Second Chances Christian Romances

The year is nineteen-seventeen. America has just gone to war. Ruth Garland has earned her nursing certificate and looks forward to fulfilling her dream of becoming a medical missionary. She returns home to visit her sister, Rachel, and learns Rachel has only a few weeks to live. Rachel begs Ruth to take care of her three children. "Bring them up in the church. Show them how to live a Christian life." Ruth agrees. And then her sister asks her to make one more promise. "When I am gone, will you marry my Henry?"

Fern Marshall has not seen her ex-husband in fifteen years. Their parting was less than amicable. Now she is faced him with telling him that their eighteen-year-old daughter has been in an automobile accident. If her bad news ended there, she could manage. Unfortunately, it does not. Drew Marshall feels keenly his failure as a father. When his ex-wife brings a message that his daughter has been in an accident, guilt gnaws at him. He should have been there for her. Her next revelation shakes the foundation of his world; calling into question all he thought to be settled and sure.

Pastor David Thomas is accustomed to being the bearer of bad tidings, but never before has he carried a message as startling as the one he must deliver to Regina Golden.Regina is hurt and angry when her deceased husband's double life comes to light. She struggles to cope with Lennard's betrayal, never imagining her comfort will come from such an unexpected source.The news Reverend Thomas reveals will change both his and Regina's lives in ways neither of them ever saw coming.

Colonel Rich Martino returns home from overseas to find everything has changed and nothing makes sense. His wife Rita has disappeared. His credit cards are invalid. A stranger is living in his house and he keeps running into people who are convinced he was killed in action months ago. Worst of all, his wealthy father has suffered a stroke.Psychologist Charlotte Phillips claims to be his comatose father's legal guardian. Rich is determined to learn what has happened, gain control of his father's money, and unmask Charlotte as the gold-digging schemer he's certain she is. He is shocked to find his father's crusty old attorney has been taken in by her along with everyone else.Can Rich straighten out the mess his life has become? Carlene Havel writes sweet romance, Christian.romances, and historical novels. She has lived in Turkey, Republic of the Philippines, and numerous US states. After a career in human resources and software development, she began writing in 2005. The Havels live in Texas, surrounded by their extended family.

In 1935 John Jones is an unrepentant hobo and con-man whose past has caught up with him. He is being carted off to jail when a strange young woman with a two-year-old child on her hip stops the police chief, insisting there has been a mistake. The man the officer has in tow is her husband, Reverend John Jacob Worthington Jones.Edith Harvey needs a man with nothing to lose. Who better than someone at odds with the law? She says a short prayer, and tells a little white lie. The domino effect of her hasty falsehood sets in motion a chain of unexpected events that will change her life forever.

In the depths of the Great Depression, desperate widow Nora Cassidy locates relatives willing to take in her and her young daughter. However, Nora and Dede must travel 500 miles to reach their destination of Jericho, Texas. Providence thrusts the mother and child together with Cliff Windom, a man who's running for his life. Along the way, the travelers encounter a collection of quirky characters and come face-to-face with God's unexpected plan for their lives.