Best if books are read in order. EMOTIONALLY GRIPPING! She’s running from a past, he’s duty-bound to protect her. He stands on the other side of sorrow and despair with a love so vast and strong it reaches into her soul and sparks the courage to become the woman she dares. Cora Williams is an ex-con with no place to go but Gibbs City, Missouri. A small mid-western town where she hopes to remain undisturbed and unobtrusive. With her nephew Jack, her wants are simple, to hide from the horrors of her past. Sheriff Virgil Carter is a WW2 veteran with demons of his own, but Parker County is his to protect. That includes a young, beautiful woman newly released from prison who longs to be left alone. Love often comes like sleep, softly, quietly and unexpectedly. You just have to close your eyes and dream.

Best if books are read in order. RIVETING AND REVEALING! The past stands between them, but a strong abiding love bridges the gap. Violence and crime intrude on the quiet town of Gibbs City, Missouri when a citizen does the unthinkable, but Sheriff Virgil Carter is determined to uphold the law at all cost. Cora Williams reaches out to an abused child whose tiny heart is capable of great love and innocent acceptance. Cora must decide if she can tear down the invisible walls she’s erected to protect herself and love greater than her fear. There is no sorrow love cannot heal and no challenge that does not bow to an act of courage. Love often comes like sleep, softly, quietly and unexpectedly. You just have to close your eyes and dream.

Best if books are read in order. INTENSELY MOVING! Fate, the great equalizer, binds two broken and battered hearts together in their true destiny. When those wanting to silence Cora show up in Gibbs City, Missouri to do her harm, Sheriff Virgil Carter fights against Cora’s past as it rises and threatens to destroy them both. Caught between her past and the future she longs for, Cora must make a difficult decision. Torn between her desire to hold on to love, Cora must surrender what she holds dear to her heart and allow the healing to begin. Fate says one thing, the heart another. Destiny stands at the crossroads. Love often comes like sleep, softly, quietly and unexpectedly. You just have to close your eyes and dream.

Best if books are read in order. SPELLBINDING! Death knocks on the door of every home in Gibbs City, Missouri. Who will answer? Sheriff Virgil Carter’s strength and valor is tested as Gibbs City, Missouri faces it’s most challenging foe. An influenza epidemic strikes and Virgil can no longer control the outcome as the town erupts in chaos. As the consequences of her past actions move closer, Cora Williams must use all her knowledge and physical strength to fight an invisible adversary. One that threatens the life of every citizen and challenges her to be the person she’s afraid to become. Death and loss have no chance against a love held close to ones heart, for the heart never forgets. Love often comes like sleep, softly, quietly and unexpectedly. You just have to close your eyes and dream.

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Geri Foster brings you the fifth episode of the epic serial Love Released, Women of Courage. Best if books are read in order. HEARTFELT! THE PAST CRAWLS BACK LIKE AN UNWANTED MEMORY TO SHATTER THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE. Sheriff Virgil Carter must find evidence to keep the woman he loves from imprisonment and certain death. When his investigation reveals a web of corruption and greed, an attempt is made on his life and leaves him severely injured. His profound love for Cora gives him the strength to battle for her freedom. Cora Williams must face her toughest challenge of all times by revealing her tragic past. Her worst fear is that once her secrets are exposed, Virgil will turn away and all will be lost. She must gather the courage to face evil and learn to trust her heart. Love is powerful and strong, but can it survive the truth? Love often comes like sleep, softly, quietly and unexpectedly. You just have to close your eyes and dream.

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Geri Foster brings you the sixth episode of the epic serial Love Released, Women of Courage. Gibbs City is the target of a menacing and dangerous arsonist. Virgil Carter fights to conquer the fear and panic that has the entire community on guard against a monster without a conscience. His duty is to insure the town’s safety when even his own life is threatened. Cora Williams-Carter struggles against the prejudices of being a woman doctor in a male dominated field. She’s torn by whether to surrender to her mother’s pleas to attend her sentencing trial or to remain sheltered in her family’s arms. Together Cora and Virgil fight against all foes to keep Gibbs City a place where people can prosper and children grow up safely.

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Geri Foster brings you Episode 7 of Love Released, Women of Courage An unexpected accident occurs in Gibbs City, leaving the town reeling in anger and confusion as a mad man does the unthinkable. While Cora Williams-Carter continues her battle at work to be accepted as a doctor and her fight against Jack’s paternal grandmother continues for custody of the child Cora loves. In the meantime, Sheriff Virgil Carter vows to serve and protect Parker County against all those determined to destroy the town and tear the citizens apart even as he searches for the culprit behind the threat.

