A story of love and redemption. Joanna Kelliher is a 32-year-old missionary teacher on an island in the Indian Ocean. A devout, single mother of four adopted children, Joanna has never had a serious romantic relationship, and she believes that her chances for true love have passed her by. Along comes Ian MacDonald, a newly arrived missionary and doctor. From the moment he meets Joanna, he plans to marry her and raise her four sweet children as his own. Joanna finds herself falling in love with Ian as well, but she is cautious and shy from a childhood of abuse. And Ian has issues of his own to...

A story of love and family and friends. A story of deception and revenge. Because the MacDougall and the Larkin families have close family ties it is assumed that Derek MacDougall and Flannery Larkin will marry when they graduate from college. When Flannery becomes a famous fantasy children's writer during college she lets the fame rule her life and Derek feels that he is no longer important to her. When Chloe, Flannery's half- sister finds out that Derek is with his romance and engagement she decides to change the course of his life, Flannery's life and mainly her own life by drugging...