When author, Alycia Elliot learns her surrogate grandmother needs her help, even the impending deadline for her latest book doesn't stop her from making the trip to Lewisburg, PA. However, she's needed far more than she anticipated. Gram Carlisle has been hospitalized for heart surgery. The news comes from Gram's handsome lawyer, Ken Maxwell, who also informers her she must take over running Gram's Bed and Breakfast. Ken and his large family show up frequently at the inn, offering help that is indispensable, quickly endearing them to her. In fact, the family is so intertwined with the inn's...

Lacy Boyce was never one to fear challenges. As a firefighter and a paramedic she'd spent her life facing challenges, and conquering them. Then one night, that all changed. The night her husband, Michael, a fellow firefighter, died in a fire. The same night she gave birth to their first child, a child she would now have to raise alone. Yet she'd given up firefighting to become a paramedic hoping it would strengthen her marriage. Now she wonders whether she can be a mother and paramedic. And she's afraid to hope she can return to what she really loves, fighting fires, and still be a good...

After the ten year old daughter of her best friend, Gracie, witnesses the brutal beating of her mother, she turns to Ashley for help. Ashley knows going to the police is not an option. The girl's step-father is the culprit and with his connections there is no place to hide in Nashville. A key on Karlyn's necklace leads them to a post office box where Gracie has stockpiled money for just such an emergency. They also find a letter that instructs them where they should go -- Paradise, Pennsylvania. Perhaps the only place they will be safe, if not because of the distance, because of the person...

By request of her readers Pam Garlick has created her first collection of articles and short stories written over her 30 year writing career.

Narissa had never been comfortable with her parents' adventures on the back of her father's motorcycle. As far as she was concerned, his ending up in the hospital while on one "run," as they called it, only confirmed she was right. As she drove to the hospital where her father had been taken she had made up her mind she was going to demand they start acting their age and stop riding that bike. Only to her shock that wasn't going to be necessary. When she arrived at the hospital it was to a father weak following surgery, asking her to make his last ride. How could she refuse when it might be...

Patti Morrison was determined to hate Josh McIntyre. -- Not matter how nice he was to her. After all, he was a dreaded 'Flatlander', someone not born and raised in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Worse, he was a Flatlander from the city and a business man at that. And probably worst of all, he was buying her family farm. Josh had no rights to move right in and take over. He had no right; to even consider the changes to the land she loved. He had no right to be so handsome. But, Patti was immune to his sort she was certain of that. He'd bring nothing but trouble - which is exactly what bringing...

Annie Baxter worked hard to become a paramedic with Schuylkill Valley's Ambulance Unit, in spite of the constant criticism from her nemesis, Brody Langford. She was living the life she'd dreamed, helping people going through an emergency. It was a dream she'd had since she was ten years old and involved in a auto crash that left her mother a paraplegic. Only Annie didn't realize how much her life was about to change one spring afternoon. The day the little boy next door was injured mowing the lawn. It was an accident that sparked some major decision for Annie. Decisions that might change the...

This is a compilation of fiction short stories Pam Garlick has written that involve children. In writing this she has combined her love of writing with her love of children. She has gotten much to write about watching her own children and grandchildren as well as many of their friends. Although many of her stories have some basis in fact, they are in reality works of fiction.

Janice Brown was a single mother struggling to raise her two sons. The last thing she needed was another mouth to feed. However, that was exactly what she got when she was driving home one night on an icy road and nearly hit a tiny puppy. Multiply that puppy times four and she quickly realized her family was growing too quickly, along with the vet bill she was going to have caring for the sick puppies. Two days later, on Valentine's Days, she realized how blessed her extended family truly was, thanks to a benevolent vet.