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Almost a Bride (Wyoming Wildflowers Book 1)

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:43:36 +0300

Award-winning western romance trilogyWyoming WildflowersDave Currick was all Matty wanted, right up until he broke her heart six years ago. Now that she’s returned to Wyoming, what she wants is to save her family ranch. Even if that means swallowing her pride and asking Dave to marry her. Doing what’s best for Matty is second nature for Dave. Even when it means marrying her in name only."A don't-miss treat!" -- RendezvousWyoming Wildflowers Western romance trilogyBook 1: Almost a Bride (Indian Paintbrush)Book 2: Match Made in Wyoming (Fireweed)Book 3: My Heart Remembers (Bur Marigold)Dave Currick was everything Matty Brennan wanted for as along as she could remember. Right up until he broke her heart six years ago. Now that she's returned to Wyoming for good, what she wants more than anything is to save her family's ranch. Even if that means swallowing her pride and asking Dave to marry her.Matty's up to something - Dave knows that much. Just as he knows that Matty needs help, so of course he'll provide it, just as he has all her life. Doing what's best for Matty is second nature. Even when it comes to marrying her in name only. Although he can't resist one hot-blooded kiss after the I-dos.Maybe - just maybe - his Matty will become more to him than Almost a Bride.~ ~ ~ Wyoming Wildflowers Trilogy:Book 1 - Almost a Bride (Indian Paintbrush)Book 2 - Match Made in Wyoming (Fireweed)Book 3 - My Heart Remembers (Bur Marigold)Wyoming Wildflowers Trilogy Boxed Set (3 Books in 1) "Smart, stubborn and irresistible" - 5-Star review"if you love to laugh; love to cry; or love to laugh and cry at the same time, then you'll definitely want to read Almost a Bride." -- 5-Star review"Delightful" -- 5-Star review

Prelude to a Wedding (The Wedding Series Book 1)

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:02:16 +0300

Charming Paul Monroe had the Peter Pan thing down pat. As an antique toy appraiser, even his work involved play. Which was fine, except that Bette Wharton's job was to keep his Chicago business running smoothly ... and all that charm was aimed at her."Wonderful emotional turmoil and growth...I cheered them on all the way" -- Rendezvous"Excellent" ... "Cute" ... "I recommend this one" - Amazon reviews"Another lovely story well up to Patricia McLinn's high standards" - 5-Star review Love in the Workplace!Charming Paul Monroe has the Peter Pan thing down pat. As an antique toy appraiser, even his work involves play. Which is fine, unless your job is to keep his Chicago business running smoothly . . . and all that charm -- and sexiness -- is aimed at you. Organization and reliability are Bette Wharton's hallmarks. She handles the toughest clients with aplomb, until Paul provides a challenge that goes way beyond the office. She has a plan and a timetable. How can she let herself fall for Mr. Live-for-the-Moment when all he offers is Love-for-the-Moment?~ ~ ~The Wedding SeriesYou are cordially invited ... to join the celebration as college friends embark on the greatest education of all -- falling in love.Book 1 - Prelude to a WeddingBook 2 - Wedding PartyBook 3 - Grady's WeddingThe Wedding Series Boxed Set (3 Books in 1)

Lattimore Mountain (The Sheila Mackey Collection, Book 1)

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:26:09 +0200

❤ She's looking for peace. He's looking for her. ❤

Mary Chase Rodgers comes to Lattimore Mountain, North Carolina, to house-sit for her aunt. She craves solitude to heal after leaving behind the city, a relationship gone toxic, and a series of life changes that took her away from herself. Separating from those things is a major step forward. Now, she just wants to be alone, to sort through where she goes from here.

Last thing she wants is to be involved with a man who might be as controlling in his own big-hearted way as the one she escaped.

Whit Kendall has inherited the running of the general store and the tending to The Mountain. He takes care of everybody and everything. So, of course he's going to look out for the niece of a friend, especially one with that bruised look to her misty blue eyes.

Doesn't mean there needs to be more. What woman in her right might...

Jack's Heart

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:37:01 +0300

Wildflowers have to be strong and resilient to bloom amid the rugged beauty of Wyoming – and so do the women.

