Faithful

Series · 4 books · 2017-2020

By Anna Bishop Barker

Books in series

Journey to Faithful

2017

WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU... “I don’t have anything to give a good woman, Laura.” Jake Beckett is a man frozen in the loss and grief of the past - a man who accepts that the existence that he has is the penance that he must pay. “My faith died a long time ago, Jake.” Laura Howard is a woman also mired in the past – a woman who has battled the monsters, but who fears that she may have lost the war. Two strangers struggling to fight their way out of invisible chains, they must travel together toward safety, freedom and peace. Faithful, Tennessee is the destination. For both of them, maybe, finally, a home, a sanctuary, a place where they each can find peace. And in each other, maybe they can find passion, laughter, acceptance. Love. But the past always follows and evil can find the best concealed path. And sometimes, the only way out is through.

Home to Faithful

2018

HOME WAS WHERE THEIR HEARTS WERE…. Decorated Marine and former FBI agent Sam Beckett is going home. Home to the place he couldn’t wait to leave. Home to the town that nowhere else in the world could replace. Home to the people that matter. Home to the girl that he could never forget and to the battle he would face to win back the woman that she had become. And home to a predator who waits to take the things that Sam cherishes. Delilah Prescott had a perfect house. She had spent a lot of time and effort and blood and tears to make it that way. If she lived and ate and slept alone in that house, well, loneliness didn’t give you scars. At least not like the ones that fists gave you. And if she didn’t remember how to laugh or love, again, this was the price she was willing to pay. But Sam was back. And suddenly that price seemed too high, and her perfect little house seemed like a perfect little prison. And while Sam and Delilah tear each other’s bodies up with passion while trying to fix each other’s hearts, the predator is watching. Waiting. Planning. Sometimes the fairy tales are true. The woods aren’t always safe.

Faithful Peace

2019

TAKING BACK HER LIFE WAS THE EASY PART. LEARNING TO LIVE WITH THE SCARS WAS NOT. When she was twelve years old, they took her childhood and made her a wife. Chattel. Property. When she was thirty-four, she crawled to her freedom. In Faithful, Tennessee she found refuge, safety, and family. Esther Howard spent the next two years clawing and scratching through her nightmares to take her life back. For those two years, he was there – a quiet, solid presence that never failed her—even when she pushed him away. HE MADE HIS UNEASY PEACE WITH WHAT HE HAD. John Valentine’s life had been little bits of heaven and huge chunks of hell. Now he focused on his sons and the land and tried hard to curb the need to be more to a woman who did not want more of him. Until the day he discovered that she did. THE LEADER WOULD RECLAIM WHAT BELONGED TO HIM. Eli Babylon had led the Brotherhood of The Father. He was the rightful Leader, and The Wife was his. He had earned her, and he would have her. The reckoning was coming.

Surviving Faithful

2020

Can a broken bad boy and a lonely small-town vet really work? Kyle Valentine left Faithful, Tennessee because there was nothing for him there. In one nightmarish moment, all he had was taken. But Faithful never left him. It was as much a part of him as the marrow in his bones. He spent three years on the water and on the run from his grief. Then this dead wife told him to go home. ~~~~ Veterinarian Olivia Hudson was just a small-town girl with simple needs. She had the prerequisite three wishes. She wanted a makeup that covered her freckles. She needed people to stop feeding their dogs chicken bones. She craved a decent man who would love her, only her, beyond all reason and rational thought. None of those wishes was coming true. Until a mountain of a man with tattoos and a deliciously dirty mouth landed at her front door, and things started looking up. ~~~~ But who was leaving the dead cats on her lawn?

Author

Anna Bishop Barker

Author · 7 books

I was born in Kentucky and raised in Florida, so I am a southerner through and through. Since I was old enough to pick up a book, I have been a voracious reader. I wrote the usual poetry and short stories in high school, and I kept the dream of writing in the back of my heart until opportunity and encouragement helped me to realize that dream. I live in Tampa with my kids, grandkids, dogs, various other livestock, and way more books than is strictly healthy. Hot Romance. Suspense. Humor & heart. Grown up stories for grown up people. This is what I write. There's also food, music, dogs, the occasional geek reference, and quite possibly an inappropriate joke. There will likely be dead bodies as well. Three random facts about me:

I was bitten by a shark when I was 14.
I have read War and Peace. (When I get to the afterlife, I am demanding that week of my life back. Sorry, Tolstoy.)
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