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Sarah Sawyer wants a life of peace for her and her daughter. After the death of her husband a year ago, she has been on the run from a group of men who believe she has something they want. She intends to hide out in Amish country until she can form a plan of safety. She never intended to be shot and offered sanctuary among the simple people who offer her a temporary identity. Ben Harztler finds a wounded Englisch woman and her daughter in the woods behind his house. He brings them home so his mamm can tend to them, intending to send them on their way soon after. His mamm has other ideas. ...

A shy candy maker. A pastor who believes in love at first sight. A meddling sister and a matchmaking group of women. Holly Landon enjoys her own company and spending her days making candy in the candy store she owns with her sisters. But when she’s nominated to play Mary in the church Christmas play and the handsome new assistant pastor plays Joseph, she is pulled out of her comfort zone and thrust into the limelight. All she wants is to live her life, her way. Is that too much to hope for? As if that is bad enough, the pastor’s visiting nephew sets his eye on Holly, threatening to ...

Emma Jones has always considered herself plain. Her mother had drilled it into her head that a moral woman acts and dresses a certain way. These thoughts are challenged when the mayor's son, Daniel Barton, and the ladies of The Red Hat Club take a sudden interest in plain, little Emma. Before she knows it, Emma has a makeover and is stepping out of her comfort zone and thrust into Daniel's arms.

A detective and an FBI agent face the final showdown with the Seven Deadly Sins Killer—where love, loyalty, and survival hang by a thread. A final confrontation. A traitor revealed. Death waiting at the door. The Seven Deadly Sins Killer has declared war, and this time it’s personal. His demand: to claim the small town of Oakdale as his stronghold. His mission: to eliminate Detective Harper Scranton and FBI Special Agent Liam McConnell once and for all. Harper has drawn her line in the sand at Robert Thompson’s compound, but the man she seeks refuses to play by the rules. He’s ...

Zoe Barnes left Colorado Springs the day after high school graduation, dumping her sweetheart without so much as a phone call on he way out of town. So it's poetic justice that he happens to rescue her when her car breaks down on her way back years later. Can two wary, wounded souls survive a road trip to Colorado Springs?

When Phoebe Ross's employer dies, leaving her with a wedding gown, Phoebe feels she has no choice but to answer the call for mail order brides to Angel Vale, Wyoming. When she arrives her groom-to-be is nowhere in sight. With the other brides claimed, she sets off to find her groom. He is nothing what she expected. Nor, did she expect danger to have followed her to Angel Vale. Christmas Gold is a touching story of finding love, escaping the past, and forging a new future in an untamed land.

In a Handcarved Christmas, Sam Cooper sends for a mail-order bride for his older brother Ben. Now, the tables have turned, a little minute of a thing, dressed in frills and ribbons, arrives on his doorstep talking a mile a minute. Sam's sister-in-law thought this Christmas was the perfect time to pay Sam back for his stunt the year before. City girl, Abigail Rogers, has nowhere to turn after the death of her parents which left her destitute. She corresponds with Laura Cooper for several months, then decides Sam sounds perfect. The gruff, handsome rancher and harsh Montana winters are ...

Wanted: Men to Audition as Husbands. Turtle Springs, Kansas. Auditions Held May 25. Only Godly, Upstanding Men Need Apply. Check in at Mayor’s Office. When her father never returned from the war, Abigail Melton stepped into his role as town mayor. The town needs men, and she needs a husband—and she has a big idea how to find both—but her first duty is to hire a sheriff. And drifter Josiah Ingram will do just fine. Sparks fly and not always in a good way. Josiah resents the women trying to snare him into marriage. Abigail has yet to find a man she could see herself marrying. Can these ...

Maureen O'Shea came to Devil Falls, Montana, to marry a stranger. She stayed to build a dream—and capture the heart of the most stubborn man in the West. When Boston seamstress Maureen O'Shea steps off the stagecoach in the rugged Montana frontier, she discovers her mail-order groom is already six feet under. Penniless, alone, and too proud to go home, this feisty Irish immigrant does what any determined woman would do—she opens a tea room in a town that runs on black coffee and sheer stubbornness. Blacksmith Micah Webster never planned on a raven-haired, fast-talking Irish woman ...

Laura Worth answers an advertisement for a bride and leaves Missouri to meet her groom in Montana. When she gets there, she realizes her husband-to-be, Ben Cooper, has no knowledge of having sent for her. She is devastated, even more so when she breaks a precious heirloom. Ben's heart goes out to the beautiful woman and he marries her in answer to his mother's dying wish. As Christmas approaches, the two wonder whether their marriage will hold the love and intimacy God intended it to have. Will Ben win the heart of his unexpected gift?

