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A Simple Stitch A Common Thread

Living above her yarn shop, A Simple Stitch, on Main Street in her hometown was the perfect life for Eliza. One of the original downtown buildings in Spring Forrest provided her the setting for the collection of antiques passed down and finds she picked up along the way. Her regulars at the Friday Knit Out group had become like a second family, leaning on each other through many of life’s obstacles and celebrating life’s joys. Her nephew CJ returned to open the old Café across the street after one short semester away at college. Eliza could see CJ was searching to fill a void in his life. It became more obvious with the holidays approaching. Feelings he couldn’t explain but Eliza could certainly understand. The Homestead, still intact from generations past, known as Slipknot Farm had become more important to CJ this year than ever before. Annie Simpkins, the new fifth-grade teacher from Texas, caught his eye and stirred his interest. Now, CJ felt the need for a family gathering stronger than ever before. During the fall, Main Street comes alive with return customers, old friends, and new faces. Slipknot is transformed with the changing seasons. Visitors drop in, stories are told of the days gone by, and Eliza’s recipe box gets a workout. Everyone has a few surprises in the works, trying to make certain this season is more memorable than the last. Family priorities are realized, bonds are strengthened Visitors drop in, stories are told of the days gone by, and Eliza’s recipe box gets a workout. Everyone has a few surprises in the works, trying to make certain this season is more memorable than the last. Family priorities are realized, bonds are strengthened and futures are as bright as the full moon shining over the barn at Christmas time. Come along and relive the stories of Mimzie and Papa at the Homestead. As their values and strengths are remembered, A Common Thread becomes more obvious to everyone. Take this journey, and you will want to join the gathering every Christmas at the Homestead and feel like you are there.

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A Simple Stitch A Familiar Pattern

There is a newfound excitement at ‘A Simple Stitch.’ With wedding plans in full swing, Eliza soon realizes that although she is always the planner and the worker bee, it’s not the case when you are the bride. In the meantime, Jon is also learning that when it comes to building their home, it’s not going to be made in a day if he intends to go it alone. As plans fall in place, Slipknot Farm comes alive. Memories of Caleb and Caroline’s (Papa & Mimzie’s) building of the Homestead and their own wedding continue to parallel the events taking place on Jon and Eliza’s journey. Starting their lives together, Jon and Eliza graciously accept help and enjoy being on the receiving end of the generosity that they so often are giving of themselves. New friendships are nurtured, relationships are strengthened, and some are put to the test. Watch as the entire community of Spring Forrest steps up to help recreate the ‘Familiar Pattern’ that is taking place right before their eyes.

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A Simple Stitch A Time To Mend

Summer brings a new season in Spring Forrest. A Simple Stitch is open, and Eliza is anticipating new customers, returning visitors and the weekly Girls Knit Out group that gathers on Friday evenings. The school is out. The Café is as busy as usual. Aunt Mildred has settled comfortably in her Spring Forrest home. It has only been six short months since the gathering at Slipknot Farm celebrating the holidays, yet it feels like an eternity. Relationships were started, and others strengthened during this festive time. Now, life back to usual, the excitement has faded, and Eliza is feeling an unfamiliar emptiness. Always considering herself the strength in the family, she isn’t hiding this restlessness as well as she thinks. Looking forward to her weekend at Slipknot Farm to nourish her soul, an accident takes her by surprise. As expected, she immediately steps up. Changes are necessary. Decisions are made without hesitation. During this much needed Time to Mend unforeseen events unfold taking relationships to new heights. While some have tough decisions to make, others can easily see the answers. You are invited back to A Simple Stitch to watch this quaint shop evolve. Slipknot in the summer is certainly the place to be for working in the garden, cooking and finding rest while sitting on the swing and watching the sun go down. So, as with every season there comes change, although not always easy, it can be a true blessing in disguise.

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Always

Have you ever met someone and known immediately your life would never be the same? That’s how it was when I met Brian. One smile and my world was rocked to its core.

Everyone has that one love they can’t forget. The one that spoke to your soul, not just your heart. At twenty-six, I had never been in love. I thought I was broken. Then I met Brian. There was something about him that spoke to my soul. He was everything I dreamed the man for me would be, with one major flaw. He was married. Even if he wasn’t, I knew he wouldn’t want me. Overweight for most of my life, I was shy around men. I preferred to remain in the background, never calling attention to myself. After being teased in my formative years, I had scars on my soul.

Brian offered me his friendship. I was happy to accept. I was careful not to talk much about myself. I thought if I hid my heart behind a stone wall, I’d be able to protect myself. I tried to be friends, truly I did, but sometimes friends sneak into your heart with no warning. I don’t remember when it happened. One day we were friends, the next I was in love with him. I tried to hide it, but I think Brian knew. There was something about him that my starving heart couldn’t resist.

For three years, I saw him almost every day. The more time we spent together, the more I fell. I watched as he flirted with other women, pretending it didn’t break my heart. Women were attracted to his sexy looks, but they didn’t know him like I did. They didn’t see past the outside at the man within. They didn’t know how much he loved his son. They didn’t experience his humor, his compassion. Those were things he shared with me. When his life began to crumble, I was the one who he turned to. I was the one who convinced him to mend fences.

