Wooffer's Stories

Katy Breyer lives with her father in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Her young life is happy and secure until her estranged mother takes custody of her and moves her to a city hundreds of miles away. For five years she endures the neglect of her mother and the indifference of her stepfather. Her only happiness is found in the care and friendship she receives from the servants who work in her stepfather's mansion. After a tragic accident claims the life of her mother and stepfather, she is reunited with her uncle who takes her to live with him and his family in the mountains. She finally has the home and family she longs for but the unexpected friendship of a Maidu Indian boy tests her faith in God and forces her to make a decision that will change her life forever.

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Abandoned by her parents and placed in a Catholic boarding school at age five, Janet Selmann is forced to confront cruelty, rejection, and hostility. Unanswered questions and confusion about her past are a source of constant anxiety. Ten years later, and after the death of her mother, Janet’s father feels compelled to bring her home. Home and family are foreign to her. Her father’s new love, Annie, befriends Janet and shares many secrets of Janet’s past. Annie’s brother, Seymour, and Janet fall in love. Friendship and love are lost when a tragic accident takes Seymour’s life. Faced with loss and grief, Janet must try to rebuild her life once again. From 1940 to 1992, from Montreal to Los Angeles, Janet continues to search for the truth. Painful memories and many setbacks hinder her search. She struggles to find closure to her past so she may find happiness in the present.

    

You will be involved immediately  from the first page  by a mystery, romance, and thought provoking questions  and discussions about contemporary lives. Marion Selmann has just graduated from McGill University, as a Doctor of psychology. She now faces major decisions. To live in Montreal the city she loves or Los Angeles  and close to her mother and where she grew up. An unexpected proposal of marriage further complicates her life, along with a passionate love affair.  Marion has also made a shocking discovery of just who her father is. She must now  reconcile her life in spite of lies, and betrayals,  from those she thought had loved her the most, and accept a past that was not as it seemed. She struggles with her determination to help her patients, while at the same time she must  try to balance her own needs with those of her  loved ones. From the first page to the end you will be intrigued by Marion and all of the people whom her life touches, and then for those whose lives  are forever changed. 

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A collection of poems by Anne Lebrecht.

 

The feelings and thoughts of this author from 1970 to the present. Explore the author's feelings, as you read this beautiful collection of poems.

 

Presented in categories of Friends and Relatives. Love, Passion and Losses. Reflections. Children. Grandchildren. Old Age. Our Country. Faith. Nature. Life in a New Age. The Future.

 

With the dates, the poem was written, listed at the bottom of each page.

        

Once strangers, the three sisters, Sylvia, Alice, and Monica find themselves bound by one single event. They share in their mothers name, Nora Crawford and in her death. Raised in different homes under foster care, they now meet eighteen years later. Their lives are forever changed.

 United in a search for their father, clothed in mystery, they bond in a relationship shared by ambitions for power, love, and of secret confessions, as each pursue happiness, love and closure to their past. Each of the sisters has a story to tell, and a past to forget.  Each has faced their lives with a different outlook and searches in their own way for peace of mind.           

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The Door to a Man’s Heart” is the true story of how two teenagers, Warren Rogers and Betty Yule, meet and fall in love during the 1930's while camping in Door County, Wisconsin, and the pact that keeps their summer romance alive for over sixty years! 

Before he meets Betty, Warren's life is not a happy one. In 1921, two-year-old Warren’s mother dies, and he is sent to live with his five wealthy aunts, all school teachers, who lavish him with love, attention and a life of luxury. Just before the Great Depression of 1929 descends, little Warren’s life takes a shockingly depressing turn of its own, as he is wrenched away from his aunts, and forced to live with his father in the back of a dingy carpentry shop in downtown Chicago. Seven bleak and lonely years later, a startling suggestion by his father changes fourteen-year-old Warren’s life forever: “Son, how would you like to go camping?” 

So begins an exciting adventure that leads Warren to discover the three great loves of his life, his future wife Betty, her amazingly wonderful family, and a paradise called Door County. The innocent freshness of first love flowers in the pristine beauty of Peninsula State Park, and opens the door to this young man’s heart. 

