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A letter five years old. A groom who no longer exists. And a second chance she never saw coming. Elizabeth Monte has nothing left to lose. With her family’s plantation in ruins and her two young sisters facing the cold reality of an orphanage, she makes a desperate choice: she answers a matrimonial advertisement sent to Charleston years ago. She arrives in the dusty outpost of Oakhill, Texas, expecting a wealthy, cheerful cattle baron. Instead, she finds William Alvin—a man carved from grief and tempered by silence. The optimistic bachelor who penned that letter is long gone, replaced ...

She crossed a continent for peace and quiet. She found a Texas ranch on the brink of ruin, and a stubborn cowboy who needs her more than he knows. Beatrice Abbott survived the deafening roar of Boston’s textile mills by keeping her head down and her stitches perfectly straight. When she accepts a mail-order bride proposal from a gentle-hearted Texas rancher, she stakes her future on the promise of a quiet life. Instead, she steps off the stagecoach into the dust of Oakhaven to find her intended dead, his ranch falling apart, and his fiercely guarded nephew, Gideon Adams, fighting a losing...

She crossed a continent for a mail-order husband. She found a hardened, grumpy sheriff who refuses to take a wife. Bertha Marchant is tired of the gray, stifling rules of her Philadelphia academy. Armed with a beautiful, poetic letter proposing marriage, she travels two thousand miles to the dusty town of Oakhill, Texas, expecting a smiling young cowboy and a wide-open adventure. Instead, she gets Sheriff Emmett Vance. Tall, broad, and entirely unwelcoming, the grim lawman informs her that the fun-loving boy who wrote that letter died five years ago. Traumatized by the brutal realities of ...

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with this miraculous time slip romance between a modern woman and a literal knight. Dougless Montgomery has tried everything to achieve the perfect balance between self-sufficient and sexy, independent and...

When healing hearts requires more than medicine... Philadelphia, 1867. Nurse Jessie Parker has spent years proving herself in a world that refuses to see beyond her gender. When the hospital board dismisses her innovative treatments and limits her to menial tasks, she makes a desperate decision, answering a frontier physician's advertisement for a medically trained mail-order bride. Dr. Michael Flowers needs help with his overwhelmed practice in Crooked Creek, Wyoming Territory. What he doesn't need is a wife who challenges his methods, questions his authority, and insists on treating ...

A scarred outcast. A cynical city librarian. And a cruel tavern joke that accidentally backfires into the ultimate truth. Mary Linwood has spent twenty-five years fading into the background of a cold New York library. Lame from a childhood fever, wearing spectacles, and dismissed as an unwanted burden, she has lived her life through the pages of other people's adventures. Until a letter arrives from the wild frontier of Texas, promising a quiet home, a dry roof, and a man who will truly see her. Breaking every rule of her sensible life, Mary boards a stagecoach to claim her sanctuary. But ...

She traveled a thousand miles for a mansion. She found a dirt-floored cabin—and a cowboy who might just steal her heart. Alice Bernhardt was raised for Richmond parlors, not Texas dust. But when her family’s wealth quietly crumbles, she accepts a mail-order marriage proposal from a prosperous cattle baron, expecting a life of ease. Instead, she steps off the stagecoach in her finest blue silk to find a rugged, dirt-streaked rancher with calloused hands and a devastating confession. Harrison Cole lost his sprawling herd to a blizzard and his beautiful ranch house to a summer fire. ...

Descend into a universe of chaos and intrigue with Emergence, the second book of the Eye of the Ocean series. Ensnared by a powerful enemy, Ulanda, a priest of the empire, is trapped on her birth planet Alisim in the middle of a religious war between the Xintan nation and the Hegemony. When her arrival there fulfills a prophecy foretold by the Xintan, Ulanda must make alliances and establish her position in their new world order before the galactic empire's spaceships arrive. Rit Wilmet, a captain in the Olum Hegemony border patrol, is on the losing side of the religious war, but political ...

I never asked for my tiara. My dreams were always bigger than a palace. They're as big as the world. Being fourth in line for the throne should have guaranteed me freedom. I thought I was one step from walking away forever, but a long-forgotten rule forces me to run instead. I refuse to marry a Duke and bear an heir to save our titles. I trust my brothers to find a way to save my future, but first, I need to save myself. Only, I never expected to meet danger...and Kannon Adams along the way.

I know men like him. Powerful. Arrogant. Trouble. The world is his playground. The playboy prince, the tabloid favorite, and the bane of my existence. And unfortunately, he’s the only one who might be able to help me uncover the truth. We're all but shackled together as he works to help me find my stalker before another attack. I don’t want to trust him. I don’t want to want him. But letting Breck Waterford in might be the only thing to save us both.

