Jacqueline DeGroot

The Beach Boys of Sunset Beach-ten men who graduated from Stanford together go on to become successful in their vastly different fields while remaining good friends as they take on life's challenges. Five years earlier, they pooled their money and bought a beachfront lot on Sunset Beach and built a magnificent beach house. Once a year in July, they come to the beach house for a two-week reunion with their former dorm mates, who now live all over the world. This particular summer, there is an undercurrent of restlessness though. Are they ready to find that special someone who will share a future they can build on, and a love that consumes them? During two magical weeks at the beach house, Cupid steps in to bring each man his soul mate, and in ways both comical and anguished leads them all on the path to true and lasting happiness.One of the main stories in this book is based on a K.S. journal entry. The story touched me so much, I had to write it and give it a happy ending.A Kindred Spirit Legacy Book by Jacqueline DeGroot

Imagine you're looking for your wife. You've been gone for over a year, not quite two. You were shipwrecked and given up for lost at sea. You've been walking all over the English coastline trying to find her, showing her picture to everyone you see. When finally, weeks into your search, an old woman hobbling about on a cane, points up a hill. And you traipse up a winding road with renewed vigor and an eager step into an orchard in full bloom. Imagine discovering a woman lying atop a man, both asleep as if recently replete from a satisfying tryst, you smile--it's a tender scene. Imagine the woman turns her blonde head that's been resting on the man's chest, and she sighs. It's a familiar sound. A lock of her hair lifts in the breeze revealing her obscured face and you realize that woman is your wife. Imagine that after pulling her off him and having a raucous brawl with the partly naked man, his progeny making part swinging in the breeze, you learn he is her new husband. Imagine what goes through your mind when you learn that she was hired to nurse his newborn son after having lost yours. Well, one would imagine that you would have a lot of questions that needed to be answered. Find out what happens when Thomas returns as a wealthy ship captain and Catherine has to decide her future. What about the earl who loves her, as he's never loved another woman? And the child she's been nursing since the day he was born? With her marriage to the earl, she became his mother, how can she leave him? Yes, imagine the brouhaha that is in the making, the storm that is rising on the horizon. The old woman, trembling at the bottom of the hill knows their secret and can only begin to imagine Catherine's dilemma.

Talk about an identity crisis I have changed my name from Debbie, to Carrie, to Jenny, all in an effort to keep my husband from finding me. But I keep running, and lately all I'm doing is running into trouble. In Oregon I discover that my neighbors are doing something despicable inside their mega-yacht RV, and then I meet a soldier returning from Iraq who's trying to find the girl he fell in love with, yet all he has to go on is a picture of her with a snowman. In California my neighbors have a very unique family arrangement--one wife, two husbands. Later, I manage to get myself and my new pet lizard stranded in Death Valley. I'm baking in my RV, which has become an oven, when I'm rescued by a cowboy in a limousine and am whisked away to his luxury resort. Meanwhile, Brick, my boy toy (even though we have never really "toyed"), continuously turns up at the wrong time when things are not as they seem. I say boy toy, because I am definitely not ready to have a "boyfriend" yet. Especially as no matter what I do, I cannot seem to keep my jealous husband from finding me. Stupidly, I walk right into his trap and the nightmares I've been having become my reality. Brick's a federal agent, and busy trying to catch predators and child molesters, including the one who took his sister four years earlier, but I know without a doubt that he'll rescue me. I may drive him crazy, but I know that he loves me, and that he'll find me before it's too late.

Shipwrecked is a story of love so strong it survives time and treachery. It is a story of forensic discovery rich with southern history. A Confederate soldier's body is discovered under the remains of a buried Civil War ship. The wreck, uncovered in the aftermath of a hurricane on the North Carolina coast, holds secrets that will change lives. A reluctant pathologist, Dr. Ben Kenyon, is sent to identify the body and tie up the loose ends for the state. One of those "loose ends" turns out to be Shelby Laine, an inspector for the Division of Coastal Area Management. She is a willful woman, passionate in more ways than one in her dedication to preserving the history and coastal environment of the South. Ben and Shelby work together to unravel the poignant story of a plantation owner's son and the slave woman he loved. They also find a deep attraction to each other. The history of a beautiful southern plantation is changed forever by their discovery of passion, desire, and love.