Romance

The spirits of Richard and Victoria haunt WinShire Castle. Once a year, they re-live the massacre which resulted in Lord Richard placing a curse on the castle as he and Victoria die in each other’s arms. Centuries pass, the castle with the no-heir curse is gradually abandoned, now it stands empty, waiting. Then the spirits see the opportunity to prevent the curse. They are successful. Now Time has been altered. Are the spirits together? What does the new timeline hold for their descendants? A Wicked Witch and a demonic Warlock, creates chaos in the castle and with the lives of the descendants of Richard and Victoria.

It’s 1943 and WW II is a part of everyday life. Beautiful Amy Mary O’Brien Garret’s marriage to Wally is eight years old. He buys a farm, dumps her and their two girls, Sissy and Beth, and goes off to join the Seabees where he’s stationed in the Aleutian Islands.

Old Doc Weeks, the previous owner, helps Amy and teaches her how to use a shotgun and milk a cow.

Amy is desperate for money to meet the monthly payments on the farm and support her family. She discovers a secret room off the master room closet. She finds rationed goods and decides to sell them on the black market.

Aunt Magdalene manages the Jupiter Junction railroad hotel. It’s during a train derailment that Amy meets good looking U.S. Army Lieutenant Rob Weeks. He falls in love with her, but she resists. Or does she?

A young teacher is murdered and soon Amy is being threatened. Is her farm alive with promises of a new life, or is it the menace of an unseen force? Still, she manages to protect her children from danger until one fateful day.

Walk to Love is the story of a man who was in deep depression years after the death of his first wife. He is paid a visit by God, who sends him on a walking journey across America that changes his life forever. After years of marriage to his new love, again tragedy strikes. He moves to a different state with his twin sons where God has a plan for him. He eventually meets a woman that he met on his walking journey twenty-five years earlier. She becomes his third wife. They move to Florida in their senior years with their best friends where they live out the final years of their lives. Walk to Love is a story of romance, tragedy, inspiration, God, and many things that fill our daily lives.

As “TJ” ran the length of the court along the sideline, sweat slowly drips down his neck onto the towel that hangs loosely down the front of his well tailored suit.

He gazed into the bleachers and there she is again, those beautiful brown eyes. Their eyes seem to meet for a split second. He wondered who belonged to those beautiful brown eyes that show up at the Cross-Town Boys basketball games. She’s always sitting under the visitor’s goal; she’s always about eight rows back toward the center and by the time the clock counts down to double zero she’s gone. TJ longed to meet the “love of his life”.

Terrance “TJ” Jones was not only a coach to the young men on the team of what some may call misfits, gangsters, and high school drop-outs. He was their friend, confidant, and a surrogate father.

“TJ” eventually meets and marries the keeper of his heart who reunited him with his mother (who walked out on him days after his birth) and his father (who was unaware that he had a son). The reunion was short-lived; on his parents return home to New York they were killed in a plane crash.

This is the story of forty-two year old Tracy Mahon, a single mother, and her two girls, Emily and Annie. There’s fun and joy, but in the background evil waits. When Tracy injures herself in a fall, little does she know her life she thought was on an even keel, will change. She and her girls always managed insulated within themselves. Now, Tracy needs help. She discovers strengths she never knew she possessed. As she heals, life begins to shift within the family. After a bitter affair, Tracy is falling in love with the man who rescued her when she fell. It’s a bittersweet relationship as their love is held hostage by the future.

Some secrets needed to remain hidden.

Frankie Jones had lived a very shady past and only escaped her fate by a miracle. Now she was Nevada socialite Francis Covington and the wife of Senate hopeful, Alexander Covington.

His political campaign had thrust their lives into public view and private turmoil and dark remnants from her past threatened to resurface and leave her open to a scandal that could destroy her husband, her marriage and her future; making her desperate enough to do almost anything to stop it....

Dayla Maylen questions where her life is headed after the death of her husband. Her marriage had been a unique partnership, one in which she had never experienced the magical element of deep, intimate love. So when an old time friend, Layth Sheridan, becomes a more permanent fixture in her life, long buried feelings for Layth surface and Dayla soon faces a struggle of choosing between living a single life or one that may offer true love for the first time ever. Each time she is near Layth she questions her logic and her every move. The more she is with Layth the deeper she falls in love with him—and the more she fears being a part of his life.

Layth Sheridan, a lawyer known for presenting the best closing arguments in the courtroom, finally feels settled in his life after the passing of his wife nearly two years earlier. But one day, an old friend, Dayla Maylen, walks back into his life and makes him question his path and his heart. As he helps Dayla find her way through her loss, he soon discovers he wants Dayla to be a part of his new world. But another man, Simon, one of Dayla’s long time college friends, also has an interest in Dayla. Will Layth be able to persuade Dayla to push aside her uncertainties where love is concerned? After several months of trying to sway Dayla to follow her heart, he comes to the conclusion that their only chance at happiness rests on him presenting the one thing that may win Dayla over to his side—his best ever...Closing Argument.

Dana Litton, an art critic, and Gage Kelly, a prominent artist are thrown together by the act of a crazed gunman during a viewing at an area art gallery. Blinded and paralyzed, Dana must fight to overcome the odds stacked against her. With Gage, who she comes to know as Simon, alongside her she works with a special medical team in order to reclaim her ability to walk and to see again. During the months of grueling retraining of her body, she falls in love with Simon and confides all to him. But will Dana still feel the same about Simon once she learns that he is really Gage Kelly? Or will she reject him for having deceived her over the past several months? What will happen to a couple in love...when darkness falls?

The one person Jadyn (Creator Shekinah Prime) fears will return to haunt her and bring destruction in his wake appears before her one quiet evening and coolly announces his arrival. Unhappy that his side lost in the battle of Immortal Destiny, Creator Arcane Omega sets out across Jadyn’s home kingdom to discover how his well laid plan to take over the land had failed to come to fruition. After his investigation, he once again challenges Jadyn for control of the kingdom she has come to call home.

Jadyn calls upon her Creator power that she had instilled deep in the heart of the kingdom eons ago through a series of Ley Lines that stretch across the land. She must also turn to the great Remiel to help her channel and focus absolute power in order to have a fighting chance at defeating Arcane. Only he can direct the two pure, all-consuming powers so they will converge yet not destroy Jadyn’s mortal shell.

All good beings now face a new form of vampire—one of Arcane’s creations—vampires with Creator power who terrorize everyone they meet. During the struggle between good and evil for control of the kingdom, Rayna grows closer to Rempha—who still remains aloof and secretive about his life. As they battle alongside each other, Rayna works to break down the wall that stands between them and any future they may have together. And another wedding may soon come to pass as Zathael asks Iri to marry him. But will happiness and peace be threatened forever by Arcane and his minions?

In order for Jadyn to gain the upper hand over Arcane, she must do something unparalleled. She must devise something more ingenious and inconceivable than she ever has before. Jadyn needs to contain Arcane. But what kind of prison will hold a Creator? And how will they ensnare one who is as powerful as Jadyn and as evenly matched? What will happen when two Creators go head-to-head in a battle for supremacy…in a battle where pure evil challenges those who would be…Guardians of Immortal Peace?

Your author hopes you will find some interesting reflections as you read Smitten... And Then Some. He has used names that may, or may not, sound like some you have heard in the past.

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We all have had our good days and even better nights as we aged and found that maturity is not always the answer to a satisfying period of time spent with a loved one....