Once penned, this incredible read offers a fresh perspective on our minds, hearts, and souls. A changed life produces changed lives. As descriptive details about real time events on overcoming everything meant to taint what God ordained and spoke over our lives, our experience become catalyst for remake. This digestible read’s most important purpose and takeaway through faith and actions, allows the reader to reflect on their own reality of highs and lows life encounters and processes the journey as preparation for expansion. With great courage our expectation is the reader will draw their own conclusion about their own life, feel seen within oneself, heard by using their own voice, and not judge self by being vulnerable.

Some damages can't be undone... MARK Charlie thinks she’s in love with me. She can’t be. She deserves someone better, someone as amazing and incredible as she is. Someone who isn’t a useless cripple, half a man. I thought my surgery would make me whole, but I was wrong. Now I’m worse than half a man. I’m a freak. Charlie deserves the best, and though I’d give anything for that to be me, it isn’t. Now I know it never will be. So because I love her, I’m making the ultimate sacrifice. I’m walking away, so she can find someone as perfect as she is. CHARLIE Mark promised he’d always be there for me. He swore nothing could ever make him leave, nothing. Yet here I am, all alone, with an unrelenting pain that nothing can numb, because he walked away and crushed my heart. Part of me always knew I was too broken for anyone to truly love. I should have listened to that little voice. It’s so hard to keep going when my entire world has shattered. Some days, I’m not even sure I want to. Then one trip to my doctor changes everything. NOTE: This is Book 3 in a three-book series. These books need to be read in order. This is the heartfelt conclusion of Charlie and Mark’s journeys to self-acceptance. TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains subject matter which some readers may be sensitive to. Specific trigger warnings are located inside.

Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico. María Elena de Valdés enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernández, María Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration—without reprobation—of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.

Murder is a hard act to follow. All the drama does not take place on the stage at the Glenhaven Drama Festival. A collection of amateur actors with big egos land in Mabel Havelock’s hometown. And Mabel’s acting debut is not the only thing on her mind. Mysterious accidents and sabotage are plaguing the festival. Mabel and her best friend Violet Ficher are determined to ferret out the culprit. The problem is why? Who has anything to gain? And why did Sherman have to die?

Detective Joe Bashir enters the glittering world of San Francisco society…and what he discovers will shatter three families. The discovery of a murdered teenager disrupts a fundraiser given by Napa Valley vintner Hale Francesci at the Montair Country Club. While Hale and his wife entertained their guests, their seventeen-year-old daughter Courtney was the last person to see her best friend Ashley Cole alive in a nearby strip mall parking lot. When Detective Joe Bashir begins interviewing Ashley’s friends, neighbors, and teachers, suspicion splinters in every direction. Courtney hints of an affair with an older man; rumors fly of a missing sex tape; and Joe discovers troubling details about Ashley’s relationships with her addict mother and absentee father. Meanwhile, the Francescis threaten to disrupt the investigation, and Joe struggles to navigate the waters of their elite circle all while fielding his mother’s attempts to fix him up with a nice Pakistani girl. Will he bring a killer to justice, and peace to Courtney at last? Shattered Bond is the second Joe Bashir novel from the Edgar-nominated Sophie Littlefield.

A finalist in the USA Best Book Awards historical fiction category, "Coffee with Poe" brings Edgar Allan Poe to life as never before. Orphaned at the age of two, Poe is raised by John Allan—his abusive foster father—who refuses to adopt him until he becomes straight-laced and businesslike. Poe, however, fancies poetry and young women. He becomes engaged to Elmira Royster as a teenager, but the engagement is broken after her father intercepts Poe’s letters. The contentious relationship with John Allan culminates in a violent altercation, which causes Poe to leave his wealthy foster father’s home to make it as a writer. Poe tries desperately to get established as a writer but is ridiculed by the "Literati of New York." The Raven subsequently gains Poe renown in America yet he slips deeper into poverty without the support of John Allan, only making $15 off the poem’s entire publication history. Desperate for a motherly figure in his life, Poe marries his first cousin who is only thirteen. John Allan has remarried by this time and when Poe visits him on his deathbed, he is refused an interview because his second wife believes Poe is after an inheritance. Thereafter, Poe lives his last years in abject poverty while suffering through the deaths of his foster mother, grandmother, and young wife. Poe’s health begins failing and he has bouts of paranoid delusions. In a cemetery Poe becomes engaged to Helen Whitman, a dark poet who is addicted to ether, wears a small coffin about her neck, and conducts séances in her home. Her mother thinks the impoverished poet is after her money and demands that Poe sign a rare prenuptial agreement. The engagement is soon broken off because of Poe’s drinking. In his final months Poe is again engaged to Elmira Royster after a joyful reunion, yet his health is in a downward spiral. Just before their marriage Poe disappears and is later found delirious and wearing another person’s begrimed clothes. He dies a few days later, whispering his final words: "God help my poor soul."

