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Imagine watching the murder of someone you know happen live on social media. A small Ozark town is not as innocent as it seems. Sheriff Sharlene Camenetti is out to prove herself in a man's world. There's a killer who tortures for mad reasons of his own. When murders start happening in the once peaceful town of Highland Springs, suspects range from strangers to family members. Arkansas Federal Bureaur of Investigations Agent Everis Hayes arrives to help in the investigation, and Shar has more to prove to herself than her ability to catch a cold-blooded killer and save the women of Highland Springs. With a killer who has a motive will she succeed before she becomes the next victim?

Rose Willingham, oldest sister of four, is level-headed and strong. When her uncle dies, leaving a ranch in Arizona to her and her sisters, she has full confidence they can make the ranch into something to be proud of. What she didn't count on was a snake named Logan Pritchard or a handsome neighbor named Zeke McCammon to both have their eyes on Rose and her land.

Married by proxy in Missouri, Annie Morgan sets off for Tombstone, Arizona, to join her new husband as a cattle rancher. But too soon she finds herself a widow with an unexpected daughter and butting heads with her handsome neighbor. Danger strikes when she refuses the courtship of a local man, maybe the very man who killed her husband. Can Annie and her neighbor fend off an unruly man who wants Annie's land and turn her hole in the ground home into a castle in time for Christmas?

A shy candy maker. A pastor who believes in love at first sight. A meddling sister and a matchmaking group of women. Holly Landon enjoys her own company and spending her days making candy in the candy store she owns with her sisters. But when she’s nominated to play Mary in the church Christmas play and the handsome new assistant pastor plays Joseph, she is pulled out of her comfort zone and thrust into the limelight. All she wants is to live her life, her way. Is that too much to hope for? As if that is bad enough, the pastor’s visiting nephew sets his eye on Holly, threatening to ...

Emma Jones has always considered herself plain. Her mother had drilled it into her head that a moral woman acts and dresses a certain way. These thoughts are challenged when the mayor's son, Daniel Barton, and the ladies of The Red Hat Club take a sudden interest in plain, little Emma. Before she knows it, Emma has a makeover and is stepping out of her comfort zone and thrust into Daniel's arms.

Zoe Barnes left Colorado Springs the day after high school graduation, dumping her sweetheart without so much as a phone call on he way out of town. So it's poetic justice that he happens to rescue her when her car breaks down on her way back years later. Can two wary, wounded souls survive a road trip to Colorado Springs?

When Phoebe Ross's employer dies, leaving her with a wedding gown, Phoebe feels she has no choice but to answer the call for mail order brides to Angel Vale, Wyoming. When she arrives her groom-to-be is nowhere in sight. With the other brides claimed, she sets off to find her groom. He is nothing what she expected. Nor, did she expect danger to have followed her to Angel Vale. Christmas Gold is a touching story of finding love, escaping the past, and forging a new future in an untamed land.

In a Handcarved Christmas, Sam Cooper sends for a mail-order bride for his older brother Ben. Now, the tables have turned, a little minute of a thing, dressed in frills and ribbons, arrives on his doorstep talking a mile a minute. Sam's sister-in-law thought this Christmas was the perfect time to pay Sam back for his stunt the year before. City girl, Abigail Rogers, has nowhere to turn after the death of her parents which left her destitute. She corresponds with Laura Cooper for several months, then decides Sam sounds perfect. The gruff, handsome rancher and harsh Montana winters are ...

Wanted: Men to Audition as Husbands. Turtle Springs, Kansas. Auditions Held May 25. Only Godly, Upstanding Men Need Apply. Check in at Mayor’s Office. When her father never returned from the war, Abigail Melton stepped into his role as town mayor. The town needs men, and she needs a husband—and she has a big idea how to find both—but her first duty is to hire a sheriff. And drifter Josiah Ingram will do just fine. Sparks fly and not always in a good way. Josiah resents the women trying to snare him into marriage. Abigail has yet to find a man she could see herself marrying. Can these ...

Maureen O'Shea arrives in Devil Falls, Montana, to marry a man she's never met. When she finds out her intended had died before her arrival she is met with an uncertain future. She decides to spend the last of her funds by bringing culture to the western town in the form of a tea shop. It never occurred to her that the town preferred coffee. Not until the handsome blacksmith, Micah Webster so rudely points it out. Stagecoaches enroute to the town are being robbed and Micah is deputized to help. When Maureen's life is in danger, he realizes the fashionable Irish lass has gripped his heart in...