Valerie Trimarco is very pregnant, very lost, very alone, and very stuck in a Wyoming snow storm. Her car is jammed in a Wyoming ditch, with contractions coming faster and harder ... when her white knight in a cowboy hat arrives. Ranch foreman Jack Ralston's job is to handle anything that needs handling with cool, quiet competence, including a baby who's decided to enter the world right now.

A few years later, Valerie returns to the Slash-C Ranch of Knighton, Wyoming. Now a successful mommy blogger, she wants to thank the man who rescued her and delivered her beloved daughter. Okay, maybe she's wondered about him a time or two over the years. How could she not? So she conspires with his employers and friends to spring a surprise party on him for a proper thank you.

Yes, Jack can handle anything. Except a surprise party. And this...

Where Love Lives

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:36:52 +0300

One night changed them both forever. …

As Zoe and Matt tussle over the best use of a billionaire’s bequest, a deeper question looms: Will one night stand in the way of their spending the rest of their days together?

Six years ago, rodeo cowboy Matt Halderman looked at himself and didn’t like what he saw. Especially not after he ran out on that spunky, wide-eyed student he’d just met. He didn’t run far, falling into conversation with a stranger in the pre-dawn stillness of a Wyoming truck stop. That conversation – along with seed money that mysteriously arrived just when he needed it – turned the course of Matt’s life.

Now he’s received a letter announcing that the stranger he’d met in that diner had been billionaire Harold Hopewell. Hopewell had traveled the world, encountering people and letting their stories touch him. In death, he is giving back, leaving an unusual...

Cold Open (Caught Dead in Wyoming, Book 7)

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:09:34 +0200

As spring beckons, winter chill remains …In television, a cold open sometimes rolls before the opening credits, often a teaser to news or a feature to follow. For TV journalist Elizabeth Margaret "E.M." Danniher, a nippy March and April are just a tease for spring after a long Wyoming winter. In her short time in Sherman, she's learned that winter starts in October and might not end until June. Since last June, a series of murders have tested her and her KWMT-TV colleagues' reporting – and amateur sleuth — skills. And the small town's rumor mill is churning about her relationship with handsome sports reporter Mike Paycik – or is it rugged rancher Tom Burrell?As winter winds down, Elizabeth is ready for spring and looking for a place of her own. Ah, a little peace and quiet as she begins to settle in Cottonwood County. That is, until she discovers homicide at her front door.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Cold Open, Book 7 of...

Cross Talk (Caught Dead in Wyoming, Book 11)

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:10:35 +0300

Prime Suspect: The most annoying man in Sherman, Wyoming

That's right, Thurston Fine, the egotistical anchor at KWMT-TV is the first person deputies want to talk to when his self-described biggest fan is found dead.

What's Elizabeth Margaret Danniher to do? The station's in an uproar, heading for a train wreck, and desperately needs her experience and leadership. At the same time, here's an intriguing puzzle right in front of her ... which might free or condemn her greatest enemy.

In TV news, cross talk between the anchor and reporter is supposed to elicit new and interesting information. But Thurston's version twists the tale into a corkscrew. And his simmering resentment could bring danger to Elizabeth.

Facing a true test of their resilience, Elizabeth's crew – Diana, Jennifer, Mike, and Tom – must resolve mysteries swirling around KWMT-TV for years. But will that reveal what's behind the death of Thurston's biggest...

A New World

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:36:53 +0300

"I fell in love with…Cahill. He's handsome, smart, strong, and had an Irish brogue to die for. Eleanor is a real woman, with real curves, a sense of humor and intelligence ... I was sad when I finished, because I wanted more." - 5-Star Review (Goodreads)

“I loved the depth of the characters, the subtle humor and the touch of suspense. And Cahill is YUM!” – 5-Star Review (Barnes&Noble)
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When his Irish eyes are smiling, she's in danger of losing her head ... and her heart.

Eleanor Thatcher refuses to be charmed by the Irish balladeer she hires to strum up business for her Gloucester, Mass., beach restaurant. She's far too practical for a workplace romance ... or to fall for a fantasy-spinner like Aidan Padraic Cahill McCrea. Yes, she feels his spell, but bitter reality has taught Eleanor that dreamers drift on, leaving heartache.

Cahill finds the woman he wants to share his future with in...

