FINALIST: NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS (Anthology Category) When your heart speaks, will you listen? Once upon a time, three beloved storytellers-New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ciji Ware along with Diana Dempsey and Kate Moore-wondered what would happen if a magical ring fell into a woman's hands-along with the urgent instruction that she learn its lesson in seven days or forever lose its wisdom. Who will take up the ring's challenge? Who will pass it by, even if her heart's deepest desire hangs in the balance? This trio of romantic and inspiring tales imagines the lives...

Gatsby meets Persuasion in a story of sex and money in L.A. as a self-sufficient loner, new billionaire Will Sloan, dares to cross the divide of privilege to claim his lost love. PRIDE Loner Will Sloan, son of a waitress and a dead rodeo cowboy, former scholarship student, new billionaire, is back in L.A., land of palm-lined drives and fiery sunsets. His friends urge him to jump into the hot city dating scene, but a chance encounter at a school reunion revives a powerful past love. He's never forgotten Annie James...and this time around, he swears he'll do the walking out. AND PERSUASION...