A southern belle accidentally falls for a northern spy in this sweet and swoon-worthy, opposites-attract romance! To escape the bitter division of loyalties in her family during the war, Anna Kate Monroe accepts an invitation to serve as a companion to her spinster aunt in Cedar Falls, Texas. She meets a handsome fellow traveler, whose charming company makes the long train ride west an adventure she doesn't want to end. Even more surprising is the discovery that they are heading to the same small town. Captain Gregory Armstrong has been sent undercover from the north to investigate the ...

An adventurous young woman decides that becoming a mail-order bride is her best shot at escaping poverty, but an encounter with a small-town cowboy makes her reconsider her options. Bertha Langston (who prefers to be called Bert) is far more interested in tinkering with her inventions than becoming a bride. Her latest passion is hot-air ballooning, which doesn’t make it easy for even the most skilled mail-order bride agency to find her perfect match. Kane Jameson, cowboy by day and innkeeper by night at the Cedar Falls Inn, sees no point in marrying and settling down anytime soon. He's ...

To protect an heiress being targeted for her fortune, a rugged bounty hunter poses as her fiancé in this sweet and swoony opposites-attract historical romance! Thanks to a lavish inheritance, Rachel West can finally afford to follow her dreams and open the Cedar Falls Finishing School for Young Ladies. Unfortunately, a former co-instructor from Boston follows her to her hometown, claiming a deathbed promise to look after her. All too soon, he's pressuring her to marry him, making her fear he's only interested in getting his hands on her money. Bounty hunter Boone Cassidy is accustomed to ...

Love and the law collide in this sweetly suspenseful historical romance. U.S. Marshal Jack Holiday is on a special mission to track down and apprehend a notorious cattle rustler from his Robin Hood-style crime spree. More legend than man, Billy Bob Flint steals from the rich to fatten the barnyards of the poor. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, the rogue’s sister is living under the assumed name of Cat Southerland, serving as the beloved companion to an aging citizen in Cedar Falls. When Jack rides into town, brandishing an arrest warrant for her brother, she realizes the new life ...

An armchair adventuress writing under a pen name accidentally sparks a crime with her debut novel. It’s a good thing Rose Marie Addington is secretly courting a gunsmith who’s been working hard to teach her a thing or two about self-defense. However, secrets have a way of piling up and coming back to haunt a lady, especially in a small town like Cedar Falls, where everyone seems to know everything about everybody. Except her, of course. Despite her fascination with reading and writing about happily-ever-afters, she worries if love is truly strong enough to conquer all in the harrowing ...

A single mother finds out she has a bounty on her head that her brother’s best friend is determined to collect in this sweetly suspenseful historical romance! Charity Powers isn’t aware of her late husband’s debts, and she certainly isn’t trying to dodge payments when she and her four-year-old daughter board a train. They arrive in the cozy small town of Cedar Falls, Texas, to attend her brother’s wedding. The moment Schmidt Barnes tracks her down, he realizes something more sinister is afoot. Unfortunately, his lovely target can’t afford a lawyer to defend her, and she’s way ...

Two adventurous school teachers, two bachelor horse trainers, and one delightfully interfering old spinster… Rebecca’s biggest dream is to have a family of her own someday, but surviving a battle with scarlet fever sets her on a different path — one that takes her and her best friend and former slave to a one-room schoolhouse in the cozy small town of Cedar Falls. Arriving with her lovely, dark-skinned teaching assistant creates quite a stir. So does the fact that the two of them traveled west unchaperoned and unmarried — a state of affairs that the matriarch of the town’s oldest ...

Though an innkeeper and his mail-order-bride constantly disagree about how to run a business together, attraction sparks the moment they meet in this sweet, opposites-attract historical romance! Edward Remington is on a mission to restore the Texas inn he’s inherited to its former glory — proving to his family that he can survive without their wealth. It’s not an easy task, with a trio of cowboy brothers attempting to jump a claim on the place, neighbors to the south disputing land boundaries, and no women in town to soften the edges of the brawling settlers. He submits an application...

The things a woman in love will do to keep her man... Belinda Fairfax is tired of waiting for Colt Branson to remember she's still in love with him. She put their wedding plans on hold and supported his decision to travel west in search of his missing sister. She championed his plan to open a mail-order bride agency — one with a Gallant Rescuers Clause to keep other brides safe from the kind of trouble his sister ran into. But she’s waited so long for him to return home to marry her that she's afraid another woman may have captured his heart along the way. Without the funds to travel ...

A fake bride, a groom who’s not the man he claims to be, and their highly inconvenient spark of attraction… Lorelai Woods is convinced she's engaged to the perfect man, until she discovers he’s part of a cattle rustling gang trying to steal her blind. In a desperate bid to regain control of her family’s ranch, she applies for a job as a Pinkerton agent. Unfortunately, they need her to serve undercover as the fake bride of a fellow agent for a few weeks before launching an investigation into her family’s troubles. John Langston was pressed into sailing on a pirate ship when he was ...