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Winter at the White Oaks Lodge

Shore Leave Cafe #4

by Abbie Williams

WinterA gorgeous stranger in an old photograph. A desperate search from another century. And a mystery that Camille Gordon cannot resist.

It has been two years since she discovered that she was going to be a teenage mother. Abandoned by her child’s father, Camille is determined that she and her daughter will make it on their own.

When she discovers an old picture in a trunk from her grandmother’s attic, Camille is at once drawn to the man in the image, standing near his horse in the light of a long-ago sunset. The haunting photo leads her to the Carters, who run the nearby White Oaks Lodge. Each clue brings her closer to her own destiny: a true love so intense that not even time can wither it.

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I am writer Abbie Williams, and I have been addicted to love stories ever since first sneaking my mother's copy of The Flame and the Flower; since then, I've been jotting down stories of my own in notebook after spiral-bound notebook. Well, that is until I got a computer that was equipped with Word, one fine day.

I spend my days with my own true love, our three daughters, and a very busy schedule. I am most happy when I can sneak in a few hours to write and thereby indulge in visiting the characters in my stories.

When I'm not writing, teaching or spending time with my family, you can find me listening to my favorite musical groups of all time: Alison Krauss and Union Station, the Wailin' Jennys, and The Be Good Tanyas. If there's time in the evening, I might watch a few episodes of Hell on Wheels and eat a jar of crunchy peanut butter.

Second Chances

Shore Leave Cafe #2

by Abbie Williams

SecondThe past summer has been a wild ride for Joelle Gordon; after discovering her husband cheating she fled Chicago for Landon, Minnesota, her childhood home. There, her family’s lakeside restaurant, the Shore Leave Café, remains unchanged. And yet nothing else in Landon is the same, including her family of women, her three teenage daughters and the new, intense love she finds unexpectedly with Blythe Tilson. Now Blythe is in trouble, Jackson is back, and Joelle must face one of the most important and difficult decisions of her life.

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I am writer Abbie Williams, and I have been addicted to love stories ever since first sneaking my mother's copy of The Flame and the Flower; since then, I've been jotting down stories of my own in notebook after spiral-bound notebook. Well, that is until I got a computer that was equipped with Word, one fine day.

I spend my days with my own true love, our three daughters, and a very busy schedule. I am most happy when I can sneak in a few hours to write and thereby indulge in visiting the characters in my stories.

When I'm not writing, teaching or spending time with my family, you can find me listening to my favorite musical groups of all time: Alison Krauss and Union Station, the Wailin' Jennys, and The Be Good Tanyas. If there's time in the evening, I might watch a few episodes of Hell on Wheels and eat a jar of crunchy peanut butter.

Sincerely, Sad Dad

by Jennifer L Davidson

Sincerely,With a growing compulsion to kill, one mourning father fights the urge to seek revenge on his daughter’s killer by asking Kody Burkoff, a small-town ghostwriter, to help him create a memoir filled with wonderful memories from the years he spent with his daughter before her untimely death the summer after she graduated from high school. Kody, who feels impelled to help every lost soul who enters her life, agrees to help this sad dad knowing that she’ll either come out of the ordeal a celebrated hero or an accomplice to a murder. Can Kody save the lives of the boy deemed a murderer and the father facing a lifetime of regret?

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Jennifer L. Davidson is a North Dakota native with a degree in English from North Dakota State University. She enjoys long romantic strolls on the beach, quiet candlelight dinners, and plenty of hours each day to contemplate the meaning of life. However, in reality, she lives in southeastern Minnesota with a husband, three children, two cats, and a dog. Need there be any more reason to write fiction?

Crossing Carol

by Jennifer L Davidson

CrossingWhen Evelyn Scott agrees to satisfy her family’s persistent requests to open up about her past, she does so hesitantly, and with good reason too, since her past is beleaguered by a haunting memory — the night she helped her mother bury a devastating secret of lust and betrayal.

Employing the services of ghostwriter Kody Burkoff, Evelyn attempts to tell all, but falters miserably along the way. While Evelyn battles the unraveling tethers of her childhood, Kody gathers the clues that have slipped from her client’s mouth to investigate her past, which will also aid her in solving a mystery that has plagued their small town for decades.

Kody’s thirst for adventure comes to a staggering halt when Evelyn’s long-time friend, Sheldon, attempts to impede her progress. Sheldon’s actions, however, allow Kody to expose one buried secret and reveal evidence confirming that Evelyn and her mother are not the only ones with something to hide.

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Jennifer L. Davidson is a North Dakota native with a degree in English from North Dakota State University. She enjoys long romantic strolls on the beach, quiet candlelight dinners, and plenty of hours each day to contemplate the meaning of life. However, in reality, she lives in southeastern Minnesota with a husband, three children, two cats, and a dog. Need there be any more reason to write fiction?

Missing Maggie

by Jennifer L Davidson

Missing“Before today, I thought of him as a sweet man with a dreadfully sad story – a story that I would’ve been happy to have as my own.”

Unbeknownst to Kody Burkoff, a ghostwriter, and her latest love interest, Kevin, they are hot on the trail to finding out the truth about her client Daniel’s past; a truth that isn’t meant to be uncovered. In the beginning, Daniel’s recount of his past sounds like an extraordinary love story that anyone would envy. Their friendly conversations end, however, after an unpredicted encounter one cold winter afternoon, igniting Daniel’s suspicions that he’s finally been found. A twist of trails and one shocking event sends the trio spiraling, leaving one individual with a heavy heart and one begging for more answers. Entwined with shocking surprises, chance connections, and endearing conversations, Missing Maggie explores love in all of its forms, revenge at its worst, and truth in all its glory.

