Friday, May 3, 2024

Look What Our Authors Published in April!



Our authors have worked hard to bring you your next 

favorite stories. 

Here is what we published in April!


Dreams for Courage: A Wholesome Historical Novella (Holiday Dreams Book 3)   

by Shanna Hatfield 

Will two lonely hearts find the courage to love?

A loner for most of his life, Rowan Reed wants nothing more than to be left alone. He buys a run-down farm near Holiday, Oregon, intending to turn it into a successful ranch through hard work and determination. When a nosy, albeit beautiful, woman shows up on his doorstep, the instant attraction he feels to her sets off nearly as many warning bells as her barrage of probing questions.

Private detective Rhetta Wallace always unearths the truth. Involved in a lengthy investigation into a man suspected of killing a politician's son, her pursuit leads her to the town of Holiday. Accompanied by her adopted son, Rhetta finds herself squaring off against the grumpy, growling rancher she believes is the suspect. Whether or not Rowan admits his true identity, Rhetta is sure of two things: his innocence of the crime, and the deep affection he awakens in her heart.

Will their dreams for courage help them release the past and embrace a future together?

Release date: April 4, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641232137 

 

Florence's Good Deed: Rejected Mail-Order Brides Book 6

By Zina Abbott

After being forced by men who accosted her as she walked home from her job, Florence Crowley suspected she might be with child. Her sister recommended Florence seek a husband through correspondence—one who lived far, far away.

Rejected! At the end of a long train ride, her groom informs her he refuses to raise another man’s baby. He buys a return ticket but does not provide additional cash for food. Florence’s funds are limited. By the time she arrives in Columbus, Ohio, in order to eat, she is reduced to begging.

Recently mustered out of the U.S. Army, Asher Henderson stops in Columbus, Ohio, on his way to New York. Always a flirt, he first steers his friend, a German-speaking former soldier, toward a woman who does not speak English. He then pursues a beautiful young woman pleading for food money. For amusement, why not buy her a meal in exchange for a few hours of harmless teasing? When Florence suggests a potentially dangerous scheme to help the German-speaking woman, Ash’s attitude changes. He volunteers to protect her.

Florence is drawn to the former soldier but worries he might try to take advantage like the men who left her carrying a child. However, she cannot resist his offer to escort her to her sister’s home. Will she ever see him after that, or will he end up being nothing more than a fond memory—a man who momentarily helped during a time of crisis?

If you read Elise in the Rescue Me (Mail-order Brides) series, then you met Florence and Asher. However, Florence’s Good Deed is written to be a stand-alone story.

Release date: April 15, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ9ZLVMN

 

Miss Ellie Mae: Sweet Historical Western Romance (The Brides of Fiddler's Gap Book 4)

By Kit Morgan

A Lonely Farmer
An Indecisive Bride
And one over protective brother...

      Ellie Mae Ruggles was horrified at the thought of an arranged marriage to the likes of Elmer Grant. How could her parents even think she'd be interested in the old codger? So, she took matters into her own hands and made a run for it. Maybe it wasn't the best decision, but it was the only one she could come up with in the heat of the moment. Now here she was, in a nothing of a town called Fiddler's Gap after seeing an advertisement for a mail-order bride. But now that she was here, she wasn't so sure she'd done the right thing.
     Cassius Herber was elated that someone had answered his advertisement for a virtuous woman who was also a virtuoso. He was the third man in town to get himself a mail-order bride. But his wasn't too happy when she first arrived, and was also having second thoughts if his guess was right. How was he to win her? He wanted to court her a little first, but was that giving her too much of chance to change her mind and hightail back to where she came from? And wouldn't you know, just as he's making some progress, the unthinkable happens. Can Cassius win his bride and convince her to stay? Find out in this sweet, wholesome western full of laughter and romance.

Release date: April 15, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1W7FDTW

 

A Journey for Christiana: A Reluctant Wagon Train Bride-Book 18

By Marisa Masterson

A grumpy man meets a strong-minded woman. You bet the sparks are flying!

(This book is the sequel to A Journey for Patience. Reading that one first will enhance a reader's enjoyment of this romantic novel.)

Christiana Mallory has no choice but agree to become Moody Dutton's cook. After all, her sister Patience insists that each of them has to find a way to join the wagon train headed south. Patience is determined to retrieve a map showing where their pa hid a jar filled with gold coins.
When Patience immediately marries Moody's cousin, Christiana is determined not to do the same. She holds Moody at a distance, fighting with him so that she won't give in and make calf eyes in his direction.
Only, when danger threatens her sister's life, Christiana truly sees Moody for the protective man he is, and she wants him. The problem is that she was too successful at putting a wall between them.

How will she convince him see that she is no longer a reluctant bride but is a woman eager to marry him? Will they survive the trail to find their happily ever after?

Western adventure from a Christian worldview awaits you in this book. Get cozy and enjoy the romance.

Release date: April 16, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CB1WPRQ2


A Marshal for Constance

By P. Creeden

Gerald Tucker leaves the ranch in San Marcos, Texas, to find himself after losing the only woman he'd ever thought he'd loved. Uncertain of his future, he finds an advertisement for a US Marshals training camp in Silverwood California.

