One Missing. One Remains. A small town, cold case psychological suspense novel that will stay with you long after the final page.A ten-year-old girl vanishes on her walk home.No witnesses. No answers. No closure.A decade later, something surfaces.A connection no one saw coming.A truth someone has worked very hard to keep buried.In 2003, ten-year-old Hattie Monetti vanished...

U.S. Marshal Joshua Egan has a vengeance on his mind when he orders a mail order bride to care for his motherless children. A gang of outlaws murdered his dear wife during a stagecoach robbery gone wrong and Joshua's only need now is for justice. When Rachel Maitland arrives with her innocent eyes and kind smile, she breaks the shield around his heart to pieces, like water flowing through a canyon. He can't keep her out, no matter how hard he tries, and no matter the risk.Rachel Ma...

After inheriting her grandmother’s Victorian mansion outside Twin Bluffs, Montana, Shavon Montgomery decides to turn it into a bed and breakfast. It is the perfect solution for her after the tragedy of losing her sister and taking custody of her sister's baby. Guilt rides her hard, along with a deep and abiding hatred for secrets and the people who keep them. If it hadn't been for secrets, she could have helped her sister before she died; secrets that destroyed her relationship with the ma...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, so when Hannah Granger's little sister takes off for Oregon with a group of mail-order brides to meet her new husband, Hannah has no choice but to follow. She expects her sister to find trouble, and she does. But what Hannah doesn't expect is to fall for the hired gun traveling with the wagon train as they make their way along the treacherous Oregon Trail. The bounty hunter is tall, dark and dangerous, everything she's avoided her entire life. B...

How much can change between one visit to a lighthouse and the next? In To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf explores the emotional lives of the Ramsay family and their guests during a summer stay at a house on the Isle of Skye. At the center of the story are Mrs. Ramsay, her husband, and their children, whose relationships reveal the complexities of love, family, expectation, and identity. The novel unfolds through shifting perspectives, allowing readers to experience the characters' private ...

Ed Talbot, a former outlaw burdened by his past, seizes a chance at redemption when he intercepts love letters meant for another man during a failed stagecoach robbery. Desperate to escape his life of crime, he assumes the identity of the intended recipient and sets out to win the heart of Miss Lizzie Cobb.Lizzie, a half-Apache woman living on a ranch near Tombstone, seeks a mail-order bride arrangement to secure her future. However, when Ed arrives posing as her betrothed, she's b...

From the day she was born, Rita Baxter's mother encouraged her to follow her heart. Filled with innocent dreams and faith that her hard work training to be a Prima Ballerina on New York's bright stage will lead to fortune and fame, Rita is crushed when she loses her mother and must take a job dancing in a burlesque chorus line to keep a roof over her head. Witnessing a brutal murder is the last straw. The police promise to keep her safe, but Rita has learned to be a realist. Determined to ...

Catherine Evans knew she was meant to love Duncan McKenzie from the moment she first saw him at three years old. For years, he was her hero—strong, kind, and everything a man should be. But on her sixteenth birthday, he shattered her heart and walked away from her father’s ranch without a backward glance. From that moment on, Catherine swore off love. She would run the ranch, she would survive, and she would never let another man close to her heart again.Duncan left to protect them...

THE NOVELS The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) The Waves (1931) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941) THE 'BIOGRAPHIES' Orlando: a biography (1928) Flush: a biography (1933) Roger Fry: a biography (1940) THE STORIES Two Stories (1917) Kew Gardens (1919) Monday or Tuesday (1921) A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944) Nurse Lugton's Golden Thimble (1966) Mrs Dalloway's Party (1973) The Complete Shorter Ficti...

Unexpectedly homeless, un-wed mother Sarah Johnson has few options. They could go live with her cousin William, but Sara believes there’s something untoward about his offer and it leaves her feeling uncomfortable. She's qualified to be a governess, but no one will have her because she wasn't married when she had her precious MaryAnn. Matchmaker & Co could be her salvation as mail-order-bride to Mr. John Atwood.Single father, John Atwood, is raising his daughter the best he can in t...

Audra is an ordinary grad student in law school in Boulder, Colorado, until she learns a shocking truth: she's a princess from the planet Centauri. Her mission, like it or not, is to marry an alien prince and save her world, thereby protecting her family.Darius, charged with escorting his brother’s bride back to Centauri to become queen, faces an impossible dilemma. Falling in love with Audra isn’t just forbidden; it’s a death sentence for both him and his people.As Audra g...

Civil war devastated the country and left Rachel Sawyer stranded in a dead-end job as a seamstress with no prospects for marriage. Men are thin on the ground in Massachusetts, so Rachel and her best friend travel west, to Seattle, with the handsome Talbot brothers. Jason Talbot, the eldest brother and wealthy owner of a lumber company, is so far beyond her reach that falling in love with him is the most non-sensical thing she could do. So, of course, she does. But after one sensual midnigh...