She was happiness. And cleansing. And this was love. The kind that made his chest ache, his heart pound. A craving never quite satisfied until he’d tasted it again. Wrong or right, how they’d found one another, Aletta was the best part of breathing.

Tyson Pyke emerged from prison a free man. But freedom, he discovered, is hard to maintain. No one wants to hire a cowboy with a felony record. Left destitute, his meals few and far between, he’ll throw himself on the kindness of an old prison buddy who seems to have gotten his life together, Jared Flint at the Double R Ranch.

Aletta Gordon ran from home when she was eighteen, eager to be out from under her mom’s thumb. Years of travel and a string of small-time jobs brought her to Texas, where the weather and the cowboys are a whole lot hotter than her home state of Vermont.

The rash decision to pick up a stranger after work late one night proves to be life-changing. In spite of his spotted past, Tyson is the perfect man to fill her heart. Yet, the unforeseen consequence of their actions and the antagonism of a young cowboy hurtle them toward an uncertain ending. Unless they turn loose of their fears and take hold of God.

I've made the comment, "Give me any three objects and I can write a story about them." I've written many books in this spontaneous manner, scene by scene, content to see where the story takes me. When I started this particular book, with Book 1 under my belt, so to speak, I had only the idea of a hard-edged cowboy who'd been to prison and didn't know how to live.

Perhaps the idea he'd been in prison turns off some readers, but the truth is, we are all with our flaws. It is what we've survived and turned over to God that makes us strong. It is the strength of the Savior who died for all men, for whosoever, no matter what we've done, where we've been, or what has cast us into the dirt, that we can rely on. He suffered so that we don't have to.

His hand is open to redeem, to forgive, anyone who will ask, and whether or not I've seen the inside of a prison or simply been locked inside my house for days at a time, God's love is deeper still, and the freedom He offers through HIs forgiveness eternal and abundant and complete.

I pray you'll take a look at this book and the others in this series. God bless you today.


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www.feelgoodromance.com
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It was just a tree at the edge of a wide, grassy field. Just a field at the edge of a mountain. Just a mountain in the midst of a range of others that stretched down from the north. A mountain, a field, a tree that told the story of millenia, of storms and sunshine, of drought and harvest, of good and bad. Of thousands of men who fought and died and decayed. By a tree in a field overlooked by a mountain that whispered their secrets.

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He Was A Soldier
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How deep did they go to heal the pain? How far did they stretch their new friendship? Would they cross a line somewhere and be unable to turn back? Did she care as long as her heart wasn’t aching?

Katy Hansen’s husband died in a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan, and the future they’d planned dissolved in an instant. Left with a young son to care for, in the last ten months she’s had to bury her grief and learn to be both mom and dad.

Harper Chavez lost his arm in the same bomb blast and carries the mental pain of it everywhere he goes, but his personal issues won’t let him forget the last thing his buddy asked him to do – take his wife, Katy, a note penned the night before his death.

Yet this one simple mission, one hour of their time, changes everything they thought they knew. She isn’t as alone as she thought; he’s much stronger than he realized; and together, there’s power in forgiveness, and maybe, love in moving on.


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Glass
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The pull of her breath flared her nostrils the tiniest bit and lifted her chest. She was beautiful, and priceless, like this house. She didn’t deserve to be trapped by all its legends. Because that is all this was, the stories of the past holding her in some vice-like grip, the grip of an old woman who wouldn’t let them go.

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We do not have to allow the thief to steal, kill, and destroy our health, our finances, our children, or in any other circumstance we face.

“Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!” (Colossians 2:15 TPT)

Jesus made a PUBLIC DISPLAY of His victory over the enemy. He declared to all who would hear Him that all power or authority was taken from the enemy and given to the children of God. We do not have to allow the thief to steal, kill, and destroy our health, our finances, our children, or in any other circumstance we face.

This is at the heart of the gospel message that spread in the church of Acts, and it is the truth given to today’s believers. Through His death and Resurrection, the way into the fullness of eternal life was made available to anyone who would believe. No longer was salvation a mystery way off in the future, but God’s goodness made it accessible.

This verse in the King James Version says Jesus made a show of the defeated enemy “openly.” The word “openly” implies bold, frank speech. Jesus declared His victory with authority. He then gave that same authority to the church. We are commissioned to “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” with signs and wonders following. (Lk 10:19; Mk 16:15-18)

All demonic power trembles at the name of Jesus. There is nothing His name cannot do … He is Savior, Redeemer, Healer, and King … and nothing He cannot do through us.


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God writes fiction.

God writes romance novels. He writes crime drama. He writes battle scenes.

