Marthella Adams grew up ten miles from Pendleton, Oregon, in a family of six. She had three brothers. One was older and two were younger. Family meant everything to her parents and since her father was an avid hunter and fisherman, he taught his children the same. A lot of their weekends and summer vacations were spent camping in the Blue Mountains. Those times are some of her most cherished memories.
“Because I was raised with three brothers, I’ve always been a competitor, striving to shoot, fish, ride horses and work as hard as any of them. Sometimes I hated being the only daughter, but I think it made me stronger. I wouldn’t change a thing about the way I was raised.”
She graduated from Pendleton High School and took a job at the hospital as an admissions clerk. She worked her way up to the billing office. She knew she wanted something different in her life as an occupation. After her daughter and son were born, she suddenly found herself as a single mother. She entered law enforcement as a clerk. She spent the next eighteen years working her way up to the rank of Lieutenant in the Sheriff’s Department.
With her children both grown and married, she took the plunge and moved to Montana. She worked at a plastics injection molding plant for seven years. When the company was suddenly sold, she and two partners formed their own manufacturing plant in the same field. The company is still in operation, where she works during the week.
She had always dreamed of writing a book, but it wasn’t until she was going through chemo treatments from her second breast cancer that she pondered on what she would like to accomplish in her life. She felt the Lord led her back to her lifelong dream of writing. “He put the idea into my mind that I could do it and He gave me the words to write. I owe it all to God and I pray that my books will glorify Him.”
She loves the beautiful outdoors of northwestern Montana, where she lives with her husband Jim. She has always loved to ride horses, hunt, fish, camp, read and garden, but her greatest love is for God, her family and friends. Her daughter, Dorene, and her son-in-law, Jeff, have two children, Kayla and Matt. Her son, Bob, and her daughter-in-law, Valerie, have one son, Royce. “God has truly blessed me with my family.”
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'Marcie, you have to come home now. Your father...and I need you.'
Immediately after hearing her mother's frantic words, Marcie Myers books a red-eye flight back to Montana and the home she left behind six years earlier. Soon after arriving at her parents' ranch, Marcie finds that her father is on his deathbed, suffering from congenital heart failure. Father and daughter share a tearful goodbye, and Jake Myers takes his last breath.
Realizing all she missed out on while she was in California, Marcie decides to move back to Montana to help run the J-M-J Ranch, along with handsome Jarod Wallace, who lived with Marcie's parents when he was a toddler but was soon adopted by his greedy aunt and uncle. When Jarod returns to the J-M-J Ranch two decades later, the Myers immediately recognize his intense green eyes and welcome him back with open arms, but when Marcie arrives, she is not so accepting. Only when two Hollywood tycoons threaten to ruin the ranch with bulldozers and paparazzi does Marcie begin to see Jarod for who he really is, the man she's grown to love. But have her standoffish ways put him off for good? Even though her faith is strong, will it take A Miracle for Marcie to find true love and happiness again?
Marthella Adams' A Miracle for Marcie is a captivating story of faith, forgiveness, and family that will leave you cherishing life's simplest joys.
Jasmine Harvey has enough on her plate dealing with the loss of her parents. The epidemic that is sweeping eastern Oregon in the late 1890s claimed their lives and their son, Eddy's, faith. He not only blames his parents for leaving him, but he blames God as well. Nothing Jasmine does seems to make a difference in her brother's bitter attitude.
She begins to feel hope when the handsome and widowed Sheriff Grady Hanson approaches her with a request to school his young twins until the new teacher arrives in town. With just her and Eddy to keep up the ranch their father worked so hard to build, she doesn't know if she has time to teach the children. When Sheriff Hanson suggests he take over the work of checking the cattle and doing repairs needed around the ranch as payment, she readily agrees. The twins quickly find a place in Jasmine's heart, as does their father.
When Jasmine's cattle start disappearing, will the sheriff be able to fulfill his promise of solving the case and returning the cattle? Will God grant her Wish upon a Silver Star to renew her brother's faith and bring love and happiness back into their lives?
Coming Soon...
- A Special Second Chance
- Patsy's Ray of Hope
