New Releases
With each new release, I do my best to deliver inspirational storytelling at its finest-rich with emotion, guided by faith, and sure to uplift every reader. Find all these books here.
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What's a man to do when he's captivated by a woman and the Yule Log Cake she's made, especially when he sees her wedding ring and daughter?
Widowed, Yvette Dalton is surprised by a man who looks like a banker working as a crewman on the Steamboats traveling the Mississippi River. So enamored that she decides to use him as a character in a series for her next writing project.
Lucas Fortier works on a steamboat to save his income and purchase a farm, but he can't stop thinking about the woman who made the Yule Log Cake. On a small break from work, he attends Yvette Dalton's father's church, where her daughter, Louisa, calls him Hezekiah.
Yvette is embarrassed by Louisa calling Mr. Fortier, Hezekiah, to explain what happened and that she isn't a wanton woman; she invites Lucas to speak with her for a moment.
Lucas is relieved that Yvette is a widow, and his growing affection for her isn't causing him to lust for a married woman. However, she's not interested in writing letters to him. Because of that, on his next break, he visits Yvette at her home to say that he thoroughly enjoys her writing and that Hezekiah is definitely not him.
Please take a moment to read and find out how this couple manages to work through all the barriers, secrets and healing that needs to take place for them to become a couple.
Frustrated by what everyone says she should or should not do, Harriet Harrigan flips when her father sets up a marriage for her with a man twice her age, because she rode her horse down a main street wearing pants. Harriet decides there is only one thing left to do: run away and escape her life, her father’s ridiculous demands, and takes a train West, dressed in men’s clothing.
Charles Riggs is finally returning home to Missouri after spending three and a half years in Boston at Harvard for his education. While the train stops in Chicago, a problem with one of the cars forces the railroad to combine folks with private rooms, until they reach Kansas City and Grand Central Station. He finds himself partnered with a young boy heading West. Only Harry Harrigan is actually Harriet Harrigan. Once the blooper is realized, Charles discovers there is another problem while reading the Boston Globe. The article reads that Harriet Harrigan has been forcefully taken from her home, and the authorities are seeking to find the man who kidnapped her.
Harriet can’t believe her father has asked the authorities to investigate, since she had left him a detailed letter explaining why she wouldn’t marry his chosen husband and why she was leaving to become a teacher —a respectable occupation for a single woman. To avoid having Charles arrested, Harriet agrees to an entrapment marriage, albeit for a short period, with the understanding that the marriage will be annulled as soon as she knows Charles won’t be arrested for her kidnapping.
Charles falls for the feisty redhead with a spirit that can’t be tamed and agrees to the marriage, praying that one day, Harriet might actually fall in love with him.
Can they actually build a marriage on such strange circumstances? Will they escape the arrest warrant that is issued for Charles? And what’s the real reason behind her father’s insistence on marrying a man twice her age? Will love grow through the Hullabaloo and Entrapment?
Throughout her life, Nellie Carmichael has worked for her father’s detective agency in Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly after her father takes a vacation to the new Glacier National Park, she and her brothers receive word of his kidnapping while on a train in the park. With honed skills, her brothers reluctantly agree to her going out West to save their father. Nellie loves the natural beauties and wonders in the park but soon learns there are many dangers. A false telegram from her father saying he’s fine and alive, to Native Americans not wanting her on the trail, and so many more obstacles, including a very handsome local rancher, Daniel Knight.
Daniel arrives in Nyack shortly after the daughter of a kidnap victim comes to town. The town is abuzz, as Medicine Owl has been asked to track and find the robbers in this wild frontier. Knowing Medicine Owl, Daniel is confident the men will be caught. Having met the daughter of the kidnap victim, he tries to assure her of his good friend’s abilities to track and capture the robbers. When Medicine Owl shows up at Daniel’s, he sees this is not a case of a simple train robbery. They have caught the robbers and the ill-gotten bounty. However, they met with another group of men who had taken the man they had kidnapped. Giving Medicine Owl and his men new supplies to continue their search, Daniel agrees to join them. On the trail, they find Nellie disguised as a young boy.
Daniel or Medicine Owl’s warnings do not deter Nellie, and she continues to follow the trail of the men who took her father. However, a severe case of altitude sickness forces Nellie to stop tracking and return to Daniel’s home to wait for Medicine Owl.
Can she go on? Will she find her father? Will she be side-tracked by the handsome Daniel Knight?
“A woman horse wrangler?” Arden Thomas couldn’t believe it, so he challenged I.C. Tennison to work with Bullet, the horse that was untrainable and had harmed more than one of his ranch hands.
Ida Clare Tennison found this kind of reaction to nearly every ranch she worked for. She’d been wrangling horses since she was ten, and started working on her own at the ripe old age of fourteen, having learned the trade from her parents. Not one to step away from a challenge, she accepts, and immediately has Bullet relaxing in her presence. And while her new boss was handsome, she had no intentions of ever marrying. She didn’t want to be bridled down by any man.
Arden, aware of his growing appreciation, and of I.C.’s fear of men, starts writing out his instructions for her and staying out later on the ranch. His mother challenges him to become friends with I.C.
As they begin to explore their feelings, a fire breaks out on the ranch, which spurs Arden to travel down to Santa Fe to purchase the needed grain to replant the seven lost acres. During his absence, Ida Clare’s feelings for Arden continue to grow, which causes her to step away from these thoughts and desires.
In the meantime, Arden starts to build a cabin on the river for a possible future with Ida Clare. When Ida Clare can’t stand him being gone so often, she follows him to the river and finds the cabin. They share their first kiss and then their first argument. She can’t believe he would build a house for them without consulting her.
Arden’s mother challenges Arden to understand why Ida Clare feels marriage is like a bridle. Ida Clare overhears most of the conversation but still can’t accept the idea of being married and letting a man make choices for her.
Can Ida Clare get past the past and trust Arden? Does Arden have the patience to wait on Ida Clare to change her mind? And will they discover what the true meaning of Bridled Freedom is all about?
Imagine being a recent widow with three children and having a man show up at your doorstep offering to marry you. That’s what happened to Elizabeth Downing, who stared at the man who had just proposed such a thing. He stood there in his deerskin clothes, with long, light brown hair, a beard and appeared to be a mountain man.
Dexter realized his mistake when he saw the confused and terrorized look on Widow Downing’s face after he blurted out his intentions to find a wife. Shocked that she had three children, he stepped back and apologized.
Elizabeth couldn’t believe Dexter Smith’s offer and sincerity. However, with men coming from all over, saying her ex owed them money and was taking possession of her house and furniture, she had no alternative but to marry this strange but curious man.
Dexter couldn’t believe the actions of the men in town and set to make things right for his new bride, only to be accused of a false crime and arrested.
What more could go wrong for this new couple? Would they make it to his mountain home? Would they fall in love? And what about her three children?
Beau’s life was perfect, just the way it was. Hunting and trapping on his mountain fulfilled him. Life was good. The sting of rejection was over until a woman and her wagon crashed on his property.
Ellie May Tucker spent three months driving her wagon down to South Carolina, unaware that her fiancé had lied. He sold the mountain he claimed to own. The kindness of the gruff bear of a mountain man drew her. The reality of her inheritance being in jeopardy by her now ex-fiancé prompted her to return home to Boston.
Beau didn’t trust Ernie Crowder, and the sheriff agreed with Beau’s opinion. Beau was deputized for one purpose: to keep Ellie May safe and out of danger of Ernie Crowder. Little did he know he would start to develop feelings for the woman.
Can trust develop between these two? Or will their previous experiences cause them to remain from total commitment to one another, even after they marry?