Only In My Dreams

by Shelia E. Bell, Shelia Bell

Fantasia Runsome has it all - beauty, brains, her own art galleries, homes across the country, and everything else money can buy. What Fantasia doesn't have and never has desired is LOVE. She holds on to bitterness and anger from when her father died when she was just a young girl. Fantasia swears that she will never fall in love because she doesn't want to experience the hurt, pain and grief that her mother Ruth Runsome went through when her husband (Fantasia's father) died. A highly religious man, Fantasia feels that God destroyed their once perfect family. Fantasia feels that she has no reason to trust or believe in God, and she definitely has no room for a man in her life...unless it's a man that she seems to find Only In Her Dreams. Randall Hughes, a partner in a line of men's clothing stores that cater to the rich and famous is handsome, secure and a man after God's own heart. He desires the woman that God has designed for him and he is willing to wait patiently until God reveals her to him. When he meets Fantasia Runsome,the good friend and cousin of his business partner's wife, he is immediately drawn to her beauty. What disturbs but yet intrigues him is Fantasia's disdain toward his faith and him. So why is he still attracted to her? This surely can't be the woman God has for him....could it? Fantasia and Randall are two souls unknowingly seeking the same thing - to be loved. Will they find it in each other?

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Published July 9, 2024

About the author

Shelia E. Bell, aka Shelia Bell, is an award-winning, national bestselling author with 40+ books published in Christian fiction, women’s fiction, nonfiction, and young adult genres. Her books have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including 2017 Christian Literary Readers' Choice Award, 2015 Rosa Parks Award, USA Today Mention, 2014 Christian Literary Award, AAMBC Nate Holmes Honorary Award, Kindle Award, OOSA Book of the Year, numerous SORMAG awards and more.

Shelia began her publishing career in 1999. Since then, she has set the literary industry ablaze with her dynamic, true-to-life stories that she calls "perfect stories about imperfect people like you...and me."

Shelia is passionate about helping others and encourages and promotes people to ‘live their dreams now.’ In 2012, she founded a nonprofit organization, "Black Writers And Book Clubs (BWABC) Literacy Association," whose mission is to promote literacy one community at a time. Shelia is also a well-respected freelance book editor.

Having contracted polio at the age of two, she accepts no excuses and is determined not to let her physical imperfections keep her from attaining and fulfilling her life’s purposes.

Reviews

[Darliss Batchelor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only in My Dreams

Only in My Dreams was a short read. However, the story held my attention. I loved Fantasia's transformation from unbelief to belief particularly as it relates to love relationships. Enjoyable.

[Arlena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Title: Only In My Dreams
Author: Shelia Bell
Publisher: Smashwords Edition
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:

"Only In My Dreams" by Shelia Bell

My Thoughts...

This was quite a interesting sweet romantic read about Fantasia and Randall. This author gives us a good story about Fantasia who had a problem excepting LOVE, not wanting to 'experience hurt, pain and grief' after the death of her father. Why was this? So, it seems like Fantasia was living life to the fullest having it all...'everything money can buy.' Fantasia even thought that she didn't even need a 'God' in her life. So having all the money she wanted and no God in her life was she really happy? However, what was up with the dreams that Fantasia was having? Then she meets Randall who seems to be a very devout person when it came to his christian life, This is where this story will pick up and this is where I say you will have to pick up this good read to see if Randall will be able to help Fantasia turn her faith and him? In the end 'will they find each other?' T This was beautifully written and I would definitely recommend "Only In My Dreams" as a good read.