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Reprinted as "Crying For A Vision", B. Kay Barrett By the age of sixteen, Brenda Barrett realizes the answers offered by traditional orthodox religion don't satisfy the burning questions deep within her. Obsessed with questions about the nature of truth, existence, heaven, hell, and the purpose of her life, Barrett launches herself on a journey of exploration through multiple faith and spiritual practices. Grappling with issues of grief, abandonment, depression, and fear, Barrett turns to the Jehovah's Witness tradition to soothe her soul. Instead of finding solace, Barrett is kicked out from the fellowship and forced to look beyond for answers. As her search takes her further into the heart of life's universal questions-and farther from home-Barrett comes to understand the best source of meaning and hope for her life comes from the most surprising and yet obvious place: inside herself. An inspiring tale of one woman's quest to better understand herself and her destiny, "Crazy Old Lady" offers hope and solidarity to others searching for their spiritual home in a chaotic and confusing world.Reprinted as "Crying For A Vision", B. Kay Barrett

If you could live your life over would you do it?Addison Porter would probably answer no, though she had a slew of regrets starting with her twenty-year affair with Randy. However, on returning to Jamaica on the eve of her fortieth birthday she found out that she was a resetter--one of a special group of persons who can go back in time. Every resetter needed a pathway to connect them to the past and one of the pathways was at her old place.So what's a girl to do? Her cousin, Sky, left a note saying she needed to be rescued from something in the summer of '92. That was also the summer that her brother Josh met and fell in love with Ellie, the woman who broke his heart and derailed his life. It was the summer her uncle met an untimely death. It was also the summer she met Randy There were so many things she could fix A summer do-over was just what she and her family needed... but going back was one thing, changing events was another...

The Wiley family was unconventional. Joseph Wiley married Jennifer because he needed money and he kept his girlfriend Hannah because of love. And in the interim three boys were born to his wife and three to his mistress.Six sons later, Joseph was realizing that his family life was too complicated; he needed a simpler solution for his sanity.Jennifer Wiley wanted her husband for herself; she despised his other family with a passion. She even forbid her sons to interact with Hannah's sons even though they lived just a stone throw from each other. There would be no playing happy families, not on her watch. Joseph Wiley was hers and hers alone... And then one day, their lives as they knew it was torn apart and the Wiley brothers had to come together and had to learn to live together despite their past, despite the hate, despite the grief.

After time traveling to the past Addi had her new life all planned out and it did not include Randy Vassell. She was determined not to make the same mistake she made with him before. After all, he was the man that she had wasted twenty years of her life with in the previous timeline. However, life did not always go the way that is planned and 2002 found Addi in a very bad situation. When her only option was to go back home and lay low for a while, she contemplated working for Randy, who was newly engaged to be married. And that was when she realized that what she had for Randy would always be there. Would she blow her second chance with him, or would they finally have a happily ever after?

You can only live once, right? That is what Travis Jefferson believed. He had a past with many mishaps and an accident that left him crippled, but he was in no doubt that one could not just reset their lives. And that is why, when his attractive neighbor and student, Skyler Porter, told him he was a resetter, he was doubtful that she was sane. Even though Skyler and her family seemed to believe this myth and had their own resetter, he was not buying it. It would take something catastrophic in his life to make him contemplate going back in time...

Five years ago Guy Wiley decided to help Lucia's family anonymously by setting up a charity called the Farm Help Society. It was a brilliant idea. He got to save the girl he loved from a life of poverty, all while masquerading as a poor farmer. He wanted her to choose him for who he was and not his wealth.The plan would have worked flawlessly, except that Ace Jackson was also interested in Lucia. Ace was serious competition. He was a handsome doctor who liked Lucia and was not going to let Farmer Guy stand in the way of him having the beautiful girl of his dreams.Now, Guy was in a quandary. Should he blow his cover so that he could level the playing field, or should he let Lucia decide who she wants to spend the rest of her life with, the poor farmer or the wealthy doctor? Who would be the perfect guy for Lucia?

Something was seriously wrong with Saint and Sandrene's marriage. She had changed, and he had no desire for her anymore. Saint was running out of theories as to what could be wrong with what he had considered a perfect marriage. He still loved Sandrene, and yet he didn't. The situation was becoming more than he could handle.And then, a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger, had him questioning everything about his marriage, and his love for his wife, and the way that he was living his life for the past four months.

Love and Romance came with Drama, and Case was having none of it.Case Wiley married Lyla Martinez to rescue her from a life of prostitution. It was with the understanding that he would eventually set her free and he would move on with his life. He hadn't seen Lyla since that fateful event seven years ago, and he was all set to annul their marriage. He even asked Fifi Daniels, the popular evangelist, to marry him.And then he saw Lyla again. His wife was all grown up and desirable, and despite his conviction that he would have nothing to do with romance, suddenly he was not so keen on setting Lyla free...

