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Autumn Moon - Book 1 of the Liberty Series
It’s the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and in South Carolina. The British have made their selves at home in Sweetwater, a tiny little town between Charleston and Savannah. The citizens aren’t too thrilled with the red coats who patrol their town and give them orders as to what they can and cannot do…they know that shots were fired in Concord and Lexington against the King of England. If they’re not going to treat us like citizens of England, then the colonists weren’t going to follow the rules of England.
Hayden Livingston, Cooper Edwards, and Carter Montgomery take on the redcoats their own way. They mess with in little ways…letting their horses loose, setting their straw on fire, stopping their supply wagons, putting molasses in the soldiers’ boots…the British lieutenant colonel was incensed at all the pranks that were being served on his soldiers. He set rules and curfews on the citizens of Sweetwater. And then they started bothering the ladies of the town. Hayden, Cooper, and Carter stood up for them and saved several women from being raped. It got so bad they had to hide in the swamps from the British soldiers, so the women would be safe. Neely Hunter was a healer, and she came to know the three men. Marta…Meg…Lyssa also came to live in the swamp with them, so did their husbands. A new rule was set down by the British, if you didn’t fight with the redcoats, they would arrest you and put you in their prison. The citizens of Sweetwater didn’t want to fight against their friends and neighbors…what were they to do?
Hayden, Cooper, and Carter had to come up with a plan to keep the citizens safe and the British off their backs. They had to decide how they were going to fight against the British and keep their friends safe at the same time. They also had to learn how to balance falling in love in wartime and making a new life when their whole world was being destroyed by the British one step at a time.
Autumn Harvest - Book 2 of the Liberty Series
The Revolutionary War is finally over. Jack Hunter grew up during the war…he learned how to hunt, track, shoot, and to survive during the war. He had the best teachers in Hayden Livingston…his brother-in-law, and Chief Haiti, the leader of the Cherokee tribe living near them. The group of friends who had left Sweetwater when the British soldiers had been taking colonists and making them serve in the British Army during the war when they needed more soldiers, had crossed the Appalachian Mountains in order to get away from having to fight their own neighbors and friends. They had found their own little piece of heaven in a valley they called Liberty.
Jack grew up in Liberty and became a man. He loved his life, but one day while hunting game for the town, he came across a young girl who had been left for dead. She was unconscious from the beating she had received and raped. She was barely hanging on to life by a thread. Jack took her back to his sister to heal, and hope that she would live.
Delaney Kincaid was the name of the girl he found. The men who had left her for dead…arrived in Liberty a few weeks later to make their home. They didn’t know that she was still alive. When they discovered that she was still alive, they made plans to kill her again…they could leave no one alive to tell of their treachery. But they didn’t plan on Jack becoming a thorn in their sides protecting the girl time and time again.
Nor did they plan on Jack and Delaney becoming attracted to one another. This is something that the man who hired them will not allow. He would move heaven and earth to get rid of both of them. One way or another, they would die.
Autumn Love - Book 3 of the Liberty Series
The colony of Liberty had many young ladies that had visions of what their futures would be…they couldn’t wait to meet the men of their dreams, marry, and live happily ever after. But in the turbulent times of the 1780’s, nothing was ever guaranteed. Tish Shaw had to climb a tree and watch as Shawnee Indians attacked Liberty…killing her friends and even capturing several of her friends and taking them with them. Grace Livingston was one of those captured by the Shawnee Indians…her life would never be the same again. In one sweep, the Shawnee Indians killed Elizabeth O’Brian’s mother, sister, and her fiancé. She felt her life was over, and her life would never be the same!
Neely Livingston was a healer. Her daughters were in danger from the Shawnee, from mountain men, and from unscrupulous men who wanted them, too. She and her husband had to keep them safe while still helping those that came to her for help in making them well. She didn’t like losing any patient, but especially those in childbirth hurt Neely deeply.
Mia Dodge was pregnant with her first child. She was scared of giving birth and living through it. She had seen too many women die bearing their babies. She didn’t want that to happen to her. Her best friend, Anna Marie O’Brian, was also pregnant and due at the same time. They talked over their fears…they both wanted to be the ones to raise their babies when all was said and done.
Jeff O’Brian was hit with the loss of his wife of over twenty years, his daughter, and fiancé of his other daughter all in one swoosh with the Shawnee attack. He didn’t know if he would ever get over it, but he had to help his daughter, Elizabeth, pull her life together, even when he was mourning his own losses.
So many lives are being tested, and so much hope is resting on what each day brings…read what each of these women and men decide to do with their lives in the turbulent days after the American Revolution.
The Mountain Man - Book 1 of the Wilson Falls Series
Maxwell Jefferson lives alone on the Colorado mountain. He loves the solitude. He built his cabin against the cave behind him that houses a hot spring, and a barn that is just big enough for his stallion and four mules. He has chickens to give him eggs, and he raises a few pigs and steers to butcher in the middle of winter for meat. He has a huge timber wolf that he has raised from a cub that is constantly by his side. Wolf lets him know when anyone approaches him or is near his cabin.
The closest town to Max is Wilson Falls. Max doesn’t talk very much to others. He’s very much a recluse, and his size scares the citizens of Wilson Falls to leave him alone. He’s over six foot six. He weighs over two hundred fifty pounds of sheer muscle. The children of Wilson Falls call him the giant, the citizens call him the Mountain Man, and steer clear of him. That’s how Max likes it. He has a few friends…other mountain men, like Crazy Carl, or Mad Mike. He also is a friend to the Sioux Tribe in the area. He saved the life of the chief when he was fighting a huge bear…Max stepped in and killed the bear. The chief counts Max as his brother.
Darby Montgomery is a wealthy young lady who is kidnapped and taken away from her father who lives is Denver. She escapes on the train traveling away from her father and ends up running through the wild mountain side. Buzzards are circling her when she is found by the Mountain Man. He nurses her back to health, but he doesn’t know who to trust. Her kidnappers are still out there…someone from inside her father’s house helped them kidnap her. He is beside himself with worry about his daughter, he will pay anything to get her back, but only if he knows that she is alive and well…how can they do that when she has escapes. They have to find her to get the money from her father.
Max has to protect her…and he doesn’t know who he can trust. So, he goes back to his own rules…trust no one, he didn’t already know before. But he does promise Darby that he’d get her back to her father safely when this was all over. But by then, does he really want her to leave?
The Mountain Man Returns - Book 2 of the Wilson Falls Series
Maxwell Jefferson, also known as the Mountain Man, has to make some adjustments to his life. His wife, Darby, is pregnant. Her hips are very narrow, and the doctor told them that she would need a Caesarean delivery to deliver their baby or they both might die during her labor. Max reluctantly leaves his mountain home to take a home on the outskirts of town and a job as a deputy in the town of Wilson Falls.
Darby loves the three-room house, barn, and land around them. They still have enough space to feel isolated from the town. Max finds that being a deputy isn’t so bad as he thought it might be. His mountain home is now the home of Chief Santi’s son Mato and his white wife, Leta. They are happy, and so is he that it’s not empty. He makes a few friends in town with the livery owner…the general store owners…even the resale store owners. He and the sheriff become friends and that helps a lot.
The sheriff lets him handle felons his way as he throws them in jail, and the people of Wilson Falls feel safe with Max walking the street. When he tells them to stop…they stop. He stops robbers…rapists…murderers…the Mountain Man is no man to go up against. Newcomers arrive in town and Max helps them get settled…a new teacher, a new nurse, new lumber owners, a new farmer…Max helps them all get settled. But then, Darby has trouble with her pregnancy, and he has to ask her father to come and bring a nurse with him to help her bring their baby to term. Max needs to stay home to help her until they arrive…at the same time, a woman is attacked, and her home is set on fire to cover-up their crime. Max is torn to do his job and staying with Darby. He won’t do anything to jeopardize his unborn child or the life of his wife…but he has trouble seeing an injustice done, too. Max meets each challenge head on. He is after all the Mountain Man of the Colorado Territory.
The Mountain Man's Legacy - Book 3 of the Wilson Falls Series
Maxwell Jefferson, also known as the Mountain Man in the Colorado Territory, was a deputy in the town of Wilson Falls. One of his sons was a U.S. Marshal who wanted to become a deputy in Wilson Falls just like his father when an opening became available. Hunter and Beckett Jefferson were twins and about as opposite as they could be. Hunter hated being inside and loved the outdoors…it led him to be a marshal, a tracker, and a man just like the legend of his father was in the territory. Beckett was a lawyer in Denver…a really good lawyer. He had been taught all the same life saving gifts that Hunter had been, but he much preferred to use the law to send men away for a long period of time. His long-time aspiration was to become a judge. Max was very proud of both of his sons.
Hunter came home from capturing some felons and put them in the jail in Wilson Falls, he was offered a job in Wilson Falls. He was thrilled. He also met Shelby Reagaon…he hadn’t seen her for years. They had gone to school together, but she had sure changed. She had grown into a beautiful woman. There was an instant attraction between the two. The last thing Hunter wanted to do was fall in love and get married…he was too young! But in getting to know Shelby again, he was sure thinking about it again.
Beckett was in the midst of a trial when the defendant got hold of a gun and started shooting everyone in the courtroom…the judge, his lawyer, the guard on duty, and Beckett. He was rushed into surgery. They didn’t know if he was going to make it or not…Max, Dee, Hunter, his grandfather, and his uncle all rushed to his side…he had the best surgeons that his grandfather could buy to help make him well. He went to Wilson Falls to recover. He wasn’t used to the inactivity. He met some new young women who had come to teach in the school this year, one made him laugh a lot. He talked to her a lot…Lynn Green. But the last thing Beckett wanted was to fall in love with anyone. He was a love them and leave them kind of guy. Find out if Hunter and Beckett fall in love or what kind of legacy they leave for the Mountain Man to leave.
Country Angel - Book 1 of the Cordova Series
Annie Collins grew up on a farm with her father just outside of Cordova in Missouri. It was hard keeping the farm going during the War Between the States. Her sister died giving birth to twins during childbirth, and her husband died in the war. Annie adopted her twins and raised them as her own. She found a small black child on her back porch during the war. He was almost dead from starvation. Annie took him in and kept him as another of her own children. Her father helped her keep the farm going, but then he died during the winter of the last year of the war. How was she going to plow the fields without him?
A lot of men were writing for Mail Order Brides, Annie decided to write for a Mail Order Groom. It was the only way to save her farm and keep the children with her…and she decided she wasn’t going to part with her children.
Jeb MacAllister had fought for the Confederates and for the South. He had been gone for almost four and a half years. He had lived in Tennessee and came home to find that his wife had died giving birth to his second child…and he never knew. The letter had never got to him. His son was almost six, and his daughter was almost four. Neither recognized him when he arrived at his home. His mother-in-law had been taking care of his two children since his wife had died. She was angry and had taken it out on his two little kids. She was also sick and was heading to a sanitorium as soon as she got rid of them. He packed up his belongings and his children as soon as was possible, but he had nowhere to go.
He bought a newspaper and saw the ad for a Mail Order Groom…what in heavens name? He’d never heard of such a thing! But her letter intrigued him, it did give him a place to go and take his children. Maybe he could talk her into letting him stay, plant her fields, and she could watch over his children…it was worth a chance. Cordova, Missouri…it was worth a shot. What did he have to lose? He sent a telegram the same day and set out for Missouri from Tennessee. It would take them about three weeks to get there. He sure hoped he liked this Annie Collins.
Country Hero - Book 2 of the Cordova Series
Five young ladies come to Cordova to start new lives. They all hope to find love and handsome gentleman to fall in love with. They don’t expect to find any hardships along the way, but no one can predict the future. Mattie O’Hara comes to stay with her aunt and uncle who run the mercantile. She catches the eye of several men in town, including the handsome deputy who was just hired to help out the sheriff. Nora Kennedy was hired to become a nurse to help out the Doctor and his wife who have just adopted a baby. She loves the new town and is really impressed by the sheriff when she meets him. He seems so kind and nice to everyone in town.
Three women were coming as Mail Order Brides by the mayor of the town. Marta Hemming was asked to be the bride of the livery owner, Hershal Kerrington. Marta was thirty and felt she was an old maid, and this was her last chance at love. Clara Odell was twenty-five and couldn’t wait to get married. She was picked by Judd Billings as his Mail Order Bride. Judd was the blacksmith and a huge man. His size alone was enough to make most women shake. But Clara was made of sterner stuff. Beth Harris was the third Mail Order Bride; she was only nineteen. She was chosen by Justin Jones as his Mail Order Bride. Justin was just back from the War Between the States, and he was trying to make a go on his small farm. He wanted a helpmate.
Being young and newly married, takes a lot of compromise…there’s a lot for these young couples to learn about each other. The town is young as well, there’s robbers, gun fights, rapists, and other problems that they have to face and overcome to make their marriage work in an uncertain time. Can they be the hero’s their wives all dreamt about when they thought about love coming their way?
Country Storm - Book 3 of the Cordova Series
Shea Malone was asked to become the new prosecuting attorney for the town of Cordova in Missouri for Judge Harry Singleton. For Shea that means packing up her two nieces and nephew and her friends and moving everything they own to a town five hours away. She travels ahead to either find a place for them to move into or get one built. Unfortunately, there isn’t one already built to suit their needs…she finds a carpenter and finds a site. She orders a house, barn, smoke house, corrals, and playground for her children to be built in the next month for them to move into.
