He left the Navy to chart his own course. She’s ready for a fresh start alone. Will a month together on a boat anchor them in love or make them drift apart for good? Treasure hunter and deep-sea fishing guide Adam Parker’s boat limped back to Liberty Cove after weeks of working at sea. With an engine still billowing smoke, he was served divorce papers he never saw coming. Now he has a choice to make—lose the love of his life or come up with a plan to save his marriage. Years of unsuccessful fertility treatments put a damper on Julia Parker’s dream of becoming a mother. But those dreams shattered completely when her husband suggested they stop the treatments to avoid financial ruin. Feelings of abandonment quickly settled in when Adam started spending all his time working at sea. With a new teaching job waiting for her in another town, she’s ready to close this chapter of her life and move on. Desperate to save his marriage, Adam proposes a deal to his wife: spend one month living with him and his foster dog on the boat. If she still wants to walk away after that, he’ll sign the papers. Julia agrees, leaving Adam hoping he has enough time to convince her that their love is worth fighting for. When mundane days at sea turn into a hunt for the treasure Adam’s been looking for all his life, Julia finds unexpected glimmers of the man she fell in love with. Unsure if he’s really as committed to a childless marriage as he claims, she wonders if this treasure hunt will add to her heartache or if they’ll discover something even more valuable than pirate gold. Binge the full Wounded Warrior Rescue series by Kristen Iten Mending His Past Mending His Dream Mending His Scars Mending His Trust Mending His Ways Mending His Vow ** A sweet, small-town, second chance, wounded warrior romance series where everyone finds their happily ever after... even the dogs! Read as veterans find their way home to their first loves with the help of determined rescue dogs and a lovable matchmaker.

Corporal Pete Maddox’s road to redemption runs through the Wounded Warrior Rescue, but his troubled past might be a bigger roadblock to repairing his relationship with Penny than he can overcome. Pete Maddox became a teenaged troublemaker after his father was killed in the line of duty. But four years in the Marines has changed him. Now he’s home, and he’s on a mission—to make amends with the people he hurt most, including the woman he still loves. It’s the final step in his road to fully reclaiming the person he was before tragedy struck his family. But old wounds can be the most difficult to heal. Liberty Cove might seem like a sleepy little town to others, but not to Penny Donahue. After practically growing up at her family’s bustling diner, now she’s the one responsible for running it—all while caring for her aging grandmother and finishing up her college degree. New family drama puts even more responsibility on her shoulders just as her old flame comes back to town, dredging up painful wounds he knows nothing about. Pete isn’t sure he deserves Penny’s love, and she isn’t interested in taking a second chance with a man who only reminds her of her biggest hidden insecurity. Together they’ll have to decide if the healing they both crave is worth the risk of opening their hearts just one more time. Binge the full Wounded Warrior Rescue series by Kristen Iten Mending His Past Mending His Dream Mending His Scars Mending His Trust Mending His Ways Mending His Vow ** A sweet, small-town, second chance, wounded warrior romance series where everyone finds their happily ever after... even the dogs! Read as veterans find their way home to their first loves with the help of determined rescue dogs and a lovable matchmaker.

Using Scripture and real-life stories, Patsy Clairmont illustrates how hearts and dreams can be rejuvenated and rebuilt and how the trip through the valley can lead to the mountaintop.

When your grandmother mistakes your hot neighbor for your boyfriend, you play along. But what happens when you wish you weren’t just pretending? I haven’t stopped face-palming myself since the moment I decided to let my grandmother assume Cash Walker was my boyfriend. I was supposed to impress her that day—show her that I’m mature enough to handle my inheritance—not prove to her that I’m not. I thought convincing Cash to play along in exchange for a small portion of the money would fix everything, but I was wrong. And now I’m stuck. Stuck dating a man who thinks his smile is enough to send goosebumps across my skin. Stuck hiding those goosebumps every time he flashes his pearly whites my way. Stuck living a lie that part of me wishes was the truth. As much as I want to walk away from this whole convoluted mess, I can’t. I need that inheritance, and I need it bad. If Grandmother finds out I haven’t been honest, I’m sunk. No inheritance means no studio time for me. No studio time means no music career. No music career means I’ll never make my dream of following in my mother’s footsteps come true. But the hardest part about this whole situation is now that I’m fake-dating the flirtiest man alive, the fake part just isn’t working for me anymore. With only days left to play our parts, time is running out for me to find a way to make up for my mistakes and make Cash mine for real. ***Be sure to check out the first book in the Love at First Laugh series, The Worst Vacation Crush. Both of these hilarious, stand-alone romantic comedies will make you laugh 'til you cry and swoon 'til you sigh.

