Wow! What a busy month!
Our authors have worked hard to bring you your next favorite stories. Here is what we published in April!
Treise: Rescue Me - (Mail Order Brides) book 14
Printer’s assistant Treise O’Hara works with her father who
runs a small-circulation newspaper but wishes she could be a reporter
investigating stories. Father publishes a controversial op-ed about an
unscrupulous business owner in Philadelphia. The newspaper office is invaded, and
equipment is broken. Father is beaten and carted away. Hiding in a storage
cupboard, Treise witnesses the attack and recognizes the thugs and who their
boss is. She overhears their intention to bury him so she’s forced to go into
hiding and stays in her cousin, Eveleen’s, room where she works as a maid. The
women make a plan to answer ads for mail-order brides in the small city. Treise
is counting on disappearing behind a new last name.
Sheriff Paxon Waldemarr works hard to keep the lawless element in Laramie,
Wyoming Territory, under control. His brother and sis-in-law were killed in a
robbery, leaving a five-year-old daughter in Paxon’s care. He runs an ad for a
mail-order bride, hoping for someone to care for his niece and maintain a
household. His work life is hectic, and he wants calm at home. What he doesn’t
expect is a determined suffragette intent on securing the vote for women in the
new government. If her actions reflect on his career, how will their marriage
survive?
Released April 3, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLT7PG7K
Luella: Rescue Me - (Mail Order Brides) Book 15
By P. Creeden
What has possessed Luella to ever consider being a mail-order bride?
In order to escape the abusive life she has in North Carolina, Luella Carter decides to answer an advertisement for a mail-order bride. The gentleman who placed the ad claims to only want companionship and help around the house, and does not need love, children, or other wifely duties. This seems to suit Luella just fine, but when she arrives, she wonders if this was all a big mistake.
Cyrus Brady is the town's undertaker, and as such, he knows what it means to be an outcast. But his lonely life of solitude is horribly interrupted by his sister who takes it upon herself to advertise for a mail-order bride back east for him. Now a young woman has arrived, ready to become his bride, and Cyrus doesn't know if he's ready to become a husband.
Released
April 10, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BMGV9CYF
Love on Target: Sweet Western Romance (Pink Pistol Sisterhood Series Book 2)
Will romance hit its mark when true love is the target?
Desperate for a fresh start, Rena Burke journeys from Texas
to Oregon with only her father’s pistol and a plodding old mule for company.
She takes a job working with explosives at a mine, spends her free time
emulating her hero Annie Oakley, and secretly longs to be loved.
Saddlemaker Josh Gatlin has one purpose in life and that is his daughter. Gabi
is his joy and the sunshine in his days. Then he meets a trouser-wearing woman
living life on her own terms. Rena is nothing like his perception of what he
wants in a wife and mother for his child, but she might just prove to be
everything he needs.
When tragedy strikes, will the two of them be able to release past wounds and
embrace the possibilities tomorrow may bring? Find out in this sweet historical
romance full of hope, humor, and love.
Released April 10, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWPL69LN
Phoebe (Romancing the Weavers, Book 19): Sweet Western Romance
A
brave young woman
Two handsome men
And another harvest on the Weaver Farm!
Phoebe Weaver came to the Weaver farm Phoebe Manning when she was twelve. She
was mute, scared, and broken after almost losing her life in the fire that took
her parents. Now, six years later all that she thought she lost, she had back.
A loving family, a wonderful life on the Weaver farm, and now that she just
turned eighteen, she could think about marriage. And wouldn't you know, there
was now a boy next door. Ambrose Fletcher, whom her parents thought was the right
choice for her. But her heart had other ideas.
Taylor Wyndham had been Phoebe Weavers distant neighbor ever since she and her
sister Selena came to the Weaver farm. He'd always had a soft spot for Phoebe,
and they had become good friends. But when he left suddenly without so much as
a goodbye, and came back a year later, how much of that friendship remained?
He'd changed in the time he was away, and so had Phoebe. She was a young woman
now. Could he fight the growing attraction he had for her, or do the right
thing and let the new neighbor seek more than friendship with her? After all,
Taylor didn't plan on sticking around and everyone on the farm knew it.
