Author Verna Clay
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Belonging
Bountiful #2
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Bountiful Bay
​Bountiful #1
March 1, 2022

An unexpected inheritance from a woman she has never met upends Fleur Wilson's life. The Victorian mansion, perfectly positioned near Bountiful Bay in Oregon, is the stuff of dreams. But who is Eleanor Bountiful, and why would she leave her home to Fleur? Unraveling the mystery of her inheritance takes Fleur on an amazing journey of discovery full of twists and turns.

Jackson Winters, a successful author renting a wilderness cabin near a rambling Victorian mansion he discovered during an evening walk, is enchanted by it. When he meets the owner, he is enchanted by her. Because his life is in turmoil and he has the skills necessary to restore the mansion to its former beauty, he makes a crazy offer to do just that.
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​​Violet's Vindication

Priscilla's Pride

Samuel's Sacrifice

​Saul's Second Chance
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​Saul's Second Chance
Journeys of the Heart #4
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Five years after the woman Saul had expected to spend his life with rejected him and married a wealthy Santa Fe businessman, he meets the spinster who just opened a bookstore in his town. Undeniably, the lady is not his type, but something about her keeps drawing him back to her shop. Could it be their common enjoyment of dime novels filled with action and adventure, or something more? Saul's life is about to become complicated when the woman who rejected him, now a widow, moves back to town and sets her sights on him.

Moving to Cielo Azul is a dream come true for Grace Hillsdale. After searching for the perfect town to open a bookstore, but also quench her loneliness, she believes she's finally achieved her goal. The town, now connected via shortline railroad to Santa Fe, has transformed from a stagecoach stop into a thriving population of businesses, ranchers, farmers, and most importantly, families. During her initial visit she spied a cowboy who embodied the essence of the "Wild West" of New Mexico Territory, and is thrilled when he begins visiting her bookstore. Soon they become friends. Only in her thoughts, however, does she affectionately dub him as "her cowboy." She's convinced he could never see her as anyone other than a friend.
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Samuel's Sacrifice
Journeys of the Heart #3

​Samuel Johansson is blindsided when his twin brother, Saul, confesses to having advertised for a mail order bride, but now wants to renege on his offer of marriage. Apparently, he has reconnected with his childhood sweetheart and finds himself in a pickle. His mail order bride arrives in two days. When Saul asks Samuel to marry her in his stead, Samuel's response is an unqualified NO. However, when he meets the lady everything changes. His rescue instinct begs to differ with his rational mind.
 
Addie McIntosh harbors the hope that her new life as a mail order bride will infuse hope into her miserable existence. Having lost her husband and child to illness, her life has become a living nightmare of grief. For three years she has hidden within the confines of her New York townhouse, only leaving for necessities. With her funds almost depleted, she now faces a life or death situation. Being homeless and on the streets would surely bring about her demise, as would working in one of the backbreaking factories. When she cries out to Providence for help, she receives an unexpected answer in an unexpected way, and now finds herself on a stagecoach bound for New Mexico Territory in the Wild West.
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Priscilla's Pride
Journeys of the Heart #2

​Priscilla Johansson, daughter of Violet Hailey from book one, Violet's Vindication, is  grown up and anticipating her life as a teacher in her small community outside of Santa Fe, in New Mexico Territory. She also hopes to one day marry and raise a family there. However, when she receives an invitation to join the prestigious Stratford Girl's Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, she embarks on a future she never envisioned. When she arrives at the St. Louis train station, she is met by Brentley Stratford, the stepson of Mrs. Olivia Stratford, the grand lady who founded the academy. He is so elegant and handsome that he takes her breath away.
 
Brentley Stratford cannot understand his stepmother's reasoning for hiring a teacher from New Mexico Territory. He loves the wild west, having spent time there working for his magnate father's railroad empire, but placing this young woman in a teaching position, which is obviously out of her league, befuddles him; especially when he first sees her. The young lady is the opposite of the teachers and students at the Academy. She is gauchely dressed, tall and big-boned, and he wonders how she will be received by the "dainties" at the academy. However, she does have the softest and prettiest doe eyes he has ever seen. Soon he becomes enamored by her ability to connect not only with the students, but his cantankerous stepmother, as well.
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Violet's Vindication
Journeys of the Heart #1

​Violet Hailey, unwed mother of six year old Priscilla, longs to begin life anew after selling her family farm to the Railroad Commission. To that end, under the guise of being a widow, she travels to Independence, Missouri to join up with a wagon train bound for New Mexico Territory, via the Santa Fe Trail. However, a few days into her journey, she realizes she has been duped in the purchase of her wagon when it breaks down and cannot be repaired. Major Mendez, the wagon master, insists that unusual circumstances call for unusual choices, and forces her into a decision--either forego the dictates of society by sharing the wagon of an unmarried man or depart the train in the next town. The sad state of her finances, and her determination to reach Santa Fe, compel her to continue onward with a man she considers uncouth and rude.

Theodore Johansson, TJ for short, isn't averse to helping the widow and her daughter; it's just that her distaste for their situation exacerbates his own frustration when she proves to be doggedly stubborn.
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SOMEWHERE to Fall in Love
Finding SOMEWHERE #5

​Is there somewhere that the edges of reality and fantasy overlap? (A Beauty and the Beast Tale)
 
Saul Flanahan, a physically challenged young man, has lived an off-grid, solitary life with his parents. As a child he believed their tales about mermaids, but now in his mid-twenties, he indulges their whimsical proclivities because of his love for them. However, when a beautiful young woman washes ashore and claims to be the Princess of the Pacific, he is sure his parents have hired an actress.
 
