Books & Short Stories
Books
Renovating Hearts
Widower Jack Ransom’s family-owned café is going bankrupt. He needs help, but not the kind his eight-year-old daughter dreamed up. Writing a letter to her favorite television celebrity, Sydney Ryan, star of Ryan to the Rescue, is bad enough. Now the station decides to use his restaurant and sends the star to seal the deal.
Chef Sydney Ryan built an empire turning around failing restaurants. If she doesn’t get Jack’s approval, her latest episode could be her last. With her contract up for renewal, she does what’s needed to make everyone but the handsome, stubborn owner happy.
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Claiming Eden’s Heart
Eden Delgado holds Charles Kipling personally responsible for her father’s death in a mining accident twenty years ago. There’s no way she’ll allow his smooth-talking, good looking grandson, Jake, to resume operations.
Jake Kipling has his own agenda and wants to restore the family mining tradition in Arizona. As a Kipling, he wants to prove he can provide jobs and services as his ancestors once had. As a man, he wants to connect with his past and discover the life of a father he never knew. His father was also one of the men killed.
Eden, a passionate, loyal woman—a woman who weaves her way into his heart and soul—fascinates Jake. But when it comes to love, can Jake walk away from his obligations and his heritage? Will Eden, who is attracted to Jake’s strength and protectiveness, betray the cherished memories of her father by falling for him?
Healing Hearts
Bounced from one foster home to another, Sarah Churchill learned early that love is conditional and nothing is free. Not even the homeless dog she accidentally runs over.
Veterinarian Grant Morrison is a sucker for strays, both the four-legged kind and the two-legged kind. So when a blonde walks into his office with an injured dog, he does the only thing he knows how to do and stitches up the dog for free. But Sarah has her pride. Determined never to be a charity case again, she won’t accept the service and insists on working at the clinic to pay for the bill.
Can one man and one big, furry dog break down the wall of hurt and distrust and show Sarah the true meaning of happiness and unconditional love?
Inspirational Books
Finally Home
Finally ready to settle down, Abby Bancroft has just inherited a place to put down roots. But her hopes for a successful bed-and-breakfast are placed on hold when she learns that her grandparents’ run-down inn is in serious need of TLC.
So is Cole Preston, the handsome contractor who offers to help make her dream a reality. His past mistakes won’t let him consider settling in the close-knit town.
Yet as he and Abby work together to repair the house, they also begin to mend each other’s hearts. And they just may find that consulting their hearts is what creating a home is all about.
A Gift From the Heart
Ruth Fontaine’s job is to deliver lifesaving organs to those urgently in need. But the gruff pilot of her charter plane has no kind words for her work. And then she discovers the heartbreaking reason why.
Noah Barton lost his wife and young son. Grieving, he gave in to pressure to donate his child’s organs – a decision he regrets. He’s bitter against those who “take advantage” of people’s anguish.
Yet he still flies her on her missions, with his beloved family dog, Houston, as his copilot. Now Ruth will have to show Noah he has two other copilots: the Lord and her love.
A Father’s Gift
She’s saved countless lives, yet there’s one person emergency room doctor Elizabeth Randall can’t rescue, her adopted daughter, Jordan. Perhaps meeting her biological father, Blake Crawford, will be the lifeline Jordan needs.
The handsome, guarded firefighter takes risks every day. But facing the daughter he never knew along with lovely Elizabeth has him thinking about family. With fatherhood thrust suddenly upon him, there’s no way he can turn his back on his sick child.
Will working together to give Jordan a second chance at life also lead them to a chance at love?
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Hidden Secrets
Faith Callahan’s husband is dead… isn’t he? So why is someone breaking into her home and work and making phantom phone calls in the night?
Sheriff’s deputy Adam Quinn wants to find that out. The only problem is he needs to get close to Faith again-the only woman he’s ever loved. Will Faith allow Adam back into her life after her disastrous first marriage? Will Adam risk his career to win woman he loves?
Can Faith and Adam put their trust in God, and let him guide them through these perilous times?
Short Stories
Cotton Candy Dreams and Chocolate Chip Kisses
Avery Parker has finally realized her childhood dream of owning the quaint ice cream shop in Eden Beach, Delaware. Unoccupied for over a year, the place needs major renovations, but at what cost? The only contractor available for the job is the one who squashed her dream twenty years earlier.
Will these two be able to put aside their differences while they bring Sprinkles back to its former glory and mend their broken hearts in the process?
Dog Days of Summer
An introvert at heart, newly divorced Emily Bryant will do anything to bring a smile back to her son’s lips – even adopt a complete stranger’s dog from an internet post.
But once she meets the owner, Daniel Gibbs, and the big-eared, furry mutt, Sir Isaac Newton, the smile she so desperately wants for Jeremy might just grace her lips as well.
Scales of Love
All Rachel Haskin wants is one good man who will accept her and her menagerie of unusual and cold-blooded pets. When her cousin sets her up on a blind date, will Seth Armstrong fulfill her ideal for the perfect husband material, or will he just be another one date catastrophe in the making?
Discovering Jenna
Reclusive children’s author Jenna Winslow hides behind her books to keep life from disappointing her. She’d rather spend her time in museums with the dinosaurs she writes about, until she meets a man who makes her want to live again.
Matt McCutcheon is confined to a wheelchair but doesn’t let life confine him. He’s determined to unearth the mysteries of a woman whose physical scars camouflage wounds that go far deeper. But are his efforts to unlock the warmth and beauty inside Jenna enough to draw her back into the land of the living?
Evergreen
Olivia Patterson’s husband has been missing in action and presumed dead for over a year. She cherishes her memories of their time together and believes he will return to her, even though friends and family urge her to let him go and move on.
When the soldiers return to American soil, will Jack be among them or will she spend a lifetime nurturing the evergreen tree planted in his honor?
When Johnny Comes Home
Audrey Robert’s masquerade is about to end in disaster. For years, she’s written love letters to Johnny and signed them with her sister’s name. Now, the man she adores is coming home to marry his pen pal and Audrey is left to face the consequences of her deception.
Injured during D-Day, Johnny Davenport is shipped home. His only plan: to find the woman whose love letters kept him sane and hopeful throughout the destruction of war. Nothing will stop him from drawing out the beautiful, shy girl he left behind and making her his wife.
Dog Days of Summer Anthology
A compilation of short love stories by Kim including:
• Dog Days of Summer
• Discovering Jenna
• Scales of Love
• Wallflower
• When Johnny Comes Home
• Evergreen