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Summer, 1881 When Margaret Thomas dared step out of line as a teacher at a prestigious girl's academy, her life falls apart. She has no prospects for further employment and no chance of marriage. She lost her family in a fire that left her scarred as a young child. Because she's prone to rash decisions, she decides on a whim to answer the advertisement for a mail-order bride in New Mexico Territory. Silas Coleman is an undertaker, shunned by the people of Fort Sumner. When his mother passes on, she leaves instructions with the reverend to advertise for a bride for her son. But the ...

It's St. Patrick's Day and 20-year-old Emma Wright is working hard at training five-month-old Molly, her foster puppy, to become a therapy dog. But her training coach and neighbor gets an emergency call, cutting the lesson short, and Emma volunteers to pick up her daughter at a St. Patrick's Day concert in town.

Julia is a deaf girl raised as an orphan who is working with the Children’s Aid Society to help find homes across the country for orphans from New York. But each time one of the orphans she’s grown close to is adopted, she finds her heart breaking. And the farther the train goes, the farther from home she feels. But feelings can be deceiving.

It's Valentine's Day and 20-year-old Emma Wright just wants her crush to take notice of her. But Colby Davidson, the K9 search-and-rescue deputy, only thinks of her as a kid sister. When her veterinarian boss calls her to pick up a cat at a potential crime scene, she finds herself at the house of the richest woman in Ridgeway. Her father - the sheriff - and Colby are there. They both dismiss the untimely death as a heart attack, but Emma finds clues that it might be something more. Did the software billionaire die of natural causes, or was it murder?

Amanda has been in love with Nate since she was nine years old. Now she’s grown up, and he still treats her like a little sister. When he became a widower raising an only daughter, just like her father, Nate stole her heart just a little bit more. This Christmas, his Aunt Eugenia is in town, determined to find him a suitable wife before she leaves for the new year. But can Amanda recover from a bad first impression in order to be considered a candidate for the position? This is a short, clean, and wholesome American western historical holiday romance.

Despite a difficult childhood, Felicity Stilton never gave up on her dreams. Now, as an adult, she and her golden retriever, JJ, help special-needs children pave the way for their own futures. Everything is perfect, until she gets the one call she never expected to receive. Officer Darren Willis hates that it falls to him to tell the beautiful and inspiring Felicity her birth mother has taken her own life. Although the case appears to be an open-and-shut case, the grieving daughter insists something foul is afoot.

Can an invisible man find the love and acceptance that he's never had? As a halfbreed, Angus Macawi has never been accepted by his native tribe, or the townsfolk of Fort Pierre. He's lived on the outskirts both literally and figuratively. No one wants anything to do with him--he's invisible to everyone--until he meets Amelia Fletcher. This irksome female refuses to leave him alone, even though he does everything he can to stop her from visiting him, he can't help the feelings she's stirring within him. Would it be okay for him to feel hope for the first time?

Victoria Clarke has always been considered willful and stubborn, a woman with a mind of her own. So when her family moves from Virginia to Colorado, they bring her cousin Thomas to help her have at least one friend as she adjusts to life in the west. At the request of her father, she begins work as a baker’s assistant, and soon finds herself enamored with their last customer of the evening, Sam Cohen? Sam Cohen is a miner, though he’s always felt the calling on his life to become a preacher. Still, in his position, he does what he can to do the work of the Lord, to help those in need ...

December 1880 Clara Gibbs has wished for nothing more than a husband and family, but not one bachelor in Norcross, Georgia had ever shown any interest in her until now. She had spent most of her youth taking care of her ailing father, only to find out upon his death that he was the very reason that every suitor had kept a distance from her. Now that she is twenty-five years old, the only one who shows her interest is an older bachelor with a known penchant for vice. Her only recourse is to start a new life out west… but sh has no reason to go unless she answers an advertisement for a mail...

Rebecca Walsh has only ever had two loves, her family and horses. But when her father and brother died in the Civil War, her family is left as broken as her home town. When the town sent an advertisement for mail-order grooms, Rebecca didn't have much interest in wooing one. She just hoped the men might save her town, so her family could stay in the only home they'd ever known. Jake Harper came to Brokken, Texas to leave his name and his past behind. But one of the other "leftover" men in town has been keeping an eye on Jake and his past might be catching up with him.

As arable farmland grows scarce, the United States opens up former sections of Indian Territory for homesteading. Those who want to claim land must make a run for it. Will a thin, homely woman find love or disappointment when she answers a mail-order bride advertisement from Oklahoma? Siobhan Ryan has always lived in poverty. She and her brother had to fend for themselves in New York ever since her mother’s passing. But on a whim, Siobhan answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride from Oklahoma. Though she soon finds herself falling for the man writing the letters, she fears ...

He lived and breathed the Texas Ranger code - until one woman’s siren song called him to turn renegade and gamble all he had for a future with her. When Phineas Stockton leaves Boston where he was training for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, he returns to his hometown in San Marcos, Texas to find his brother has married and his mother has moved to a ranch of all places. But determined to make it on his own, he turns to his uncle and the Texas Rangers. While in training, he has a perilous encounter with the leader of the notorious Deadwood Gang, which forces him to make tough decisions. ...

A bounty hunter who thinks he knows everything about the chase until love comes chasing after him—sent by his grandmother. Rugged bounty hunter Cody Dalton lives for adventure on the run until his Nana decides to rein him in. But taming this restless cowboy proves tough, even for quick-witted banker’s daughter Eva Lovelace, whose eyewitness duty thrusts her on a manhunt filled with robbery, revenge, and undeniable romantic chemistry. Outlaw action and opposite attraction collide as Grandma’s matchmaking scheme holds fateful surprises for two unlikely partners learning to trust in each...

Mabel Brown has always been her father’s favorite daughter. She was the son he’d never had. So when he finds that he’s dying, he makes arrangements for each of his three daughters to marry, but struggles to find a good, godly man for Mabel until he virtually falls into Harper’s lap. Harper Jones has lived all his life as a trapper and mountain man near Fort Laramie. As half native Crow and half white man, he’s had a hard time fitting in with just about everyone. Gaining a wife is the furthest thing from his mind until Mr. Brown makes him an offer that’s hard to refuse. To keep ...

Can two lonely and lost hearts find one another at the Matchmaker's Ball? Jeremiah Washington cannot find employment as a cowboy--the only thing he's ever done--since the closing of the Wilson Ranch in Manassa. He came to Creede with his boss, Angel Wilson, and decided to try to make the place home, just as she did. When a job falls in his lap, he becomes the last thing anyone would have expected of him. A lawman. But his first job holds a bit more adventure than he'd hoped for, and he still has dreams of settling down and getting married, himself. Just when he thinks he's found the right ...

Two hearts separated by time reunite and remind each other of what's really important. Angel Wilson has been running her family's farm, her late father's veterinary practice, and everything in between. She's never had time to be feminine or dream for herself. She never even knew she wanted those things until she runs into her first love Henry again, the owner of the South Creede Livery. Henry Granger has been busy making his father's dream a reality--and to really do it, he needs for the first auction held at his livery to be a smashing success. But everything seems to be going wrong. The ...