OR

Print List Price:	$15.95
Kindle Price:	$0.99 Save $14.96 (94%)
Sold by:	Amazon.com Services LLC

Promotions apply when you purchase

Read with our free app

You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

There was an error. We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Follow the author

Staci Stallings

Follow

Eternity: A Sweet Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Staci Stallings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

611

Book 1 of 2: The Friendship Series

See all formats and editions

Note from the Author: Christians are not immune to the world’s pressures, and sometimes we go to church without the Good News penetrating into our “real lives.” We get swayed by messages—overt and covert—about who we are and who we should be. We think that God does not speak to these concerns other than to say, “Do this” or “Don’t do that.” It is only when we look beneath the nice words spoken so eloquently from the pulpit that we realize God gave us the guidelines because they are so very practical. They keep us, if we let them, from stumbling into heartbreaking situations. The two stories in The Friendship Series aim to take the reader on a journey with Christians who in the beginning don’t seem to let their Christianity inform their encounters with the world to Christians who realize that God showed us His Way because it works—not just in theory but in real, actual, everyday life.

***
Aaron Foster thought he had the perfect life until his fiancee walked out of their apartment and then back in again with his new roommate. In desperation Aaron and his best friend, Harmony Jordan, devise The Plan to save Drew's heart from getting shattered, but when The Plan succeeds beyond their wildest expectation, it could spell heartache for them all.

Harmony Jordan has loved Aaron Foster since the first minute he rescued her from a literal computer crash. The only problem is, Aaron only sees her as a friend. Trying to be content to be the person Aaron goes to when life crashes around him, Harmony puts her heart on the line for him to help him rescue his in-for-real-trouble new roommate. However, she never expected the roommate to fall for her, or for her to fall for him. Now what?

“Eternity,” a gem among Contemporary Romance novels, proves romances can be melded with inspirational books to produce something truly amazing and unexpected. Delving into and through the subject most contemporary romance books are predicated upon—free and easy sex, “Eternity” shows that romance novels don’t have to have characters hopping into bed to be romantic, fun, and entertaining. Further, it seeks to dispel the myth that all romantic relationships must start and end in the bedroom. As romance books go, it has all the romance in a clean, inspirational read that any lover of romance novels will appreciate.

*~ Excerpt ~*

Aaron was trapped. When he turned and leaned on the door, his gaze fell to the phone. In a flash he had it in his hand, and in less than a second the other end was ringing.

“Hello?” Harmony's voice drifted over the lines.

“It’s her,” he said in utter desperation.

“Aaron?”

“They’re downstairs.”

“Right now?”

“On my couch. They are making out on my couch!”

“Oh, no.”

“Could you give me something a little more than oh, no?”

“Crud.”

“Yeah, that’s closer. Oh, man. What am I going to do?”

“Are you sure it’s her?”

“Harmony.”

“Okay. Of course you’re sure. Okay. Okay. Let me think. Where are you?”

“In my room.”

“Do they know you’re home?”

“No. I don’t know. I don’t think so.”

Her side went silent for a moment. “The fire escape’s on your window isn’t it?”

He looked at the window in trepidation. “Yeah, but it’s only for emergencies.”

“Hello!”

The plan was looking better and better all the time. “But where am I supposed to go? It’s 12:30 in the morning!”

Without more than a second’s pause, her voice softened. “You could come over here.”

That stopped him. In all the time he had known her, he had never been to her place, not even once. “Your place? Are you sure?”

“You’re in trouble,” she said as if stating the case for a jury. “When a friend’s in trouble, you do whatever you have to to help them out.”

“Even this?”

She didn’t say anything for a long moment. “I think I’ll live.” Quickly she gave him the directions.

He smiled, momentarily forgetting the disaster downstairs as he wrote them down. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”

Book 1 of 2

The Friendship Series
Print length

277 pages
Language

English
Sticky notes

On Kindle Scribe
Publication date

July 5, 2013
File size

3058 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Report an issue with this product or seller

All 2 for you in this series See full series

See included books

Total Price: $4.98

More like Eternity: A Sweet Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 1)

Page 1 of 1Start overPage 1 of 1

1
Eternity: A Sweet Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 1)
611
Kindle Edition
$0.99
2
The Easy Way Out: A Contemporary Christian Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 2)
569
Kindle Edition
$3.99
The Friendship Series2 book series

Loading...

