A Place to Live

Laura’s parents wanted no part of her baby, nor did her boyfriend. Feeling bereft, she no longer belongs anywhere when she leaves Hope House, the maternity home where she found Christ. Can she find a place to belong, a home, a family? Does God have a plan and a purpose for her, to give her hope and a future?

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Always My Son (Hope House Girls Series Book 2)

Always My Son is one of a five book series revolving around girls who shared a season at Hope House, a maternity home. Two girls chose to keep their babies, including Candy, and the other three chose adoptive placement. The stories begin with their choices and continue through God's redemptive plan in their lives. Candy's healing comes through her marriage to Joe and his mother's marriage to the police officer who saved her life, which brings them into a loving, exuberant Hispanic family. Candy's hope is when the shame of her childhood abuse is revealed, her son, whom Joe considers his own, will accept the father who chose him.

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His Brother's Wife

Is Angelique a gold-digger-or an angel? Jonathan is determined to find out.

When David Carter, a wounded war veteran, is gunned down in the streets of Washington, D.C., his twin brother, Jonathan, loses his best friend. Convinced that the Army nurse David met at the rehabilitation hospital and recently married is only after the Manhattan Carters’ wealth and power, Jonathan charges into Angie’s office at Walter Reed to deny her the estate…only to find out that David hid his family’s origins from her.

The sister-in-law Jonathan had refused to meet for months confounds his expectations. Frail, beautiful, blonde Angie claims she wants nothing to do with the notoriety of her husband’s prominent family. But Jonathan is determined to fulfill his twin’s last request—to care for his wife—which now includes an unborn child.

As their two worlds collide, and the media is stirred into a feeding frenzy, Jonathan’s heart is stirred by unexplainable longings for home and family. But will his twin’s lovely widow ever be able to see him—without seeing his brother?

A tender tale of courage, triumph, and lasting love in the most tragic of circumstances.

Bio:  

As the daughter of a career military officer who served in WW II and went to Viet Nam during the height of that war to find suitable areas for landing strips, the wife of a doctor who returned home from Viet Nam when our daughter was five months old, and the mother of a career military officer who has served three tours in Afghanistan, Charlotte Snead has a special place in her heart for our military. “My mom reared a baby and two small daughters for two years while my father served overseas. She shoveled coal for their furnace, literally keeping the home fires burning.’’ Our daughter-in-law had her first baby alone, and during subsequent tours she worked and cared for two boys, sending her firstborn to kindergarten alone.

His Brother’s Wife springs from the heart of one who has walked the halls of Walter Reed and seen our brave warriors. Lot Sixty is a real place at Arlington National Cemetery, and too many of my son’s fallen comrades lie there. God rest their souls.

As a mentor mom for her local Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), she teaches young moms to love their husbands, train their children, and serve God. She recognizes the need for edifying, entertaining, and evocative Christian fiction that puts romance in marriage.

After parenting five children and fostering others, she and her husband live in their empty nest in rural West Virginia.

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Invisible Wounds

He seems like the man of her dreams, But she, of all people, knows looks can be deceiving. Dare she trust again?

Major Lisa Newcomb is a talented, well-respected doctor who worked for years at Walter Reed. Now that her friends Angie and Jonathan Carter have The David W. Carter Rehabilitation Center for wounded warriors up and running on their farm, Lisa decides to begin a practice near her best friend and the children who mean so much to her. But she doesn t bargain on running smack into the intriguing retired Marine Colonel recently hired by the Center. Widowed chaplain Bill Robinson is stunned by Lisa, a slender beauty whose hazel eyes with gold flecks draw him like no one ever has. Could she be the answer to his longing for a deeper connection? When a farm accident draws the two closer together, sparks fly. But falling in love isn t easy for a divorced doctor who has lived with a father and then a husband who betrayed her...a woman with invisible wounds just as real as the veterans with PTSD at the Center. Bill is determined to tear down the walls of suspicion one by one. But can his love and God s bring healing and wholeness to a broken woman?  Read More...