She’s not just moving herself and her three children, she’s bringing her best friend and her husband, and two trusted handymen who also act as bodyguards for the family. Many of the men that Shea sends to jail have retaliated against her for sending them away to prison for a long time. While her home is being built, Shea learns that a railroad is being built down the middle of Cordova…she finds that odd. Why not build around the town rather than through it? She sends word to Cordova about it.
Immediately, Jack Younger and Sheriff Rory Hammond are knocking at her door in St. Louis asking about the railroad she learned about. They knew nothing about it…she explained about the line and about a much shorter way to Cordova that wouldn’t put the jail, the clinic, or the MacAllister farm out of business. Shea doesn’t understand why the railroad would go through town at all. The sheriff and Jack do. They go to the railroad office and get the railroad changed. It makes one person very mad. Claire Adam’s determined to get her revenge one way or another on the town of Cordova and on Shea Malone for interfering with her plans. She sends out men to stop Shea’s family from ever making it alive to Cordova…she sends out men to cause havoc in Cordova and to kidnap one of the MacAllister children and start fires. But Claire Adams doesn’t know who she’s up against when she dares to try and stop Shea Malone from getting to Cordova…Shea is a formidable opponent by herself, but when she and lawyer Jack Younger join forces to stop her…all hell is going to break loose.
Country Charm - Book 4 of the Cordova Series
Captain Alex Turner came back from the war not knowing what to do now that the War Between the States was over. His family had all been wiped out with cholera just before the war began…he ran into a man beating his small three-old-daughter. He pulled his gun…every instinct told him to shoot the bastard. But he didn’t want to leave the child without anyone to take care of her, and he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison for killing a man who needed killing. Instead, he traded the child for two beaver skins. Now what was he going to do with a three-year-old little girl?
He traded for a Conestoga wagon for the girl to sleep and travel in. He continued traveling…he found other children in dire circumstances. His heart went out to them, and he traded for them, threatened to shoot several men, took them by force, threatened to call the sheriff if they didn’t turn the child over to him…in the end, he was left with five children in his care. Now what was he to do with them? They needed a place to live, food, clothes, structure…what was he supposed to do?
An article appeared in the paper about money being given for an orphanage if they were to help out some children…Alex thought five children could be called an orphanage and headed in that direction. He ended up in Cordova. They helped him find a house big enough for all the children and make it livable for all of them. He could do this…if they didn’t find out his secret.
Tate Jeffries had also fought in the War. He had become a U. S. Marshal, but he sure hated traveling all over Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. He had done that during the war. He did meet some nice people…what he much preferred would be to settle down and make a home in one of these towns, but the trouble was in finding someone to fall in love with. And then he met Captain Alex Turner and his five charges. But something wasn’t right with Alex, and Tate decided to find out what it was.
A Matter of Love - Book 1 of the Lancaster Series
Samantha Owens and Little John, her best friend, managed to survive in the swamps of the bayous of Louisiana during the War Between the States while the Union soldiers and Rebels fought for control over New Orleans. Sam, as Samantha liked to be called, dressed like a boy so she wouldn’t be bothered by the soldiers of either side in the shack they called home in the swamp. They got by on whatever Little John was able to find for them to eat in the swamp. One day he found a Union soldier named Jackson Anderson who was wounded…He brought him back with him and they saved his life. Then, they worked on getting him back to the Union forces and his own regiment. It wasn’t easy.
For Sam and Little John, they also wanted to leave the south and all the fighting and war they had seen for the last few years. Jackson urged them to go north to a place in the Montana Territory called Lancaster where he was from. He told them that Little John would be able to own his own land and be his own man. Despite the obstacles, the two made it up the Mississippi River and the Missouri River to find the town of Lancaster. Little John became a blacksmith in town and Sam was allowed to let her hair grow and be a woman again. She found a job as a cook in a popular restaurant. Then, they just had to hope that Jackson made it through the war alive to come back home.
The Heart of the Matter - Book 2 of the Lancaster Series
Cleo and Clemintine Walker are Mail Order Brides. They answered ads for coming to Lancaster in the Montana Territory from two men. Cleo is short with red hair and too many freckles. She has always worked outside with her father in the barn and helping with the animals they had. Clemintine is taller with curly brown hair. The two sisters hoped to see a lot of each other getting married to men in the same town.
Cleo was marrying Sully Coogan, the livery owner. He was bald, short, and heavily muscled from all the work he had done with lifting straw and grass to feed all his animals over the years. He had also been lonely. He hoped getting married would solve that.
Clemintine was marrying George Roberts; he owned a sheep farm outside of town. George was of medium height and had brown hair and a brown beard. Clemintine thought him handsome the first time she was introduced to him. He thought she was pretty. But both were extremely shy with each other. Clemintine had only worked in the kitchen at home and had never helped her father with the animals, so she had no idea of how to help George in the barn or with his sheep.
George lived next door to a cattle baron who didn’t want anyone raising sheep in Montana. He was doing everything in his power to get rid of his neighbor and his sheep. He wasn’t above sending his men to killing George or his sheep, or his new wife, if it resulted in getting rid of him as his neighbor. One way or the other, he would be rid of those sheep, and he would buy the land and put cattle on it. But Butler wasn’t just causing trouble with George, his men cause trouble in town, too. The law were constantly after his men for one offense or another. Butler wasn’t happy and when Butler wasn’t happy, he sent his men to causing more trouble. Would Cleo and Clemintine be able to find happiness with all the trouble going on around them? Would they be able to get to the heart of the matter and find love?
A Matter of Hope - Book 3 of the Lancaster Series
Maggie Sullivan has lost her husband in the War Between the States that tore the nation into two separate worlds. She had lived in Virginia. They had a small farm and were very happy. But the war came, and Maxwell felt he needed to do his duty and fight for what he thought was right. He was able to come back twice to see Maggie during the war. On one of those visits, their son, Max, was conceived. But Maxwell never got to see his son. Maggie thought it best that he never got to see the ruin of their farm either. The Union soldiers came through and carried away everything of value, and then the Rebel soldiers came through and did the same thing. By the time the war was over, the land was the only thing left that was of any value.
Maggie packed up what was left and sold the land. She had friends…good friends that had also lost a lot during the war. They were going to go with her to a place in the Montana Territory that hadn’t been hurt in the cannon fire and fighting of the war. A ranch had been advertised in Lancaster. It was being sold in a forfeiture for a man who was being sent to prison. It was a price Maggie could afford. Land was much cheaper in Montana than in Virginia. She sent a Pinkerton detective to make sure that she wasn’t buying a pig in a poke and found out everything she needed to know about the land, the animals on the ranch, the house and buildings there, and even the foreman put in charge.
It took her several months to travel to Lancaster by Conestoga wagon with her friends, but it was worth it when she arrived and saw the beautiful Montana scenery around her. It was night and day from what she and her friends had come from in Virginia. One of the first things Maggie had to do was fire the foreman of the ranch she had just bought…he wasn’t happy being fired and he vowed to cause trouble for Maggie and her friends. Was she up to the challenge to create a new life here for herself and her son? She sure hoped, so.
Nun of Your Business - Book 1 of the Cedar Creek Series
Sister Mary Margaret was given the task of taking six boys to Cedar Creek in the Colorado Territory and making a home for them. She was to try and find homes for them. They all had Latino heritage in their bloodlines and the Diocese of St. Louis felt like in the town of Cedar Creek it would have more of a chance of getting them adopted in a town with so many Latino people living there. They gave her the deed to a house and sent her there in a wagon and some money.
Sister arrived at a house that definitely needed some work. It was also across from three saloons, a casino, and a whore house. It was definitely not an ideal situation, but Sister Mary Margaret rolled up her sleeves and got to work cleaning up the house and making it livable for her and her boys. She found an older man who was a Jack of all trades, and he became her handyman. He was a Godsend. He fixed the holes in the roof and was a lot stronger than she was in taking care of the jobs that needed someone stronger to get them done.
Sister Mary Margaret was not only a nun, but she was also a nurse. She set up one of the rooms in the house as a clinic and treated anyone who needed help…even the soiled doves from across the street. In the first week she was there, she took out bullets from several men. She wouldn’t take any money for her work, but she would take meat to put in her smoke house to feed her boys. She took in washing for the general store and the resale store in exchange for credit for her winter supplies. She set up the boys and treated them more like her children than what they were used to being treated in an orphanage…she even bought them toys and put up a swing and a sand box.
But Sister Mary Margaret had another mission when she came to Cedar Creek…she was sent by the U.S. Marshals to spy on one of the saloons. Something sinister was going on there and they wanted her to watch and report on what she saw. Sheriff Sam Collins and U.S. Marshal Matt Callahan would help her take them down when the time was right. Just exactly who was Sister Mary Margaret? Was she really a nun at all?
Leave Me Alone! - Book 2 of the Cedar Creek Series
Amy Michaels was a nurse and lived and worked in St. Louis at Barnes Hospital. Her best friend wrote and asked her to come to Cedar Creek in the Colorado Territory to come and help deliver her twins. There was no one else to help her deliver them. Amy didn’t hesitate to take a leave of absence to help out her friend.
She and Maggie were not alike…Maggie was warm and loving. She had helped get six orphan children adopted and had created a home for them out of an old, deserted home in Cedar Creek. She liked making a garden and could shoot as well as any man. Amy hated getting dirty and didn’t like to sweat. She had never picked up a gun in her life and want to learn how to. She liked living in a city but would put up with living in a small town for Maggie.
The U.S. Marshals were giving Maggie a reward for helping them find and convict some counterfeiters last year. With that money, she was building on to her one-room clinic in Cedar Creek. Max Bromley was in charge of getting it done. She and Max didn’t get along…he didn’t like prissy city girls. She didn’t like brawny big know it all men who thought they knew everything. She kept trying to change the blueprints on the clinic…he kept trying to ignore her. Together, they were a force to reckoned with.
And, then Hugh Ramsey came to reopen up the casino across from the new clinic. He needed a new girl to work in his saloon. He wanted Amy as his girl…Amy had other ideas, and so did Max when he heard about it. No matter how many times she told him no, Hugh kept asking and coming back for more…What was Amy going to have to do to make him leave her alone? What was Max going to do to make him leave her alone? Because the last thing he was going to do was let him have Amy.
You Won't Be Sorry! - Book 3 of the Cedar Creek Series
Louise Parker was in a terrible bind. Her husband had been killed riding as a guard for the stagecoach. She was left to take care of their two small children. She couldn’t work and take care of them, too. She was left to find a husband as a Desperate Mother in a Mail Order Bride Column the Denver newspaper was running about widows whose husbands had died in the War Between the States.
Ox Humphrey had grown up in an orphanage. He had always lived alone until he had adopted his son Alex a few years ago. He loved him and loved that he made them a family. He read about the Desperate Mother in the newspaper. He hated to read about how she had no one to help her or nowhere to go. He wrote back at once telling her that he would marry her and take care of her children and her. Louise cried that she had someone who would help take care of her children. She made arrangements to move to Cedar Creek to marry Ox.
Ox and Alex started getting ready for Louise and her children to move with them, it was going to be huge change for them. But other changes were coming to Cedar Creek. A Mexican cartel was taking over one of the saloons in town…Rose, one of their whores, was making plans to leave the saloon and Carlos Garcia one way or another. Two new schoolteachers were coming to Cedar Creek to work, as well as two new deputies. So many new people, some of them would be good for the town, and some of them would cause trouble for Louise and Ox. Louise was determined that Ox would never be sorry that he had sent for her and her children to give them a new home.
Love Resolved - Book 1 of the Jefferson Series
Taylor Alexander didn’t want to marry the neighbor her brothers had picked out for her. She wanted to love the man she married. She was also tired of being taken for granted by her two brothers and her Pa all her life. All she did was cook, clean, wash dirty clothes, take care of the garden, and the smoke house. And if that wasn’t enough, they had her taking care of the cow and the chickens too. Enough was enough! She’d be darned if she’d marry the old coot next door so they could gain his land to combine with theirs and do all their work, too. She took her jam money and ran away. She would go as far as it would take her. Montana Territory was as far as she could get.
The stagecoach was crowded, and the trip was dusty. But to make it a little better, a very nice woman and her two small boys were seated next to her. They made the time go by faster. But it’s also when they hit by robbers and the shooting started…the driver was hit and the stagecoach started turning over on its side. Everyone was thrown out of their seats. Taylor was on the bottom with the small boys. Then, the robbers opened up the door and started shooting at all of them…Fortunately, the bullets hit the people on top the pile and not the bottom…and then, there was silence.
Taylor was left alive with two small boys…their mother had been killed with the others in the stagecoach. What was she to do? How was she going to get them to Jefferson alive and well?
Zach Thomas was waiting for his sister-in-law to arrive with his nephews on the stage. His brother had died in the War Between the States. He was going to help her become a teacher in Jefferson, but the stage is late in coming to town. Where are they? How can he help them if they never arrive?
When Taylor does arrive with his two nephews, how does Zach take care of two orphans? How do Zach and Taylor resolve all their problems and help the two small boys recover from the loss of both their parents?
