The Adventures of Keely Anne Sparks

The Adventures of Keely Anne Sparks Review

Keely Anne Sparks is addicted to adrenaline, whether it's swimming with sharks, freestyle kayaking, or tackling dangerous Class IV rapids. Her latest craving is some spanking adventure in their marriage. Her husband is only too happy to comply. In fact, he's so happy to comply, she fears he'll reign in her daredevil spirit. When she attacks his limits with the same spirit she attacks a challenge, the limits of their marriage are stretched. Will it break? Or will it become something bigger and better? A spanking romance novel.

Mature subject matter for adults only. 33,589 words

Loitering with Intent

Loitering with Intent Review

Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive jeux d'esprit.

"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance—or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? Rich material, in any case. But when its pompous director, Sir Quentin Oliver, steals the manuscript of Fleur's new novel, fiction begins to appropriate life. The association's members begin to act out scenes exactly as Fleur herself has already written them in her missing manuscript. And as they meet darkly funny, pre-visioned fates, where does art start or reality end? "A delicious conundrum," The New Statesman called Loitering with Intent.

Deceived (Book 2 in the Gwen Sparks Series)

Deceived (Book 2 in the Gwen Sparks Series) Review

The vampire drug, brew, nearly ruined Gwen Sparks’ life. Just when things started to get back to normal between her and Aiden, she is summoned by the North American Witches Council to their central city of Moon. A war is imminent between vampires and witches, and Gwen’s experiences with brew are being used to fuel the fire. She is about to discover just how powerful she is with the help of the ruggedly handsome Angel of Death and just how far some people will go to get what they want. Gwen is going to learn exactly what it means to be Deceived.


Dorian Hade aka The Angel of Death, get's his own story in the anthology, Cupid Painted Blind.

The Mannequin Murders (A McKenzie Sparks Mystery No. 4)

The Mannequin Murders (A McKenzie Sparks Mystery No. 4) Review

McKenzie and Delaney are swept into a mystery when McKenzie receives a request from a dead woman in the form of a letter, a map, and a key. Her world tumbles into oblivion when her beloved Roxie disappears and someone breaks into her house. She takes the situation in hand by getting a gun and learning to shoot. If you know McKenzie and what’s good for you, you’ll stay out of her way!
With the help of a detective from Atlanta and a local attorney, McKenzie and Delaney end up in a cabin in the woods where they find the answers to all the questions the mystery posed, and a few it didn’t. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, it will become part of you.
Be prepared to change the way you window shop: mannequins aren’t just for clothes anymore!

CONCENTRIC CIRCLES (Concentric Circles; Twin Sparks of Love)

CONCENTRIC CIRCLES (Concentric Circles; Twin Sparks of Love) Review

Shayla Brinawell comes from a fragmented family. Fearful of the dangers her daughter could face, Shayla's mother raised her to deny and hide her magical gifts. Shayla is about to have her world turned upside down and every other which way. Witch way that is. She must come to terms with her magical destiny in hyper drive. 

Meekal Chilkwell has always known his life purpose. To protect the magical and healing waters of The Chalice Well located in the shadow of the great mystical Tor in Glastonbury, England. A new danger has arisen. One that threatens not only the Chilkwell family, but also the non-magical world.

Shayla & Meekal join together in order to conquer Syther the Quitch, an evil wizard bent on spreading darkness. 

The People of Sparks: The Second Book of Ember (Books of Ember)

The People of Sparks: The Second Book of Ember (Books of Ember) Review

The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn’t long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcomed, fed, and given places to sleep. But the town’s resources are limited and it isn’t long before resentment begins to grow between the two groups. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it’s up to Lina and Doon to discover who’s behind the vandalism and why, before it’s too late.


From the Hardcover edition.

As the Sparks Fly Upward (Winslow Breed)

As the Sparks Fly Upward (Winslow Breed) Review

The trilogy The Winslow Breed serves as a prequel to the author’s highly successful House of Winslow series (published by Bethany House). As the Sparks Fly Upward is the final book in the trilogy.

