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Here is what we published in April!
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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)
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
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
