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Ruthie Madison

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	The Past Hunter 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Purify My Heart by Ruthie Madison (Goodreads Author), K.R. Morrison (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Second Chance At Love 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jesus Paid It All by Ruthie Madison (Goodreads Author), Kathy Ree 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Love in a Diner (Second Chance Series) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Two thousand and twenty, has been a year of rewrites and Book 2 in the Second Chance Series is no exception.
It all begin last year when the Lord put it in my heart to go ahead and rewrite The Past Hunter: Two Men: Her Past and Present. The second edition has characters that original as in it and the hero has more scenes! Here's the twist: The heroine meets a man who is a ringer for the man she lef Read more of this blog post »

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Cold As The Grave (A Sheriff Ray Duke Small Town Mystery Book 1)

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“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor

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“Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

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