Our authors have been busy writing and publishing books. Here is what we published in September:
A Match for Althia: Marianne's Mail Order Brides book 7
Chicago socialite Althia Heathley feels pushed out of her life by her father’s new wife. Convinced all she needs to write a great novel are a few more life experiences, she agrees to become a mail-order bride. But once she arrives in Denver, she’s not so sure she’s cut out to live in such a wild and less-than-civilized city.
Released September 5, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/Match-Althia-Mariannes-Order-Brides-ebook/dp/B09FJQBKPJ
A Bride for Devlin: The Sheriff's Mail Order Bride Book 6
Searching for her sister, Dolly, who left behind a letter stating she was traveling to Wyoming to marry a rancher, Carrie Watson travels to Baggs Station. She learns, except for a few items of clothing she packed in a tow sack, Dolly left her trunk behind at the station for safe-keeping and departed with a man who claimed he was sent to bring her to her intended.
Carrie asks to be directed to the sheriff, only to learn the Carbon County sheriff is seventy-eight miles away in Rawlins. However, the Little Snake River Valley ranchers, frustrated by the increase in cattle rustling, pooled their funds and hired their own local sheriff, Devlin Anders, to track down the culprits.
Devlin Anders, frustrated over his lack of success in locating the rustlers, is ready to quit and stick to running his own ranch. Then, his friend, Jesse Hardin, begs him to help search for Jesse’s missing bride. They travel to Baggs Station, the last place she was spotted.
The last thing Devlin needs is an upset, headstrong woman from the East demanding help to find her sister. However, when he learns Dolly left on the back of a horse behind a man Devlin has been trying to catch up with for months, he knows it is time to raise a posse and go after both Lem Coker, suspected cattle rustler, and Jesse’s missing bride.
If only Carrie did not insist on trailing behind them…
Released September 10, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097QGBC93/
Ace’s Tenacious Bride: (Matchmaker's Mix-Up Book 13)
Can a spirited pastor’s daughter up the ante, causing a
card-playing, cigar-smoking workaholic to wager his heart?
Mercy Fairchild, a sheltered pastor’s daughter, is ready for adventure. She’ll
comply with her late father’s last wish—to obtain the help of a matchmaking
service and find her a young pastor out west to marry. Yes, she wants God’s
perfect plan for her future, but she hopes it will be an exciting plan. Perhaps
a missionary in a new territory?
Widower Ace Caldwell’s unruly children make keeping a housekeeper impossible.
The last one left in less than a week! If he could only be as good a father as
he is a card player! But with his job as a railroad detective, he can’t be home
more than a day or two each week. At least a wife would be legally and morally
vested to remain. Wouldn’t she?
Released September 15, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0952D79QX
Hearts of the Sierra Nevada: A Sweet Historical Romance Set in the Sierra Nevadas
By Kit Morgan
Three sisters in danger.
Three men willing to help ...
When the Barrett sisters inherit their aunt's small hotel in Nevada City, California, they quickly discover others in town not only want it, but will do almost
anything to get it. The question is, why?
Out of work, Bram Forsyth and his cousins Sterling and Wellington travel to Nevada City looking for work. Lucky for them the new owners of the Barrett Hotel are looking
to hire. But the three men didn't expect such lovely employers or the fact someone was trying to run them out of town. They were cowboys, not guns for hire. Could they resist the Barrett sisters, now in danger, from capturing
their hearts? A better question was, could they afford such a distraction while trying to protect them? Find out in these sweet historical romances full of hope, love and a little danger!
Released September 17
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098R8PQPR
Romance at Rinehart's Crossing: A Sweet Historical Romance Set on the Oregon Trail
by Shanna Hatfield
Life on the Oregon Trail will never be the same . . .
Tenner King is determined to make his own way in the world far from the overbearing presence of his father and the ranch where he was raised in Rinehart’s Crossing, Oregon. Reluctantly, he returns home after his father’s death to find the ranch on its way to ruin, his siblings antsy to leave, and the women in town completely infatuated with a mysterious poet. Prepared to do whatever is necessary to save the ranch, Tenner isn’t about to let a little thing like love get in his way.
