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Amish New Beginnings

Eliza Sommer is thirty years old and still lives with her parents, Amos and Mary, helping them run the family farm shop. Eliza is resigned to a life helping her parents in their advancing years, but seeing her siblings marry and have families of their own, makes Eliza realize it is the one thing she truly desires in her life. Eliza was born with a condition that has caused her parents to be over-p ...

St. Patrick's Shenanigans

The first task for new Butte Chamber of Commerce manager, Mitzi Lambrecht, is to organize the board of directors’ entry for the St. Patrick’s Day float. She’s advocating for a frontier theme honoring early settlers like her ancestors. But she’s opposed by a handsome but infuriating jokester. Declan Rourke is proud of his Irish roots and wants their contribution included in the float’s design. ...

Cherished by the Rancher

Maddy Johnston wants one thing: safety for her and her daughter. She finds it in the back of beyond at the Black Rock Ranch, as long as she can keep her identity a secret. But her ex is on her trail, and the rancher she’s falling for prizes honesty. Not good when he doesn’t even know her real name. **** Adam Black likes to be in control of everything: his livestock, his ranch, his life. He handles ...

The Billionaire's High School Reunion

Friendship turns into young love, a nasty breakup, and, maybe, a second chance. Can this billionaire make his great life perfect? Blake Murphy wants redemption. More than that, he wants a second chance. He'd been avoiding his home town since the day he left for college. Trista Kennedy would be there, and he had no idea how he'd face her after the way he'd treated her. But now, he'd find out. His h ...

Her Adventurous Cowboy

Ryan Hunt has a job to do. He’s been brought in for one week to help the Calhoun family learn how to run a youth camp. He doesn’t have time to be distracted by a beautiful, intriguing woman. Cate Calhoun is tired of being passed over for responsibilities on the ranch. She has her eye on the newly available job of camp director, but nobody in her family seems to think she can handle it. Ryan Hunt m ...

Show Me a Marriage of Convenience

After three near-death experiences in one day—okay, maybe burning dinner and falling from a tree shouldn't count—Kade Clark worries about his son's future if he's not around to protect him. The last thing he wants is for his son to become a bargaining chip between a con artist grandfather and a ruthless ex trying to get their hands on the family fortune. So Kade agrees to a crazy proposal from the ...

Christmas on King Street

Alice's flower shop is in trouble, and her boyfriend has yet to propose. She's weary and disillusioned, so when her boyfriend suggests a trip to visit family and friends in Charleston, South Carolina, she's eager to go. But a discovery at her friend's vintage store reveals a decades-old music box with a secret that may just help Alice find what she needs this Christmas. In 1942, witty Kit and a ...

My Heart's for You

Kaitlyn Monroe, a nursing grad is driven by two desires. Find a job. find her soul mate. Not necessarily in that order. She and her three friends get hired at Mercy Hospital where they're in for unexpected patient adventures, causing her to question whether being the hands and feet of Jesus is what she's called to. Determined to meet her ideal man, she falls into a relationship that get derailed ...

A Small Town Christmas

Experience the magic of Christmas with two enchanting romances set in small towns. Sweet Yuletide Desperate to escape her new stepfamily over the holidays, Sheridan DeMarco decides to housesit in a quaint coastal town. Her dream of spending Christmas alone, however, is shattered when she finds herself sharing the cozy beach cottage with a stranger, Michael "Mikey" Patterson. A kiss under the mistl ...

Holiday Luv bundle: Four Christmas Romances

A boxed set of four sweet holiday romances.  

A jilted bride meets a handsome Scrooge.

Love blooms on a Christmas tree farm.

Second-chance at love on a TV bake-off.

A lost dog stirs up Christmas romance for a single mom.

“Warmed my heart and had me believing in the magic of Christmas again!”

— Reader Review

The Long Way Home

He had a boat. She needed a ride. A simple lift became the adventure of a lifetime. After being stranded in Nassau, Meg Freeman ran into Jon Davenport, an old friend from her past, who offered her a ride home on his yacht. Before making the trip, they decided to visit a deserted island and scuba dive a beautiful coral reef. While diving, they discovered evidence of an ancient shipwreck, but they w ...

Lake of Destiny-A Celtic Legends Novel

magical novel about destiny, family, food, intrigue, healing, men in kilts, and the sometimes twisted path to love from the award-winning author of Compulsion. "Delightful, charming, and heartwarming." --NYT bestselling author Wendy Higgins

Helping her aunt organize a festival in a picturesque village nestled among the Highland braes of Scotland seems li ...

