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Escalope
by Emma: Old
Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 31
By Linda Carroll-Bradd
Schoolteacher Emma Forsyth faces
challenges in her fifth year of teaching in Astoria, Oregon. A few disruptive
students create an unbalanced classroom—a situation she dislikes. Knowing not
all students learn by reading and writing, she devises hands-on activities and
out of the schoolhouse experiences to engage them. Since her best friend,
Berdina, married into the Stefanssen family, Emma has been included in family
events. Maybe she’ll ask Torger—Berdina’s brother-in-law—to take her students
out on his boat to learn about ocean life. Surely, for a day’s outing, she can
keep her infatuation—a foolish whimsy because teachers can’t court—hidden from
the confident man who looks completely ease on the deck of his boat.
Boat captain Torger Stefannssen is
still learning the ins-and-outs of helming the second boat in his family’s
fishing business. He believes a man should be in a good financial position
before he asks to court the woman who has caught his eye. Last year, his family
embraced the schoolteacher, so he’s conflicted about his tender feelings for
this woman his brothers treat like another sister. So far, he’s kept his
distance while being aware of her presence when she’s near. But when presented
with her request for his help, he cannot say no to this lively, generous woman.
Will that one change to his plan snowball into so much more?
Release
date: Sesptember 24, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFZH98LF
P.
Creeden
Honorable
Husband Series.
Even independent women can need a helping hand now and then. More than muscles
and rugged good looks, this bride needs a blacksmith and only the honorable
need apply...but is that what they'll get?
Mail-Order Blacksmith
With the passing of her father in the war, Sadie Cahill finds herself running
the town’s livery on her own. A falling out with her blacksmith leaves her in
desperate need. But is she desperate enough to marry one?
Release
date: October 10, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ2K4DC4
By
Marisa Masterson
Return to Fox Creek with
this latest addition to the Uncertain Sweethearts series!
He
followed a hunch and found a woman worth loving. Too bad she had walked on the
wrong side of the law one time too many.
Lily Calhoun loved two things in
this world—her son and her café. She had a chance at a fresh start, a clean
slate with a new name. Lillian Perkins was gone.
She had loved poorly and lost. She
would not risk her heart again. Or so she thought. Then he came to town.
Travis Strickland had a tough time
believing what his eyes told him. The beautiful café owner was Dirk Perkins’
widow. He could not credit this innocent-appearing woman as being someone who
had traveled with a murderous gang of thieves.
No matter what his mind argued,
Travis knew the truth. Lily was the woman who had disappeared with a trunk
filled with stolen gold. All too soon, he expected Perkins’ brother would find
her and reclaim the gold.
When Perkins appeared, he would be
in Fox Creek to arrest him. He was a duly sworn United States marshal. Somehow,
he would clear Lilly of any charges and pin the blame on the gang’s leader.
What begins as a job for Travis
quickly heats up into attraction and love. Can he save Lily and her son from
the monster who is hot on her trail? Will her mistake as a fifteen-year-old
shatter Lily’s chance at lasting love?
Release
date: October 15, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6RSTPD3
Lemon
Cookies by Lisbeth: Old Timey Holiday
Kitchen Book 32
By Zina Abbott
Much to Elizabeth Jewell’s disappointment,
she failed to capture Arnie’s affections. All along, his heart had belonged to
her sister. The lemon cookies she prepared for Christmas dessert had been a
flop. At least his cousin, Roy, had appreciated the trick she played. In spite
of everyone else angry at her for trying to make her sister look bad in an
attempt to get her way, thanks to Roy, she survived the Christmas debacle.
Following Roy’s suggestion, she
starts a business making and selling hand pies. First, though, she chooses to
shed her reputation of “Little Betsy,” the immature younger Jewell daughter.
She informs all that from now on, she is to be addressed as Lisbeth. Determined
to become a businesswoman instead of a flighty female focused only on fashion
and gossip, she soon finds herself enjoying greater respect and self-esteem.
However, she often wonders—will she ever find a man who will love her?
As the holidays approach, Lisbeth
wonders if Roy, still working on a railroad crew, will be able to get off work
long enough to join his family and hers for Christmas dinner. Hoping she will
see him again, she plans to once more make her lemon cookies. After all, in
exchange for him helping her out of the trouble she brought on herself the
previous year, she promised that this year she would make a whole batch just
for him.
