Their Hearts’ Desires Series
Riveting, tantalizing, historical and contemporary women novels.
The gripping series, Their Hearts’ Desires, explores the depth and dimensions of human life. So intimate are the human encounters, they unravel the thread of one’s being. The unforgettable characters will illuminate hearts, the secret place where we all live.
Secrets & Truths
She saved a hockey hero’s career. When their doctor-patient relationship crosses the line, will off-the-ice chemistry burn up their worlds?
Vancouver, BC. Geneva Olsson believes family comes first. Deeply loyal to her twin, the sisters' connection includes looking down their noses at the inflated masculinity of professional athletes.
So, when a player for the local NHL club is wheeled into her ER like royalty, the reserved physician is completely unprepared for how his boyish charm makes her heart race.
Knowing he has a wife and children in Europe, Geneva desperately struggles to resist the temptation of his surprising intelligence and animal magnetism. But after they begin a taboo liaison, she fears their inescapable passion is about to ruin multiple lives.
Can Geneva find the balance between doing what’s right and finding happiness?
Secrets & Truths is the emotional first book in the women’s fiction series, their Hearts' Desires. If you like tormented heroines, romance with risk, and deep moral quandaries, then you’ll adore Marlene Cheng’s riveting read.
“Enjoyable read from start to finish! A unique intertwining of cultures, events and emotions. Can’t wait for the next book!”
Devotion & Loss
She aches to redraw fate’s hand. When she’s trapped under a mountain of pain, can hope help her survive?
Geneva Olsson finally enjoys a measure of peace. After losing her soulmate to his wife overseas, the ER doctor has poured her affection into the baby he left behind. But though she’s determined to let her now-grown son live his own life, she’s distraught when he enlists in the Canadian military as a sniper.
Pushed beyond the brink of sanity when she receives news that her only child has been killed in action, Geneva rages against a cruel universe. And the once confident and independent woman doesn’t know where to turn as her mind becomes encircled by darkness.
Can she pass through this storm of grief without being swept away?
Devotion & Loss is the heart-wrenching second book in the Their Hearts’ Desires women’s fiction series. If you like characters bound by duty, lyrical prose, and sweeping tales of honor, then you’ll adore Marlene F. Cheng’s timeless romance.
“Cheng fills this epic saga with enduring characters and lyrical writing. Raven, “as fast as a flitting firefly, as silent as fallen snow” answers a call to reconnaissance duty in Mali.
His mother, who aches for her lover and has a horrendous fear for their love child’s safety, laments: “When I watch the moonshine on the water, a nostalgic longing comes over me… a strong yearning that moves me to tears.”
Can an ocean of tears separate the star-crossed lovers, forever?”
Twists & Fate
Drifting through the dark corners of her own mind. Haunted by the embers of passion.
Will the wishes of the dead guide her to a fragile happy ending?
Geneva Olsson craves solace. Although she’s found some refuge on her island home of Innisfree, she can’t escape the storm cloud of her son’s passing. And after she’s suspected of attempting suicide, the heartbroken doctor goes from respected colleague to patient in her own hospital’s psych ward.
Rescued by her one-time lover and his wife, Geneva crawls back to health with support from their friendship. But tragedy strikes again when the woman she loathed and then grew to cherish is diagnosed with ALS.
Can she find any hope for the future when every intimate encounter leads to the grave?
Twist & Fate is the ethereal third book in the Their Hearts’ Desires women’s fiction series. If you like introspective narration, spiritual ponderings, and journeys to the innermost yearnings of the heart, then you’ll adore Marlene F. Cheng’s twining pathway toward fate.
Contempt & Trust
They’ve stuck together through thick and thin. Will a callous warlord sever a connection she cherishes?
Tijay longs for acceptance. Growing up as one of the few Black faces in Sweden, she finds shared strength with an Ethiopian pen pal facing the same devastating racism in Ireland. And when both girls are accepted into the same medical school, they become bosom companions who eagerly join Doctors Without Borders to face Sudan’s war-torn landscape.
Dealing with the chaos of life in a violent developing nation, Tijay is saddened when her love for a dashing physician suitor ignites hostility in her longtime confidante. But grief becomes horror when her jealous sister-of-the-soul impetuously runs into the arms of a local man with twisted desires.
Can she look past the tragic choices and rebuild their shattered trust?
Contempt & Trust is the gripping fourth book in the Their Hearts’ Desires women’s fiction series. If you like enduring relationships, epistolary novels, and global perspectives, then you’ll adore Marlene F. Cheng’s ode to feminine bonds.