Look what we published in December!
By
Marisa Masterson
How had
she lost her way?
Gracie Williams only wants a private
moment away from the other stagecoach passengers. Somehow, she wanders into the
wilderness, and the forest refuses to allow her to leave—or so it seems to her
as branches close in as she tries to push through them. She is completely lost
until she hears a noise.
Ezra Rafferty—Rafe to the few
friends he allowed into his life—hums as he returns to his cabin. The hunt was
successful, and he anticipates the warm fireplace in his cabin as heavy snow
begins to fall. Yes, he savors the quiet life. Being alone suited him fine,
especially after the incident.
But he does not remain alone. A
wild-eyed woman bursts onto his trail. She clutches his coat and begs for help.
What’s a man to do? He takes her to his home for shelter during the storm.
He does not plan to keep her. Plans
have a way of changing…
Rafe has
set in motion the events that will unwind a scheme and bring to light secrets
that reverberate all the way to the East. All because a woman wanders off the
trail.
Release date: December 2, 2025
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FL12C122
Ruby's Christmas Escape: Mountain Man's Substitute Bride
By
Kimberly Grist
When disappointed hopes collide – Will a resilient mail-order bride muster enough resolve to pursue her dreams of love and soften a reclusive mountain man's heart?
Abandoned as a child and raised in a children’s
home, Ruby knows that romantic dreams are mere illusions. After aging out of
the orphanage , she follows her pastor's advice and applies to a matchmaking
agency. While practical in her approach, deep in her heart lies a flicker of
hope, a dream of her own happily ever after, where she longs for a place to
belong and a husband to cherish. As circumstances would have it, her future
groom is also short on time. Praying that is a good sign, she accepts a
proposal of marriage and heads west to a land where the streams are said to
flow with milk and the heavens rain down a supply of honey.
Disheartened by love and rejected by
his mail-order bride, Jonas Vann, a former army scout, is determined to protect
his heart and keep the world at bay. Fortunately for him, knowing he needs help
caring for his family, his friends and neighbors intercede on his behalf. As
winter approaches, they take matters into their own hands, accepting a
substitute mail-order bride on his behalf.
The unyielding force of destiny is
as strong as the power of attraction. Will an arranged marriage, a ready-made
family, and the spirit of Christmas be the catalyst to fulfill all their
dreams, or will their newfound love collapse under the weight of the challenges
ahead?
Release date: December 3, 2025
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4DY169F
The Brides of Fiddler's Gap Box Collection 2 Books 8-14
Welcome to Fiddler’s Gap, Oregon, a small western town where music fills the air, neighbors meddle with love, and mail-order brides arrive with secrets, surprises, and hearts full of hope.
This sweet historical western romance collection brings together seven heartwarming love stories, each featuring a spirited heroine brave enough to start over and a steadfast hero ready to meet her halfway. From society ladies forced west by shocking wills, to rescued heroines in need of protection, to musicians, writers, and women hiding more than one carefully kept secret, every bride arrives in Fiddler’s Gap carrying a past she must face—and a future she never expected.
The men of Fiddler’s Gap are tailors, farmers, doctors, musicians, and quiet heroes who believe in patience, honor, and love that grows deeper with time. Some marriages begin as necessity, some as daring schemes, and others as elaborate ruses—but all must weather misunderstandings, outside threats, and the opinions of a very curious town before true love can take root.
Filled with gentle humor, found family, musical mischief, and tender romance, this collection invites you to settle in and fall in love—one bride at a time—in the unforgettable town of Fiddler’s Gap.
This
box set includes seven books:
Miss Lystra, Miss Verity, Miss Philly, Miss
Clementine, Miss Ione, Miss Isolde, and Miss
Amity.
Release date: December 15, 2025
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6LBCKGL
Stollen by Stella: Old Timey Holiday Kitchen Book 42
Stella Jorgenson struggles to enjoy the
holiday now her father’s new job as a railroad yardmaster meant moving away
from extended family and friends. Hopefully, baking her late mother’s
traditional stollen will inspire the spirit of Christmas. She and her father
are invited to join his boss and his family for the holiday dinner. Will the
son with an out-of-town job who has captured her interest be able to join them?
After being forced out of the job
he loved in the Kansas City UPRR freight yard, Thomas Jewell moves to his parents’
home high in the Rocky Mountains. His suspicion that something was not right in
Kansas City was confirmed when, during his Pueblo, Colorado, transfer he sees
one of the men who sacked him talking with a freight handler. Thomas’s father,
stationmaster for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway station in Cleora, asks
Thomas to work in his freight yard. However, once he hears Thomas’s story, the
new yardmaster knows Thomas will be more valuable to the railway company if he
works in Pueblo. After weeks of investigating and collecting evidence, Thomas
feels like he closing in on the culprits stealing silver from the railroad and
its customers. But how will he spend Christmas? Will he be trailing stolen
cargo or will he arrive home to join family and the yardmaster’s daughter who
has caught his eye?
You might also enjoy my other two
Old Timey Holiday Kitchen books about the Jewell family:
Vinegar Pie by Varinia, Book 25
Lemon Cookies by Lisbeth, Book 32
Release date: December 19, 2025
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G8V8526S
The Sister's Mail-Order Bride Company's Christmas Calamity
A woman
running out of hope…
A rancher looking for a wife…
And three chaotic sisters and a sheepdog!
