Books by Deborah Raney

Link Whitman has settled into the role of bachelor without everintending to. Now he's stuck in a dead-end job and, as the next Whitmanwedding fast approaches, he is the last one standing. The pressure fromhis sisters' efforts to play matchmaker is getting hard to bear as Linkpulls extra shifts at work, and helps his parents at the Chicory Inn.All her life, Shayla Michaels has felt as if she straddled two worlds. Her mother's white family labeled her African American father with namesShayla didn't repeat in politewell, in any company. Her father'sfamily disapproved as well, though they eventually embraced Shayla astheir own. After the death of her mother, and her brother Jerry'sincarceration, life has left Shayla's father bitter, her niece, Portia,an orphan, and Shayla responsible for them all. She knows God loves themall, but why couldn't people accept each other for what was on theinside? For their hearts?Everything changes one icy morning when a child runs into the street andLink nearly hits her with his pickup. Soon he is falling in love withthe little girl's aunt, Shayla, the beautiful woman who runs Coffee'sOn, the bakery in Langhorne. Can Shayla and Link overcome society's viewof their differences and find true love? Is there hope of changing thesometimes-ugly world around them into something better for them all?

Bree Cordel Whitman is a Whitman by marriage, but sometimes she forgets she wasn't born into Grant and Audrey's family. Her late husband, Timothy Whitman, gave his life for his country on a windblown hill in Afghanistan. Bree has let the love of Tim's family keep her ties to him strongin the same way she keeps Tim's memory alive for them. But it's been almost five years, and she can't hang onto the past forever.Fighting the guilt she feels for wanting to love again, she can't help her dreams about a tall, dark, and handsome mana man who is not her Tim. How can she accept the flirtations from Drew Brooks without throwing the Whitman family back into grieving? And how can Drew compete with the ghost of a hero and the hero's very alive family who seem to hold some spell over the woman who shares their name . . . a woman he might just love?

What if it's too late for dreams to come true?

Landyn longs for home, but her mother may have other plans.

Sometimes God's ways are not at all what we expect . . . and exactly what we need.