Kirjahaku

Caron Taylor, Teresa Sanders, and Pamela Jefferson are three women looking forward to celebrating the upcoming holiday season with their family and friends. After becoming engaged to the love of her life, Caron finds out she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The first person she confides in is her fianc e' Michael. He is stunned by the news and suddenly drops out of sight.Teresa is a pediatric nurse who considers all of the children in her ward as her very own. She is also a twenty year cancer survivor who has never shared her diagnosis with anyone. After her marriage fell apart she chose to have the surgery alone and never speak about it with another living soul until fate and circumstance force her to open up her secret box.Pamela Jefferson has just completed radiation and chemotherapy following her diagnosis. Although she lost both breasts to the disease she is not letting a little thing like a double mastectomy slow her down or steal her joy.These three women, like so many, are fighting breast cancer and its lasting effects bring them all together this holiday season to celebrate.

It s the middle of August in the country town of Barbour, South Carolina. The insects are swarming in the sweltering sun as the heat index and humidity reach a record high. However, the hottest thing in Barbour has nothing to do with the weather. It s the impending arrival of the descendants of Herschel and Mamie Anderson for their family reunion. Yvonne Anderson Allen will be returning home for the first time in years. She met her husband, Jimmy, a naval seaman, through an online dating service. The night she told him she was being released from her job as a cook at the state penitentiary, he sent her a plane ticket and they eloped to Las Vegas. Four years later, she is wrestling with God s nudging her to finally tell her husband that the reason she lost her job was because she was ending a ten-year stretch as an inmate. Communicating with her cousin via letters while she was in jail was the catalyst that led Tanya Anderson to enter the police academy. One night she happened upon a woman being beaten, Yvonne yelled for the perpetrator to stop, but he pointed a gun at her. She fired once, killing him. It was the right thing to do; she followed proper procedure, and there was no way she could have known he was only fifteen years old. God has forgiven her, but can He help her find the way to forgive herself? Violet Anderson Green has always been the butt of jokes regarding the colors in her given name, which is Violet Indigo. Now she s married to a man named Hunter Green. She married a man who loves her dearly . . . who just happens to be white. She wonders if her family will see him for the good Christian man he is. Alexandria Anderson Ponds married the perfect man and had two beautifully perfect children. Still, her hair is falling out and her skin is covered with marks from her constant scratching. Her life seems perfect to others, but God knows the truth behind her misery."

Semaj Matthews is a private detective whose life revolves around helping people locate their lost loved ones. The one person he's been unsuccessful in finding is his own birth father, but the reason is that he never wanted to find him. He often tells himself that he doesn't care. He's become a successful man in spite of the fact that his only male role models were the great dads he watched on television each week. In the midst of planning his wedding to the love of his life, Semaj receives an anonymous tip that turns everything he's ever believed upside down. The caller tells him the name of his father, and he's shocked to learn that it's a man he's admired his entire life--America's favorite TV Dad, Wayne James. Frustrated, Semaj lashes out at the world and finds himself on the wrong side of the law, where only the Heavenly Father can save him and his earthly father.

Grammy award winning gospel singer and Christian actress Sharmaine Cleveland has been arrested and charged with the attempted murder of her husband, Leon. This follows on the heels of another scandal involving sex tapes that have been distributed to news stations across the country. Allegedly, the woman in the tapes is Sharmaine Cleveland. Her latest CD release is a flop, while her newest movie release has been placed on hold indefinitely. Believing she wants him dead, her husband Leon abandons her, and her mother-in-law forcibly takes her children. Sharmaine's life is sinking fast. Will she go under, or will God be able to pick her up and put the pieces back together?