Raymond Johnson, III, decides to expand his non-profit veteran's organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon, to the charming and friendly coastal town of Somewhere, the birthplace of his deceased grandfather. While dining at Mama Pink's, the most popular eatery in town, he meets a cute, but clumsy waitress named Suzy, who trips and dumps his order in his lap. Soon Raymond and Suzy are trying to piece together the mystery of Raymond, Sr.'s reason for leaving Somewhere in 1950.
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SOMEWHERE to Begin Again
Finding SOMEWHERE #4

​Is there somewhere that past and present collide?

Sandy Gutierrez doesn't know if she's in the midst of a lucid dream or perhaps a nightmare. As owner of the popular boutique Bathing Suits Galore in Somewhere, Oregon, she unexpectedly finds her orderly life shifted unimaginably when a handsome tourist enters her shop.

Of one thing Quince Calloway is sure—he has lived before. During childhood his beloved parents not only encouraged his remembrances, but his mother documented them. After her death, he rediscovers her journals and is faced with a decision: follow the clues in the journals or dismiss them and return to his job as a police detective? He decides to follow the clues that lead to a quaint and colorful coastal Oregon town. Unwittingly, a charming shopkeeper is thrust into his quest for answers.
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SOMEWHERE for a Hero to Hide
Finding SOMEWHERE #3

​A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver
five minutes longer. 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson


​Dutch Mulvaney, a hero who will spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, now carves sea creatures from driftwood and signs them as "Beach Bum." His relocation from the East Coast to the small coastal town of Somewhere in Oregon was a desperate attempt to salvage his sanity and dignity. Now, after a year of solitude, he finally feels ready to venture back into society.

Taylor Jones enjoys her job as a waitress at Mama Pink's Diner, the most popular eatery in Somewhere. Daily, she thanks the universe for Edna Pink, the owner. Without Edna's help she could very well be six feet under, with her two precious sons being raised by a crime lord. When a disabled man enters the diner she gets a premonition that her life is about to change. Should she remain in the town she loves, or run yet again?
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SOMEWHERE to Spend Christmas
Finding SOMEWHERE #2

​Is there somewhere that wishes come true?

When the bus Sunny Fairbanks is traveling on stops for a layover in the small seaside town of Somewhere, Oregon, she decides to go for a walk on the beach at sunrise—and falls in love with the area. Her decision as to whether to remain in Somewhere for a few days, or continue northward, is unexpectedly made for her when she steps on a shard of glass. A young man jogging along the shoreline comes to her aid and she is forced to do something she hates--accept help.

Vicky Patterson continues to be amazed that her brother was able to send a message to her from beyond the grave through her friends Faith Bennison and Baxter Hope. And that message has set her free from a lifetime of guilt. In fact, she's so free, that she takes on the task of heading up a group of protesters against Wainwright Resorts, the corporation that wants to purchase a portion of the town's public beach and build a world class resort that will, of course, destroy the quaintness of her community. She's angry with Michael Wainwright, III, and intent on stopping his plans.

Gabby Hope, a widow, and owner of Hope Bed & Breakfast, wants to get Leo Constanzo, a widower, out of her system, so she proposes something utterly inappropriate and is shocked when he agrees.

Belinda Hope, who died decades earlier, kept a diary that revealed the happenings behind her daughter's disappearance, and then her own, years later. Now that she's ready to step into the light of eternity, she needs to get a message to someone on the other side about where the diary is hidden.​
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SOMEWHERE by the Sea
Finding SOMEWHERE #1

​WELCOME TO SOMEWHERE, OREGON

Nestled in a cove on Oregon's coastline, the fictional town of Somewhere is charming, picturesque, inhabited by townsfolk who love their community--and teeming with mystery. You are invited to join the heroes and heroines of Somewhere as they solve mysteries, discover romance, experience inexplicable phenomena, and fight injustice--just the usual stuff!

Faith Bennison suffered a tragedy that changed her life in unimaginable ways and she fears she will die of a broken heart. In an attempt to salvage her sanity, she leaves her home in the Midwest and travels to the small Oregon town of Somewhere. As she settles into the day-to-day life at Hope Bed & Breakfast, she makes friends and even meets a man who jump-starts her battered heart. Strange happenings, however, have her questioning her sanity as she tries to make sense of an unfathomable encounter.

Baxter Hope, son of the owner of Hope & Breakfast, Gabby Hope, is intrigued by their newest guest, Faith Bennison. As his mother so aptly observed, "She carries sadness around her like a cloak," and he wonders why. Having gone through a tumultuous divorce, he is in no frame of mind to even think about romance, and suppresses his growing feelings for Faith. However, the more he gets to know her, the more he is drawn to her. That is, until the day she shatters the world of his friend, Victoria Patterson, with a simple question.
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Unconventional
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Oasis Trilogy
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Shapeling Trilogy
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Finding Home
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Finding SOMEWHERE
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Romance on the Ranch
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Journeys of the Heart
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Red Rocks Trilogy - Past, Present, Future

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Fragile Heart (YA)

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My Perfect Day

1. Coffee shop
2. Latte

3. Laptop
4. Characters demanding their stories be told
5. Plot that comes together
6. Hours to live in an alternate reality.

Note: Rarely happens that way.
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  • HOME
  • SERIES BOOKS
    • BOUNTIFUL
    • FINDING HOME
    • JOURNEYS OF THE HEART
    • Finding SOMEWHERE
    • OASIS
    • ROMANCE ON THE RANCH
    • RED ROCKS TRILOGY (Past, Present, Future)
    • SHAPELING TRILOGY
    • UNCONVENTIONAL
    • ZOE'S SONG (From Shapeling Trilogy)
  • FRAGILE HEARTS
  • BIO / BOOKS LIST
  • MAILING LIST
  • BLOG
  • CONTACT
  • JAZMINE
  • RESTORING 'TWEEN TIME (Middlegrade Novella)
  • PHOTOS