Sisters by Design

HOW WRONG SHE WASEight years ago, Sydney Patterson's ex-husband used threats and fear to coerce her teenage daughter into the unthinkable. Haunted by guilt and condemned by her in-laws, she flees to Garfield Oklahoma to build a new life. Now, with a new job, new friends, and a new commitment to Christ, Syd is rebuilding, confident that no one ever needs to know a thing about her humiliating and shameful past.BE HER FRIENDAfter five years of widowhood, Mason Saxton wants more than friendship with the pretty blonde he met at his son's wedding. He's praying about it, and the only thing he's heard from God is an injunction to "be her friend." He's more than willing to start there---at least he was until a vile misunderstanding sends him reeling.A MATTER OF TRUST AND FORGIVENESSA marvelous future hangs in the balance, and it all depends on Syd's ability to trust and Mason's willingness to forgive. How will these two new believers reconcile the past with the future? Small-town Oklahoma and the friendships they produce are embedded in Sharon Srock's heart. After spending her first fifteen years on the move, living in fourteen homes and attending thirteen schools, she landed in a tiny central Oklahoma community and made it her own. As someone who's been blessed to be a part of the same hometown church for more than five decades, Sharon writes stories of hope built from her own unique perspective-stories that demonstrate a sisterhood formed not by blood but by heart, where ordinary women are able to do extraordinary things thanks to the friends who surround them and the faith that pulls them through. Sharon still lives in the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma, with her husband and three very large dogs. When she isn't writing, she loves to read, cook, and travel. One of these days, she's going to figure out how to do all three at the same time.

A last ditch effort to save her marriageFresh out of college, Alexandra Conklin said I do to a handsome young minister. They filed for divorce less than a year later, proceedings they halted when Alex learned she was pregnant. Twenty years later, Hunter's ministry is thriving while Alex struggles to put a happy face on her husband's daily neglect. What choice does she have? None until those forgotten divorce papers surface-valid, filed, and legal.A man on a missionThroughout the twenty years of his ministry, Hunter Conklin has given everything-his time, his attention, his passion-to the pursuit of what God called him to do, leaving nothing but the leftovers for the most important people in his life. When his wife moves out, he's forced to examine his life. What he finds is a home where he's more visitor than occupant, children who rarely see him outside the church, and a wife who smiles to hide her loneliness. Is this what God had in mind for him…for his family?Pastors are people tooWith a youthful misunderstanding hanging over their heads and pressure from their congregation mounting, Alex and Hunter scramble to find a balance between her expectations and his priorities before everything they've worked for crumbles to dust at their feet. Small-town Oklahoma and the friendships they produce are embedded in Sharon Srock's heart. After spending her first fifteen years on the move, living in fourteen homes and attending thirteen schools, she landed in a tiny central Oklahoma community and made it her own. As someone who's been blessed to be a part of the same hometown church for more than five decades, Sharon writes stories of hope built from her own unique perspective-stories that demonstrate a sisterhood formed not by blood but by heart, where ordinary women are able to do extraordinary things thanks to the friends who surround them and the faith that pulls them through. Sharon still lives in the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma, with her husband and three very large dogs. When she isn't writing, she loves to read, cook, and travel. One of these days, she's going to figure out how to do all three at the same time.