There are two things twenty-nine-year-old Jackie Donovan asks God for: an honest, wonderful man to marry, and to own a bed-and-breakfast in the Outer Banks region. In the meantime, Jackie works for Lighthouse Views magazine, writing articles about other local business owners, and intrepidly goes on the blind dates set up by her well-meaning but oh-so-clueless relatives. There's one specific property Jackie dreams of purchasing: the Bailey Place, a fabulous old home where Jackie spent many happy childhood afternoons, a place that has now fallen into disrepair because of its outrageous price tag. When Jackie meets handsome Davis Erickson, who holds the key to the Bailey Place, Jackie is sure God has answered both her prayers. But as Jackie learns some disturbing details about Davis's past, she begins to question her own motivation. Will she risk her long-held dreams to find out the truth?

From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Outer Banks, a diverse variety of captivating romance novellas await you in this charity anthology brought to you by Heart of Carolina Romance Writers. Samantha Covington's Someone Like Her can conjure anything, except love. Love may require breaking someone's heart. Even your own in Just Ducky by Laverne St. George When you trust the enemy, at least you know where you stand in Two if by Sea by Maggie Preston. Worlds collide in Brown Mountain Lights by Donna Steele. The last thing he expected was what he needed the most in Linda Tiffin's Unwrapped with Love. One grumpy actor in need of rescue plus one overly prepared hiker equals one hike to love in Grinding Corn by Laurel McMacken Ten years, three months, and one week...The Girl Next Door is all grown up by Laura Browning. A bad-ass outlaw biker falls for a woman he can't have in Mirror Image by B. L. Harris.

Carolina Winds and GI Hearts is a warm fictional tale of lives caught up in the Vietnam War era. Young people's lives are scattered across the country with young men and women in the military in service of their country. While stationed in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, nineteen-year-old Alan Hardy becomes acquainted with sixteen-year-old Fran Garmon. Deep friendship is made only to be torn apart when Alan Hardy is shipped overseas. Alan is afraid because a long-distance relationship didn't work out already. Being the victim of Dear John letters, he stops writing. After not hearing from Alan for months, Fran's life is devastated as Carolina winds blow and GI hearts are affected.

Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women helped build this local focus through their unusual and occasionally transgressive activities. They plunged into Liberty Party politics, vociferously supported a Quaker-led boycott of slave goods, and tirelessly aided fugitives and free blacks in their communities. Western women worked closely with male abolitionists, belying the notion of separate spheres that characterized abolitionism in the East. The contested history of race relations in the West also affected the development of abolitionism in the region, necessitating a pragmatic bent in their activities. Female antislavery societies focused on eliminating racist laws, aiding fugitive slaves, and building and sustaining schools for blacks. This approach required that abolitionists of all stripes work together, and women proved especially adept at such cooperation.

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

Enjoy this heartwarming, sweet & wholesome Inspirational Romance series from New York Times bestselling author, Melissa Storm... Sometimes miracles come with a wagging tail and a happy bark… Welcome to Charleston, South Carolina, where the local pastor saved a very special litter of Chihuahuas and put them to work as a tiny therapy dogs. Each puppy helps to create a miracle in the lives of the women who foster them, bringing healing, redemption, and of course, love. This special collection includes the complete Charleston Hearts series, including A New Life, A Fresh Start, and A Surprise Visit. *** Keywords: clean & wholesome romance, clean and wholesome, inspirational women’s fiction, contemporary women’s fiction, sweet romance, christian romance, fiction for women, clean fiction, opposites attract romance, book club recommendations, animal fiction, wholesome new adult fiction, womens saga, wholesome new adult, family life, clean small town romance, fresh start romance, sweet small town romance, faith hope love, sweet western contemporary romance, heartwarming strangers to lovers relationship, contemporary womens fiction set in Charleston, meet cute, just kisses, friendship romance, clean romance fiction southern, widow romance, inspirational animal life fiction Perfect for readers of Fern Michaels, Debbie Macomber, Cathryn Brown, Katie Winters, Rachel Hanna, Grace Meyers, Jessie Gussman, Sage Parker, Susan Mallery, Hanna Hart, Carolyn Brown, Natalie Dean, Meredith Summers, B.E. Baker, Ann Omasta, Carolyne Aarsen, Christy Barritt, and Hayley Summers.

The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural history of emotions. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Travis traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse. She argues that injury became a comfortable vocabulary--particularly among white middle-class men--through which to articulate and to claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates through readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Travis concludes by linking this history to twenty-first-century preoccupations with "pain-centered politics," which, she cautions, too often focuses only on women and racial minorities.