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He's a bad bad boy...Link Stewart is an incorrigible rake, a woman's man who knows his way around the bedroom. When he travels to Virginia to solve the mysterious happenings on the Stewart tobacco plantation, he discovers there is more than one mystery that needs to be solved. A beautiful seemingly sophisticated young woman, Sophia Carter-Brown, sets her sights on him. She makes it abundantly clear she wants him for her next lover... but she's a desperate...

Michelle: Bride of Mississippi is 20th in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.When Michelle Blake's world collapses and her job as a seamstress disappears, she thinks maybe her cousin, Josephine, has a good idea. She follows suit and answers an advertisement to be a mail order bride. She doesn't know much about Mississippi, but is willing to take a chance for a better life in a place where she might be able to use her sewing...

The single kiss behind the church changes Chauncey Lakeland's life forever. At that moment, Chauncey knows Still Water Runs Deep is the only man she can love. Someday she will prove to him she can be courageous as well as bold. She decides that when he leaves for Dakota territory she will follow. Chauncey has every intention of being with this man she just met. She isn't going to risk losing him. No matter what it takes, Still Water Runs Deep will...

SHE WOULD RISK EVERYTHING TO BECOME A PRACTICING DOCTORAnnie Lundin's dream of practicing medicine and a life of dignity and self-sufficiency vanishes in the small Kansas Territory town of Denver City. When the men of the town refuse to become her patients, all she has left to fight for is her practice. She is thwarted from every direction. She didn't mean to fall for the dark, handsome sheriff. Didn't mean to ask for his help. Annie needs Deke Sullivan...

Propositions, secrets, consequences… there's no telling what the future will hold. But one thing is for certain. Love is at the heart of it all. An unexpected stipulation in her pa's will forces Francesca Collins to approach her childhood best friend, Cole Seymour. She has secretly loved him for years, but he considers her a friend and nothing more. With no other choice, Francesca asks him for help with a wild plan to keep everything she holds dear....

Willow fled New Orleans in fear of her life and determined to never be found by the men pursuing her. The small Wyoming town seemed just the place for her to hide and start a new life. After opening a dress shop and finding a place in the community, Willow truly believes she finally outrun her fears. She finds safety in the strong arms of rancher Logan McCord and he ignites a passion inside her that threatens to consume her.Logan was instantly attracted...

Set against the turbulent and glamorous backdrop of Prohibition and the rise of the jazz age, Jamie Brenner's The Gin Lovers was first published as a six-part e-serial. Now this sensual and romantic story of how one high society woman's passion and courage lead her to love is available for the first time ever as a complete book. It's 1925, and the Victorian era with its confining morals is all but dead. Unfortunately, for New York socialite Charlotte...

The citizens of Dominion Falls are just getting over the chaotic, and tragic, events around their celebratory summer. Dark forces aren't done with them yet, though. Sally is studying hard to be every bit the detective Tommy is. When a mysterious stranger arrives and initially threatens her life, Sally is in for a big surprise. New ways to expand her knowledge, and her new lease on life are laid out before her. If only the renewed streak of murders...

Savannah Lockwood dreams of living a life adventure like the ones she reads about in her books, but her father wants her to grow up and get married. Her mother, on the other hand, has always supported her dreams. Lucas McKay has had a rough life full of more adventures than he cares to recall. He thinks he's seen it all, but then he learns about the marriage stipulation of becoming a training agent in Denver. As the two become partners in an unlikely...

How does an impoverished and illiterate Irish Catholic immigrant rise from abject poverty and discrimination in mid-19th Century America to become America's boxing champion, a millionaire gambling entrepreneur, a twice-elected member of the United States Congress, and a twice-elected member of the New York State Senate?The accomplishments of John Morrissey (1831-1878) are well-documented. What's missing is how? Certainly, luck, timing, resolve, and...