment that Rourke Caldwell had ever been handed as a corporate-crime specialist. When he'd known her, she'd been an innocent, light-years away from the sophisticated professional she was today. Usually Rourke could trust his instincts and the facts. But this case was different. Every time he stumbled on evidence that could convict her, Rourke remembered the blind farm girl who'd lovingly traced his features with trembling fingers as they kissed in the rain, remembered how , in the seven long years since they'd parted, he couldn't forget her .. .
Laughter in the Rain
1986
She wanted him to love life ... and her Who else but a hero could have survived the six-month ordeal Blake Lindstrom had? But if he thought schoolteacher Jamie Gordon had put him on a pedestal--he had another think coming! She was bound to this virile rancher by more than admiration and sympathy. From very personal experience, she knew what he was made of ... flesh and blood, passion and deep tenderness. If Jamie could only teach him to laugh again, he might let all that love inside him flow free.. . .