Our authors have worked hard to bring you your next favorite stories. Here is what we published in October!
Clarice's Chance: (The Suffrage Spinsters Book 25)
She rejected him once. Will Clarice grab her
chance at happiness when it comes her way?
Obedient. Rigid. Those words had described her once. Clarice saw how that way
of life stifled her niece, Sylvia. When the young woman left her father's home,
she went with her.
She now spent her days aiding her dear friend in the campaign for the rights of
women. While others found that satsifying, Clarice wanted something more. When
she saw him again, she knew exactly who and what she needed.
Zedekiah
had made something of himself. In fact, he could hold his chin up when he
returned to his hometown a rich man. He intended to show Clarice what she had
given up by refusing to runaway with him fifteen years before.
Does such a thing as a second chance at love
really exist when hurt and ambition stands in its way?
Release date: October 11, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6TZ3S43Alice Heals the Doctor (Uncertain Sweethearts Book 1)
Something is rotten in Fox Creek.
Will revealing the truth heal this town?
No one could blame Niall Mackenzie for growling at the woman. After all, he
caught Alice Cordell staring through his back window. Worse yet, only minutes
later she tells him she has arrived to be his caretaker.
Soon he has a fragile caretaker to watch over, one he struggles to resist. She
insists he practice medicine again, healing the locals.
As for Alice, coming to this new home forces her into a surprise marriage. To
take her place in the community, she must solve the mystery surrounding an
illegitimate child and clear her husband's reputation. Unfortunately for her,
someone wants to keep the truth a secret--no matter the cost.
This is a sweet historical romance with Christian themes. If you enjoy reading
about small-town life on the Prairie, grab a copy today!
Please note--This is an updated version of a previously published book, A Nurse
for Niall. New scenes and conversations have been added in addition to revised
wording to create this version.
Release date: October 19, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CKC7WWK7
A Blacksmith for Birdie (Mail Order Papa series)
A
blacksmith in need of a miracle, an innkeeper requiring rescue, and an arranged
marriage that can give them both what they need. As iron sharpens iron, can
they hammer out a partnership—forging an unexpected result of the romantic
kind?
A widowed blacksmith, Joseph Evans, is hardened and weighed down by the needs
of his unusual family. If only he could find a housekeeper. But they’re in
short supply, and Joseph needs one with the patience of Job. “I don’t want a
wife. What I need is a miracle.”
The years have taken their toll on innkeeper Birdie Murphy, but she can still
dream of her happily ever after—a companion in life, devoted, kind,
hardworking, and childless. But time is not on her side. Desperate, she seeks
the help of a matchmaker. What Birdie needs is a mail-order husband, an
advocate to help save her family, home, and business. “I am neither dainty nor
pretty. Is it possible to find a man willing to overlook the fact?”
A satisfied grin spreads across the matchmaker’s face as she considered the
surveys. Such a perfect pairing doesn’t occur often. After all, what we think
we want and what we need are two different things.
Release date: October 23, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C59M8B65
Mail Order Bride’s First Christmas
This
is a Boxed set of 4 novellas - each is a clean, wholesome, standalone story
written from a Christian worldview. Each story has a happily ever after and
features down-to-earth characters with real world problems who overcome them by
grace and love:
An Orphan for Christmas
A Marshal for Christmas
A Sheriff for Christmas
A Christmas Wish for Clara
Release date: October 23, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Mail-Order-Brides-First-Christmas-ebook/dp/B0CLQRCBFT
Vinegar Pie by Varinia: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen, Book 25
By Zina Abbott
For years, Varinia yearned for Arnie to one day look her direction. When her parents invite him and his widower father to join them for Christmas dinner, she decides to bake him one of her favorite pies—lemon meringue. Only, after coming home from joining her mother in taking gift baskets to several homes in the area, she discovers the lemons she purchased are missing. With no time to shop for more before Christmas Eve supper, she must decide on a different dessert.
