As Aura continued to dance in the moonlight, Patrick leaned against the doorway and pondered the mood of the night. He was six and felt very big indeed. He wondered if he was old enough to have a sweetheart. "Pappy, am I old enough to court?" "Not quite, son! Why?" "Well, sir, I think that girl is going to be my sweetheart!" So begins the lifelong love between Aura Blake and Patrick Garner. Soon afterward, Aura finds herself orphaned at age six, and she and Pat are separated for much of their childhood as Aura endures bitter mistreatment and isolation at the hands of extended family members. When God, in His providence, brings Aura into kinder surroundings and the two childhood sweethearts back in touch, their little spark from long ago blazes into an epic love. This love story, inspired by the author's own parents, follows Aura in her fight for survival, anchored by her deep faith in God, and Pat in his quest to find himself and God, as he wrestles with the impact of his failing health on his passionate adventures in the great outdoors. Together, Patrick and Aura face unspeakable tragedies that would destroy most loves and lives. Yet in the end, both find their place in the world as their love proves unquenchable and their faith unshakable.

A storybook kiss on New Year's Eve at the Big Sky Mavericks Masked Ball in Marietta, Montana should have been the beginning of a grand romance for Gretchen Zabrinski and Daniel Andrews. But when Gretchen overhears a phone call from Daniel to his brother about what he really wants from a woman, she takes off...without leaving so much as a glass slipper behind. Daniel wants a family. Gretchen will never be able to give him that. So why does fate keep throwing them together so cruelly? First, at a Copper Mountain Chocolate Shop Speed Dating event, then when he’s hired to open a new division at her PR firm. But competing, shoulder-to-shoulder, to sell the most exotic chocolate kisses for charity really is the last straw. Is love a cosmic connection or a karmic joke? Sometimes, the answer reveals itself in a kiss—a sweet kiss shared beneath a warm Montana summer sky.

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These works depict my unique style. Its a collection of poems on varied topics. It represents my experience and a reflection of studies that l undertook throughout my university years. Many of these works show contemporary mind-set and world view, even though some reflect the reasoning and sensibilities of years gone by. Some secular poems among them speak about the weather, like Summer and Thunderstorm. Others talked about real-life issues, like Sickness and Pain, Birth Process, and Birthday, and the life of a working person, like Workaholics and Composed. In this anthology of poems, you will find spiritual poems and others with spiritual undertones and morals, like Sage, Divinity, and Pray, to mention a few. Indeed, this collection of my works and poems is instructive, educational, interesting, and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Its fully embedded with poetic devices, especially the use of personification, which is my favourite device used, in a very peculiar form. I hope that you will enjoy this collection. Happy reading!