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Cassie Randall has a secret that haunts her every day. A secret that makes trusting a man an impossibility. She wants nothing more than to live a quiet, simple life as a teacher. Even though he's portrayed as a stereotypical, professional athlete ladie's man, all Jamal Jenkins, the starting point guard for the Thunder, wants is to live his life out of the limelight with the people he loves most. Can Jamal help Cassie believe that he can be trusted or will she continue to believe that all men are like the one she fears most?
Brant Billings has not had much sense of permanency in his life. Raised as a foster kid, he was bounced from home to home until Betty Billings, his foster mom, adopted him at the age of eleven. Facing a mountain of student loan debt after receiving his nurse practitioner's license, Brant accepted a job at a clinic in the small town of Parker, Oklahoma. As long as he worked in the tiny town for three years, his loans would be forgiven. Small town girl Colleen "CC" Chandler has always been used to fending for herself. Raised by hippie parents more focused on their wants and needs than their daughter's, Colleen has not had much sense of stability in her life. As the town's only hair stylist, Colleen has continued to care for others by giving them the confidence they need to look their best. Both Brant and Colleen have scars that run deep. Will the two of them be able to overcome the odds stacked against them or will they simply be too much to handle?
Kasey Thomas had it all - an adoring husband, two beautiful sons, a job she loved. But then a tragic car accidents leaves her a widow and her world turns upside down. Paul Jennings has tried to find love like his mom and dad's. But the years, awful blind dates and shallow relationships have taught Paul one thing - love like his parents does not exist. At least not for him. When their mutual friend, Beth, convinces them to go out on a blind date, both expect it to be like Beth's other blind dates - a disaster. But when the date is anything but, Kasey and Paul find themselves unexpectedly hopeful. Can Kasey open herself up to Paul and let him see her, scars and all? Can Paul handle all the chaos that is the Thomas family? Will they have a chance at happily ever after?
When Breckin Henderson returned to her hometown of Parker, Oklahoma, she didn't expect her football coaching husband to leave her for the head cheerleader as soon as she walked across the graduation stage. Never one to run, Breckin remained in Parker, but picking up the pieces of her shattered life proved more difficult than she could ever imagine. For residents of Parker, Griff was the man who came home with a broken heart when the love of his life was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident. The grandson who drives his eighty-nine year old grandmother grocery shopping each week. The bartender who took over the bar his grandfather owned and subsequently took his grandfather's place listening to the town's troubles. Both Breckin and Griff's hearts have been broken once before. As they grow closer, will they be able to put their fears and insecurities aside and try to discover love again? Or will their hearts be too broken to ever completely mend?
Spunky, quick-witted twenty-one year old Callie Thompson is a University of Oklahoma journalism student by day and NBA Oklahoma City Thunder dancer by night. Callie hopes her connections with the franchise might get her foot in the door for a sports broadcasting job when she graduates. She just has one rule: never date the players. Kyle Kelly is the deadly handsome and charmingly Southern Thunder man of the hour. All the twenty-six year old is looking for is an NBA championship to call his own. An unexpected meeting with an opinionated, feisty Callie, however, who is very unimpressed with his celebrity status, sets his sights toward winning two things: her heart AND the championship.
At 27, Annabelle Cleaver finds herself sitting in a lawyer's office, listening to the last will and testament of the only relative she's ever loved being read. Stuck in the small Oklahoma town she always had ever intention of leaving, she has no idea what comes next. When her sexy high school crush, Wyatt Holloway, returns to town and asks her for a job on her farm, her simple life becomes more complicated than she ever imagined. Wyatt Holloway returned from three tours overseas in the army a broken man. He'd seen and done things that haunt his days and nights. When he discovers Annabelle Cleaver, the beautiful but quirky girl from high school, needs help on her family farm after the passing of her crazy grandma, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to the woman who'd always held his interest. Warm, sexy and laugh out loud funny, Unlikely in Love tells the story of two people coming together despite the odds against them.
To her friends and family, Aria Cook is a sassy, foul-mouthed, not-a-care-in-the-world woman. She dances for the Oklahoma City Thunder and tends bar at her father's trendy downtown bar, A Shot of Whiskey. What her friends and family don't know, however, is Aria's running from a past she can't escape no matter how hard she tries. Trevin Anderson is a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. He knows most women only want the fame associated with dating an NBA athlete. He doesn't get attached. He has a job he loves, a sister and mother he adores and friends who have his back. He doesn't need anything else. After a failed first date, Trevin can't walk away. Maybe it's the thrill of the chase; perhaps it's something more. She calls him her stalker. He calls her his girlfriend. The only question is who will be right in the end?
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Henry Gibbel was born probably in Germany about 1717. He came to America before 1748 when he joined a congregation of the Church of the Brethren in Pennsylvania. He married Christina (possibly Deyer) and they had at least five sons. Information on many of his descendants (12 generations) who live in Pennsylvania and elsewhere is given in this material collected from many sources by Ira Gibbel.
Losing has never been easy for a Maddox, but death always wins. Eleven years to the day after eloping with Abby in Vegas, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas's oldest and most violent crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is a target. The secret Thomas and Travis have kept for a decade will be revealed to the rest of the family, and for the first time the Maddoxes will be at odds. While none of them are strangers to loss, the family has grown, and the risk is higher than ever. With brothers against brothers and wives taking sides, each member will make a choice—let the fear tear them apart, or make them stronger.