Hallie Russell believes life should be lived to the fullest. For that reason, she sails to the gold rush town of Nome, Alaska to take her cousin’s place as the mail-order bride of a respected shopkeeper. But when her aloof husband’s wedding-night announcement rocks her plans for their marriage, Hallie sees her desire for a family to call her own vanish as quickly as the dreams of hopeful miners. Tragedy led Rance Preston to repent of his rowdy ways and open a general store for the miners in Nome. He’s content in his bachelorhood, but his two orphaned nephews deserve a proper and serious-minded mother. Duped once by a vivacious female, he’s determined to never again let his heart overrule his head…until the high spirits of his new bride threaten his resolve to keep theirs a marriage of convenience. When a misunderstanding comes to light, will they allow the gale force winds of insecurity to destroy what they each need most?

    The wilds of Gibson County are just being tamed in the year of 1850, and Jubilee ekes a meager existence. But when Rafe Tanner, a cousin of her abusive dead husband, shows up with the deed to her property, Jubilee’s dream of her own home dissolves. Rafe, stinging from his ex-fiancée’s rejection, offers a business marriage, throwing him and Jubilee together in an effort to make the farm successful. But scars from the past keep her in constant fear of her new husband. The pair masquerades as a love-struck couple at Rafe’s family farm, enduring the romantic notions of his family, and the jealousy of his ex-fiancée. Once home, Rafe realizes his newfound love for Jubilee, and sets out to court her. Meanwhile, Jubilee fights demons from her past as her husband reveals his interest. Can Jubilee let go of her distrust and pain to embrace God’s plan of true love and finally find a place to belong?

    I grew up idolizing those players, and I ached to wear the orange and black, representing my hometown and playing the game I love.But the team doesn’t want me.I’m one of the hottest players in Major League Baseball, but the Baltimore owner thinks I’m too much of a risk. All because I drink too much and might have trashed a hotel room or two in my day.Everybody thinks getting married means you’ve “settled down.”I figure I need a wife if I’m ever gonna have a chance at playing for the Bay Birds.I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that woman who poured hot coffee on me the day we met. Sweet, beautiful, and stable medical school student, Lyric Rivers. Future doctor.Also known as the future Mrs. Brady Keaton.First Pitch Swinging is the first book in a new, steamy sports romance series. No cliffhangers, lots of humor and heart, and a sexy HEA.

    My non-profit has been wildly successful with the kids, but now I'm forty mentors short for the Christmas season. It didn't look like we would be able to find enough help, until Jim Adelson got involved. He may have solved my mentor problem, but he's created another: I can't concentrate with this panty melting God around. Jim: The community has been good to me. I'd built my successful security business with hard work and determination, and when I got approached to help Kate Monroe's non-profit, it seemed a fitting way to give back. I'd offer to spend time with some kids, but it’s Kate that I find myself wanting to spend time with. With beauty obvious to everyone, and a compassionate heart she wears on her sleeve, she has me reevaluating my priorities. When the children's Christmas gifts go missing, Jim and Kate are forced together in the hunt. Can true love fight through the drama to find a happy ending? Gifted is the first book in the holiday series Clear Security Holidays. This is a standalone holiday romance suspense novel, but characters from the Venture Capital series and from Tech Billionaires can be known to make appearances.

    But Paul had followed his dreams to the city, losing himself in a whirlwind of success. Yet, something was missing from Paul's life. Something was drawing him home...but would her heart still be his to win?

    After turning eighteen years old, his adoptive father, Walter, helped him search for the woman who gave him life. He tried to find the woman for two long years, then he finally gave up. One day, he decides to start the search again. Will Chance finally get the answers he so desperately wants? Is Chance being distracted from God's true will in his life?Maddison is a strong independent woman who is looking forward to her new job at the newspaper in Spokane. While she supports Chance's efforts to find his mother, she often wonders if he'll ever come around to the idea of a relationship between the two of them. She's been his friend for years, but her heart wants more. Can she find love with Chance? Or does she need to cut ties and move on?An inspirational Christian romance that is not only a faith-based book but also a lesson in the love, power, and timing of God. The Space Between Us will keep you turning the pages until the very end. This wholesome and clean contemporary novel will be sure to leave a lasting impression on your heart and remind you of how beautiful God's will is in your life.

    These stories will strengthen your faith as you’re immersed in a small 1880s Oregon town when values were strong and lives were simpler. This digital bundle contains: Blowing on Dandelions: In 1880, three years after her husband’s death, Katherine Galloway struggles to run an Oregon boardinghouse and raise two girls alone. Things don't get easier when her critical, domineering mother moves in. Katherine must make the situation work, but standing up for herself and her family while honoring her mother isn't easy. Then she crosses paths with Micah Jacobs, a widower who could reignite her heart, but she fears a relationship with him might send things over the edge. She must find the strength, wisdom, hope, and faith to remake her life, for everything is about to change.Wishing on Buttercups: Some things, Beth Roberts knows, a lady simply doesn’t share, even in the 1880’s West. The townspeople would never understand. No one ever has. Jeffery Tucker, a handsome young writer, has kept his own secrets. He doesn’t have a right to pry into Beth’s affairs but finds himself strangely drawn to her and intrigued by the whiff of mystery surrounding her. Beth knows that one day someone will unravel the threads of her past. And when two men from her past arrive, the truth might just hurt . . . Beth’s future and her heart. As shadowy memories surface, Beth sketches the scenes she sees and is shocked by what—and who—her illustrations reveal. Dare she risk her heart again?Dreaming on Daisies: When her father's debts, brought on by heavy drinking, threaten Leah Carlson's family ranch, she fights to save it. When handsome banker Steven Harding must decline her loan request, he determines to do what he can to help. Just as he arrives to serve as a much-needed ranch hand, Leah's family secrets—and the pain of her past—come to a head. They could destroy everything she's fought for. And they could keep her from ever opening her heart again. This is western historical romance that offers hope and healing to the deepest wounds in a woman's past.