Warm Front

Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:05:37 +0200

Seasons in a Small Town: WinterThe past might be cold, but it’s familiar for Anne. And the future? That might be as gray as a mid-winter Illinois sky. She’s desperately trying to hold on to the family farm owned by her late husband’s great uncle. With Uncle Everett disabled and her new to farming, loans are impossible to get.Between the farm and the bookkeeping she does for businesses in town, she’s working to exhaustion. And she’s not good at asking for help. Never has been.Then here comes Quince.As an executive of the high-tech company bringing operations to Drago, Illinois – and driving up land prices and taxes – he represents part of the problem. But that doesn’t mean Anne can afford to turn down his rent money when Uncle Everett lines him up as a boarder. And – just what she needs — the two of them hit it off like an old-fashioned comedy team.Quince is a warm front moving fast through...

The Soldier’s Kiss

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 22:46:07 +0200

The Soldier’s Kiss (Prequel short story to The Forgotten Prince, The Wedding Series)

The Forgotten Prince

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:36:55 +0300

They Have a History — Can It Be Rewritten?

Prince Karl longs to once more be plain Karl Wethers, Wyoming rancher. Instead, his sense of responsibility, nurtured as a cowboy and honed in the U.S. Army, won’t let him turn his back on King Jozef of Bariavak. But he has a plan. If he can pull it off.
Then international media consultant Harmon Reed re-enters his life. The Army brat who liked to juggle lit sticks of dynamite is now a woman who could explode that dynamite in his face. He’s fully occupied with trying to keep her from knowing anything about the complications of his royal life, because he will never trust her again, despite the pull of a love long gone.

For Harmon, what started as a youthful summer fling ignited into a love that shook her to her core. Equally smitten, Karl saw something beyond her beauty and rebellious streak. Then Harmon broke it off – and broke Karl’s heart. They went their...

Courting a Cowboy

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:35:21 +0300

A young lady seeking a peculiar kind of husband. A ranch full of cowhands who have long adored her from a distance. A foreman who’s got his hands full … and his heart on the line …
Sophie Vandercook leaves her post as an instructor at an Academy for Young Ladies in St. Louis, and heads to the OS Ranch in Wyoming Territory with a plan. It seems the perfect place, since her older half-brother is employed there. There's just one thing in her way – the ranch's foreman, Nate Abbott.
Nate has a ranch to run, a vital roundup to get through, and a bunkhouse full of cowhands smitten from afar with a young lady they all consider Our Sophie. So there’s no time – or reason – to consider exactly what her letters might be stirring in him. Then Sophie arrives in Wyoming.
Secrets tumble, problems multiply, and the OS outfit is turned on its head wondering if Sophie will wed a cowboy?

Not a Family Man

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:36:57 +0300

Can a Cowboy and a City Girl Find Common Ground – and Uncommon Love?

To Wyoming ranch foreman Tucker Gates, the only good owner for the Double Bar X was an absentee one. That's how it had been for ten years. And then came divorcee Jenny Peters. Bringing her two whining, spoiled kids and her city-bred fairy-tale views of life – and love – in the West.

Jenny wasn't going to let Tucker scare her away from the new life she wanted to build for herself and her kids. No matter that he could be as hard as the mountains around them. No matter that she found totally unexpected comfort from his rough strength.

But what next? Because Tucker Gates was a lot of things, but he was absolutely clear that he was not a family man.

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"... Well-fleshed-out characters, true-to-life adventure and sensuous love scenes. This is the kind of book you read more than once just for the nice, warm feeling...

At the Heart's Command (A Place Called Home, Book 2)

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:40:21 +0200

When a second chance beckons, the heart beats an SOS.

Colonel John Griffin Jr. is the best kind of military man. A good and honorable soldier determined to protect childhood friend Ellyn Sinclair at all costs – especially from himself.

Years ago, Grif rejected a young Ellyn's mild advances — despite how he felt about her — because he could not give her the life she deserved. Instead, Grif stood up as best man when Ellyn married his best friend. He became a member of the family, the godfather to her children.
But now Ellyn is a widow, living on his family's ranch with her two young children. No matter what it costs him, Grif will do his duty – help single parent Ellyn and her children, while ignoring that he's never stopped wanting her.

Ellyn could not be happier at Grif's homecoming to Far Hills, Wyoming. They're friends, after all. Always have been. Always will be . . . no matter how the old Ellyn...