Steeple Hill Cafe — Multiple Authors

• Oct-2004
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spin.ster: noun 1 : an unmarried woman or a woman for whom marriage seems dubious 2 : a woman who spins or weaves for a living Her mother, sister and friends (?) fear spinsterhood may be the fate of thirty-year-old Whitney Blake. And while she...

• Dec-2004
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Wileyville, Kentucky, needs a graveyard superintendent. Accepting the mayor's proposition, Sadie adds 'Fraidy Sadie the Cemetery Lady to the other roles that sometimes seem unreal to her -- former Dogwood Blossom Queen, pharmacist's wife, mother of t...

• Jan-2005
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What would you do with $1 million? That's a question Darcy Nightengale never thought she'd need to answer. But a sudden inheritance of just over $1 million begs a more immediate response. And when Darcy learns of her father's last request that ...

• Mar-2005
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Moving to San Francisco offers Kate Madison a fresh start -- just what Kate and her two daughters need after her firefighter husband's tragic death. A move out of Oklahoma City's tornado zone and snakes and...wait. Earthquakes? San Francisco has eart...

• May-2005
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I, Gracie Lee Harris, being of (mostly) sound mind and (slightly chubby) body, do hereby declare I had nothing to do with the murder of my two-timing, con man husband. But I know three women who could have killed Dennis: his devoted but delusional mo...

• Sep-2005
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"I'm a P.K., preacher's kid (or if I want to get fancy, a T.O., a theologian's offspring). I grew up afraid of my own allowance...." So when over $20 million falls into her lap shortly after she moves to Minneapolis, Cassia Carr views her Midas to...

• Nov-2005
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For the members of a stay-at-home-moms' e-mail loop, lunch with friends is a sandwich in front of the computer. But where else could they discuss things like . . . Success: Her workaholic husband is driving Dulcie Huckleberry around the bend. It'...

• Jan-2006
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Once, twice, ten times a bridesmaid! I, Dana Rose, do solemnly swear to say "I won't" the next time someone asks me to be in their wedding party. My weak will has gained me a closet full of unflattering bridesmaids' dresses in various sizes to acc...

• Feb-2006
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Teaching Sunday school at her brother's church in the Bay area was supposed to help former champion athlete Esther "Essie" Walker understand boys -- the better to raise her newborn son as a stellar example of manhood. Fat chance! Enter the eight-year...

• Mar-2006
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Dreams are like clouds...they change shape over time. At least, that's what my daughter's last summer before college has taught me. See, living in Pritchett, Wisconsin, was not my dream -- I'd wanted to be a model or an actress, living an exciting...

• Jun-2006
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FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS STAY SINGLE It was an offer I couldn't refuse: take some time off from teaching and help out at the opening of my friend's brother Mitch's fabulous Bliss Village ski resort. After all, thanks to my mother, I'd already dated...

• Jun-2006
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"I need you," the tall, good-looking missionary had said...but he'd been speaking to Josey's entire church at the time. Had she taken it too literally? Because she was no longer in Gull Lake, Minnesota. She was a missionary. In Russia. For a year. ...

• Aug-2006
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How do you emcee your class reunion when your life is a Tilt-a-Whirl? Until 10:30 a.m., Monday, February 6, Macy Moore was Miss Most Likely To Succeed, a corporate executive on the fast track, with a marriage-material boyfriend and a cool city con...

• Sep-2006
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Hi, my name is Bentley. I'm a mutt with a dash of pit bull in the soup, and I have issues. I'm not likely to win any beauty pageants, and I'm afraid of cats. But my human, Norah Kent, thinks I'm the greatest despite all my shortcomings. The pro...

• Dec-2006
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Meet Maxine and Odessa, the Queen Mamas of Castlerock, Texas. They may be getting on in years, but good luck keeping up with them! Most days they're on the prowl at the Five Acres of Fabulous Finds Flea Market, searching for treasures among the trash...

• Jan-2007
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In all my thirty-five years, I, shoe designer Rochelle Gardner, have never had so many men interested in me! My teen son's dad is back in my life after suffering from amnesia (yes, really). The church deacon has had his eye on me for years (and never...

• Jun-2007
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Her rich, spoiled, about-to-be-married cousin always loved making Julie White feel inferior. So to impress Cousin Elaine, Julie lets her think she's landed her dream job--as a wedding planner. But when Elaine's real wedding planner runs off with...

• Sep-2007
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Whitney Black left spinsterhood behind when she became Mrs. Chase Andrews, and marriage is all she'd hoped for. But when her friends Mitzi and Kim start going baby-crazy, she longs for her own little bundle of joy. Wouldn't it be fun if they all coul...

• Dec-2007
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My Yuletide Resolution: Stop Living a Lie With Christmas coming, I, Carly Winston, know it's time to make changes in my life. I've spent way too much time hiding my family's past--and letting opportunities pass me by. Not even my boyfriend, Randy,...

• Jan-2008
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I marry a gorgeous executive, have a baby, lose all the weight (most of it)--and move to a fine house in the suburbs with a welcoming new church. Wait--did I say welcoming? One teeny waaah! and new mothers and their crying babies are exiled to a sepa...

• Feb-2008
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Twenty years and several pounds ago... I was Bernice Strum, hairstylist to the stars. Until I fell for--and got pregnant by--Alex Scott, a handsome actor with a career on the rise. But I gave my baby up for adoption and moved across the country to...

• Jun-2008
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I, Molly Cassidy, am a pregnant woman's dream -- and one man's nightmare! From the moment we met, obstetrician Clay Reynolds scorned my profession as a birthing coach. His scathing remarks left me crying on the shoulder of my potbellied pig, Ger...

• Jul-2008
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Heather Lowell asked herself this question after moving to Prichett, Wisconsin, to temporarily manage the Cut and Curl Beauty Salon. She's hopeful that this summer she will finally find the love of her life. She even has a list detailing everything s...

• Aug-2008
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How do you get cozy when your new "home" is a frozen tundra? Josey's dreams of small-town Minnesota bliss melt away when her hubby's relocated to a Siberian village. No indoor plumbing...or junk food! But this feisty former missionary knows how to mu...

• Mar-2009
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After years of friendship, the women of the SAHM I Am e-mail loop are finally meeting in person. But with two new moms trying to blend in with Dulcie and the gang, there's bound to be trouble! Earth-mother Iona and young mom Hannah are thrilled to...

• Mar-2009
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My almost sister-in-law thought I, Lizabett McDonald, would be the first of the Sisterhood of the Dropped Stitches to marry? True, I've confided to my friends that I've had a crush on Rick Keifer since childhood. But will he ever see me as more than ...