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A missing girl. A dead hunter. One sheriff caught in the storm. When a seasoned hunter is found murdered in the Colorado high country and a teenage girl vanishes hours later, Sheriff Ray Duke doesn’t believe in coincidences. Not in Blue Sky County. Not with the snowstorm rolling in. And not with fresh boot tracks pointing to a tangled trail of lies. As Duke digs deeper, what he finds isn’t just a missing girl—it’s a web of secrets that stretches across families, friendships, and the frozen wilderness they all call home.

A runaway Duke’s daughter. A dashingly handsome blacksmith. A festering secret. Everything was a lie ....until it all unravelled. Being a Duke’s daughter is not what it’s cut out to be. Surely, there must be more to life than embroidery, balls, and finding a husband? Running away to work...

A princess in disguise. A charming lord. A quest for true love. Half-Indian, orphaned and abandoned... ...Penelope Reid is done waiting for love. Masquerading as a boy, she ventures to London to search for the man she’s loved her entire life: her elusive guardian, who’s all but forgotten she...

A spirited young lady with a dream. A duke in disguise. A compromising situation. Lucy Bell burns with determination. Convinced an arrogant aristocrat is to blame for her expulsion from her beloved school, the penniless girl sets out to visit her best friend to help her undo the catastrophe. But...

A battle-scarred duke. A substitute bride. A dangerous secret that brings them together. The Honorable Roberta Talbot is tired of being the practical one in her family. As the impoverished daughter of a reckless baron, she has spent years supporting her mother and siblings. When a chance meeting...

Two deaths. One small town. And a secret that won’t stay buried. When Sheriff Ray Duke finds a burned-out car on a mountain pass, it looks like an accident. Days later, a former deputy dies in a “single-vehicle crash,” that looks like bad luck. But the scenes don’t match—and someone made sure the most important evidence disappeared.

Gerald feels as though he’s lost everything when his wife takes her last breath. Amelia’s world turns upside down when the Duke of Granbury steps into her tea shop and leaves with her heart. But when a secret from Amelia’s past unveils possibilities, will the duke get a second chance at love from an unexpected source?

A flash flood. A body in the river. A murder no storm could hide. Sheriff Ray Duke barely survives rescuing a family from the raging waters—but when the flood recedes, it leaves behind coffins ripped from an old mining cemetery… and a corpse that didn’t drown. The small town of Blue Sky erupts with whispers: a crooked caretaker, a feud between prospectors, and a fortune in gold rich enough to kill for. Every clue points to Charlie Flowers—violent, desperate, and caught red-handed with stolen flakes. But his rival, Lyle Martin, has more secrets than alibis.

A dead man. A buried lie. And a sheriff who won't look away. When a trusted arborist is killed beneath a falling tree during a violent Colorado windstorm, Sheriff Ray Duke is told it was a tragic accident. Wrong place. Wrong time. Bad luck.

Mercy was supposed to save him. Instead, it buried the truth. When a truck is pulled from a frozen Colorado lake, Sheriff Ray Duke expects a tragic accident. Instead, he finds a body. No ID. No plates. No answers. The dead man—Jacob Raines, a haunted Army vet—has a connection to nearly everyone in town, including Ruth Delgado, a ranch widow with a Bible on her nightstand and blood on her conscience. Her grandson's truck was the one found in the lake. And her story doesn't add up.

In the mountains, the truth is never as buried as the dead. When Blakely Rhodes disappears in the Colorado backcountry, all that's left behind is blood on the trail, a rising panic—and a boyfriend whose story won't stay straight. Sheriff Ray Duke has seen enough tragedy to know when something doesn't add up. But this case cuts deeper than most. Blakely vanished on the same ridge where Ray's sister, Emily, disappeared twenty-six years ago—a cold case that never stopped haunting him. When Blakely's body is discovered in a shallow grave, the investigation explodes.