Arnie Dickens worked hard to establish himself as a farrier and part-time help in his father’s livery. After Varinia Jewell catches his eye at the town’s harvest dance, he begins to seek her out. In spite of her quiet ways and her younger sister, Betsy, usually by her side, he finds he enjoys their visits. When the Jewell family invites him and his father to join them for Christmas dinner, he knows it is time to arrange a few quiet minutes alone with Varinia. Only, Christmas dinner ends up being anything but quiet.
Release Date: October 24, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9PH4BZY
Cecil’s Christmas Mail Order Bride (Historical Western Holiday Romance)
This
Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly in Idaho Springs—by stagecoach.
December 1887 - When mail-order bride and nurse Gwendolyn Wright steps off the
stagecoach, she expects a new beginning as bride to Idaho Springs’ handsome
young doctor, Cecil Cody. But Dr. Cody seems oblivious to their matrimonial
arrangement. As snow blankets the dusty streets this Christmas, Gwendolyn
discovers more trouble than tidings in this untamed town. Suspicion and rumors
plague her efforts to bring holiday spirit and health to the sick townspeople.
The unlikely pair must learn to heal wounds and soften hearts for
misunderstandings to unravel. Can unexpected Christmas magic spark love’s flame
between a man with no bride and the woman who has traveled so far to win his
wary affection?
This is a clean, wholesome, standalone novella written from a Christian
worldview. It has a happily ever after and features down-to-earth characters
with real world problems who overcome them by grace and love.
Release date: October 25, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Historical-Western-Holiday-Romance-ebook/dp/B0CLHV3B8P
Joy’s Christmas Escape: The Marshal’s Mail Order Bride Book 1
Joy
Stewart has never been lucky. Her father died before she was born. Her mother
left her in the care of her grandmother so that she could get remarried and
move far away. So when her grandmother falls ill, her debtors come to call. And
one of them has his eyes set on Joy to be his bride as payment for his debt.
That bad luck just seems to be compounding on Joy, but her grandmother has a
plan in the works…
Marshal Jack Bolling has found himself in want of a nanny. With the death of
his sister and her husband in a tragic accident, he has now come into
possession of his twin niece and nephew of five years old. For over a month
he’s had no luck in locating an appropriate nanny for them—at least not on his
salary and what a marshal can afford. But then his good friend, Pastor Lamb has
the idea that perhaps Jack should be looking for a wife instead? The thought of
that sends chills down Jack’s spine, but when he ends up putting the twins’
lives in danger due to his job, he wonders what choice he has.
Publication Date: November 1, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDCCFCJT
Not all of our authors make their books available on pre-order. However, for those who do, those advance sales go a long way toward boosting their sales rankings.
Here are future releases:
November Pre-Orders:
Butter Pound Cake by Berdina: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 26
Bakery
manager Berdina Hulbard has big plans to expand the Riverside Bakery’s services
to the growing Astoria community. She has visions of creating stylish wedding
cakes and elegant petit fours, similar to what she produced at her previous
job. During a marathon baking session, she’s interrupted by a blue-eyed brute
of a man screaming “Fire” who douses the fire in the brick oven, sending ash
over her inventory.
Seeing black smoke billowing from a chimney, volunteer fireman Peder Stefansson
bolts into the bakery to put out the fire. Peder is temporary squad captain and
wants to prove he’s ready to take on the job permanently. When safety is
restored, he discovers ruined baked goods, an irate baker, and an escaped
canary. He likes the spirit of this spunky beauty with sparks in her brown
eyes. What can he do to tame this chaos into cuddles?
Release Date: November 7, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CC58MNWH
Christmas and Babies: (A Holiday Boxed Set)
Nostalgic
Christmas romances, complete with little ones!
This set includes previously published titles grouped together as a holiday
reading treat!
A Farmer for Christmas--
Children! Myra is tired of them.
She didn't expect to be disinherited or to end up as her brother's unpaid nanny
and cook.Thank goodness her matchmaker neighbor offers Myra a way out of the
situation.
Holder knows he can't expect his ill mother to care for his daughters.
