When Marietta newcomer Elena Puente is coerced into attending a speed-dating event at the popular Copper Mountain Chocolate shop, she’s blindsided by a serious attraction to local cowboy, Wesley Banks.Still recovering from a broken engagement, the first-grade teacher from Las Vegas isn’t looking for romance. She’s in Montana to get to know the great-grandfather she never knew existed until she found some hidden family letters. Judge Kingsley is a grouchy recluse and he’s far from w...

After being banned from celebrating the holidays with his stepfamily, San Diego businessman Lucas Kendrick arrives in Marietta, Montana, in time to attend the New Year’s Eve celebration at the Graff Hotel. The rodeo-theme party isn’t his style but he’s drawn to the pretty cowgirl running the dice table. When the clock strikes midnight and they ring in the New Year with a kiss, Lucas almost forgets he’s in Marietta on business and not pleasure. He believes he’s found the perfect property fo...

As a new president takes office in 2021, America is deeply divided politically and socially, while the economy seems precariously balanced on increasingly shaky legs. Doom and gloom is the predominant sentiment in America. It has become widely accepted within the investment, political, and media sectors that America is on the decline and that China will drive the global agenda in the 21st century. To which I say, not so fast. This book carefully examines the trends and actual hard data fro...

Nadia forgave her husband once.Then a letter revealed the truth he buried.Fourteen months after Callum confessed to an affair, Nadia believes they are rebuilding. Slowly. Painfully. Honestly. Until a letter arrives from Seren Vale the woman Callum swore was only a three-month mistake.But it was not three months.It was eighteen.And worse, Callum was still with her while Nadia was sitting in therapy, fighting to forgive a betrayal that had never truly ...

The very stout chap with the freckled, good-natured face was Tubby Hopkins. Sim Jeffords was of rather lean build, with a shrewd look in his keen eyes; Andy Bowles was the one whose cheeks every now and then expanded as though in imagination he might be practicing some new bugle call, for Andy had long been recognized as the official “reveille” and “taps” manipulator of the troop; and last, but far from least, was Rob Blake, the determined leader of the Eagle Patrol, who sometimes acted al...

Can love bloom anew in her hometown orchard?After tragedy strikes, high-powered Boston consultant Julia Hart returns to her sleepy coastal Maine hometown to settle her late aunt's estate. But Julia soon learns her beloved aunt secretly left her the family apple orchard - a place rich with childhood memories...and unresolved history.Now determined - yet clueless - orchard owner Julia butts heads with stubborn orchard manager Ryan Cooper, her childhood crush....

“CRACK! crack!” rung out the reports of two rifles over the calm bosom of the lake, and two canoes, about fifty rods apart, seemed to leap from the water as they sped forward.The course of both canoes was toward the western shores of the bay forming the north-western portion of Lake Erie. The one behind was manned by five Indian warriors, two of whom had just fired upon the boat ahead, which contained two persons—a white man and an Indian. The bullets, however, had no other effect t...

On a bright June morning in 1904, more than a thousand mothers and children from New York’s Little Germany boarded the excursion steamer General Slocum for a church outing that promised music, picnic baskets, and relief from the city heat. Less than an hour later, the vessel was a floating furnace on the East River. By day’s end, over 1,000 people were dead, and an entire neighborhood had been shattered.The General Slocum Fire plunges readers into one of the deadliest and most forg...

Rishton Hall Farm was let at last. Lord Stannington had had it on his hands a long time, and had offered it at a lower and ever lower rent. It was an open secret that John Oldshaw, who had a long lease of Lower Rishton Farm at the other end of the village, had expected the Rishton Hall lease to drop into his hands at last for a very trifling rent indeed.

Cyril had never passed through such a terrible minute in his whole life as that one during which his father remained silent, instead of replying to his fierce assailant's demand. A short while before the train-boy, passing down the outside passage of the comfortable American train, bearing his tray of chocolate, biscuits, fruit, etc., had waited on them and promised to return in a few minutes with illustrated papers wherewith to beguile the tedium of the journey.

'Tis the season…for miracles?Renée Sweeney will do whatever it takes to keep a roof over the heads of Detroit's street kids. Even if it means stepping in front of a ten-ton wrecking ball aimed at their temporary home. And especially if it means clashing with gorgeous corporate cowboy Duke Dalton.To Duke, the blue-eyed blonde seems more like an angel than a social worker. Until he discovers a group of runaways camping out in his warehouse! The Tulsa b...

Before dawn on April 27, 1865, a crowded steamboat fighting the flooded Mississippi erupted in a pillar of fire so violent it tore sleeping men from its decks and hurled them into black, freezing water. Nearly all of them were Union soldiers who had survived Andersonville, Cahaba, and the long machinery of war—only to be trapped on the Sultana, a vessel carrying far beyond its legal limit. Why did the deadliest maritime disaster in American history vanish from national memory?Fire ...