Marie Trousdale, an urban California professional, is ready for a change when she realizes that she has been mourning her husband and son for 10 years. She hires Wil Townsend, a rural Oregon contractor, to build a house for her on property she inherited from her late husband. They’ve both been hurt by love before and don’t want a new relationship. She's a vegetarian. He's meat and potatoes. The two mix like oil and water but the spark of romance gets ignited and they overcome their fears and differences with love. Opposites combine to make a fiery romance. But when Marie changes occupations, it creates obstacles, misunderstandings, and danger. Will they put out the flame of love or feed it?

This book brings together stories of new monasticism in the UK. Totally Devoted: the challenge of the New Monasticism by Simon Cross shows us communities and groups which all, in widely different ways, live as new monastics, seeking God and carrying on the traditions of their forebears in a way fitting for twenty-first century living. The book features interviews with members of various communities, including among others: The Northumbria Community; Safespace; TOM; EarthAbbey; The Community of Aidan and Hilda; SPEAK; The Catholic Worker Movement; Betel of Britain; L'Arche; The Ashram Community; and hOme. Author, activist and new monastic, Shane Claiborne had this to say about Totally Devoted : Every few hundred years, it seems that the Church gets infected by the world around us and we forget who we are called to be. And every few hundred years, there are folks on the fringes of the faith who hear a whisper to leave the materialism and militarism and all the clutter of the culture... and to go to the margins, and the desert and the abandoned places to rethink what it means to be Christian. Here is another piece of evidence that there is a movement once again hearing the ancient whisper of God to repair the Church which is in ruins.

Giovanni Dente She was his maid. She was his lover. But now… She was gone. Giovanni Dente, the mafia boss of the Dente Clan, exudes power, arrogance, and charisma. No one dares to cross him, until one did, taking away his most beloved, Jenny Stone. They had kidnapped her. And now there’s hell to pay. He’ll go in with guns blazing, not stopping until she’s with him again. Because to her, he’s totally devoted. Jenny Stone I was his maid. I was his lover. But now, who am I? Jenny is in love with the billionaire mafia boss, Giovanni Dente. For the past four months, she’d experienced it all. The love he gave to her, the care he bestowed upon her. It was all like a sweet dream. But it really was a dream, because now she has to wake up and face reality. She was not the person Giovanni loved. She was not his Jennifer. Reality hit her like a punch to the gut. Is it too late to tell him she loves him? Is it too late to make him love her? Because no matter what he says and does, her heart is totally devoted to him. Note: The conclusion to Jenny and Giovanni's love story. This final book ends with a happy ending. Continue to read about Amelia and Lorenzo's love story in The Mafia and His Maiden. Book 1: Beautiful Hell Book 2: Beautiful Lie Book 3: Beautiful Secret Book 4: Beautiful Love

In this Mini Book, Mike demonstrates the superior way man can devote himself to God through Christ in comparison to the Old Testament's system of sacrifice and giving.

What does it mean to do everything "in Jesus’ name"? Is that an ideal attainable only by a few "super Christians"--or is it a way of life we can all experience?Leader’s guide included!Fully Devoted group sessions are:What Is True Spirituality?GraceGrowthGroupsGiftsGiving"We Know Him Well . . . "

Sam Winter gets his chance to prove to Rosalind Carmichael, the woman who had refused his marriage proposal years ago, that he is the perfect man for her when she comes to him for help after her brother gets into trouble. Original.

You think you know pain? You don't. I've lived in it for years, pulled so far down into the darkness that it's all I see. There was no telling where I ended and the darkness began. It swallowed me up whole and spit out a man that I didn't recognize. I can promise you, you've never felt pain like that. It was eternal night and there was no chance that I would ever make it out alive. Then there was her - Alison James. She's a spark of brilliant light in the bleak nothingness, a tiny beacon of hope in my endless torment and I can't do anything but cling to her, hoping for just another second of relief. I'll do whatever it takes to keep her but some things are out of my hands.My past is coming back to haunt us and at the very least, it will tear us apart. But if worse comes to worst, she'll be just as dead as my soul.Can I force myself to let her go if it will save her? Or will I sacrifice her life for my own selfishness?