Four-hundred-meter hurdler Giselle Pryce was the overachieving triplet. The one who was on the fast track to becoming an Olympic medalist. She had so excelled in school that she got two scholarships from Ivy league schools to do medicine. Nothing could derail her... until she got pregnant.And then, her life which seemed to be going so well was suddenly derailed. What would she do and how would she handle this newest hurdle?

It was the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to compete for a position to write a television miniseries. Tiana Pryce was sure that she would be shortlisted until she found out that the show-runner for the miniseries was her former high school English teacher, James Dalton.James had been her obsession when she was his student. She had stalked and hounded him until he was fired from his job because of her inappropriate behavior.But that's all in the past, right?If she won a spot on his writing team, they would be meeting as adults. She could atone for her youthful sins against him, and he would see that she had changed for the better. After all, she was a newly engaged, mature woman, and what she felt for James in the past was a fluke or was it?

Elsa Pryce and Mason Magnus had a mutual dislike for each other, at least that is what Elsa thought. She had been cruel to him when she was a teenager and he had been just as merciless with his jibes. Unfortunately, Mason was her new boss and her brother's mortal enemy.So when her brother declared that she would have to marry Mason to get him to forget his vendetta against him, Elsa thought it was a ludicrous suggestion. There was no way Mason would consider her as a prospective wife, nor would he be putting away his grudge against her brother just for her.But why was she even entertaining the thought?

Honor thy mother...It was an open secret in his family that Dr. Ace Jackson Jr. resembled the Wileys and not his father, Ace Jackson Sr. His mother, Celia Jackson, told him to ignore the whispers and the innuendos, he was Ace Sr.'s son and not the son of their former gardener, Micky Wiley. For thirty-six years Ace Jr. managed to do just that. He ignored the speculation because he didn't want to upset the status quo. However, a part of him was curious as to what was the truth of the situation, but he would honor his mother's wishes.And then he met and developed feelings for Kiya Brady, the rumored love child of Micky Wiley, and then he realized that maybe he shouldn't be honoring his mother's wishes after all...

Second chance or a new beginning?Dr. Deuce Jackson had loved Kelsey Channer all his life, but she left him and married his former friend, Dale Julius.But now, Kelsey was back and determined to prove that she has changed for the better and that a relationship between them would last. Deuce couldn't help thinking that it may be too little too late since things were getting interesting with his text pal Dani. He had met Dani on a Christian dating site, and he genuinely thought that they had something worth exploring. He just needed to meet her face to face, and then they would take their cyber love into the real world.Except things weren't happening so smoothly. First, he lost contact with Dani, and then Kelsey stepped up her campaign to win him back.

Everything is not as it seems It was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill night in the ER for Dr. Trey Jackson, and then he saw Angel Rose again.Five years ago, things were different for Trey; he was a med student who was in love with Angel, a stripper from Jaded Nightclub. All he knew back then was that he had felt more for Angel than he had for any other woman, but then they broke up because Angel and her father, Tony, played him for a fool.And now Angel is back in his life, she and Tony are in trouble, and they want his help. Trey wanted nothing to do with whatever it is they had going on, but he would learn that everything is not as it seems.

Mysterious Grace Quade Jackson was fascinated with Grace Gail. That fascination only grew when she became his housekeeper. However, there were some things about Grace that didn't add up. She didn't want to talk about her past, and she was mostly closed mouth on her life in the cult she escaped from, the same cult that missing heiress Desiree Cordova was rumored to have stayed. It was all very mysterious, but Quade was determined to get to the bottom of everything because deep down, he knew that he and Grace had something worth exploring, and he wanted his mysterious Grace to be honest with him.

They had a deal. Derrick would marry Cindy's best friend, Nicky so that he could get a green card. It was only to be for a short while, and then Derrick would return home to Cindy, his one true love.It sounded good in theory, but plans had a way of going awry, and it took Derrick eight years to find his way home to Cindy. Would Cindy even want him back after all that had gone on before? And would Nicky allow her former friends to seek happiness together without spoiling their plans?

Nicky moved back home with her son with one goal in mind, to break up Cindy, her former best friend, and Derrick, her former husband. She did not want them to be happy together. If she can't be happy, nobody would be. And then everything unravels at a pre-wedding party, and all her long-held secrets are revealed.What's more, at the same party, she sees Orandy again, the only man whom she had ever loved. The only one who kept pushing her away. Maybe now that they were in the same vicinity, she could get some answers and clear up some past misunderstandings between them.