Farewell Stormy Acres

PROLOGUE Harrison, a farmer, and Lisa, an attorney had been in love for quite some time, but Lisa was too proud to be a farmer's wife. She eventually married an attorney who worked in her father's law firm, but he was physically and emotionally cruel to Lisa. They divorced, and he left Des Moines as the firm didn't want a scandal. Harrison married Mary Taylor. They had a son named Jacob, but like Lisa and Carter, they eventually divorced. In this novel, you will discover who fathered Lisa's daughter, and if Lisa and Harrison ever found happiness together. As you read through the pages, you will be introduced to love, heartbreak, death, betrayal, marriage, divorce and even murder. You will learn about Buddy Hicks, an arsonist, who burns farm buildings out of revenge. The author sincerely hopes you will enjoy reading the pages of this short novel.

PROLOGUE Harrison, a farmer, and Lisa, an attorney had been in love for quite some time, but Lisa was too proud to be a farmers wife. She eventually married an attorney who worked in her fathers law firm, but he was physically and emotionally cruel to Lisa. They divorced, and he left Des Moines as the firm didnt want a scandal. Harrison married Mary Taylor. They had a son named Jacob, but like Lisa and Carter, they eventually divorced. In this novel, you will discover who fathered Lisas daughter, and if Lisa and Harrison ever found happiness together. As you read through the pages, you will be introduced to love, heartbreak, death, betrayal, marriage, divorce and even murder. You will learn about Buddy Hicks, an arsonist, who burns farm buildings out of revenge. The author sincerely hopes you will enjoy reading the pages of this short novel.

After Jane Ahlrichs’ fi ancee, Gary Benson, was shot and killed, Jane left Stormy Acres, the family farm, for Seattle, Washington, to attend his funeral. There, Jane met Crystal, a young girl who claimed she was pregnant with Gary’s child. Crystal didn’t want the baby. She and her boyfriend, “Buzz,” - both alcoholics - were having too much fun drinking, stealing and dealing in drugs. Jane convinced Crystal to let her help take care of the baby after the birth, for the sake of the baby. And, soon, Jane became very attached to the little boy, and was frantic that Crystal would give him up for adoption, or that a social service agency would take him, and she would never see him again. Jane had to fi nd a way to help the baby and herself - and fast!

A successful quilter worries about a new rival—and a newly independent son—in a novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Between Heaven and Texas. Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet, quirky charms of Too Much, Texas to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She's relieved to be moving back to her hometown--and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented co-host and color consultant, and happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dell's new boss hopes to attract a different demographic--by bringing in a younger co-host. What Holly Silva knows about quilting wouldn't fill a thimble, but she's smart and ambitious. Her career hinges on outshining the formidable Mary Dell in order to earn her own show. Yet as Holly adapts to small-town living and begins a new romance, and Mary Dell considers rekindling an old one, the two find unlikely kinship. For as Mary Dell knows, the women of Too Much have a knack for untangling the knottiest problems when they work together. And sometimes the pattern for happiness is as simple and surprising as it is beautiful… "Marie Bostwick is my go-to author…always powerful, inspiring, and uplifting." –Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A brilliant storyteller." --Las Vegas Review-Journal

Miss Victoria Dawkins was in a most perilous position. Cast out of respectable society by a scurrilous slur on her good name, alone and penniless in the London lower depths, this proud but all too vulnerable young lady could not afford to turn down the Earl of Clune’s offer. The elegant, handsome, and clearly conscienceless nobleman wished to engage Victoria as a companion to an elderly woman on his great country estate. Victoria had no illusions about the earl’s intentions toward her. But she was not prepared for a different kind of danger in a manor where the vengeful ghost of a scandalous past sought her as its victim. Somehow Victoria had to stop the earl from suspecting he held the key to her heart. And she had to stop herself from yielding to a mysterious menace that she could not believe in or deny...