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Scorned by her zealot mother after being raped by a cult leader who calls himself The Shepherd, eighteen-year-old Angel knows that her only hope of survival is escape. On a rainy September night, she flees her mother’s home, unaware of the supernatural forces that silently guide her on her journey to Littlebrook, a poor mountain village where nothing ever changes and nothing is as innocent as it seems. Alone and afraid, Angel finds an ally in thirty-six-year-old Don Hanson, the gentle doctor with a haunted past. Angel’s resemblance to Mary, the dead wife of Don’s youth, is the eerie magnet that draws him to her, stirring his shattered heart to love again. But for Don and Angel, love comes at a high price, as Angel’s mysterious appearance creates a tempest in Littlebrook, awakening ghosts from the past, and striking vengeance in the dark heart of an enemy Angel didn’t know she had.

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Mitch wanted to take her in his arms to ease the pain she was feeling. “I could kill those guys for what they’ve done to you,” Mitch stated calmly, not letting the turmoil he felt show. “Just remember that you haven’t died. You still have your whole life ahead of you.” He went to her and pulled her into his arms, holding her close. They stood together, as he gave her strength and courage to face anything that came her way.

Shawna Thomas is a computer prodigy. She knows company secrets are being stolen, but doesn’t have the proof she needs to stop it. The security program she wrote does more than anyone expected it to do. She finds herself in a web of dangerous circumstances. Confident in her job, but shy and unsure of the man she loves, she finds herself facing her biggest fears professionally and personally in My Charming Protector.

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Inspired by actual events, this story centers on two families: one, a family of sharecroppers who had nothing but an old car and the clothes on their backs; the other, a family of farmers in rural West Tennessee. Their lives changed forever, as they came together out of compelling needs. They became companions for life and dreams, through death and sorrow. Go back with me to the 1960's, where life had innocence and honor.

Historical fiction about a staunch Southern family facing the harsh life of a new frontier in the time before, during, and after the War between the States

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Alison is living the perfect life. She has a handsome, wealthy husband, a gorgeous house in the L.A. hills, teaches fifth grade—just for fun—and she is still young and beautiful, with an active social life. Alison is the envy of all her friends. But, beneath the surface, Alison’s husband, Eric, is an abusive monster. Able to take no more, Alison flees her “perfect life” with only her clothes, her car and two cats. On a mad dash across the country, she lands in Grabill, a backwoods Ohio town with seemingly little to offer an L.A. sophisticate. But if anyone knows that appearances are deceiving, Alison does. So, she takes her chances on Grabill and, eventually, mechanic Tyler Coffey, embarking on a journey of a whole other kind. Alison’s Journey is the touching story of a woman who finds that, rather than having run away, she has come home. Debut author Amey S. Tippett takes readers on a sweetly emotional journey as Alison rediscovers herself and her ability to trust, and finds out what love really is.

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Laine Marshall is returning home after 11 years. Returning to the town she swore she would never grace again. A chance meeting with her high school sweetheart, Josh Harding, rekindles the passion that they once shared. Laine's heart soars as they plan to open an inn and build a life together raising Josh's five year old daughter. The only thing standing in their way is Josh's ex-wife April, whose cruel plan is to show Laine and Josh that they can never be happy together...no matter what she has to do.

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James, a handsome man, has just turned forty and has everything people could dream of—a brand new car, his own house, loyal friends and a successful business, but there’s a sadness about him that people occasionally glimpse but don’t understand.

In a series of flashbacks going back some twenty years, James and Elaine meet and fall in love. It is a flourishing romance and everything is just perfect, until Elaine discovers she is pregnant. Within a short space of time James’ world is turned upside down. Gone are his one true love and his unborn child, Zac.

On Zac’s 18th birthday, a parcel arrives. He discovers his father, whom he had believed to be dead, is alive and well and, more importantly, that his mother has lied to him all these years.

Will relationships be destroyed? Why did James’ world fall apart all those years ago? What other heartbreak is Elaine hiding?

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This story takes place in Jefferson County. Laura Lee Glen has suddenly found herself alone in the world following the death of her parents. Not knowing what to do, she realizes that leaving Rochester is the best thing she could do. Answering an ad in the newspaper to rent out a cottage, Laura meets up with Stephen.