♥ Austen – After spending her entire life ruled by her father, Austen Rose King certainly isn’t going to allow her bossy older brother to take on the job....
♥ Claire – Two thousand miles of travel. Two thousand miles of listening to her parents bicker about the best place in Oregon to settle.
♥ Kendall – Anxious to escape her mother’s meddling interference, Kendall Arrington leaves her society life behind, intent on experiencing a Wild West adventure.
Released September 17
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098RFJMM3
Mr. Charming's Orphans: Charming Tales
By Kit Morgan
A woman not looking for love.
A man not looking for a wife.
And seven mischeivous orphans ...
Wynter Snow had the arduous task of escorting seven orphans from New York to Charming, Texas. After all, it’s not easy to get seven mischievous orphans to behave. But dealing with what awaited them in Charming was worse. There was no sign of the Tuckers, the couple that sent for them, and a storm was coming. A big one. Thankfully the woman who ran the inn got them a ride to the Tucker’s farm. Once there all would be well. Or so Wynter thought. Imagine her surprise when she found a handsome rancher living on the farm instead of the Tuckers! Now what was she to do? Other than wait out a nasty snow storm with seven orphans and a handsome cowboy …
Released September 22, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098N9VH19
Madeline: Cowboys and Cupids Book Book 14
Madeline Denham realizes something doesn’t add up. More than with her siblings, her parents are very careful about who they allow to socialize with her. After graduating from normal college, she accepts a teaching position close to Knights Ferry. Much to her dismay, during a community social, a well-dressed man she's never met before asks her to dance and then forces a kiss upon her. Rather than being flattered, she feels ruined.
After purchasing land east of Oakdale, James Hennessy, like his Italian mother’s side of the family, finds growing fruit trees and a small table grape vineyard competes with his love of practicing law. At a dance, he meets a delightful woman who reminds him of his Italian heritage. When he realizes she is the object of unwanted attention, the fiery Irish from his father’s side comes to the fore. He steps forward to rescue her. He soon finds himself representing members of her family in a cause important to his own interests—stopping the hydraulic mining that is clogging the Valley’s rivers and streams that provide the water the farmers need to irrigate their crops.
Madeline hires James to uncover the secrets that plague her. However, will what they learn drive him away? Fortunately, she has two young twin brothers, who, like their oldest brother, want to become cowboys. For now, they’ll settle for corralling a good husband for their big sister, even if they have to rope and hogtie Madeline and James to get them to the altar.
Released September 23, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096WNPH59/
Pumpkin Pie by Patience: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 5
1890, Baltimore.
19-year-old Patience Sutton has never been praised for her cooking – in fact,
she burnt the pumpkin pie at her family’s last Christmas celebration. As the
youngest of 10 children, she’s tired of always being the baby and longs to grow
up. When she spies an ad in the paper from Oregon banker Jefferson Cooke
seeking a mail-order bride willing to travel out west and who “must love
children,” Patience jumps at the chance for a new life. With children of her
own to take care of, maybe she’ll finally get some respect! Right?
Released September 27, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0965W2PCJ
Preorders for October Releases:
A Bride for Dun: The Sheriff's Mail Order Bride Book 9
By Marisa Masterson
If you read A Bride for Boss, you'll want to find out the rest of Dun's story--
Dun, a former Pinkerton agent settles into a sleepy Wyoming town. Danger should be far behind him now. The worst he faces is drunken cowhands on Saturday night.
He finally has what he considers a hometown. All that is missing is a bride. Easy to fix! He simply writes away for one.
There's no way he could know the wild adventure she brings with her. And will he believe what he learns about his own birth?
Releases October 1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098B7X5ZD
A Match for Lilah Jo: Marianne’s Mail Order Bride Book 9
By Marisa Masterson
Roland Devers vowed to stay a bachelor after his fiancée broke off their engagement. He never expected to raise a child, especially not a girl. His brother’s death lands
the four-year-old at his livery and into his care.
