Bøger af Linda Wood Rondeau

Engaged to a wealthy rising political star, a driven social worker returns to her small-town roots. With her wedding to Robert Ashworth weeks away, Jolene Murdock receives a call from Dwight Etting, her estranged father's junior partner and her former boyfriend. The business is crumbling, and her father is dying. Compelled to visit in spite of Robert's objections, Jolene wonders if reconciliation is possible given her father's hatred of all things Ashworth. And there was Dwight. How could she work side-by-side with him and not reveal her secret sin? To complicate matters her father wants her to play a duet with him in the upcoming Essex County Fiddlers Fling; however, her fiddle was among the many things she left behind when she abandoned Brookside. More than a romance. Set in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains, Fiddlers Fling depicts the struggle of the human spirit to find absolution in good deeds rather than accept the unconditional forgiveness God offers the repentant heart.

How much should a wronged husband forgive? This time, Aubrey Beaumont's wife has left for good. Though a single dad with three children to raise, Aubrey diligently searches for his drug-addicted, runaway wife. Fifteen years later, he has relocated from Vermont to Silver Spring where he serves as a respected minister and chaplain. He is caught in a quandary when he is called to a community hospital to counsel a terminally ill patient and comes face-to-face with his long-lost wife.After leaving her family, Joanna Beaumont becomes a madame for Washington's rich and powerful. With God's forgiveness, she desires to find purpose in her final days and negotiates a plea bargain for testimony against her drug-lord lover. She accepts God's judgment and expects no healing miracle. Her salvation and reunion with Aubrey is grace enough.While Aubrey can understand his wife's drug addiction, her romantic liaison with a vicious criminal seems beyond his human capacity to forgive. Does God expect him to rescue her from the bowels of degradation like the biblical Hosea? Why did God bring her back to him only to watch her die?

An estranged father, an intruding past, an old boyfriend-what is Jolene to do?When Jolene Murdock receives a call from an old boyfriend, her carefully crafted world crumbles. Told of her estranged father's terminal illness, she returns to a town she'd left three years ago, the scene of her secret sin. She thought her pending marriage to rising political star Robert Ashworth the penance God required of her … to forget her talents, her music, and her love for Brookside.Dwight Etting is now the junior partner in Murdock & Etting. But Big Mike Murdock has run the business into the ground. In hopes of saving the company, Dwight convinces Big Mike's daughter to return to Brookside to help her terminally ill father. Why does she cling to her resentment over a stupid argument on prom night? What happened to that spirited girl, whose fiddle playing won the hearts of all Essex County?

How Much Should a Wronged Husband Forgive?Aubrey Beaumont has spent the last fifteen years in search of his runaway, drug-addicted wife. Now a respected Silver Spring pastor and chaplain, ready to give up and move on, his life takes unexpected turns when she suddenly contacts him. Terminally ill and having found faith, she begs Aubrey's forgiveness. How can he overlook her past prostitution and liaison with one of Washington's most vicious drug lords? Grateful for a chance at reconciliation, Joanna Beaumont prays that her seemingly wasted life might serve some purpose in her final days. Perhaps her testimony against her former lover's cartel will bring her the peace she craves.Joanna and Aubrey's paths will crisscross the Capital District's underworld where they discover how God weaves threads of failure into tapestries of hope.

Does Chaos in United Earth Foretell a Third Dark Age?In a post-apocalyptic era, factions compete for control of a global government gone amuck. The Network, a system of outworld communities comprised of defectors and Nomadic tribes, has become organized and desires more independence from United Earth's dictates.Edwin Rowlands, current governor of Western America Province and President-elect of United Earth, fears if other outworlds follow the Network's example, the system of one government, one world, one people will collapse. His proposed Preservation Act, the Fifteenth Article of United Earth's Constitutional Government, would criminalize non-citizenship-past, present, and future-punishable by death without benefit of trial.As the cry for freedom crescendos, Ahmed Fared, Rowland's Second-elect, fears a civil war that would usher in a third dark age. He calls upon the God of the Ages to once more intervene in the affairs of men.