From Friends to Forever

Eight faith-filled friendship-to-love romances, plus a bonus novella

By: Autumn Macarthur

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Romance blossoms between friends, work colleagues, and even frenemies in these clean, faith-filled, friends-to-love romances. Each couple overcomes past heartaches, deals with real-life challenges, and finds hope despite an uncertain future with God's help, while discovering their forever love was there with them all along. If you love to read clean and sweet romances where friends become so much more, take a look at this lovely set of eight previously published heartwarming and uplifting romances (plus a bonus novella)!

HIS RADIANT BRIDE (from Sweetapple Falls) She's sworn off love. He wants to give his daughter a loving home. Neither of them want to risk their heart. It should be a perfect marriage. But then he falls in love with his bride...

• friends to love
• single dad/ teacher
• marriage of convenience
• small rural town

MORE THAN FRIENDS (from The Macleans) One summer's day at an Edinburgh beach with a dog and a busload of very special kids could change both their lives...

• nurse/ physical therapist
• work colleagues / friends
• special needs / differently abled children
• brother's best friend

A LESSON IN LOVE (from The Macleans) As they work together on a garden at their church, can two teachers learn God’s lessons in love, or will the secrets she's afraid to share keep them apart?

• work colleagues/ friends
• health challenges
• caregiving
• Edinburgh

CHERISH ME (from Chapel Cove Romances) Can her reluctant return home reignite romance for a plain accountant and her high school crush, the scarred local cop?

• small town
• turning 40
• high-school sweethearts reunite
• opposites attract
• quirky bookstore
• even quirkier pets!

STAND BY ME (from Chapel Cove Romances) He’s big city, she’s small town. He’s a fast-paced CEO, she’s a slowed-down artist. He loves the night life, she loves the quiet life. He’s wealthy, she... well, isn’t. Can such opposites make love work?

• internet friendship
• opposites attract
• different lifestyles
• interracial
• health challenges

DOLCE VITA (from A Tuscan Legacy / That Sunflower Summer) A sweeter life of love awaits her. But can she accept it?

• long term friends and work colleagues
• Wales and Tuscany
• family conflict, secrets, and mystery
• forgiveness and healing

MIDNIGHT CLEAR (from Huckleberry Lake) He could be her Mr. Right. Only she knows the huge past heartbreak she hides means she’s his Ms Wrong.

• frenemies
• teacher/ handyman
• grumpy/ sunshine
• matchmaking friends
• small-town Christmas
• healing from grief

INVITATION TO THE BALL (from Love in Store) When the department manager she's secretly crushed on for years invites the shy store florist to partner him to a glittering ball, it's a dream come true! But can she let love in, or will fear and doubt send her running at midnight?

• friends-to-love
• makeover
• Cinderella retelling
• London
• God-given confidence

BONUS NOVELLA: LAST CHRISTMAS (from The Blue Door) Last Christmas, an argument tore them apart. This Christmas, can they see beyond their troubled pasts to the future God intends for them?

• long-term friends
• reunion / second chances
• London
• Christmas in a homeless shelter
• finding a more meaningful life direction

I hope you're blessed by these emotional, tender, God-honoring and ultimately uplifting stories.
Autumn
PS - My stories set in the UK use British English spelling and grammar. This can look "wrong" to US readers!