***The Girl Underground, Book 1 *** "Loving him was a mistake, I knew that. It was the most beautifully evil thing I have ever done." In the case of forbidden love in the English countryside, the shrewd and powerful Magistrate, John Quincy, found one that would change his life forever. Spellbound by the young and bea...
Can the scent of water be enough? After years of roaming alone, with little purpose to his life, Sam Carthwrite is finally returning to the home and the family he left so long ago. He doesn't know if they will turn him out the moment they see him, or will be willing to listen to why he never came back after the w...
Seth Carthwrite chose the way of the prodigal son, confident in his keen sense of intuition and sharp wit. So what is he to do when both let him down? Sentenced to prison with a expectant wife and a mistress suddenly exposed - he must now face the hard consequences of too many wrong decisions. The gossip of the town w...
Holt Perry was a man on the run. But when he stopped for supplies in the small town of Buffalo Hollow, he found a family in even more desperate straits than him. Lizzie Tate's father had fallen ill several months ago, leaving the running of the store and the care of her little sister to her. Now winter approached, and...
Lizzie is about to find out what life has in store for her and her brother Luke. They had lost everything they knew in just a few days,after a yellow fever epidemic took so much from them. They are being shipped off to a Grandmother they never met, who lived in a sleepy little town in Virginia. Things start out rough...
Nine year old only child Janessa Miller lost her mother when she was five years old. When her father announced that he had placed a newspaper advertisement for a mail order bride, she balked at the idea. Who was this strange woman? Why was she here? And most of all, would she love Janessa for who she was?
Grab a box of tissues, your favorite beverage, and get ready to read the emotional journey of Sophia Lancaster. Her heart was broken in the worst possible way, and only moments before her wedding was to take place. Not only did Sophia learn her Fiance was not going through with the wedding, he dared to marry another w...
Rose McGregor flees the post-civil war south as a mail-order bride, with no other hope than to have a home of her own, a full stomach, and someone to take care of her. She never expected to find more pain and hardship than she's already suffered as her past catches up with her future. Least of all does s...
Andrew Dwight "Dewy" Montgomery is headed back to Texas. A survivor among few, the last battle has been fought, and he is headed home. But, he doesn't have a home to return to. His father disowned him when he left and his fiancee broke their engagement. Three years later, this boy turned man arrives back in his hometo...
Lottie Freeman, a child of former slaves, has seen the difficulties her parents faced, and even faced many on her own. But, nothing can prepare her for the adversity that comes with falling in love with a man of a different race. David Harmon met Lottie Freeman in Colorado as a teen. An instant connection grew into a...
Katie's life is a battle to keep herself alive and fed. Living alone outside a small mining town she finds herself drawn to the rugged Sheriff who is partly responsible for her situation.
Not everything that has been hurt is broken ~ Jessie Steele is on the run from something. She had no idea from who or what, but she knows that there is someone on her heels, just waiting for the chance to take her captive. She has nothing but a broken leg and a head injury to tell her how she ended up in one of the m...
When Edith Harris first encountered the mysterious Calvin McClain she never expected that her life would change so drastically simply because of their meeting. Edith is the daughter of the highly respected sheriff of Blackwell. She was never one of those women who melted at the thought of experiencing a forbidden roma...
Hope Montoya knows someone is poisoning her, but who? She suspects her mother was also poisoned and knows her father was murdered. Who wants her family eliminated? She vows to fight! She realizes she won’t last the eight months until she turns twenty-five and her uncle no longer controls her or her estate. Never wi...
Joshua and Payton finally give themselves over to their love. They have both experienced so much pain and loss in their lives that they are ready to find happiness and find it together. Joshua battles joy and fear when Payton tells him she wants to give him a child of his own. But when the time comes and things don't...
Angel Donovan survived the Civil War, Sherman's invasion of the South, and years of humiliation singing in saloons, but even though she has left her past behind, the memory of it still clings to her like a stain. Volunteering as a housekeeper at the O'Connor homestead seems like a perfect way to escape the whispers su...
Young widow Hope McClellen leaves her farm in Pennsylvania for a new life out West with her daughter Maggie, but her plans are shattered when bandits attack the stagecoach and leave her for dead. Rescued by tracker Calvin McKay, Hope starts her own dressmaking shop in the small town of Sweetwater, but will she get a s...
In 1876, western men sweep mail-order brides off their feet as soon as they arrive in town, but not Isabel Grant. Capt. Pichon rejects her for being "a skinny, school-girl" and is left in town to wait three days for the next train. Sgt. John Webster delivers the news to her and is drawn to protect this porcelain doll...
Joshua makes a decision to take in Payton & her two young children after her husband dies. He can see they need his help. He doesn't realize just how much he'll come to need them. Payton is young, widowed and the mother of two small children. She can't survive on her own, miles away from her family. She can't go home...
Corinne McAllister didn't realize how unhappy she was in her courtship until Ryne Wilkinson showed up at her home one morning. In an unforeseeable twist of events, they begin a journey into the Heart of Colorado, and one another. But, with Matthew Richards hot on their tail, danger pursues and threatens to divide the...
Sally's been mistreated by men since she was sixteen. Will Earl "Buddy" Brand be able to melt the walls of ice around her heart, and teach her that love is possible? Or will Sally continue to believe she is unworthy of love because of her past? And who is trying to drag her back into the whoring business? Will they s...