At nearly 40, Dante Robinson has never been in a serious relationship. His nephew reveals he started an online dating company, Perfect Match. Dante insists he shut it down...until the kid offers to hook him up with a ""naughty librarian"". Lena Young, a librarian, is 30 and raises the daughter of her abusive older brother as if she's her own. When her friend cajoles her into signing up for Perfect Match, Dante responds to her profile. Developing a crush on her brother's best friend hadn't been difficult when Lena was a shy, withdrawn girl, but Dante hasn't been back in 16 years. After she agrees to meet him, she discovers he only invited her over to his house to get laid. She's mortified but, when Dante apologizes, she can't turn him away. She instead finds herself believing that, with him, she can find what she's always dreamed of but never considered possible.

Detached and ignored for most of her life, Brayla Sullivan is the awkward, ugly duckling destined for spinsterhood who's never been kissed, never gone anywhere beyond the small town she was born and raised in. When she starts corresponding with a man from a ""Meet Exotic Singles"" website and he suggests they meet, she drops everything to fly to him in a last-ditch effort to find her happily-ever-after. The only son in a family of daughters, Shaun Levi, Peaceful's Chief of Police, has never looked the part of a dashing hero. Brayla has been nothing more than a buddy he's known all his life. But, when a kiss between them on New Year's takes a turn for the what-have-we-done?, he sees a side to his old friend he never anticipated?and the consequences may just leave him without a friend or a prayer of convincing her they could share so much more. What follows is a series of unfortunate events in which everything goes wrong?

Peaceful is a modern-day small community with old-fashioned values and friendly people you'll want to get to know and visit often. Christian Riley, Elizabeth Horace, and Oscar Albright grew up together, the clichZd Òchurch kidsÓ, but Chris quickly found everything about his life stifling. When he moves to Los Angeles to get away from everything his existence has dictated for him, he doesnÕt expect Elizabeth to follow him, but heÕs known for as long as he can remember that she loves him obsessivelyÉjust as Oscar loves her. With ChrisÕs faith in tatters, he has no interest in Christianity let alone morality. Yet in the thirteen years that follow, he finds himself returning to Elizabeth whenever he hits rock bottom. When a serial killer/rapistÕs attack of Elizabeth is mercifully thwarted, ChrisÕs world collapses in on him. The attack has changed Elizabeth. She realizes sheÕs put her life on hold for too long. Has Chris fallen in love when his angel of mercy is no longer available to him?

Peaceful Pilgrim is an unofficial series in no particular order set in Karen Wiesner's fictional town of Peaceful, Wisconsin. Peaceful is a modern-day small community with old-fashioned values and friendly people you'll want to get to know and visit often. Small-town girl Ayodele ÒDellaÓ Flynn lives in a city she abhors, where danger seems to be lurking around every corner. When her husband dies very unexpectedly, sheÕs confronted with figuring out where her home is with her young son River and trying to come to terms with the loose ends her husband left their lives in.

Peaceful Pilgrims Series is set in Karen Wiesner's fictional town of Peaceful, Wisconsin, a small community with old-fashioned values and friendly people you'll want to get to know and visit often. At nearly 40, Dante Robinson has never been in a relationship that wasn't more than a one-night stand. His nephew, a college student, living in the upstairs apartment of his garage reveals that, on a lark, he and his friend started an online dating company, Perfect Match. Dante insists he shut it down...until the kid offers to hook him up with a "naughty librarian". Lena Young has worked two jobs since she was in high school. She's 30 and raises the daughter of her abusive older brother, a truck driver, as if she's her own. When her friend convinced her to sign up for Perfect Match, she couldn't get herself to go through it...until Dante responds to her profile. Developing a major crush on her brother's best friend hadn't been difficult when Lena was a sheltered girl, but Dante hasn't been back to their house in 16 years. After she agrees to meet him without telling him who she is, she discovers he only invited her over to his house to get laid. She's mortified but, when an equally humiliated Dante comes to the truck stop diner she works on the weekends and apologizes, begging her to forgive him, she can't turn him away. Wanting to tell him to hit the road, she instead finds herself believing him, championing his determination to become a better man...convinced that, with him, she could have one thing in her life that brings her the kind of joy she's always dreamed of but has never considered possible.

Peace Pilgrim was born Mildred Lisette Norman to Ernest and Josephine Norman in 1908 on a poultry farm in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. Her father was a carpenter, and her mother was a tailor. Mildred Lisette Norman adopted the name "Peace Pilgrim" in 1953 in Pasadena, California, and walked across the United States for 28 years. 'Peace Pilgrim: her life and work in her own words' was compiled by some of her friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1982. Composed mainly in her own words except for the reproduced newspaper articles and the introduction. There are comments by people she met while on her 28 year pilgrimage for peace.