The Buccaneer and the Bastard
American dollar princess Melanie Pennypacker has accepted her former teacher’s invitation to join a matchmaking house party for the summer for one reason and one reason only—to find a partner. But not a marriage partner. Melanie is looking for a business partner to invest in her dream of opening a new department store of the sort that are taking London by storm. But no man wants to invest in a business-minded woman.
Sometimes the right man comes along in what seems like the wrong package….
Anyone with eyes can see that valet Frank Crymble is the illegitimate first-cousin of his employer, Lord Avery O’Shea, and like the rest of the O’Shea family, Frank has ambitions above his station and a penchant for scandal. When he catches Melanie behaving badly away from the other house party guests, the two of them instantly come up with a scheme that will get them both what they want.
Sometimes making the wrong decision turns out to be the right way to fall in love….
But a marriage of convenience might be harder to pull off than Melanie and Frank suspect when every one of their friends is against the match. And when Melanie’s father shows up at the house party to drag her home, both her and Frank’s dreams hang in the balance. Until they hatch a plan to convince everyone they are deeply in love…including themselves.
PLEASE BE ADVISED – Steam level: Very Hot!
The Angel and the Aristocrat
You are cordially invited to the country house party of the summer...
Five years ago, six exceptional ladies graduated from Twittingham Academy and successfully nabbed themselves the most sought-after matrimonial prizes in London. Actually, they didn't. Not one of them. But the Countess of Fangfoss, formerly known as Miss Julia Twittingham, has a plan to see each of her past charges happily wed after all. Welcome to Second Chance Manor.
Lady Angeline O’Shea was certain she would find a husband right out of finishing school, but instead, she was called back to Ireland to nurse her sick father through his final years. Now, slightly older, slightly wiser, but still as sweet and innocent as she was in school, she is determined to do her duty to her family by finding the perfect and most suitable husband…
…who is not Lord Rafe McAllister, Marquess of Rothbury.
Fresh off of a broken engagement in which his reputation was raked through the mud, Rafe wants nothing more than to hide away in Yorkshire for the summer, licking his wounds. He supposes he’ll have to marry eventually, but the last woman on earth that he could see as his marchioness is cheerful, angelic, innocent Angeline. Angeline has other ideas, though. What starts as her bid to get the curmudgeonly Rafe to smile turns into a passion that neither she nor Rafe can deny… …until Rafe’s former fiancée shows up at the house party.
PLEASE BE ADVISED – Steam level: Very Hot!
The Hens
Liu Meizhen has been searching for her long-lost brother for what feels like forever. Her journey has taken her from China to San Francisco to Haskell, Wyoming, and beyond. But she’s tired of searching, and when the opportunity arises to end her wandering in Noelle, Colorado by becoming a mail-order bride, she leaps at it. Noelle is exactly what she’s been looking for, and Woody, the man she has promised to marry, is everything she could have hoped for.
Woody Burnside knows he’s not the smartest man in Noelle, but he works hard, cares deeply for the animals that are entrusted to his care, and believes with his whole heart that he could be a good husband. And the three hens that shadow him wherever he goes, Mimi, Gigi, and Fifi, seem to agree. Meizhen is more than he could have hoped for in a bride, and he is determined to make her the happiest woman in Colorado.
But just when everything looks like it’s going to be happily ever after, the ghost of Meizhen’s past shows up in the most unlikely place. She suddenly finds herself torn between her duty toward her family and the promise she made to Woody. And with time running out for Noelle, she must make a decision that she fears will hurt someone she cares for deeply.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam Level - Sweet
You can find the rest of the 12 Days of Christmas Mail Order Bride series here
Mistletoe & Moonbeams
Available for the first time on its own…
Miranda Clarke is a respectable, proper woman. So when she inherits The Holey Bucket Saloon in Mistletoe, Montana from her Uncle Buford, she is livid. She feels she has no other choice than to travel to Mistletoe and keep the place open, since that’s what her uncle wanted, but it is certainly not the life she wants to lead.
Randall Sinclair is a traveling brush salesman with dreams of bigger things. That is, his father has dreams of bigger things for him. And drives him relentlessly to achieve them. Randall himself would be more than happy to live a quiet life in a quiet town with a loving wife. Especially when he finds himself faced with beautiful and inimitable saloonkeeper, Miranda.