Do Christmas wishes really come true? Lacey Cooper dreams of directing plays. When the manager at the local theater company falls ill, she gets her chance to direct the annual Christmas play, A White Christmas. Then, the lead role is injured in an accident and Lacey must ask the man in charge of stage setup to step in. Dillon Marks is growing tired of his job as probation officer, but volunteers on a regular basis at the local theater company, bringing several of his clients with him. When Lacey begs him to step into the leading role, he initially says no. He can sing, but can't dance at ...

Melanie (Mellie) Brooks had lived in the small town of Cumberton Heights her whole life, even after the boy-next-door, her best friend, left town after the town’s most sought-after young woman broke his heart. But now, Devon Sawyer had returned as a best-selling author and town celebrity, to remind her of a long-ago promise made when they were kids. Devon Sawyer couldn’t believe how beautiful pudgy Mellie Brooks had grown up to be. Right away he’s thrust back into the happiest days of his life, until a certain woman sets her eye on him and threatens to ruin the very thing Devon ...

Katherine O'Connor is in dire straits and the only thing she can think of to do is apply for a job as a caddy. The only problem is...women aren't yet allowed to play golf in America. She cuts her hair, dons boy clothing and gets the job. She didn't plan on falling for her handsome boss. Once her identity is revealed, complications of her deception seem overwhelming. Bradford Woodward knows something is suspicious about the frail young man in his employ, but since his brother hired the caddy, he'll honor the boy's employment and try to find something the boy knows how to do. When "Kevin" ...

IT IS HER DESTINY TO DIE. CAN SHE CHANGE IT? A letter shatters her world. A sacrifice she isn’t willing to make. A man with an agenda of his own. Felicia Wingate has her life planned. She’s going to work with underprivileged children. Until she receives a letter on her twenty-first birthday that sends her careening into the dark belly of evil. Hunted by a fanatical cult leader, she finds herself on the run with her mother, a woman she just met. During their flight, Felicia discovers that friends are not what they seem, and that her birth father is hunting her to further his own evil ...

Iris Blossom, owner of Blossom's and More, has just broken off her engagement with the mayor's son. Just in time for the return home of Brock Samson, the man who jilted her at their senior prom ten years ago. Despite the sparks that fly between the two, they agree to help the ladies of the Red Hat Club beautify Main Street and participate in an old-fashioned dance off competition. Problem is ... the red hat's club has decided Iris and Brock should get married and set out to get wed. What Iris and Brock don't expect is how dance practice ignites the blood and threatens to topple the vows ...

Sue has always wanted to travel the Mother Road in her pink Mustang. She ditches the man she didn't love at the altar, tosses her veil out the car and takes off on her first real adventure. Along the way, she picks up a hitchhiker named James Deacon. A leather jacket wearing man with secrets and dreams of his own. Their journey takes the reader from Illinois to the end of the road in Santa Monica. Can they leave aside their separate dreams and come together for something bigger than either of them imagined?

Hazel Arnold's mother has a strong sense of what is proper for a woman of the Arnolds' financial stature and is determined that Hazel marry a man she despises. This sets Hazel on a quest to prove the man is not who he appears to be. She enlists the help of her family's handsome chauffeur and her lady's maid. Her search takes her along a path of lies and deceit, resulting in death and destruction. Still, at the end of her quest, Hazel finds something worth much more than proving her mother wrong.

Josephine Montgomery wants independence and a family of her own. Parker Owens wants to run a successful ranch and find a nanny for his children. Now penniless, the once wealthy Josephine arrives in town having lied about her credentials. She’s no way fit to be a nanny and Parker sees right through her. Still, he lets her stay on when his little girl accepts the woman on the spot. These two must overcome their two very different lifestyles and find a way to work together. Neither of them expected to love in love. When danger strikes, will they find out that love is worth the price?

A Woman in Disguise. A Preacher With a Plan. And a Gold Rush That Changes Everything. When Boston socialite Rose McIlroy trades her feather bed and fancy gowns for wool trousers and a mule named Bob, she never expects to find love in the muddy, lawless camps of California's Gold Rush. Disguised as a boy to survive the dangerous journey to Rich Bar, Rose is determined to help her dreamer father strike it rich — even if that means freezing her hands in the icy Feather River and pretending she doesn't notice the most handsome man on the California frontier noticing her. Jackson Westin came ...

1885 Arkansas City girl, Leah Ellison has big dreams but soon finds out that teaching in a backwards Ozark Mountain community is far different than what she’d imagined. Leah arrives in the Ozarks only to find out she had no ride to her destination. Suitcase in hand, she starts walking and discovers her ride has broken down. Cotton farmer, Luke Canfield, is amused when he sees the lovely woman dressed in ruffles and bows dragging a suitcase behind her. He’s even more intrigued when the little spitfire sets him in his place for not arriving to fetch her despite his wagon breaking down. It...