Mrs.
Pettigrew's Christmas Match (Holiday Matchmaking
Book 1)
By Kit Morgan
A young woman down on
her luck
A rich young man
And one eccentric matchmaker
After the famous Mrs. Pettigrew's first
husband, Xavier, passed, the matchmaker found little interest in matchmaking.
That is until she hires Chastity Eastwick as her new maid, and thinks her
neighbor Dalton Simpson the perfect match for her! Toss in a rival for Dalton's
affections and Mrs. Pettigrew's own odd eccentricities, and the hilarity
begins! Especially when Mrs. Pettigrew fails to mention to Dalton that Chastity
is a maid at all. He thinks she's a house guest!
Enjoy this sweet historical western
full of fun and laughter!
Release
date: October 16, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK7T12HY
By
Linda Carroll-Bradd
Logging camp owner Gunnar Hallbjorn has
spent the last two years focused on ensuring the business he inherited from his
uncle continues succeeding. A recent visit from a newlywed cousin demonstrates
how much a wife would add to his bachelor life. He imagines how coming home to
a hot meal and pleasant conversation will be better than eating in the camp’s
dining hall with two dozen bachelors. As he writes his ad for the matrimonial
newspaper, he envisions a demure Scandinavian girl like he remembers from back
home.
Baker Blasa Eberhard struggles to
keep a roof over her and her younger brother’s head due to their father’s
gambling habit. Faced with an ultimatum from her father to either marry his
business associate or someone else because he can only afford to support his
son and himself, she enters into a correspondence to become a mail-order bride.
Bank agents arrive to take possession of the house, because mortgage is in
default. Blasa has no choice but to pawn her mother’s jewelry to buy train
tickets to Colorado. How will Mister Hallbjorn react when she shows up on his
doorstep? Will he still want to marry when she has her brother in tow?
Release
Date: October 31, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D34TW77L
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November Pre-orders:
Custard
Pumpkin by Claire: Old Timey Holiday
Kitchen Book 34
By
Marisa Masterson Their
joint cause allows them to drift apart. Can a mystery create a bond of love
between them?
For Claire's small German village,
it is a black summer. Typhoid hits the townspeople and surrounding farms with a
vengeance. With Claire's parents dead, she struggles to know how she will
survive.
When a call for volunteers goes through her part of Germany—a chance to settle
in Michigan and Christianize the local tribe—she seizes the opportunity. She
hopes to forge a new future--one filled with possibility rather than
starvation.
As a single woman, she must travel
as the unpaid servant to the only other couple going from her village, the
young preacher Hans Mueller and his wife. Unfortunately, Claire's prospects
change radically when the man's wife perishes in the epidemic. The reverend
offers marriage as a way for Claire to travel with him. Reluctant but
determined, she agrees.
She and her husband arrive in a new land carrying their old grief. Hans has not
left behind his grief for the wife he so recently lost. He throws himself into
the work of building the settlement for their community. Claire is at a loss on
how to be a wife to a man who does not want one. Instead, she spends her time
with women from the Chippewa tribe.
Mischief and then outright vandalism threatens the settlement. Are the
Chippewa—the people Claire views as friends—responsible? What can stop the
sudden surge of hate that springs up in the missionary community founded to
spread the love of Christ?
Finally, Claire and Hans are united in a way not even marriage had brought
about. They are determined to discover who wants to drive away the German
immigrants, but at what cost? Perhaps one or both of their lives.
Discover
how custard pumpkin plays a role in not only bringing peace and forging a bond
between the Chippewa and the settlement but also winning the heart of Claire’s
groom. Sink into a comfy spot and enjoy this sweet historical romance today.
Release date: November 5, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCT43RHY
Ivy:
Christmas Quilt Brides Book 18
By
Jo-Ann Roberts
Years ago, Lily Sutton was drawn to the
new orphan boy in town. Unfortunately, she soon became the unfortunate victim
of Grady Walsh’s mischievous deeds in school.
Lily is back home in Harmony, Kansas
for good but is she willing and able to forgive the boy who made her childhood
unbearable?
Grady Walsh lost his heart to the
sweet girl the day she gave him a quilt. Can this boy-turned-man make up for
the reckless actions of his youth?
Or will another steal her away
before they have a chance to discover a kind of love that might just heal the
pain from the past?