Lilah Jo Henry struggles through life. Her husband’s death only adds to those struggles. Her sixteen-year-old daughter’s scandalous behavior gives Lilah the push she needs
to move the two of them away.
A matchmaker’s advertisement and the promise of marriage to a stranger seem the only way to make that happen. Will two forty-year-olds find the will start over and risk love?
Releases October 8, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09C3X23N7
Cranberry Cake by Cora: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 6
When Cora Sullivan's father moved out west to Kansas City in order to help his bank start a new branch in a different state, she hadn't realized just how much she would miss her old home. Now Christmas is coming, and what she misses more than anything else is her dearly departed mother's cranberry cake. But out west of the Mississippi, cranberries are almost as impossible to find as friends. At least she has is Jonas, the one man who travelled all the way to Kansas City with her and her father to remind her of home, but he still thinks of her as a child, when she really wants him to notice her as something more. And when Jonas is accused of stealing money from the bank, she needs to put her own needs aside to help Jonas and clear his name before Christmas.
Releases October 11, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096RJP36T
Ginger Cake by Glynna (Old Time Holiday Kitchen book 7)
Astoria, Oregon--Fall, 1876
Baker Glynna Shaughnessy wants to bolster sales for her struggling bakery almost as much as she wants to revive her drab personal life. A baking
competition in commemoration of the city’s incorporation offers a chance at making the shop’s name known…until she’s accused of cheating. According to the competition’s sponsor—a roguish
man who sets her heart aflutter—Glynna can only remain a contestant if she invents a brand-new recipe…something she’s never done before.
Hotel manager Ritter Anton has six months to boost patronage
at his grandfather’s Anton Grand Hotel. He accomplished success with the family’s Cheyenne hotel and he’ll succeed here then move to the next. The baking contest he invented sparks controversy with the entry
of a baker who others claim has an unfair advantage. Ready to reject her, he can’t say no when the auburn-haired beauty pleads her case. How will he remain neutral as a judge when all he can think about is Glynna?
Releases October 25. 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0964XJ1PN/
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Preorders for November Releases:
Apple Pandowdy by Alice: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 8
Alice Connelly agrees to participate in a new matchmaking project organized by her pastor and the orphanage's matron. She can find no peace accepting a role as a mail-order bride
and instead becomes the first volunteer to accept a job in a local restaurant and relocate to Carrie Town, Texas.
She hopes the experience will help her to discover what she wants in life. But in a town where single men
outnumber women thirty to one, she’s more confused than ever. Determined to put her skills as a baker to use, she plans a holiday dinner for the diner featuring a crowd pleasing deep-dished spiced apple dessert
Can
an itinerant mail-order bride find her recipe for her happily ever after?
Releases November 8, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09646YNT2
Wren's Wooer : (Westward Home & Hearts Book 24)
Wren Donaldson rejects her wooer, wanting him to only be her good friend. When Mildred Crenshaw, her mother's cousin, sends "the perfect groom" to Wren, she begins to realize
her dream man already proposed. Too bad she rejected him. Her rejected wooer has moved on to another girl--or has he?
And what about the man sent by the matchmaking cousin? What desperate and dangerous measures will
her mail-order groom do so he marries Wren?
Releases November 9, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091ZK78JV
A Child's Faith : Keepers of the Light Book 16
by Annee Jones
1892, Tacoma, Washington
Elin Kristiansen has her hands full as a single mother following the tragic death of
her husband in a shipwreck off the rocky coast of the Pacific Northwest. Thankfully, the U.S. government has recognized the need for a lighthouse at Brown’s Point, and Elin couldn’t be more pleased when her father
accepts the position of Keeper. However, she just can’t seem to bring herself to accompany him on his weekly rowboat trips to the station to tend the lamp – and what’s more, the mere thought of Finn, her
son, setting foot on board sets her insides churning.
Elin knows her father keeps hoping she’ll get over the terror that washes over her every time she considers braving the waters, but she's starting
to have doubts. When she gets into an argument with Finn over his adamant wish to learn how to swim, she can’t possibly trust the handsome captain who offers to instruct him and vows to keep him safe – or can she?
Releases November 9
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0992Y9M7M
A Christmas Wish for Clara: Mail-Order Brides' First Christmas Book 7
by P. Creeden
Clara Gibbs has wanted nothing more than a husband and family her whole life, but not one bachelor in Norcross Georgia had ever shown any interest in her until now. She had spent most of her youth taking care of her ailing father, only to find out upon his death that he was the very reason that every suitor had kept a distance from her. Now that she was well over twenty-five years old, the only one who shows her interest is an older bachelor with a known penchant for vice but somehow promises the holidays have made him a better man. Regardless, he's not exactly the prince she's been wishing for, and her only escape is to trust a family friend who knows of a younger man out west in need of a bride.
Clyde Wheeler has just inherited a ranch... or rather, debt. And the bank has come to call. His only way to get his loan approved is to marry the banker's daughter. But part of him would rather die than give the man the satisfaction....
Releases November 10
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098C49LQP/
Figgy Pudding by Francine: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 9
Francine Munsen’s life in 1878 had been a series of ups and downs—all because she allowed one of the benefactors of the Albany Elite Academy for Girls to raise a hope that she could attract a man willing to marry her, a spinster math and science teacher.
Jason Sewell, a full professor of science and astronomy at the University of Iowa, was a widower with no interest in marrying again. Then, during a trip to Rawlins, Wyoming to view a
total solar eclipse, in the weeks of hunting and exploring that followed, his friend—from whom his mother extracted a promise that a letter from a girls’ academy teacher would be answered before the end of the
summer—handed him the letter. As a wedding gift for his friend, he promised to respond. Months later, he invited Francine to spend her Christmas break in Iowa City.
Before Francine could travel to Iowa to
meet Jason in person, she must keep a promise. Serving the girls who could not return to their homes for the Christmas holiday a figgy pudding made using a centuries-old recipe had become a school tradition.
Releases November 22, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0968WFFJV/
A Christmas Tree for Trudel: Mail-Order Brides' First Christmas Book 12
Rancher Gibson Bainbridge travels to Pine Knot to investigate how his younger brother was swindled out of his mining claim. He finds the suspect, businessman Bernard Heinrik, at a poker
table and squares off opposite him. Gib goads the man into betting big, staking the mining claim and then ends up with the winning hand and retrieves the deed. Goal achieved, he heads back to the hotel, planning how he’ll
leave in the morning and arrive triumphant in Redlands at the family home in time for holiday festivities.
Mail-order bride Trudel Andersen traveled from Los Angeles to Pine Knot to meet up with her fiancé,
Mister Heinrik, with whom she’s been corresponding for several months. But he’s a day overdue in meeting her. She waits in the hotel lobby with her lace-making materials and her little dog, Butterscotch. Released
from the orphanage two months earlier, Trudel has been on her own and terrified she will always be so.
When Gibson realizes he’s the cause for the lovely lady’s misfortune, he’s stuck with a dilemma.
If he confesses what he did, he’ll have to offer the woman a ride back to where she came from. Propriety demands they marry, and both agree it’s only for the duration of the trip. But will forced proximity deepen
the relationship into something more?
Releases November 30, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0988V1F85/
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Preorders for December Releases:
A Christmas Dream for Destiny: Mail-Order Brides' First Christmas Book 16
by Annee Jones
1890. Destiny Price works in the sewing room of the Cleveland orphanage where she lives but longs for a better life. Even though she knows she’ll never be able to bear children and has never celebrated a real Christmas of her own, she is plagued by a recurring dream of sitting in a rocking chair next to a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, singing an infant to sleep. Desperate to escape her dreary and monotonous life, Destiny answers an ad for a mail-order bride out west. But when she meets Stuart “Stormy” Holling, a former miner turned woodworker with a peg leg, is she prepared to handle the passionate temper that earned him his nickname?
Releases December 16
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098HGYN66
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