The First Snowfall Wish

Kara Kavanaugh is working her fingers to the bone over the holidays at the posh Monarch Resort to pay her last semester's tuition. Though she used to be one of them, the wealthy clientele treat her horribly. To escape, Kara wishes—on everything, including a pure wish for true love. Will her wish bring her longtime boyfriend to her side at last? Or, will Ryan Sinclair, the princely heir to the reso ...

Gift of the Magpie

Amanda Larrowe’s lack of trust sabotages her relationships. The English teacher and award-winning author of middle-grade adventure books for boys has shut off communication with friends and family to meet her January 2 book deadline. Now, in the deepest snow accumulation Richmond, Virginia has experienced in years, Camden Lancaster moves in across the street. After ten years, her heart still smart ...

A Hero at Heart

She’s holding on to her late husband’s memory. He won’t let go of his secrets. Will an old flame light up a second chance at love? Kelsey Swain knows there’s no such thing as a knight in shining armor. Her late husband had one foot out the door when a mysterious accident left Kelsey a widow. Now her only chance to keep her and her young son afloat is to revitalize the family restaurant. She plans ...

A Season for Serenity

A toymaker with a dilemma, twelve hours to make it right, and a special ops paramedic at her side? Not exactly the Christmas Eve Serenity planned…

Serenity Yates is an hour from closing her toy shop for the holidays and starting a much-needed break. But first, she’ll hand over a handmade dollhouse to her final customer of the year. At least, that’s the hope–until the plan goes ...

Cabin Fever

I was a damsel in distress. Trapped in a car. Slowly being buried by the unrelenting snow. No cell service. No way out. And then when all hope felt lost, he appeared--a shadowy figure emerging from the depths of the blizzard. Except my dashing hero on a mighty steed was instead a hulking beast of a man with an eyepatch and a beard, driving a pickup truck. He offered his small cabin as shelter unti ...

A Watchman for Willow

Ever since her husband was killed in a logging accident, Willow Morrow has been struggling to take care of her two-year-old daughter, Ila Mae, and survive. Left with limited funds and no family or friendship ties to the area, the lumber owner brought her to Sonora, California, the largest nearby city, and dumped her off with her husband’s final paycheck and two weeks extra wages. She feels fo ...

Rescued

Breaking down in a nowhere town called Providence wasn’t part of the plan. When her life falls apart in a matter of hours, all single mother Amy Lawson wants is a fresh start. She doesn’t expect to break down and find herself at the mercy of strangers. Securing a safe place for her and her daughter to stay means accepting the help of a mysterious, brooding mechanic. Widower and grieving father, Be ...

Taking What's Mine

They both have claim to the same land. How will they figure out who gets it without killing each other first? Alexandra I won’t sit by anymore and let my good deeds go punished. Especially while some jerk’s bad behavior is rewarded. Sometimes one man’s karma is another person’s responsibility. And I am that person. But a rugged mountain man, with sarcasm for days, stands in my way of del ...

The Gingerbread House

Falling in love was not on her to-do list. Left in debt after the tragic death of her husband, Tricia Adams struggled to keep a roof over her family's heads. With the help of the Grandmothers Four, she’d finally gotten everything under control.She was happy and more comfortable than she’d been in years. When Carol’s son, Eric Elliott, agreed to help renovate the guest house, mysterious and things ...

Harvest Wishes

With her life in tatters after ending an abusive marriage, Madison literally falls into the arms of her ex-high school sweetheart—the only man she’s ever truly loved. Will she allow him to help mend the broken pieces of her heart, finally finding the love she deserves? A failed marriage. No job. A looming court date to face her abusive ex-husband. Worst of all, she’s had to move back in with her p ...

Summer Break with the Billionaire

nother summer break wrangling for the Marigold Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and boy was last semester a doozy. Whitnee needed to get down and dirty with her favorite equines and forget all about the stress of getting her bachelor's degree. Too bad her ex, Gage, decided to come back for the season, too. As additional responsibility and a fresh wave of guests arrive at the Marigold, she's beginni ...

Heartsong Hills

Amish girls don’t dance. Dancing is against the rules, and Nora Beiler always follows the rules…until a runaway logging truck shatters her world forever. Desperate to heal from the accident, she enrolls in Shuffle off to Fitness, an exercise class at the local senior center. She never dreamed it involved tap-dancing…or just how much she’d love to dance. Exiled from Nashville, country music star ...

St. Batzy & the Time Machine

After all the years they had been married, Maddie Ainsworth's presence still had the ability to discombobulate Horace. She was as tall as his own six feet--the reason they saw eye-to-eye on most things, they joked. To Horace, she was more beautiful than when they met thirty-some years ago. Maddie loved Horace more than anything or anyone in her life. When they met, they both believed they coul ...

