Ten years ago, Violet Collingsworth left the town founded by her family, eager to escape a domineering grandmother and a past filled with hurt. Finally able to pursue her own dreams, Violet has spent the last decade traveling and enjoying adventures in the outdoors she loves so much. But now her grandmother's death has brought her back to Collingsworth and to the conflicted familial relationships of her past. Settling down anywhere, let alone Collingsworth, was not part of her agenda, but a run-in with the town sheriff has her reconsidering. Sheriff Dean Marconett has heard plenty about the...

Laurel Collingsworth-Davis thought she had everything she could ever want: a beautiful home, a fulfilling career, financial security and a devoted husband. However, at the beginning of their marriage, she and Matt--each for their own private reasons--had agreed to never have children. When her grandmother dies, Laurel realizes that she does, in fact, want to be a mother. She desperately needs Matt to reconsider his position, but when he refuses, she fears her storybook life may be over. Matt Davis has very real reasons for not wanting to become a father; reasons he's never shared with Laurel....

Lance Evanston has walked back into Jessa Collingsworth's life as abruptly as he'd left it over ten years earlier. As the oldest sister, Jessa has had to step up into her grandmother's role as the matriarch of the Collingsworth family now that Gran has passed away. The weight of that responsibility is complicated by the return--at Gran's request--of the man who broke her vulnerable teenage heart. Lance can't believe he's in the position of possibly having a second chance with the girl he had been forced to break up with, but whom he has never forgotten. He hopes that she'll give him a second...

When her grandmother's will stipulated she spend a month at Collingsworth Manor with her siblings, Cami Collingsworth agreed because she wanted the money. It's down to the final week, and Cami can't wait to leave and get on with her life. But when things take a serious turn in the meaningless flirtation she'd been engaging in with Josh Moyer, she find herself sharing things with him that she's never told anyone. He's unlike any man she's ever known, and Cami finds herself drawn to him. However, she soon realizes that something important stands between them, and she's left to wonder if Josh...

Will Collingsworth thought he'd had it all. A wife he adored. A job he enjoyed. Financial security through his inheritance. And a baby on the way. Then tragedy strikes, and he is left to raise his daughter on his own. Hardened by the events that robbed him of the family he'd longed for, Will distances himself from his daughter and those he loves. But when Amy Moyer arrives in his life and showers love on his daughter, he comes to see what's lacking in his life. Is he ready to risk loving again? Or will things beyond his control once again rob him of the opportunity to find love and happiness...

Lily Collingsworth has been absent from her family home for almost three years. She has finally come to terms with the news that sent her running from her family and the man she was engaged to marry. Now she's coming home to her family, but she knows that the love of her past can never be part of her future. Nate Proctor has loved Lily since she was eighteen years old. He never understood why she'd ended their engagement and left Collingsworth three years earlier. Hearing she has returned adds yet one more complication to his already complicated life. When he learns the true reason for her...

FOREVER MY LOVE is book 2 in the Christian romance series The McKinleys by bestselling author, Kimberly Rae Jordan. Follow the stories of Eric, Brooke, Alicia and Victoria as their present lives are impacted by decisions and events in their past. This heartwarming series of love, faith and family is sure to inspire and move you. Brooke McKinley has room in her life for only one guy. Her ten-year old son, Danny. From her own father's betrayal to Danny's father refusal to take responsibility for his son, Brooke has learned to not rely on anyone-particularly a man-for her wellbeing or happiness....

Lindsay Hamilton has watched as people around her have fallen in love and gotten married. She knows she needs a change in her life, but she also knows it doesn't involve romance or love, let alone marriage. When their church announces a two-week mission's trip to the Philippines, Lindsay feels that this may be the change she needs. Plus, it will give her the opportunity to see the world beyond the one she's lived in her whole life. The only problem is her mother. Having almost lost one child, Lindsay's mother is distraught at the thought of her only daughter trekking halfway around the world...