Following advice, he sends away for a mail-order bride. Too bad he forgets to
mention his children in the letter.
A Snowy Delivery for Christmas--
Christmas, 1921
Del Peale and Josephine Withers both have loved and lost. It's why neither has
acted on their mutual attraction. That changes when a newborn is abandoned on
the front steps .A cold house forces Del to face the home he once shared with
his wife and son.
Will it be enough to let them believe that love is still possibility? Will
strange twists and the abandoned baby lead to a Christmas wedding? Perhaps
their landlady will need to step in with a miracle and a very special Christmas
ornament?
Detective to the Rescue--
Her first case was a disaster!
Pinkerton Agent Charity Melrose has one more chance to prove her worth and the
life of a woman to save. With few clues to the victim's whereabouts, this could
be her last case.
And what to do with the fake husband who is her traveling companion or the
Christmas baby they both need to watch over?
Release date: November 14, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Babies-Holiday-Boxed-Set-ebook/dp/B0CLGWZV9V
Lefse by Linnea: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 27
He made a
promise to a dying friend.
She vowed to never love again.
"You've
become a recluse."
Linnea
Nyland heard the concern in her sister's voice. Still filled with grief and
missing her husband almost two years after his unexpected passing, she didn't
have the inclination to disagree with the statement. Though she dearly missed
working her magic in the family bakery, she liked her life on the farm just the
way it was...solitary.
Especially after Deputy Finn McBride came calling with his ridiculous proposal
of marriage!
In a moment of panic, Finn made a heart pledge to Erik Nyland to care of
Linnea, to marry her. He'd bungled his first attempt, and he's not sure his
heart can endure the vow he made knowing he'd been in love with her from the
day he came to Holly Springs.
Giving it one last try, he challenges her to a holiday baking competition. If
he wins, she must agree to let him court...if she wins, he'll leave her
alone...forever.
Release Date: November 21, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8VKMDFJ
Rose: Christmas Quilt Brides book 11
Spinster
Rose MacEwen is the shy daughter in the large family of a prominent banker. All
her life, her stutter has kept her from experiencing a normal social life like
her sisters have. Although she’s the oldest daughter, Rose rarely talks with
anyone outside her large family. Her mother believes no man will ever want her
because a woman who can’t act serve as hostess won’t aid a husband’s career.
Rather than argue, she keeps her thoughts bottled up inside. For years, she has
sat at her grandmother’s side and learned the art of quilting. Rose pours her
emotions into making quilts that she donates for charitable causes. But what
she yearns for is the chance to converse with others in the community about
what’s in her heart.
Blacksmith Berrin Harimann is most at ease in his world of heat and toil. No
one bothers him while he’s wresting useful objects from blocks of metal. Those
who come to his dark shop don’t linger after transacting their business. A
disfiguring injury five years earlier robbed him of his fiancée. Rather than make
excuses for a family who couldn’t look him in the eye, he moved west and set up
shop in the Silver Bow Creek Valley. The pain from his burn scar now resides in
his lonely heart and festers because of what’s missing from his life.
When the pulley on her quilt frame breaks, Rose ventures outside the family
mansion in search of a blacksmith. Berrin looks up from his forge and sees an
elegant lady in his shop doorway. Their gazes meet, and she steps into his
world, bringing light. They connect instantly, and their fate seems set. But
what chance does this pair have when everyone tells them they are not suited?
Can their budding love withstand the expectations of her family and society’s
standards?
Release date: November 24, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKKL9QQT
Simon's Christmas Mail Order Bride (Historical Western Holiday Romance)
Can unexpected Christmas magic spark love’s flame between a man with no bride and the woman who has traveled so far to win his wary affection? This is a clean, wholesome series of standalone novellas written from a Christian worldview. Each story has a happily ever after and features down-to-earth characters with real world problems who overcome them by grace and love. There will be seven brides in this special holiday series ~ read them all
Release date: November 29, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Historical-Western-Holiday-Romance-ebook/dp/B0CLHT22LWDecember Pre-orders:
Romancing the Doctor (Second Chance Groom Book 9)
Will
a strange coincidence allow her tormentor to become the love of her life?
