The Promise Series

This Romantic Suspense novel, is about death, love, and resolving the past before the future can be understood. When danger comes for Cassie and Michael, despite their secrets, they must learn to work together or die. 

The Willow Springs Settlement has been inaugurated in a season of abundant blessing that portends to continue with few disruptions. Thus when the unspeakable – indeed, the unknowable – occurs within the community yet growing into its identity, not a single life remains untouched by the catastrophe. Either directly or indirectly, every soul is affected by the event, and all must reach for one another and for the God they had believed they'd comprehended, as they seek to recover as individuals and as a whole, to heal, to trust, and to believe Him for His promises despite the storms of life.

Terrified after discovering the arsenal of weapons her scarred, veteran husband stockpiled, Alice Sweeney gathers up their baby daughter and flees. With his promise to eradicate her very existence still ringing in her ears, she leaves home and the nightmare her marriage has become, seeking refuge in Colorado with Cassandra, her best childhood friend.     A haunted and grieving Doctor Francesco DeRosa searches for life's meaning after the tragic death of his beloved wife. He has become a shell of his former self, burying unrelenting heartache with work in a desperate attempt to sooth the gaping wound to his heart.     Determined to put the past behind her, a brave and resolute Alice hardens her heart to romance and vows to never succumb to love again. Instead, she concentrates on adapting to her new surroundings and creating a better life for herself and her daughter.     A surprising reunion with Francesco leads to a resurgence of unresolved feelings from their shared past, sweeping them both into an impassioned but forbidden relationship. When the horror of her past finally catches up with her, their budding romance is interrupted by an abduction and a close encounter with death.     Can their love and will to survive overcome the unexpected forces threatening their newfound happiness?

Kadosh has given His word for the people of the Willow Springs Settlement: they are to be blessed profoundly in every way imaginable – so much so that they must prepare to receive what is forthcoming. Yet when personal tribulations begin to prick at individual lives, the initial jubilation that had risen after receiving that good news quickly dims. Hardship and heartache take over. As the year progresses and reaches into the next, a new generation rises up and begins to step into its calling and destiny. Kinship and other familial bonds are deepened, forged, and tested. Undeniably, the purposes of Kadosh are directing lives all across the Settlement toward an unknown and unenvisionable future – into which they are only assured He will walk beside them.

Anne Algani's life is turned upside down and her identity disputed when she encounters a mysterious man from abroad, claiming to be her deceased father's brother.     Sean DeRosa is a military man on a mission. His assignment is to infiltrate Anne's life and recapture her love.     Ralph Williams, a private investigator hired to watch over Anne and investigate the alleged Uncle, has piqued Anne's romantic interest.   Determined to stay in her life, Sean vows to protect her, even if it means eliminating the man hired to guard her.       As Anne sets out to discover the truth, she finds herself the target of a chilling vow of vengeance. What she does not expect is to find a sizzling passion when an unexpected turn of events takes place.     When Ralph unearths an electrifying discovery, Anne's identity is thrown even more into question, opening the door to more deceitfulness and underhanded lying.     Will Anne discover her true ancestry and gain a man to love, or will the past take another victim, leaving no answers?

Does God truly hear the deep desires of our hearts? The work to establish the new Settlement that Willow Springs has been instructed to Plant is now well underway. Friends and brethren both old and new labor side by side to bless their efforts and one another as a new community, a new family at large, emerges. The miraculous becomes commonplace as a new way and understanding of life inculcates itself both for the leadership of the new Silver Cascade Settlement, and for those who sent them. Newly minted connections and relationships for those from both Settlements stand present for the trials and tragedies that arise with neither omen nor object. The Spirit of Truth begins to employ a small child to speak on His behalf. One man who has waited faithfully for Divine guidance upon his life begins to learn why his path has steered away from all of his peers'. When each man and woman turns to the quiet of his or her own heart, to revisit the prayers prayed in secret, the question each unfailingly returns to is this: What now, Father?