Waking up one day and realizing that your purpose in life is not just to wake up, but to embrace every opportunity to become a better person, "A Purpose-Filled Dash," is a compilation of words of encouragement that I speak into my own life daily and it is my hope that someone else finds encouragement to stay the path and to make each moment count.

"A Letter to My Mother," is a story about Houston Ray who doesn't remember the woman who gave birth to her since she walked away when Houston was an infant. The only glimpse into who her mother was came from stories told to her by her father. Now as a thirty year old woman, she received word that her birth mother is in a coma with little chance of survival. She's been told that in thirty days, life support will be terminated and at that time, she will either breathe on her own or she will slip away, succumbing to her injuries. Houston goes on a thirty day journey of writing a letter to her...

One Sister Away: Encouraging Words From One Sister to Another, Volume 2 is a compilation project birthed from the heart and spirit of Author Cheryl Barton, bringing together sisters from all walks of life to inspire and encourage another sister. The prayer is that volume two will be just as much of a blessing as volume one. One Sister Away is filled with poetry, short stories, testimonies and short passages of encouragement that will touch the heart, bless the spirit and change a generation.

Cade Weston, Hollywood's most eligible bachelor and named the world's sexiest man of the year, lives life at the top with a bevy of beauties at his beck and call, people providing his every desire and more money than any one person should have. Callie Hurston struggles to make it as a stylist to the stars in a world where women are intimidated by her beauty and men are interested in her body and not her talent. Cade thought he had it all until he has a chance meeting with Callie and decides to take a chance on her talent and ends up taking an even bigger chance with his heart. Can the playboy...

Phoenix Graham is living her best life with the best man, her fiance, Carson Stone, heir to the Stone Tower Hotel Empire. Her perfect life is shaken up when a handsome, rugged and extremely sexy mysterious man moves in across the hall and she begins to see that the rose colored glasses she had been seeing life through were blinders. She soon discovers that Carson was the best man for her until she takes notice of a better man and his name is Gavin Black. What's a girl to do when the best doesn't get better and better is what she craves?"

In this third installment of the One Sister Away book project, we are back once again bringing together sisters from all walks of life to inspire and provide encouraging words from one sister to another. We can grow as women when we reach out and pull another sister along on our journey up and provide words of encouragement for those who may be struggling. We hope you are blessed by our words.

They had the perfect love...That's what Brian Knight thought of his relationship with Sherry Braxton until he looked up one day and she was gone and never wanted to see him again. Two years later, he discovered that there is the possibility that Sherry may have been pregnant with his child. Hurt and angry at her deceit, he takes a flight to Baltimore to fight for his rights as a father and realizes that the love and passion they once shared had never died. Is it possible he could still have the kind of love he thought would last a lifetime? Can Brian have his love at last?