Pinkie: A Short Story

Recent divorcee Rebecca has returned to Utica, NY to give back her ex’s diamond ring and put that whole sad episode of her life behind her once and for all. As she boards the train to return to her new home in Richmond, VA, she is determined to take a hiatus from relationships. And next time around, she’ll make sure she spends a good long time getting to know a guy before jumping into any kind of ...

A Doctor's Promise

Dr. Jared O'Connor has given his parents a promise--to find his dead brother's fiancee and child. But his mission is derailed when he meets beautiful flight nurse Shelly Bennett. The sadness in her eyes, mirrors his own, and he is drawn to her and to her young son in a way he's never experienced before. Shelly can't afford to be distracted by Jared's attention. Her son's upcoming testing may confi ...

Ambassador's Bride

In a dystopian future where humans have foolishly squandered Earth’s natural resources, the few remaining people are becoming desperate. Crowded in huge underground cities, they’ve finally come to the end of the line and they must decide whether or not they will trade the only valuable resource Earth has left... Women. Being the daughter of a wealthy diplomat, Rose is blissfully ignora ...

Enticing Luke

He had some questions…and she gave all the wrong answers. Luke’s learned the hard way that a pretty face gets him nothing but trouble. His solution? A series of questions to use as a dating screener. The woman with the right answers would be perfect, except for one tiny problem. Madison Anderson, the woman he really wants, the one who makes him laugh and can rock a bikini better than most on Boca ...

Love Comes Later

When newlywed Abdulla loses his wife and unborn child in a car accident, the world seems to crumble beneath his feet. Thrust back into living in the family compound, he goes through the motions—work, eat, sleep, repeat. Blaming himself for their deaths, he decides to never marry again but knows that culturally, this is not an option. Three years later, he’s faced with an arranged marri ...

Roses for Rachel

A DEMENTED STALKER THREATENS A SINGLE MOM, vandalizes her home, and sabotages her work. After her husband's murder, Rachel Santos struggles to raise her young daughters alone. How will she protect them from the mysterious lunatic who's out to get her? Rachel finds herself relying on the faithful protection of her kind coworker, Elliot Truman. But can she summon the courage to risk her heart ...

Morna's Spell (Book 1 of The Magical Matchmaker's Legacy)

"Morna's Spell" is the SWEET/CLEAN version of "Love Beyond Time" by USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Bethany Claire. This version is for readers who prefer clean language in their stories and love scenes that stay behind closed doors. An ancient spell. A timeless love. Brielle Montgomery finds comfort in the steadfast routines in her life—until her archaeologist mother whisks her away on an adventure ...

Parker

I'm Alex Parker, the best defenseman in the NHL, heartbreaker, and troublemaker. My team had the best penalty kill record in the league, t ...

Unexpected Bride Series

In sometimes perilous conditions, and in a wide range of circumstances, rugged western men have unexpected brides foisted upon them.
A letter which was supposed to be sent and never was, sets off a chain reaction which could destroy the lives of Annie and Reed.
Bounty hunter, Slade McEwan, unexpectedly becomes a husband and father to four children.
Brad Stillman never dreamed an une ...

Calm & Bright

Even a matchmaking grandmother and an adorable four year old might not be enough to help this couple reunite! This Christmas, Brad Hughes hopes he can convince his ex-wife Maddie he’s not the unreliable, workaholic charmer she married young and then divorced. They’ll be together over the holidays, for the sake of their four year old son. But what chance do they have of becoming a family again, w ...

Lessons in Bee Keeping

Confront the past. Heal the present. Olivia is torn when her brother-in-law, Lukas, shows up in town with an unexplained child in tow. Her husband, Jake, wants nothing to do with Lukas. The bad blood between them started in adolescence, and Lukas hasn’t stopped causing trouble since. It doesn’t help that Olivia dated Lukas in high school. Olivia knows Lukas needs help, and without it, his child ...

Christmas Lovebirds

Paperback (on sale), large print also available.

A sweet holiday romance that will delight your heart.

A mix-up between lovebirds brings Melisa Hart face to face with the dashing Dr. Rob Reed, the man she crushed on her entire life.

Unfortunately, he’s not welcome in her large Irish family. He’s not a firefighter like her father and brothers, and t ...

Christmas Romance Short Stories

Two sweet Christmas romances that will be sure to warm your heart. Saving Peters Tree Farm - After the death of her father, Charlotte Peters makes the big decision to move back to Archer Lodge, North Carolina to help her mom and the family’s failing Christmas tree farm. After a quick stop at the local hardware store, Charlotte is confronted with a part of her past she’d nearly forgotte ...