Released April 14, 2023
Clara: Prairie Roses Collection - Book 25
By Zina Abbott
They
might be young, but they know what is in their hearts.
After the death of both parents along the Oregon Trail, Clara Alderman, just shy of turning fifteen, and the oldest of four siblings, finds herself the head of her family. Fortunately, her older friend and mentor, Pearl, follows a prayer prompting to return to the wagon train. Arriving in time to witness her father’s death, Pearl insists on becoming the Alderman children’s guardian. Michael Stanwyck, the freighter and tradesman, who follows Pearl back to the train, overcomes the wagon master’s reluctance to write a guardianship document when he volunteers to marry Pearl and share the responsibility. Michael’s employee, Will Clayton, volunteers to marry Clara, but the Stanwycks refuse, citing Clara’s youth. Clara felt an attraction to Will from the first moment she met him, but could she expect a good future married to a young man whose goal it is to make his fortune in the California gold fields?
To escape the grinding poverty of their Kentucky home, Will Clayton and his best friend, Jeremy, accept jobs as bullwhackers for Mr. Stanwyck’s three freight wagons, which provided a means to travel to California where they plan to make their fortunes mining for gold. Will soon realizes there is something he might want more—a future with Clara. However, between her guardian’s refusal to allow then to court until she is sixteen and having nothing to offer, he decides to stick with his original plan. Is there a fortune waiting in California? Is his future in the gold fields or back in the Eagle Valley, where the Stanwycks and Alderman children circled their wagons for the last time?
Released April 23, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNRKZ7B
Abilene: Rescue Me - (Mail Order Brides) Book 17
A marriage made in Heaven, a hard-hearted Sheriff and a
bootlegger's daughter go together like moonshine and bad decisions. Will she
find a way to penetrate the barriers of his heart?
Daughter of a bootlegger and hopeless romantic, Abilene is on the run and
looking for her happily ever after – including an understanding husband, a
house in the country, and tranquility. Sheriff Mark Joseph needs a practical
wife who understands that chaos is part of his job and tenderness, love, and
affection amount to sentimental hogwash. Will she find a way to penetrate the
barriers of his heart?
Released April 24, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLZ9J2Z4
Winning the Widow's Heart (Mended Hearts)
She was branded as a traitor to
the Union.
He was her sworn enemy.
A marriage of convenience would be perilous…wouldn’t
it?
In the summer of 1864 in Roswell, Georgia, war widow Sofie Bishop struggles to
manage the small family vineyard on her own. The War Between the States took
her husband and her way of life. Now, with the taxes due, she’s about to lose
her home. Her only option? Finding work at the Ivy Woolen Mill.
Her woes only continue to worsen when the Yankees arrive on Roswell’s doorstep
and destroy the mill. Branded as a “traitor” for making fabric for Confederate
uniforms, she is arrested and transported north with the women and children who
worked in the mill.
Captain Seth Ramsey, a dashing, surprisingly courteous officer and a gentleman,
is not what Sofie expects from a Union soldier. Despite her misgivings of
falling for the enemy, she finds herself drawn to the handsome officer.
She didn’t think she could lose much more to the Yankees.
But she was wrong.
Released April 25, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BKH9K4DP
Bullet Proof Bride: Sweet Western Romance (Pink Pistol Sisterhood Series Book 4)
Goldie Colson has lost everything, including her parents in a bank
robbery. So, she does what any other woman would do in her predicament. She
becomes a mail-order bride. Unfortunately, before she can tie the knot, she
loses her betrothed and his father to train robbers! Now she’s stuck in
Nowhere, Washington with nothing but the two mens' meager belongings, including
a pistol she found in her future father in-law's satchel. Considering she shot
one of the train robbers, it might come in handy if she ever ran into him
again.
Rhys Miller couldn’t complain about his life. He was best friends with some of
the Weavers of the famous Weaver Farm, and enjoyed working at the town’s only
bank, even if it was a little dull. Then she came
to town and Rhys didn’t know if he was coming or going. Goldie Colson was scared
and rightly so. Strangers were asking after her at the Weaver Farm, and after
hearing about what happened to her with a bunch of train robbers, a few of them
might want her dead. But Rhys isn’t sure which is worse, guarding Goldie from
danger or guarding his heart from her.