"...awesome book... kept me on my toes. I couldn't put it down." 5-star Amazon.com review "...absolutely recommend this to sci-fi lovers. If you are someone who loves to figure stuff out for yourselves and love a good world build, you would absolutely love this book." Goodreads Review Aliens, intergalactic civilizations, first contact, alternate realities, and more. Ruled by priests with the power to bend reality, the unchanging Drue empire spans galaxies. When the Spann Protectorate's powerful candidate challenges the current emperor and wins, her very nature introduces an element of chaos...

A seamstress with a secret courage. A trapper with a wild heart. A love forged on the edge of the frontier. When Annie McAllister steps off the stagecoach in the Montana Territory, she carries nothing but her sewing kit and a desperate hope for a new beginning. Her husband-to-be, Finn O'Leary, is as rugged and untamed as the land he traps. He expects a woman who will shrink from the harsh realities of cabin life. Instead, he gets Annie. From facing down rustlers to stitching up wounds by lamplight, Annie proves that her delicate hands are capable of immense strength. But can she stitch ...

When a Boston schoolteacher answers a stationmaster's letter, she finds more than marriage on the untamed frontier—she finds a fight worth winning. Margot Delaney trades the gaslit streets of Boston for the dust and danger of Oregon Territory, stepping off the stagecoach as a mail-order bride with nothing but her teaching supplies and fierce determination. She expects a simple arrangement with Wyatt Prescott—partnership, not passion. A home for his orphaned niece, security for them both. What she doesn't expect is sabotage, claim jumpers, and a ruthless railroad foreman determined to ...

A marriage of convenience. A family in danger. A love forged in fire. Clarissa Hart knows that safety is an illusion. After losing her husband to illness, she packs her herbal remedies and her young son and heads west to marry a stranger. Her destination: The Cole Ranch in the rugged Bitterroot Valley. Jebediah Cole is a man haunted by the past. Raising his nephew alone, he views his new bride as a practical necessity, nothing more. He offers a roof over her head, but his heart remains a fortress. But even the strongest fortress can be breached. From the moment Clarissa steps off the ...

From Chicago Silk to Kansas Dust: A Vow Made from Necessity, A Love Forged in Fire. Lillian Ross steps off the wagon at Dry Creek Homestead with a trunk full of useless evening gowns, a pair of pearl-handled scissors, and a desperate need for a fresh start. But the Kansas prairie is a far cry from the Chicago ballrooms she left behind. Her new husband, Seth Monroe, is a man carved from the harsh landscape itself, stoic, practical, and haunted by the ghost of the wife he couldn’t save. What begins as a stark marriage of convenience to save a failing homestead soon becomes a battle for ...

Atlanta is the only American city to have been destroyed by fire as an act of war, and it has its share of salacious stories. Wealthy felons hosted elaborate parties inside the federal penitentiary. Billionaire bootleggers and murderous rich boys practiced corruption that reached all the way to the White House. Fast, fearless drivers, complete with glamorous reputations and criminal careers, gave rise to auto racing. Join Laurel-Ann Dooley as she navigates the underworld of Atlanta's past filled with kidnapping, bribery, wives hiring hit men, and all sorts of criminal debauchery.

When widowed shopkeeper Willie places an advertisement for a mail-order bride, he never expects to find someone who could heal his wounded heart. But when spirited Mabel arrives in the dusty frontier town of Crooked Creek, she brings more than just hope for a new beginning, she brings the promise of love he thought he'd lost forever. Mabel never imagined she'd be answering a stranger's call for marriage, but desperate circumstances have led her far from everything she's ever known. As she steps off the train into Willies world of general goods and gentle kindness, she discovers that ...

When Ulanda, Garm, and Rit are forced to flee the empire forces attacking Alisim, they emerge five thousand years later in a different area of space—and in an altered reality. They find refuge in Ji’jin Station, a remote space station, while trying to understand the changes that have taken place in the empire and what it means for their survival. Meanwhile, Empress Possaltic is having recurring nightmares of an alternative past where she was murdered and where the empire was under imminent threat of destruction by a rogue priest. Now, the empire faces the same danger. Third in the four-...

With reality being rewritten, is anything guaranteed - even survival? In this fourth book of the Eye of the Ocean series, two stories interweave. Yilli, a Pinnet memstrife, a holder of memories for her people, is called to the Spann world-altar, where she discovers that the Unity’s reality is already in the process of being rewritten by the events taking place on Alisim. Yilli’s changing memories frame the story of Amli, a human, and Jenna, her Pinnet lover, who live on Amber, a moon-sized organism trapped in Unity space as they seek Amber’s memories from her life in the greater ...

"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." If you just heaved a contented sigh at Mr. Darcy's heartfelt words, then you, dear listener, are in good company. Here is a delightful collection of never-before-published stories inspired by Jane Austen - her novels, her life, her wit, her world.