He not only writes it. He sells it. He promotes it. There are thousands of wonderful Christian authors, traditionally published and self-published, struggling to perfect their craft, and the Spirit of God delights in their creativity.

He, in fact, inspires singers and musicians of all genres of music, artists of any medium, from painters to wood carvers. He is the source of life, the reason things grow and multiply. He designed the tabernacle and the temple, the furniture inside, described how to perform the sacrifice, how to bake the shewbread.

There is no part of society and our daily life, nothing which humans need to learn to do, or which interests them, barring things outside of His holiness, which He will not help men and women to do.

God writes fiction. He designed romance. He made a man to marry a woman, to make love, and to bear children. He adores children. He writes crime drama novels. He is against sin and theft and the work of the enemy which causes crime, but He is for those who work in law enforcement, in godly government, to do their jobs and do them well. He is for good winning over evil. Or have you not read the Book?

God writes battles scenes. He designs them. But notice that when battle was required and when the soldiers, when the leaders, followed His commands, God’s side always won.

God is not against our humanity. He doesn’t have His eyes closed to our pain and suffering. He doesn’t look askance at the darkest elements of our lifestyles. He came to save, to rescue, and He will go wherever the lost sheep are and will do whatever is required to rescue them.

Our part in it, as His children, is wide and varied. On a worldwide since, we can go and preach the gospel, lay hands on the sick and see them recover. We can pray for those who do if we are not so called. We can pray for the government leaders, for the law enforcement. On a more personal level, we can love one another, do good to our enemies and bless those who hate us.

On an individual level, we can buy the book that Christian author wrote, buy the painting done by the Spirit-led artist. We can put our action, our funds, behind them, and even if we don’t read the book or look at the artwork. Even if we dislike the songs after we bought the album, suffer no regret for our time, our money, and our effort.

For this is what Christ did for us. He came to live amongst us to give us the example we must follow. “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)


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Fade To Black
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Caia Maceo’s life changed the day Toby Kemp walked into it. He’s different from other boys, silent, secretive. But, their feelings for each other growing, she finds out there’s a reason he acts that way. He’s lived through something no teen should have to face. He’s seen hell and survived. Yet, it isn’t his vision of hell that makes her question their relationship, but an unexpected view of heaven.

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The Underground (Superhuman)
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We are to set an example for the younger generation. It wasn’t until I reached age 50 that I fully appreciated this. My daughter is an adult now, making her own choices. Something about hearing her refer to “teenagers” set this in my thinking. Wasn’t she one just the other day? Wasn’t I?

Things have changed, they say. What goes today is different than what was acceptable in your youth.

Here’s where I make an adult cliché and you groan. No, it isn’t. The Word of God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Things like honor, purity, and holiness will never go out of date. The fruit of the Spirit of God – love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control – are as viable and outside of any manmade laws as they ever were.

But it is up to “us adults” to teach the younger generation what is right and what is wrong. Even greater than that, it is up to us who have survived to teach kids who are still struggling with life’s decisions, who have been thrown in the midst of a world of chaos, a world that Jesus Christ delivered them from, that they can survive, like we did. We must show them WHO HE IS and how great and awesome He has made them to be, that they can go on to live beautiful, successful lives.

We must teach them God desires to speak with them every single day, that He is there for all their choices, no matter how hard they are. We show them in our lives how to speak right, behave right, and follow after Christ. We walk in the Spirit, we deny the lusts of the flesh, so they can see it our lives.

My greatest heroes are my parents. It took me until 50 to appreciate that, too. Without their love and care for me, without the truth of the gospel they poured into my life being forefront in my thinking, when I hit rock bottom, I would have had nothing to cling to. Let’s rise up as adults and be what they need to lean on. Let’s fully “imitate Christ.”


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.feelgoodromance.com
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He had no right to be happy with someone else, someone innocent and sweet, a woman full of love for two little girls whose parents were miles away, a woman who made his pulse race, his palms sweat. His heart longed for the dream he’d given up, the one where he held the love of his life in his arms with no other thought but her.

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Don’t dilute the gospel. Don’t water-down grace. Don’t take Christ and make Him less. Don’t take the work on the cross and carve it up to decorate your table. Don’t wash the blood away and pretend it didn’t stain. Don’t stand by the tomb and consider it “just” a pretty place for pictures.

This is the work of redemption. This is God with a plan He began thousands of years ago. This is perfect timing by the omnipotent Holy Spirit in a strategic place.

That stable wasn’t on accident. That manger wasn’t “just” there. Mary wasn’t a girl selected from a dozen others, and Joseph “just” happened to be willing to put up with her. Oh no, this was prophesied from the beginning. Back when when was not really much except two people who’d made a huge, life-changing mistake. Back before Noah. Back before Abraham.