The only problem is Stephen died years ago.

Thus begins a journey that Laura never dreamed would happen to her. She now has to try to balance reality and fantasy. Is she really talking to a ghost or has she taken leave of her senses?

Travel with this troubled girl as she tries to understand herself along with the world around her. Could Laura really take her own life to be with someone who does not exist except in spirit? Has madness crept into her lonely world, creating one that does not exist?

This book takes place in Jefferson County.  Mother Nature creates a new species to protect the swamplands, which lies behind the cottages on this secluded beachfront.  Traps from poachers are filled in and sticks are found locked inside the steel jaws of others.  The desire to meet two human children takes you on an adventure of laughter and trust.  Will the Spiders defy their tribes code and stay away from the humans?  Hoppie and Shawnee have to decide between their desires and the overwhelming dream of bringing humans and their tribe together.         

Mandie and Jason have no idea what is in store for them as their summer vacation begins.  Along with the help from Erin, the Irish Setter, Crab Legs, the seagull, Hoppie and Shawnee just might decide to take the chance and meet the human children.

Or, will it be the downfall of Mother Nature’s special tribe of spiders?

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Samantha Kane felt boxed in. Her father wouldn’t talk to her and her life was going nowhere. Longing to be an actress, she fled to the Big Apple, landing the lead role in the play Here and Now. Jake Alexander’s book, #1 on The New York Times bestseller list, was going to be a play. He had everything. But he never expected to be captivated by the fiery blonde who fell into his arms. Samantha wanted to strangle the arrogant man who had saved her from being crushed by a door. His steel gray eyes made her shiver. His muscular body made her mouth dry. No. She didn’t like him at all. So why did she find his kisses hard to resist? Why did his touch make her melt? Now, Samantha is running for a different reason. Forever Yours is the first published work of Donna Laird. She lives in Arkansas with her husband. She is the mother of two grown daughters and the grandmother of three boys. If she isn’t tapping away on her computer, you can find her playing with her grandsons or reading a book.

 

After the death of her grandmother, Katrina decides to move to Denver, Colorado, in order to escape the memories of her past. Trying to settle in with a new job, Katrina wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. Her plans for the future are quickly turned upside down when Noah walks into her life. Noah can’t believe he has met the woman of his dreams. But there is no way he can let Katrina get too close. Unable to suppress the feeling of panic that overwhelms him, he runs, as he always does when things get serious, leaving Denver and Katrina for the small town of Rambling Hills, Colorado. He has no idea how much his life is about to change. When Katrina moves back to her hometown, she can’t believe that Noah is the new doctor in town. Can she forgive the man that caused her so much pain? Will she be able to realize her destiny with Noah?

 

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           Trisha Wells has had enough of her life, her job and the city she’s living in because of a hasty decision. On a rainy January morning, she’s ready to move home when she is sent on an unexpected assignment that will change her life forever.

 

            Michael Cooper’s New Years resolutions include many things. Career advancement, a healthier lifestyle and for reasons only significant to him, an improved golf game. But on a dreary day with little hope of anything good happening, those resolutions become a distant memory.

 

            When spring arrives the air is alive with the promise of new things to come. Peter Cooper is not paying attention to Mother Nature’s miracles as he looks absentmindedly at pictures from a recent family vacation, thankful he wasn’t there, until one falls in his lap. It’s too bad she belongs to another…for now.

 

            Photographs… Some you cherish, others you want to forget.

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Almost Like a Song

 

A whirlwind romance against the breathtaking backdrop of Yosemite National Park. An on-the-spot  wedding at the base of Bridalveil Fall. A young bride who awakens alone the morning after, her new husband gone with the mountain wind. For songbird Hannah Johns, these are the memories associated with her one venture into the world of love and romance. All that's left of that brief episode is her adorable three-year-old son, Davey.

 

Unwilling to bare her heart and her sorrow to her minister father's congregation when she becomes pregnant, Hannah lives in a town hundreds of miles from family and friends. She supports herself and her son by singing in an elite dinner lounge five nights a week. But then the lounge, which she dreams of someday owning, is purchased by Brock Ellis – the very man who abandoned her in their honeymoon suite.

