When Lisa Marsh is roped into serving Thanksgiving dinner at the local community center, she encounters hundreds of children, lively teenagers, stubbornly independent veterans, eccentric elderly people, and a particularly rude and scruffy homeless man named Pete. The evening ends in disaster, but when her best friend challenges her to reach out and help other people, Lisa decides to take on the project of reforming Pete – whether he likes it or not. Her plan is simple: Help him find a job and become respectable. All he needs is a helping hand and some guidance. And a shave. Definitely, a shave. Pete is willing to work, especially if it means spending time with the pretty volunteer, but her tactless determination to “reform” him makes him dig in his heels. Her creative ideas for employment become increasingly outrageous, but every time he tries to put an end to her meddling, she charms him with her good intentions and willingness to serve others. Lisa finds herself unaccountably attracted to her vagabond protégé and irresistibly entangled in the lives of the other people she meets at the community center. Before she knows how to stop it, her one small service project snowballs into an extraordinary Christmas ministry that just may change her life forever. Snow Angels is a companion novella and introduction to my upcoming Great Lakes series. I was a fifth generation Swedish Minnesotan before I married my military man and wandered for a while, finally settling in the land of Packers and bratwurst. In the Great Lakes series, I bring my readers to the land I know and love best – the most remote areas of Northern Minnesota and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan as well as the small towns and big cities of the Midwest. The inhabitants of these places are a diverse and eclectic (sometimes eccentric) group – and usually very nice people. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Snow Angels (Hope Again)

Religion & Spirituality

Swanson, Cathe

Christian Books & Bibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

There had to be at least one healthy branch on his family tree... Who can he trust?Ben Taylor, widower and father of four lively children, enjoys his easy, uncomplicated life. He likes his work and has a competent nanny to manage his household. Everything is good until he decides to seek out his biological parents and discovers a family tree with tangled roots and broken branches.His comfortable life crumbles when he gets caught up in a criminal network of fraud and conspiracy at his new job. When Ben is forced into a dangerous alliance, he scrambles to find a safe situation and protection for his children before setting out to clear his name--all without getting himself killed in the process.A nanny with a past...Becoming a nanny was the perfect solution when Teresa Cooper needed a place to hide ten years ago, but now that she's no longer in danger, she's ready to move on and make a new life for herself. When Ben asks her to take the children to an unknown relative in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, she finds herself in hiding again, this time with four children in tow.As the children explore the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula, Teresa begins to wonder about God's plan for her future. Who is this stranger Ben trusts with his children? Why here? Can a city-bred nanny find joy in this wild corner of God's creation?

Baggage Claim: Great Lakes Collection (Hope Again)

Always and Forever (The Glory Quilts)

Cathe Swanson

Potato Flake Christmas

Always and Forever

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

She’s looking for one date. He’s looking for “Happily Ever After.” Is it a computer error or a match made in heaven? 
Eleanor Nielson always wanted to follow in her distinguished parents’ footsteps, becoming a teacher and living a life of selfless community service – until she tried it. Now, she’s run away to find herself and decide what she wants to do with the rest of her life, but she can’t skip her parents’ anniversary party, and she needs a date. Can a matchmaking agency find her a fake boyfriend who will impress her parents?\nMechanical engineer David Reid has his life all planned out, and he’s ready for the next phase: a loving wife who will share his faith and work at his side when he becomes a pastor. But a good woman is hard to find, so like any good engineer, David turns the project over to experts: an online matchmaking agency. The pretty, blond teacher with denim blue eyes seems like a match made in heaven. Or is she too good to be true?

Matched Hearts (The Glory Quilts)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

She’s looking for one date. He’s looking for “Happily Ever After.” Is it a computer error or a match made in heaven?\nEleanor Nielson always wanted to follow in her distinguished parents’ footsteps, becoming a teacher and living a life of selfless community service – until she tried it. Now, she’s run away to find herself and decide what she wants to do with the rest of her life, but she can’t skip her parents’ anniversary party, and she needs a date. Can a matchmaking agency find her a fake boyfriend who will impress her parents?\nMechanical engineer David Reid has his life all planned out, and he’s ready for the next phase: a loving wife who will share his faith and work at his side when he becomes a pastor. But a good woman is hard to find, so like any good engineer, David turns the project over to experts: an online matchmaking agency. The pretty, blond teacher with denim blue eyes seems like a match made in heaven. Or is she too good to be true?

Matched Hearts

Old sins cast long shadows. 
Mona Vickers is forging a new life, building a safe and loving home for her girls far away from the ghosts of the past. She’ll do whatever it takes to make it work, including sending her girls to the Christian-based after school program despite her own lack of faith. 
Roy Strough, Director of the Unity Plenkiss Community Center, wants to help the hardworking mother who’s captured his heart, but he’s already offended her pride once. Asking Mona to teach a class at the community center in exchange for tuition seems like the perfect solution. 
Mona’s growing faith is put to the test by the shadows of her past. One of her students is caught up in an all-too-familiar human trafficking scheme, and a vengeance-bent stalker pushes Mona into hiding. She’s forced to decide if she can trust the powerful God she’s only beginning to know—as well as the charming man she’s beginning to love. 
Dive into this gripping romantic suspense with compelling characters, intriguing twists, and an inspiring happily ever after.\nThe Hope Again Series Baggage Claim Snow Angels Long Shadows Hope for the Holidays Home Run The Road Home

Long Shadows (Hope Again)

United States

She's falling apart. He's moving on.\nPhoebe Schenstrom is capable, smart, and calm in all circumstances – the perfect director of women's and children's ministries at the Unity Plenkiss Community Center. Maintaining that reputation is getting hard, though, and Phoebe is burning out fast. When a clash – or two – with clients leads to her suspension, she needs to prove she's more than just a babysitter.\nHer brother's adventure camps for city kids might give her a chance to save her job, but he's invited Ben Taylor to help with it, and Phoebe doesn't want to give Ben the wrong idea... and she certainly doesn't want him to think he's her fallback plan.\nBen's changed, too. He isn't the irresponsible young man Phoebe rejected three years ago. He's achieved his doctorate in physical therapy and is starting a new life, with a good job and a home for his children. While the kids spend the summer with their grandparents, he's looking forward to working with his friend, building a Christian camp in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He didn't expect Phoebe to be there.\nWorking together means seeing each other in a new light, but just when it looks like they might get a fresh start, things start going wrong. Vandalism and hostility obstruct them at every turn, and knowing who to trust becomes more important than ever.\nCan Phoebe and Ben’s friendship find new roots in the dense, Michigan forest? Or will the ghosts of the past prove you really can’t go home again?\nRead Home Run today!\nHome Run is book 5 in the Hope Again series – alternating romantic suspense and Christmas romances set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Unity Plenkiss Community Center in Chicago.\nThe HOPE AGAIN series 
Book One: Baggage Claim 
Book Two: Snow Angels 
Book Three: Long Shadows 
Book Four: Hope for the Holidays 
Book Five: Home Run 
Book Six: The Road Home

Home Run (Hope Again)

Hashtag Hitched at Christmas

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