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Spring Rain

By Gayle Roper

Seaside, New Jersey. Small town, USA, where everyone knows everyone else's business…or thinks they do.

Even so, there's nowhere else Leigh Spenser would rather live, nowhere she'd rather raise her young son Billy. It's taken a lot of work, but Leigh has finally put memories and rumors to rest and found peace in Seaside.
Then Clay Wharton comes home.
Clay's estranged twin Ted—Leigh's closest friend—is dying of AIDS. Even resentments and bitterness won't keep Clay from his family now. Leigh will just have to avoid him to make certain Clay never discovers her secret.
It's not until Billy's life is in danger that Leigh and Clay discover the answers they've been looking for all their lives. Answers they can only find together.
A powerful, moving drama of family conflict, social issues, redemption and God's unparalleled forgiveness.

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Summer Shadows

By Gayle Roper

When Abby Patterson moves to Seaside, she witnesses a hit and run that injures a little girl. As the only one who could identify the driver of the hit and run car, Abby soon finds her life endangered. Her overly protective parents come to visit. And Marsh Winslow, her landlord, drives her crazy before she discovers she's become crazy for him.
Marsh anticipated that the librarian who rented the second floor of his beach front home would be a quiet, introverted spinster, perfect for the solitude he needed to write his novel. Instead he got Abby, and he's taken aback by all the confusion that swirls around her. Then he finds himself just plain taken with her.
Add to this Marsh's best friend, a movie star who wants to be a regular guy, and Abby's new best friend, the mother of the hit and run victim, and things get more complex.
As Abby struggles find a godly way to make her parents realize that they must release her, Marsh encourages her. As Marsh tries to find a way to regain his father's respect, lost when he chose to follow the Lord, Abby supports him.
Together they learn that even fractured lives can be made whole by God's grace.

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Autumn Dreams

By Gayle Roper

Somewhere between wishes and reality lie Autumn Dreams 
They call it the “sandwich generation”. Daughter, sister, aunt, innkeeper, employer - but has Cass herself gotten lost in the crunch?
The proud proprietor of her own bed-and-breakfast in sleepy Seaside, New Jersey, Cass Merton is questioning her consent to care for her easygoing nephew and feisty teenage niece for a whole year while their parents work in the Middle East. 

Add Cass's four brothers, who don't take Dad's compulsive contest entries or Mom's increasing dementia seriously, and Dan Harmon, the intriguing finance and due diligence expert who arrives at SeaSong for an extended stay, and Cass's emotions swirl like the quickly rising hurricane fast approaching Seaside.

But every day cares aren't Cass's only problems. A troubled young employee unknowingly endangers her as well. An alarm sounds in the middle of the night, bullets fly, and a gunman takes Cass hostage.
What will become of Cass's Autumn Dreams?

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Winter Winds

By Gayle Roper

Bitter winds...
After a tragedy-riddled early life, Dori MacAllister has made a quiet place for herself on the West Coast, far from the landscape of her earlier heartbreaks. When she receives word that the man who raised her is gravely ill, she is drawn back to a place full of love and longing-and betrayal.
Winds of love...
Pastor Paul Trevelyan hasn't seen the woman he loves in six years. When he's given a second chance with her, he longs to make it work this time. The trouble is, if he doesn't win her back, it could cost him his job- and his happiness.
Winds of danger...
The charming town of Seaside now has its very own crime boss, and Officer Maureen Galloway would love to be the one to make charges stick. Her investigation leads to Dori MacAllister...but is Dori an accomplice or a victim? And why is pharmacist Phil Trevelyan so bent on getting in Maureen's way?

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Shadows on the Sand

By Gayle Roper

She serves him breakfast at her cafe every morning … but he never seems to notice her.

Carrie Carter’s small cafe in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals … although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He’s recovering from a vicious crime that three years ago took the lives of his wife and children—and from the year he tried to drink his reality away. While her heart does a happy Snoopy dance at the sight of him, he never seems to notice her, to Carrie’s chagrin.

When Carrie’s dishwasher is killed and her young waitress disappears, Greg finds himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mysteries … and into her life. But when Carrie’s own painful past becomes all to present, her carefully constructed world begins to sink.

Will the fragile relationship she’s built with Greg implode from the weight of the baggage they both carry?

Present Perfect

By Gayle Roper

When is a gift not a gift?
Nan Patterson has an impressive job at Pizzazz magazine in NYC. Her mother and father are so proud of her, but she hates it. God, help! And He does. Great-aunt Char leaves Nan her gift shop on the boardwalk in Seaside, NJ.
Nan quits NYC, moves to Seaside, and determines to learn retail. If only someone would stop leaving really nice items like Wedgwood vases and Christmas ornaments at her store. Who is leaving them and what is she to do with them? This time she calls the police for help, and is more than pleased with the officer sent to her aid.
Officer Roger Eastman responds to a call about thievery at Present Perfect, a gift shop on the boardwalk, only to find its leavery, not thievery, gifts left with no explanation. As he works to resolve the leavery, he finds himself drawn into life at Present Perfect, and drawn to Nan with her strength and charm.
When thievery does strike, Nan and Rog work together to bring the thief to justice.

Special Delivery

By Gayle Roper

When Kelli accepts a package delivered to the wrong address, she gets a lot more than misdirected mail. With a lonely holiday weekend facing her, Kelli takes on the challenge of finding the proper recipient of the package wrongly delivered to her.

With help from the delivery man, Dane Cavanaugh—and her Great Dane, Charlie—what Kelli discovers will change more than she ever dreamed.

Aspiring novelist Dane volunteers to help with her investigation in hopes of sparking fresh ideas. Before long, he finds himself drawn to the feisty first-grade teacher and wondering about the shadows behind her eyes.

When Kelli’s investigation takes a dangerous turn, Dane is faced with the reality of his feelings—but is it too late?

Sea Change

By Gayle Roper

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
Janine hates change, especially changes forced on her. Like loosing her job. Like having to go home to live. Like being unappreciated professionally. Rejoice? Hah!
Ross chooses change. His life was rushing to destruction when he put on the brakes and turned things around. Trouble is no one understands. Rejoice? A challenge.
To fill time Janine teaches a memoir class at the residential retirement community where Ross is a physical therapist. Of course opposites attract, but how will they learn to live together and rejoice together?

Fourteen Days

By Gayle Roper

It’s only fourteen days.
It’s a challenge to a man to spend fourteen days in Seaside with his wife, two teenage daughters, and his widowed father. Two generations might have been manageable, but three? Hal determines he will survive by collecting the beach tags, counting off the days, and praying a lot.
His girls like boys.

His dad finds an old girlfriend.

Even his much-loved wife tells him to get his head out of the sand.

But no matter how hard family is on the nerves, family is where heart is, and sometimes fourteen days isn’t nearly enough.