 

The ensuing sparks fly high enough to reveal hidden secrets and forgotten pasts. Hannah returns to Yosemite in a desperate attempt to find answers and make an emotional peace with what happened to her there. When Brock follows, seeking answers of his own, Hannah finds herself in danger of losing her heart yet again to the same man who shattered it the first time around.

 

Can she bring herself to forgive such a soul-crushing offense? What possible reason could Brock have for his actions that would make her willing to try? 

Goldeneyes

Twin girls are separated as infants when an alcoholic father sells one of them for the price of a few bottles of wine. One haunted mother is tormented by guilt, and estranged from God; another's peace with her Maker is shadowed by a sin she cannot confess. Each of the babies is raised by adoring parents as an only child, unaware she has an identical twin. But a deathbed confession sends one of them in search of the other - bitter, angry and determined to right the wrongs that have shaped her life. The reunion of the twins sets off a chain of events that opens blinded eyes, mends broken hearts, and paves the way for love and forgiveness.

 Set in the scenic San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest. You see, Skye desperately wants someone to love her, but finds it almost impossible to put the events of the previous year behind her - that is, until she meets a mysterious marine biologist named Jedediah Walker.What drives computer expert Skye Dunbar to return to the scene of a disastrous relationship last year? That’s what she has to find out over the course of a 120,000-word contemporary romance, set in the scenic San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest. You see, Skye desperately wants someone to love her, but finds it almost impossible to put the events of the previous year behind her - that is, until she meets a mysterious marine biologist named Jedediah Walker.

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Corinne McCathy was young, clever, and beautiful. Born with the magical power to heal, she hid her powers from all who could use her for evil. As she ran away from an arranged marriage and a man who wanted to harm her, she found solace and protection in the arms of the most unthinkable sort, a careless and cold-hearted philanderer named Lord Chastwick.

When Lord Chastwick saw that Corinne had needed his help and protection, he offered it willingly, but he did not mean to offer her his heart. When her enemies were upon her, he saved her from them valiantly, only to find out the truth about her powers and the real reasons why her enemies were after her. Her betrayal shook the foundation of which his love was founded on, and when their happiness was to be determined by forgiveness, and when neither thought they could offer it, something happened that would change their lives forever.

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 Have you ever been to a place and felt like you've been there before?  Eryn Sterling has this happen to her.  She has no memory of her first seventeen years.  Imagine her confusion when she arrives in Enchantment, Pennsylvania only to see visions of a past time she knows nothing about.  Feel her surprise when she meets the inn's owner, only to find he has the eyes she has dreamed of for twenty years.  Follow her as, Uriah Prescot, her blond beguiler, tries to convince her she loved him twenty years ago-- twenty years plus a century! 

     Experience her doubt as she meets an old man who claims to know her future... and her past.  Walk, and sometimes run along with her, as best friends lend a shoulder, and enemies deceive and torment her.  Realize her joy when she comes to terms with it all, and sees the visions of a past time aren't just illusions, but indeed a reality.  Tremble as she trembles when she finally discovers the past love to be the only love that can ever be her forever love. 

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Aislinn Hennessy's love life was almost laughable, with a trail of disastrous relationships to show for it. She long ago gave up thinking a knight in shining armor was going to sweep her off her feet, but then she never expected to run him off the road either.

Sir Dougray Fitzpatrick, Lord of Dunhaven already buried one wife and had no wish for another, but it was foreseen that he would go to the future to seek a vision, a crucial venture to secure his future born. Only he hadn't bargained on it being a woman that would insist on battling against him at every turn.

Dougray finds that Aislinn is fearless in the face of an enemy, but shies away from what her heart holds true. Aislinn discovers that Dougray is honest and brave to a fault. He would die for her if necessary. They were thrown together by a twist of fate, a magical mist that sends them back to sixteenth century Ireland where conspiracies, feuds and unexpected violence are commonplace threats, but along the way, they discover a few surprises that neither one expects: a chance for love even when they're Lost in the Mist of Time.

