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Lucy: Prairie Roses Collection - Book 46
Lucy Baxter lives peacefully in Kansas
with her aunt, Caroline Wilcox, her deceased mother’s sister until, by 1863,
the War Between the States made life for two lone women insufferable—and
dangerous. Her dream of teaching school is shattered. With her fiance, her
Uncle Wilcox, and two Wilcox cousins assumed among the missing or dead, Aunt
Caroline has decided the best option for getting both her and Lucy to safety is
to travel to California and join Lucy’s father. Only, Lucy—never fond of her
stepmother—stayed behind when her father left years early. That stepmother died
on the trail, but now her father has married again. Will he and his new wife
welcome her? Will the two half-brothers who were so young when they left even
remember her? Even if she and Aunt Caroline survive the journey to California,
what kind of future can she expect?
Malachi Foster’s dreams of striking
it rich in the gold and silver fields in the West left him disillusioned. Tired
of living like a rodent in a burrow, he accepts a job with Will Clayton tending
pack mules hauling goods between Nevada and California. When not doing that, we
works with Will as a teamster driving oxen-pulled wagons loaded with supplies
for the mining towns he walked away from. When Will asks him to help drive a
small freight train to the Missouri River to bring back goods found only in the
East, Malachi hesitates. He left home to escape the Copperhead sympathies of
his Northern family. If he travels closer to the fighting, there might be those
who question why he is not enlisted in one army or the other. In the end, a gut
feeling—or maybe something whispering to his spirit—helps him decide. Perhaps
he must help protect his friend. Perhaps there is another reason. Either way,
he will go.
Release date: May 5, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D37JVVHH
Enid's Exit: Westward Home and Hearts Book 43
She is
running to save her child. Will he be the man who rescues them or be the one to
send them away?
Enid
Hartwell needs to make a rapid exit once her stepson inherits the home where
she lived for twenty years. Mildred Crenshaw stands ready to help her cousin
and has the perfect groom waiting for a bride like Enid. Only, the man did not
expect a bride with a handicapped child.
Donald Bailey does not take well to living alone after his wife's sudden
passing. When Ruby King suggests writing to the same agency that matched her
with her husband, he does so with enthusiasm. He sent off the letter and
waited--and waited!
After a year without a match, he should be ecstatic to meet Enid Hartwell. If
only she looked more like his first wife. And how is he supposed to be a father
to a child who cannot speak or hear? Can he discover the hidden beauty within
the woman who has taken his first wife's place?
Will this older couple bend their expectations to
discover their happily-ever-after as they work to make a home for a deaf and
mute little girl?
If you've read Ruby's Risk, Sookie's Silence, or Wren's
Wooer, you will enjoy this sweet and failth-filled story. It is a visit with
those characters as well as a chance to see what is new in the town of Bailey's
Meadow.
The book can be read as a standalone romance. Reading the other three first
will enhance a reader's enjoyment of the story.
Release date: May 21, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/Enids-Exit-Westward-Home-Hearts-ebook/dp/B0CY5QGH64
Miss Hespa: Sweet Historical Western Romance (The Brides of Fiddler's Gap Book 5)
A
determined young woman with a dream.
A handsome doctor willing to help her.
And one big obstacle.
Hespa Pendergrass dreams of becoming a veterinarian. But if she can't convince
her parents she's got what it takes, her dream will never become a reality.
Lucky for her, a professor at the college she wants to attend, agrees to meet
with her. With this man's backing, she was sure to get in! There was only one
problem. Okay, maybe two. Her parents still didn't think she had what it takes,
and they carted her off to Fiddler's Gap for her best friend's wedding. So what
if she agreed to be the maid of honor! If she didn't get back in time, she'd
miss her one chance of speaking to the professor! How was she going to convince
her parents to high tail it back to Baltimore?
Temple Garrett came to Fiddler's Gap for the peace and quiet. He even sent off for a mail-order bride. But when the Pendergrass family shows up in town for a wedding, his world is turned upside down. Hespa Pendergrass fancies herself a veterinarian in training, and wouldn't you know, she's good at it? After she helps with someone's plow horse and a few other animals, Temple is convinced she has want it takes to survive the training needed to become a veterinarian. Unfortunately, he should have paid closer attention to what his heart was doing while working with her. For once she went back to Baltimore, he'd never see her again. Did he have the strength to let her go and chase her dream? Find out in this sweet, heartwarming historical western full of love and laughter!
Release date: May 21, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4TFZMSM
Annabelle's Wedding Dilemma: The Matchmaker and the Mother-in-law
"Ordering
a wife through the mail is unnatural. Having your mother order one on your
behalf is infuriating.”
Asa Bailey grew up hard, on a daily diet of driving cattle, drinking coffee,
and eating dust. Since his father’s premature death, the weight of the
responsibility for the success of the ranch and the added pressure of his
mother’s contrary and snobbish nature weighs like a millstone strapped to his
neck. Disappointment from the betrayal of his childhood sweetheart has left him
skittish about matters of the heart. The last thing he wants is a wife.
Unfortunately, his mother thinks differently and has taken matters into her own
hands.
Orphaned and then abandoned in a children's home, overlooked and often judged
because of her grandmother’s Cherokee heritage, Annabelle Ryan knows the pain
of rejection. Desperate, she accepts the advice of her pastor and applies to a
matchmaking agency. Upon receiving correspondence from a friend who recommends
a potential groom willing to overlook her background, Annabelle is thrilled.
Ignoring the warning that her husband-to-be’s responsibilities include caring
for a meddlesome and snobbish mother, she accepts the invitation and heads
west.
“One of the blessings of growing up in an orphanage is learning resilience.