A hurting veteran who feels too broken for love, a single mom trying to protect what’s most precious to her, and the dog who helps unlock both of their hearts. Sergeant Trent Roland came to Liberty Cove to help rebuild the storm-damaged Wounded Warrior Rescue. He never expected his path to cross with the woman he once thought he’d spend the rest of his life with. Reminders of their past awaken the desire to rebuild the life he should have had, but the scars of war that he still bears tell him that he’s not the man he once was, and love is too far out of reach. With a broken-down truck and bills to pay, unemployed single mom, Olivia Malone jumps at the chance to work at the rescue. The last person she imagined she’d see on the job was Trent Roland—the first man to ever break her heart. Old feelings surface as Olivia and Trent spend their days, working side by side. They make a great team when it comes to rebuilding the dog rescue, but neither of them are ready to risk trying to build a new family from the wreckage of their broken dreams. Time spent in the company of Olivia and her young daughter cause Trent to realize that he’s fallen in love with more than one resident of Liberty Cove. He finds himself longing to step into the role of husband and father. But the unexpected arrival of Olivia’s ex-husband could mean that Trent has run out of time to take a second chance at love. Binge the full Wounded Warrior Rescue series by award winning author Kristen Iten Mending His Past Mending His Dream Mending His Scars Mending His Trust Mending His Ways Mending His Vow ** A sweet, small-town, second chance, wounded warrior romance series where everyone finds their happily ever after... even the dogs! Read as veterans find their way home to their first loves with the help of determined rescue dogs and a lovable matchmaker.

A DESPERATE CHOICE… After suffering under the iron fists of powerful men her whole life, Catherine of Somerset considers herself fortunate when fate makes her a widow and frees her two children from a cruel father’s tyranny. But her relief is short-lived. Her even more brutal brother-in-law Eduard, a High Champion of the king, arrives to claim his estate, and Catherine is swept into a nightmare. Eduard offers Catherine a terrible choice: Either she will assume a false identity and marry the fierce warrior knight who is his chief rival, paving the way for the man’s murder…or her children will die. That the handsome stranger she is bound to destroy proves honorable and good – deadly on the field, yet gentle and compassionate with her – wrenches her heart. Yet she cannot falter, or her innocent babes will pay the price. A FORBIDDEN PASSION… Baron Grayson de Camville bears a secret of his own – a haunted past that helped shape him into a relentless force of justice as King Henry III’s most skillful High Champion. When he agrees to take a bride, Gray merely fulfills his king’s command, but neither he nor Catherine is prepared for the passionate completion they find in each other’s arms. Desire grows with each moment together, with each sweet touch and soul-shattering kiss, until there is no escape from the ecstasy of their union…or from the lies that threaten to tear them apart. It is a tender trap, and one that can only be broken by surrendering to love and the most dangerous action of all – relinquishing once and for all every one of their… SECRET VOWS *Originally published by HarperCollins/Avon in 2001 and re-released by the author in 2011

As novice master of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton presented weekly conferences to familiarize his charges with the meaning and purpose of the vows they aspired to undertake. In this setting, he offered a thorough exposition of the theological, canonical, and above all spiritual dimensions of the vows. Merton set the vows firmly in the context of the anthropological, moral, soteriological, and ecclesial dimensions of human, Christian, and monastic life. He addressed such classical themes of Christian morality as the nature of the human person and his acts; the importance of justice in relation to the Passion of Christ, to friendship and to love; and self-surrender as the key to grace, prayer and the vowed life. Merton's words on these topics clearly spring from a committed heart and often flow with the soaring intensity of style that we have come to expect in his more enthusiastic prose. The texts of these conferences represent the longest and most systematically organized of any of numerous series of conferences that Merton presented during the decade of his mastership. They may be the most directly pastoral work Merton ever wrote.

This book focuses on oath-making narratives in the Iliad, through which it articulates a theory of ritualized violence.