Dreams Resolved - Book 2 of the Jefferson Series
Norma MacAllister was the neighbor of Anastasia Costa in Laurence, Kansas. She was a witness to the murder of one hundred and forty men and boys in August 1863 during the War Between the States. She saw them kill her husband and son and rape Anastasia, too. With the help of a Union doctor, they saved Anastasia’s life when it caused her to miscarry the baby she was carrying. She also kept her alive when she wanted to die from the loss of all those dear to her. She kept her alive for the next seven years, she also taught her to be a really fine nurse, whether she wanted to or not.
She decided that they had stayed in Laurence long enough…there were too many memories for them in Laurence. She wrote to her late husband’s cousin in Jefferson, in the Montana Territory. They were going to move and start all over in a new place. Mac, Doug’s cousin not only helped them find a cabin to live in…they made it livable for them. It was close to the clinic where Anastasia could work as a nurse, and Norma could grow a garden…they could live here and hopefully, start a new life here, without the memories that were back in Laurence.
Kincaid was a good doctor in Jefferson and welcomed the new nurse that applied to work for him, but good Lord! She was beautiful beyond belief, how was he going to work with someone so damn good looking beside him all day long? The face that she was a widow didn’t enter it. She put up leave me alone signals that kept everyone at bay, and he read the signals loud and clear…but there was something about her besides her beauty that kept him wanting to get closer to her…would he ever get to call her his own?
Hope Resolved - Book 3 of the Jefferson Series
Reina Harper is running away from her father and three brothers. Her childhood has been a nightmare, they just killed her mother, and she has had enough. She’s leaving and making a new, better life for herself somewhere far, far away from where she had lived all her life.
She traveled by riverboat for several months until she came to the end of the line…she ended up in the Montana Territory. She roamed around the beautiful countryside until she found just what she was looking for a small cabin/cave that had been deserted. It was perfect for her. It was connected to a larger cave that could act as a barn for a horse when she caught one, maybe some chickens, if she ever traded for some…this could work out very well for her. She could live here and never be found safely.
Dutch MacAllister is a deputy in Jefferson, a small town in the Montana Territory. He’s a large man and like his father a gentle giant. He’s out trying to capture four men who have just robbed the bank…he’s a good tracker. Reina is watching from atop a small mountain, when the men turn on Dutch and shots are exchanged. Two men are killed, and Dutch goes down…two of the men get away. Reina waits to see if they come back. Her closest friend, Diablo, half wolf/half dog lets her know that one of the men lying in the valley is alive. Reina goes down slowly to see which one it is…Dutch is still alive. The other two men are dead. She makes a travois and takes Dutch back to her cabin to see if she can keep him alive.
Dutch doesn’t know who it is who operates on him and keeps him alive…at first he thinks Reina is a boy, and then he realizes that he is a she! But after all she’s been through with her father and her brothers, Reina doesn’t know if she can ever trust another male in her lifetime. Even one as gentle and handsome as Dutch.
Resolve My Future - Book 4 of the Jefferson Series
Reagan Thomas was a twin. Everyone in her family knew what they wanted to be, and their future had been decided on. They knew what they wanted to do with their lives. Reagan did know…she didn’t want to be a doctor or a nurse. She didn’t want to be a teacher or work with a bunch of children…she liked children, she wanted to have a houseful of children when she eventually got married but not teach them. She didn’t want to work with the law or in a bank, none of that interested her. She could cook, clean, sew, take care of a garden, shoot, take care of animals in a barn, milk a cow, drive a wagon, ride a horse, but she really didn’t like staying inside all day. What did she want to do now that school was over for her?
Her mother had her applying for a ‘Help Wanted’ sign from the general store that their friends owned. It would at least keep her busy while she made up her mind. She was surprised to find that she liked working in the store. She even made some suggestions for making the store a better place to shop. She was good with figures, and soon the owners told her they didn’t know what they’d do without her.
Grady Monroe was a new deputy in town. He bought the old deputy’s house and was fixing it up. He met Reagan and she agreed to help him out with the house. He’d never met anyone like Reagan before…she didn’t want to get married, but she sure spoke her mind easily enough. She made him laugh at her comments and her outlook on life. Soon, Grady wanted to be more than friends with the sheriff’s daughter…things could get to be complicated more than either of them wanted them to be. Did they want them to be complicated?
Did they want their future resolved?
Take Me As I Am - Book 1 of the Red River Valley Series
Quinn Buchanan is a U.S. Marshal who is tracking a murderer for the last two years, when the murderer gets the upper hand on him, and he gets shot three times and left for dead. He’s found by a mountain man and his protégé, who saves his life.
Unfortunately, he falls in love with the woman who saved his life. He can’t get her out of his mind. But Shana doesn’t want anything to do with town or U. S. Marshals. It’s up to Quinn to persuade her that not everything in town is bad. He also has to persuade the town that the woman doctor isn’t a freak or something to be avoided at all costs.
The town sent for some Mail Order Brides, and a wagon train comes bringing many women and many men who want to start new lives. But regardless of all the new people in Red River Valley, Quinn can’t get Shana out of his mind. Events happen that keep bringing them together and bringing them closer as a man and a woman. Quinn wonders if Shana will ever admit that she loves him or if she will ever consent to becoming his wife…he wonders if she will ever to consent to taking him as he is for her husband.
You're Never Too Old to Fall in Love - Book 2 of the Red River Valley Series
Moose Montgomery is a mountain man and has been for most of his life. He lives next door to Shana and Quinn Buchanan. He’s been Shana’s best friend since she’s been born. Moose feels happy with his life and sharing the joy Shana has with her husband and her three children. He’s too old for getting married himself and having a family of his own. He’s all right with that, he’s content with the way he lives and the friends he has.
Then Edwina St. James comes into his life. She’s run away after her father’s funeral. Her father was very rich and in his will he wanted her to marry one of three men to share his wealth with. Edwina didn’t like any of the three men, in fact she despised all three of them. None of them loved her, they were just interested in her father’s money. She would have been miserable for the rest of her life.
She followed the railroad as far as it went. She bought a horse and rode it through as many towns until the towns ran out. Now she’s lost in the woods and doesn’t know how to make a fire, or kill an animal, and cook it over a fire. She’s torn her riding habit and doesn’t know who to trust…that’s when she meets Moose. He’s the largest man she’s ever seen, and he scares her when he asks her why she’s on his land! Edwina doesn’t know why she’s there or where she’s going. She tries to tell Moose why she’s run away, but he doesn’t understand her desperation. Instead, he tells her to follow him…he’d take her to his friend, Shana Buchanan. She’d come up with a plan to help her out of her dilemma.
Edwina was thrilled that there was someone to help her. For some reason, she trusted this huge man…would he be able to help her solve her problems? Moose was wondering what he was going to do with the pretty woman. Would Shana be able to come up with a solution that would help them all?
Give Me Time - Book 3 of the Red River Valley Series
Red River Valley was a good place to live and raise a family. Several people decided to move to the Valley with their families…Julio Garcia, his wife Ria, and his two sons, Miguel and Juan wanted to start over. Julio had fought in the War Between the States. He had just returned home. He felt like a stranger to his wife and his sons. He wanted a clean slate…He just needed time to help them make a new life.
Abby Sherman was pregnant with two small children. She was on a wagon train, her husband died on the way west to Red River Valley by Indians. How was she to raise three children by herself? How was she to find a house in a new town? There were so many unanswered questions that Abby didn’t know what she was going to do…she needed time, lots of time. And time was running out for her and her children, what was she going to do here all by herself?
Emily Knight had been the nurse at the clinic for several years. But she was lonely, she saw everyone else falling in love, why couldn’t she? There were plenty of single men in California…but none of them made her heartbeat faster except the new deputy, and he didn’t even know she existed. Unless he was shot, there wasn’t much chance of her getting closer to him in the near future. She needed to accept her single future and quit fighting it. It was something time wouldn’t change.
Jesse Reardon was the new deputy in Red River Valley. He loved his new job, and most of the people in town. He didn’t mind knocking heads together or using common sense to solve problems. Nor did he have any problem shooting men who needed to be killed. He like working with the sheriff and the other deputy, both were married, happily with several children each. He was envious of both of them, unfortunately he had never been in love. He was a love and leave them kind of man…until he ran into Emily Knight. Maybe given time, that could change.
On the Shore of Diamond Cove - Book 1 of the Diamond Shore Series
Willow found Brock Callahan after he had been shot and left for dead. Brock was a soldier from Fort Henry in the Montana Territory. Willow, her mother, and her grandmother, lived on the outskirts of the Shoshoni village. Her father had been white and married the daughter of the chief of the Shoshoni village. Willow brought Brock back to her grandmother, who was the medicine woman of her tribe. She saved his life. They became friends as he healed.
Brock had joined the Army when his parents had died when their house had burned down. He was left with the responsibility of raising his two younger brothers, Brogan and Brody. They were only nine and eleven. Brock was worried about what was going to happen to them if war broke out back east between the north and the south. If he was sent to fight in that war, who would take care of them? After talking it over with her mother and grandmother, Willow told him they would take care of the boys until Brock came back from fighting. He was thrilled and knew they would be in good hands.
The Civil War broke when they fired on Fort Sumter in April. Fort Henry was being shut down. Brock was being sent to fight for the Union. He brought his brothers to Willow. They didn’t know what to expect. He was just glad that they would be safe.
The next three and a half years were amazing for Brogan and Brody. Willow taught them how to survive in the wilderness of Montana. They made bows and arrows, learned how to fight with knives, shoot with guns, hunt, track, and live off the land. Her mother and grandmother even taught them how to turn deer skins into buckskins. The boys chopped wood, helped plow their extensive garden, weed it, and helped can all their vegetables. They felt like family, and they loved it.
And then, Brock came home from the war. He loved that his brothers were safe and couldn’t believe how beautiful Willow was. He wanted to make a home here in this wonderful land. Could he and his brothers survive here? Was there a future for Willow and himself?
The Joy is in the Journey - Book 2 of the Diamond Shore Series
Logan is coming to the Montana Territory from the War Between the States, but he’s not coming alone. Several black families hid him from the Confederate soldiers while he was wounded. After the war, he went back and found them. He’s taking them to the Montana Territory for a new life. They’re free men and women, and he’d determined that they have a better life. He knows that they can own land in Montana, something that they’ve never been able to do before. He knows his friends will help them get started. Brock and Rowan were injured and came here earlier. He was counting on their help on building cabins and planting fields.
Brock Callahan had not only built a cabin, but he had also married Willow. Willow was half Shoshoni Indian and half white. She had kept his two younger brothers safe while he was off fighting in the war. They had to fight a land baron when he came back and when they did, Willow’s Indian family had helped. They were friends with the Shoshoni, the judge had given the Indians the land the baron had held. He also gave them the cattle the baron had owned.
When Logan arrived with his friends, Brock was surprised but immediately thought of the house and buildings on the land the Indians now owned. He went to the judge to make sure that it would be all right for the black families to live in those buildings. The judge approved, and they got the deed for the one hundred and sixty acres with the house and buildings. They just had to make some changes to make it livable for all of them to live there.
They were in shock to be given such a nice place to live and their own land. They set to work to make it perfect for all of them. Logan got his own land, and they built him a cabin by all his friends. Then he and Rowan sent away for Mail Order Brides. Never a dull moment in Diamond Cove!
Make Me Believe - Book 3 of the Diamond Shore Series
Could seven Mail Order Brides find happiness in the Montana wilderness? Some of the seven women didn’t think it was possible, but they wanted to find a better life after the War Between the States. Their lives had been put on hold after the war. Their parents and sometimes their husbands or fiancés had been killed fighting for the Union or sometimes the Confederates, it really didn’t matter…they were dead and not returning. Their dreams of making a family were over and destroyed.
When the ad appeared asking for Brides for the Montana town of Diamond Cove, several women came and asked to be included. Some just wanted a chance at a different life…a better life. Montana sounded far away from gunfire, cannon smoke and destroyed houses and lives. Mr. Smith chose carefully; the women would have jobs until they were chosen by the men he had already talked to in Montana.
There was a pregnant saloon girl that wanted a second chance, a teacher with two children whose husband had died, a nurse whose husband died in the war, a seamstress, a bookkeeper, and two very plain girls who had worked as waitresses and maids and hoped someone would want to marry them regardless of what they looked like.
The men had good standing in the community. One owned the resale store, a livery, the lumber yard, the president of the bank, the town doctor, and the sheriff, and his deputy all wanted to have wives in the very near future. Some of them wanted ready-made families and didn’t mind that some of them had children already. They were lonely and tired of living alone. They didn’t really care what their new wives looked like.
They planed a buffet as soon as they arrived to meet the new women and start to learn all about them. The entire town wished them well. They wanted them as happy as the rest of the married men and women of the community were. How could their plan not succeed? Only time would tell.
Take Me With You - Book 1 of the Sheridan Series
Leah and Luke Spencer had to decide what to do. Both their parents died in a cholera epidemic. They were only fourteen and fifteen years old. What were they going to do to keep a roof over their heads and food in their mouths? The War Between the States had been going on for almost a year. Luke wanted to do something to help the Union Army. He knew he was only fifteen years old, but he felt there was some job they could give him, and he’d do it to help out the war effort. Leah told him that if he were going to join the Army, so would she. She’d cut her hair and dress like a boy. Wherever Luke went…Leah/Lee would also go.
