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Jeannie Luttrell’s passion in life is piloting airplanes. She doesn’t mind the low pay, long hours, or the fact that as a World War II Women’s Air Service Pilot (WASP) she has to pay her own expenses. When a faulty oil pressure line causes her P-51 Mustang’s engine to fail, she has to bail out during a storm. When she lands the wind drags her across the ground and into a small ravine where her head strikes a rock. When Caleb Knight sees a person struggling with a parachute on his cousin’s ranch, he knows what has happened. Another woman has landed in the small part of a ravine ...

New cover, same beloved story. One desperate young woman.. A chance meeting. A life-changing outcome. Growing up in a brothel, Mara O'Sullivan battled public disdain and contempt, but always remained kind-hearted and gracious. After testifying against vicious bank robbers, her life is threatened and Mara must find sanctuary far from everything she knows. One train ride changes her life as she fatefully meets a half-sister and a niece she never knew existed. But when circumstances end her sister's life, Mara makes a promise that she'll raise her niece as her own and take her sister's place ...

Winner of the International Digital Award for short contemporary romance. All Tory Fraser intended was to show her high school history club students a local archaeology dig. How could she know the excursion would involve a murder? Or that one of her students would be suspected as the killer? And she had no idea she would meet the man of her dreams. Grant Grayson has taken over management of Grayson Ranch near Post, Texas to give his grandfather a less arduous schedule. A flash flood washed away an old talus slope on the ranch to reveal a prehistoric cave that is a Clovis site. Being a good ...

Sensual Contemporary Romance: A blizzard can't quench the fires of attraction between Penny Tucker and Trent Macleod, no matter what their other differences. Penny's stunt landed them in far West Texas, but their attraction continues back in Dallas. They differ on the future of Penny's family business and Penny's stepmother heaps a dose of trouble onto the fires. Trent intends to sink roots into the Dallas busines world and he's chosen Penny as his lifelong partner. Can he convince her to keep the home fires burning with him? Sensual contemporary romance of 59,500 words.

New cover for sweet romance adventure set against the Civil War. Parmelia Bailey is determined to protect the women in her family until the men return from War.As fighting nears, she steals back her horses to rescue her brother's fiance, sisters, and mother. Parmelia's former love has returned as he'd promised four years ago, but he's wearing Union blue. Darrick McDonald has been charged by General Grant to capture a dangerous band of renegades led by his old nemesis, Jeff Lawson. Jeff has vowed to teach Parmelia a lesson for refusing his marriage proposal. Darrick and his men must stop ...

Courtney Madison has battled poverty her entire twenty-five years but is determined to make a safe and happy home for her teen aged brother after the recent death of their mom. Her mom’s illness left Courtney with a mountain of hospital bills, her formerly sweet brother Jimmy is now cutting class and hanging with a rough crowd, and she’s just learned she’s being downsized in two weeks. Hanging on by the threads of a fraying rope, she learns she’s inherited two million dollars from a kind elderly man she befriended when he was in the hospital across the hall from her mom. She thinks ...

A beautiful woman in disguise running for her life; a man who hates deception and lies; and the event that almost destroys them. Katie Worthington has lived with her beloved grandfather since her parents’ death. When he is killed by men she had thought were close friends and realizes she is their next target, she takes off and joins the circus. Hiding as Dorothy Duncan, a circus kitchen worker, offers her a chance to get out of town without being seen. By the time the circus reaches Kincaid Springs, Katie has dyed her auburn hair black and become Maharani Shimza, the new fortune teller....

Olivia Stewart risks everything to accomplish her dreams. She’s tired of being pitied because she’s been jilted, tired of teaching other people’s children without any of her own. When she signs with a matrimonial agency, a letter from Jamie Fraser sounds perfect. A widower with two young children will give her a head start on the family she’s determined to have. But Colorado holds surprises for Olivia that endanger her goals and even her life. Rancher Jamie Fraser is shocked to learn his mother has written for a mail-order bride for him. He has two children and no plan to marry ...

Sometimes our wishes come true but with complications. None of the men in Hopeful, Colorado appeals to Serena Winters. Working at the mercantile owned by her aunt and uncle, she meets everyone in town. Her aunt warns her against falling for a prospector as they always leave town in spring. One full moon Serena wishes she could attract an interesting man. She should have been more careful about wording her wish. Brent Adams has filed on his claim and brought gold with him to the assay office in Hopeful. He fears taking it closer to his claim will draw claim jumpers and robbers. He’s ...

A woman desperate to begin a new life, a mercantile owner besieged by problems, and the disaster that brings them together . . . Moriah Singleton faced hardship to get from England to America but met more problems once she arrived. The only solution she could find was to become a mail-order bride in far away Texas. How will she ever save enough to bring her sister to America? After a disastrous brief engagement ended badly, Scott Ferguson sent for a mail-order bride. He needs her help in his mercantile. He hopes his wife will also be his life’s helpmate. Danger, family entanglements, ...

