Nettie Clayton's well-planned life is stolen in a few moments when Josh McClintock mistakes her window for that of her carousing neighbor. Nevermind that Nettie'd had a crush on Josh since they met. Because of his carelessness, she loses her coveted teaching position, the community's respect, and her father's high opinion of her. Josh McClintock's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt end after his birthday celebration. He works hard by day on the family ranch; he plays just as hard on weekends. He loves being single to play the field of willing females and has no plan to marry for five or...

Josephine Nailor is desperate to escape a terrible situation. When the opportunity arises via a newspaper ad, she and her best friend slip away from their oppressive fathers and head for Richmond. Neither can relax until they're far away from their tiny hometown. With wealthy young widow Lydia Harrison's help, Josephine and six other young women have a new life waiting in Tarnation, Texas. Michael Buchanan is fairly content running his mercantile and being mayor of Tarnation. The town is dusty and tiny, but it's growing. He believes it holds all he needs to be happy-except a wife. There are...

A desperate young woman A second chance A life-changing decision. Angeline Chandler didn't invite the attack that created her condition but she's suffering the result. Disowned by her family and left alone and destitute, she gets a second chance when a kind woman rescues her and invites her to travel to Tarnation, Texas with six other young women for the purpose of marriage. The prospect of marrying one man while carrying another's child worries Angeline. Who would want her with another man's baby? Grady McIntyre is a minister whose wife died soon after their son was born. The woman who has...

Travel to Victorian America in 1890 with award winning and bestselling western romance author Caroline Clemmons for a humorous novel about two people destined for one another after a turbulent getting acquainted period. This book is sweet and suitable for readers over 18. After a fire destroys the factory where Patience Eaton worked followed by a succession of job failures, she travels from Massachusetts to Washington to marry the man her father chose via a matchmaker. While Andrew Kincaid appears to be a very nice man, he's older than her father's and not someone she wants to marry. Her...

A shameful past... Rachel Ross secret haunts her. She joins other women leaving Virginia for Texas, object matrimony. Vowing never to trust again, she is rebuilding her life. She likes the dusty little town of Tarnation and is attracted to Zane Evans. Her past has made her cautious, but she allows him to court her. Zane Evans is a former Pinkerton agent who wants to forget all he saw in that profession and the war and found a good life in Tarnation, Texas. He has carefully planned his future. When he meets Rachel, he is instantly attracted. One event reveals her past in a spectacular way....

When a dot com billionaire crashes his sports car into a tree, he wakes up in Heaven facing angels Gabriel and Michael. He's given a chance to redeem his carefree ways by helping an orphanage avoid foreclosure and regain a sound financial picture by midnight on Christmas Eve-or else. To do so, he is sent back to Earth as orphanage janitor, Jacob Porter. After her father died four months ago, child psychologist Suzi Stephens was shocked to learn Serenity Springs Children's Home and Elementary School faced foreclosure unless she met a balloon note due January 1. She can't understand why her...