For four years, the two ‘boys’ cooked for a patrol in the Union Army. When the war was finally over, the men talked about what they might do now. Many thought they might like to travel on a wagon train to somewhere unknown and start over. Sheridan in the Montana Territory was the place many talked about going to. Lee and Luke wanted to go there too. But Lee was worried about how the men would react when they found out he was a she. They had become close friends to some of them, would they still be her friend?
Malcolm MacHugh was a large man who went into the Union Army because he was angry with the world. He fought because it was what he was good at it. He ended up in the same patrol as Lee and Luke. He wanted to go to Sheridan in the Montana Territory. He wanted to get one hundred and sixty acres free if he would build a cabin and farm the land in the next five years. Nothing would please MacHugh more than to have his own piece of land. He was glad that Luke and Lee were going to go there too.
Lee worried that he wouldn’t be so glad when he found out she was not a boy.
Don't Ever Leave Me - Book 2 of the Sheridan Series
Sandy Hawthorne and her son, Richie, had been deserted by her husband, Zach, after the War Between the States. She divorced him and started washing clothes and baking bread for bachelors who needed it. She was also a midwife. She did what she could to make ends meet and keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. But Sandy wanted more for her small son. She wanted a father for him, someone to teach him what a real man was. Someone to show him how a real man treats his wife and his children. In desperation, she signed up to a Mail Order Bride Agency.
Ed Nelson had just lost his wife in childbirth. He was left with four children, his youngest had barely weighed four pounds when he was born. The doctor and his family took care of him until he could find a housekeeper or another wife. He still loved his late wife and getting married again was the last thing on his mind, but he was having a terrible time trying to be a mother and father to his three older children and take care of all the animals on his farm. He needed help in the worst way, and he needed it as soon as possible. In desperation, he wrote to a Mail Order Bride Agency. Only two women responded to his ad. Not many women wanted to start out being married to a man with four children and living in the middle of Montana Territory.
Sandy’s heart went out to the man whose wife had just died leaving him with four children, one of whom was an infant. She didn’t mind living in the Montana Territory, or on a farm. She liked the idea of having a small baby to take care of and for Richie to have brothers and sisters to play with. She wrote to him at once. He sounded like just the sort of man she was looking for to be a caring father for Richie…and he didn’t want a conventional wife. Just a friend to help him take care of all his children. It would be a wife in name only. It sounded perfect to Sandy.
Coming Home - Book 3 of the Sheridan Series
Matt Nelson was a U.S. Marshal. He helped some newcomers coming to Sheridan in the Montana Territory. In doing so, he made a lot of friends and an enemy. Reverend Reynolds thought he was better than anyone else on the wagon train because he was a man of God. But he didn’t act like any minister Matt had ever met. He treated the blacks on the wagon train like they were still slaves, he harassed the women on the wagon train and even threatened them that if they didn’t let him have his way with them, he’d ruin their reputation…he certainly didn’t act like any preacher Matt had ever met.
Matt let him know it, and didn’t back down to his threats.
Sheridan was Matt’s hometown, when he arrived with the newcomers, they asked him to become their deputy. He now ran into the Reverend on a regular basis. He also saw a lot of old friends, one of which was Beth McHugh. She was the daughter of friends of his parents. While he was away being a U.S. Marshal, Beth had been growing up. A girl can change a lot in five years. She changed Matt’s idea of staying single in a heartbeat!
Then, Matt’s brother, Richie, came home with a new bride. Richie and Ellie were so happy together, they gave Matt all sorts of ideas of how happy he and Beth might be if they got married, too.
Coming home suddenly gets very interesting for everyone in Sheridan!
To Be Loved - Book 1 of the Caster Falls Series
Margaret Montgomery was only ten when she ran away from her abusive father to find somewhere else to live. She decided it had to be far, far away where he couldn’t find her if even cared enough to look. She lived in Kansas, so she went west, and then north and kept traveling until she came to a place surrounded by beautiful waterfalls, lush green woods, and valleys that never seemed to end of soft grass. The town wasn’t very big, but it boasted its own sheriff and deputy. Several restaurants, a blacksmith, a general store, and a handful of specialty stores. One of the first signs Maggie saw was a ‘help wanted’ sign. Maggie took the chance and went in to see what the job entailed. The kind lady needed a dishwasher. She had her doubts about hiring a small ten-year-old, but she was desperate. She hired Maggie and gave her a room behind her restaurant to sleep in. To Maggie, it was heaven. The roof didn’t leak, and there was a real bed in the room. Maggie had never slept in a bed before…a pallet on the floor, on cedar boughs on the ground, and just the hard ground…but never a bed. She sold her horse and saddle, ran to the resale store for sheets, a blanket, and a quilt. She also bought some clean pants, shirts, a heavy coat, boots that fit, a knit cap, and some warm gloves. She slipped from Maggie to Mags in seconds. She washed using the bowl and pitcher they had in the room in hot water from the kitchen. And dressed in clean clothes. Stuffing her hair in the knit hat, she hurried to the kitchen to report to work. She was a hard worker; Alice was surprised that someone that small could get so much done. They never looked back.
Maggie grew up in Caster Falls and loved it. She grew from a small ‘boy’ into a lovely young lady. The one thing she was missing from her life was to fall in love and to have someone love her…she had plenty of men who wanted her, but she wanted love. Would she find it in Caster Falls?
To Be Wanted - Book 2 of the Caster Falls Series
Katie Carpenter wondered what else could happen to her. She had three small children, her husband had just died…not that she had loved him or that he had been a good husband, but the fact remained that she was all alone and wondered how was she going to run the farm and take care of the children at the same time. Granted, she had done most of the work when Ernie was alive, but he had taken the eggs to town to deliver them and sell them. She couldn’t do that with three small children, one of whom was a small baby in the middle of winter. How was she going to chop enough wood to keep them warm? She had to fill that smoke house with meat. How could she hunt for meat with three small children? It just looked overwhelming for Katie at the moment.
Mac MacDonald, Maggie’s husband, came up with some answers that helped for the moment. Hank Richards had been injured in the War Between the States. He came back with only one leg. He whittled himself a peg leg and would come out with a load of wood and pick up her eggs and deliver them for her twice a week, if she would pay him one dollar a load. That would take care of two of her problems. He also suggested that she write to on of his friends who always wanted to have a farm. Finn was a friend of his in the army. It was kind of like a Mail Order Groom thing, if they didn’t like each other from their letters, she didn’t have to marry him. Katie thought, what have I got to lose.
So, began a long-distance exchange of letters from a stranger. Would she marry a complete stranger to save her farm and help her raise her children? Who was this Finnigan Samuel McBride? What kind of a man would marry a complete stranger he’s never seen? Was she making another mistake?
To Be Cherished - Book 3 of the Caster Falls Series
Nan Thornton was a cook in a restaurant. She was one of ten children and didn’t feel she was anything special. She saw her friends marry and start having children. They were so happy with their husbands. It’s what Nan wanted…someday, but doubted it would ever happen with the way she looked. She was too ordinary.
And then three men came into the restaurant and kidnapped her and her sister. Her life was about to change radically!
Jack Carter was only fourteen when the War Between the States was fought. He became a spy for the Union Army. Nobody suspected a skinny kid of carrying messages back and forth across enemy lines, Jack did and during that time he became friends with some soldiers who lived in Caster Falls in Montana Territory. He had just arrived there to start work for one of them when he heard about the abduction. Jack was no longer a fourteen-year-old skinny kid. He had grown into a tall, muscular man who backed down from no man. He volunteered to go after the two women and bring them back. He had learned how to shoot and track in the war.
Nan and her sister were scared of her abductors and what was to happen to them. They had never been treated so roughly before, nor had they been thrown on horses and asked to go up the treacherous mountain in the middle of winter. They were freezing in no time. What was going to happen to them? Was anyone coming to save them?
Shots came out of nowhere against their attackers…but Nan didn’t know who was shooting. Was it friend, or another foe?
Would Nan find the help they so desperately needed in time? Would Jack find that he doesn’t have to face life alone all the time? He has friends that will stand beside him in good times and bad. Will he find that his friends have found women who they love beyond all reason? Will he also find a love like that?
Too Many Memories - Book 1 of the El Dorado Series
Reese Parker and his family want to start over. They pack up everything they own and head west in a wagon train. He loses his entire family to one catastrophe after another until he’s left all alone. He ends up in a town in California. It’s just on the border. Reese knows that he needs a job and finds one helping a blacksmith and livery owner.
They are very kind to Reese. When the War Between the States breaks out, Reese feels like he needs to help fight for the Union. He leaves but promises to return. Being only seventeen, he figures he’ll be the youngest man in the unit he’s assigned to. He’s correct, but he’s also the best shot. His Captain makes him a Sergeant and asks him to show the others how to shoot. Who’s going to listen to a seventeen-year-old boy? But Reese gets through to them and they become a unit. They have worked together for over four years. Reese becomes a hero, rescuing children, babies, and women. Then, he and one of his friends get shot. He’s sent home to recover. He brings his friend with him.
He's older and wiser. War does that to a man. He’s asked to become the next sheriff in El Dorado. Then, the medic in his unit is injured. He ends up in a wheelchair…can they help find a home for him in El Dorado, too? Could they use another doctor in El Dorado? The town rushes to make a home for the medic ready for him. They make it handicapped accessible and makes it ready for him to be independent. It seems that everyone on Reese’s unit is looking to him to help them recover from the war.
The war ends. Reese finds love in the arms of the medic’s sister who has given her life in helping her brother recover. And then, he gets a telegram telling him that his Captain has suffered a blow rendering him with amnesia. The only person he remembers is Reese. Will he help him? Will the war ever end for Reese?
Too Few Memories - Book 2 of the El Dorado Series
Amnesia…the doctors called it. Whatever it was, Dan Monroe couldn’t remember a thing. Not even his name. They even had to tell him that. He was wearing a Union Army uniform. They told him he was a Captain during the war, they called it the War Between the States. They told him the North fought the South. It was about Slavery and States’ Rights. It didn’t make any sense to Dan. Nothing did.
They had found a letter from Sergeant Reese Parker in El Dorado, California in his coat pocket. Evidently, he was someone he knew during the war. They were sending Dan to El Dorado, California to get well or until he got his memory back. Whichever came first. Dan didn’t care. Everyone he met, he looked at them wondering if he had met them before or knew them in a former life. He hoped that someone in El Dorado knew him and would answer questions for him. He hated living in a fog.
Amanda Scott woke up one morning to find a note from her husband telling her that he was tired of being married and being a father to their newly born daughter. He was leaving and she was on her own. Mandy was shocked. What was she going to do to pay the rent or buy food? She had no skills…she took her baby and started walking trying to find a place to think. She ended up finding a place to cry.
That’s where Dan Monroe found her. He thought it was his secret place to go to think about his dilemma. To wonder about his memory. Today he found a strange woman crying as if her heart would break…maybe other people had problems, too. Listening to her crying was the saddest thing he’d ever heard. “Lady, whatever’s wrong, maybe I could help.” Dan offered quietly. Mandy stopped crying. Embarrassed that anyone heard her.
“I don’t think anyone can help me…” Mandy told him, and they began to talk. She’d never heard of anyone having amnesia. She wished she could forget everything. Together they began a friendship that might just help both of them.
Sweet Memories - Book 3 of the El Dorado Series
Grace Lewis thought her life was through. Her husband and two little girls had just died from smallpox in St. Louis. Her family friend suggested that she go live with her sister in El Dorado to get away from all the painful memories her in St. Louis. She sold everything and took his advice. Her sister, Opal Farley, owned the general store in El Dorado with her husband, Griffin. They fixed up the rooms behind the store for Grace to live in. She had been a nurse before she married and asked the two doctors in El Dorado if they needed any help in their clinic. They jumped at the chance to get another nurse to help them out. Grace was grateful for the chance to start working again.
One of her first patients was a woman with cancer. She had five children and a husband who was a rancher. Elizabeth didn’t want to die, but there was no hope for her. How could she take care of her children and still cook, wash, and prepare them for her death? Her husband was at a loss as to what to do. Grace suggested that she go and take care of Elizabeth while she died. She would also help in cooking, cleaning, and all the other chores that fell on her shoulders. Ben, Elizabeth’s husband, was grateful for her help and the help in preparing his children for their mother’s death.
Grace fell in love with Elizabeth’s children. She taught them how to laugh again and be children. Elizabeth loved it when she heard them laughing and singing with Grace. She loved that even after she was gone, they would be able to have a happy life. Grace helped her prepare for her death and helped her tell each of her children goodbye. It was not easy. For Grace had become good friends with Elizabeth, too.
Read how Grace, Ben, and Elizabeth solve the problem of living, dying, and loving while still holding onto your memories of those you still love.
Justice Prevails - Book 1 of the Spring City Series
She was left for dead after she was beaten to within an inch of her life. They worked for hours to save her. She was only five years old. She was a survivor. One by one, the town met her and was struck by how strong she was after all she had gone through. They all decided that they would help her get justice for what had been done to her.
Cisco wasn’t done with her, because she knew a secret and he wanted that secret. They kept trying to get to her. Boomer Richards appointed himself her guardian…Nobody could get to the little girl with him around. Boomer was built like a bull, and he had no pity for anyone who came to hurt her. The sheriff appointed him a deputy for helping protect her.
A young waitress overheard them making plans to kidnap her, she told the sheriff what she heard. The kidnapping plans were stopped, but…she was attacked and raped for telling what she heard. Boomer went hunting the men who hurt the waitress. He brought them all to jail. That’s when Cisco decided to attack the entire town. The town was ready. They’d get retribution for the young girls attacked one way or the other…justice would prevail.