This story is written on every, single God-inspired page. Here is the truth prepared beforehand and exercised at the exact moment when it needed to happen.

Peter was chosen in spite of being loud and angry and vocal. Matthew was chosen although he used to rip people off. And Judas, was selected knowing he would do what he did. The Messiah walked and healed and saved and revealed the kingdom of God. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, barbarian and free, male and female. All are accepted in Him.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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Play It For Me (The Italian Series)
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Niccolo seated himself, the old posture of a thousand songs fitting the cello into place. Natural, comfortable and at ease, the notes he began drew from a place deep in his soul where God had placed them, where God had saved them for here, for her, for this place, this moment in time.

They were Kati rewritten. Kati standing before him, love on her face. Kati, who understood where the music worked in him. They were the pair of them reunited, the harmony of him and her spoken without words.

They were his love for her strung on his bow for the entire room to see.

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The love of a man for a woman has been cheapened by politics, by woke culture, by religion, by the lust and pride of men. God put Adam with Eve. God said Adam needed a female lover. God created the marriage covenant. He said a man would cleave to His wife and their love would conceive children. All that the human body is and does is God's perfect design. He then sent His Son to earth and compared His love to the love of a man for His wife.

“Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives.” (Eph 5:25-28 MSG)

As big as God is, as wide, as tall, as deep as His love runs for mankind, as hungry as He was to redeem mankind, so much so that He’d die a criminal’s death, to that extent does a husband love His wife, that much does a wife adore her husband.

Men have cheapened love. They have soiled the beauty of the intimacy God created between a man and his wife, that moment when he joins with her because they must be they. Love is not God’s idea. It’s not a concept He came up with. It is WHO HE IS. He IS LOVE, the very SOURCE of it. You can dig no deeper to find it and having dug will find it pure and holy, the finest gold, able to withstand any fire or rain or storm. Because He IS it.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.feelgoodromance.com
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Tattooed
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A handsome rockstar, a lot of tattoos, a God who’s bigger than he ever knew.

All the money and fame rock drummer Holden Lang possesses cannot fix his broken heart, nor the crippling disaster his body has become. He’s washed up, through playing, and in for a long road to recovery. Charity Caswell’s appearance at the side of his hospital bed is a gift. She’s willing to marry him and take on his care, no feelings involved.

Why didn’t she believe God could mend her broken heart? Charity ran from home after her fiancé cheated on her, so striking a business deal with Holden is the best way to never hurt again. She’ll pose as his wife and save his reputation. He’ll get the physical help he needs.

Except the God she serves has bigger plans for both of them, and a startling pathway to get there. If they’ll open their eyes, step out in faith, and believe.

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I've had the occasion recently to doubt God’s desire to heal. Maybe I’m meant to endure this. Maybe I’ll learn something from it. For one moment in time, deceived by the enemy, I thought God was just being God, and it was good for me.

NOTHING IS FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

Time and time again, across the gospels, Jesus healed the sick. No sickness or disease, no illness or incapacity was exempted from His healing work. He healed all ages, the young and the old. He healed all cultures. Multitudes crowded around Him, seeking to touch the hem of His garment, and the Scripture says He healed them all. (Lk 6:19) Only when people doubted His willingness to heal was He prevented from doing a miracle. (Mk 6:5)

Jesus came to “destroy the works of the devil” (1Jn 3:8) He has provided abundant life to all who will believe. Though it may look like nothing has changed, though my doubts may spin within, with the stripes laid on His back, Jesus proved Himself as my Healer for all time. Each drop of blood He shed matters. With His death, He bore my griefs and carried our sorrows. (Is 53:5) With His Resurrection, He became complete salvation.

Today and always, Jesus is my Healer.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.feelgoodromance.com
www.suzannedwilliams.com

Graverobber (The Resurrectionists)
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He’d raised the dead, Lazarus-style. Josiah Crews set aside his calling when his wife died. Consumed by grief, he buried his commitment to God and any thought of the lives he might save, determined to live a mundane existence. But when the death of a man in an alley brings the power of God onto the scene, a ripple of unusual events launches him back into service.

Veronica Murray moved to a tiny apartment in the city following a troubling divorce, but her teenage daughter’s behavior combined with their low income has made her life unhappy and stressful. When her neighbor reprimands her daughter, following a particularly bad outing, a friendship forms. Except nothing is what it seems, not why people are dying, nor his reaction to it. Nor how it affects their possible future.

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Unbeaten

We’re not meant to match, to blend in. God didn’t dress us in camouflage and say, “Assimilate.” In fact, His instructions were specific. We’re called “peculiar”. We’re told not to “conform”, but to stand out.