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BC1UNOO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spirit Light Publishing (July 5, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 5, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3058 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 277 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,080,395 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,345 in Contemporary Christian Romance
- #6,317 in Christian Romance (Kindle Store)
- #12,936 in Religious Romance (Kindle Store)

Customer Reviews:
611

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Staci Stallings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

USA Today Best Selling Author, Staci Stallings is a stay-at-home mom with a husband, three kids and a writing addiction on the side. She has numerous titles for readers to choose from. Not content to stay in one genre and write it to death, Staci’s stories run the gamut from young adult to adult, from motivational and inspirational to full-out Christian and back again. Every title is a new adventure! That’s what keeps Staci writing and you reading. So, sit back, grab your Kindle & something to drink, and settle in for some of the BEST stories in all of Christian Romance...

Customer reviews

4.2 out of 5

611 global ratings

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Cdboz

Another great one from Staci Stallings

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2014

Verified Purchase

My second fav from Staci. A good Christian romance. Harmony and Aaron work together. Harmony has been in love with Aaron who only sees her as a friend. After Drew's fiance dumps him and moves out of his apartment, he needs a new roommate who Harmony helps him find. Drew. Aaron and Drew get along great, become good friends as well as roommates but then Drew meets and falls for Aaron's ex and Aaron is worried Drew will get hurt like he did and so, hatches a plan involving Harmony. It works, a little too well,. Predictable, well, mostly but still a sweet read.

I also like how Harmony's view point is told, she does date much, partially because she she doesn't believe in getting into the physical part of a relationship until there is some commitment. Not a popular POVin today's world. But this is a clean Christian romance. Harmony is not preachy about it but some who disagree may want to avoid this book. I have seen many reviews where the reader takes offence.

Helpful

Kindle Customer

Enjoyable Clean Read Romance

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014

Verified Purchase

An enjoyable read with an interesting premise. At first the novel was a little slow but once the "plan" was in place, things picked up nicely. I wish Stallings would have given a little more details in her descriptions of people and places, I couldn't fully visualize what she was seeing. Still, the characters and seeing what would happen kept my attention nicely. There is a life lesson in this novel pointing out that sex is not love and true love is based on relationship. Her characters are not perfect and make mistakes but the hope is that they will come to an awakening and learn from those mistakes. I truly enjoyed the read and look forward to Book 2.

A few things to note... in my ebook copy the chapter headings were missing and so the story just continually ran. There was spacing so it wasn't hard to tell where one segue would end and another begin. This is a clean read romance, however I am not sure why it is coined as an inspirational romance in the heading. There is no mention of God or faith in this novel, so I found that to be a little misleading. The heroine does have a wait till marriage stance in the novel but that isn't based on faith but rather fear of .... (no spoiler here). I have noticed that Stallings has some other novels that are Faith based. I would however title this a clean read romance.
****Update - I have now read book 2 - And I would coin it Inspirational Romance. It was wonderful by the way!

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Vivian

Eternity...

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2014

Verified Purchase

Eternity..I'm a sucker for a good romance and this was also a lovely God-centered book...I believe there will be a sequel and I can't wait to see what happens with the next. The heroine was disabled, but a successful writer; the hero was a knight in shining armor coming to her rescue and a godly man...Wow....Add to the mixture wealth, wedding, an unscrupulous bridegroom known only by that moniker by the heroine and the plot becomes almost too tense for the book...but wait! There's always Book #2...Did I forget to add that there is a whale of a lot of humor? Irreverent humor no less...Wow! It was a good read...and fast. I confess, with the good ones, I'm finished in less than a day. This was a good one

Helpful

Christian Romance Author Nicole Taylor

Omission of Christianity glaring

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2015

Verified Purchase

The book was interesting and well written and I loved how the author describes the emotional responses of the characters. There were one or two things
lacking though. For starters I found that there wasn't enough detail. I was never really clear about what either of them did at work. In addition, Aaron seemed to really lack ambition and Harmony too. It seemed as though after he was fired he followed Drew's dream and never really discovered his own. The most glaring flaw for me though was the absence of Christianity. I realise that the book was an inspirational and not a Christian romance but still I would have liked to see some indictation that the characters acknowledged God. It would have rated higher for me if it were not for those issues..

