This work is about motivating and inspiring you. Your life has been destined for destiny and purposed for purpose. This work is designed to motivate, encourage, and assist you in harnessing your greatness and bringing it forth. My goal is to challenge you and walk with you through those challenges and facilitate your success. When we finish this journey it will be preparation for the beginning of your journey to DESTINY!! You will walk away with more insight of who you are and who you are not. You will know all that you are capable of doing. Repeat this, "Destiny is not yet where my eyes can see, that is because it is deep down inside of me, as I commit myself everyday to become who I really should be, that is the time that is the moment that I have reached my destiny." -Samuel J. Dargan Samuel's passion is to positively influence the lives of people by helping them understand the importance of planning for a successful life. His daily intent is to enrich, empower and impact the lives of everyone he meets. Samuel is a husband, father, minister and student who understand the importance of good decision making and planning. To be successful and effective, planning is essential. He endeavors to share some God-given principles and strategies he has used to help him become effective in his work. Samuel J. Dargan studied at Florida A & M University where he obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Business. Samuel is currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration with a focus in Business Development and Strategic Planning from the University of Phoenix. Samuel plans to obtain a PhD in Communications with an emphasis in Public Communication upon the completion of his Master's Degree.

Wren is marrying the man of her dreams just as soon as she returns from her trip to the Carolinas—on the first night there, all is changed in an instant. Why? Because the hero of my recently completed novel, Dargan’s Desire, has mistakenly taken her virginity. Set in South Carolina in 1826 this fun and sensual, the book is woven with love and deceit. Teaching two people the ultimate meaning of honesty, passion, and devotion. Charming, spirited, full of excitement and exquisitely beautiful, Wren is forced into a loveless marriage when a beast of a man who takes her innocence. Worldly and influential, Dargan Knight, feels as if he has been trapped by this sprite of a girl into a loveless marriage he will never be able to get out of. Then fate steps in to shake up both their lives when Wren realizes she is with child.

Despite the timeless themes of Olive Tilford Dargan's work and the acclaim she earned with her novels Call Home the Heart (1932) and A Stone Came Rolling (1935), the author, who published her best-known works under the pseudonym Fielding Burke, has been largely forgotten by the American literary establishment. In this first book-length study of Dargan's life and work, Kathy Cantley Ackerman poses these questions: Why did Dargan's proletarian and feminist writings fall out of public favor when the literary climate changed in the 1940s, and what are the issues raised in and by her work that today's readers should reconsider? The Heart of Revolution combines biography and history with a critical reading of Dargan's work. Ackerman pays close attention to the proletarian, feminist, and racial issues in the novels; she then examines the ways these issues intersect in the southern Appalachian and Piedmont regions. Dargan's aesthetic, articulated in her depiction of the southern textile mill strikes of 1929 and the early 1930s, defies the party line of the period that privileged the struggle of white working men over the concerns of women and minorities. Unlike her male--and many of her female--counterparts in the proletarian movement, Dargan envisions a world in which romantic love can coexist with the fight for socioeconomic revolution, a world in which the activist does not have to surrender her individuality. Through strong female characters, she reconstructs the paternalistic, capitalistic marriage-and-mother myth, replacing it with a model based on egalitarian principles--an ideology that has only gained relevance over time. Ackerman's exploration of class, race, and gender in Dargan's novels individually and her consideration of Dargan's work as a whole reveal the complicated reasons for the novelist's neglect and present a compelling argument for reevaluation of her fiction. A published poet, Kathy Cantley Ackerman is Writer-in-Residence at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina. She lives in Charlotte.

What do you know about Kesheva?' Wendy asks.'Kesheva? Central Asia. Used to be a Soviet Republic but struck out on its own in 1992, along with all the other Stans in that area. Run by adictator called Aslan Dargan and his family. Floating on oil. Why?''I've just been offered a secondment to go and teach the President's son for six months.''Really? Make a bit of a change from here, won't it?'Do you think I should go?''What's the dosh like?''Tempting.''Do you have any problems with a one-party dictatorship?''No. I work here don't I?Dr. Wendy McPherson is a thirty-something academic English lecturer approaching a mid-life crisis. She has not been in a stable relationship for two years, drinks too much and is bored with her job. The offer of a teaching job tutoring the son of the dictator of the Central Asian country of Kesheva offers her a possible life-changing experience. But when she's caught up in a violent revolution she finds her life in great danger and makes new discoveries about love and trust that turn her life around and give a new meaning to everything.