Download or read book At the Altar Books 1 10 written by Kirsten Osbourne and published by Unlimited Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savannah wants to get married and start a family but is tired of the dating scene. To help her mother move on with her own life, she visits a matchmaker known for setting up couples who meet at the altar. Scott, a Montana bison rancher, struggles to find time for love. When he meets Savannah at the altar, he's immediately drawn to her. Will their different backgrounds hinder their marriage, or will they overcome it for a loving relationship? After a series of bad blind dates, Addie's roommate suggests she see a professional matchmaker. Addie reluctantly agrees and meets Dr. Lachele, hoping for success but not holding out too much hope. Jake, persuaded by his friend, also seeks out the services of Matchrimony and is pleased with his match. Will they overcome their individual challenges to find love? Cindy Lambert returns to her small hometown of Blevins, Wisconsin to manage her grandmother's dream bed and breakfast. Tired of being single and too busy to date, she turns to a matchmaker. Trey Zayne, a web designer from Texas, is intrigued by the concept of Matchrimony where he will meet his match at the altar. Can a techie from Texas find love with a small-town girl from Wisconsin? Cissie Rivers is envious of her best friend who has found love, while Cissie is still single. She's tired of waiting for matchmaker Lachele to find her a man. Deputy Sheriff Bob Anderson is instantly smitten with Cissie but can't seem to approach her without stumbling over his words. When he discovers she's waiting for a match from Matchrimony, he contacts them to engineer their pairing. Will Cissie forgive him or opt out of their marriage after one year? Samara Royal feels like life is passing her by. As an introverted bookworm, she doesn't have many chances to meet men. So she turns to her boss, Dr. Lachele, for help finding love. Meanwhile, Henry Crider has a five-year plan but getting custody of his twin nieces throws it off. He needs a bride who can also be a nanny, housekeeper, and cook. But he's determined not to fall in love for at least five years. Will Samara be the one to change his mind? Recent college grad Michaela Hunter is facing a job loss, when her friend Lachele suggests she marry a man picked for her. Pastor Jon Larson asks for help finding a match like one he's watched succeed for eight months. When he meets Michaela, Jon knows she’s the one. But will everyday life and a honeymoon test their love? Brenda Holt is convinced she'll never find love. With the help of a matchmaker, she meets Daniel Axford at the altar. He had a difficult childhood and now runs an online dating site but hires a matchmaker to find a bride. Neither expect to develop feelings for each other, but will they be able to move past their walls and fall in love? Michelle feels unworthy of love after her fiancé breaks off their engagement. Determined to have a wedding, she contacts Dr. Lachele Simpson from Matchrimony. Seth wants a bride like his friend's and meets Michelle, who surprises him with her inner strength. Can they overcome Michelle's fears and find love in their marriage? Nurse Heidi Hart feels like she's missing out on life and wants to find a husband. Her busy job prevents her from dating, but then she hears about a successful matchmaker from her cousin. Slade Henderson, a doctor who is ready for marriage and kids, turns to the same matchmaker after a string of bad online dates. When he meets Heidi, he knows she's the one, but can he break through her dislike of doctors? Jenni was unhappy with her life and decided to use a matchmaking service. She meets Tony at the altar, both with their own doubts about marriage. But they go along with it and hope for the best. Can they overcome their differences and find happiness together?

Download or read book Blood on the Altar written by Tobias Jones and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by and Elisa's family could find only false leads. 2002, and Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year, his neighbour is found murdered, with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are linked and Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar combines a gripping true crime case with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture - the impunity it offers to the powerful - he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: The Dark Heart of Italy.

Download or read book The Brazen Altar written by Eunice Hung and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the City. In this place of peace and plenty, with no disease, no suffering, and no want, people find meaning in service to their gods. They know the gods were created by humans, of course. But the gods protect and provide for the people, so why wouldn't the people serve the gods? In a Utopian society, what better way to express service than through pleasure and faith? For Kheema and her seven fellow Potentials, that means entering the temple of the Sun God to undergo months of training and practice to determine which of them will be chosen as Sacrifice. On the day of the summer Solstice, the one chosen as Sacrifice must recite the entire litany from atop the temple, while enduring nonstop forced orgasms from dawn 'til dusk. For Terlyn, service means becoming part of the Garden, bound naked and asleep while worshippers help themselves to her body. Terlyn wakes in ecstasy over and over, only to fall asleep again. The experience changes her, and her relationship with her friend and lover Donvin, who visits her while she is part of the Garden. Ashi's service to the god known as the Wild entails competing with other worshippers in a forest that appears overnight to demonstrate her resilience and will, so that she might become part of a ritual involving an altar, a long row of cages, and the complete abandonment of the self. The three stories brush against each other, revealing the heart of the City, as the people of the City serve, or ask for enlightenment from, multiple gods at once.

