Our authors have been busy writing and publishing books this past month. Here is what we published in June
(and, because we're already in July, we've included July 1st):
By Zina Abbott
As
arable farmland grows scarce, the United States opens up former sections of
Indian Territory for homesteading. Those who want to claim land must make a run
for it.
Should
she claim her own land when he has a claim on her heart?
Rose Calloway feels guilty about living off her sister,
Marigold’s, meager schoolmarm’s wages. In spite of taking in sewing, it is not
enough to support herself. She sees little future for marriage in a town where
people are still struggling from the latest economic depression. She responded
to a matrimonial advertisement, and after corresponding for several months,
sees great promise for her future with Joshua Kent.
Joshua Kent, landless and working as a farrier, sees
promise in the land run planned for the Cherokee Outlet in Oklahoma Territory.
Knowing once he claims his land, he will need a wife, he places a matrimonial
advertisement. He soon decides Rose Calloway is the woman he wishes to marry.
However, once he realizes there might be more applicants than there is
available land, he writes and warns Rose he can only marry if he is successful
claiming his own homestead.
Marigold, realizing the land run will bring new families,
sees there will be a need for teachers and a chance to achieve her dream. She
decides to make her own land claim and insists Rose is welcome to join her.
Rose is homeless unless she marries or goes with her
sister. She holds a certificate for the latest Oklahoma land run in one hand
and the final letter from Joshua Kent in the other. Her dream is to marry
Joshua, not own land. What will she do now?
Releases June 3, 2022
http://mybook.to/JoshuaBr
Kindle
Edition
By Kimberly Grist
Orphaned as a young girl, Ellie longs for a life she’s only
read about in books. To escape a desperate situation, she heads west as a
mail-order bride, narrowing her choice of spouse to three brothers, a
millwright, a businessman, and a horse trainer, all searching for a marriage of
convenience which will provide the inheritance that will finance the family’s
business venture in Oklahoma.
Newspapers claim the unchartered territory is a land where streams flow with
milk and the heavens rain down a supply of honey. Will her road lead to the
Promised Land?
Releases June 6, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WCFF6T5
By Marisa Masterson
He wants her, needs her. But, will he ever trust
her?
Hetty Fields must find a home after her father's sudden
death. Michael Brewster needs a wife as he sets up a new business.
Should she have warned him about the baby? And
why didn't he tell her they were rushing into Oklahoma to claim land?
If you enjoy sweet romance set against historical events, this book is one for
you to read!
Releases June 13, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09W9ZKS1W
Courting the Professor:
Matchmakers in Time Book 5
By Kit Morgan
A Germaphobic Professor
A Woman not of this world
And one bottle of disinfectant ...
The 21st Century: Professor Andrew
Beaumont was a chemistry professor, not a physicist, so when two strange men
show up asking about time travel, he was a little confused. Never mind the fact
one claimed to be a duke, it's when they brought up Clear Creek that Andrew's
ears perked up. One of his students had seen bright lights just outside the
town and talked abut aliens. Was there more to the boy's story, or had the kid
been reading too many science fiction novels?
The 19th Century: Tillie White was different, shy, and some folks in Clear
Creek thought she was just plain loco. Little did they know she was so much
more. And though Tillie had an inkling she was different, she had no idea how
much. That is until a strange man dressed in odd clothing showed up on her
doorstep. Yet, as odd as he was, he was also familiar. Too bad she was too
terrified to leave her house to find out why.
Enjoy this fun, time travel romp set
in everyone's favorite town of Clear Creek!
Released June 24, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Courting-Professor-Matchmakers-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B09Z8P14JJ/
By Linda Carroll-Bradd
After seeing her mother die in childbirth, Rosabelle Ardmore
decides to become a doctor. Her self-funded education takes longer than she’d
hoped. When she returns to the job promised upon her graduation, she discovers
the hometown doctor has died. His replacement has no use for a female doctor.
Nor do two other offices where she applied. Rosie takes a chance on answering
an ad for a mail-order bride for a man intent on the Cherokee Strip Land Run.
Surely, people populating a new town will accept medical care wherever they can
get it.
Beck Shepherd returned empty-handed from the 1889 Oklahoma
land run. Trying it alone didn’t work. He vows to win a plot this time, but he
needs a partner to achieve his dream of opening a mercantile. The easiest way
is to arrange for a wife so he places an ad in a matrimonial newsletter.
Ideally, level-headed Beck would like more time to decide, but Rosie’s two
letters reveal the heart of a woman as determined as he is for a new start. But
her bold plan for securing a claim might be the act that tears them
apart…forever.
Release July 1, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WM3K4TD
By Kit Morgan
Ivy Pembrooke has a problem. With her brother gone, she's
now the heir to the Pembrooke fortune and estate. That is, if she lives long
enough. After over hearing a plot to kill her, she does what any other heiress
would do. She makes a run for it. But how is she going to elude her would be
killers and claim what is rightfully hers? Especially when said killer is her
uncle? She decides to run now, and figure things out later. In the meantime,
she needs a way of escape ...