Laura Worth answers an advertisement for a bride and leaves Missouri to meet her groom in Montana. When she gets there, she realizes her husband-to-be, Ben Cooper, has no knowledge of having sent for her. She is devastated, even more so when she breaks a precious heirloom. Ben's heart goes out to the beautiful woman and he marries her in answer to his mother's dying wish. As Christmas approaches, the two wonder whether their marriage will hold the love and intimacy God intended it to have. Will Ben win the heart of his unexpected gift?

Do Christmas wishes really come true? Lacey Cooper dreams of directing plays. When the manager at the local theater company falls ill, she gets her chance to direct the annual Christmas play, A White Christmas. Then, the lead role is injured in an accident and Lacey must ask the man in charge of stage setup to step in. Dillon Marks is growing tired of his job as probation officer, but volunteers on a regular basis at the local theater company, bringing several of his clients with him. When Lacey begs him to step into the leading role, he initially says no. He can sing, but can't dance at ...

Widow Sadie Mathewson wants to find love again. But when an injured pony express rider shows up at her station, love finds her in an unexpected way. Luke Stetson arrives at Sadie’s pony express station searching for his runaway brother. He doesn’t expect to have to stay, nor does he expect to fall in love with the lovely, lonely widow. Circumstances spiral out of control. Can the two come together to protect those they love and admit their love for each other?

Jacob Taft Is Ready to Leave Town, but when an earthquake devastates San Francisco, the army sergeant stays to aid in the recovery. With an entire camp of refugees to protect, Jacob believes his present obligations—and his past regrets—leave no room for romance. Until he meets a selfless, kindhearted beauty determined to help as many survivors as she can. Growing up in an orphanage, Nina Hansen always longed for a family. Creating her own with the children she rescues comes naturally…as do her feelings for Jacob. Though the handsome soldier seems set in his solitary ways, Nina's ...

Melanie (Mellie) Brooks had lived in the small town of Cumberton Heights her whole life, even after the boy-next-door, her best friend, left town after the town’s most sought-after young woman broke his heart. But now, Devon Sawyer had returned as a best-selling author and town celebrity, to remind her of a long-ago promise made when they were kids. Devon Sawyer couldn’t believe how beautiful pudgy Mellie Brooks had grown up to be. Right away he’s thrust back into the happiest days of his life, until a certain woman sets her eye on him and threatens to ruin the very thing Devon ...

Katherine O'Connor is in dire straits and the only thing she can think of to do is apply for a job as a caddy. The only problem is...women aren't yet allowed to play golf in America. She cuts her hair, dons boy clothing and gets the job. She didn't plan on falling for her handsome boss. Once her identity is revealed, complications of her deception seem overwhelming. Bradford Woodward knows something is suspicious about the frail young man in his employ, but since his brother hired the caddy, he'll honor the boy's employment and try to find something the boy knows how to do. When "Kevin" ...

Iris Blossom, owner of Blossom's and More, has just broken off her engagement with the mayor's son. Just in time for the return home of Brock Samson, the man who jilted her at their senior prom ten years ago. Despite the sparks that fly between the two, they agree to help the ladies of the Red Hat Club beautify Main Street and participate in an old-fashioned dance off competition. Problem is ... the red hat's club has decided Iris and Brock should get married and set out to get wed. What Iris and Brock don't expect is how dance practice ignites the blood and threatens to topple the vows ...

Sue has always wanted to travel the Mother Road in her pink Mustang. She ditches the man she didn't love at the altar, tosses her veil out the car and takes off on her first real adventure. Along the way, she picks up a hitchhiker named James Deacon. A leather jacket wearing man with secrets and dreams of his own. Their journey takes the reader from Illinois to the end of the road in Santa Monica. Can they leave aside their separate dreams and come together for something bigger than either of them imagined?

A sick hunting game. Are Lisa and Drake quick enough to dodge a bullet? After recovering from her near death at the hands of the man the newspapers dubbed The Eenie Meenie Miney Mo killer, Lisa Paxton finds herself and her business partner, Drake Baxter, thrust into a deadly game of Jack Be Nimble. Their new sultry receptionist is not who she seems. Instead, she harbors a secret that can tear the Private Detective Agency apart and result in Lisa's death. Rating: PG 13 This short story romantic suspense thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat. By a best-selling, award-winning author.

Hazel Arnold's mother has a strong sense of what is proper for a woman of the Arnolds' financial stature and is determined that Hazel marry a man she despises. This sets Hazel on a quest to prove the man is not who he appears to be. She enlists the help of her family's handsome chauffeur and her lady's maid. Her search takes her along a path of lies and deceit, resulting in death and destruction. Still, at the end of her quest, Hazel finds something worth much more than proving her mother wrong.