Love Prevails - Book 2 of the Spring City Series
Three ladies come to Spring City to start new lives.
One comes as a Mail Order Bride. She is to marry one of the deputies who became the guardian of his two nephews. Having grown up helping to run an orphanage in New York, Alexandria feels she can handle two little boys even if they are the hellions, she is warned they are. Never having been around gentlemen before, she’s not sure how to go about becoming a wife to Sam.
Sam doesn’t know the first thing about taking care of two little boys. They are running wild and he needs help. He jumps at the Mail Order Bride's offer of Alexandria to marry him and help him take care of his nephews. He just prayed he was making the right choice.
One comes as a new school teacher from Tennessee. Kendra loves children and can’t wait to have her own classroom. Traveling to a new place in a far away territory sounded exciting to her, and she couldn’t wait to arrive and begin planning her lesson plans.
The third young lady is a widow. She’s also a doctor. She and her husband had worked together in Kentucky until he died. She wanted to start over without the memories. A small town in the Montana Territory sounded perfect to her. She was going to start her life over.
Three ladies to the same town. They became friends on the train to Spring City and then life takes some surprising twists and they all find love when they least expect it.
Hope Prevails - Book 3 of the Spring City Series
Janna Hardesty was living in Hell. She had seen her parents killed before her eyes and she had been kidnapped and sold to a madam to work in her brothel. For four long years, she had done everything in her power to escape. But no longer. Today, she was going to get out of there or die trying. She knocked out the customer Dolly sent to her and stole his clothes and walked out of the Pleasure Palace. She stole his horse and rode away. It took her three days to ride back to the ranch that had once been her home.
It was just as she remembered. It took her a lot of work to get it cleaned up. But she was young, and she had a good back. She wasn’t afraid of hard work. She started with the house. She cleaned up the kitchen and one of the bedrooms. At least she had a bed to sleep in and a place to cook. Next, she fixed up the barn for her horse. Before long, the improvements started to show. She continued to dress as a man, so that she wasn’t bothered by the men working on the ranch next to hers.
Deputy Mike Stewart met Janna Hardesty on one of his runs checking on the ranches in the area. He wasn’t fooled into thinking she was a man. He did become her friend. He brought Mia Sanchez in to see her. She hadn’t seen Mia since she was a child. They renewed their friendship. The more Mike saw of Janna, the more he liked of the independent woman.
But Dolly wasn’t finished with Janna, nor were the men living next door. Mike has to help Janna stay safe and free. Even after learning about her past, Mike can’t help falling in love with the feisty woman who only wants to stand on her own two feet and live life as a free woman. Janna never thought after four years living in the brothel, that she would ever want to live with a man. Nor did she ever think that she would fall in love with a man like Mike. She thought that no man would ever want a woman like her once he learned of her past. But love has a way of looking past a woman’s flaws and her colored past.
Just Cause - Book 1 of the Paradise Valley Series
Tally Lewis felt like she had the world at her feet. She was fifteen and having a birthday party given by her good friend, Linnea Crawley. But the party turned into a nightmare. Linnea wasn't giving her the kind of party she wanted. Linnea was giving a grown- up party with dancing and boys and spin the bottle. Tally didn't feel comfortable there and turned to leave. Linnea was furious and they had a terrible fight. Linnea was embarrassed that Tally left and decided to teach her a lesson. She started several rumors about Tally. Her friends believed the rumors and from being well liked in town, Tally became a leper. Linnea loved how successful her rumors were received. She started more. She ruined Tally's reputation and for two years, Tally was shunned and turned away from every good family in Paradise Valley. From a laughing and happy person, Tally grew shy and silent. Then a new sheriff came to town, Tally was asked to clean his new house and make it ready for him to arrive. She was still there when he and his new deputy arrived. It smelled great and looked wonderful, but then so did Tally. Sheriff Jack Sloan couldn't believe the rumors he heard about Tally and wanted to find out who started them and why. He also wanted to see more of Tally. Together they fought back at the one person who thought she could say and do anything without repercussions. She found out that everything could have just cause...
Just Because - Book 2 of the Paradise Valley Series
McKenna St. James had been raised like her father's first son near Paradise Valley on a ranch. She thought it was the perfect place to grow up. Then, her father was killed by a bear. She and her adopted brother, Ezra, found a young runaway slave and helped her escape. But her captors came after McKenna and Ezra. They asked the sheriff of Paradise Valley for help. He came with his deputies and a lawyer in the hope of keeping the young girl's captors away with the help of the law. Kier McGregor took one look at McKenna and knew she was the girl for him, but also knew that she wasn't a girl who would like living in town. McKenna fell in love with Kier at first glance, too, but knew that Kier wasn't made for ranch life either. Was their love strong enough to withstand living apart? Despite having to go through a vicious trial, their love grew. And then Kier had to go on the campaign trail with his father. He left McKenna and she went back to the ranch to work with her brother. Winter came and they both missed the other so much they thought they would die with longing for the other. Would they find a way to live with the other despite the differences? Would love find a way just because they cared so much for each other?
Probable Cause - Book 3 of the Paradise Valley Series
Max was headed for Paradise Valley as a U.S. Marshal. Maggie was headed to Paradise Valley to become their doctor. They met on the train coming out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Neither wanted to be stuck sitting next to each other for the next fifteen hundred miles. She was a plain Jane woman and the last thing, Max wanted to be stuck by. He was a rough and crude marshal. Maggie had no experience with men, and the last thing she needed was to be stuck sitting by was a neanderthal for the next three weeks. By the time they hit St. Louis, they found they had common ground. By the time they hit Kansas, they enjoyed sharing sandwiches. By the time, they hit Colorado, they were surprised that they were friends and would miss seeing each other every day. Maggie wasn't so plain and Max wasn't such a Neanderthal. It was going to be nice to have at least one familiar face in Paradise Valley. They ended up having rooms in the same boarding house. They ran into each other every day, sometimes more than once. Maggie changed her hair style and her change of dress. She wasn't plain at all and she was pretty to Max, damn it. He resented other men noticing. He made the mistake of kissing her one night and that changed everything for both of them. And then one night as Max stands guard duty at the jail, an explosion changes his life forever. Maggie has to save his life. But when he wakes up, Max doesn't remember Maggie or the life his had in Paradise Valley. He doesn't even remember who he is. What can Maggie do to help him remember their life together or what it can be? What is probable between them?
Follow Your Heart - Book 1 of the Geyser Series
Sheriff Henry Garrison found the body in the middle of Main Street. It had been burned beyond all recognition. The sheriff of the town of Geyser in the Wyoming Territory had to find out who this man was and who killed him. As sheriff, he didn’t like mysteries, and that’s exactly what he had.
Bess Winters was only three years old when she became an orphan when Indians had burned her home and killed everyone else in the area except Mecha, an Indian woman who lived nearby. Mecha heard Bess crying. She went to her and took her into her arms. She immediately became attached to the girl, and she decided to take her care of her. Mecha raised Bess and taught her how to live and survive in the west. Bess thrived under her care for thirteen years. Then, Mecha died.
Bess adopted a dog for companionship, and they often went for walks in the nearby woods. One day she came upon an unusual site. It was a big piece of wood that was almost completely burned stuck in the ground. There was evidence of a struggle. The, the dog went into nearby bushes and pulled out some saddle bags. When Bess looked at the contents of the bags, she was shocked by what she found. She knew she could not keep the information to herself. But she didn’t know who she could trust.
She decided to give the bags to the sheriff. Little did she know that by doing so, she was going to put herself in real danger. Only with the help of the sheriff and other town members was her safety secured. She never regretted her decision, because Mecha had taught her to always follow her heart. Her heart was set on seeking justice, and in doing so, she found a new family along the way.
Follow Your Dreams - Book 2 of the Geyser Series
Jenny's life had fallen apart during the War between the States. Her father had gone away to fight for what he thought was right. He was soon killed in battle. Later her mother became ill. She seemed to have lost her will to live. She passed away. For her, life seemed to have ended much earlier with the death of her husband. Jenny had grown up to become a teacher. She wanted to move as far away as she could from all the destruction of the war and all the hate that still persisted in her Virginia homeland.
Then she got a surprising telegram from her uncle in Geyser, a small town in the Wyoming Territory. The town needed a new teacher. She jumped at the chance of a new life. Her best friend, Lainie, was also looking for a fresh start. She had been raped during the war, and, as a result, had a little boy named Kai. Lainie, her son and her father, Elias, joined Jenny on the train ride out west.
Unfortunately, a gang of robbers were following the same train. Soon after the train was stopped, a strange fellow passenger thrust a little bag into her hand and told her to hide it. And then he disappeared. They didn't know what to do. She hid it in the bucket they kept Kai's diapers in.
They arrived in Geyser with the bag. When they finally opened it, they were shocked by its contents. Knowing that the man who gave it to them would be looking for it, they decided to give the bag to the sheriff. Jenny and her friends were in danger and it was up to the sheriff and deputy to keep them safe. Geyser, Wyoming was everything that Jenny thought it would be, and she loved teaching. But given risk to her, her friends, and even her new students, had she made the wrong decision in going out west?
Follow Your Destiny - Book 3 of the Geyser Series
Ben Garrison and Brody Madison were U.S. Marshals when they were sent to protect wagon trains that were endangered by desperadoes in the Wyoming territories. At one point, they heard gunshots and headed that way. A twenty-wagon train was surrounded by attackers when Ben and Brody came shooting to their rescue. They ran the men off. Several wagons had been overturned and many men had been killed. They helped the wagon train to bury their dead and to get on their way.
Before the wagon train started to move on, another man died. He had lost his wife much earlier and was traveling with his three daughters. The daughters refused to continue until they could bury their father. Ben and Brody said they would wait and bring the three girls along as soon as they could.
The three girls, or rather young women, had other ideas. They didn’t want to leave all their belongings. They didn’t want to ride horses or go with the two marshals. Ben and Brody didn’t care what they wanted, they just wanted to keep them alive. They put them in pants and on the horses. The women complained the entire time. Ben told them he was going to gag them if they didn’t shut up. Finally getting to Geyser, they found the body of a young girl outside of town.
They didn’t know that someone was killing women in Geyser. Ben’s father was the sheriff in Geyser. He had asked the marshals to help find the killer in their midst. The three young women didn’t know if they wanted to stay in a town with a killer running loose. In fact, a man started stalking one of them! His behavior was very suspicious.
When the three women weren’t complaining, Ben found that he actually liked one of them. There was no way he was going to let anything happen to her or her sisters, not after all that he went through to keep them alive to Geyser. Now he just had to find the killer, before the killer found one of them.
Hawk's Way - Book 1 of the Hawk Series
Jonathon Ahankaras Hawkins, better known as Hawk, was a bounty hunter. He was also a half-breed. His father, who was white, had fallen in love with a young Indian woman. She also happened to be the daughter of the chief of the Sioux tribe. Hawk was the result of the happy marriage. He grew up spending as much time in the Indian village as he did in his parents’ home. The Sioux had no trouble accepting Hawk, the white villagers did not. He had few friends in the white man’s world and spent little time there. He lived by his own rules, not the rules of the white man.
Erin McBride was a guide for two geologists. They were all attacked and left for dead. Hawk found them and brought them back to get medical help. While he searched for the men who did this to them, Erin healed. She certainly appreciated her rescue and Hawk’s continuing efforts on their behalf. But she didn’t really know who this man was and anything about his past. When Hawk returned without success, she wanted to join Hawk in the search since she would be able to identify the culprits.
Hawk was against this, since he always traveled alone. But Erin was not one to give up. If Hawk wanted them, he was going to have to take her with him.
Would they catch the men, and would Erin get her revenge? Would Erin get to know Hawk, and would their relationship change over time, even though, or because, he was different than other men? Did she even see Hawk as different? Read Hawk’s Way and find how Hawk and Erin find a way to bring a little peace to a savage land, and at the same time, find a life to be shared forever.
Hawk's Promise - Book 2 of the Hawk Series
Hawk was a half-breed. He followed his own rules. He had few friends in the white man’s world or in the Indian’s world. He has recently become a father, and he wants to be a good one. Therefore, he makes a promise to himself and his son. He will do everything he can to prepare his son for the challenges he will face in this world. Hawk’s wife shares the same goal, and she supports him in any way she can to fulfill this promise.
Hawk has a vision of how he can help his Indian brothers find peace in the west. He comes up with a plan for the United States government to establish an Indian Nation where the Indians from different tribes can live in peace. It will take all of Hawk’s power to get them to cooperate. At the same time, his friend, Sheriff Roy Connally, is concerned with keeping the peace. The sheriff is also dealing with a problem that Hawk has some skills that would be quite useful. The two decide to help each other to achieve their goals.
The sheriff’s problem is a ruthless deputy that he suspects has kidnapped three women. He needs Hawk to find a way for them to safely escape. If it is accomplished, the sheriff has assured Hawk that he would help the women recover from their experience. So, Hawk has to address three significant challenges at the same time – be a good father, help the sheriff, and pursue the plan for the Indian Nation.
Find out how he does in Hawk’s Promise. Does his son grow up to be the man he and his wife hoped? What happens to the kidnapped women? What happens to the deputy that mistreated them? And finally, does he find the help he needs that results in a peaceful Indian Nation?