Nothing much riles Gentry McRae. He works hard on the ranch he co-owns with his best friend, and is content with his life. He’s proud of all they’ve accomplished in the ten years since the war. That is, until his partner dies and leaves his half of the ranch to his mail-order bride—and wills the bride to Gentry. “Now just a doggone minute, I don’t plan to marry for years!” But, a single woman can’t reside on a ranch where four men live without ruining her reputation. What’s a good man to do, except marry the woman when she arrives? Heidi Roth has been spurned for being too ...

Mary Alice Price is on the run from dangerous men. She had known that when her stepfather died, she would have to hurriedly escape her stepbrothers. Hadn’t she heard them promise her to the meanest man in Texas as payment for high stakes gambling losses? One misfortune after another devils her until she links up with Zach Stone. He looks sturdy as his last name and invites her to his ranch where his two aunts will chaperone them. She figures life finally dealt her a winning hand.

Hope Montoya knows someone is poisoning her, but who? She suspects her mother was also poisoned and knows her father was murdered. Who wants her family eliminated? She vows to fight! She realizes she won't last the eight months until she turns twenty-five and her uncle no longer controls her or her estate. Never will she be dominated by a man as she was by her father, as she has seen her mother and grandmothers dominated. If she marries, she gains control now, but only if she weds a man she can trust.

Meg Todd is tired of putting her happiness on hold. When she learns her bullying brother-in-law has horrifying plans for her future, she asks an attorney family friend for help escaping. Meg wants her own husband and home and is willing to move over halfway across the country to achieve her goal. Along the way she agrees to take two children for their dying mother? Is she too impulsive? Will Curtis and the children become the happy family of Meg’s dreams? Curtis McClain has to be careful with his small savings or it won’t fund his dream of his own newspaper. He wants a wife—and he ...

New cover for the beloved story. Dead—her groom-to-be died while she was on her way to Montana! Her escape from a bad situation sent young widow Gormlaith McGowan west as a mail-order bride. What is she to do now that she is in a strange place with almost no money, no prospect of a job, and no idea how she’ll survive? Plus, her late husband’s family wants her hung for his death, though his fall wasn’t her fault. Garrett McDonald hadn’t planned on marrying for several months. When urged by the sheriff to consider a young widow, he agreed to meet with her. One look was all he needed...

A widow with two children to care for, a bounty hunter that is badly beaten, and the crime that brings them together . . . Garnet Chandler has lost everything. The only things remaining are her café, custody of her niece and nephew, and what little bit of sanity she has left. After the deaths of her husband and in-laws, she has made it her mission to provide for the children. When the children are kidnapped, Garnet has to find a way to rescue the last ties to her family. What she doesn’t expect is the handsome bounty hunter that comes to her aid. Bounty hunter Adam Bennett is on his last...

A destitute widow; a reformed con man; the danger that links them… Betsie Galloway Hirsch has escaped Memphis with her son. Her gambling husband tricked the wrong people and they’re demanding Betsie pay his debts—or else. She’s come to Kincaid Springs to stay with her mother and seek a safe place for her son. Being so far from her former home, she feels secure. That is, until danger confronts her. After 34 years alone, Michael “Monk” Magonagle is falling in love with Betsie and is fond of her son. Monk is certain she is not free of the men her late husband cheated. Although he ...

Zoe Wilder is enjoying life—until her trip to lay flowers on Nana’s grave has Zoe tripping over the body of a young woman. Wondering how this could happen to her again, she’s determined to help the hunky Sheriff find the killer. His warnings don’t deter her, but she’s slowed by the other obstacles she has to combat. Her friend, Letty, is temporarily out of commission from a fractured ankle, Zoe’s fighting her longtime nemesis who is the president of the local HOA, and she’s trying to adjust to her changed lifestyle. Join Zoe for a light-hearted cozy mystery certain to ...

A woman’s mission of mercy… A man determined to create… An attack by a crazed killer… Pauline Brubaker arrives in Creede, Colorado from Denver to help care for her aunt while the aunt’s broken leg heals. Pauline’s hesitant to give in to her attraction to Creighton because she will only be in Creede the few weeks her aunt needs her help. Her parents and her life are in Denver so why does she find herself more and more drawn to Creighton? Creighton Reed crafts amazing pieces of furniture. They sell as fast as he can create them. Creighton meets Pauline when her aunt and the ...

A desperate plan… A masquerade to achieve a goal… Lies that create a web… Cassandra Bradford has the cast off wardrobe to pose as a lady. Her goal is to marry a wealthy man who can provide her young brother with a sound future. Drat the luck! The first man she sees in Tarnation is a dusty cowboy who sends her heart pounding. Not for her. She has a better life in mind. Samuel Drummond is one of the wealthiest ranchers in that part of the state, but he wants that kept quiet. His first wife married him for his money then left when she became bored with ranch life. He won’t let that ...