Desperate, Elsie Fox answers an advertisement for a mail-order wife who is also
a trained nurse. And she was desperate. After studying for years in a medical
school where the male students tormented her, she could not find a hospital or
even a small community that would accept her as a doctor.
Her Wyoming groom turns out to be Barnaby Tanner, one of her college
tormentors. Elsie wonders if she has been given a chance to prove her skills or
if her career has ended before it even starts.
Will their marriage be a second chance or a disaster?
Suspense, the historical setting, and sweet romance make this a must-read for
anyone who enjoys a Laura Ingalls Wilder sort of life. Settle back with your
Kindle and enjoy life in 1870. The West is waiting for you.
Release date: December 1, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Romancing-Doctor-Second-Chance-Groom-ebook/dp/B0CG6G84C4
Hope: (Christmas Quilt Brides)
Gabe
Dawson didn't believe catastrophes came in threes. That is, until his
grandfather died, a fire nearly destroyed his home, and his grandmother started
showing signs of forgetfulness.
When Hope Brody discovers Nora Dawson wandering in a snowy field and learns of
the family's loss, she sets out to recreate the quilt that was destroyed in the
fire. But in order to present it to her at the Annual Christmas Eve Quilt
gathering, that meant she'd have to get to know the taciturn Gabe Dawson.
Despite thwarting her efforts at friendship, Gabe finally acknowledges that
Hope's visits are helping ease his grandmother's anxieties. Soon, he finds
himself falling for the lovely quilter. But with only a small farm and almost
constant care of his ailing grandmother, he has nothing to offer and would
never be a woman's first choice.
As Christmas approaches, will Hope look beyond his obligations and see a future
blossom from a special, once-in-a-lifetime friendship?
Release Date: December 5, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJL67BVH
A Journey for Dorothy: The Reluctant Wagon Train Bride - Book 8
Dorothy Mason swore that she’d never marry again when her husband passed away five years ago. She just wasn’t interested in her heart being broken again. But living in her old house in Tennessee kept breaking it by reminding her daily of her times with her husband, and she was having a difficult time letting go. So, her sister convinces her to get a fresh start by traveling west on the wagon train to Oregon. But once she’s given up her life and everything dear to her and arrives in Missouri, Dorothy discovers that she can’t move forward unless she considers getting married again.
Reverend Elias Stone doesn’t quite believe in Manifest Destiny, but does believe in bringing lost souls to the Lord. With so many lost people moving out west in search of gold and riches, Elias feels a calling on his life to make a move in that direction, himself. So, he arranges to join a wagon train heading to Oregon and California. But before the journey even starts, he finds himself in a harrowing situation that could take his life, calling, and ability to travel away from him. Only by considering a marriage to a woman he doesn’t even know can he continue, but is this really God’s plan for him?
Release date: December 5, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CCSSPYLK
Beulah: Christmas Quilt Brides Book 13
Beulah Beatrice “Be-Be” Connor, who is approaching the age of thirty, gave up on marriage after the second man who had courted her left and never returned. Unlike the two maiden great-aunts, after whom she was named, she did not have an inheritance to fall back on. She worked almost half her life for her own support. When the café job in Wichita, Kansas, disappeared as the Panic of 1893 continued, she considered the job she landed at a new girls’ academy in nearby New Ponca, Oklahoma Territory, to be a Godsend.
Daniel Burdock had once been married. After both his wife and baby died during childbirth, he gave up on marriage. He now focuses on making improvements to his homestead claim. He accepts his carpenter brother’s offer to attend his construction mathematics class on mitering corners, figuring angles for roof trusses, and other geometry and trigonometry skills needed for building.
Much to his surprise, the hired help for his sister-in-law’s girls’ academy also attends. Why does it surprise him that Marigold Burdock agreed to teach Miss Connor how to make quilts on the condition she attend the construction class? The pretext is that knowledge of how to figure triangles and other geometric shapes so they fit together is good preparation for designing quilt blocks.