After the tragic death of his wife, the Duke of Warwickshire wonders how he will care for his five-year-old son. After having seen his childhood friend, Lady Leah, at his wife's funeral, he contacts her soon after, offering her a position to help care for his son. While she balks at the idea due to her status, the Duke eventually persuades her. Old feelings begin to resurface between the Duke and Lady Leah, until Lady Leah discovers a horrifying secret involving the late Duchess and the Duke's son. As Leah fights to unravel the mystery, she overhears a deadly plot involving the Duke.

Duke Rawlings is a redemptive Contemporary Christian fiction novel. It follows former Army Ranger Duke Rawlings who returns home from Afghanistan struggling with PTSD. When a merciless Mexican cartel endangers his family, Duke goes undercover to stop them, upending his life. This emotional tale explores the toll of secrecy and trauma as Duke fights to take down the cartel while desperately trying to protect his steadfast wife Sara and their young children.

Georgia Lennox has traded in her boyish ways for pink gowns and a coy smile to capture the eye of the Earl of Claremont. However, on the day she's convinced the earl will propose, Georgia is shipped off to the Leeward Islands to care for her ailing father. But when she arrives on Nevis, the last thing she expects is to learn that her abrupt departure was not at her father's bidding but that of the infuriating, yet captivating, island schoolmaster. And now her plans may well be shipwrecked.

Jean Harris, the daughter of the Earl of Levinshire, is left stranded after an accident on a desolate country road. As panic turns into fear that no one will find her, she is rescued by a gruff man, the Duke of Burnshire, a friend of her father's. As they arrive at Jean's home, the duke impulsively asks her to be governess to his children. When Jean agrees and begins to care for his children, she finds her feelings growing for him.

The Duke of Stanton is angered after an unpleasant encounter with a young woman. Angered - yet intrigued. But as Christmas approaches, and he prepares for his annual Christmas ball, he looks forward to seeing the stunning women who will grace his ballroom. But the ball ignites the Duke's anger again as he sees the woman. Who was she and who had invited her? He is more enraged when he sees his rival, Lord Glenford, with the mystery lady who the Duke can't seem to take his eyes off of. As the duke's jealousy ignites, he finds himself face to face with the mystery woman.

Duke Philip Harding proposes to his love, Lady Louisa, a week before Christmas, but their happiness is short-lived when Lady Louisa suffers a tragic accident. While visiting an ailing Lady Louisa, who grows more cold and distant towards the Duke, he befriends Ellen, who is visiting her ailing father. When Louisa is released from the hospital, the distance between her and Philip grows. When Philip's best friend, the Earl of Longford, is hurt in an accident and taken to the hospital, Philip visits him and again sees Ellen, who he finds very beautiful.

walks hesitantly to the cliff edge, staring down into the pitch dark cold sea and its crashing waves. Could this be the answer to her predicament, a long leap off the edge into the murkiness below? Left pregnant by the scandalous Lord John Pembury, her character and good name and more importantly that of her fathers the Rev. Robert Hawksley is soon to be in disrepair. This appeared to be Henrietta's only escape, until she falls into the arms of the Duke of Templeton.

Dorothy Soulden is the governess to Isabella, the daughter of the Duke of Monmouthshire. He has sworn off women since his wife died in childbirth and wants nothing to do with his daughter. Lady Henrietta Pike wants the Duke for very selfish reasons of her own, and will stop at nothing to win his heart, even plotting a scheme that the Duke is unaware of.

Plain Leticia Holmes becomes an heiress to vast wealth when her grandmother dies. Suitors are in plenty but she rejects them all. Lettie is determined to fulfil her grandmother’s dying wish to find true love. Posing as a governess, she ends up on Lord Alistair Thurmond’s estate in Great Yarmouth, taking care of his little niece, Nancy. The manor is filled with dark secrets that she’s determined to uncover because she’s fast falling in love with the handsome but seemingly reserved duke.