Bio: The daughter of a career military officer who served in WWII and Viet Nam and the mother of a career military officer, Charlotte has a special place in her heart for our military. She has seen PTSD up close and thanks God her father and her son have come through their experiences victoriously.
A social worker (BA Psychology, Duke University; M.A. in Social Work, U. of North Carolina) with children in a foster home, unwed mothers, and adoptions; a parent of four natural children, a foster daughter, and an adopted daughter who overcame fetal alcohol learning disabilities; and the founder of a ministry for women facing unplanned pregnancies, Charlotte knows invisible wounds can hurt far more than physical ones. One child and two grandchildren are adopted, motivating her pro-life work. She has spoken in schools, conferences, and on Christian and mainstream radio and TV.
www.charlottesreaders.com
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Recovered and Free

Every time the hauntingly familiar mandolin song played on the radio, Missy s heart was drawn toward it. It sounded like...but it couldn t be, could it?

All talented musician Ian O Malley wants is to come home, to the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. But is it too late? How does a broken man reclaim the only woman he s ever loved, the bitter son who sent him away, and the daughter of his heart? When her father calls Missy, a successful interior designer, after twenty years to proclaim he is free from the curse of alcohol that destroyed their family, she is afraid to hope. The memories of betrayal run too deep. But her husband, Tim, knows more than he s telling about his mother-in-law s desperate prayers for her long-lost husband. Could they together embrace Ian s recovery and restore him to their family? But will Missy dare to trust the one who has broken so many promises? Whose lack of involvement in her life cost her more dearly than even he knows? His heartfelt song on the radio continues to draw her. Yet will her own love for music, and her deep love for her once-magical-in-her-eyes father be able to overcome the trauma of her fatherless teenage years, when she needed him so much?

Bio:The daughter of an alcoholic, like Missy O’Malley, Charlotte is familiar with broken promises, the pain of trying to separate the parent you need and love from the disease that is their lifetime companion, and the constant requirement to forgive.
A social worker (BA Psychology, Duke University; M.A. in Social Work, U. of North Carolina) with children in a foster home, unwed mothers, and adoptions; a parent of four natural children, a foster daughter, and an adopted daughter who overcame fetal alcohol learning disabilities; and the founder of a ministry for women facing unplanned pregnancies, Charlotte knows invisible wounds can hurt far more than physical ones. One child and two grandchildren are adopted, motivating her pro-life work. She has spoken in schools, conferences, and on Christian and mainstream radio and TV.
www.charlottesreaders.com 

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Winslow Farm

Experience the timeless love, music, and spirituality of author Charlotte S. Snead’s family-centered and heavenly classic WINSLOW FARM.

When Gabe Winslow learns of his parents’ death in an automobile accident, he resigns from the army and returns home from Afghanistan to his family farm in Lost Creek, West Virginia. Brian, Gabe’s younger brother with Down syndrome, would be left alone with nobody to care for him without this sacrifice from Gabe. With the brothers not knowing each other very well, and with them forced to sell their farm to a new, mysterious owner while they stay on as caretakers, their future and that of the farm looks incredibly bleak. Only a miracle can save them.

After Gabe and Brian form a close, unbreakable bond while building their new caretaker’s cottage on the property, they nervously await the arrival of the farm’s new owner. The new owner steps out of a limousine and into their hearts, strolling down Winslow Farm’s main road with cornflower blue eyes and a familiar song on her lips. The young and vibrant, twenty-something, bluegrass-singing star Joy Thomas has purchased Winslow Farm as her escape from a crazy life as a rising star in Nashville. She brings with her music and passion, and she brings out of Gabe and Brian love and something divine—something tangibly divine.

Together, the trio of Joy, Gabe, and Brian bring Winslow Farm back to life. They bring a wealth of new people with diverse personalities to the farm, they record award-winning music there, they defend Joy from a dangerous stalker, they tangle with bears, they renovate and redecorate, and they accept, love, and work with Brian as he struggles to cope with his disabilities and with the loss of his parents. Slowly, they build a loving family at Winslow Farm. And throughout it all, people discover that Gabe possesses a unique, otherworldly talent that might help him keep the farm safe from evil forever.

Deano the Dino Goes to the Doctor: Deano the Dino

Author Charlotte Snead creates a delightful story to help children overcome the fear of going to the doctor. The author's goal is to take the fear out of going to the doctor and shows how Deano can be brave, and ultimately, allow the reader to feel brave too!

Go for the Honey: Winning Cathy (Book 3)

Cathy is abused by unloving and uncaring parents and is used by the pimps who say they are offering her a path to the college education she dreams of completing. She is only fifteen, so she doesn't understand that all those people are trying to use her until she is raped, beaten, and left for dead. The story and the Hope House Girl Series contains messages of making wrong decisions or road blocks thrown in lives, but the true message establishes strength in Christian values and faith.