Hawk's Legacy - Book 3 of the Hawk Series
It’s been twenty years since Hawk had been able to form the Indian Nation for his people. It has been a peaceful time. His children Shiloh, Cantu, and Zola have grown up. Hawk is very proud of them. However, he is concerned about his good friend, Charles Hawthorne, who helped them form the Indian Nation.
Charles was facing growing forces that were against the commitments made to the Indian people including the land they were given. Cameron Santana, a Senator in Colorado, was in support of a movement that would end the agreement making it possible for non-Indians to take over ownership of the land.
Santana comes up with a sinister plan to accomplish his goals. He knows that Hawthorne is a main hurdle he faces. So, he decides to court Hawthorne’s daughter, Mara. He soon finds a way to blackmail her into becoming his fiancé. He then moves his own people into her house and starts poisoning her parents. Mara doesn’t know what to do or who she can call for help. Santana is too powerful and knows too many people in Denver. She reaches out to Hawk, and he, along with the help of his son, Shiloh, begin to tackle the challenge.
Hawk and Shiloh are not intimidated by Santana and all his men. They just have to find a way to free Mara and her parents. They call upon their old friend, John Meacham, to help them. Before long, the entire Indian Nation is called upon to help bring freedom and justice to the Hawthorne family. They are motivated by their indebtedness for all he had done for them in the past. Once exposed for his behavior, Santana loses the support of others and his plan fails. Along the way, Hawk’s children find love and begin to forge their own futures thus assuring their father that his legacy will continue for years to come.
Missouri Magic - Book 1 of the Collins Family Series
Abigail (Abby) Hadley was ready for a change. She considered herself an old-maid. She started teaching at fifteen and had been teaching for eighteen years. Therefore, she decided to accept a new teaching assignment in Ridgeway, Missouri. She would be boarding with the Collins family on a farm.
The Collins’ family consisted of Alice Collins, her son Charlie and his three daughters, and her two other sons, Cameron and Christopher. Charlie put his heart and soul into trying to keep the family farm going. It was a real challenge, so he wasn’t looking forward to having an old-maid teacher in their house for the coming year. He had enough on his shoulders already. Unfortunately, his brother Cameron wasn’t able to help much. He was an active doctor until he returned from the Civil War a broken man. He hadn’t talked much in recent years. He lived in his own mental cage.
Charlie’s other brother, Chris, was a U.S. Marshal and he only came back each year to help plant and then later to harvest the crops. Without his help the farm would be lost. He thought that the last thing they needed was another mouth to feed.
And then came Abigail with her contagious smile and laughter. Charlie’s daughters loved her. The family couldn’t believe her willingness to pitch in around the farm. She helped lift the gloom that had been hanging over the family for several years. After a while, all three brothers began to look at life from a different perspective. Abby had grown on everyone, and the three brothers all looked at Abby with hunger in their eyes. Here was a woman they could all love. The only question, however, was with which one would Abigail fall in love?
Missouri Justice - Book 2 of the Collins Family Series
After having been a U.S. Marshal for several years, Chris Collins was ready to settle down. He also wanted to stay closer to his aging mother in Ridgeway. Therefore, when there was an opening for sheriff in Ridgeway, he applied for and got the job.
Due to a set of unusual circumstances, Tess Adams realized that she had to go on the run. For safety, she had been posing as boy for the last five years. Then one night, she witnessed the killing of a couple and the kidnapping of a little girl that could bring them a lot of money. Tess followed the two men, and she was able to grab the little girl and take off. Tess knew that the men were looking for her and the little girl. Her travels eventually took her to Ridgeway.
Seeing that there was someone new in town, Chris, who liked to keep tabs on everyone, decided to introduce himself. At first, Chris didn’t know Tess wasn’t a boy. However, the next time he saw the new visitors, Tess wasn’t wearing a hat. When he saw her with her hair down and saw how gracefully she moved, he became a bit suspicious. It occurred to him that this may be a woman. He confronted her, and Tess explained the reasons for her behavior. Seeing how pretty she was, from that day on, even though Tess proved to be a bit of a challenge, he couldn’t get her out of his mind or his dreams.
Tess didn’t back down from anybody. She didn’t like being told what to do by Chris or anyone else in Ridgeway! Eventually, the killers arrived in town looking for Tess and the little girl. Their plan was to kill Tess and kidnap the little girl again. Chris had to protect them at all costs, whether Tess wanted him to or not. He was falling for the most stubborn female he had ever met, and against all odds, Tess was finding that Chris just might be the man of her dreams as well.
Missouri Maidens - Book 3 of the Collins Family Series
Abby and Charlie Collins were very blessed with a large family. They lived in Ridgeway, Missouri where Charlie also served as the local sheriff. They had three older daughters, Mona, Nessa and Noel, who brought them a lot of joy and helped them in the running of their large farm. Each daughter was beautiful, and Abby and Charlie anticipated the day the girls fell in love and moved on with their own lives.
Reese Montgomery was the Charlie’s deputy. The two were close, especially after Reese had recently helped them with the emergency birth of their twin boys. They asked him to be a godfather to one of the twins. That’s where Reese met Mona Collins for the first time, since she just returned from school to become a teacher. She was to become the godmother of the same child. Reese was impressed by Mona’s beauty and her gentleness. He couldn’t wait to learn more about her. But so did other young men in Ridgeway. One was the new blacksmith in town who thought himself to be somewhat of a Romeo to all women. He was making all the girls in Ridgeway fall for him. Would Mona fall for his line too? Reese would have to stand in line to vie for her hand.
Nessa wanted to become a writer. Her grandmother encouraged her to follow her dreams. Therefore, Nessa submitted an article to the local newspaper. The paper was run by two very handsome young men, Matt and Mitch Jackson. Not only did they like what she wrote, they liked Nessa, too.
Noel wanted to become a chef. She loved cooking and wanted to work in Hank’s restaurant when she became old enough. Helping Hank at the restaurant were his two very handsome sons. Noel had her eye on them and hoped that one day they would notice her.
It was going to be a very eventful year. Abby and Charlie would never forget as their daughters were caught up in new lives and, possibly, finding new partners for life.
Josie was hoping that Mr. Kincaid was going to be a reasonable man and helpful in caring for the three children. They had already been through so much, and now, traveling across the country to an uncle they had never met was very unsettling. What does the future hold for all of them?
Kindred Hearts - Book 1 of the Pine City Series
Josie Sullivan, at the age of twelve, was kidnapped, raped, and beaten almost to death. Her father rescued her, and, with the help of her family, she experienced a full recovery except for the fact that she could never have children. Eight years later, she's a nurse at a hospital working with youngsters who have experienced a trauma in their lives. Three young children were brought to Josie after their parents are killed. Their only living relative lived in the Wyoming Territory as a virtual hermit on a mountain. It was determined that Josie might be the best person to accompany the children on the trip out west and help them get settled.
The uncle, Quinn Kincaid, was a mountain of a man who had fought in the Civil War. He had been captured and held in a six-by-six-foot room for almost a year with another prisoner. He promised himself that if he ever made it out of the war alive, he'd go far away from all the destruction he'd seen, and he'd never look back. He traveled to the Wyoming Territory and bought half a mountain and built himself a one-room cabin on the top of it. One wall was almost all windows so he wouldn't feel closed in ever again. He was at peace and content.
Then the telegram came telling him of his brother's death and that in two weeks he was getting his two nephews and his infant niece, and a nurse to help him care for them for a while. How were they all going to fit in his one room cabin? Quinn loved his brother and he wanted to do right by his children, but it sure put him in a bit of a dilemma.
Josie was hoping that Mr. Kincaid was going to be a reasonable man and helpful in caring for the three children. They had already been through so much, and now, traveling across the country to an uncle they had never met was very unsettling. What does the future hold for all of them?
Kindred Minds - Book 2 of the Pine City Series
MacDonald and McKinley Kincaid were twins. Most everyone in Red Bluff knew them as Mac and Lee. When they went away to college, they were very proud of them. Mac and Lee took two very different paths in college. Mac became a doctor and a surgeon. He wanted to help the people of Red Bluff stay healthy and well. When he graduated from medical school, he went back to his home town and bought out the medical practice of Doctor Weimers, who had been the doctor of the town for over thirty years. He couldn’t wait to start practicing medicine.
Lee took a different path. He studied law and became a U.S. Marshall. He loved finding crooks and putting them in jail where they belonged. Five years after he had become a marshal, the sheriff of Red Bluff was killed while trying to capture three men who were robbing the bank. Lee went back to his home town to become the sheriff. He loved being the sheriff and being home again to see his folks and little sister, Nola. He couldn’t wait until his twin, Mac, finished medical school and came home as well. Sandy, who was a close childhood friend was the local nurse. When Mac returned, he observed that Sandy had blossomed into a beautiful young woman.
Zada Lynch saw her parents get killed on a train when she was fourteen years old. She jumped off the train as it slowed going around a curve, so that the men who killed her parents wouldn’t kill her too. She hid out in the mountains of Wyoming for seven years disguising herself so no one would find her. She even changed her name to Zee. One day, Lee tracked down Zee and asked for her help in tracking some missing cattle. Zee has to make a choice that may change her life forever. Over the next few months, Red Bluff was to experience some significant changes.
Kindred Spirits - Book 3 of the Red Bluff Series
Red Bluff continues to grow in the Wyoming Territory, and so does the Kincaid family. Josie and Quinn are very proud of their two sons, Mac and Lee, who have come back to town to raise their families. Mac and Sandy have a little girl, Sasha, and continue to run the clinic in town. Lee and Zee have twin boys, Finn and Zach. Lee is the sheriff in Red Bluff and Zee is training horses with Nola Kincaid, the youngest sister of Mac and Lee.
Nola doesn’t want to go to school to be a teacher or a nurse. She doesn’t want to spend her days inside cooking, cleaning, or sewing. She much prefers to spend her time outdoors helping to train horses with her sister-in-law, Zee Kincaid. Nola has a gift with animals. There isn’t a horse she can’t ride or tame. Together, the two young women are training some very fine horses to sell. Nola is beautiful, but she definitely has a mind of her own, as several young men have discovered when they try to court the young lady.
Garth McGregor has come to Red Bluff with his young son to be the new blacksmith. Garth is a good-looking eligible bachelor. He seems to attract the attention of many single women. However, the last thing he wants is any involvement with any woman. The first person he meets in Red Bluff is Nola Kincaid. He is not used to working with women, especially those in the business of training horses. Nola is unlike any of the other flirtatious women in town. She likes being independent, and she definitely is not shy about telling others what she thinks! Garth is intrigued by her and her ways. In fact, sparks seem to fly often when the two of them interact. Over time, however, their relationship seems to grow into something different. Who knows where this may lead? Is it possible that both have met their perfect match?
One Day at a Time - Book 1 of the Hope Series
The town of Hope was a ghost town, or all most. The gold was gone as was most of the population. So an ad was placed in the newspapers back east to attract people wanting to start over in a rebuilding community. Interested parties were asked to show up in Independence, Missouri, to join the wagon train to the Montana territories headed by Grant Taylor.
Families came from many places and backgrounds. The Santini family consisting of a potential rancher, a teacher, a nurse and a homemaker. The Collins family, made up of a sheriff and his father with a mental disorder, also answered the call. The Keegan’s came. He was a carpenter and his wife was pregnant with their first child. Finley Callahan was grieving over the loss of his wife. He came with his three children and his younger sister.
George Whitney and his family packed up his whole general store. They were joined by three black families who had worked for Whitney for a long time. Harrison Duncan lost his sight in the war, but with his mother’s help and his son, they thought they could start over and welcomed the challenge. Thornton’s wagon held two frightened young girls who constantly wore bruises. They wanted to start a new life, but not with Thornton.
These families all had something they could contribute to a new future in Hope. But first, Grant Taylor had his work cut out for him leading a wagon train for more than a thousand miles across rivers, desert, mountains, desperadoes, Indians, disease, and bad weather. But he was a man who met life head on taking it one day at a time.
Brides for Hope - Book 2 of the Hope Series
The ad read, “Young ladies wanted who are looking for adventure. The young men of Hope need brides. The town of Hope is located in the Yellowstone Valley in the Montana territory. The town has come alive with a general store, a bank, courthouse, school, church, and other amenities that should interest any young lady looking to put down roots. Come see for yourself and meet our community. If you don’t find the man of your dreams, you might find a job you like and decide to stay. Contact Avery Quincey at the Royal Hotel by February 28th.”
Sadie Brown had spent twenty years waiting for her love to come back to her. She responded to the ad. Ellie Connors and her son Joey also applied. As did Ellie who needed a father for her son, and she felt like she could make some young man a good wife.
Cassie Winters needed a husband now. She was tired of taking care of her father who turned down all the young men who came to call on her. Then there were the twins, Della and Stella, as well as Paulette, Muriel, and Amy. It was Avery Quest’s job to bring back twelve eligible women to Hope. Some of the women were very interesting. He couldn’t wait to see which young men ended up with which young women. Some would make someone very good wives, while some would give the men a bit of a run for their money. He only wished he’d be around to see the fireworks!
The Next Generation - Book 3 of the Hope Series
The Witcher Gang had been terrorizing the entire northwest territory for years. Their idea of fun was to attack innocent farmers and ranchers, and their families, and to rape, pillage and kill everyone in their wake and leaving the homesteads in smoke as they burned to the ground.