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Jennifer L. Davidson is a North Dakota native with a degree in English from North Dakota State University. She enjoys long romantic strolls on the beach, quiet candlelight dinners, and plenty of hours each day to contemplate the meaning of life. However, in reality, she lives in southeastern Minnesota with a husband, three children, two cats, and a dog. Need there be any more reason to write fiction?

Justice for Julia

by Jennifer L Davidson

JusticeKody Burkoff, a small-town ghostwriter who specializes in the memoirs of everyday people, attempts to help a mourning father wavering between seeking revenge and granting forgiveness by creating a memoir filled with wonderful memories of his daughter, Julia, before her untimely death. Kody feels impelled to help every lost soul who enters her life, including her newly divorced high school sweetheart, and quickly regrets her decision when the beleaguered father confesses that he can’t control his compulsive behavior toward the young man whom he has deemed a murderer. Unable to ignore the inevitable, Kody acts to protect the innocent and preserve the future of Julia’s faltering family.

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Jennifer L. Davidson is a North Dakota native with a degree in English from North Dakota State University. She enjoys long romantic strolls on the beach, quiet candlelight dinners, and plenty of hours each day to contemplate the meaning of life. However, in reality, she lives in southeastern Minnesota with a husband, three children, two cats, and a dog. Need there be any more reason to write fiction?

A Distant World Beckons

Embracing the Mystical

by Tom Eberhard

ADo we really see everything that is visible, hear all that is spoken, or understand the intended message? Do we even know who is communicating? How often does rigid, formal learning limit our ability to perceive the mystery of our destiny?

Explore the world beyond through a series of inspirational stories involving deceased relatives and otherworldly entities. These unique accounts unveil the likelihood that the other side will lend a guiding hand as we meander through our earthly existence.

Proceed with confidence and gratitude. Ordinary events often unveil pathways to enlightenment. Wisdom of the ages is within your grasp.

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Tom Eberhard resides in Rochester, MNwith his family and has been semi-retired for several years. From a spiritual perspective, certain events in his life form an unusual pattern. Being close to nature while growing up on a farm has sharpened his awareness of signs, symbols and phenomena that facilitate communication with the world beyond. These other-world communications often reveal themselves through common occurrences in the natural world. The author believes it is through the sharing of his personal experiences that others are enabled to prosper by gaining insights into their own spiritual destinies.

Three Dreams of Anne Frank

by Rod Starcke

ThreeThree Dreams of Anne Frank is a fantasy, an allegorical story involving three fictional dreams Anne has on the night of May 11, 1944 which express the anguish and bravery she must endure from nightly air raids, break-ins to the building where she is hidden, and possible capture. It combines reality and fairy tale elements in Kafkaesque fashion to explore both Anne's frame of mind and the torment that can become the human condition.

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Rod Starcke retired from the Army in 2014 and now writes full time in his home town of Rochester, Minnesota. His favorite genres are fairy tales and allegorical fantasy, such as the works of David Lindsay, George MacDonald, and H. C. Andersen.

Dark Roses for the Grave of Andersen

Seven Fairy Tales in Memory of the Great Danish Storyteller

by Rod Starcke

DarkThis collection of entertaining stories were written in the tradition of older fairy tales such as The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. It contains "The Unicorn And The Lovelorn Knight" in which a unicorn falls in love with a human, "The Little Skeleton" wherein a little girl continues to dance after her death, "The Wine Of Good Humor"--a tale of a soldier who chances upon a magic bottle of wine that grants good humor to any who drink of it. Readers will be enthralled at the caste of characters, the original story lines and the return to the archetypal fairy tale style.

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Rod Starcke retired from the Army in 2014 and now writes full time in his home town of Rochester, Minnesota. His favorite genres are fairy tales and allegorical fantasy, such as the works of David Lindsay, George MacDonald, and H. C. Andersen.

Heart of a Dove

Dove #1

by Abbie Williams

HeartThe Civil War has ended, leaving the country with a gaping wound. Lorie Blake, a southern orphan sold into prostitution at fifteen, has carefully guarded her aching soul from the disgrace forced upon her every evening. Two years have passed, leaving her with little hope of anything more. Meanwhile, three men – longtime friends – and a young boy with a heart of gold are traveling northward, planning to rebuild their lives in the north and leave behind the horrors of their time as soldiers in the Confederate Army.

Fate, however, has plans of its own, causing their lives to collide in a river town whorehouse. Forced to flee, Lorie escapes and joins them on the journey north. But danger stalks them all in the form of a vindictive whorehouse madam and an ex-Union soldier, insane and bent on exacting revenge. At last, Lorie must come to terms with her past and devastating secrets that she cannot yet bear to reveal.

Heart of a Dove is the first book in a gripping, sweeping romantic saga of pain, unbearable choices, loss and true love set against the backdrop of a scarred, post-Civil War America.

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I am writer Abbie Williams, and I have been addicted to love stories ever since first sneaking my mother's copy of The Flame and the Flower; since then, I've been jotting down stories of my own in notebook after spiral-bound notebook. Well, that is until I got a computer that was equipped with Word, one fine day.

I spend my days with my own true love, our three daughters, and a very busy schedule. I am most happy when I can sneak in a few hours to write and thereby indulge in visiting the characters in my stories.

When I'm not writing, teaching or spending time with my family, you can find me listening to my favorite musical groups of all time: Alison Krauss and Union Station, the Wailin' Jennys, and The Be Good Tanyas. If there's time in the evening, I might watch a few episodes of Hell on Wheels and eat a jar of crunchy peanut butter.