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Young widow Alice Porter, never thought she would fall in love again, and that her family's journey along the Oregon Trail was the end of her story. Rugged militiaman, Jarvis Flint, never thought he would fall in love in the first place, even though he is determined to be a man of honor and to do his duty. But sometimes the things you never think will happen are the ones that hit you when you aren't looking.

The last thing Jo Burkhart ever thought she'd do was have a one night stand. But when a little harmless, coffee shop flirting with high-powered Broadway and television director Benjamin Paul leads to a steamy proposition, how could a romance novelist like Jo resist? The last thing Ben Paul needed was to fall in love. But when he lands in bed with a down-to-earth, genuine Jo - a woman who doesn't want anything from him but an afternoon of passion - his heart gets carried away. He can't let it end with one night.

Estelle Ripley is not who she says she is. Running from the past she's left behind on a Georgia plantation, she's taken a job in a wagon train heading to new horizons along the Oregon Trail. If she can just keep her head down, do her job, and keep any of her new friends from discovering her secret, she'll be fine. After all, people don't ask questions on the frontier.

Laura Kincade is a nerd, and proud of it. She designs rockets, she hunts for dinosaur fossils, and she knows who she is. So when sizzling cowboy Ted Flint bumps into her at a party - literally, with messy results - she instantly feels out of her depth. Could a guy like Ted really be interested in a girl like her? It certainly seems like it when he invites her out to his ranch to take a look at his bone. Ahem - his dinosaur bone....

After a lifetime of fear, she is finally free… Divorce has made Rebecca Turner a scandalous woman, yet she has never been happier--until her children fall mysteriously ill. When the new, captivating doctor in town reaches out to help her, Rebecca finds herself in danger of losing her heart. He will stop at nothing to defend her… Dr. Thomas “Seeks For Her” Smith has always been an outsider, guarding his heart even as it yearns for something more. Rebecca captivates him, body and soul. He has the skills to heal her children, but it will take every bit of his strength and passion to ...

Olivia Walters is heading west along the Oregon Trail to escape a disastrous offer of marriage, but when gambler Charlie Garrett wins her hand in marriage in a poker game, she finds herself in exactly the situation she hoped to avoid. She is a woman of honor and determined to make the best of it, especially when her roguish new husband proves to be charming and seductive. But things aren't what they seem.

She was at the end of her rope, looking for a final chance… Amelia Elphick may have been born a London lady, but when her lover leaves her pregnant and desperate, the only hope for her and her secret baby comes in the form of rugged Montana cowboy, Eric Quinlan. All she has to do to start a new life in the American West is pretend to be his bride. He must save his ranch before time runs out… It doesn’t take Eric Quinlan long to discover the key to saving his home and his heart lie in Amelia's hands. She’s everything he wants in a woman. She may be his fake wife, but the passion ...

Noelle Walters can hardly believe how lucky she is to be given a chance to start over after a hard life as a soiled dove in the American West. But almost from the moment she steps off the ship in London, England, everything goes wrong. The lord of the manor where she was supposed to take up a position as a maid has disappeared under scandalous circumstances, and Noelle’s services are no longer required. Alone in a foreign country, penniless, and ignorant of the ways of British society, Noelle fears that her only chance of survival will be taking up her old profession again.

After years of reluctantly living the wild life in Haskell, Wyoming, all Rose Rawlins wants is to settle down into a quiet position as a maid for the Bond family in Brynthwaite, England. She takes her position as nurse for charming and irascible Mr. Bond and confidant of adventurous Miss Elaine Bond seriously, vowing that nothing will get in the way of her duty to her new friends.

Clara Partridge has never fit anywhere. Literally. At over six feet tall, she has always considered herself awkward and out of place. But now that she has a chance to break away from the terrible life she’s been living in the American Old West and to start anew in tranquil Wiltshire, England, she is willing to do whatever it takes to fit in. Even though the last job she’s suited for is that of maid in a wealthy gentleman’s house. But when she meets Rev. Arthur Fallon, all of her efforts to be someone she’s not seem to be paying off.

She only ever wanted to belong… Lily Singer was stolen from her tribe as a child and raised in a white man’s world. Never truly accepted by either world, she found solace and fulfillment in teaching. When Christian Avery barges into her life, sparks fly--but sparks ignite blazes that can only be put out by giving in to passion. His carefully-ordered world was set afire by her… Christian Avery, Justice of the Peace, is used to having his way. When the flames of his passion for Lily spread, enveloping them in gossip and scandal, the only way he can protect her and maintain calm is by ...