Release
date: November 8, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG4LTGGC
A Christmas
Dream: A Wholesome Holiday Romance (Hudson House
Holiday Book 1)
By
Shanna Hatfield
He came to
build the house of his dreams, but found a home for his heart.
After an extensive search for the ideal
location to build a house he’s spent years designing, Brant Hudson knows he’s
found the perfect site the moment he sets foot on the land near Silver Bluff,
Oregon. However, frustrating delays leave him laboring alongside the very crew
he hired to finish the house in time for Christmas. His work leads the woman
who catches his eye to believe he’s a carpenter rather than the owner of the
grand manor.
Holland Drake grew up on a farm, but she
aspires to secure a position as a housemaid at Hudson House. While delivering
lunch to her brother at the worksite, the door opens to a job when Holland
encounters a strikingly handsome carpenter whose charm captivates her. Soon,
Holland discovers the enchanting man is none other than the owner of the house
and her new employer.
As the holiday season arrives amid a
flurry of excitement and possibilities, Holland and Brant face choices that
could change their lives forever. Will fear hold them back from stepping into
the future together, or will their Christmas dreams of love come true?
A
Christmas Dream
is the first book in the Hudson House Holiday series of wholesome, heartwarming
Christmas romances full of the joy of the season.
Release
date: November 14, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLBTDWGN
Phoebe
: Christmas Quilt Brides Book 19
By
Zina Abbott
After Phoebe Wilton’s days as a student at
the Calloway Girls’ Academy in New Ponca, Oklahoma Territory, ended, she knew
she would not be welcomed home to live with her parents. In recent years, they
kept their social and travel calendar busy to the point that they only managed
to bring her home one month of the year. Undecided about whether or not she
wishes to attend a co-educational college or a normal school to train as a
teacher, she accepts the position of teaching assistant at the academy. At
least for the present, she continues to live and work with people who
appreciate her contributions and with whom she has developed deep friendships.
Increasingly, Phoebe wonders about
her future. One thing she refuses to allow is for her parents to foist her off
on a son of one of families in their social set in order advance her father’s
business interests and her mother’s social standing. Is she destined to live
out her life as a spinster schoolteacher? Or, can she someday hope for love and
marriage with a man of her choosing?
Release
date: November 15, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG31SDXD
By
Linda Carroll-Bradd
Dunn
MacDoughall faces a dilemma more ornery than a stubborn bull. To meet the
stipulations of his granddad’s will and receive the deed to his
three-thousand-acre Montana ranch, he has to marry by his twenty-eighth
birthday. With only four months until the deadline, he resorts to using the
services of a matchmaker. He’s desperate enough to put no restrictions on the
woman’s background and agrees to a proxy marriage—as long as she arrives before
fall roundup.
Ex-cotton heiress, Angelina Beauregard can barely rub two nickels together as a
seamstress in post-war Bossier Parish, Louisiana. The war stole her father,
brothers, and fiancé, but Angelina is determined its aftermath won’t steal her
future. She seeks a proxy marriage with a man far away from her Southern
homeland so she can finally get rid of memories that haunt her. But when she
arrives and discovers her groom is a Yankee, is Angelina’s heart big enough to
accept their fundamental differences?
Release
Date: November 20, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D1DYHV3B
By
Zina Abbott
Analia Cantrill and what remained of her
family fled the South as the Yankees approached South Carolina. They took
refuge with her aunt’s family in Baltimore. Following her mother’s death, circumstances
all but force Analia out. With nothing left to draw her back to the South, she
decides to seek a husband in the West—hopefully one who will leave the
difficulties of the War Between the States in the past and accept her situation.
Jeffrey Holden struggles to overcome his
hatred for the Southern rebels responsible for the death of his older brother.
After corresponding with several women, some stopped writing after he admitted a
war injury now required him to walk with a cane. Others he rejected because
they were from the South. He decided upon Miss Cantrill from Baltimore. Even
though Maryland still allowed slavery during the war years, it stayed with the
Union. The woman’s uncle rose to the rank of captain in the Union Army. Surely,
she was an acceptable choice.
Analia feels a sense of unease when, in the same letter with her fare to join
him, Jeffrey expresses his happiness over finding a nice Northern bride. She
suspects, once he hears her speak and discovers who she brings with her, he
will be in for a big surprise.
