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Laura Bailey doesn’t know where to turn. With her trust in her family crushed by betrayal, she throws herself on the mercy of a matrimonial agency. Before she knows it, she’s on her way to Mine’s Place, Colorado, seeking only a marriage of convenience–and a new start.

Ruth McCann has a plan for her future. She’ll marry, settle down in her hometown of Stowe, Vermont, and raise a family with the man her father picked out for her. Though she doesn’t love Peter Stillarch, she’s resigned to the life laid out in front of her. Some people, she knows, never find true love.

What is Valerie Mayfield to do? Her stepfather sold her into marriage with a shady saloon owner in a small town in Texas. But her husband-to-be has no intention of marrying her. He wants her as a saloon wench. Risking her life, Valerie flees during a blizzard, finding the only person in Texas she can trust....

Grace Montgomery is the oldest of five sisters…and the only one who isn’t married. At 24, she’s tired of pitying looks and being called a spinster. Desperate, she accepts the proposal of a much older man. As the date for the wedding draws near, she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. She cannot marry this man. It would be like marrying her father. She flees and boards a train with no destination in mind.

Nancy Grant’s stepfather bets her hand in marriage during a poker game–and loses. Now she is supposed to marry the repugnant Carl Kingsford. Nancy has no choice but to flee. When she hears about a mail-order bride agency, she takes a leap of faith and applies. Now she is to marry a man she has never met—Jesse Cartwright, a rancher from Mine’s Place, Colorado. He is a stranger, but hopefully, with him she will find a home of her own and be able to celebrate a Merry Christmas.

I spend my days protecting witnesses in safe houses. But it’s different when Aurora walks through the door. She’s fiery, sassy, and she screams independence. Not to mention she’s curvy, beautiful, and hard to resist. She doesn’t belong here, doesn’t want to be here. But she has to be. I want to keep my hands off of her, I really do. My only job is to protect her. But if she’s got to be here, Aurora knows what she wants.

Margo was headed to the mountains to get away from her cheating boyfriend. Instead, she finds a snowstorm, and the Beast’s body double, Bennett Cooper. She didn’t come to the Black Pine Woods for love, but she’ll give anything a shot once. Savage is a standalone short romance featuring a feisty heroine and a grumpy hero.

When Courtney Atwood’s husband dies in an accident, she does her best to mourn him as she ought. But they never really loved each other, and their marriage was simply one of convenience. Raising her five-year-old son on her own becomes a challenge for more than one reason--how can she explain that there should be more to life than simply accepting what you’re given?

Born into wealth, Elizabeth Hudson never dares resist her harsh parents’ demands. One day, her father Gerald orders her into marriage. Forced into a carriage with her fiancé, she is involved in a terrible accident that leaves her crippled for life. Her fiancé rejects her, and Gerald quickly finds her a new, even nastier fiancé. Elizabeth plans her escape by writing a marriage agency.

My weather app didn’t say a dang thing about a snowstorm, but that’s precisely what I run into on my hike in the woods. One sprained ankle and an emotional breakdown later, Jase Puckett pops out from behind the trees. He’s a tall, plaid-wearing ginger who picks me up and carries me to safety. A former Army medic, Jase knows exactly how to take care of me. As it turns out, there are men out there that want me at my size. Big, tall, strapping mountain men.

Eleanor is my best friend’s little sister. Can you believe that she would light a fire on purpose? That kind of rule-breaking just isn’t allowed. I’ll teach her a lesson that’ll leave her backside red. And when she admits that she’s never been had before…. Well, I’ll teach her how to do that, too.

Kane Douglas has more money than sense. When Sloane DaSilva robs the diner he’s in, he’s determined to reform her bad girl ways. She’s got bills to pay, and he’s got money, assuming she follows his rules.

Her husband is dead. She's pregnant. And her odious brother-in-law is forcing her hand in marriage. Betty Rochester can't abide the thought of Garrett having anything to do with her child. Or her. She has to escape and fast. Her only hope is to get as far away from Boston—and Garrett—as she can. But Betty has run out of options. Except one. Her sister became a mail-order bride, so why can't she? But Betty doesn't count on her mail-order husband rejecting her when he discovers she's with child. Now she's thousands of miles from home with a man who can barely look her in the face.

The last person that I expect to call me is Everly Washington. But with the snowstorm approaching, she has to make one last trip up to Devil’s Peak. Too bad we can’t make it back down. When we get trapped in my cabin together, it’s time we start talking. It’s been four years since we broke up and went our separate ways. But when you’re stuck together, the only thing you can do is remember the good times. And curvy Everly Washington and I had plenty of good times. She’s the love of my life and I want her back. She can’t turn down a shirtless mountain man, can she?

Angie Bale has reason to be bitter. With a disinterested father determined to marry her off to an unscrupulous, dangerous businessman, she feels entirely alone in the world. But it was the tragic loss of her mother years before that caused her to turn from her faith. Desperate for a new start in life, Angie responds to a letter in the Matrimonial Times. A marriage of convenience is all she expects from the union. But things suddenly get complicated when she falls for the man she’s agreed to marry—and even more complicated when her past tracks her down.

They say that the real moneymaker is romance novels, so I’m starting fresh. My editor sends to me the Daulton Resort for some inspiration. She says one look at the strapping, muscular resort owner and I’ll have everything I need to write a red-hot romance fit for the shelves. But what my editor doesn’t know is that I’ve got writer’s block because I don’t know what I’m doing. But maybe Broderick Daulton can change that. After all, he’s older and wiser. He must know how to introduce a woman to these sorts of things….

Jenny Jansen has always served at Thompson Manor. As the head cook, life is steady, but she wants something more, and she dreams of moving out West to pursue her freedom. There is just one problem—Roy Olson. They grew up together at the manor, and he fell in love with her long ago. One morning at the market, Jenny stumbles across a new matrimonial agency. This gives Jenny the break she’s looking for—the chance to become a mail order bride. But can she truly muster the courage to leave Roy and all she’s ever known and risk everything for an unknown groom?

She is a curvy, intelligent woman. Dark hair. Green eyes. Aurora is beautiful from her head to her toes. But she also might be an accessory to murder. When I arrive at her salon and spa, I’m taken aback. "You’re next, Aurora" is written in blood red ink. With a handful of secrets to unpack, I investigate. Someone is threatening her. Someone who walks through the doors of Ohm every day. I’ll find them before they find Aurora. She may be hiding something, but I will save her life.

Nellie Williams is tired of the mundane, everyday sort of life she leads in Middleburg, Virginia. She longs for adventure, excitement, and true love—but she stands little chance of finding any of it if she stays put at home. When her cousin tells her about matrimonial agencies, her imagination takes flight at once. She can just see it now—being matched with a handsome cowboy in the Wild West, raising children, fighting off outlaws. But as she starts her journey toward the future, the fulfillment of her dreams is far more than she bargained for.

Mafia muscle man Beckett Sterling sees innocent Thea Foxe walking down the street one night. One look at her and he knows that everything he’s ever wanted is right in front of him for the taking. Criminal Obsession is book two in the Obsessive Love series, featuring possessive alpha males in safe stalker scenarios. Filled with dark romance vibes and headlining a steamy first-time encounter between two people perfect for one another, Obsessive Love is a series of high heat books that can be listened to in any order.