Construction mathematics for quilting? Honestly? Although he soon realizes those skills could be helpful for piecing quilts, Daniel begins to suspect there is more afoot than feet, inches, and angles. If he is not careful, he and Be-Be might end up stitched and bound together like a Christmas quilt.
Release date: December 8, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKP2LWB1
A Lawyer for Larina (Mail Order Papa)
Weaver
Larina Cristobal lives a quiet life on the mountain sheep ranch she and her
late husband operated. Following a year-long melancholy over the family she
would never have, Larina approaches her widow sister, Willa, with a plan to
bring new husbands into both their lives. The widows place an ad for a husband
in three Eastern newspapers. Even if they don’t find love, they won’t lead
solitary lives.
Lawyer Evan MacQuarrie’s latest courtroom win leaves him shaken mentally and doubting he ever wants to lead another trial—definitely not one where a child’s life is at stake. An ad in the Philadelphia newsletter for a widow sheepherdess looking for a husband in a small mountain town catches his eye. A quiet life tending animals sounds perfect. After verifying she has no children, he travels West—only to discover Larina’s in jail…for abducting a child. Will he face down his fears to give this new life a chance?
Release date: December 14, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Lawyer-Larina-Mail-Order-Papa-ebook/dp/B0CDNPF9M3
Clementine : Christmas Christmas Quilt Brides Book 15
An
orphan longing for security, a reclusive rancher bound by the stipulations of
his inheritance, and a proxy marriage that will meet their needs in ways they
never expected.
Clementine has nothing to her name but a quilt and some second-hand clothing. She's
aged out of the orphanage and can't afford to be choosey. But she is determined
to make the best of things. "If it's true that the way to a man's heart is
through his stomach, surely any minor flaws like my sassiness will fade away
with the aroma of fresh bread."
Disappointed in love, Caleb Ellis is content to live a reclusive lifestyle on
the outskirts of his family's ranch. But his father had other ideas and left a
condition that he must marry to obtain his inheritance. Time is not on his
side, so he has arranged to marry a woman he's never met by proxy. "Anyone
growing up in an orphanage, desperate enough to apply as a mail-order bride, is
bound to be practical, biddable,and self-sufficient. I'll leave her to her own
resources and she should leave me to mine."
Release date: December 18, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKNWWG92
Amos: Christmas Quilt Brides Book 16
Amos
Krieder thought love had passed him by, while Mary Jane Pierson felt lost and
alone and unsure of herself. Can a quilt bring about a second chance at love
and a Christmas wedding? Find out in this heartwarming tale set on the Eastern
Plains of Colorado.
Amos
lost his parents, brother, and fiancée in the Chicago Fire of 1871. With
his grandmother's encouragement, he moved West and settled in Kiowa Wells,
Colorado, where he opened a hotel. He thinks he's content until a letter and
package arrive from his grandmother in Illinois. He has a choice to make but
can he do it?
Mary Jane Pierson, who grew up without a mother and whose father has been
controlling. As a result, when she tried to rebel she only created a reputation
that haunts her. She believes that no one will accept her for the kind loving
person she strives to be while still dealing with her father.
A Christmas Pageant, a quilt, the townspeople, and an unexpected event might be
just the thing to bring these two meant for each other together.
Release date: December 22, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKP7VG24
Felix's Christmas Mail Order Bride (Historical Western Holiday Romance)
This
Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly—by stagecoach.
Can unexpected Christmas magic spark love’s flame between a man with no bride
and the woman who has traveled so far to win his wary affection? This is a
clean, wholesome series of standalone novellas written from a Christian
worldview. Each story has a happily ever after and features down-to-earth
characters with real world problems who overcome them by grace and love. There
will be seven brides in this special holiday series ~ read them all!
Release date: December 27, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Historical-Western-Holiday-Romance-ebook/dp/B0CLHV6SRJ
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