Look what our authors published in September!

  

Our authors have been busy writing your next favorite story.

Look what we published in September!

Isleen, Sequoia Bride: National Park Brides Book 27 By Linda Carroll-Bradd      Dreamer Isleen Quigley dreads the upcoming trial of her four brothers for illegal logging in a national park. Her aunt frets about the notoriety affecting Isleen’s marriage chances and the family business. A request from cousin Floree to spend the summer in Sequoia Park, where her husband has the park manager job, to help tend her six-month-old twins is most welcome.       Engineer Hayes Freeland volunteers his skills at roadway design to the closest national park to complete his master’s degree. On the trip to the park, he’s intrigued by a woman always reading poetry. Drawn together by this common interest, they are surprised when their destination is the national park.       Time spent together in the mountain forest brings the pair closer until she discovers the truth about Hayes’ family and the threat Hayes’ brother poses. How can Isleen choose between family loyalty and new love? Release date: September 4, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKQV1MCP   Her Clear Creek Cowboy (Romance Sprinkles Book 2) By Kit Morgan Farm life was never in her plans. Neither was Colt Turner.       Hessie Whitcomb never expected to trade the comforts of Davenport, Iowa, for a struggling farm outside Clear Creek, Oregon. But when her father decides the family needs a fresh start, Hessie finds herself surrounded by muddy fields, broken fences, wayward chickens, and absolutely none of the society she left behind. Then along comes Colt Turner.       Colt knows the Whitcombs have no idea what they're doing. He also knows he shouldn't be quite so eager to help their pretty eldest daughter every time farm life gets the better of her. But between dances, unexpected storms, and one disaster after another, staying away from Hessie becomes harder than any chore she's managed to find for him.       Hessie is equally determined not to fall for a cowboy. After all, this isn't the life she planned, and Clear Creek certainly isn't Davenport.       But the longer she stays, the more she begins to wonder if the life she left behind was ever really the one she wanted.       And if perhaps the future she's been looking for has been wearing a cowboy hat all along.       A sweet historical western romance filled with family, humor, small-town charm, and a cowboy who just might make a city girl want to stay. Release date: September 4, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHV135TD/ Marriage and Mayhem: Mail-Order Brides Undercover By Marisa Masterson Who’s who? What difference will it make in the end to this mail-order mess?       Clementine Bradley knows her stuff. Too bad men were so intimidated by that. She has little choice on her latest assignment but to pretend she is helpless—defenseless, even—when she arrives in Dodge City, Kansas. If she allows her confident and, yes, aggressive personality to shine, her target most likely will take one look at her and run for the mountains. And, if she cannot string along the would-be husband, he will never lead her to the truth.       Trouble! The smell of it wafts from her as surely as the enticing aroma of lemon soap. Somehow, Pinkerton Milo Edgars will need to put off marriage with the mail-order bride. But how to do that and not give away his real identity?       A series of tangled ropes, stampeded cattle, and enmeshed hearts follow. When the twists and turns finally straighten, will this couple each accept the person hidden behind a mask? Can they even make love work, considering their personal ambitions?        Mayhem has never felt so good. Don’t miss out on this clean Western historical romance. Grab a copy today! Release date: September 8, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9B16F2X   Emily Yosemite Bride: National Park Brides By Zina Abbott      Athletic and prone to seek out adventures usually considered more suitable for boys, Emily Darlington never did fit in with most of the girls with whom she has associated. Even at the special girls’ academy in New Ponca, Oklahoma Territory, she was tolerated, at best. Years after she graduates, she learns her father is ill. Pops plans to leave her what he can, but his financial wealth is no longer what it was during her growing up years. After learning some startling facts about her family, Emily decides she needs to be with someone she trusts—someone who, in spite of their occasional squabbles, has always been a friend—Joey Milton. Unfortunately, Joey moved from New Ponca to accept a job working in Yosemite National Park in California.       Joseph Milton, who now prefers to go by Joe, appreciates the construction skills he learned at the hands of his legal guardian. While living and working in and around Yosemite National Park, everything about his life appears to be running smoothly. Then his childhood friend, Emily, shows up asking to be hired as part of his paint crew. After all, she reminds him, from the time Pops allowed her to spend her summers painting the shacks at his various mine sites, he always assured her that she paints “real good.” Publication date: September 11, 2026 https://www.amazon.com/Emily-Yosemite-Bride-National-Brides-ebook/dp/B0H8X4PN1J/

     Not all of our authors make their books available on pre-order. For those who do, those advance sales go a long way to help their book ratings.

Below are some future books. 