Convinced his brother is covering for someone else, Lane Baldwine and Lizzie King uncover a devastating secret, while Sutton Smythe, Edward's lost love and CEO for the competition, finds herself drawn to him despite his circumstances.

Hope Lancaster's world is falling apart-but her career is careening into the fast lane. While she sits at the anchor desk reporting ominous weather her daughter, Jennifer, and husband, Mark, huddle in a closet for protection from a tornado. It gets worse. Earthquakes on the New Madrid fault buckle bridges and drain parts of the Mississippi River. Life grows hectic as the network sends Hope to chase down natural disasters, power blackouts, and suicide bombings. Surely the rapture is near. When her daughter is diagnosed with a virulent strain of leukemia, Hope comes to terms with what the Bible teaches about death. Next assignment: Jerusalem. Meanwhile Hope has been studying Bible teaching on the end times. "Weren't these things supposed to happen after the rapture?" she asks. Slowly she begins to doubt what she was taught. As war breaks out in the Middle East Hope's questions detonate in her father's congregation, provoking a battle between truth and tradition. In this action-packed spiritual thriller you too will discover something new about the second coming of Jesus.

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman! A haunting mystery unfolds in the hushed corridors of a private psychiatric hospital. As Kenzie Kirsch delves into the mysterious death of a patient, she stumbles upon illicit human experiments preying on the most vulnerable. The exploitation of those seeking solace and healing is a chilling reality Kenzie cannot ignore. As Kenzie peels back the layers of this twisted conspiracy, she uncovers a startling revelation that strikes at the heart of her own family. Prepare to be enthralled by the intricate web of mystery and intrigue. Shattered to Death will keep you guessing until the final page. Reviews for the series ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ P.D. Workman never fails to deliver an intriguing mystery with plenty of thrills, drama, and unexpected twists that will hold your attention from start to finish. The characters are believable, with flaws and attributes that will endear them to the reader. The stories always have, at their heart, socially relevant topics that are explored with compassion, intelligence, and dignity. Looking for a strong female lead in an engaging medical mystery? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings you an up-and-coming Medical Examiner’s Assistant who is right up your alley. Join Dr. Kenzie Kirsch as she uncovers mysteries, conspiracies, and thrills!

Even when it seems hopeless, there can always be a better tomorrow. Jill Bishop has one goal in life – to survive. Jill is trapped in an abusive marriage, while raising two young girls. Her husband has isolated her from the world and filled her days with fear. The last thing on her mind is love, but she sure could use a friend. Alex McCoy is enjoying a comfortable life, with great friends and a prosperous business. She has given up on love, after picking the wrong woman one too many times. Little does she know, a simple act of kindness might change her life forever. When Alex lends a helping hand to Jill at the local grocery store, they are surprised by their immediate connection and an unlikely friendship develops. As their friendship deepens, so too do their fears. In order to protect herself and the girls, Jill can’t let her husband know about her friendship with Alex, and Alex can’t discover what goes on behind closed doors. What would Alex do if she finds out the truth? At the same time, Alex must fight her attraction and be the friend she suspects Jill needs. Besides, Alex knows what every lesbian knows – don’t fall for a straight woman, especially one that’s married...but will her heart listen?