Ruby And Jared

Author Eliza Ankum has done what few writers of Historic Fiction can – brought her star-crossed lovers from her best-selling Civil War romantic epics, Ruby Sanders and Jared Anderson into the 21st Century with a well-crafted Contemporary Women’s fiction novel Ruby and Jared jumps ahead decades to the here and now, when all colors of love are possible. But when your heart is broken, it’s difficult to love. Ruby Sanders Williams is an out of work financial journalist who thinks that by scoring the most coveted story of the century – Jared Anderson’s defection from Crawford & Anderson Mining – she can redeem herself and get her job back after a very public and disastrous breakup with her boyfriend, Derek, who also happens to be her boss. So, Ruby is determined to find out why Jared Anderson, a multi-millionaire, married to one of the most celebrated beauties in the world, walked away from the company built by his great, great, great, great grandfather, Jared Anderson, on land stolen from Ruby’s family. A grieving husband, Jared Anderson is finally on the road to recovery after suffering the bitterest of betrayals by two people he thought he knew and could trust. Living a lonely and guarded life with his son, Lucas, can Jared learn to love and trust again? Will he allow Ruby into his inner circle? And what, after all these years, does he have planned for the man who betrayed him? Will these two star crossed lovers, resurrected from a time so long ago, finally find a true and lasting love and live happily ever after? Ruby and Jared gives us hope that love can survive a multitude of hurts, betrayals, and even death.

Ruby Sanders is the coming of age story of a young slave girl and her relationship with two very different men, Jared Anderson, the son of a wealthy planter and Mingo Williams, the son of a planter and his slave mistress The Civil War has ravished the plantations around Atlanta and then news comes from the North that President Lincoln has found a new general who’s willing and able to carry out his scorched earth policy towards the South. Playmates since children, Jared has vowed to free Ruby and her family but he must also save his own. In order to that, he has come up with a daring plan to move everyone, including Ruby, west to the newly opened Colorado Territories. But there’s a problem. Jared and his family are broke. He’s forced to marry the young impetuous daughter of Henry and Helen Wilkes in order to obtain enough money to carry out his plan. When Mingo joins the group will his presence destroy Jared’s plans? Or will Jared and Ruby live happily ever after?

Born the only son of wealthy slave holding plantation owner Jared Anderson has loved but one woman, Ruby Sanders, since they children growing up together on the plantation. But Ruby is a slave. And when their love for each other was discovered, Ruby was sent off to another plantation. It is nearing the end of the Civil War and Jared has made the ultimate sacrifice. He has become a deserter from the Confederate Army in order to fulfill a promise he made to Ruby when they were children -- that one day she would be free. To full-fill that promise Jared has moved his entire family, including Ruby, west to the Colorado territories. Along the way, they encountered drought, fire, a raging Mississippi River and two unexpected rivals. Now, those rivals are about to play an integral part in Ruby and Jared’s destiny. We pick up the story as Mennonite outcast Lorelei Hansmueller has followed Jared to Fort Latham, Colorado, after the death of her father, in hopes of making Jared her husband. Is Lorelei too late? On the night of the fire, that destroyed Henry Wilkes’ new home, Ruby and Jared finally gave in to their passion and Ruby is pregnant with Jared’s child. But can Ruby and Jared hold onto their relationship in a time when love, let alone marriage, between the races is strictly forbidden? Or will Lorelei force Jared into another loveless marriage with the threat of revealing his deadly secret?

Margaret Larson the young beautiful African-American widow of WKXR TV station owner, Sam Larson — who is twenty years her senior — twice divorced and part of Peoria, Illinois all White upper class. When Sam is suddenly killed in a bizarre Halloween plane crash Margaret is devastated but determined to carry on in spite of being spurned by all her society friends and Sam’s children from his previous marriage. Sam’s protégé and friend, David Walker — a Denzel Washington look-alike — who was also in a mixed marriage, until his wife Kate was killed in a ‘Unabomber’ type explosion, comes to Margaret’s rescue and helps her pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Soon David is running WKXR TV. But he can’t or won’t forget about his friend, Sam Larson, and their conversation on the night he died. His curiosity about the crash leads him to Thompson Airfield where the NTSB has brought the doomed plane. Unfortunately, for David, he has an out-of-body experience and is forcibly ejected from the hangar. Confused and embarrassed, David decides it’s best to leave while he still has a good reputation. However, on his way to his car, he spots a man in the process of searching what he believes is his car. He confronts the man only to find out it’s he who has the wrong car. As an apology, he invites the man to lunch. The man turns out to be Frank Roberts — field agent for the NTSB — and the agent in charge of investigating the crash of Flight 404. Frank Roberts is an embittered disillusioned man whose own marriage ended in divorce. He feels his career is going nowhere because of the NTSB’s new policy of promoting minorities. Together, this odd pairing sets out to find the real reason why Flight 404 fell out of the sky on that fateful Halloween night. Meanwhile, Margaret is slowly coming to grips with the death of her husband until on a lonely Thanksgiving night while looking at old snapshots, she realizes that Sam is the second one in a group of friends to die in a fatal plane crash. She tries dismissing her suspicions as grief. But when she finds an ominous email sent to her husband by an unknown party she is certain that the plane crash which killed her husband was no accident. Sam was murdered! Soon Margaret joins forces with David and Frank to find a killer before another plane falls from the sky.

The opportunity to discover one's passion in the Dome is endless with the existence of the SubWorld. The SubWorld is a portal into the imagination of one's mind. A person can create anything their imagination is able to conceive just by envisioning it. Once the project is complete, one is able to extract it from their imaginative SubWorld, and into the tangible universe. Through his vast imagination, seventeen-year-old Eliek Aprin has created the grandest and most beautiful world of wonder in his SubWorld called SubAprin. However, he finds himself unable to share this creation with anybody due to his lack-luster SubWorld extraction skills. With fear and incompetence shrouding his mind, Eliek begins his final year of SubWorld Lessons, hoping to find an answer to his inability so he can revolutionize the world of creation.

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Ruby Summers is starting over with her new job as assistant to country artist Jaxson Powell. Jaxson and Ruby’s chemistry is off the charts. She is finally starting to feel like herself again. Until her ex boyfriend comes back into her life. Ruby is forced to work alongside her ex and his band on tour. Can she keep it together? Can she keep her secrets from him? Who will be there for her when everything finally comes out?

A Stone Barn is book one in the Travelers Trilogy. Years ago, Lynne lost her family in a horrible car crash. Now a successful business woman, she is about to lose her sanity because she has buried her grief too deeply. Jared has lost his daughter and his wife to disease and suicide. He has dealt with the grief and moves to America in order to start his life anew, only to discover secrets that could ruin the lives of new friends. Join us on this journey across time and continents, a journey of pain, healing and discovery. With the help of family, friends and a feisty Guardian Angel anyone can learn to live again. Look for book two, Red Dirt, to come out in 2011.