Jennifers Vow

Who sent the black panther guide, and where will it lead her? A young woman, Jennifer, receives a visit from a spirit panther which takes her into an amazing adventure. Thrust into a relationship with Vijay, a technician in the Mercury Theatre, she must overcome her past to learn to love him. Meanwhile, the message of the panther is not clear, and an Artificial Intelligence named Gabriel claims to be the one who can help her solve the puzzle. This speculative, romantic fantasy is the first novel of the Jennifer Trilogy, which begins the series of Gaia’s Daughters.

"Witty, well-written and wonderful, this is a joyful and delightful story of self-discovery. Lisa Plumley is the best! What a fun way to spend an afternoon."—Fresh Fiction on "Just Jennifer" Breezy California girl Jennifer Merryn has a knack for picking fun friends and butt-enhancing jeans, but she's got lousy radar when it comes to men. So why not let her friends choose her blind dates—thirty different prospects in thirty days. Armed with breath mints, lip gloss, and unlimited text-messaging minutes, Jennifer's ready for the dating frenzy to begin—or is she? REVIEWS:"Just Jennifer is a fast-paced, charming romance that is sure to bring a smile to romance readers’ faces!!" —Roundtable Romance Reviews "Just Jennifer is a delightful story about the old type flame becoming the new lasting love. Jennifer and Gavin are wonderful characters, and Jennifer's friends are the kind we all should have helping us. Enjoy this anthology in time for Valentine's Day!" —Reader to Reader/New and Previously Owned Books (originally published by Kensington Publishing in the anthology I Shaved My Legs For This?!)

Jonathan Hart is a twenty-one year old college student who is about to be married to his high school sweetheart, Samantha. He has been charged with the task of writing his own wedding vows. So he looks to his future. Join Jonathan as he relentlessly searches, studies, and imagines his years ahead in a remarkable and entertaining quest to compose the perfect words.

For the most part, Charlie enjoys his retired life on the beach, driving tourists to their destinations. Yet as darkness falls each night, he finds himself lonely in his big glass house. When Emily climbs into his tourist shuttle, she takes his breath away. Maybe this unassuming woman could change his life. Maybe she could bring the sunshine back. But both have secrets, and hiding them becomes more complicated by the day. When the truth becomes known, both Charlie and Emily must decide if the other is worthy of love.

Interior designer Zoe Sarris is surprised when Crown Prince Demetrius Castanavo asks for her professional services, and even more so when she learns they are still married and Demetrius wants her back in time for Christmas.

This contemporary fantasy explores the future of AI, the social effect of mass displacement of workers, and the universal theme of finding love after a life gone wrong.

"Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime." --Entertainment Weekly Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder--and a wake-up call for mental health care in America On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in love--Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other--and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty-three, the son of a distant, authoritarian father and a mother with a family history of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent crime, all three stories a wake-up call to the system that failed to see the signs. In this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the crime, offers a deeply reported portrait in microcosm of the state of mental health care in this country--as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness. Culminating in Kalebu's dangerous slide toward violence--observed by family members, police, mental health workers, lawyers, and judges, but stopped by no one--While the City Slept is the story of a crime of opportunity and of the string of missed opportunities that made it possible. It shows what can happen when a disturbed member of society repeatedly falls through the cracks, and in the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, is an indelible, human-level story, brilliantly told, with the potential to inspire social change.

Jennifer Olson is a recently reformed mean girl. She moved to River’s End Ranch for a new job that would include a new start. No one there knows of her history. She decides to contact a matchmaker who will introduce her at the altar after concluding she is incapable of being kind for long enough to truly get to know a man and marry him. It seems to be the only way she has even a chance at love and a family. Maynard Butts has spent his entire life trying to live above the name he has been given. When he lands a job as the lead actor for a television show, he decides to contact someone who will introduce him to his future bride at the altar. He doesn’t want someone to reject him for his name or marry him for his fame and fortune. When he sees Jennifer walking down the aisle toward him, he’s sure that everything will work out. But will she ever tell him what she’s hiding from him? Or will they always have a distance between them?

Obedience, Chastity, a runaway teen Can a priest be ‘unchaste’? Can he love a married woman? Imagine a priest who has his own interpretation of his Vow of Chastity, and holds to it, even after it forces his Bishop to relocate him to a new parish. Imagine further that this man unexpectedly meets an ex-parishioner, who tells him she is separated, but still married. Will he provide intimate comfort and support to her, just because she confesses that she plans to divorce her husband? When ten-year-old Alan Whittenby commits suicide, his older brother Desmond is wracked by guilt. His parents’ unwillingness to accept the truth drives Desmond away. He disappears from his boarding school but, when his father calls in favours from friends in the media as well as the police, Desmond's whereabouts remain a mystery. When he meets backpacker Pennie Irvine and they decide to team up, she reluctantly shares stories of her own difficult childhood and they grow close. An act of heroism leaves Pennie in a quandary and she decides she must go on alone. And, when Fr. Jack McCaffrey’s pneumonia attracts help from an unlikely source, nothing will stop him from breaking his Vow of Obedience to his Bishop and his Church. Because nothing can stop Jack acting on the greatest commandment Jesus gave his followers: Love one another.