Author: colleenldonnelly

Louise Archer boards a westbound train in St. Louis to find the Kansas homesteader who wooed and proposed to her by correspondence, then jilted her by telegram – Don’t come, I can’t marry you. Giving a false name to hide her humiliation, her lie backfires when a marshal interferes and offers her his seat.Marshal Everett McCloud intends to verify the woman coming to marry his homesteading friend … friend is suitable. At the St. Louis train station, his plan detours when he offers his seat to a captivating woman whose name thankfully isn’t Louise Archer.Everett’s plans thwart hers, until he…

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Cate is a runner. She prefers to help her fiancé run his New York senate race, but she finds herself running instead to fix what’s broken between her grandparents before he finds out–her grandmother has moved out of the family home, and her grandfather is accused of a pre-WWII relationship with a woman in Germany.Dietrich is a German journalist with a spotless reputation. He prefers facts, but … but he finds himself lost in a world of fiction instead to prove his novelist grandmother couldn’t possibly have been the lover of a US runner in Berlin’s 1936 Olympics–especially when that…

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Neither Rex nor Regina wants a spouse, but they do have needs. Ranger Rex Duncan needs a false identity-just long enough to uncover a ring of Kansas ranch thieves. Answering Regina’s ad for a temporary husband, he leaves his beloved red dirt of Oklahoma to assume that disguise. But the most obstinate woman he’s ever known confounds his assignment, and with hair the red color that has always made … made his heart beat a little faster. Regina Howard needs a new Mrs. in front of her name-just long enough to reclaim her deceased husband’s ranch, since Kansas law won’t…

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