Their victims included the parents and sister of Gabe Michaels. As a result, he became a bounty hunter, primarily focusing his efforts on tracking down the gang. Surprisingly, they showed up near the town of Hope where Gabe now lived. While going out to warn farmers and ranchers, gunshots were heard from the Taylor farm. Immediately, Gabe and the sheriff headed in that direction to help. Gabe was seriously injured, and the Taylor’s agreed to help him recover.
The Taylor daughter was the one that spent several weeks getting Gabe back on his feet. The two of them became quite close. In fact, several of the children that had arrived with the resurgence of Hope were now young adults seeking their roles as adult members of the community as well as finding a partner with whom they would spend the rest of their lives. The town was evolving into a thriving area with these children coming of age as well as the new arrivals seeking their own futures in Hope. The next generation had arrived.
No More Tears - Book 1 of the Quinley Series
For the last six years Ray and Russ Crocker had completely destroyed the life of Tess Carter. They had killed her father and taken over the family farm. Then, using the threat of doing the same to her mother, Tess was forced into a life of misery, controlling her every move and even trying to rape her. Then the unspeakable happened. They killed her mother. No longer bound by fear for her mother’s safety, she had to find a new life far away from those monsters. She ran away and started that life in Quinley, Georgia.
Griff Carmichael wanted a new beginning for himself and his three-year-old son, Charlie. He’d just buried his wife. Although he had a job, he didn’t have a lot of money. He had to have someone watch his son while he was at work. Whomever he found had to be responsible at a reasonable cost.
Tess and Griff met in a general store. They soon realized that they could help each other, and they decided to do so. It was the best decision they ever made. Over time they became closer and closer. But there was danger lurking just around the corner. The Crocker’s want Tess back, and they won’t stop until they find her. Will Tess and Griff’s love for each other help them fend off the Crocker's and find a safe and happy life together?
No More Fears - Book 2 of the Quinley Series
Note: The author decided to add another book on the town of Quinley by building on her earlier book.
Cassandra Carmichael had watched three men kill her father and her mother ten years ago when she was only a child. She and her little brother, Charlie, had been packed up and sent to live with her Aunt in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Her aunt and little brother had died with cholera a few years later and she ended up living in an orphanage. Now Cassie is all grown up. And she’s decided that it’s time to get justice for her parents and her little brother.
Because of something in Samantha O’Brian’s past, she lived in constant fear. There was someone from that past that wanted her dead. Compared to all of her other problems and those of the town of Quinley, this one secret dominated her life. She lived in constant fear of being found and of her true identity coming to light.
Her mother married someone who had a daughter, Alaina, from a previous marriage. When her father passed away, except for a modest trust for the two girls, by far the biggest fortune went to his current wife. Samantha’s twenty-year old stepsister resented it and was determined to find a way to get her hands on the rest of the inheritance.
She became hateful, frequently threatening her stepmother and stepsister. Her obsession turned her into a monster. Even before that, there were signs of her mental condition as she had threatened her father in the past. The mother was so concerned, she decided to send the five-year old Samantha away with a new identity for her own safety. She also changed her will so that Samantha would get the entire fortune when she died. The only way Alaina could get the fortune was if her mother and Samantha were both dead.
Fortunately, Samantha has two very close friends, Tator Henry and Charlie Carmichael, who would do anything to keep her safe. Although trouble was probably coming to Quinley, they just didn’t know when. They had to prepare Samantha for whatever came their way.
Justified - Book 1 of Garrison Series
Cassandra Carmichael had watched three men kill her father and her mother ten years ago when she was only a child. She and her little brother, Charlie, had been packed up and sent to live with her Aunt in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Her aunt and little brother had died with cholera a few years later and she ended up living in an orphanage. Now Cassie is all grown up. And she’s decided that it’s time to get justice for her parents and her little brother.
Cassie returns to Garrison, Wyoming as Cassie Michaels, the new teacher for their school. She takes with her Lucy James, her best friend. She and Lucy have been through a lot together and Lucy knows all about her past and what she wants for her future. She’s willing to help her get what is justice for her parents and peace for Cassie.
Cain McBride is the sheriff in Garrison. He feels drawn to the new school teacher, but he also feels she is not what she shows to the world. She’s hiding something and Cain intends to find out what it is. The more he sees of Cassie, the more he feels she’s one incredible woman. Will Cain help Cassie catch the three men who killed her parents? Will she be able to get rid of the ghosts of her past and begin again? If and when the past is behind her, will she feel justified and finally at peace?
Turning Point - Book 2 of Garrison Series
Darcy Anderson's world changed with the blink of an eye. First, her father died and she learned that she was no longer well-to-do. She went from not having to work or worry about money. All her worldly needs were provided in her sheltered life. Suddenly, that was no longer the case. Now she had to wonder what kind of job she was even suited for! She would now be moving from Philadelphia to the wilds of Wyoming to a place called Garrison. Wyoming wasn't even a state, it was a territory! Her Uncle Seth was going to let her and her brother, Adam, live with him. He was alone and welcomed the idea of having them join him.
Although Darcy had all the material things of life, some of her other needs were not met. She was called an ugly duckling by her father and a plain Jane by her mother. She wanted more out of life. Would she be able to change into what she always wanted to be in Wyoming? And then she meets Deputy Rowan Murphy, a larger-than-life cowboy who doesn't think she's ugly or plain.
Her life in Garrison was a true turning point. From helping to start a newspaper with her brother, learning to make a home for her uncle, thwarting bank robbers, and finding many friends, Darcy's life is dramatically changed in a matter of months. She soon finds that Garrison might be the place to make all her dreams come true.
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Redemption - Book 3 of Garrison Series
Four women were on a wagon train heading to California. They shared their two wagons with four orphans who they hoped to place with new families out west. One of the women was dressed as a man in hopes of finding some needed security. Another is a young black woman who had been rescued from the repeated abuse of her plantation master. She heard that he was coming after her so she had to leave town in a hurry. Another of the women is a young nurse who had earlier written to a doctor in Garrison, a growing town in the Wyoming Territory, hoping to find a job. The last young woman is a doctor who worked tirelessly during the Civil War operating on countless soldiers trying to save their lives. Now she wants a chance to become a doctor in a small town and serve the community. But she is finding it difficult to become accepted as a woman doctor.
Their lives, along with those of the orphans, become very entwined during the trip. However, due to an illness, they were forced to separate from the rest of the wagon train. Suddenly on their own, they soon encountered a very gruff cowboy. Fortunately, realizing how vulnerable the group was in the wilderness, he agreed to travel with them for a while. They never make it to California. Instead, they decide to head for Garrison.
Will Garrison be the right choice for all four ladies? Will they find peace and acceptance in this new town? Will they find homes for the four orphans? It’s a chance they all felt they need to take.
Moment of Truth - Book 4 of Garrison Series
Sloan Jackson had always wanted to be a U.S. Marshall when he grew up and maybe a deputy in Garrison someday. His father understood that he didn’t want to follow in his footsteps and be a rancher. It didn’t mean that he didn’t want to help out his father as he was growing up. Sloan loved Garrison and the people around it. Slater was his younger brother and it seemed that he was always being sent to get him out of trouble. At least most of them, some of Slater’s friends got on his nerves.
The trouble usually ended up involving a pint-sized red-head named Maura. Maura was younger than any of Slater and his friend, but they all jumped to do what she told them to do anyway. Sloan asked him, why? But Slater told him that Maura was smarter than all of them put together and always had the greatest ideas. Sloan met the red-haired youngster and had to grin, she sure knew how to make those boys jump.
Sloan was gone for ten years and was hired to be the new deputy in Garrison. On the train back home, he meets a beautiful red-haired lawyer. It turns out that Maura is all grown up and the new prosecutor in town. She certainly throws Sloan for a loop. He knows he’s much too old for her, but finds himself drawn to her like he’s never been drawn to another woman before. And then an old enemy of Garrison comes back to settle an old score. Sloan has to protect Maura and all of Garrison from them. But will he be able to protect himself from Maura?
Winds Of Grace (Book 1)
Widower Robert Winthrop and his sister were raising his two sons in New York City. His sister had dropped everything to come and be a mother to his two sons when his wife died in childbirth with his youngest son. He recently became aware of his terminal illness, but before his death he had to find a man to be a father to his two sons, a man he could trust, a man of character. He also needed to be a man worthy of his sister. She needed a husband just as much as his sons needed a father.
He found that man in Jacob Taylor. Jacob lost his wife in childbirth with their third child. He was left with two little girls and an invalid mother to care for in addition to trying to farm his three hundred acres in the Midwest. Robert had sent out Pinkerton detectives and found Jacob to be a man to be trusted, just the sort of man he was looking for. In their correspondence, Jacob found that Robert’s sister might be the wife he needed to care for his family. Now Robert just had to convince his sister, Grace, that this was the answer to all his prayers.
Grace wasn’t so sure that traveling a thousand miles across the country to marry a man she had never met was the answer, but she would do just about anything to give her brother the peace he needed before he died. But was she making the right choice? Could she marry and find security and even happiness with a virtual stranger?
Winds of Time (Book 2)
Maggie Campbell’s father was an outlaw and so was her brother. She didn’t want to follow in the family footsteps. So, she ran away, knowing that if she were caught there would be a price to pay. She started over with a brand new life. She even wrote to a Mail Order Bride Agency in the hope to find a good husband in her new life.
John Taylor owned a store in Mineral Springs in Missouri. He was thrilled that his brother was so happy with his mail order bride, Grace. After a lot of thought and urging from his mother, he made the decision to write to the Mail Order Bride Agency himself and see if he would be as lucky as his brother in getting himself a wife.
Maggie Campbell was one of the women he started writing to. Soon, she was the only one. The more he learned about her, the more he liked. After many letters, John decided to ask her to become his wife. To his delight, she agreed. Now the question remained, could they be as happy as his brother Jake and Grace? Should Maggie tell him about her family? Would her past catch up to her? Can you really start all over again? Only time would tell if they both made the right choice.
Winds of Hope (Book 3)
When Joel Taylor arrived in Grafton, Illinois to take over as the new doctor, he thought he would have the help of a little old white-haired nurse with years of experience. Instead, he finds out that the nurse, while little with very light platinum-blond hair, is quite young and very attractive. Any concerns about her lack of experience, however, were soon relieved as she quickly demonstrated her abilities as a nurse along with her gutsy attitude.
Thea Spencer can’t believe that Doctor Joel Taylor is the new doctor taking over Doctor Webber’s practice. He’s drop dead gorgeous and single, everything she’s promised to avoid. Add to that the fact that he’s totally dedicated to his patients and a very kind person. She knows she’s going to have a tough time keeping things professional.
As they face many challenges together, a special relationship begins to evolve. The more time he spends with Thea, the more he falls under her spell. However, it wasn’t until Thea’s life was threatened, that Joel realized he would go to any length to protect her.
Can Joel keep Thea safe? Will love find its way into their hearts? Can hope for a better future together sustain them through such trying times?
The Hope of Trinity (Published June, 2020)
Max and Marc Logan fought in the Civil War with the other men from Yellowstone Valley. Afterwards, they chose to try to find their fortune in the gold mines of California. Having found enough gold to go back to the valley and build the ranch of their dreams, they strike out for the Montana Territory and the town of Trinity. Here they meet up with their friends and make plans to settle down. But they’re greenhorns when it came to life on a farm or a ranch, having grown up in an orphanage in the city. But they meet a young boy who seems to know a lot about farming, cattle, crops, plowing…everything they don’t know. He can even cook! When he agrees to join them on their new ranch, things seem to be getting better and better for the Logan brothers.
Jesse McCoy has been helping out on her father’s farm in Kansas for all of her life. Her mother died at an early age, her brother was killed in the war, and her father is drinking his life away. She doesn’t mind helping her father, but when he tries to sell her to one of his drinking buddies, Jesse runs away. She dresses as a boy and heads towards Canada, figuring that the farther away she goes, the less chance that her father will find her. When she meets up with the Logan brothers, she feels like maybe her luck is changing for the better as well.
Dressed as a boy, they treat her like a younger brother, but Jesse didn’t know that men could be as kind as the Logan men. She soon starts falling in love with Max but doesn’t know how he’ll react when he finds out he’s a she!
The Refuge in Trinity (Published June, 2020)
Edward Bellamy is dying. But before he dies, he has to make sure that his family is safe from Keifer Kutter. Kutter has been seeing his oldest daughter, Charlie, on the sly. She is thrilled with the relationship, her father is not. Edward knows the kind of man Keifer is, and what happens to women that come under his influence. Kiefer runs too many saloons and pleasure houses for Edward to mistake his intentions. So Edward takes his family and disappears.
Keifer is furious and makes plans to go after Charlie along with her best friend, Lela Johnson, who helped her get away. The two women are afraid of Keifer, and afraid for the safety of their families. They head for the town of Trinity in the Yellowstone Valley of Montana. Once they arrive, they seek the help of the deputy sheriff, Graham Crocker, and a local businessman, Jonah McDonald. The two men know about Keifer Kutter, and they vow to keep the girls and the rest of the Bellamy family safe, no matter what it takes to get it done. However, Charlie and the businessman butt heads at every step along the way. On the other hand, Lela and the deputy enter into a make-believe marriage as a strategy to keep her safe.
