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Rose Severin, speaks to the dead or at least she pretends to until she can earn enough money to make her way to New York and become a famous actress like her mother. Travis Burnett is resolved to rid the frontier town of imposters like Rose. But Eugenia thinks the fiery Rose is just the woman for her obstinate son. She schemes to keep Rose at the family ranch where Travis soon realizes that the supposed spiritualist is more than just a pretty swindler.

The Billionaire Needs a Fake Engagement. Since he struck it big with the Powerball, Adrian Landry has been dodging women. Only problem is that he needs an escort for the rodeo ball season, one without any expectations. And when he gets what he wants, it backfires on him, big time. Accomplished lawyer Madison Benton yearns to return home to Oakdale, Texas, and abandon her high-powered career. When she learns of Adrian's predicament, she proposes a deal. She will be his date for the season if he assists her start-up legal firm. No strings attached. Is it possible for two people to pretend to ...

A Kiss Sends Her Fleeing…Runaway Bride Belle Bishop and her sisters, wealthy southern belles, are set to marry old men suitors selected for them by their guardian uncle. When the elder man kisses Belle, she knows it’s time to flee. Together, the three women sneak out of Savannah as penniless mail-order brides desperate for a new chance at love and happiness in Mistletoe Falls, Montana. Martin Keegan owns the local saloon and dreams of owning a ranch. His father orders him a mail-order bride, hoping she will accept Martin as he is – a poor struggling working man. Will his new wife help...

Mail Order Bride With A Secret Minnie Ravenel needs a husband now and an escape out of Charleston. Her mother answers an ad for a mail order bride in Angel Creek Montana, hoping that when Minnie arrives, the man will accept her and her unborn child. Tripp Maddox isn’t looking for a wife, but when he sees Minnie standing alone on the street crying, something about her situation reminds him of his own losses. A lonely rancher, with Christmas only a two months away, he asks her to marry him. Can two desperate strangers make a life together or will the past tear them apart? A sweet western ...

High School Lovers Reunite for a Wedding Ten years ago, Skye Brand ran from Cupid, Texas to avoid marriage to Zane Calhoun. Now she's returning for the Valentine wedding of her friends Michelle and Ryan where she'll see Zane for the first time. Has he forgiven her for running from an elopement that would have resulted in a disastrous marriage? And has she gotten over the handsome cowboy? In this sexy, short contemporary romance can this couple overcome the past? Racy Reunions Series Paying For the Past Her Christmas Lie Cupid’s Revenge

Marshal Tucker Burnett has cleaned up his gunslinger past and is now a respectable lawman. But he's determined to remain single even after his crafty mother has found eligible women for his brothers to marry. Until Dr. Sarah James returns home to Fort Worth, Texas due to an urgent telegram. Tucker is unable to forget that one night in Tombstone when Sarah patched up his body and his soul. Yet Sarah has returned with a secret of her own. A secret that could change Tucker forever.

Everyone deserves a second chance. After the death of his best friend in the Battle of Atlanta, Tanner Burnett walked away from the civil war. Now, 10 years later, he runs with the Sam Bass gang, trying to escape the memories of that horrible battle. But when a stagecoach robbery goes bad, he rescues injured Elizabeth Anderson, wanting only to get her to a doctor and rejoin his gang.

In the historical western town of Fort Worth, Texas, matchmaking mother Eugenia Burnett has achieved her goals. Her three sons are happily married, and she has three grandchildren, with the fourth on the way. But she hasn't given up her matchmaking ways. Now she's introducing lonely widows and widowers. Until one widower, rancher Wyatt Jones, lets her know he's only interested in one woman: her. Sworn never to remarry, Eugenia doesn't want a husband. But Wyatt wants Eugenia and he's one determined cowboy.

A Christmas Miracle in the Snow - Love Comes to the Rescue Going home for Christmas, Olivia Miller's life takes a sudden, unexpected turn. Stranded in a desolate snowstorm, she's left reeling from a string of losses - her job, her fiance, and now her car. But just when she thought her world couldn't get any colder, rancher Lucas Peterson appears like a guardian angel, rescuing her from the icy clutches of winter. Lucas, too, is grappling with his own solitary Christmas, haunted by the tragic loss of his parents. As they find themselves drawn together by the forced proximity of the snowstorm...

Scandal, Bigamy and Murder Nicole Cuvier went to New Orleans to share wonderful news with her husband only to discover him in a hotel room murdered, with two other women claiming to be his wives. It seems there are three Cuvier Widows and each one is suspected of murder. Pregnant, unmarried, and now a widow with a plantation on the verge of bankruptcy. Nicole needs a temporary husband. Someone to save Rosewood and give her child a last name. Enter a handsome drifter, Maxim Viel, who agrees to marry her, but unbeknownst to Nicole, wants more than a temporary arrangement. Can his strong arms,...