It Started with a Note

Avery Parks loves her job in the Admissions department. She really does. It's nice and calm and...far too predictable.

Just like her personal life.

She has big dreams—how would she ever realize them if she stays in her current rut? She needs to take a big, bold, daring move to shake her out of her humdrum life. Like taking a vacation to Belgium to see her childhood friend.

...

The Amish Cowboy's Second Chance

Can love find a home for a runaway cowboy and the Amish woman he left behind? Noah Detweiler thought he’d left his Amish life forever. After years on the Albertan prairie as a cowboy, he’s finally found peace with God and purpose at Second Chance Ranch working with special needs children. But when he discovers time is running out for any hope of reconciliation with his father, Noah is forced to ...

Of Gold & Blood, Series 1 (Books 1 - 3)

California, 1868. The three Russell brothers have been separated by time and tragedy. When they reunite in a proverbial promised land, they must heal the past and build a future for themselves and the strong women who hold their hearts. But the rough Western frontier breeds more danger than delight… The Russell clan continues to find themselves at the center of mysterious deaths and murderous a ...

The Chaplain’s Daughter

A minister's daughter abandoned during war survives by taking on the grueling work of an army laundress. A wounded widower feels God has forsaken him. Will her devout care bring medicine to his soul or rub salt in his wounds? Ellen White is assigned to attend a debilitated artillery captain after the Battle of Second Manassas. She offers God's strength, but Gideon Sharpe would rather rely on his o ...

You're The One

She was everything he never thought he needed

After a life working his family’s ranch, Nash Winter understands animals better than people. He loathes social media, and twitter to him is a fancy word for talking. So, when his friend’s sister gets excited over the arrival in Ryker Falls of model, and social media influencer, Luna McKinley, he’s going to make damn sure she does no influenc ...

Chasing Rainbows

Marissa Madison lives with a unique family: an inventive uncle whose experiments usually involve explosions, an artist aunt who collects classic automobiles, a mother caught in a 1950s time warp, and a playboy twin brother who impersonates their eccentric aunt.   Ian MacGregor should have been enjoying a roaring drunk to grieve his father, not selling every piece of personal property so his moth ...

Life's Forever Changed

After Alejandro Alvarez’s best friend dies of kidney disease while in high school, Alejandro vows to change his life. Determined to help others suffering from his friend’s illness, he rejects joining his father’s pediatrics practice and instead trains as a nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. Fourteen years later, devotion to his career has rewarded him with a reputation as an excellent surgeon, ...

My Perfect Life at Cornish Cottage

A deliciously romantic and humorous read about love, loss and starting again.

Sophie Bailey is your typical yummy mummy. She lives in a small village where life is all coffee mornings and party plan. You may think she has the perfect life - she certainly did until she woke up one morning and her husband dropped a life changing bomb into the mix. Maybe I should let her explain.

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Double Booked - Christmas in Snow Falls: A Christmas Romance

Bakery owner Kate, eager for a peaceful escape from her busy life, books a trip for Christmas to the idyllic small town of Snow Falls. The cottage comes with lots of charm and an unexpected complication. Alex has also booked the cabin and is looking for his own solo getaway. After arguing with the owner, they reluctantly agree to share to avoid having to cancel their vacations. But Christmas magic ...

Lily's Second Chance

Swept into a dazzling charade by my former crush, his fake proposal blossoms into a floral fantasy. A pretend Valentine's Day wedding is his clever business strategy. High school chemistry brought us together, but I was too shy, and he was leagues above me. Alex is now a billionaire CEO, desperate to shield his legacy from a conniving cousin's thorns. He pledges to rescue my flower bus ...

The Farmer's Wife

The secret they've kept can either bring them together or tear them apart. Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti returns to the Illinois family farm after her father's heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to return, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that broke her heart. Returning means she must face everyone's questions, including those of her first l ...

Legally Wedded: A Marriage of Convenience Romance

Marrying an attractive stranger for college cash? Yeah, nothing could go wrong with that. Morgan has one goal: finish college so her sister can start classes. But her financial aid goes awry—flinging away her chances to graduate and help her sister. Josh needs to graduate a.s.a.p. His girlfriend is waiting for him in Germany. But his wealthy dad cuts him off, and now he can’t afford tuition. Josh ...

An Unwanted Love Story

Can you like a guy who hates ice cream? Can you more than like him? It’s enemies at first sight when Doug King rides into town on his motorcycle. It’s easy enough to overlook his sky blue eyes, the beard that gives him both a distinguished yet wild look, and his buff bod. Vroom. Vroom. What? It’s summer and hard not to notice things like that. Why do I hate him? Sheesh. So many questions. For one, ...

