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When Joan tries to tame Lorna’s penchant for gossip, it sets off a wild chain of events. Why has Dick’s burgeoning law practice suddenly come to a screeching halt? What mysterious secret causes mad gobs of cake to go flying through the air? And what price will the participants of this unholy food fight have to pay? Find out in this entertaining...

What he wanted was to be a priest. But would the calling be strong enough, so that even through tremendous adversity; his broken family, his time in Vietnam, and the pull of the South Philly mob, it would prevail? 2021 CMA Inspirational Fiction Award Winner, Cece Whittaker offers this novel of humor, intrigue, and spiritual triumph.
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Joan Foster is hopelessly in love, and after three patient years of waiting, her wedding is gloriously within sight. There will be pink and white roses, bluebells, carnations, all the beautiful flora she’s imagined for so long. Her dearest friends, Annie, Helen, Bernice, and Laureen make her beautiful veil, and make plans for a magnificent...

When Harry begins working with an old girlfriend, Helen keeps her cool. But not even Harry expects what comes next! In this cozy hybrid set in 1946, Helen, Joan, Annie, and Bernice struggle to remain close through trying times. With Bernice and Annie having moved away, Joan becomes more dependent on Dick. But what will happen when he is offered...

When a tornado hits an unsuspecting town in 1946, people’s amazing qualities rise to the surface. But some tragedies look insurmountable, leaving only wreckage & despair. If War has taught Annie, Joan, Helen, and Bernice anything, it’s that there’s always a chance that things will work out, especially if they stay hopeful and pull together....

In 1945, with Christmas just around the corner, an escaped Nazi was the last thing they expected. Yet Joan, Annie, Helen, and Bernice become engaged in the possibilities of who and where, but without the practiced logic of true detectives, which has been known to lead to embarrassing situations. And when Father Bertrand requires the assistance...

Will Bernice choose the love she has for God over the love she feels for Henry? In 1945, it’s a tough decision to make, made tougher by the marriages of her friends. Now, with Laureen expecting a baby, Bernice’s heart is deeply conflicted. Maybe, as Annie suggests, they have part-time nuns. Everything crystallizes when Gloria’s seemingly eternal...

By 1945, Annie diRosa was finally set to realize the future she had longed for; blissful union with heroic and handsome Captain Sly Bapini. While she and her three friends, Joan, Bernice, and Helen would always remain close, she chooses to symbolize their friendship in their shared creation of her wedding cake. To add to the happy occasion,...

In a small town in New Jersey in 1944, Annie is set to have that life she has dreamed of for so long. But when Sly inexplicably exits and Joanie’s fiancé doesn’t even communicate with her, the girls are immersed in a continuing mystery.

A cozy chronicle of comic mishaps and the lighter side of post-war romance, Angels in the Rough combines the...

In 1944, while waiting for the imminent arrival of her war weary fiancé Dick Thimble, Joan Foster is stricken to discover that he may not have survived. Learning nothing further, and with no recourse but to wait and pray, Joan and her friend, Annie, are distracted by the mysterious reappearance of previously pilfered Sacred artifacts. But when a...

June 1944. Joan Foster had no way of knowing when or if fate would reunite her with the maddeningly good-looking Sgt. Dick Thimble, the tall, soft spoken soldier from Washington, D.C. They’d scarcely become engaged after knowing each other only weeks, when he had been called away.

The war takes a giant step closer when all of their men are...

It was 1943 and things were heating up. Hearts broke everywhere as they prayed for the safety of their country. Friends Helen, Annie, Bernice & Joan struggled to hold onto devotion and service in a changing world. Would their loved ones survive the dark and destructive dangers of the War? When Helen’s husband Harry and Annie’s Sylvester go...