Released April 30, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWX33PM9
Tilda: Prairie Roses Collection Book 31
Following her parents’ death, Tilda Torsdotter turns to her
cousin, Rakel, for help and joins her family’s preparations to head to
California. Tilda’s job will be to assist pregnant Rakel with her two children
under age five and receive the protection of Rakel’s husband, Albert. Then
Rakel sickens and dies, and Albert looks to Tilda to fulfill her cousin’s
duties--all of them.
Flynn Mannix has his eye set on reaching the gold fields of California. An
easy-going guy, he’s always made his way doing one task or another but now he
wants to make something of himself. Hiring on as a driver on a wagon train
seems like the easiest way to reach the west coast. Until he witnesses an
inappropriate encounter and steps in. Suddenly, he’s committed to a marriage of
convenience with Tilda and responsible for her safety until they reach
California. At the end of the trail, will the couple go their separate ways, or
will they realize the experience has made their marriage real?
Released April 30, 2023
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:
Pre-orders for May:
Sabrina: Rescue Me - (Mail Order Brides) Book 19
Will he help her even though she has red hair?
Sabrina Duncan thought the only benefit of being forced out of the orphanage in order to become a mail-order bride was that she was going to go to something better. The fact that “Sneaky” Snider, the director, made arrangements with the man who sent for Sabrina to allow her younger sister, Cecelia, to also come so the sisters would not be separated, sweetened the deal. What was the catch? Sabrina figured it out when she discovered what sort of “wife” her prospective groom had in mind. She knew she and Cecilia must escape.
Hugh Norton could use a housekeeper and someone to cook for his ranch hands. However, after being burned years before by a mail-order bride situation gone bad, he has no desire for a wife. He particularly does not like redheaded women. However, when one vocal redhead, with her sister in tow, bumps into him—literally—it soon becomes apparent the two need rescuing. As long as the feisty redhead’s claim she can cook is true, and she stays out of his way, he’ll give her a chance. After all, he cannot pass up thwarting the plans of a man he has grown to detest.
Release day May 8, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLRGNXL5
Wagon Train Willa (The Confederate Gold Widows Book 2)
“I’m only the nanny!"
Willa Winston shouted the words to the wind. No
one heard her. After all, the wagon train was behind her where she should be.
It was where she would be if the little devils hadn’t disappeared in this
direction.
Tall prairie grass tugged at her skirt. The only
good thing about it was the trail going through the overlong stuff. She easily
followed the rascals.
Willa was only the nanny. How did she end up on the
Oregon Trail with her young charges?
Cade Chester enjoys his life as a scout for a wagon train. Little does he
suspect that any woman could change his desire for adventure.Willa Winston is
more than merely a woman needing help. She is the one person he cannot let walk
out of his life.
When Willa is forced to pick a husband on the trail, she asks Cade to marry her. Only, she wants to be able to walk away at the end of the journey. That is, until danger comes after her.
Release day May 23, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C29QFX7Z
Pre-order June
Eveleen: Rescue Me - (Mail Order Brides) book 24
Eveleen Murphy works as a maid in the house of a
Philadelphia lawyer. Amiable and fun-loving, she is a favorite in the
household. But when her employer’s younger brother moves in, she is confronted
at every turn by his unwanted romantic advances. When her cousin is in danger,
she takes in Treise. The women make a plan to answer ads for mail-order brides
in the small city. But when jewelry goes missing and Eveleen is blamed, she has
to go on the run. With only one letter from a potential husband in hand,
Eveleen sets out for Wyoming Territory.
Dairy farmer Bjorn Crosby has been content to work the family dairy farm with
his younger brother. Days after his brother marries and moves to his wife’s
farm, Bjorn places an ad for a mail-order bride, hoping for an experienced farm
woman. The first woman to reply is from the city, and he doubts the wisdom of
his communication. When he’d faced with the woman’s arrival at his farm, he has
to decide to move her into his home or fund her ticket home. With such a
tenuous start, what hope does this relationship have?
Release day June 12, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLTBF1Q2
Davis's Debt: Hers to Redeem Book 13
Her brother saved Davis during the war. Now Josephine
becomes his way of paying back the debt.
But marriage! Can anything good come when the man is forced by honor to marry her?
Release day June 20, 2023