When Brian finally said the three words I had longed to hear, I let fear keep me from saying the words I should have. In an attempt to protect what was left of my heart, I stopped seeing him. We stayed in touch at first, but as the years went by our communication was few and far between.

Before I knew it ten years passed. I hadn’t looked at another man, I took a chance and reached out one August day and he replied. The butterflies that filled my stomach and the smile I couldn’t contain told me all I ever needed to know. Like it or not Brian had my heart. He always would. Brian wanted to meet, but I was hesitant. In the years we’d been apart, I’d planned to lose the weight, but had gained instead.

The more we texted and talked, the more I knew I had to see him. It was like we had never parted. When we met up for the first time, there was a difference to him. Our friendship grew stronger, deeper. Brian is my best friend, my confidant, my soul mate. Hearing him say I love you can fill me with love and break my heart at the same time. When he hugs me, I know I have found where I belong, my home.

How can our friendship survive when loving him is forbidden? I won’t cross that line. I won’t be that woman. I love Brian enough to let him go. Will I ever have my happily ever after?

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Evie wished for an uncommon love. What she got was otherworldly...and a man named Rick Remington. He’d open her eyes to much more than a life of wealth and privilege. He’d help her see a bond that crossed all boundaries when facing the unimaginable. Then find herself again as she answered the very statement that set their time together in motion -- “Be Careful What You Wish For.”

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Enchanted The Spellbound Saga

I didn't want this life. I was content being a witch. When I fell in love with Aidan, I told him I didn't want to be like him; a vampire. I was dying. To save me he did what he had to do. Life as a vampire has to be better than no life at all. Right? For nearly 190 years Ashlie Belle lived as a witch. She planned to do the same for the next 310. Then she fell in love with vampire, Aidan Crane. As she took her last breath, he bit her. Will she be able to forgive him for betraying her? Stephenie, Ashlie's ghost best friend, has been stuck in their home, Mystic Manor for nearly twenty years. She watches the world change from the widow’s peak, longing to explore the way she did when she was alive. Seconds before Ashlie died, she transferred her powers to Stephenie with an unexpected result. How can Ashlie fulfill the prophecy her resurrected mother entrusted Alexander the Great with and protect her newfound family from the danger in the woods while spending her days in a coffin? Can Ashlie adapt to her new life before it's too late?

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His Other Child

When she fails to find love on the internet, Maria reluctantly introduces Chloe to her husband Tom’s best friend Grant with unexpected results. Grant is a good-looking man with a heart of gold, but his lack of experience with women means he is prone to making hasty decisions, often with disastrous consequences. By the time he realizes Chloe isn’t the ‘happy ever after’ kind of woman he was hoping for, she drops a bombshell by telling him she is pregnant with his child, and he naively believes the baby will bring them closer together. He already has a daughter called Crystal from his first marriage to Amberina, and despite his misgivings, he still believes in fairy-tale endings and hopes that one day they will be able to sort out their differences. However, Chloe has other ideas, and it isn’t long before she is scheming to find ways of getting his other child out of their lives for good. Meanwhile, Maria is having her own problems with her husband Tom, but when a trial separation leads to a life-changing discovery about her husband’s past she is forced to make a big decision about their future.

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Plenty More Fish

When Pete leaves Chloe for another woman, she must raise their family alone, however, an impromptu internet pop-up leads her to believe she has found the perfect way of finding love again. After meeting a string of unlikely suitors, she finally meets Mel and believes without a doubt that she has found her one true love but inevitably things are more complicated than they first seem and she is forced to question her judgment time and time again. Plenty More Fish pushes the boundaries as it follows her journey through the dark and sometimes humorous side of internet dating and exposes her vulnerability in her desperate quest to find her soul mate. As she ventures into deeper waters her friends and work colleagues become increasingly concerned for her safety but will she listen to them before it is too late?

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Spellbound

I always knew I'd die on my 500 th birthday. Alone. Then Aidan Crane turned my world upside down. Being a witch, I could kill him with an errant thought. Being a vampire, he could lose control and drain me. Can our love overcome any obstacle? Ashlie, a very powerful slow-aging witch, prefers to keep to herself. Save for her dog, Netter and her mind-reading ghost BFF, Stephenie, she lives a lonely existence. Ashlie longs for love but fears it at the same time. Her ever-growing powers are controlled by her emotions. What if she were kissing an unsuspecting boy and set him on fire? What if she froze him as they walked across the street, and he was hit by a car? Thoughts like these plague her. She has resigned herself to a lonely life. Aidan Crane has no memory of his life before he became a vampire. He goes through life existing with no hope to find love. The moment he sees Ashlie he knows there is something different about her. She glows. Try as they might, they can't ignore their attraction. Again and again, obstacles are thrown in their path. Are the Fates trying to show them they don't belong together? With the help of Ashlie's newfound friend-Ericka, her ghost best friend-Stephenie, and a long-dead historical figure-Alexander, the unlikely pair search for a way to be together. Between resurrected loved ones, danger lurking around the bend, and unexpected side effects will Ashlie make the ultimate sacrifice for love?

$19.99

A Simple Stitch A Common Thread

A Simple Stitch A Familiar Pattern

A Simple Stitch A Time To Mend

Always

Be Careful What You Wish For

Enchanted The Spellbound Saga

His Other Child

Plenty More Fish

Spellbound

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