Download or read book Trapped at the Altar written by Jane Feather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather introduces a sizzling new series that moves from the remote wilds of southwest England to the turbulent royal court, when a lovely young woman is forced into marriage in order to unite two families—and discovers a most unexpected passion. . . Ariadne Carfax has vowed to be with the man she loves, Gabriel Fawcett. There’s just one obstacle. On his deathbed, Ari’s grandfather decrees that she marry her childhood friend Ivor Chalfont, thus forging a powerful alliance between the two warring families. Giving Ari no time to protest, the elders plan her wedding the next day, forcing her to follow through on the nuptials. Though she is fond of Ivor, Ari has no intention of consummating their marriage—until he kindles an intoxicating desire that she can’t ignore. Ivor has loved Ari for years, but he doesn’t want an unwilling wife. He wants Ari to ache with the same irresistible longing he feels. And if that’s the way to woo her into his bed and into their new life, he won’t rest until his new bride surrenders to true love.

Download or read book With This Cake written by Samantha Chase and published by Chasing Romance, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheery baker dreams of finding Mr. Right… When your last name is Baker, it’s really only a matter of time before it also becomes your job title. Some might see it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, but for Leanna, being the go-to baker for Meet Me at the Altar is a dream come true. There’s nothing she loves more than to create the perfect desserts to help couples celebrate their big days. But despite what they say about the way to a man’s heart being through his stomach, Leanna has yet to lure her perfect man with her sweet treats. Uptight workaholic dreams of being left alone… If Brody King is going to take time off, he would much rather it be to train for his triathlon and not his brother’s engagement party. It would be one thing if it was just a regular party, but no, his brother and his bride-to-be had to go over the top and plan a full week of family togetherness and ridiculous wedding games. There’s no way he’s going to survive it. When Brody crashes into Leanna and a hundred cupcakes are ruined, he does the only thing he can–he offers to help her make more. All it takes is a few cups of sugar and a dash of vanilla before Brody is craving not just Leanna’s sweet treats, but the baker herself.

Download or read book The Engagement Embargo written by Samantha Chase and published by Chasing Romance, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four failed engagements. One year-long hiatus on women. Elliott Sullivan loves being in love, but after his latest romantic disaster, his friends and family finally put their foot down—no relationships or proposals for at least a year. Ready for his heart not to be squashed under another sexy high-heel, he agrees to fully embrace life as a perpetual bachelor. Which should be easy—especially when he recruits his sister’s best friend for help. Surely he won’t fall for her, no matter how perfect she seems… Skylar isn’t sorry to see Elliott’s latest relationship go up in flames. She’s had a crush on him for as long as she remembers—not that anything can ever happen there. So when Elliott asks for her help to stop him from breaking his dating embargo, she jumps at the chance. They’ve spent time together before and nothing has come of it. So what could possibly go wrong this time? Sticking to his embargo would be fine if all this time with Skye wasn’t making Elliott wonder if maybe the perfect girl had been in front of him all along.

Download or read book You May Kiss the Groomsman written by Samantha Chase and published by Chasing Romance, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seemed like a good idea at the time… When Josie Sullivan agrees to marry her friend Tyler, it’s just so he’ll get a promotion at work. That’s what friends do, right? But what should have been a quick, quiet affair starts to look like the real thing when his family shows up in the middle of the “proposal.” Now, it’s no longer a quick stop at the courthouse during a lunch break, but a full-blown wedding and there’s nothing Josie can do to stop it. There was no way he could hold his peace… Daniel Alexander hasn’t been home in years. After fifteen years as a Navy SEAL, he’s more than ready to return to civilian life. Being away for so long, he’s missed a lot of his younger brother’s life and it seems like he’s back just in time to stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life. No matter how he breaks it down, something’s just not adding up about this wedding and he’s determined to figure out why. And he’s not just trying to stop it from happening because he’s finding himself wildly attracted to the bride-to-be. Or because they can’t stop kissing each other. Josie had given up on finding her own happily ever after and as her attraction to Daniel keeps growing, she’s suddenly regretting her decision to help out a friend. Now she just needs to decide if she wants to kiss the groom…or the groomsman.

