The only thing Bri Duval loves more than baking petit fours is romance. So much so, she's created her own version of the famous Parisian lovelock wall at her bakery in Story, Kansas. She never expects it to go viral--or for Trek Magazine to send travel writer Gerard Fortier to feature the bakery. He's definitely handsome, but Bri has been holding out for a love story like the one her parents had, and that certainly will not include the love-scorned-and-therefore-love-scorning Gerard. Just when it seems Bri's bakery is poised for unprecedented success, a series of events threaten not just her business but the pedestal she's kept her parents on all these years. Maybe Gerard is right about romance. Or maybe Bri's recipe just needs to be tweaked. Novelist Betsy St. Amant invites you to experience this sweet story of how love doesn't always look the way we expect--and maybe that's a good thing.

FASCINATING HISTORICAL FICTION INSPIRED BY SEVENTY PAGES OF A PHOTOGRAPHICALLY DOCUMENTED TRUE STORY! A KEY TO LOVE Maggies key collection spans the world and stimulates her passion--investigating each keys historyand learning who possessed it. A gift is presented--a key to a church, circa 1865, now demolished. But, how? Why? Elders entice her with pieces to the puzzle. Religious artifacts are discovered in a barn, antiques surface, and then there is the train . . . Abraham Lincolns train? Will a lifelong prayer be answered, and will the mystery be solved, uncovering hidden treasure in the lives of two families?

FASCINATING HISTORICAL FICTION INSPIRED BY SEVENTY PAGES OF A PHOTOGRAPHICALLY DOCUMENTED TRUE STORY! A KEY TO LOVE Maggie's key collection spans the world and stimulates her passion--investigating each key's history and learning who possessed it. A gift is presented--a key to a church, circa 1865, now demolished. But, how? Why? Elders entice her with pieces to the puzzle. Religious artifacts are discovered in a barn, antiques surface, and then there is the train . . . Abraham Lincoln's train? Will a lifelong prayer be answered, and will the mystery be solved, uncovering hidden treasure in the lives of two families?

"Sparks fly for a second time when award-winning photographer and prodigal son Alejandro ends up back home, forced to face the familia--and the girl he left behind--for the first time in years. Can these two Key West natives learn to put away old hurts and embrace a new future under the tropical sun?"--

With clarity and a sharp wit, Dean Sherman illuminates the often confusing and mysterious world of love, sex, and relationships in this accessible, hard-hitting examination of romantic love and sexuality in the Christian's life.Learn the secret of your "attraction gift" Discover that the real question is not "How far is too far?" Investigate the meaning and value of being in right, godly relationships with others. Build your life relationships upon God's logical, loving, and freeing precepts. Begin the healing process if you struggle with sexual sin from your past. Understand the loving and practical principles behind the relationship boundaries God has established. Relationships: The Key to Love, Sex, and Everything Else is an immediately relevant and refreshingly direct discussion of the most dynamic and foundational facet of our lives. Bold and thorough, this book is the answer for those who are disillusioned with the self-centered, anything-goes attitude modeled in much of today's media or the legalistic advice that attempts to reduce relationships to a list of rules. With balance and thoughtfulness, Dean Sherman offers a soundly biblical alternative that works.

Who doesn't desire to experience a perpetual abundant life? Of course, everyone does! But it would appear that relatively few attain and joyfully maintain it. Why is that? The author offers his heart-felt and scripturally supported reasons for missing out on the inherent blessings embodied in such a life. His greatest desire is for all people to live such an abundant life. It's the Life that Jesus came to provide. After all, he says, we really only have "Just one lifetime", to pursue it with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Attain it, enjoy it, share it, and be eternally grateful for it. He encourages people of all faiths, or no faith at all, to come along with him on a scriptural journey to spiritual and relational intimacy with God. An incredible journey that he personally took himself, that culminates in an "everyday abundant life". Don't miss out on it. It is yours to experience. In addition, the author believes, a person's "thought life" plays an integral role in experiencing the abundant blessings of God from day to day. He contends, when our "thoughts and subsequent actions", are focused on ourselves, that is, an "I" mentality, not only will our thoughts RUN our life, they will RU "I" N our life. This is Pats' second book of timely encouragement. His first, "The Bottom Line", was a must read book for people of all ages and walks of life. Likewise, this is yet another. Read, heed, and enjoy a constant quickening life that it will bring, in this, your lifetime.

This book is the result of many years of study and prayer, meditating on the Word, making notes, and assembling those notes into something that I believe will be a blessing to others who are seeking God in their lives. I discovered that God was telling me, in Matthew 6:33, to seek first of all the Kingdom of God and all of His righteousness. And when I went looking, I wasnt able to find anybody who knew much of anything about what I was asking. So I set out to remedy that situation. And in doing so, I had to learn early on that I had to have a total dependency upon God to give me the answers I was seeking. I had to yield to the Holy Spirit who lives in me, because one cant get spiritual answers from the physical. I had to learn to differentiate between the Holy Spirit and the devil talking to me. I had to learn to walk by faith, to step out and obey God. I had to learn that, as I read the Word of God, my trust in Him and my faith would grow and go beyond what I could ever ask or think. The Key of Love is designed to be a study guide to get you from where you are to where God wants you to be. Have your Bible with you as you read, and take the time to look up and study the numerous references to scripture herein, as well as cross-references, which appear in parentheses following many of the Bible quotations. If you experience a closer walk with God, you will come to know God and to understand just how much He loves and cares for you. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you as you study (John 16:13). Look up each scripture, read several verses before and after the noted verse, and study it, meditate on it, and let the Word of God be your final judge. God has sent the Holy Spirit into your life to guide you unto all truth (John 16:13, I Thessalonians 5:21). Take full advantage of all that God has provided for you to make your life everything that He has created it to be. To understand God one must understand that there are Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven that unlock the mystery of how we can know God and achieve what he has planned for us!

All my life, I have dealt with people not believing me, not believing in me and treating me like the typical man. I felt that I needed to express my true self to the world. To my family. To my friends. Let everyone know who I am and what I been through. Let them know that I am not that typical man that cheats and tell lies. I'm a completely different man. My own man. A unique man. So unique that I'm never trusted because of the typical man that most people are used to. I also want readers to know that there are actual good people in the world. A smile doesn't always mean they are up to something. A smile also means that they are a very joyous person. A caring person. We are out there. All these points, I have tried to tell individuals in my life, and yet they refused to listen to me. I feel it's time that I was heard, and this is the only way I knew how to be heard. I have always been known to say too much about myself to people, and this book shows just that. It's all true to the best of my knowledge.

This is a book over over 350 love poems written over 2 years for the love of my life. She will always be my heart and soul.