5 Books Published by Virtuous Books on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

A teenager texting while driving runs a stop sign and shatters Joi Campbell’s perfect life. Her husband and twin boys are killed as a result. Unable to start life over without them, she succumbs to grief and anger. But fate has other plans for the thirty-three-year old emergency room nurse. Her girlfriends book an all-expense paid trip to the Caribbean. There, Joi sees a familiar face from back home—Firefighter Wyatt Payne. Will the flames ignite in paradise between her and the sexy fireman? Or will the guilt of starting over stifle the fire before it gets hot and heated? After surviving a bitter divorce, love is the last thing Wyatt is looking for. But when he meets Joi, their friendship begins to blossom. However, his dangerous job as a fireman brings their budding romance to a halt. And to make matters worse, a secret he’s hiding threatens to push her away forever.

Have you ever wondered why as Christians we sometimes do not act as though we are? The Enemy Within will illustrate how we wrestle with the decisions between good and evil; how we want to do the right thing but feel as though there is someone else our sinful nature forcing us to do that which is evil. The Enemy Within exposes the power struggles that we have between the flesh and the spirit man within us. The stakes are high; you should choose this day which of the two powers will win control over your life. The decision is yours, but the cost is everlasting.

Where Was God? Fayth Angelica Hope, questioned after the death of her father. Reared by a mother who could give, Cruella Deville, a run for her money as, “The Queen of Mean,” Fayth turns her back on the church, her faith, and love. She believed, no, just and merciful God would have abandoned her to the harsh brutality of her mother’s iron fist. Her emotional and spiritual scars run deep, lasting into adulthood.

As a promising investigative reporter, she decides to change her name. Her given name of Fayth has more curses attached to it than blessings. She hopes the switch to Angelica will give her the clean slate she desires.

Assigned to investigate financial advisor Jasion McCoy, Angelica goes in determined to expose him for embezzlement. She hopes the story will advance her career as one of the top reporters across the country. Instantly, there is an attraction. But she hides her feelings from him. After a series of missteps, broken heartedness, and rejections in her past, she buries the notion of any man, especially a man of his caliber, ever loving her. With the evidence stacked against him, she believes his only interest in her, is to keep from going to prison.

Top-notch financial advisor Jasion McCoy is in the middle of an embezzlement scheme. When Angelica Hope shows up in his office, he knows he’s in trouble. She is one of the hottest investigative reporters in Port City and now she’s gunning for him. How can Jasion convince her that he is innocent? And how can he hold back his feeling for the woman who’s out to do him in?

Have you been told that you are worthless, ugly, no good, and will never amount to anything? Has it caused feelings of loneliness, depression, and even self-hatred? With all the mixed messages from society, and social media, seeing oneself as perfectly normal has become a personal struggle. Stop allowing others to validate you, due to your socioeconomic background, weight, race, class, and gender. God has called you out for so much more. See yourself, in a better, more positive light. Come out of the darkness, into God’s marvelous light, so that you can see that God has created you perfectly normal.

Through the Eyes of God exposes the people and places-community, family, friends, and workplace-that are responsible for feelings of unworthiness and self-hatred, which can lead to an identity crisis. This problem is universal, crossing all socioeconomic backgrounds, races, classes and genders, because we all have struggled at some point in our lives with the need to be validated by others. This book solves the problem and brings healing to the whole person-mind, body, and spirit.