Download or read book At the Altar written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stern parents, awkward circumstances, misunderstandings, lovers’ quarrels – and one very determined cat – are some of the many hindrances that Montgomery’s characters find themselves battling on the way to the altar. But Montgomery helps her lovers overcome these obstacles to true love by a wonderful assortment of means: maiden aunts come to the rescue; two pairs of twins play major roles; a marauding pig is an unusual cupid; the lovers themselves come up with striking solutions. Whatever storms they must weather on the sea of love, whether they are rich or poor, young or old, trembling with romance or properly practical, in Montgomery’s hands courting couples seem destined to live “happily ever after.” Funny, heartwarming, and full of romance, these eighteen stories are sure to delight Montgomery’s many fans. From the Hardcover edition.

Download or read book Left at the Altar written by Kimberley Kennedy and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinatingly insightful and hopeful page-turning account of one woman's encounter with ultimate rejection. TV journalist Kimberley Kennedy went from having it all to complete devastation, rejection, and public humiliation when, like a Lifetime movie scenario, her fiance literally left her at the altar. Fortunately, her story did not end at the church. With candor and humor, Kimberley shares the most personal details of her life as she journeys from devastation to a deeper understanding of what happened and how she found not only healing but hope to someday find her Mr. Right. The intimate woman-to-woman inspirational journey includes: Stories of women who were left at the altar How to deal with feelings of anger towards God The little black dress analogy How not to let your rejection define who you become Tools for healing and moving on How to laugh, love again, and return to dating Ultimate insight from men who have been rejectors

Download or read book Left at the Altar written by Margaret Brownley and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great story by a wonderful author."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber Welcome to Two-Time Texas: Where tempers burn hot Love runs deep And a single marriage can unite a feuding town ...or tear it apart for good In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler...but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiancé, Meg's dreams of dragging her quarrelsome neighbors into a ceasefire are dashed. No wedding bells? No one-time town. Hired to defend the groom against a breach of promise lawsuit, Grant Garrison quickly realizes that the only thing worse than small-town trouble is falling for the jilted bride. But there's something about Meg's sweet smile and determined grit that draws him in...even as the whole crazy town seems set on keeping them apart. Who knew being Left at the Altar could be such sweet, clean, madcap fun? A Match Made in Texas Left at the Altar (Book 1) A Match Made in Texas (Book 2) How the West was Wed (Book 3)

Download or read book Murder at the Altar written by Veronica Heley and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellie Quicke, newly widowed, is sure she saw something the night a body was left in the church opposite her house, but now her own life seems to be under threat.

Download or read book Altar of Bones written by Philip Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deathbed confession ignites a globe-spanning race for answers in this page-turning thriller described as The Da Vinci Code meets The Bourne Identity. “They didn’t have to kill him…He never drank from the altar of bones.” Cryptic dying words from a murdered homeless woman in present-day San Francisco unlock a long-buried secret that alters history. Now, a pair of ruthless assassins are sent to cut the few living “loose ends.” And a young, resourceful woman on the run encounters a determined man with his own connected past and vengeful agenda. Forced to partner for survival and answers, a fast-paced and deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, whisking the duo from the winding streets of Paris to the faded palaces of Budapest to the frozen lakes of Mongolia...where destiny, passion, and further betrayal await them. Jam-packed with pulse-pounding action and featuring a high-profile assassination, a doomed Hollywood legend, and guardians of an ancient religious icon housing a secret others will kill to possess, The Altar of Bones is certain to leave readers stunned and breathless.

Download or read book Blackwater Brides Rushed to the Altar A Wedding Wager An Unsuitable Bride written by Jane Feather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boxed set that includes all three romantic tales in New York Times bestseller Jane Feather's sexy and scintillating Blackwater Brides trilogy. Includes Rushed to the altar, A Wedding Wager, An Unsuitable Bride, and an excerpt from Jane Feather's next novel!