Young Colin Winslow grows up feeling altogether different from the rest of his family. Not bold and rough like his charismatic brother, Adam, or headstrong and spoiled like his sister, Adara, he is a gentle soul with a special love for natural things. His interest in animals, medicine, and healing brings him in contact with a strange woman who lives in the woods, Meg Caradoc. She teaches him the fine art of using a variety of herbs to quell sickness and pain.

When Colin studies at Oxford, an eccentric but brilliant professor, Dr. Phineas Teague, guides the young man to a career in medicine. The formal knowledge Professor Teague imparts, combined with knowledge of Meg's herbal remedies, make Colin an insightful and successful doctor—one with the approving eye of Queen Elizabeth on him. Colin’s skill quickly earns him many patients, some highly placed in the courts of both his queen and her sister Mary Queen of Scots. This once shy and uncertain young man finds himself in the midst of court intrigue and a key player in quelling assassination plots and passing vital information to the queen’s court. When Colin faces his most difficult case—curing the wounds his brave brother suffered in battle—he must confront his attraction to Adam’s wife, his unsteady faith in God, and his command of medicine: will he abandon his noble role and succumb to temptation, or will he take his place as the new hero of the Breed of Winslow?

Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager

Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager Review

When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day she can turn her life around. She decides she wants to keep her baby and dreams of loving and caring for this little person. But after the baby is born, it's in her diary that she faces the agonizing question: Can she really raise this child on her own?

The Secret Keeper (The Secret Keeper Series)

The Secret Keeper (The Secret Keeper Series) Review

Peyton Stratford is her family's unofficial keeper of all things secret, from the petty and mundane to the potentially life-changing. Only when she starts to keep a few secrets of her own does her family begin to realize there's more to her than a sympathetic set of ears and a tightly-closed mouth. And it's not until she relinquishes the title of Stratford Family Secret Keeper and assumes a more positive role in her own life that she can become the person that someone's been telling her she has the potential to be.

Safe Haven

Safe Haven Review

When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.

But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.

Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church

Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church Review

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Ignite is the ultimate how-to book for church leaders who want to reach more people for Jesus Christ. Pastor and founder of Church Leader Insights, Nelson Searcy, will provide practical, inventive guidelines for bringing first-time guests through the doors.
This book sets forth a step-by-step, biblically grounded, proven plan for creating immediate church growth by utilizing a "Big Day" to mobilize the church for evangelism. This user-friendly guide will show church leaders what they need to do to reach the unchurched in their communities and break through the debilitating growth barriers that are holding them back.

Through the inspiration of testimonies and stories, combined with the down-to-earth, applicable teaching that Searcy readers have come to expect and appreciate, Ignite will give church leaders the tools they desperately need to reach and keep modern-minded, unchurched people to create and sustain growth momentum.

Laugh Your Way to Grace: Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor

Laugh Your Way to Grace: Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor Review

Laughter was honored by the ancients as a spiritual healing tool and celebrated by the world's great religions. So why aren't we laughing along the spiritual path today? What would happen if we did?
In this personal and funny look at humor as a spiritual practice, Rev. Susan Sparks--an ex-lawyer turned comedian and Baptist minister--presents a convincing case that the power of humor radiates far beyond punch lines. Laughter can help you:

* Remove the fearful mask of a God who doesn't laugh
* Debunk the myth that you don't deserve joy
* Find perspective when faced with adversity
* Exercise forgiveness for yourself and others
* Reclaim play as a spiritual practice
* Heal--emotionally, physically and spiritually
* Keep your faith when God is silent
* Live with elegance, beauty and generosity of spirit

Whatever your faith tradition--or if you have none at all--join this veteran of the punch line and the pulpit in reclaiming the forgotten humor legacy found in thousands of years of human spiritual history.