Francis Hancock had been a sea captain for many years and had often gazed at the balcony of the gorgeous mansion on the hillside as he guided his ship into the San Francisco port. On one particular trip, he was looking through his binoculars and spotted the loveliest woman he had ever laid eyes on. Who was this beauty? Was she married? He hoped not...because he wanted to court her. But how? Maybe once he found out who she was he would send her a letter like they did for a mail order bride...asking if she would consider being his mail order bride! Mollie Cummins loved to stand at her bedroom...

This weekend I was asked to be a bridesmaid at my best friend's wedding. After arriving at the resort, I caught the elevator to the second floor with the man of the hour who was not the groom but his rich older brother, Stone. Stone Alexander had a tall muscular build, chiseled jawline, and beautiful eyes which means he is out of my league. Every female here wants a piece of him, and they do not care what secrets he may hold up in his penthouse suite.

When the woman coming to be Josiah’s new bride and mother to his niece uses him to marry someone else, he’s not only devastated by the rejection, but worried. His niece is in desperate need of a mother’s love, and that’s his main focus. Especially as now, he’s worried no woman will want him for who he is. After losing her parents on the Oregon Trail, Joanne is in dire straits. As a young woman alone, she doesn’t have the means to fend off the men interested in her—in particular a miner who hasn’t seen a bar of soap since the day he was born and is convinced she belongs to ...

The Blacksmith’s Bride A Standalone Western Romance By Mae Everly In the dusty frontier town of Iron Creek, Montana Territory, 1875, Tessa Langley returns with nothing but her father’s ashes and a dream—to reopen the forge he once ran and prove that a woman can wield a hammer as well as any man. But the town’s old rivalries and rigid laws force her into an impossible corner: marry, or forfeit her legacy. Enter Caleb Rowe—scarred Civil War veteran, reluctant farrier, and a man haunted by loss. When Tessa proposes a marriage of convenience, Caleb agrees with one condition: it stays ...

She came West with nothing but a letter, a prayer—and a heart full of hope. He buried his heart in the ashes of the past. When Clara Hale loses everything in Boston, she answers a letter from the Barleysweet Agency and boards a train bound for Wyoming. Her new life—and marriage to a brooding blacksmith—will be nothing like the world she left behind. Eli Turner doesn’t want a wife. Not really. Not after the fire that shattered his family. But the woman who arrives at his forge isn’t fragile, and she’s not afraid of soot, silence, or second chances. In a town that doesn’t forget...

Holland Beck – yes, after the country, and no, the story isn’t a good one – hates flying. On the brink of boarding a flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles, she panics. She can’t do it. Travelling triggers all the trauma of her past, the childhood memories she’s done her very best to forget. But thanks to cool, calm and collected Xander, Holland somehow manages to board the plane. Twelve hours and six thousand miles later, they touch down in LA and aren’t quite able to say goodbye. They make arrangements to meet at the end of Santa Monica Pier in three days time.

When a young, struggling screenwriter's greatest dream turns into a nightmare after her script is stolen by an uber-powerful male producer, she forms a surprising alliance with a former soap opera star harboring secrets of her own. Together, these two devise a daring, twisted plan to seek justice against the producer through the long-running soap opera Summer Breeze. They will turn the producer’s monstrosity into their art.

BILLIONAIRE FOR SALE is a darkly comic romantic thriller about being held to ransom. By your family. By your marriage. By mysterious kidnappers who burst into your best friend’s villa and seize you at gunpoint. Tess realizes she’s made a mistake marrying billionaire Jeremy McCarthy, and questions her unfulfilling life with him. Just as she’s ready to leave her lavish life behind, masked gunmen crash into her world and kidnap her husband and three friends. Now, instead of walking away, Tess is pulled into a dangerous world of high-stakes negotiations and even higher personal stakes.

Mona and Duncan used to be best friends. Now they can’t stand each other. Too bad that’s not a good enough excuse to miss their two families’ annual trip to the cabin. But things get really complicated when they accidentally drive through a wormhole together on the way. Look what playing nice and carpooling gets you. Now they’re stranded indoors by an epic storm and stuck in an alternate timeline where things are just slightly ... off.

In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, number-one New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals - transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings of fate.