I’ve survived measles, a yellow fever epidemic, hunger, and abandonment; any
trouble that might come from a meddlesome mother-in-law
won't amount to a hill of beans.”
Release date: May 28. 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR8NTH3M
A Cowboy for Christmas (Confederate Widows, Spinsters, and Proxy Brides Book 1)
In Atlanta, Serena Carver was discovered as a child prodigy by a virtuoso pianist when she was thirteen years old and made an orphan by the war. Ever since, she’s abided by her adoptive father’s every rule, no matter how overbearing. But now, she’s only a month from her eighteenth birthday, and she discovers a nefarious plot by her benefactor that she just cannot abide. In order to avoid a future of enslavement or poverty, she marries a stranger by proxy.
Cowboy Theo Archer suddenly finds himself saddled with the ranch that was supposed to be his brother’s and his newborn nephew. He knows nothing about running a household or of raising a child. Though the pastor’s wife is helping him with the child, he can’t keep relying on other’s good graces. Then the pastor’s wife has an idea that might help, if he’s willing to marry a woman he’s never met.
Release date: May 29, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ1M8BR1
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Here are future releases:
June Pre-orders:
Martha's Second Chance (Rejected Mail-Order Brides Book 10)
Forgiveness
comes easier than trust and love in this second chance romance.
Only one thing mattered more than
the apple orchard to Martha, and Emory had been it! Too bad he left her
standing alone at the altar the prior year .
A year was not long enough to fall
out of love with him. Martha realizes that when she finds him standing on her
porch. Worse yet, he hands her proof that her wandering uncle had deeded his
share of the orchard to Emory.
Is there any such thing as a true
second chance? Will working day in and day out allow Martha to learn to trust
the man she never stopped loving?
Release Date June 3, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP4H69K1
Bernard'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!
(Individual Description to come soon...)
Release date: June 20, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPQ7QRW
July Pre-orders:
Luna: A Sweet Historical Romance (Pendleton Petticoats Book 11)
She’s searching for peace and grace
He’s ready to step into his next big adventure
Haunted
by memories of the fateful day that changed her life, Luna Campanelli seeks a
fresh start in Pendleton, Oregon. Life in the wild western town is nothing like
she imagined, although the rugged beauty of the area soothes her troubled
spirit. An unlikely friendship with one of the area ranch hands lifts her
hopes, until she discovers the cowboy isn’t who he’s led her to believe.
Hunter Douglas didn’t intend to hide his identity from the woman he met on the
train, but when she assumed he was his sister’s hired hand, he didn’t correct
her. He never anticipated forming such a deep connection to her, especially
when thoughts of her continue to infiltrate his carefully made plans. As a
recent college graduate with an inheritance he intends to use to start his own
ranch in Pendleton, Hunter must decide if he is willing to open his heart and
include Luna in his future.
Will they embrace the unexpected love that has blossomed between them, or let
fear tear them apart?
Release date: July 2, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5DL2MMK
A Child for Christmas: Confederate Widows, Spinsters, and Proxy Brides
A woman desperate to
begin again. A man who longs for connection. Only a baby stands in the way of
their happily ever after.
Charlotte Reynolds lost both her fiancé and her father during the War of
Northern Aggression. She and her sister Esther struggled to hang on to the
family’s home in Alexandria, Virginia. Unfortunately, Esther sacrificed her
virtue to pay the taxes and died as a result.
With no home, her sister's newborn, and the cool weather of winter in the
offing, Charlotte seizes on the chance to marry a man in the West. The only
catch is she must marry him sight unseen in a proxy ceremony. She will face any
obstacle to keep her nephew safe, even marry a Yankee!
Butch Whaley needs a woman’s chatter to get through the winter. The previous year he nearly went mad spending the season by himself on the land he homesteaded, land he had gotten free as a veteran of the recent war. He craved the noise of another person. Everyone knew women talked a lot, so a wife was guaranteed to end his loneliness.
Only, he wants one without encumbrances. A woman who has never been married
would suit him best. He is working hard to establish his ranch. He did not
intend for stepchildren to inherit it. No, it would not be like what happened
when Pa left his store to his stepson Ike instead of to Butch.
When he risks being caught in a snowstorm to collect his Christmas bride, he is
in for a shock. The woman arrives with a baby she says is hers.
Will Butch honor the promise he made when he signed the proxy form or will he
lose out on future happiness because of past hurt?
Release date: July 3, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1YT8R1N
Olivia's Odyssey (Westward Home and Hearts Mail-Orders Book 49)
Things go from bad to worse after Olivia Talbot is let go from her position at the Butterick Pattern Company in Boston and her beloved Auntie Dee passes away. Left with only her sewing machine and a letter of introduction to Mildred Crenshaw, proprietress of the Westward Hearts and Homes Matrimonial Agency she soon finds herself corresponding with a cattleman from Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.
As a proxy mail-order bride to a cattleman and mother to three children, she
expected her life would change.
What she didn't expect upon her arrival was to discover Nate Forester, her
intended, had perished in a suspicious fire.
Ty Forester's world is upended after tragedy leaves him caring for his
brother's children. A cattleman's life is difficult enough. Yet, all he can do
is pray he can raise the children and still run a ranch.
But it gets worse. His late brother’s mail-order bride arrives with a signed
affidavit stating she will be sharing custody
of the children with him. In disbelief, Ty intends to send Olivia Talbot
straight back to wherever she came from.
Too bad the determined, tenacious woman has other plans.
Release date: July 15, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D488ZQPF
Edwin'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!
(Individual Description to come soon...)
Release date: July 18, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPS9XQW