We’re outcasts, outsiders who believe in a world we cannot see. In forces held in the heavens by a Being others deny exists.

We’re fluorescent pink in a sea of beige. A red flower growing in a bed of yellow.

We’re the voice crying out in the wilderness of darkened minds and shaking heads. Of hatred. "Make way for the Lord." (Mt 3:3; Jn 1:23)

We hold our light high for the world to see, while they try with clawing fingers to snuff it out. They’ll fail. And fall. Because our light comes from a Source that no man can reach on his own.

There’s only one way to it, one skinny path, leading through a field of thorns to the foot of a cross, bathed in the blood of a Man who died as a criminal to defeat the greatest power of all – death. And unseen from the people of His day, from the priests and populace who condemned Him, He defeated it and rose triumphant.

A Man like no other, who followed no one, but drew everyone and loved anyone. Including those who hung him there.

“Go and do likewise.” (Lk 10:37)

Be distinct. Be definite. Leave no one guessing Whose you are but stand in the center of an earth in conflict and dare to trust that the target on your back is, in fact, a shield powered by the greatest Source of all. Impermeable. Impenetrable. Unbeaten.


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My Mother, My Brother, and I

Use the good china.

I have nothing against paper plates and plastic forks … Oh wait, yes, I do. My mother never uses them. If she invites you over for hamburgers, she uses porcelain plates, silverware, and stemmed glasses. The food is always served in decorative bowls. She has cabinets full of them in every size and for every reason from pickle dishes to large glass trays.

Guests are worth the time for you to wash things afterward, and they’re happier because you’ve made the effort.

Buy gifts. And don’t be cheap.

She has a card for everything, keeps a cabinet full of them. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays where it’s required, she will send you one. She has a running account at the florist where they know her by name. Generosity is part of her nature, and if, for some reason, she’s roped into spending more than she has planned, she never complains. Giving is important and the heart behind it of the most value.

People are wrong.

When I was girl, I’d come home, quoting things I’d heard at school, and she’d look me in the eye and say, “They’re wrong.”

That mentality solved so many situations in my life. Because, the fact is, a lot of people nowadays are just plain wrong. Not everything goes. The rules are there for a reason and not meant to be broken or changed. Rules make you a better person, a freer one.

At the same time, she always says:

It’s okay to be different.

Her saying was, “If it’s immoral or illegal,” don’t do it.

This means, I can hate watermelon and refuse to drink coffee. Neither one are illegal or immoral. I can prefer to stay home and refuse to leave home after dark. Conversely, you can sleep in and stay out late and eat all the melons you desire.

It’s okay to be unique and bad to condemn others for things that aren’t against God’s Word.

Be thankful for everything, no matter how small.

Even if you hate it. She’s eaten more meals she didn’t like (Fish!) and not said a word crosswise. She prepares dishes for her guests that she won’t eat.

She writes thank you cards for gifts she’s given and reciprocates in kind. Being thankful is an important part of being a good guest and a good person. Always appreciate other people’s efforts. This seed of kindness will multiply back to you one hundred fold.

Lower your voice.

Use your inside voice. There’s no need to yell. In fact, though I fail at this one regularly, she doesn’t raise her voice ever. I can’t recall hearing her shout, unless she was calling my dad in from his woodworking shop.

Politeness is cool.

Say please and thank you and excuse me. Don’t blow your nose at the dining room table. Clean up after yourself in the kitchen or the bathroom. If you are renting a room on vacation or staying with friends, always leave the place better than it was when you arrived.

The biggest key to politeness is to always consider the other person first.

Refuse to take offense and be sure to walk in forgiveness. Hate and anger only lead to bitterness, and bitterness will cancel out your faith.

Apologize even if it isn’t your fault.

It is most important to walk in peace. The Bible says to “seek peace” to “pursue it”. That means, even when you know the other person was in error. If your refusal to say “I’m sorry” fosters strife, then it is your job to apologize and correct it. (Ps 34:14)

Keep your word.

Sometimes this means not making promises in the first place. Other times, it means doing things you’ve changed your mind about, but an honorable person will “swear to their own hurt” and follow through. (Ps 15:4)

Most of all:

Stand up for what you believe.

Never compromise to fit in, and always tell the truth. Lying will get you nowhere. And God is able and willing to take care of you in the first place. Nothing in this world is worth turning aside from your faith.

Book 3 – MOMMY WEARS A GREEN T-SHIRT
Coralee Avery is having a baby, but the thought scares her to death. If not for Roman, her adoring husband, she’d fall apart.

Yet as time goes by and their future together becomes more real, the dynamic changes, and it could be that she’s the stronger one and he needs her more than she ever thought possible.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.feelgoodromance.com
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