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Burcell Strachan was certain that joining his childhood friend Henry on this new work program called the "Contract" would be a great opportunity to make the needed monies to take better care of their young families. It was a hard sell to his wife Myrtis and his sister Edwina, but he just knew that an opportunity like this does not come by very often and the timing was perfect - they were living hand to mouth, struggling to care for their basic needs, but for the help of his younger sister Edwina. He adored his two children, especially his baby girl Priscilla, whom everyone called Scilla and his mirror image of a son Wilberforce. He and Myrtis were not in the most loving of a marriage, but he wanted to do his endeavor best to give his family the best that he could. This story follows the life of his family as he moves away for the job of a lifetime, literally and it is not until forty-three years later that the void he created when he left on 4th October, 1947 begins to to unravel, when his new family pays a visit to his old family.

Emil knew it was love at first sight when Adalynn Simone walked into his bakery ordering one blueberry muffin and a cup of coffee. She was feeling the same way, smitten at first glance as he was pre-occupied by another customer. She was in Mequon, Wisconsin to meet up with her realtor to look at what may be her third bridal boutique - this time in the Midwest, she already had one in San Jose, California, and Manhattan, New York. Mequon was picturesque, yes. The location for the boutique was perfect, yes. But it was Emil, unbeknownst to everyone including him, that she decided to make the move. Would it be one that she regrets? You will have to take a read. Enjoy and Merry Christmas.

Redemption waited five long years for justice, but it never came. She knew she had to return and take matters into her own hands. Seven years earlier she decided after graduation to make picturesque Mequon, Wisconsin her new home, away from her family and all that she loved in Savannah, Georgia. She was offered a teaching position a few months after graduating from college in Boston. Soon after her move to Mequon, he came into her life - the suave dentist who had the tongue of honey and his arresting demeanor - she had only met him once before at his office, but he was not someone that she wanted to tell no. He became her everything, but she was not his. In the fight to hold onto just the hem of his heart, she lost all that was precious to her. She had to return for what was rightfully hers. In his arrogance, he went on with his life as if she never existed. Well, no more she realized her worth when it was too late, but she could not let it be another's fate. She had to save her and in the process redeem herself.

The Baillou family has so many skeletons in their closet. Xavier inherited his father's law firm along with a nagging sister, name Marion - who is found dead, stuffed like a Christmas turkey in the cubby under the foyer stairs. There was no forced entry, everything is as normal, so who could have killed her - no one knows. Alexandre Wilcott, a young attorney at the Baillou and Co. Law Firm, will learn more than just being a successful criminal attorney. Everyone around him seems to know more about him and his past than he ever did. The skeletons begin to fall out the closet one by one when Dillon a former associate of the firm is found murdered in his high rise apartment - his throat slit from ear to ear. So many twists and turns in the maze of deceptions, Alexandre's head will spin and unbeknownst to Xavier, so will his.

Frank Johnson was a broken man - his first and only love, his mother died three years ago, a loss that still strangles him with grief. He felt he had nothing to live for. A man once acclaimed in his profession as a college lecturer with two doctorates, one in chemistry and the other in physics. But now Frank takes refuge at the eastern gate of The Pearly Gates Cemetery where both his beloved mother and aunt are buried side by side. He spends his days selling sprigs of lavender from the lot behind the cemetery to passers-by and his nights asleep upon his mother's grave. Dominique, a school teacher, is determined to save him, but he does not see himself being saved.

"Our souls were intertwinedBefore we were bornEverywhere I went there was youWhen I woke up there was youWhen I lay down in slumber there Was always youI have lived in the imagination of you"Excerpt from the lyrics "The Imagination of You" a song that Louis penned to show his love for Tiffiani. Louis had stolen Tiffiani's heart before she knew it was missing. Upperclassmen in high school, no one saw the relationship between the popular, handsome track star Louis Bishop and the shy; bookworm Tiffiani Dubois - she did not see it either. But fate had it all planned out the day she ran to his side after he suffered an injury during one of their school's track meets. From that day forth there was no turning back. At first, she resisted but her heart was already joined with his. Their relationship blossomed from her insecurities to a young lady who wanted nothing more than to always be in his embrace. Louis knew from the first time he saw her walking down the halls, that he had to make her his girl - he had two obstacles, Taylor his then-girlfriend, and the fear of Tiffiani denying him the chance to love her.