BROKEN GROUND. A Christian Romantic Suspense Series

Some places break all at once. Others have been breaking for years.

When floods, ice storms, and other disasters tear through small Appalachian communities, the volunteers of Cornerstone come to rebuild what can be saved. But broken houses and washed-out roads are rarely the only things the ground gives up.

Old secrets surface. Long-buried crimes refuse to stay hidden. And in towns where everyone knows everyone, the truth can be the most dangerous thing left standing.

For the men and women of Cornerstone, every new town brings more than another job. It brings people carrying grief, guilt, unanswered prayers, and wounds they have learned to live around. Somewhere between the danger and the rebuilding, strangers become family, faith is tested, and love finds people who had stopped expecting another chance.

BROKEN GROUND is an interconnected series of clean Christian romantic suspense novels filled with small-town atmosphere, mystery, danger, faith, redemption, found family, and hard-won happily-ever-afters.

Each book features a complete romance and can be read as a standalone.

WHAT THE RIVER KEPT

A Christian Inspirational Romance with Danger and Secrets (Broken Ground)

The water took her diner. The ground gave back a body.

Nora Keene buried a husband young and built her whole life back around a chrome-edged counter, a six-year-old girl, and a plan for everything. Then the Laurel River came up over its banks in the night and took the low streets, the mill floor, and the last thing she had. She has a camp kitchen...

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WHAT THE ICE REMEMBERS

A Christian Christmas Romance of Second Chances (Broken Ground)

The ice came down the night Advent began.

By morning Balsam Hollow had no power, no road out, and no roof on the church that has carried its music for a hundred years. The Fraser firs that pay for this valley’s Christmas are lying broken in the rows. And Lorna Decker, choir director, tree farmer, and the woman who has quietly carried this town’s...

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WHAT THE EARTH GAVE BACK

A Christian Romance of Faith and Suspense (Broken Ground)

The river gave the town its dead back. It gave back one too many.

When the Nolichucky came out of the gorge, it took two streets, the elementary school, and the old cemetery on the bottom land where Ambrose Mill has buried its people for a hundred years. It took the courthouse annex too, and with it every plat, deed and death certificate in the...

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WHAT THE FIRE HID

A Christian Small-Town Romance with Suspense (Broken Ground)

The burn was supposed to make the water safe. The men who lit it knew better.

Four days after tank cars left the rails above Kettle Fork, North Carolina, the smoke has cleared, the contractor has posted a notice, and every house in the hollow has been told the creek is fine.

Laurel Greer knows better, and she cannot prove it. She is the only nurse...

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