The world can wait

  Without a song. Still reeling from the loss of her husband, young widow Roni Marsden resolves to be strong for her precocious daughter. Invited to stay on the cleansing hills of her friend’s ranch in Nebraska, she tries to figure out the next step. Should she leave Norfolk? Could she find work if she did? Country songwriter Dawson Bennett returns home to the quiet of his brother’s ranch when the production company for his first album goes bust. He searches his heart for new songs, but finds himself unable to write. Even as he seeks direction for his career, he attempts to mend the past with his elderly father. Back in high school, Dawson had crushed on the lovely Roni when she dated his brother. Those emotions are reawakened when he discovers Roni and her daughter also taking emotional shelter at the ranch. Protective feelings for the child, as well as for a stray pup that arrives on the scene, work together to soften his bitterness. Will these connections enable him to write lyr...

 This set of non fiction books from author LoRee Peery are a blessing in every sense of the word. She has penned four volumes, two of which published this month with two coming in June. Shelter in the Night                            May 10 Seeking shelter from pain in the night prompts worship through verse in modern-day psalms. Blurb: Do you ever awaken in the middle of the night, beset by thoughts of the worries of the day? Do you ever awaken with the feeling that God wants you to pray for someone or some thing? Do you pray, flounder in your prayer or immediately fall back to sleep? Through the verses of Shelter in the Night, volume 1 in the Worship through Verse devotionals, the author pours out sorrows and joys much like the Old Testament psalmists. Whether you need shelter or reassurance, this collection can bring peace, hope and solace. ...

  blurb: Pepper Rainwater is thriving in newfound faith, blooming love, and her own Christmas house. But the appearance of her mother brings back all the ugliness of growing up in a storage unit. Can she face family issues from a new perspective and forgive her parents for the past? The discovery of Foxx Haven' s true beginnings shatter his sense of security. For the first time, he questions his father' s love and deals with getting to know his birth mother. Did God really plan this mess for his life? He' s such a wreck inside, how can he be the man of faith Pepper deserves? Their mothers bring challenges and time constraints on Pepper and Foxx. He longs to show his love, she yearns to bask in his attention. How will they help their widowed mothers, make life easier for one another, heal appropriately, and look toward a brighter future? excerpt: Pepper sighed. She’d never been so calm or at peace in her life. And it was hard to put that into a clear thought. Maybe the sense...

  inspiration behind the book  For ten years, each time I skimmed through my ideas file, I’d hesitate at a saved article. The tale is a survivor’s story of how a woman and her four siblings lived in a ten-by-twenty-foot storage unit. The woman’s courage and determination to overcome haunted me. I don’t know how she managed without the Lord’s guidance, except that God obviously looked out for her. She came to life as Pepper, who meets our Lord and the love of her life in  Christmas House .     Pepper Rainwater has just bought the first real home she' s ever had, and she' s decorating and celebrating Christmas with everything she has. The neighbor' s miniature donkeys and meeting Foxx interrupt her life. Can she turn from all she' d been taught and trust strangers? A startling discovery after his father' s death forces Foxx Haven to face an unknown past. His life has been a lie. He' s distra cted from work for the first time— by his heritage and his new neighbor...