April 2012
Love is always worth
a second chance
Elise Langley was stung to the quick when
her would-be suitor suddenly left town.
But when David Wellman returns and they
are thrown together organizing their friend's
wedding, can she open her heart again?
An Inconvenient Match
January 2012
Families in conflict
Hearts in harmony?
THE BEST OF ENEMIES
His family destroyed hers. But Matthew Cummings’s job
offer—to care for his recuperating father—is impossible to decline.
Schoolteacher Abigail Wilson can swallow her pride for the sake of a summer
paycheck that will help her sister. And when Abigail’s employment ends, old
loyalties will separate the feuding families once more.
If there’s anyone in town stubborn enough to deal with
Matthew’s cantankerous father, it’s Abigail. It’s just a business
arrangement—and a temporary one, at that. Her good opinion shouldn’t matter a
lick to Matt. Yet their different backgrounds belie a surprising kinship.
Perhaps unexpected love will be their reward for the summer’s inconvenient
match.
Wanted: A Family
March 2011
She'll stitch together a home filled with love.
Shelter of Hope
The ramshackle Victorian house is all that widowed mother-to-be Callie Mitchell has left. But she’s going to make that house into a true home—a home where she and her baby will be safe and happy…and where women in need can find refuge. And if that means trusting stranger Jacob Smith to help with the repairs, then so be it.
Jacob came to town with a handful of old postcards and one goal in mind—to find the mother who’d abandoned him years before. He never planned to stay…and he certainly never planned to care for Callie. Yet as they rebuild the house together, Jacob and Callie also build the family they’ve always wanted.
The Substitute Bride
February 2010
They Struck a Bargain for Marriage
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Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can’t be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father’s gambling debts. But Ted Logan’s rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove to be more of a challenge than Elizabeth expects. She doesn’t know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn’t even know how to tell Ted the truth about her past—especially as her feelings for him grow. Little does she know, Ted’s hiding secrets of his own. When their pasts collide, there’s more than one heart at stake.
Courting the Doctor's Daughter
May 2009
An Unexpected Match
A widow with three boys to raise, Mary Graves has no time for peddlers of phony medicine. She's a dedicated healer working alongside her doctor father. When a handsome stranger blows into town with his "elixir of health" and asks questions about her newly adopted son, Mary's determined to uncover the truth behind all his claims.
Once the reckless heir to a Boston fortune, Dr. Luke Jacobs travels the country with his herbal medicine while searching for his long-lost son. After meeting the feisty doctor's daughter and her youngest boy, Luke has found what he's been looking for at last. But can he convince her to let him into her home, her family--and her heart?
Courting Miss Adelaide
September 2008
A Family of Her Own
The "orphan train" seemed like small-town spinster Adelaide
Crum's last chance to know the simple joys of family life. So many lost children, every one of them dreaming only of a caring home—the home she longed to offer. And yet the narrow-minded town elders refused to entrust even the most desperate child to a woman alone….
Newspaperman Charles Graves believed his heart was closed forever, but he swore to stand by this lovely, lonely woman who was fighting for the right to take some motherless child into her heart. And her gentle soul and unwavering faith made him wonder if even he could overcome the bitter lessons of the past, and somehow find the courage to love….