A DEAD RED GAMBLE

#6 in the Dead Red Mystery series Like Janet Evanovich? Sue Grafton? You’ll love this humorous mystery series! What if building a case against corruption gets you killed? On track to a successful political career, a charismatic young judge’s detour into corruption will uncover the scandalous truth of his father’s murder…and ultimately his own. Now it will be up to P.I. Lalla Bains to scour through ...

Montana Sky: Laced By Love

A vaudeville troupe arrives in Morgan’s Crossing late in the traveling season. When an event occurs that shakes up the troupe, seamstress Cinnia decides to say no to older sister Nola who has made the sisters’ decisions since being orphaned a decade earlier. Leather worker Nicolai Andrusha is lying low and using an alias until the patent is approved on his family’s leather tanning formula. But he ...

Susannah's Secret

San Francisco, 1872. Susannah Carterton yearns to be accepted as a serious artist. But family comes first, and she accompanies her adored adopted niece back to the guardianship of an unsuitable biological uncle. But when an estranged friend is found murdered and she stands accused, the panicked painter swallows her pride to ask help of the man who loathes her in kind. Jack Cabot is ecstatic to ...

Loving Lila

A time for love in nineteenth century America, a time to be thankful. Shortly before she prepares to start her third year courses at the University of Iowa, Lila Cleod is called home. She leaves the Sewell family where she also works as a nanny and boards the train for Denver, Colorado. Her father has died. After the funeral, she will learn if he left her, his oldest daughter by his first marriage ...

Mending Heartstrings

Kane's a country singer who's tangled with too many deceitful women. He's learned his lesson: girls are for flirting and fun; emotions are for his music. But after spending a night with an earnest woman unlike any he's known, he can't force her out of his mind. So he goes in search of the woman he knows only as "Elle."

On her last night in Nashville, the staunchly pragmatic Sabella f ...

Flirt's Battalion

A Bride for Frank

THE PRESCOTT BRIDES Five lady outlaws sent to prison for bank robbery. Their sentences commuted to time served if they become mail-order brides. Five brothers looking for wives, take a chance on the outlaw brides. Will they find happiness or heartache? This is Maisie's story. Maisie Sheahan was married to a monster. Luckily he died. Unlucky for her, he owed money to a very cruel man and that man w ...

BLUE LADY

A friends to lovers, second chances, romantic comedy short story… BLUE LADY is the Prequel to The Angelica Mason Series (There are three books in this series with a new book,Blue Lady's SEARCH for LOVE scheduled for release in the Spring 2023).

The books revolve around a common theme—the search for love and life purpose. Which is more important?

No longer satisfied with her high ...

The Wedding Promise

They used to call her the Bon-Bon Heiress. As one of Bon-Bon Chocolates heiresses, Tiffany Bonander grew up in New York with a silver spoon, a heart of gold, and a lifelong supply of sweets. But now her life is falling apart. Recent changes in cocoa supply from Ecuador are threatening the quality of the family’s chocolate and sales are down. Add to that Tiff’s penchant for falling in l ...

Kayaks and Kisses: A Shops at Sunshine Bay Novelette

Grace has always played it safe until the loss of her best friend prompts her to seek more adventure in her life. Grief-stricken and longing for change, she confronts her fear and embraces the adventures she has always avoided. When David, a seasoned kayak instructor, invites her to take a class, she takes the plunge despite her fears. Awkwardness marks their initial interactions as Grace grap ...

A Viscount's Stolen Fortune

A Viscount who has lost his fortune…can he regain it with the help of a young lady destined to become a companion?

Viscount William Foster is devastated when he wakes up to discover he has, somehow, lost his fortune. Believing that he has been cheated out of it, he is determined to regain it in whatever way he can, only to find his fiancée no longer eage ...

The Holiday Arrangement

Her mother hired a matchmaker. He’s tired of being set up. Will their holiday arrangement fizzle or sparkle with the new year? Corinne Carter returns to her maiden name and her hometown, ready for a fresh start. But her impatient mother has hired a matchmaker to get the Christmas ball rolling. Jeremy Payne is still finding his rhythm after the failure of a long term relationship. And despite the a ...

Mister Catfish

Sweet Romantic Comedy!

A Romantic Comedy Novella About Online Dating in the Face of Genital Pictures and Kinky Requests Legal investigator Nicole is great at her job—but unlucky in love. That is, until she meets Matt on an Internet dating site. The geeky app developer is sweet, decent, and nothing like the losers she’d dated before. But when Matt’s not-so-decent twin, M ...

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