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“Saving Christine” is the ninth entry in Ruthie L. Manier’s Celebrations series, which focuses on the drama and rebirth that affect everyday life.

The death of a beloved sister tears a West Coast family apart. The eldest daughter, Susan Price, is devastated and considering suicide so she can be reunited with her sister, Christine. However,...

Christmas is a hectic time for all families. It seems there is always much to do and too little time to accomplish it. Meet a troubled couple who think they have it all figured out until they find themselves snowbound at the Mystic B&B. It’s another heart-warming tale in Author Ruthie L. Manier’s “Celebrations” series of novellas.

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Get ready for a wild and heartwarming ride with the Cooper family. Dysfunction meets redemption as eight grown children navigate addiction, infidelity, and family feuds.
When petty squabbles threaten to tear apart the Cooper family, patriarch GD takes drastic measures to bring his family back together. He doesn’t want Thanksgiving dinner...

Something mysterious is going on in a small town as Halloween approaches. Residents are reporting seeing demons after dark. Girls are going missing. Young Ruthie Hudson sees something so terrifying it puts her into a shock-induced coma. With the help of the police, her loving family, and a cursed teenager, will she be able to find her way back...

Another nail-biting romance from Ruthie L. Manier.
Community volunteers Elvis McCain and Bree Johnson are thrust together when chaos erupts in a small Arkansas town during Fourth of July celebrations. A series of explosions interrupt holiday festivities. Elvis fights the flames, and Bree cares for the injured. Amidst their heroic responses,...

If you like romance and mystery in short volume, this book is for you.

Fifteen years ago, a spurned lover intentionally sets Ruby Hanson’s Arkansas home ablaze and kills five members of her family. The arsonist is never apprehended. The fear he might return to finish the job haunts Ruby. If he does, will she shrink and hide, or will she take her...

Sometimes, you just have to give love a chance to blossom.
Business is brisk on the cobbled streets of Paris, where florist Juliette and baker Pierre own tiny shops. Neither have time for serious relationships. When they meet unexpectedly at a nearby pub, sparks fly. Juliette believes a kiss is a harbinger of romantic getaways but soon is...

Nic Holiday, Santa’s new apprentice, has his hands full as darkness shrouds the world and the spirit of Christmas may be lost. He has no choice but to set out for the lost village of Messiah, a legendary town hidden in the mountains. If he can fend off the Frost Fiend, who is plummeting the villagers in cold and darkness, he can restore holiday...

In this inspiring short story, Kris Kringle wakes up in a hospital bed. He has no memory of how he got there or that he wrecked his sleigh three weeks before.
Dr. Lin forbids Kris from leaving the hospital due to his head injury. Kris needs to get out in time to save Christmas.
Nurse Katherine Holiday has a few tricks up her sleeve and vows to...

Ten long years ago, outlaw Hunter Clayton saved twelve-year-old Mischief from the deadly hands of a vicious gang. He left her in the care of a kindly couple in Mount Vernon, Washington and went about his way clearing his soiled name. When the two meet up later in life, Mischief remains smitten by her hero. Now she is a vivacious woman, who...

This is the fourth book in Ruthie L. Manier’s time travel series.
Peyton Cooper lost more than the normal use of his leg during one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles; he lost his will to live. He had wandered for ten years before finding his way home to Heavens Cove. Sister-in-law Marissa Clark-Cooper saved him from a life of alcoholism, drug...

When Marissa Clark, passed through the time portal at the Bird Cage Theater she discovered women of the 21st century enjoyed equality that was not present in the Arizona Territory of the 1880s. When she returned to her home one year later, she took up the banner of women’s suffrage. The campaign was tougher than she ever imagined. She was...

Tucker Clark couldn’t resist stepping through a portal that transported him from nineteenth-century Tombstone to a bustling tourist hub of the twenty-first century. Down on her luck, Lucy Stewart was the unwanted daughter of drug-addicted parents. She was waiting to die from an illness not of her choosing when she met a real cowboy who turned...

When Skylar Cummings visits Tombstone’s famous Bird Cage Theater and Museum to investigate paranormal activity, she steps through a portal in time and finds herself in the arms of a charming 19th century cowboy who is determined to win her heart. Will she be able to avoid his amorous advances as well as a gang of ruthless outlaws? This is a...

Author Ruthie L. Manier pens a ghostly tale that promises to entertain from start to finish.
Anthony Mantango will do anything to reunite the ghostly spirit of his lover, Sunshine, with her body. First, he has to discover where her body is located. Next, he must convince his beloved that she is not dead. Instead, she is languishing in the void...

James the youngest of the Mantango clan needs his four brothers’ assistance and as always they’re armed and ready to defend their kin.
James fell hard for Mariah appearing before him so close he could kiss her full, sassy, lips smelling of cotton candy. Her stance is proud with the luscious body of a goddess. She’s covered from head to toe in a...

A witch on the run...

After Issy’s car broke down and she was forced to walk for miles to reach the nearest town, she practically fell into the Shitkick Bar out of the sweltering, Washington heat. Moisture glistened her delicate skin, her cheeks flushed a pale pink. She heaved huge gulps of air from the A/C above her head as though starving for...

Will this man ‘Dark Eyes’ free Carra’s mind and break the Lover’s Curse?

He comes to her in her dreams, a force of nature like none other. The gravitational pull is unbearable, drawing her towards him like a moth to a flame. His dark eyes are fathomless, haunting her day and night. Who is this mysterious stranger, with the hungry eyes that call...

Skylar Cummings never dreamed time travel was possible until she finds herself in a room with a gorgeous but calloused cowboy from the Wild Wild West. Researching paranormal activity in Tombstone, Arizona, Sky assumed she was witnessing a ghost, but she’d stumbled through a portal to the past.
Jesse Clarke is a nineteenth century cowboy who’s...

Tucker Clark, a Tombstone marshal from the 19th century, had imagined traveling to the future since he was a boy when his Pa shared stories of people disappearing through a portal in town. Tucker receives solid proof of the portal’s existence and succeeds in crossing through, but as his boots land in the 21st century, the hair on the back of his...