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Violets for Veronica
Victorian Valentines
by Janice Cole Hopkins
One scandal, one season, one shy baron, and a heart that doesn’t want to follow the plan.
With her family insisting that she have a season to find a husband, Veronica Smith has one mission: restore her family’s reputation with a match that dazzles society. After her sister’s scandalous elopement with a dockworker, Veronica convinces her parents to send her to Bath instead of London. Determined to secure a husband of rank and refinement to offset the scandal, she navigates the glittering assemblies with grace and charm. But her plans begin to unravel when she meets Baron Andrew Westley, a man of quiet strength and the lowest title in the aristocracy. He’s everything she wanted to avoid but can’t seem to forget. Can she stay true to her goal? Will her head or her heart win in the end?
Heaven Encounters
140 Near-Death Experiences Revealing the Afterlife
by Randy Kay
Heaven Encounters is a gripping collection of 140 near-death experiences shared by people from all walks of life—atheists, addicts, pastors, cult survivors, and children—each one radically transformed after encountering the living Christ in the afterlife. Collected and curated by bestselling author Randy Kay, who himself experienced heaven after thirty minutes of clinical death, these stories unveil the love, justice, and eternal hope of Jesus in ways that comfort the grieving, equip the curious, and awaken the spiritually hungry.
“I don’t write about heaven as a theologian studying doctrine or a researcher analyzing data—I write as
someone who has been there, who has seen its glory, and who has returned with an unshakeable certainty
that death is not the end but the beginning of our greatest adventure.” – Randy Kay
Heaven Encounters represents the culmination of Randy’s journey from pharmaceutical executive to heaven’s ambassador, offering readers the most comprehensive collection of near-death testimonies ever assembled by someone who has personally made the journey to eternity and back. His writings don’t just describe heaven—they carry the authenticity of someone who has breathed its air, walked its streets, and felt its overwhelming love firsthand.