Over time, the relationship of each couple begins to evolve. At first frustrated by their differences, Charlie and Jonah begin to appreciate one another’s efforts, while Graham finds that Lela could be everything he ever wanted in a woman. While pretending to love her, he begins to wonder if he may not be pretending at all!
The Escape to Trinity (Published June, 2020)
In seconds, Molly Kendrick’s life changes. She is a witness to an attempted murder, and the culprit who killed before doesn’t leave witnesses. In less than twelve hours, her entire life is uprooted, and her name is changed along with her identity to keep her alive.
Who would think to look for a young nurse from Chicago’s lower east side on a wagon train traveling over a thousand miles from St. Louis to Oregon dressed as a nun with four orphan children? Father Thomas Callahan hopes that the killer, Vinney Piderro, won’t see the connection, as he sends Molly and four of his orphans west to be adopted. He hopes in the hands of his brother, Bo Callahan, they’ll all be safe.
Bo’s not sure what to do with a nun and four small orphans on a wagon train traveling hundreds of miles across some of the worst land he’s ever seen. Add to that the rivers they have to cross, the deserts, the Indians, drought, cholera, and heartache that travelers have to contend with to get to Oregon. With four small children, and a killer on her trail, this young nun has even more to worry about.
Then Bo meets Molly Kendrick. Soon after he discovers that Molly is not really a nun, and why it has to be kept secret, he realizes he has never met a woman quite like her. It certainly promises to be a wagon train trip they will never forget! As they travel westward, they become closer and closer. Bo never dreamed that he might find someone to love and who loves him. But can he keep her safe to start their new life together? Can Molly be the strong pioneer wife that Bo needs? Molly looks forward to her new life without regrets, firmly believing that love will find a way.
Heart to Heart (Published April, 2020)
Beth Riley doesn't have too many options open to her. Having just experienced a life changing event, she finds herself financially strapped and a little short on hope for the future.
Murphy Whitaker finds himself in a pretty challenging situation himself. He has to find someone soon to marry if he is to be the sole guardian of his young niece and nephew. The two meet, and it soon becomes apparent that they can help each other address their problems.
Deciding to accept the offer of marriage in name only, Beth and Murphy join hands in a temporary arrangement. They have a lot to learn about each other in a very short time.
Murphy's sister-in-law claims she also wants the children. But she also wants to make Murphy suffer as much as she can. He finds out that such a woman scorned can be a tough adversary.
Can Murphy and Beth fend off her challenge? Can they make a real home for themselves and the two young children? Sometimes it takes a unique set of circumstances for two hearts to become one.
Promises to Keep (Published October, 2019)
Katherine (Kate) Ryan has four older brothers. She would do anything to help them. So, when she gets word that her oldest brother, Patrick and his wife, Leigh are having trouble with her pregnancy, Kate drops everything to go and see what she can do to help.
Fortunately, Patrick has the home and Leigh in pretty good shape by hiring a cook and a maid to help out until Leigh gives birth. What he really needs help with is his struggling company. They have a huge contract coming due all too soon. His partner, Morgan Buchanan, for one reason or another can’t keep a secretary longer than a few weeks. Kate agrees to become Morgan’s secretary until the contract is filled and Leigh has her baby. But Morgan has other ideas!
Sparks fly between the tiny red-head and the six-foot boss as soon as they meet. Although Kate may be small, she is more than a match for Morgan. It’s not long before Morgan is wondering what he ever did without her and begins seeing her as more than just a secretary. Kate doesn’t know how it happened, but worries that she may be falling in love with her boss.
Will Kate ever become more than just a temporary secretary to Morgan? Will Morgan find everything he’s been searching for in Kate?
Taking a Chance (Book 1)
Mary Williams has lost her husband, her young son, and both parents in less than a year. She is constantly haunted by the memories of all that she has lost. She decides she needs to leave St. Louis and start over somewhere new, someplace where she can make a difference.
Cade Murphy lost his wife of twelve years a few months ago. He’s left with five children and a ranch to take care of. He can’t do it all alone. He sends away for a mail order bride, but not too many women want five children when they tie the knot. If Cade doesn’t find a wife pretty soon, he may lose the ranch he and his late wife spent years building. He can’t spend all his time planting crops and looking after all his children.
One of Cade’s friends in Pine City, Wyoming is Maggie McDonald. Maggie has a sister, Brenda, in St. Louis and she just happens to know Mary Williams and her situation. The two sisters decide to play matchmaker. When Cade finds out about Mary from Maggie, he jumps at the chance that might turn out to be the first good thing to happen to his family in many months.
Mary decides to plunge ahead and help him and his motherless children. They both decide that the marriage will be in name only. They both loved their spouses and don’t want a real marriage. Time and circumstances will decide their future happiness. Will they both find a new love to change both their lives and that of his five children forever? It could be Taking a Chance for all of them.
A Second Chance (Book 2)
Maggie McDonald married what she thought was the man of her dreams ten years ago. They bought a house with lots of rooms that she wanted to fill up with lots of children. By the end of their first year of marriage, Maggie finds out that Stephen, her husband, is not the man she thought he was. He’s a gambler, a con man, and a cheat. Maggie throws him out of her bedroom and turns her huge home into a boarding house. Later Stephen gets shot over a poker game.
For various reasons, Maggie loses all her boarders and then gets to start over with new and different boarders. They were different because, unlike the former renters that she barely knew, she became closer and more involved in the lives of her new tenants. For example, the new Sheriff, his niece, and his deputy move into her boarding house. They open up a whole new world for Maggie and the new life she wants to have.
Sam Kincaid has been a U.S. Marshall for over fifteen years, recently his brother died in a fire. His niece was one of the few survivors. He needs a stable home for his niece to grow up in. Mrs. McDonald seems to be just the person for Andie, his niece, to get to know.
Maggie’s new boarders feel more like family than strangers, and soon a new relationship grows between Sam and Maggie. A Second Chance brings all sorts of surprises to Maggie’s Boarding House, and shows her that she should never give up on her dreams.
Last Chance (Book 3)
Shea and her brothers grab a few essential items and sneak out of the house heading for Pine City. Along the way, they meet a U.S. Marshall by the name of Haydn Banion. They explain where they are heading and why they had to leave their stepfather, Tito Ramos. The marshall was surprised to hear the name of Ramos, because he was chasing a group of villains with the same last name. He decides to help them on their journey to ensure their safety. When they arrive in Pine City, the marshall looks up the local sheriff, Sam Kincaid, to make him aware of Shea’s fate and potential problems in the future.
The first few months in Pine City were a welcome relief, and Shea and her brothers met several new friends. The marshall looked in on them from time to time. He found Shea to be a very interesting and attractive person, and he was fond of her two brothers as well. Shea was drawn to Haydn’s quiet strength, and he was eager to protect her from anything and anyone. It was apparent that his feelings for her were becoming more that just a friendship.
Eventually Tito Ramos, with the help of his two brothers, tracks down Shea and her two brothers in Pine City. Suddenly everything was at risk. What happened to all involved? What sacrifices had to be made, and how did they affect the people and their relationships? Could Shea and her brothers find safety and happiness for years to come in Pine City?
Above the Storm (Book 1)
Three brothers, John, Jackson and Jebidiah Morgan, joined the Union Army during the Civil War. All three were fighting in the same battle during which each was seriously wounded. Captured by the Confederates, they were to be sent to the prison in Andersonville. It meant almost certain death for all of them.
Waiting to be transferred, they were tied to a tree when two Union sympathizers, a young white boy and a huge black man, discovered them and helped them escape. Because of them, their lives were spared, and they were given food, warm beds, and medical attention. Later they found out the young lad was not a boy at all, but a young beautiful woman, Teresa Kelly, instead.
Above the Storm is the story of John Morgan and Teresa Kelly and how they helped them all to not only survive but to find love and happiness.
After the Storm (Book 2)
Three Morgan brothers went to fight in the War Between the States, John, Jackson, and Jebidiah. They are wounded and rescued by Teresa Kelly and her best friend, Moses, who is a freed slave. They survived the war and began a new life in the Montana Territory near a town called Liberty in the Yellowstone Valley. After the Storm is Jackson Morgan’s story. He and Jeb rescue a young girl and her brother and sister and take them back to the valley with them.
Jackson (Jack) and the girl, Samantha (Sam), fall in love. However, Sam and her siblings are not safe. They had escaped from an orphanage where they were being mistreated. Men were trying to capture them and take them back.
It will take Jack’s entire family to keep them safe. Jack will find that love will help him heal from the ravages of war. And Sam will find that Jack will keep her safe even at the cost of his own life. Together they will weather any storm that comes their way.
Beyond the Storm (Book 3)
Three Morgan brothers, John, Jackson, and Jebidiah, fought together in the Civil War, were all wounded in the same battle, and then rescued by a woman and her best friend, Saul, a freed slave. After the war, they all head west to Liberty, Montana to start a new life far from the ravages of a war-torn South. Jeb’s two brothers have already found wonderful women to love. They have begun families, but Jeb is in no hurry to find anyone to be tied down to. This book focusses on Jebidiah (Jeb), and how he ultimately finds love and happiness as well.
Jenna Calpetti is running away from an arranged marriage to a brutal power-hungry man. Her stagecoach is attacked by robbers, and she and a small baby are the only survivors. Fortunately, Jeb comes along and rescues Jenna and the baby from further violence. However, the man who still feels he owns Jenna is not going to let her go without a fight.
At first, the thought of any romance between them was quite remote. But after confronting one problem after another, Jenna begins to falls in love with Jeb. And Jeb begins to realize that she and the baby are more than worth fighting for.
Bargain Bride (Book 1)
Bargain Bride is a western historical romance novel set in Clear Water, Montana in 1884. It is a story of courage, hope, and new beginnings.
Aurora (Ro) McCoy is the heroine looking for a new life. Being a bit tall and not so beautiful, she found herself facing life’s challenges alone. She wanted to go somewhere where getting a new start would be possible, someplace where she’ll find someone to love her for who she is, not for what she can bring with her in the marriage. She had already turned away too many men who only wanted her father’s farm and not her. She’s willing to risk it all to get the family she’s always wanted, and the man who will love her. She’s willing to take a chance at a bride social in Clear Water, Montana, hoping to find everything she’s always wanted.
Quinn Buchanan has had a bad year. He lost his partner to a bear, his brother and sister-in-law in a carriage accident, and now he’s the guardian of his brother’s three children, twin boys and a girl. He knows nothing about raising kids, and he’s about to lose his ranch. He decides to take a chance on getting a bride at the social.
The two meet, and Quinn finds out that Aurora McCoy is a lot more than he ever bargained for!
Troubled Bride (Book 2)
Bobbie Michaels and her young daughter, Riley, flee for their lives from a forced marriage and an abusive husband. She divorces him and runs as far as she can go to Clear Water, Montana. The last thing she wants is another husband after living in Hell with her last one, but if it’s the only way to keep her daughter safe, she’ll do anything.
Sheriff Hunter Evans is lonely. Growing up in an orphanage, he wants a family, his family. He sees how well things worked out for his friends, Quinn and Ro Buchanan and he decides to take a chance at the bride social. What he finds is a woman so bruised and battered, with eyes so hopeless that he is determined to give her a better life than what she has already seen.
Can two lonely people find happiness and love and make a family they both want?
Forgotten Bride (Book 3)
Abby Buchanan grew up to be a beautiful woman and a very efficient nurse. She always promised that when she grew up she’d marry Ethan Wilson. Of course, she never told him that. Now that’s he’s coming back to Clear Water, Montana to practice medicine, she hopes her dreams will come true.
Dr. Ethan Wilson can’t believe the difference that eight years will make in a person’s life. From struggling student to becoming a doctor seems like it’s too good to be true. He finds love only to lose love when he’s in an accident and gets amnesia. He doesn’t remember Abby or their life together. Will he ever regain his memory and Abby?
Reluctant Bride (Book 4)
Aaron Anderson has been in love with Cate Buchanan for almost five years. He just had to wait for her to grow up. Now that she’s almost within his reach, an unforeseen horrible life-changing incident happens. Aaron marries Cate to stop any terrible gossip or repercussions from the incident. He leaves Cate with her family to right the injustice upon her. During that time, Cate heals and tries to start living her life again. Then Aaron comes back home.
Two years have passed and much has happened to both of them. They don’t know whether they can resurrect the love they once shared to give both of them the marriage they still want or if the past will continue to keep them apart.
Will they learn to trust and love one another again after all this time? Will Aaron’s past and Cate’s keep them apart? Will they learn to fight together to make a marriage that will withstand the pitfalls of an uncertain world? Will love find a way to keep them together and make a new life for both of them?
Runaway Bride (Book 5)
Willow Wood and her brothers and sister have to get away from the man who killed her parents. After traveling for over five weeks, they come to Clear Water, Montana. Will they be safe here?
Deputy Micah Buchanan sets out to help them. He doesn’t set out to fall in love and Willow doesn’t want to love any man, much less a lawman! He doesn’t want anything to hurt the beautiful runaway. Over time, Willow learns to trust Micah to help keep her family safe. She might even learn to trust him with her heart. He’ll stop at nothing to keep her and her brothers and sister safe. Maybe together they can solve any problem that comes up and find happiness along the way.
Will Micah find the key to Willow’s heart and her future? Will Willow learn how to forget the past and put her faith in the future?
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