Release date: April 20, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSHRPNZ8

 

His Bride and the Child: A Sweet Romance Anthology (Love in the West)

By Marisa Masterson

An anthology filled with sweet little ones, swoony romance, and a dash of suspsense:

Frankie
     Frances "Frankie" Elder is brutally frank. It's what led to her firing by the school board. The advertisement for a bride/teacher seems heaven sent. …
     Boswick "Boss" Carter is the first mayor of Scrub Brush, Wyoming. When the town demands a teacher, he agrees to send for a mail-order bride who's a trained teacher. …
     What should be a business arrangement quickly becomes a matter …
Wynona
     Wynona Thorne lives a hard-scrabble existence with her father. At least their life was peaceful. That all changed when …

     Neither the groom nor the bride are completely transparent in their letters. He travels with a …

     Stranded … Wynona will need to decide quickly as danger follows her from her hometown. How will she keep her new stepdaughter safe?
Lilah

     Lilah Levitt made a terrible mistake when she answered a job advertisement for a hotel in Idyll Wood, Wisconsin. Kidnapped and carted off to a brothel …

     No matter how often he tried to reason with Lilah, Sheriff Sittig could not get her to realize that she didn't love him. She was only grateful. ….

     Unwilling to leave Idyll Wood, desperate to win the sheriff's love, Lilah Levitt writes a letter to the Lovelorn column for advice. ….

Release Date: April 29, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D328VCD1

 

Jana: Prairie Roses Collection - Book 41

By Linda Carroll-Bradd

Jana Luykan is desperate to move with her sixteen-year-old brother, Marco, to their aunt and uncle’s farm in California. For the past six months since their mother’s death, she has struggled to keep him in school and out of mischief. In Council Bluffs during the final days before joining a westbound company, Jana is shocked to arrive home from her evening job to find Marco bleeding and two ruffians insisting they’re joining the Luykans on the wagon train. If she doesn’t agree, then they’ll tell the sheriff about Marco’s participation in a saloon robbery. She’ll do anything to protect her brother—even pretending these men are her cousins.

Bounty hunter Rik Sanderson trails two bank robbers to Council Bluffs. This pair has proved elusive over the past month, and he’s anxious to capture them and collect the bounty. About to give up, he spots them in a group of pioneers signing up with a wagon train company. He gets a job as a hunter for the company, figuring he’ll wait the week until they reach Fort Kearney to turn them in there. When he realizes they are holding a woman, who he aided in a saloon scuffle, and her brother hostage, Rik vows to watch over the innocents.

By the time the wagon train reaches the fort, Jana is a wreck from keeping up the pretense of the two strangers in her camp. Mister Sanderson seems to always be watching—an action that doesn’t soothe her nerves. She’s afraid he knows of Marco’s involvement with the robbery. Rik confides his suspicions about her “cousins” and that he’ll turn them over to authorities the next day. Jana begs him not to arrest Marco. The fort commander extracts a pledge from Rik to see Jana and Marco get to California safely and performs a marriage—for propriety’s sake. Rik struggles against his long-held vow not to get personally involved but realizes he can be a good influence on the young man…an influence he never had growing up.

The grueling trip tests the strength and endurance of this makeshift family. Will the challenges pull them apart or force them to cleave to one another for survival?

Release date: April 26, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1GM9CF

 

Gianna's Wedding Dilemma: The Matchmaker and The Mother-In-Law

By Linda Carroll-Bradd

Tired of the limited chances to meet eligible men, governess Gianna Rafaello turns to a matchmaker for help. After reviewing the profiles of three men, Gianna starts a correspondence with a businessman, Blake Wymer, in Pueblo, Colorado. Within a few weeks, she recognizes their life goals are aligned and accepts his request to travel to meet in person. Gianna has always wanted to live in a small town, and everything seems rosy…until she meets his disapproving mother.

As the oldest Wymer sibling, Blake inherited the family’s furniture store upon his father’s death three years earlier. Thinking he was letting her work out her grief, he allowed his mother, Elfrida, to continue making the company decisions. But he and his brother, Axton, want to modernize, and Mother resists. She is also dead-set on Blake being married by year’s end and invites single women to supper. Without revealing his plans, Blake is smitten with a woman he’s been corresponding with and has invited her to town.

Gianna arrives, and the two feel destined to be together. As expected, Elfrida is livid. Can Blake stand up to his mother for the first time in his life to save this budding love?

Release date: April 30, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRN1NLNC

 


 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:

 

May Pre-orders:

 

Lucy: Prairie Roses Collection - Book 46

By Zina Abbott

     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 6, 2024

(new link coming soon)

 

Enid's Exit: Westward Home and Hearts Book 43

By Marisa Masterson

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/dp/B0CY5QGH649     

 

Annabelle's Wedding Dilemma: The Matchmaker and the Mother-in-law

By Kimberly Grist

The Matchmaker and the Mother-in-Law Series:

Love blossoms for 16 beautiful brides and their charming grooms in this frontier romance series. Each bride must navigate the challenges of being matched with a groom-to-be in the Old west, but a formidable adversary is setting hurdles for each of them to overcome—a mother-in-law. Every book in this series is a standalone, sweet, clean, wholesome romance with surprises, difficulties, and a meddling mother who tests their commitment. Will love truly conquer all? Read every story to find out!

Release date: May 28. 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR8NTH3M

 

A Cowboy for Christmas (Confederate Widows, Spinsters, and Proxy Brides Book 1)

By P. Creeden

A Cowboy for Christmas (Confederate Widows, Spinsters, and Proxy Brides Book 1)

Southern grace meets Western grit, and love becomes the greatest gift of all.

Indiviual description to come…

Release date: May 29, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ1M8BR1

 

June Pre-orders:

 

Martha's Second Chance (Rejected Mail-Order Brides Book 10)

By Marisa Masterson

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

By P. Creeden

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 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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