by Z. PeabodyPublish: Jul 05, 2025 SuspenseContemporary RomanceRomantic SuspenseRomanceLiterary FictionChristian Fiction
Book Overview
Caleb Jacobson, rancher, farmer, and a first-generation veterinarian, has always loved to care for animals. When he was given his choice to either stay in the small community and become a full-time farmer or have his “way about,” Caleb chooses the university, and in doing so, experiences a whole other world outside of his small community. Wanting to start his own practice in his hometown, he returns to the very small community that now shuns him and to the father who hates him. It’s true—sometimes you should never return home.
When a college friend asks a favor, that he hire a new head cook, Caleb immediately agrees. But when Caleb walks out of his barn to meet the new employee, he quickly regrets the decision to hire the most beautiful woman he has ever laid eyes on.
“We will come into the light together.”
Lola Charles loves to create delicious dishes that are tastebud sensations. Attending culinary school was her dream. One of Lola’s life greatest accomplishments was graduating from one of the most prestigious culinary schools in the country, only to end up working an extra shift at a one-and-a-half-star diner.
Lola, at the wrong place at the wrong hour, witnesses something she shouldn’t have. Now, she has to trade in the concrete streets for grass beneath her feet. Forced to hide out in the last place she thought she would ever be, in an Amish community with a not-so-Amish vet for a boss while running her own kitchen, she is unaware that the enemy is closing in. Some things that are done in the darkness don’t always come to light. Those things that are now trying to pull her into that darkness…
Together, both she and her new boss will learn, they both have evil lurking in the shadows.
BIOGRAPHY Z. Peabody is the author of Scripture-inspired romance novels.
The Z. Peabody Publishing LLC brand was created to provide Scriptural-inspiration. Geared toward the romance fiction readers, Z. gives positive encouragement, Scriptural-inspiration, and wisdom in her writings in the romance genres.
Z's passion for reading romance novels began at the age of 14..... although she didn't really understand what she was reading at the time. But as she grew older, she began to realize the significance those romance novels would have on her life and her future in the contemporary, and historical romance genres. Becoming a romance writer was inevitable.
Z. lives in the Midwest and is originally a native Chicagoan.
"My characters are not perfect and I write stories that show that the path in the Holy Scriptures is not always easy. I write about characters who have lived a life away from the kingdom of the Most-High, and then I show how they enter into HIS body with a testimony.”
"Each story, plot, Hero, and Heroine have been created to give honor to the Most-High. My novels are Scriptural-Inspirational-centered because, the Most-High has taken up permanent residence in my life, and I want to give HIM all the glory in my writings. Sometimes, getting to romance is not without a struggle.”