Love Inspired
4 total works
FOLLOWING HER HEART
After years spent helping to run her family's Christian bookstore, it's time for Adrie Chandler to give her own dream a chance. But can she really trust the beloved shop to new manager Ross Peterson? The man is too handsome, too charming . . . too much a reminder of another dream Adrie had to let go of-marriage.
Yet Ross surprises her by knowing a thing or two about making sacrifices. Suddenly, Adrie's questioning what she really wants. And whether the dreams she once thought unlikely are within reach after all.
"Annie, I have something I want to ask you."
She looked up, surprised by Alex's serious tone. "Sure. What is it?" "My grandmother needs someone to live with her when she comes home, until she recovers." She thought about that for a moment, then slowly shook her head. "I'm sorry, Alex. I'd love to stay with Irene, but I have a business to run and a daughter to support."
His eyebrows rose. "A daughter?" Her stomach clenched. She thought he knew about Emma. But how would he? She was just a former employee who got on the wrong track and found herself in a whole lot of trouble. Slipping her hands in her jacket pockets, she pushed those painful thoughts away.
It didn't matter now. She'd made her choices and she had to live with them. She looked up and met his curious gaze. "Yes, I have a five-year-old daughter, Emma." There was so much more to the story, but she wasn't sure if he wanted to hear it-or if she had the courage to tell him.
Since losing his wife and child, widower Cam McKenna has tried to avoid children. But when he must temporarily care for his niece, Cam opens his home.
With no idea how to relate to a fourteen-year-old girl, he seeks the advice of the new Christian Youth theater director. He's touched when Rachel Clark gives his niece a scholarship–and teaches him a thing or two about teens…and love. But why is Rachel so secretive about her past? The truth threatens their fragile relationship yet promises to bring them closer to each other–and the Lord–than either dreamed possible.
After years of hiding from her past, single mom Lauren Woodman had finally returned to her Vermont hometown with her young son in tow.
Reconnecting with her family and friends was Lauren's goal, until a snowstorm brought a mysterious stranger to town - and into her life.
Wes Evans was struggling to find the path to God's love and forgiveness, after his work as a missionary in the Middle East made him question his calling. But his search for redemption threatened to hurt the one person who could heal his heart and soul.