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Raised with advantage and privilege, Daisy must now find a husband. Because of her overwhelming shyness, she chooses to let her aunt Harriett Farmer find her a husband. Aunt Harriett’s suggestions are not what she expected. Setting her up to be a mail-order bride, she sends her to Montana to meet Eli King. What she finds is a life vastly different than what she's used to.

On the surface, Valerie Dobson has the perfect life. She’s the star of a popular network drama. She has a loving boyfriend of eight years. Everything she touches turns to gold. But underneath her beautiful exterior lies a beautiful soul with secrets. Jesse Savoy has been in love with his lovely co-star since the day they met, and if not for her boyfriend, he’d have begged her to marry him years before. As soon as her relationship fizzles, he drags her off to Vegas for the marriage he desperately wants.

After the most recent in a stream of horrific blind dates, Addie's roommate suggests she see a professional matchmaker to try to find love instead of allowing people who are less qualified to set her up. When she doesn't agree, her friend sets up a meeting without her knowledge. After meeting the woman, Addie decides to let her try to find someone for her, but she doesn't hold out much hope.

Erin Krol lost the love of her life, and she knows she’ll never love again. Because of her desire for children, she contacts Dr. Lachele Simpson, the owner of Matchrimony. When Erin realizes she’s been matched to her very own chocolate maker, she isn’t sure whether to laugh or cry. A honeymoon in Switzerland sounds just perfect, and spending a week touring chocolate factories is a dream come true.

Sally Jackson believes that love has passed her by. In her late 40s, she dedicates all her time to teaching English to high school students. When the only man she’s ever loved comes into her classroom to plead with her to help his niece, all of the old feelings come rushing back. When Jay Graber realizes the teacher his niece is upset about is the woman he once asked to marry him, he wants to run. Again. She’s been on his mind for more than 20 years, and he’s not sure he’s ready to face her.

Michaela Hunter is at a crossroads in her life. Having just graduated from college, she's about to lose her internship, which is her only job. When she's asked by friend and matchmaker, Lachele Simpson, to agree to marry a man chosen for her, sight unseen, she's hesitant. After a bit of convincing, Michaela agrees to the plan, though she has her doubts about how it will work out.

This 15,000-word novella is a PG listen and was originally published as part of the Call Me Valentino anthology. Cassie Morgan has to take 15 young ladies all the way to Texas from New York, but she is unsure if it's a good idea to be driven there by a rugged cowboy. How will she keep her heart intact? When Valentino Hayes is offered the job of driving a bus full of orphans to Texas, he jumps at the chance to find his long-lost brother. Now to convince the beautiful Mrs. Morgan to permit it. Will the trip to Texas be more than they expected?

Tiffani Simpson has a nice orderly life, and she loves it. She gives her all to her work every day. When she loses her job and accepts a position working for the McClain Boys’ Ranch, things change, but she can accept small changes. What she can’t accept is the most handsome man she’s ever met as her boss. She doesn’t believe in dating someone she works with, so it’s hard to know what to do about him. Adam McClain, following his father’s advice, hires Tiffani Simpson as the ranch’s new fundraising coordinator. As an empath, he has a difficult time being too close to people, but there’s something about Tiffani that draws him toward her.

Michelle Strempel firmly believes that she isn’t worthy of being loved. After her fiancé of almost three years tells her he’s got to break off their engagement, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With all the hours she’s spent planning a wedding, she’s going to have one on the day she’s planned. So she contacts Dr. Lachele Simpson from Matchrimony. Seth Henderson has no time to find a bride, but when he sees how happy his best friend, Daniel Axford, is with his new wife, he wants the same thing.

Brenda Holt is certain she'll never find love. At the urging of her friend Michaela, she contacts a matchmaker, hoping the woman will work magic and find her a man with whom she can spend her life. The only catch is they will be introduced at the altar. When she first meets Daniel Axford, she's convinced that Matchrimony has made its first mistake.

Christiana and her two sisters, women of power in medieval Europe, are left alone to defend their family's home when Duke William of Normandy invades England in 1066. When they are unable to fend off the invading army, the leader of their enemies claims Christiana was promised to him as his wife, along with her home and her family's lands. Betrothed to another, she fights him, but finds herself married quickly.

Romance writer May Newman believes in happily ever after - just not for herself. When her assistant surprises her with tickets to see her favorite actor on a late-night talk show, she couldn’t be happier. Actor Bob Bodefeld is a cynic. While waiting for a flight, he spots a woman going out of her way to help strangers and thinks how much he’d like to have someone like that in his life. When the woman sits beside him on the plane, he vows to get to know her and make her his.

Actress Amber Knight has stolen the hearts of a nation in her role as MaryBeth on Lazy Love. But years before she got the role, her heart was stolen by John Baynard, the boy who she dreamed of love with. When she sees John again at a publicity event, and his young daughter is with him, she’s wary. She doesn’t dare trust him again, because she’s not sure she can survive another heartbreak at his hands. John deliberately seeks out Amber in a public place, wanting to rekindle a flame that has never gone out for him.

Jana Calendar loves her life working with special needs girls at her family’s ranch. When her favorite child loses yet another foster home, she decides to be the one to get her out of the system and adopt her. Working closely with Aubrey’s social worker is no hardship. When there is a glitch in her plans, the two of them work together quickly to find a solution.

Marci Calendar loves the children she teaches at the Calendar Girls’ Ranch, and she loves her family wholeheartedly. However, she doesn’t believe in love between a man and a woman. She’s seen two of her sisters fall in love, but she knows it could never happen to her. Thomas Latham agrees to be the official electrician for the first year of the Calendar Girls’ Ranch’s drive-through Christmas display. He knows he’ll need to spend a lot of time at the ranch to get it all wired up, and he has a short period of time to do it all.

The second of the Calendar triplets, May is a quiet, critter-loving woman who enjoys being around her family but has issues with strangers. When she goes to the doctor for yet another animal-related injury, she is surprised to see the grown-up version of the little boy she did everything with from her first day in kindergarten to her last day of high school.

Trying to find a way to help with the family’s scholarship fund, September “Berry” Calendar joins a cooking competition. Although she’s had no formal training as a chef, everyone agrees she’s the best cook around Cauldron Valley, so she hopes she won’t go down in a pile of burning ash. When a handsome man flirts with her on her first night at the competition, she knows he’ll flirt with any woman, because she is no prize.

November “Novel” Calendar is ready to start her real life. She’s always lived at home, and she’s not able to truly research the way she needs to, so she calls a matchmaker whose specialty is introducing people at the altar. She’s convinced that a marriage of convenience is the only way for her to be truly happy. Novel has read enough romance novels to know she belongs with a tall, dark, and handsome man who is just waiting for her to complete his life.

Julia Calendar, the seventh of the 12 Calendar sisters, feels as if she is just another month of the year. Her sisters all have amazing talents that set them apart, but there’s nothing she really excels at. She watches as her six elder sisters fall in love and marry, and she knows she’s expected to be next, but how could a man fall in love with her? Brent Collings is a survivor. His wife Andrea died 18 months before of breast cancer, and he was forced to be the one to go on with two sons. As soon as he sees Julia Calendar, he wants to spend time with her. In a romantic way.

Marta Martinez is alone for the first time in her life. She has two wonderful sons and a baby on the way, but her husband has been killed in a shootout with the police. Not having any other options, Marta turns to a man who has a good reputation in the community, praying he’ll give her a job so she can continue to feed her children and keep the baby growing inside her alive.