Chatting with fellow stagecoach passenger Duncan MacGibbon, Sophie Wheelright learns the merchant she promised herself to as a mail-order bride is a violent man, Charles Shanley, who owns a bordello. The Scottish rancher, who is also a doctor, spirits her off the coach before it reaches its destination, and they walk eight miles to his ranch, where his younger sister takes an immediate disliking to Sophie. To save the young woman from Shanley, who is not giving up on turning her into one o...

At her dying mother's insistence, dime-novel fan Libby Ann Parminter escapes St. Louis to avoid a forced marriage to a vile older man. Her destination: the ranch of her biological father, Jackson Butterman, in Montana, where she clashes with his arrogant and "mean" young foreman, Garrett Winslow. Libby takes a job as housekeeper on the Butterman ranch, not telling anyone she is the patriarch's daughter or that her abusive stepfather and non-fiancé are most likely pursuing her. She need onl...

Mail-order bride and family healer Bridget O'Hara is stunned when her fiancé suddenly calls off the wedding. Determined not to be cast aside, she travels to the Oregon ranch Karl Burgen owns with his brother Gus, who is married to Bridget's cousin Per. Once there, she discovers Karl has been seriously injured and is in pain, angry and depressed. As she attempts to heal him and bring him back to his old self, Bridget and Gus encounter rustlers, killing the brother of a murderous outlaw. The...

Feisty, determined, horse whisperer Anya O'Hara is just about certain Hank Fletcher is not the right man for her as she travels to Mourning Glory, Idaho, as a mail-order bride. In Boise, she comes across a murdered woman and her four-year-old daughter. Spotted by the killer, she grabs the child and runs for their lives. In Mourning Glory, temporary Deputy Trent Brisco hides the pair at his ranch as he investigates the crime. While the attraction between the rancher and young woman sizzles,...

Written by a former TV sitcom writer, these four humorous plays cover a range of topics. "A Moving Experience" pits an enthusiastic young college student moving into his first apartment against his overprotective mother. In "Sofa," two college roommates spar over Josh's obsession with cleanliness and keeping his sofa pristine. Chaos ensues when Josh makes out with Brandyann, the girl his roommate Beck met at the beach. A feisty elderly lady, Lily, chains herself to a tree in "The Last Stan...

If you dread receiving any of "those" letters in your Christmas cards, you'll be pleasantly surprised by The Tacky Christmas Letters. A collection of 30 years of holiday letters, the quirky epistles follow the foibles and ups and downs of a family through love, divorce, numerous trips to emergency rooms, travels and travails. The one constant through these adventures is humor, brought to you by a former TV sit-com writer and author of many traditional and e-books.

A collection of award-winning columns and other humorous material on the challenges and joys of raising children, Parenting Made Easy & Other Fake News includes Q & A's (Q. How often do switches actually occur when women have their babies in hospitals? A. Very rarely. The vast majority of mothers go back to their original homes.); multiple choice; a conversation with a six-year-old; and excerpts from The Dictionary According to Mommy (reversible: dirty on both sides). Topics covered range ...

Mail-order bride Lindy O'Hara and her Texas Ranger/rancher husband Cal Bronson are immediately attracted to each other and form a passionate bond, but he doesn't trust her enough to tell her about the case he's supposedly working on. When she finds a diagram of the inside of a bank in his study and spies him in a clandestine meeting with an unsavory character, she hopes for the best but fears the worst. Is her brave and kind husband actually a bank robber, or is he an honorable lawman work...

A loser in love, Ellie Lambert works at underground comic book company Full Court Press in a small northern California town. When her bosses, aging hippies Roger and Bonnie, cast entertainer Russell Owens to play counterculture superhero Muskman at the upcoming comic convention in Las Vegas, Ellie agrees to let Russell ride with her to Vegas. She senses an attraction between them and begins fantasizing that he could be the one, even thinking about desert sex. Then he shows up to carpool wi...

Discontented heiress Priscilla "Per" Vanderhaven sneaks away from her wealthy widowed mother in Pennsylvania in the middle of the night to travel to Oregon as a simple mail-order bride. Her husband, Gus Burgen, was betrayed by an heiress back east and loathes wealthy society women now, so she doesn't tell him of her background. As the newlyweds struggle to build their ranch and overcome a severe injury Per receives her second day at the campsite, her mother offers a $5,000 reward for her r...

On her own in America since the age of 15, Carys Rees of Taibach, Wales, dreams for years of opening a sandwich shop. After seven years of service to a family in Pennsylvania, she escapes from an obsessive, brutish relative of her employers by advertising herself out west as a housekeeper. She escapes her violent nemesis only to discover that her new employer in Dakota Territory lied about everything. Not only that, he also got himself killed. Now she's reluctantly taken in by the huge, ha...

It's 1873 and wealthy Rexwell Dunne is dying. As a last hurrah, he travels across the country in his Pullman rail car with his daughter Jenna, 22, and her conniving brother Carter, 24. One night as they are traveling through Wyoming and their father is sleeping, Carter lures Jenna out of the Pullman, where he shoots her and throws her off the train. Rancher Bodie Farnham, who is dreading a visit from his overbearing mother and the "perfect" debutante she is bringing with her from Omaha, fi...