Darius Jones made a promise. Quit the ranch he worked for in Texas, return to
Oregon, and take his half-blind mother to Clear Creek. The doctor there was
said to work miracles, and Mama needed all the help she could get. But his
mother wasn’t the only one. A passenger in the form of a petite, blonde-haired
spit fire was going to be the death of him. Literally. Was someone trying to do
her harm or was trouble her middle name? Yet there was something about her, and
doggone if he didn’t try to help. He just hoped doing so didn’t get them both
killed.
Not
all of our authors put their books on pre-order. For those who do,
advance sales help their sales ranking and are greatly appreciated.
Pre-order for July:
By Jo-Ann Roberts
Some people come into your life as lessons…
Unexpected fatherhood finds former bank detective, Lucas Harmon desperate for a
woman to care for his orphaned nieces. A governess…perhaps? A
housekeeper…maybe? A wife…definitely not! Six years ago the wealthy Chicago
socialite he planned to wed, publicly spurned his affections. Despite his
determination to guard his feelings, a meddling matchmaking conductor and an
encounter with a past acquaintance threatens to upend his heart.
…some come as blessings
Anxious to leave behind the whispers and stares of two failed engagements,
Boston socialite, Ainsley MacKenzie hopes for solitude on her way to New Hope,
Kansas. But when the kindly conductor enlists her help to care for two orphaned
girls, she couldn’t say no. Little did she know their uncle and guardian was
the one man she couldn’t forget… Lucas Harmon.
Taking a chance, Ainsley offers Lucas an unusual (some might say, scandalous!)
arrangement. She’ll look after the children, read them stories and cook their
meals until Christmas, giving Lucas time to find a permanent replacement. Yet,
the longer she cares for the family the more she longs to be part of
it—whatever the risk to her heart.
Releases July 15, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09TQ1D723
Pre-Orders for August:
By Kimberly Grist
In 1917
every man, woman, and child was called to civic duty as the “war to end all
wars” encompassed the globe.
When the patriotic call comes, Adella begins her campaign of
encouragement by corresponding with the frightened and lonely soldiers. On the
cusp of adulthood, the young woman is tired of living a cosseted life and hopes
to gain her parent’s support when she wants to volunteer her services to the
war effort. Her mother worries for her safety, but Adella is more concerned for
her heart.
As a recent college graduate, Gibb is led down a path he never anticipated. And
one unexpected meeting at a train station tips all of his carefully laid plans
into chaos. In the void, Adella’s words of affection flow across the
continents. The image of her smile and the consistency of her letters give him
a reason to hope.
Releases August 2, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Adella-Already-Home-Book-7-ebook/dp/B0B4F2TKS2
Pre-orders for September:
By Linda Carroll-Bradd
Sabrina Whitmore, daughter of a wealthy railroad investor,
has finally found a man who accepts her suffragist work. On the night before
her wedding, she overhears her fiancé bragging that if he can’t get her to toe
the line after their marriage, he’ll just have her committed to an asylum and
take charge of her inheritance. Sabrina escapes the family mansion with her
maid and rushes to the Philadelphia train station headed toward an aunt in
Denver. When she awakens the morning before her arrival, she discovers her maid
is nowhere to be found and has stolen her clothes and most of her money. While
hunting for her maid, she sees Maeve spirited away by two burly men and is
scared her fiancé is hunting her.
Derrick Burkhardt bumps into a woman matching the description of the governess
he hired from a St. Louis agency. Needing to get her settled at the ranch
before he leaves for the spring roundup, he does all the talking during the
buggy ride. When he returns two weeks later, the ranch is in an uproar over the
governess’s unorthodox teaching methods. All Derrick sees are his children at
the happiest they’ve been in two years. Will he feel the same when he learns
the governess is not who she claims to be?
Releases September 5, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrina-Runaway-Brides-West-book-ebook/dp/B0B33ZYMY8
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Pre-orders for October:
Ellie: Runaway Brides of the West
- Book 13
By Zina Abbott
Ellie is on
the run from a marriage being forced upon her by her uncle. Her only chance of
escape is the man to whom she had been writing for a year. If only his letters
spoke of more than friendship.
Paleontologist
Rand avoids becoming entangled in marriage. A wife would expect him to stay
home with family instead of spending his summers digging for his beloved
dinosaur and mammoth bones.
When Ellie
arrives in Iowa City, only to discover Rand is gone, his friends send her to
the wilderness of southern Wyoming. Will she find love amidst the dirt and rocks
or only bones of creatures long dead?
Releases October 17, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2Z7TVX1
Pre-orders for November:
By Kimberly Grist
She’s shaking off the dust of her well-worn boots, not
looking back and hoping for a transformation. All she needs is a new dress, a
new town, a husband, and a fresh start.
Daughter of a traveling merchant, Bethel is tired of peddling her Daddy’s
Special Sauce and being run out of town by every sheriff east of the
Mississippi. That’s why she’s heading west. She just needs to sell a few more
bottles to help fund her trip. After all, who wants to meet their new husband
looking like a gypsy? If only she could shake off this pesky sheriff waiting at
the stage stop.
Releases November 28, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B2QD8VX8