On the verge of being destitute, Phoebe
Hale enlists the help of the Sisters’ Mail-Order Bride Company to find her a
husband. What she finds instead is disorder, paperwork stacked to the ceiling,
and three well-meaning sisters who could desperately use a woman with Phoebe’s
practical skills.
Braxton Jones arrives with a similar purpose. Ready for a wife, he turns to the
same company, only to discover that before any marriages can happen, the
business itself may need saving. Practical, steady, and unwilling to walk away
from a problem left unsolved, Braxton offers his help.
Neither Phoebe nor Braxton came looking for love in Chicago. They came for
solutions. But as Christmas approaches and the Merriweather sisters press them
into service, shared work turns into shared laughter, and cooperation begins to
look dangerously like courtship. With the future of the Sisters’ Mail-Order
Bride Company at stake, and their own hearts unexpectedly involved, Phoebe and
Braxton must decide whether the greatest Christmas miracle might be the one
they never planned for.
Because sometimes love arrives not
through careful arrangement… but through a little Christmas calamity.
Release date: December 19, 2025
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Not
all of our authors make their books available on pre-order. For those
who do, those advance sales go a long way to help their book ratings.
Below are some future books.
Pinna Sequoia Bride: National Park Brides book 14
Training and caring for horses at her father’s side fills Pinna Walton’s summer at Sequoia National Park. But she yearns to be crafting her healing evergreen teas and syrups and fragrant soaps to help others in her small town in the valley. When she’s assigned a greenhorn to help her in the barn, she learns that city boys know nothing about anything useful in the California mountain wilderness. And he has to live down mocking her for wearing trousers.
Orphaned young and in a Chicago gang by age twelve, Dixon Lombard counted himself saved when he attempted to steal the wallet of a well-dressed man and was caught. That man recognized skills in this street-wise youth and schooled him in additional ones. Years later, Dixon is disillusioned with being a Pinkerton detective and the types of jobs he’s assigned. Being shot on an undercover sidelines him, and he is invited to spend the summer with his uncle at a national park. He figures he’ll get a lot of reading done. But Uncle Sprague expects him to earn his keep and assigns him to assist with chores in the barn.
Coming from totally different worlds, Pinna and Dixon struggle to communicate but she grudgingly teaches her boss’s nephew the essentials. On a foraging expedition, they run into some men living in a cave. Dixon recognizes a bank robbery gang from wanted posters of a five-year old crime. To keep Pinna safe, Dixon employs all his detective skills. Can he count on the independent woman to go along with his ruse? Will his skills be enough to save them?
This kisses-only historical romance features hidden identity, fish out of water, and opposite attract tropes.
Release date: January 16, 2026
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G9BGS7QK
February Releases:
The Rancher on a Pennsylvania Farm
Who really
inherited the farm?
Jack Poston believes he has found a
safe haven for his pregnant wife, Caroline, on a farm in Pennsylvania. But when
Caroline's stepmother refuses to leave, Jack begins to question if he truly
belongs on this unfamiliar land.
As mysterious accidents start to
occur, Jack must fight to protect his wife and uncover the truth behind the
dangers. Will he be able to keep his family safe and hold onto their new home,
or will they be forced to leave once again?
Set against the backdrop of the
quaint farms of Pennsylvania following the Civil War, "The Rancher on a
Pennsylvania Farm" is a gripping tale of love and survival. Note: While
this is a continuation of the story begun in The Bride on the Shawnee Trail, it
can be read as a standalone story.
Release date: February 10, 2026
https://www.amazon.com/Rancher-Pennsylvania-Farm-Marisa-Masterson-ebook/dp/B0FW53SC6L
March Releases:
No Finer Dream
“Your
journey doesn’t have to end in disappointment.”
Lila Hartley had waited for hours
on the frozen train platform, a mail-order bride no one came to claim, her
trunk beside her like a tombstone. The man who'd promised her marriage, a home,
and a future, left her stranded two thousand miles from Boston with nothing but
the clothes on her back and a heart full of shattered dreams.
Just when hope was fading, a man
cowboy emerged from the white curtain of snow like an apparition, took off his
coat, and changed her life.
Clay McCallister viewed every woman
who had taken a chance on the frontier as the sister he’d failed…a woman who’d
risked everything for the possibility of something better, much like the woman
standing on the platform in the bitter cold.
Sometimes warmth doesn’t always
come from fire — sometimes it comes from the heart.
Release date: March 6, 2026
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY12R2SX
Brady's Battle: Mountain Men - Echoes of Thunder
Where storms end, and thunder falls silent, could love find its beginning?
Haunted by battlefield memories and sleepless nights, former Union officer Brady Holt carries scars he can’t name or outrun. Now guardian to children who have already lost too much, he lives in a state of vigilance—cautious, alert, and convinced that peace ended the day his hope did.
He is silence, storms, and sharpened
edges.
She figures he’s more stubborn than a mule and not nearly as friendly.
A spirited bootlegger’s daughter from the South, schoolteacher Eden Murphy has nowhere left to run. With danger close on her heels, she heads west with only faith, grit, and a fragile hope for a new beginning.
She is warmth, wit, and wildflowers, with
a soft Southern drawl that stirs up memories he’s spent years trying to bury.
He’s confident she’s just another burr working its way under his saddle.
He wants solitude. She needs a fresh start. Could this unexpected connection calm the storms within and lead them to redemption?
Release date: March 31, 2026
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2NRSBZK
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