October Releases: 

Booked for Love

Nine authors including Marisa Masterson

      Book clubs have always been about more than stories. What happens when a group of faith-filled matchmakers uses their love of books to pair hearts?
      Matchmakers have been around since long before musicals began singing their praises. Seniors at church, friend groups, and even families try to pair people of like faith, shared passions, or familiar community. But what if your people, book people, got together and drew two book-loving (or soon will be!) hearts together? It’s a match made in literary (if not literal) heaven!

Monday Meddlers by Marisa Masterson
Introducing a book club that would rather scheme and matchmake than actually discuss the book. When the local librarian becomes their latest focus, secrets, laughter, and a little chaos follow. Will they reconcile the broken romance between a stubborn librarian and a proud rancher?

Release Date: October 1, 2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8B77Q39

 

December Releases:

Jethro's Winter Watch: Holiday, Historical Romance : The Outpost Collection: Winter Watch:

By Zina Abbott

      Jethro Bailey began stringing telegraph wire, but soon realized the demand for connecting cities, mines, lumber camps, and remote communities by telephone was a growing industry. However, rather than spend weeks on end in often remote locations among strangers, his true passion was to one day own his own supply store in Carson City so he could settle down and start a family. He had even found a woman through correspondence who intrigues him. Hoping he has sufficient capital to start the business of his dreams, he is ready to send for her. Then, as one of the few installers and repairmen familiar with the old Edison-style telephone system, he is offered a job in a remote mountain region over the winter maintaining a line between a mining company’s sites and suppliers. The pay for one winter season is too good to pass up. Hopefully, his intended in Ohio will understand.
      Meliana Gardiner has watched two women she knows successfully use the Matrimonial Times to find husbands. She has waited a long time to find the right man—one who will support her goal of building a new dressmaking shop in a town large enough to have the clientele to appreciate her designs and quality of work. She already made arrangements to sell her existing business in Franklinton, Ohio, by the middle of November. And now, she receives a letter saying she must wait? Jethro has accepted a job that will keep him in a remote location all winter—one so isolated he will not be able to send or receive mail until the spring thaw? Is the man trying to back out of the marriage agreement? He obviously does not know who he is dealing with, but he will soon find out.

Release date: December 5, 2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGQ8WWJ8

 

Munro’s Winter Watch: Holiday, Historical Romance : The Outpost Collection: Winter Watch

By Linda Carroll-Bradd

     Baker Josette Pomeroy is tired of working to support herself and fending off advances from the owner of the Spirits and Cards Saloon. Just because they are both French does not make them a good match. A man living off other people’s misfortunes is not one she could ever love. An idle statement in a letter from ex-coworker Blasa prompts Josette to write to a man serving as a logging camp fire lookout on a Colorado mountain top. His thoughtful response intrigues, and she writes again, hinting at her need to leave Kansas.
     Fire Lookout Munro Lachlan responded to the employment ad because of the geographic isolation, thinking he’d heal from the shattering realization he’d defended a guilty client. He didn’t realize how lonely he was in his solitary job until an unsolicited letter arrives at Hallbjorn logging camp. From her effusive style, Josette must be an outgoing person, and corresponding seems like a good distraction. Until he learns of her situation of unwanted pursuit and offers his assistance…and his name. The moment the letter is put into the post, he has doubts—what can a solitary man offer someone with such a lively spirit? Will she take one look at his situation and leave?
      This is a closed-door historical romance with loner tamed, grumpy/sunshine, and marriage of convenience tropes

Release date: December 6, 2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKQFZXW4

 

Bart's Winter Watch : Holiday, Historical Romance

By Marisa Masterson

He went west to escape his memories. She went west to fulfill a promise. Neither expected to find love in the wilderness.

      After the death of her father and the loss of her wagon train, Beth Wills is abandoned on the banks of the Sweetwater River, feverish and left for dead. Rescued by a solitary mountain man and nursed back to health by the Shoshone, she survives—but her troubles are far from over. Her father’s land claim in Oregon will be forfeited if she cannot reach it before the year ends.

      Bart Brown wants nothing more than to be left alone. Haunted by the things he witnessed—and did—as a soldier during the Mexican-American War, he has escaped civilization for the remote mountains of Wyoming, where he hopes the solitude will quiet his memories. The last thing he needs is a talkative young woman disrupting his carefully constructed isolation.

      But when Beth is brought back to him just as winter threatens to close the mountains, Bart cannot abandon her a second time. And when she insists on risking the treacherous journey to Oregon, he reluctantly agrees to guide her.

      With snow closing in, supplies dwindling, and danger lurking along the trail, Beth and Bart must depend on each other to survive. Yet the greatest challenge may not be the mountains around them, but the walls they've built around their hearts.

      Beth longs for a future she promised her father she would claim. Bart longs for a past he wishes he could forget.

      Can two wounded souls find forgiveness, faith, and love on a trail where survival itself seems impossible?

Release date: December 8, 2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HD1BMJG5