Release
Date: November 27, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D1LVNY3L
December Pre-orders:
A Pony for
Christmas: Western Christmas Magic
by
P. Creeden
Will
hope, love, and peace make its way to the western frontier this year and help
someone in desperate need of the spirit of Christmas?
Little
Susan Price has never spoken a word. Her father, Wayne Price, has never quite
understood how to bring his child out of her shell, but has fully accepted her
as she is. But at five years old, he’s worried how other children will respond
to little Susie’s silence. Christmas is coming, and he really doesn’t even know
what he might get her for a gift. Through it all, his stalwart mother has plans
to help both his son and granddaughter. Perhaps finding a wife and mother might
be the cure to all their ills.
Eleanor
Hunter’s father runs the livery in Golden, Colorado and she’s always been one
of his hardest workers. When a black pony comes to town with a man who is ready
to shoot it, she stops him and buys the pony for a dollar. Now her father wants
to know what she’s going to do with the feral thing. But the more time she
spends with the pony, the more she realizes that he just needs confidence,
love, and trust. And she’s happy to give him both. If only it were so easy to
get the man who she’s been in love with for five years to trust her as well.
But then his mother steps in.
Release
date: December 1, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFVP33DN
Minda:
Christmas Quilt Brides Book 22
By
Linda Carroll-Bradd
Philadelphia socialite Minda Gayle
Harleigh is still in hiding. Wishing to avoid the social shame of being jilted
at the altar like her cousin, she embraces a leap year tradition so she can be
the one asking. At the summer gala for the Penn Sailing Club Regatta,
surrounded by family and friends, she proposes marriage to her beau. Ernst Heinrich
III refuses, telling her she has stripped him of his dignity. Now she’s
scouring matrimonial newspapers to find someone out West who knows nothing of
her background and her inappropriate boldness.
Montana farmer Kunz Lambrecht has
barely won back his standing in the Butte City German community after rejecting
a mail-order bride almost three years earlier. No one accepted his rationale
that someone with hearing loss could be in danger on a farm. Again, he places
an ad in Brides by Mail and is amazed to connect with an Eastern woman who is
visiting his town the following month.
But when the two meet, will they
hide behind their past mistakes, or will they see their correspondence
connection for the real possibility it presents?
Release
date: December 13, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DG6H5486
Trifle by
Tilde: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen: Book 36
By
P. Creeden
Tilde Visser has only one dream for
Christmas, to live in a house again and bake a Trifle for her mother. Until
now, her family has been living with other Dutch in tent communities. But when
there’s a robbery in their small town and one of the Dutch are blamed, the
whole community lands in an uproar. Then Samuel, the kind baker who has been
helping the Dutch, gets involved in the trouble as well.
Tilde must find a way to clear
Samuel’s name before there’s a territory dispute, and help everyone find peace
before Christmas. But she might just find love as well…
Release
date: December 17, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHV6YL9K
Mack:
Christmas Quilt Bride Book 23
By
Angela Raines
Colin "Mack" McCullough was in
the wrong place at the wrong time and at age 14 was sent to prison. Now, eight
years later, out of prison, he is offered a shot at redemption: by escorting
Myra Aldridge safely to Denver, a high-stakes job that could help him rebuild
his life. But the question lingers—was he hired because of his past, or despite
it? Either way, danger was bound to follow.
It wasn’t that Myra Aldridge hated
traveling—it was that her father made all the decisions without asking her. At
almost eighteen she felt old enough to make her own choices, and the last thing
she needed was some hired escort watching her every move and telling her what
to do.
Release
date: December 20, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKYB6YVL
A Recluse for Christmas : Confederate Widows,
Spinsters, and Proxy Brides
By
Kimberly Grist
Join
these Southern Belles on a Christmas journey to bridge the North and the South.
Pasts fade and futures ignite amidst prairie snowflakes under western skies.
Before each love story can unfold, the bride and groom are wed by proxy—having
never met. Wounded souls find redemption in the bitter winter winds, and love’s
embrace is the gift that warms their hearts. Find tales of hope, healing, and
holiday joy as these Southern Belles, left alone by the war’s harsh realities,
navigate cultural differences to forge new lives wed to their western, Yankee
grooms. Will every heart discover the true spirit of Christmas and defy
expectations? Fall in love right along with every star-crossed couple when you
immerse yourself in each of these sweet holiday romances today!
Release
date: December 23, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZK49D8B