    Accustomed to using her nickname, Sam, she is hired as a cook, based off of her resume, site-unseen. Jake Dampier needs someone to manage his household while he manages his ranch. He never anticipated his foreman would hire someone without interviewing them in person, especially someone as young and beautiful as Sam. The last thing he wants is a distraction-but it may turn out to be just what he needs. Previously published by Treble Heart Books, Mountainview Division (c)2006 Susette Williams

    When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father's treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world.Zander O'Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services. A quick search of the objective before they destroy it reveals a sinister picture.Determined to bring her father down, Nora may be the key to the question at the core of Zander's existence. But when a man thought dead resurfaces, the threat becomes far more dangerous than any of them expected.Unless they survive, this will be their Last Taste of Freedom.Book 1 in the Last Chance County spin-off series featuring Zander and his team of protection specialists.**Christian romantic suspense**

    My touch awakens her hunger.I’ll show her the darker side of pleasure. The freedom that comes from being in my control.And though she might fight her own desires, she’ll come to crave the peace the feels in her place at my feet, on her knees, owned by me.Owned by the Billionaire is a stand-alone romance with dark themes.

    Grab these four small town, contemporary romances and a brand new Christmas extended epilogue in this box set from bestselling author Carrie Aarons.The Nash Brothers Box Set includes four standalones:FleetingForgivenFlutterFalterPLUS: A brand new, never-before-released Christmas extended epilogue featuring a chapter from each brother!More about the books inside:FLEETINGPresley McDaniel lives her life from moment to moment.Love and commitment are predictable.So why, the moment she lays eyes on him, are they all she wants?Keaton Nash has never questioned his steady path.Except for the first time ever, he wants to abandon stability.She makes him want to be reckless.FORGIVENIn a split-second, a car crash killed almost everything between them. Ten years later, can one accidental ride fix tattered spirits, uncertain futures, and broken hearts?Lily Grantham has always done what she’s been told.Bowen Nash never wanted the life he’s trapped in.They’ve been fighting fate for as long as it’s been chasing them. And now, time is up.FLUTTERHe can’t stand her, and best believe, the feeling is mutual.Her life is the complete opposite of what he desires.So, why can’t they keep their hands off each other?Forrest Nash is a smug know-it-all.Penelope Briggs is one bossy, obnoxious woman.What started as a convenient friends-with-benefits situation is quickly growing wings. Even if both parties are trying hard to ignore the flutter.FALTERRyan Shea has sworn off men.Fletcher Nash vowed not to fall in lust.They pledged not to love anyone until it was the real thing.So what happens when two people terrified of falling head-over-heels, actually do?

    Before abandoning the claim, he asks Amelia Rhodes, the widow of his best friend, to marry him. She declines, not ready to leave behind her late husband's dreams of gold. Unwilling to detain Ethan when she knows his dreams are elsewhere, Amelia sends for a mail-order husband. Weeks pass, but no potential husband arrives. On the same day she plans to leave the claim, someone comes in response to her letter. Can a marriage without love thrive, or can a friendship be the first step to finding riches of the heart? Only $0.99 or Free on Kindle Unlimited Please Note- This is a clean, historical fiction short story of 45 pages.

    Three years have passed since his death, and Clara finds herself working at the Bridgewood Mercantile, unable to forget the loss of her first love. Though she spends her days caring for the store owner’s young ward and seeing to the shopping needs of her homesteading community, she has resigned herself to quiet, peaceful nights alone. When Gabe Holt rides into town with two children in the back of his covered wagon, Clara is unnerved by the handsome young farmer’s forthright, flirtatious manner. She prefers to watch the antics of her neighbour, Mrs. Booth, trying to secure Gabe as a husband for her daughter Sadie. But Sadie has other plans, and thinks Gabe would be better suited to a hardworking woman like her friend Clara. As Clara becomes the unwitting victim of Sadie’s matchmaking schemes, she begins to develop romantic feelings for Gabe. With friends pushing them together, and children determined to keep them apart, Clara must ultimately decide if she has room enough in her heart for someone new.

    Practicing day and night has her team in tip-top shape, and she's confident they will take home the win. That is, until she discovers the rival dance studio across the street is who they'll be facing off against.And not only will they compete for the victory, but getting to know the leader, Messiah West, has Tatiana wondering if they're battling for something a little more. Determined to ward off any sentiments of desire, Tatiana's guard remains elevated. But Messiah's perseverance is just as strong in his ambition to break down her walls.

     Will Love To Be The Price To Pay? An Angel’s smile…A Devil’s eyes…Are dreams made to be broken? Cheated out of her own ranch and left alone with a son to raise, Serena Snowdon can’t seem to keep ahead of the trouble that haunts her. With her only chance at a normal life hanging on the return of her husband, Serena knows she will just have to hold on until he comes back. But when she finds employment as a cook in the Riley household, she discovers that some things are worse than being out in the cold - like a dark-haired cowboy with the temptation of the devil himself. Known to be a man who loves hard and fights harder, Jasper Riley has a knack for knowing when danger is nipping at his heels. Yet he seems blind to the perils of the irresistible attraction he feels for their new cook, even as he is coerced into a marriage with a woman he has no feelings for. But when all Serena has left is being threatened, she and Jasper realize that if they don’t make a stand, then the worst that can happen is far more than either of them is willing to risk. With their backs against the wall and Serena determined to reclaim what is rightfully hers, Jasper has no choice but to set his sights on the one thing he knows best - protecting what is his.