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

B. Adair-Smith

Beautiful love story

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017

Verified Purchase

Many twists and turns carriers this story through to a beautiful conclusion. So many truths that have been forgotten in our society. Character development so complete. Great read.

Helpful

The Voracious Reader

Not Author's Usual Quality

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016

Verified Purchase

Aaron Foster and Harmony were just friends who worked together, or so Aaron thought. When his fiancée walked out on him, Harmony was there. When she sprained her ankle, he took care of her. But life has a way of getting complicated, and when his roommate starts dating Harmony, Aaron’s feeling get all turned around.

Harmony had fallen in love with Aaron, but she knew he’d never feel the same way about her. So when Drew treats her so well, she decides that life with him would be better than no life at all. But her relationship with Drew started with deception, and that has a way of boomeranging. Will the mess they’d created just continue?

This didn’t read like the carefully constructed book I’m used to reading by Staci Stallings. It rambled on and on for much too long and seemed much longer than the 276 pages listed. The story idea was good, as were the characters, but it felt disconnected and almost shallow. I wouldn’t categorize it as “Christian” either. There was barely a brief mention of anything related to God, and He had no influence on any of their lives. The fact that Aaron didn’t sign the card with the present he left on Harmony’s desk made no sense to me when he told her he wanted to be more than just friends in it, and, of course, she thought it was from Drew, which prolonged things even more. Overall, this was just an okay read.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

June

Another home run by Stallings!

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2014

Verified Purchase

They've been co-workers for five years. During that time, Harmony has listened to Aaron's complaints, given advice and loved him from afar. Now Aaron is looking for a roommate and she sends someone his way. Only within a few days the guy is dating Aaron's old fiancé and they make a plan to break the happy couple up. Suddenly she finds herself falling for Drew. She's always been worried about getting the guy to like her enough to stick around but they always leave. When she finally is convinced that Drew does love her and will stick around, Aaron decides to let her know he has feelings for her. Things are a little screwed up for a while but eventually the stories get ironed out and the feelings get pushed in the right direction.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Heliumion

Why do they think shrimp pasta is weird?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2014

Verified Purchase

Why do they think shrimp pasta is weird? It's set in Atlanta, not exactly the backwoods. Have they never been to an Italian restaurant? Or watched a cooking show?
What exactly is inspirational about the romance? Is it that the main character doesn't drink or have sex? Sure it's nice to have a heroine that does not conform to society's expectations and may be more acceptable in more conservative circles, but it's not like has an inspirational reason for it - she's more driven by fear and guilt.
I downloaded the book looking forward to being inspired but was met with a bog-standard romance.
On the plus side I did like the characters, even if they didn't always act in a way that made emotional sense.
Perhaps it was a mismatch of expectations. It was a perfectly nice story even if it did stretch my credulity at times, but I hoped for so much more!

Cathy Morgan

good book

Reviewed in Australia on June 8, 2016

Verified Purchase

I enjoyed this book for me, despite being a bit disappointed that it was not more 'Christian' (was there any mention of Jesus or Christians at all?). However, I would hesitate to recommend it to teen readers because of the way in which sex outside marriage was just assumed by all but Harmony, and even she didn't seem to have any reason for abstaining except for what happened to her sister. It was a good book, and completely clean, but could have been great by just talking a bit about the real reasons Christians do have for keeping sex for inside marriage.

OR

Buy for others

Buying and sending eBooks to others

Image Unavailable

Follow the author

Eternity: A Sweet Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 1) Kindle Edition

Product details

Videos

About the author

Staci Stallings

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries