Our authors have been busy writing and publishing books. Here is what we published in August:
Shoo-fly Pie By Selah: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 2
Selah Anderson agrees to participate in a matchmaking service organized by her pastor and the orphanage's matron, where she spent most of her life and become a mail-order bride. The man of her dreams will share her love of creating delicious confections and running a successful bakery. People will come for miles to purchase her specialty-shoo-fly pie.
Stagecoach driver Emerson Clark isn’t looking for love. But he knows life is better with a partner by your side- like a good team of horses supporting one another around the ruts in the road and along the narrow paths. As long as she’s practical, he’ll be happy.
Can his mail-order bride handle the diversity that comes with her husband’s dangerous vocation? Together will they blend their opposing desires to create a recipe for love?
Released August 2, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09645C3MP
Days Gone By: Christian historical romance collection
Includes Kimberly Grist’s Rebecca’s Hope
Wanted:
Husband for Rebecca Mueller. **Must be handsome, nice, like children,
and live within walking distance of Carrie Town School.
Will her circumstances change and allow
her to hold out for true love?
Released August 5, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/Days-Gone-Christian-historical-collection-ebook/dp/B09C2HLKMV
Lighthouse Escape (Keeper's of the Light, Book 13)
Stina Dinesen loves her older sister but felt relieved once Lisbet and her new husband moved away from the Crystal Beach Lighthouse. ...She wants to move to town where she can have neighbors and enjoy a social life.
Much to Stina’s dismay, as the sky darkens during the day of what promises to yield the first big storm of the season, her father informs her a passing ship sent a Morse code message that they have a man overboard. ...With a wrenched shoulder, Arend Dinesen cannot man the rescue boat alone. He will hold the light and help, but he needs his daughter, Stina, to row.
John Andersen felt lost at sea long before he left his Oregon home on business to sail to San Francisco. Now, he is in the water with a twisted ankle, clinging to a rock miles from shore, ...The first hint he might survive comes when he sees a glowing lantern and realizes it is being held by someone on an approaching boat.
Is it the light that promises a bright future, or could it be the young woman plying the oars?
Released August 10
http://mybook.to/LighthouseEscape
Charm Cake by Charity: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 3
1889, Chicago.
It’s Christmas and Charity DeWitt is celebrating her engagement to recent
medical school graduate Dr. Fox Skilling with a Charm Cake – a cake that
contains symbolic charms crafted by her father at his jewelry store. When her
slice contains a fleur-de-lis, she’s certain the tiny silver symbol of new
beginnings has to do with her upcoming wedding to Fox – or does it? When he
announces his plans to go out west to open a medical clinic, she journeys with
him to Oregon where she meets Peter Abrams, a schoolteacher partially paralyzed
after being thrown off his horse. Why is she so drawn to Peter and his books?
Is it just because she’s never learned to read? Or could it be more?
Find out as you read this
heartwarming holiday romance set in Sunset Hills, Oregon!
Released August 16, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0965XD6ZQ
Alastair: Romancing the Weavers, Book 13
by Kit Morgan
She has to protect her sister.
He has to find a wife.
If
Alastair Weaver wanted a wife, then he saw no other choice but to send
for a mail-order bride. Selena Manning saw no other choice but to become
one. Perfect, right?
But when Selena shows up with more than her carpet bag, Alastair must
decide what to do, and lucky for her, he still wants to marry her.
Despite the fact she has her younger sister in tow. But as far as
Alastair's concerned,
if his father could do it, then so could he. After all, his mother,
brought her seven siblings into the Weaver clan when she married his
father. Alastair could handle one, couldn't he? But Selena and her
younger sister
have suffered a horrible tragedy and Alastair isn't sure how to help
them heal after losing their parents to a house fire. Worse, Selena
doesn't think it was an accident...
Enjoy this sweet historical romance
full of love, laughter, and a bit of mystery.
Released August 16
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09BLX1P2V
Sadie: Sweet Historical Romance (Pendleton Promise Book 1)
Inspired by the true stories of women who served in France during World War I, Sadie is a sweet romance filled with courage, hope, and lasting love.
She yearns for far-flung adventures. He longs for the home he’s found in her heart. Will a world at war tear them apart, or draw them closer together?
For most of her life, Doctor Sadie Thorsen has imagined seeing the world on grand adventures. When America joins the war raging across the world in 1917, it seems her dreams are about to come true. She travels overseas as a contracted physician, eager to do her part to help the war effort. Endless streams of wounded push her to the limits of endurance, then she receives word Harley John Hobbs, the man she's loved for years, is missing in action. Unable to bear the thought of life without him in it, she refuses to let go of her hope that he’s alive.
The day Sadie Thorsen shoved Harley John Hobbs down on the playground was the day she marched off with his heart. He spent years doing everything in his power to become successful, determined to have more than himself to offer Sadie if she ever returns to their eastern Oregon town.
Conscripted to join the American Expeditionary Forces, Harley John answers the call and heads to France. Wounded and alone, he clings to the promise of seeing Sadie one last time.
Can deep, abiding love withstand the tragedies and trials of a world at war?
Released August 26, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BPTT4TM
Lemon Pie by Lucinda: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 4
Two ladies named Lucinda.
Lucy
never uses her real name and is surprised when Rev. Caldwell calls her
that at the pie auction. She's even more surprised when Ty Goodson bids
on her pie. He's never shown her a bit of interest, and
whoever wins her pie will share the dessert with her.
What follows is
a series of misadventures and a night spent in a cave. That night with
each other leads them into a forced marriage—a shotgun marriage with
Ty’s
father doing the forcing.
How
will Lucy win the love of a man who longs for a different Lucinda? And
what about the thieves Ty and Lucy witnessed burying something? Will
they return?
Released August 30
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0968KLJNV
Preorders for September Releases:
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…
Releases 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?
Releases 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!
Releases 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.
Releases 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 …
Releases 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.
Releases 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?
Releases September 27, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0965W2PCJ
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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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