Praise for Lipstick and Lead. 2.0 *****Loved this exciting adventure! This is an action packed, highly entertaining, engaging and heart racing adventure filled with emotional thrills, dangerous charters, witty banter and edge of your seat twists...... a exciting read from beginning to end and a journey that will leave you energized and looking for more! Loved it! *****Sylvia McDaniel's bounty hunter books just keep getting better and better! The unraveling of the mystery and drama was so twisted, there are things you won't see coming. A story not to be missed. ***** SPECTACULAR! ...

A Dear John letter, Amnesia and a Second Chance at Love "Are you badly injured?" she asked. "A little memory loss." He laughed and shrugged, wanting only to kiss her. "I've been anticipating your mouth and all you want to talk about is how badly hurt I am?" "Come in Tyler. We need to talk." When a roadside bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan exploded his Humvee, and wiped his memory of the last ten months, Tyler Ferguson is sent home for Christmas. He can’t wait to see his fiancée. When Kelsey opens her door and the man she’d sent a Dear John letter too is standing on her porch, she fears the ...

Ginger and spice, who longs for nice? Ginger Legare led a wonderfully happy life until the Civil War. Now, she’s lost everything—her mother, her father, their wealth, and her home, but most importantly, her belief in happiness. When a letter arrives telling her to come to Angel Creek, Montana, she leaves hoping she’ll find a new beginning in the small town. Preacher Flint Carroll has lived a blessed life and never grieved over a passing loved one. As a man meant to comfort and console his congregation, he has an issue understanding what true loss means. Until a sassy-mouthed redhead ...

Valerie Burrows is running from a wedding, her attorney fiancé, and the law. Pampered Valerie takes a bus to nowhere, where she learns her cash and credit cards have been stolen. Left with only her designer clothes and luggage she takes on a new identity and must learn to be self-reliant. She swears off men, especially attorneys, only to find the one man who refuses a one night stand and wants a relationship.

Twin Mail Order Brides Running From the Law After Cora Weaver kills her twin sister’s attacker, they flee the law by Cora becoming a mail-order bride. Answering an ad in the Mail Order Bride Gazette, the sisters find themselves in the wilds of Angel Creek, Montana. Will the Charleston authorities find them here? Mack Lawson lost a bet to his brother and now he has to order a mail-order bride. Only Mack isn’t certain his wounded heart can accept another cheating woman. When he sees how beautiful Cora is, he knows there's no way she'll be happy in a nowhere place like Angel Creek. She'll ...

Nothing says bad judgement like trying to prove a superstition true… In the heart of Cupid, Texas, where love and whimsy entwine, Taylor Braxton and her daring friends embark on a playful quest to test the age-old Cupid superstition on Valentine’s Day. Fueled by laughter and a few bottles of wine, Taylor sheds inhibitions and embraces the daring notion that love might just be an arrow away. Sheriff Ryan Jones, accustomed to quirky calls in the peculiar town of Cupid, never anticipates a midnight encounter with the enchanting Taylor Braxton—stripped of inhibitions and challenging fate ...

Come Spend Christmas with the Burnetts Joshua Burnett is the next Burnett the family ghost is ready to match. But he's been keeping secrets from the family. Secrets even his ghostly great-great-great-great-grandmother doesn't know. Maybe he's a womanizer for a reason until life delivers him a surprise he never saw coming. Kayla Scott has lost everything she’s ever wanted in life. When she interviews for a nanny to the Burnett family, she gets an unexpected job opportunity – taking care of Joshua’s baby daughter. Being forced together every day is bringing up emotions she'd long given ...

A bride with secrets. A groom with a past. A love tested by lies. When a factory fire leaves Katie Maverick jobless and desperate, she makes a bold choice—become a mail-order bride. An unexpected marriage offer from vineyard owner Daniel O’Malley seems like the answer to her prayers. But there’s a catch: Daniel didn’t place the ad. His business partner did, hoping a wife might silence the town’s whispers that Daniel was responsible for his first wife’s mysterious death. Reluctantly, Daniel agrees to the arrangement, thinking Katie might help him restore order in his life and put...

How can she forgive the man who arrested her brother? The man who was once her fiancé? Sabrina Callahan left Texas after the man she loved arrested her brother for cattle rustling. Two years later, when she arrives home, there is Patrick, the memory of his kisses still fresh on her lips. But now there’s even more trouble on the ranch she loves and only one man who can help her. Patrick…the cowboy who betrayed her brother. The last thing Patrick wanted to do was hurt Sabrina and her father. Now, he’s lost more than her love. His family has been killed, Sabrina’s loved ones are in ...

Five Charleston women desperate for marriage minded men and the chance to rebuild their lives after the Civil War answer an ad in the Grooms Gazette. Charity Kingston has to get out of Charleston or face life working in a brothel. But the past follows her to Angel Creek, Montana, revealing her Irish temper and the brothel owner’s demand for payment of her debt.