Their acquaintance seems doomed to be a brief one, two ships passing in the night…until a blizzard traps them alone in the saloon together. With nothing to do but clean up the saloon and sort through their immediate and intense attraction, the final days approaching Christmas end up being anything but cold, but with so many expectations heaped on top of them, can “Randy” and “Randi” find a way to be together after the storm?
PLEASE BE ADVISED – Steam Level: Hot
This novella was originally part of a box set—Wild Western Women in Mistletoe, Montana. Look for other books in this series including:
Mail-Order Merry, by Kirsten Osbourne
Mistletoe Mistake, by Caroline Clemmons
Mistletoe Scandal, by Sylvia McDaniel
The Advisor (Fabulous Dalton Boys Book 3)
The Dalton boys are no strangers to trouble, but when a baby is dropped on their doorstep, the resulting scandal has the potential to turn into a PR nightmare. In order to nip disaster in the bud, Archer Dalton hires PR advisor Kalee Hathaway to polish up the family image.
But Archer and Kalee both get more than they bargained for. Between mixed signals, sizzling misunderstandings, vicious bosses, and a makeover that leads to shenanigans, what starts out as business gets personal in a hurry.
Will Kalee be able to turn things around for Archer and his family, or will her “hands-on” involvement with him cause an even bigger mess?
PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam Level - HOT
Willow: Bride of Pennsylvania
Willow: Bride of Pennsylvania is second in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.
When a fire destroys the factory where Willow Miller works, her only choice for a secure future comes through becoming a mail-order bride to ex-Amish, Amos Stoltzfus, and moving to her ancestral home of Pennsylvania. Hope carries her forward into a new life, but guilt over her part in the fire that destroyed the factory threatens to hold her back.
Amos Stoltzfus is overjoyed to bring someone as sweet and special as Willow into his life to recapture a sense of family and love that he has been missing. But Amos has a past of his own and unresolved conflict with his neighbor and former best friend, Mark Lapp, that stands in the way of family, happiness, and the community around him.
Can Willow help resolve the pain and heal the breach that divides Amos from his community and his culture, or will her troubles stand in the way of her and Amos’s happiness?
PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam Level - Sweet/Clean
More Precious Than Gold
Louisa White has always held her head up and faced the challenges of life with faith and trust in the Lord. But when that faith is tested, she must turn to an unlikely source for strength and comfort.
Andrew McBride has always seen Louisa as his sister’s friend, but when her troubles begin to mount, his feelings toward her change. He wants to do what’s right and to make a place for Louisa in his life and his heart.
But when the community that Louisa and Andrew love so much is beset by a conflict that reaches into everyone’s lives, friends turn against friends, putting the most precious part of their world in danger. Can the young Swedenborgian church survive the biggest dispute in its history? Or will the differences that define the two warring factions destroy the church before it can grow?
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet/Clean
Heath's Homecoming
Follow the Langley’s fresh off the boat from Ireland to present day. Six different time periods, one family, each story a stand-alone presented from bestselling authors, Kathleen Tighe Ball, Hildie McQueen, Kathy Shaw, Peggy McKenzie, Merry Farmer and Sylvia McDaniel. Don’t miss witnessing this family face challenges from 1850 to the present.
Langley Legacy - 1968
Returning Vietnam War vet Heath Langley has a powerful family legacy to live up to. But his experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, including losing his best friend, have left him struggling to find his place in the world. Everything he thought his life would be has changed, and he doesn’t know how to keep up. Only one thing grounds him and keeps him going, the girl he left behind.
Barbie Rose is determined to be more than her mother’s generation ever dreamed of being. She’s well on her way after Aiden Langley hires her to manage Legacy Ranch. But not everyone likes seeing a woman in charge, and when Heath returns, her heart and her future hang in the balance. Especially since she can see how much healing Heath has to do.
But what could be the perfect relationship hits a snag when Barbie and Heath find themselves at odds over the horse that their friend Davy left behind after giving the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Can they learn to compromise and find their way forward together, or will the Langley Legacy end with them?
Beare and Forebears
PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam Level – Hot