Francesca "Kia" Foster grew up seeing her mother, Stefanie Foster, and her family horribly addicted to drugs in the 1980's in the South Bronx. While living in a very unstable and chaotic home with her mother, uncle, her mother's off and on again girlfriend, her cousins, her great-grandmother, and her crazy Aunt Callie, Robbie tries hard to shelter his niece. But he is not successful. However, when the little girl meets a teacher, Lena Adams, at the Recreation Center when she is just seven years old, the woman soon fosters Francesca as the young girl watches her uncle die of AIDS and her mother fall deeper into addiction along with the rest of her family. Being 15 now and a jr. in high school, Francesca wonders about her future and if she can truly break the cycle of addiction with a dream her mother once had. To become an artist. But is Stef the only one that can help her achieve that dream? Is she now clean and willing to have a relationship with her daughter? Or will Francesca succumb to the streets just like her family? And, is Lena's love enough to help heal the girl's pain? We will truly see.

After Stefanie Foster is horribly injured on the job as a cop in 1982 New York City, she sinks into a deep depression contemplating suicide until her physical therapist, Lena Adams, gives her the strength and encouragement she needs to rebuild herself and her life.

Forced to return home to her mother's trailer park in Nevada, Stef Foster, tries hard to make a life for herself and her three children. Despite the array of challenges that plague her, she tries to come to terms with the effects of her abusive upbringing. Unsure if she can overcome her disadvantages, life takes a turn when she runs into her childhood friend and first love, Lena Adams. This book combines a few storylines and characters from my other books. Including The Affair, Strings and possibly a few others and is set in the early 1980s. Enjoy!

With the news that Jude Devanol is in fact Will Adams biological son how will the family adjust to this? Will Lena and Frankie finally be able to heal and move on once and for all? Will Stef and Lena figure out how to merge their little family legally amidst the country's ban against the gay community and their rights?

**WARNING: Don't read if this recent pandemic is a trigger for you!** Childhood friends Stefanie Foster and Lena Adams both return back home to Louisiana in the spring of 2020 as soon as the pandemic known as Covid-19 takes over the entire world. Flying in from New York Lena Adams helps her Nana Eva tie up loose ends with her bee & honey business while continuing to hide her sexuality from her family and rival sister, Tess. Stefanie Foster returning with her ten year old daughter, Frankie, buys back the home her father had lost to the bank only ten years prior that sits on a hill overlooking Nana Eva's land. With a long standing feud between both families since before the Civil War will it continue or finally come to an end? Will Lena Adams ever come out to her family and end up with the love of her life? Will Covid-19 reach their homes? Or will they be able to stave it off?

Stef and Lena have moved their little family back to San Diego, CA to finally settle down once and for all. Having made the move after several incidents back in NYC, they are ready to put the past behind them and start fresh and new with hope for a bright future. Little do they know that life will continue to throw curve balls at them which includes someone showing up on their doorstep with news that breaks their hearts. Follow our Adams Foster family as they learn to navigate married life, a blended family, homesickness, teen angst and so much more. Laugh and cry with them, for this is your family, too.

Lena Adams is in an abusive marriage to a man as she tries to raise young Callie (6) and Mariana (5). She is terrified to leave until a cop comes along giving her the love and strength she needs. But what will it take for her to really leave and will the cop become much more then a friend to her? Characters include Stef Foster, Lena Adams, Callie, Mariana and Mike Foster. Contains violence and mature subject matter. NOTE: I do not own the Fosters. However, I do own this story along with all the original characters I've created and storylines. Please do not copy or you will be reported. Thank you.

This story picks up in the summer of 1984 after the death of Stef Foster's older brother, Frank, Jr. Callie, having experienced her mother's panic attacks from an early age, asked Lena to stay because she thinks her mom is having a breakdown from the sadness of everything that's happened over the past year. Lena has a choice to make: leave everything behind and start a new life with her girlfriend in NYC or let Stef go once and for all. Will these two families finally come together and grow strong? Or are they destined to remain friends living on opposite sides of the country?

In an alternate reality to The Sweet Love of War Series, this story takes place during the holidays of 1977. All characters are the same but their lives have played out very differently then the original books. Stef Foster never became friends with Julius and Tess, Mike never came home from Vietnam, Will never got injured and Stef and Lena never had an affair. Enjoy this holiday story where the friends come together seven years later in a central location, where friendships are reunited, new friendships are born and love is ignited.

While living the simple life of working as a truck driver and dating Lena Adams in Nevada, Stef Foster meets a stubborn young girl whom she has to return to foster care. NOTE: I do not own the Fosters but I do own this story and all orginal characters I have created. DO NOT copy, steal, or do a modified version or spin off of it. I will report you!