Download or read book Murder at the Altar written by Terry Phillips and published by Hye Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christmas Eve morning in 1933, the head of the Armenian Church in America, Archbishop Ghevont Tourian, is stabbed to death with a double-edged butcher knife as he begins Sunday services. His infamous murder in a little New York City church is witnessed by hundreds of parishioners - among them, a newspaper reporter named Tom Peterson. The next day, this story is splashed on the front page of every major daily in Manhattan. And no wonder. Not since the assassination of Thomas Becket has such a high religious leader been slain in a house of worship. This gruesome homicide shatters the Armenian community and confounds the cops. Was it a terrorist attack to silence a political adversary, a KGB plot to discredit anti-communists in America, or simply a tragic turn in an ancient, bitter dispute? Murder at the Altar is a work of historical fiction, although it might more accurately be called "dramatized history." The book interweaves past and present accounts of these complex events, alternating between "Now" and "Then" chapters which are written in first- and third-person voices respectively. Much of the text is based on interviews with survivors, court transcripts and newly declassified FBI files. There are also actual news clips as well as some previously unpublished photos available to further illustrate the story.

Download or read book Alone at the Altar written by Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of women, city of God : poor, single, and holy in Santiago de Guatemala -- Unlikely allies : missionaries and laywomen -- Sex, honor, and devotion -- To educate and evangelize : laywomen, clergy, and late-colonial girls' schools -- The controversial ecstasy of Sor María Teresa Aycinena -- "With knives drawn" : gender, devotion, and politics after independence

Download or read book From the Closet to the Altar written by Michael Klarman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bancroft Prize-winning historian and legal expert Michael Klarman here offers an illuminating and engaging account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage. After looking at the treatment of gays in the decades after World War II and the birth of themodern gay rights movement with the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, Klarman describes the key legal cases involving gay marriage and the dramatic political backlashes they ignited. He examines the Hawaii Supreme Court's ruling in 1993, which sparked a vast political backlash--with more than 35 states and Congress enacting defense-of-marriage acts--and the Massachusetts decision in Goodridge in 2003, which inspired more than 25 states to adopt constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. Klarman traces this same pattern--court victory followed by dramatic backlash--through cases in Vermont, California, and Iowa, taking the story right up to the present. He also describes some of the collateral political damage caused by court decisions in favor of gay marriage--Iowa judges losing their jobs, Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle losing his seat, and the possibly dispositive impact of gay marriage on the 2004 presidential election. But Klarman also notes several ways in which litigation has accelerated the coming of same-sex marriage: forcing people to discuss the issue, raising the hopes and expectations of gay activists, and making other reforms like civil unions seem more moderate by comparison. In the end, Klarman discusses how gay marriage is likely to evolvein the future, predicts how the U.S. Supreme Court might ultimately resolve the issue, and assesses the costs and benefits of activists' pursuing social reforms such as gay marriage through the courts"--

Download or read book The Altar Boys written by Suzanne Smith and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys with everything to live for ... A community betrayed ... The whistle-blower priest who paid the ultimate price **Shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award** **Shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's Community and Regional History Prize** ** Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award** Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Newcastle, NSW. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' high schools: Glen to Marist Brothers, Hamilton, and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. But their lives came to be burdened by secrets kept and exposed. Glen discovered that another priest was sexually abusing boys and reported the offender to police, breaking his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process. His decision to give evidence regarding the cover-up of clerical abuse at a landmark trial ended in tragedy. Meanwhile, Steven was fighting his own battle to overcome a traumatic past, a battle that also ended in tragedy. Ensuing investigations revealed that at least 60 men in the region had taken their own lives. What had happened, and why were so many of those men from the three Catholic high schools in the area? By six-time Walkley Award-winning investigative reporter Suzanne Smith and shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award, The Altar Boys is the explosive expose of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city, and how the cover-up in the Catholic Church in Australia extended from parish priests to every echelon of the organisation. Focusing on two childhood friends, their families and community, this gripping story is backed by secret documents, diary notes and witness accounts, and details a deliberate church strategy of using psychological warfare against witnesses in key trials involving paedophile priests.