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In this first book, we meet Catrina, the slightly eccentric but lovable matchmaker who is at the root of all the romances in this series. Through her efforts, and those of her assistant, Adrian, the characters in these stories find their perfect match, that person with whom they can enjoy their own happily ever after. To B&B or not to B&B. That is the question for Bethany. She’s lost her boyfriend, her apartment, and her job. Catrina gives her an airplane ticket to Idaho to work for someone who wants to start a new bed and breakfast. A baker at heart, Bethany leaps at the opportunity to ...

The Model and the Cowboy - While on a prenuptial getaway with her fiancé, a super-model meets an intriguing cowboy and decides to break off her engagement to the world’s most eligible bachelor. The Angel and the Big Guy - A recently widowed mother of five children relocates to the homestead of her dreams where she meets a dairy farmer whom she detests at first but eventually grows to love. The Girl Who Couldn’t Talk - After trying everything to discourage the nanny he didn’t want, a horseman unexpectedly falls in loves with her when she heals the emotional scars inflicted upon his ...

The Catalyst Series of books is the story of Catrina A. Liszt. Gorgeous, wealthy, quirky, and single, she’s obsessed with pairing up all her friends and acquaintances. While she does have a job working for her father’s corporation as CEO of Human Resources, matchmaking is her passion. Each book captures the story of a man and a woman she’s painstakingly selected for each other, to be a perfect match.

Catrina attempts a double match-up at the same location, the Double Z Dude Ranch, where she vacationed for a week. Finding someone for timid Eliot and also for his father, Ed, will be a challenge but she’s up for it. The ranch needs a new cook, and Catrina suggests her aunt Eloise, who is single, and the same age as Ed. Adrian’s sister, Emily, needs a new job, so Catrina mentions her name, also. Eliot is instantly smitten with the sweet and unassuming Emily when they accidentally collide in a darkened hallway. Ed was smitten with Eloise even before he met her, practically falling in ...

Catrina’s at it again. This time she’s pairing up her friend, Halo, a recently widowed thirty-something mother with five kids, and Hank, a dairyman who’s never been married. In addition, she’s barely five feet tall while he measures six foot, seven inches. Halo needs a fresh start and yearns for the homesteading lifestyle of gardening, raising chickens, and milking a cow. Hank owns the dairy across the street from Halo’s property. She buys a cow from him, and he teaches her how to milk. When her baby chicks are killed by a predator, he buys full-grown egg layers and builds her a ...

Isaac is deeply concerned about his daughter, Isabel, who hasn’t spoken for years due to a traumatic event. When his mother brings home a young woman and announces she’s the new nanny, he summarily rejects her and demands she leave. However, when he tries to take her to the bus station, everything imaginable goes wrong. Ivy has silently adored Isaac for years and admires the horses he raises in Wyoming. When she meets his mother at a horsemanship clinic, the two quickly become friends and Irene offers her the position of caring for her granddaughter. Yet when she meets Isaac for the ...

Fontella is recently divorced from an abusive husband. Felix is recently divorced from a selfish wife. Catrina devises a way to put these two hurting people together on a cattle ranch, since they are both experienced and talented in raising beef cattle, in the hopes that they will complement each other and fall in love. Each of them arrives at the new managerial position hoping for a fresh start and thinking they are the only one the boss has hired for the job, but they soon find out they are required to work together and the owner is leaving for Europe. When their two eight-year-old girls ...

Catrina attempts a reverse match-up with the hope of saving her friend from marrying the wrong man. Gabriella is a top model and engaged to the wealthy and sophisticated Grayson, and she’s thrilled with the prenuptial gift of a two-week stay at a prestigious resort in Montana. While there, Gabriella meets Gabe, the cowboy in charge of horseback rides for resort guests. She feels an instant attraction and in less than three days, knows she’s in love. Grayson proposes the idea of an open marriage to facilitate his philandering ways, but when Gabriella expresses her doubts, he wants to ...

Daisy is a new mother, recently widowed, and she needs a job. Catrina, our beloved matchmaker, tells her about a teaching opportunity in Northern California at a horse training facility. Since Daisy went to the Olympics on the U.S. Equestrian Team, she’s excited at the chance to be back in the world of horses. The owner, Danielle, is thrilled to hire her and has great plans for Daisy to teach English riding lessons since that is her area of expertise. However, her brother, Dakota, suspects Daisy is simply an unwed mother who is lying about her illustrious experience as an athlete. When ...

Celina is the director of a prestigious ballet school in Dallas. Her father passed away recently and her elderly mother is living all by herself on a ranch in Montana. The hired man just quit and she must find someone to run the ranch until they can sell it, and convince her mother to move back with her to the city. Catrina’s Uncle Cody, from Book 1, leaves his cattle ranch in Idaho and goes to Montana to help take care of the ranch. When he learns of Celina’s predicament—that her mother refuses to leave—he begins hatching a plan to help her. In despair, Celina decides she will have...

Juliet, a prima ballerina with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, has fractured her knee in an ice skating accident. When Catrina visits her, Juliet is distraught and fears for her ballet career. Because of her injury, her Christmas trip to Hawaii is cancelled. Catrina hatches a plan to send her to a quiet place where she can rest and heal. Jacob, a retired rodeo cowboy, is trying to piece his life back together after suffering a horrible tragedy. When his niece is forced to quit ballet school, she comes to live with him but he’s concerned he cannot give her the dance environment ...

Catrina time travels back to a western town in the 1800’s where she’s swept off her feet by an attractive brigadier general. While bumping into him on a daily basis, she amuses herself with a bit of matchmaking—Adrian to Katie, a seamstress, and Kendra to Kyle, the village blacksmith—and perseveres to coordinate the union of these friends with their sweethearts at the barn dance. When Adrian is injured during a train robbery, Catrina comes to the rescue. Later, bandits accost them on the stagecoach, and this time they’re saved by the general who followed Catrina with the intention...