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Geri Foster brings you Episode 7.5 of the Women of Courage, Loved Released Serial. This is not a standalone book. Gibbs City’s residents prepare for the holidays as trouble at the school interferes with the Christmas play. Annual events are interrupted when Virgil makes a trip out of town to see justice done. Cora Williams-Carter defends and protects the school teacher who struggles with her past, while fighting to keep Jack out of harm’s way. She’s shocked to learn that from the grave her father has thrown her life, once again, into turmoil. Sheriff Virgil Carter learns that crime doesn’t take a holiday as a stranger enters his county to abduct a child. He must struggle to keep his youngest citizens safe. Arrest warrants in hand, Virgil heads to St. Louis. Could this be the end of a long battle?

End of the Serial! Gibbs City will never be the same again. As the town deals with a robbery that leaves a resident in critical condition, and a woman pushed too far, stands trial for murder. The legal process to adopt Jack becomes complicated when his father fights for the young boy in court. Sheriff Virgil Carter hunts down two thieves, and is determined to bring justice to the town and those in his community. He has a final showdown with Jack’s father.

Gibbs City… Secrets, Spies, and Suspense shadow the residents of a small town in this amazing saga set in the 1940’s. . Shadows of the past haunt Lily Tucker as she searches for a safe haven for her and her six year old daughter in post-World War II. Seeking to build a new life, Lily arrives in Gibbs City in the hopes of turning the rundown hotel left to her into a new home for her and her daughter. Overwhelmed by the workload, her life changes one rainy night when a friend of her deceased husband appears. Elliot Givens’ journey to complete a promise to his best friend soon takes a different turn when he meets Lily. Instead of fulfilling his promise and leaving like he plans, he quickly realizes that Lily need his help in repairing the hotel. The longer Elliot stays, the more he becomes entrenched in the lives of Lily and her daughter. Can two shattered souls come together to heal each other amongst the savage idealism of a small town or will the letter that Elliot carries rip them apart?

Journey back to Gibbs City where Lily Tucker struggles to open the hotel left to her by her deceased husband’s parents and raise her only child. Elliot Givens battles his conscience and the promise he made his dying friend on the battle field. He never planned on falling in love with Lily. When a threat is made on little Katie’s life, Lily joins forces with the women of the town and Elliot to save the child’s life, while fighting her growing attraction to her late husband’s best friend. Can love stand up against gossip, tragedy and deception? Or are they doomed to go their separate ways and never find the true meaning of happiness when the truth is revealed?

Lily Tucker’s family continues to stir the pot, making it hard for her to find happiness. She is reunited with her aunt and together they suspect her mother may have been murdered. She is attacked by her father and devastated that she is so helpless. To protect Lily, Elliot Givens confronts her family only to find he’s been lured into a trap. Jumped while at Black Water Creek, and left for dead, Elliot fights to survive and return to Lily and Katie. Will all the violence end? Will Elliot completely recover? Can their love survive against all the trouble Lily’s family brings to Gibbs City? Will their little town ever be the same again?

Gibb City… Secrets, Spies, and Suspense shadow the residents of a small town in this amazing saga set in the 1940’s. . Two lives hangs by a thread: Elliot Givens’ life hangs in the balance as he fights to survive a brutal beating meant to end it. The only thing that has kept him alive is his determination to protect Lily Tucker and her young daughter, Katie, from the vicious men who trapped him. Each day, the struggle to heal becomes more imperative, especially when he discovers that the men have kidnapped young Katie. Lily Tucker’s life is torn apart when the man she loves is almost killed by her own family. When her daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, Lily’s worst nightmare comes to life. She and the women of Gibbs City come together in a race against time to find Katie while the local sheriff and Elliot go after the men who have taken her daughter. Can a town come together to find one of their own or will greed and treachery end the life of a small child?

The Past Lily Tucker-Givens is shocked when she walks into the lobby of the hotel she owns and finds a ghost from her past standing in it. Confused and torn, Lily’s life once again feels as if it is collapsing around her when she discovers her deceased husband, Randy, isn’t dead after all. Randy’s return threatens to tear her life with Elliot apart, especially after she discovers the reason Elliot had come to the hotel in the first place. Elliot Givens is shocked and weighted down with guilt when he discovers that his best friend was not killed during the war. He reluctantly gives Lily the envelope he has carried, unaware that the letter inside is not a love letter, but something far different. Lily soon discovers that her former husband isn’t the man she thought she knew or loved. Torn between the man of her past and the one for her future, Lily must decide which path she will take. Can Lily overcome the pain of her past to reach out for a new life in Gibbs City or will the past rip her hope for a new life away from her?