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Having grown up in her sister’s shadow, Melissa Newman graduates high school and travels alone to Germany to visit family. While there, she meets Stefan Koehler and, after a whirlwind romance, they plan on marrying in two years.

     Melissa returns home to Chicago weeks later and is coerced by her family into breaking all ties with Stefan. She marries another man on the rebound and quickly realizes she is stuck in an abusive marriage until one fateful night.

      Melissa begins therapy where she comes to terms with her guilt, anger, and bitterness. She embarks on a journey of healing and self-awareness and overcomes many obstacles only to return to Germany where she encounters Stefan. Will the same magic ignite their passion once more? Will Stefan find out Melissa's secret? Will Melissa give up her new life in Chicago to be with the one man she will always love?

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            Have you every wondered what happens to coma victims?  What are they really going through.  Well DeEtta takes you on a journey while in a coma.  She goes back 1000 years before her time.   She proves, life does go on.

 When I wrote about DeEtta, I didn’t know she would be so much like me.  I gave her the life of a depressed widow.  She decides to take a trip to view the country on her Harley and gets into an accident, ending up in a coma.  I have always believed that if that ever happened to me, I couldn’t see myself just lying there.  So DeEtta wakes up 1000 years before her time.  Now here is a woman who has amnesia and has no idea why she does and says the things she does, as neither do the people around her.  But DeEtta is the type that figures, “Oh well, it could be worse”.  Until she meets Dradd and runs up against a strong force  and has to make the decision on where to die, before she can live.

I wrote about my fantasy dream man, (Dradd a Viking warrior) .   Who has long blond hair, goatee and a body to die for, or at least get your hands on.    He is a strong willed man, yet someone who is craving love, but doesn’t understand the word yet.  A man with a great sense of humor, but keeps it buried deep within.   Until he meets a strange woman like DeEtta, who shows him that life isn’t always a straight line.  Someone to bring a smile to his beautiful eyes.  And keep it there. 

 Poor Dradd, the things he has to put up with when he meets his match in  DeEtta.  From her strange dress and speech, to her strong sense of determination and loyalty.  And DeEtta, he has her whipped and even locked in the tower.  And she has to even put up with the evil Douglas and Ann.  She is labeled a witch, but yet she still comes back fighting.  But like Hormtiz (the rune master)says, “when you have two strong forces, there will be thunder, and lightening is sure to strike.”

     You will laugh , you will  cry, and you will wonder.  Will she go back to her family in 1997 or will she stay with Dradd in 997?  You will meet the mysterious child Megan.   You will hear about another love, Olaf and Mirl.  Then there are vicious Ann and Douglas, brother and sister.

This book is for mature readers.

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Abandoned Love

"She's my mommy! Mine! You don't have a mommy!" Delila Love was cruelly told when she was only four. After that bombshell, she lived in numerous foster homes where she never felt loved or wanted. Starving for love and affection, she began to believe in someone who kept professing his love to her daily, and the results almost ended up costing her, her life, leaving her devastated and more insecure than ever.

As a dedicated nurse, Delila never socialized or dated anyone. However, through pleading and coaxing by her only friend and roommate, Janet Green, she did agree to attend a party with her. Grant Sanders was instantly enchanted by Delila's beauty. He thought that she was magnetic. She looked like an angel with her long wavy blonde hair, and she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. He just couldn't take his eyes off her! In one glance, Grant's beautiful big brown eyes captivated Delila.

Realizing how head over heels in love she was with Grant, her insecurities emerged. How long before he'd betray her?

 

Love of a Lifetime

Rita Sterling, at the age of twenty-seven, was about to make the biggest mistake of her life, hoping to find the kind of love her parents shared until her mother was tragically taken away from them. She was about to settle for a man she thought she loved, searching for that special love.

Rita was pure and innocent in every sense of the word, but that was about to change!

The night of her engagement party as she started descending the stairs, her eyes locked on a handsome stranger. He was staring at her, but she was magnetically staring right back! Those blue eyes of his were electrifying!

He advanced closer to the stairs, drawn to the vision of perfection that had almost reached the last step. He extended his hand, reaching for hers. "Forgive me for staring. I have never seen such a beauty before me!" His voice came out coarse and dry. "I am Vittorio delle Rose."

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