The Unexpected Gift

• Author : Michelle Bulmer Atha,Meaghan Gonzales Wagar
• Publisher : BookPros, LLC
• Release : 01 June 2009

An unlikely friendship develops between successful single mother of two Drew Robbins Warner, whose husband has left her for a younger woman, and Leah Cline, a pregnant eighteen-year-old who has no family, friends, or money.

• Author : Delores Fossen
• Publisher : Harlequin
• Release : 15 October 2018

In this classic Christmas tale from USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen, an Air Force Captain returns home…and discovers he’s now a daddy… After a yearlong deployment, Air Force Captain Gabe Brenner returns to Texas a hero. And brings with him a Christmas message to deliver to his best friend’s sister, Kelly Coburn. But seeing Kelly again brings back all the old feelings—and reminds him of the one-night stand they shared just before he left. Still,

• Author : Kate Pearce
• Publisher : Zebra Books
• Release : 27 October 2020

*Previously appeared in the anthology A Season to Celebrate From New York Times bestselling author Kate Pearce comes a tale of love and second chances that will warm your heart for the holidays . . . Widower Billy Morgan can’t help wishing his grown children still needed him. Good thing his longtime friend, Bella Williams, still does. She’s planning her son’s Christmas wedding and Billy is more than happy to help. Along the way they just might discover they have

• Author : Marcel Theroux
• Publisher : Rough Trade Books
• Release : 01 June 2020

Originally written and pressed as Christmas cards for friends and family, An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories collects and presents three funny, tender, modern tales from Marcel Theroux. A hard-pressed barber gets an angelic last-minute customer, a struggling retailer finds un-looked for freedom, and a grieving anthropologist procures a new piece for her collection. These stories are beautifully crafted and underpinned with a wit, charm and light touch that provide perfect seasonal reading.

• Author : Lily Zante
• Publisher : Lily Zante
• Release : 20 May 2022

Having walked away from a miserable relationship with her abusive boyfriend, Caitlin Quinn finally gets her life back together. But everything changes when she is suddenly and brutally attacked on her way home after a Christmas party. Terrorized and frightened for her life she is rescued by a handsome stranger who hears her screams. Thrown together under the most horrific of circumstances, Caitlin and her rescuer must learn to deal with the effects of the attack as well as their

• Author : Berna King
• Publisher : WestBow Press
• Release : 02 May 2013

The Unexpected Gift tells the story of two families whose lives are shattered by two tragic events occurring within a few months of each other. Despite his shaken faith, Dr. Scott Benson, local veterinarian, strives to guide his daughter Rachel in her adjustment to blindness and short-term memory loss resulting from an auto accident that kills her mother. Shannon Martin, who now volunteers at a local therapeutic riding center, struggles with learning to trust again after the suicidal death of

• Author : Krista Grayce
• Publisher : Krista Fenstad
• Release : 30 November 2019

Janie Nolan’s future had never been more uncertain, she was just learning to live with the loss of her mother from cancer, she suddenly finds herself jobless after an unexpected diagnosis with autism at the age of fifty-five. The thought of moving back to her childhood home in the idyllic town of Cape May, New Jersey to assess her future is a daunting proposal. It is in that sleepy shore town that she must reconnect with her abusive father....

• Author : Katherine Grey
• Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
• Release : 01 February 2013

Known only as Lazarus to the band of cutthroats and thieves he leads, William Prescott will do anything to find his missing sister, even blackmail a fragile young woman into helping him. But he never plans to fall in love with this mysterious woman with a troubled past. Haunted by the memories of war, Olivia St. Germaine wants nothing more than to live a normal life. But when her brother, a doctor, suddenly leaves town without a word, she is

• Author : Dr. J. Patrick Daugherty
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 01 February 2010

Cancer: The Unexpected Gift is a compilation of stories that profile individuals and families who have taken a frightening medical diagnosis and turned it into a positive gift. Medical oncologist Dr. J. Patrick Daugherty is familiar with many who are living well while living longer. Together with three-time cancer survivor Edie Hand, they share inspiring personal anecdotes from individuals who openly express the doubts, fears, perplexities, and positive reflections they experienced after their cancer diagnoses. Each story is introduced with

• Author : Danny Martel
• Publisher : FriesenPress
• Release : 18 November 2021

Meet the Becker Street Pack: Pete, Paul, Chad, and Razor, four friends united for life. Seeking a little fun on the night they graduate from high school, the boys find themselves hired by the most powerful mobster in town, a dangerous man known as the Shiv. What starts out as a glamorous, lucrative lifestyle begins to fray the Pack’s friendship over the years. As Pete tries to keep his head down as the gang’s “accountant,” Razor is tasked

• Author : Irene Hannon
• Publisher : Steeple Hill
• Release : 21 February 2011

When city girl Morgan Williams arrived in Seaside, Maine, on Christmas Eve, to claim the cottage she'd inherited, she came face-to-face with the handsomest man she'd ever seen. But looks weren't the only thing that Grant Kincaid had to offer. And when he enlisted Morgan's help to raise money for Good Shepherd Camp for troubled kids, she realized there were more important things in life than expensive cars and fancy clothes. Soon Morgan was yearning for a different life...one

• Author : Jack Hamilton,Elisabeth Seaman,Sharlene Gee
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 14 September 2017

ConflictThe Unexpected Gift Conflict between people can be defined as a difference that causes disagreements. Authors Jack Hamilton and Elisabeth Seaman go to the root of what causes conflict and how to rebuild relationships. Interpersonal conflicts permeate our lives. Sometimes we believe that another person treated us unfairly, and that assumption causes us to become angry at the person. Such conflicts in relationships often are intensified because of old patterns of thinking and behavior that have gotten out of hand.

• Author : Fergus Cayr
• Publisher : WestBow Press
• Release : 08 January 2016

As we go through life, we meet, work, socialize, or attend meetings and religious services with people who we only know casually. But there is a story that could be told about each of them. Here is one of those people. Her hidden life will take your breath away if you really get to know her. She is more than just an ordinary acquaintance. There is a depth to her that only the most intimate associates know. Here is your

• Author : S.E. Smith
• Publisher : Montana Publishing
• Release : 24 March 2020

Madas’s Unexpected Gift Can a small reptile from another world save the Princess he has adopted? L’eon, a Chameleon Lightning Lizard, awakens to find that his planet was destroyed by an unidentified force. Trapped in an iron-ore prison hurtling through space, he is lost and alone until an unfamiliar planet’s gravitational pull draws him to its surface — and he is freed by an enchanting alien who he quickly adopts. When a meteorite falls from the sky, Princess

• Author : Anna Lockhart
• Publisher : Daisy Chain
• Release : 20 May 2022

Can an unexpected arrival at Pemberley help two lonely hearts find the love for which they have been searching? Fitzwilliam Darcy has begun to feel the unhappiness that comes with running a grand estate like Pemberley without a wife by his side. As happy as he is for his dear friend Charles Bingley, he can not help but be jealous of his marriage, and the contentedness that Bingley's new bride brings him. Yet all of that falls away when Darcy