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This is a short listen Christian-based book. It was written to inspire and motivate listeners in building and restoring relationships. Learning how to forgive yourself and others to have peace of mind.

In rural Iowa, Kaitlyn Stokes (18) witnesses a UFO over her house the night her father dies of cancer, giving her reason to believe the aliens took him away, as with Ezekiel’s Wheel in the Old Testament. She secretly hopes he might someday return as an “Ancient Astronaut,” a theory based on modern science.

When Susie and her sister Maggie both lose their young husbands in the war, Susie decides it’s time to take control of their own destinies. With her sister lost in heartbreak, Susie answers an ad from a pair of brothers in Montana who are looking for wives, hoping to find them both a warm and safe place to live. But life in the logging camps of Montana is much harder than Susie ever dreamed, and it doesn’t help that her sister, Maggie, seems to be settling in much better than her.

Widowed and with a young child, Claire Jeffries leaves her old life behind and heads west as a Mail Order Bride. She knows that her last chance to build a home for her daughter Angelica rests with Elijah Monroe, whose ad she answered in a catalog. He sounds like a kind man in his letters, but Claire worries how kind he will feel when he meets Angelica, who Claire has failed to mention in any of her own letters. Can he possibly love them both, and forgive her deception?

After being summoned back home to Charleston to help with the family business, Madison Whitfield leaves her life behind in Oklahoma, leaving her feeling more isolated than ever. To make things worse, her ex, Ashton, looms in the background, a constant reminder of their tumultuous relationship. He refuses to accept their breakup and will stop at nothing to get her to the altar.

Faith changed her name to escape a life she never chose. Now a second-grade teacher in small-town Idaho, she’s traded runways and deadlines for quiet mornings and snow-dusted streets. Life is finally her own—until Adam Peters walks into her classroom. But Adam’s heart is still guarded, and Faith’s secrets could shatter everything. In a town blanketed by snow, falling in love might be the one risk neither planned to take.

Lia, a struggling hairstylist drowning in student loans and on the brink of eviction, never expected her life to collide with Nate, a hunky hockey player fighting to keep his 12-year-old daughter, Penelope, from the clutches of his conniving ex-wife, Erin. When Erin gets Lia fired for refusing to give Penelope a haircut against her will, Nate is ridden with guilt and gratitude for protecting his daughter. He extends an invitation to a simple thank-you dinner. But what begins as a gesture of gratitude transforms into a media-fueled scandal, jeopardizing Nate's chances of securing custody.

With the help of her friends, a handsome local detective, and a sexy private investigator, will Leah be able to catch the killer and clear her best friend’s name before they strike again, or will there be an unhappily ever after?

Seventeen-year-old assassin Cottia is desperate to leave behind the work she’s been forced into. Her lord offers freedom in exchange for one last hit. The assignment is to start a war by killing a target during the Giddelian prince’s betrothal selection ceremony.

After a training accident, Tyler Armstrong is so certain he’ll recover that he requests his emergency contacts not be notified. His SEAL team deploys in a few days anyway, and while his family thinks he’s out of the country, his broken body will have time to mend. After his injuries force him to retire, Tyler must face the truth—his Navy career is over. When Amanda discovers he suffers from PTSD as well as physical limitations from his accident, will she even want him? If she does, how can he ask her to marry a man with such an uncertain future?

Sadie Lynwood's cozy Christmas reunion at Castle Carrick in Scotland shatters when her estranged husband, Douglas, arrives unannounced at the Duncan family Christmas gathering. Her heart races as she wonders why he's there. Does he plan to save face with her family or rekindle their marriage, now shattered beyond recognition? As snow blankets the castle, Sadie and Doug must confront the past and take a leap of faith into the unknown if they want a second chance at love.

Holly only planned on a quick stop to Candy Cane Creek to gather notes for her travel blog, not to get stranded in the most Christmas-obsessed small town imaginable. But when her car breaks down beneath the town's nauseatingly festive welcome sign, she's forced to rely on the town's pet shelter owner (and holiday enthusiast), Rex Wellington. After Rex spills his coffee all over her brand-new coat, he informs her of the inn's lack of vacancy and offers her a place to stay in his guesthouse.

If a relationship begins with a single sock, is it destined to be a matched pair? Ivy is an up-and-coming lawyer with a promising future but a dreadful personal life. As the holidays approach, she turns to a family tradition to knit socks for the homeless, but will it be enough to warm her soul this year? After spending ten years proudly serving his country in the Air Force, Captain Felix now relies on the kindness of others in a homeless shelter to save for a necessary back surgery.

Gaining freedom from her old master, Whyzer Patro, doesn't mean that Cottia can now be a princess. Everyone understands that ... except Prince Ezer. When an old assassin friend comes into town, he brings her information about Whyzer Patro's next move and offers her an opportunity to make Prince Ezer understand that princes and ex-assassins don't mix. The plan should work, but Prince Ezer is stubborn. And to make matters worse, Whyzer Patro and his associates have a vendetta that can usurp Prince Ezer's power.

Life for twelve-year-old Emma looked perfect — until it wasn't. When her father has to accept a new job thousands of miles away, Emma's world is turned upside down. A new school, no friends, a radically different culture, a strange new boy, and ghosts on the beach are some of the challenges Emma Must face. How can she reconcile her Christian faith with her friend's stories of the past, in California mission times? What is that black horse that appears on the beach at a full moon? Follow Emma and her friends as they unravel teen friendships and The Horse at Phantom Beach.

Bookshop owner Stephanie Williams can’t explain why she purchased her dream wedding dress without a boyfriend in sight. But dreams of a wedding and becoming an author someday will have to wait as she is pushed into survival mode when a competitor bookstore moves in directly across the street. The return of her archnemesis from high school isn’t helping matters either, especially when she has eyes for the very man who could destroy everything Stephanie’s family has built for generations.

Left alone with her tiny daughter after her husband dies, Adaline is desperate to escape her grief. And so she answers an ad for a mail order bride, hoping to at least find some security for her small family. But is she really ready for a life on the frontier—and for a life with the cold and withdrawn Deputy Holden Smith?

Abby is desperate to get away from her stepfather when she loses her mother, terrified of what he will do to her. A marriage of convenience to rancher Samuel in Oregon is her only way out of a dire situation. Samuel is raising his friends' daughters and needs a wife to help him care for them.

Left alone with her baby girl after her husband is killed—and with winter on the way—Beth Fletcher is out of options. And so she joins a wagon caravan, leaving behind the cold streets of Virginia to forge a new life as a mail order bride in California. The trail is long and dangerous, but with the help of Mr. Jackson, the caravan’s scout, they make their way through the western wilds.

My heart thrusts with a force that takes me by surprise. Telling me something I don’t understand. A splitting pain, a longing to slip back under. They tell me I was in a hit-and-run, but I can’t remember what happened that night. All I know is that I woke up with pictures in my pocket, a card from one of those photo booths in the mall. And I’m in the pictures. Cody Rush, me, and…Julianna.