Author: jografford

A lonely Texas Ranger, a gun-toting spinster, and a marriage of convenience — what could possibly go wrong? Bolt Sanderson answers the call for more lawmen at the Western Joint Task Force in Ft. Bliss, Texas, to help fight the rise in border crimes. A lonely bachelor with no time for courting, he especially likes the fact there’s a mail-order bride agency down the street from his new post. Looks … there’s a mail-order bride agency down the street from his new post. Looks like finding the perfect woman to start the perfect family with will be as easy as picking out…

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A mail-order bride with a secret she’s afraid to share with her groom… Crawling back to a family that has disinherited her is not an option, so she leaps at the opportunity to become a mail-order bride. She prays her would-be groom in Dallas is a good man and won’t object to becoming a father in record time. Former bounty hunter Duke Stratton can think of only one thing he’s missing in his quest to transform himself into a respectable businessman, and that’s the acquisition of a proper wife. There’s one undeniable problem — no high society lady is going…

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Belinda Fairfax has an ax to grind with Colt Branson. She’s been patient — as patient as can be expected by a woman who was jilted at the altar by the only man she’s ever loved. She quietly supported his decision to travel west in search of his missing sister. She wordlessly held her tongue when he and his brother opened a mail-order bride agency — with their one-of-a-kind Gallant Rescuer clause … clause — to help prevent any other would-be brides from suffering the way their sister had suffered.However, Belinda draws the line at watching Colt’s brother, Jordan, fall…

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Amelia Cornwall, an absentminded music instructor, has been dismissed without notice from her position at the orphanage, because they’ve completely run out of funds. If it wasn’t for a happenstance peek at a newspaper clipping, advertising the services of the Boomtown Mail Order Brides Company, she might very well have spent her next night on the street.Cattle rancher Nathan Jagger has recently … recently taken custody of a rambunctious niece and nephew in desperate need of a woman’s nurturing and guidance. When a fellow cowpoke recommends sending off for a mail-order bride, he sees an opportunity to skip the troublesome…

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Abigail Price, a recently widowed church secretary, receives a letter from an old friend, urgently requesting her presence for the opening of the Mountain Springs Church in rural Idaho. Though things are difficult at the moment, financially and otherwise, she splurges on a train ticket, not quite knowing how she’ll scrape up the funds for the return trip.Chad Patterson’s boxing career is cut … is cut short when his ailing father insists he return home to Mountain Springs to run the family sawmill. Bitter over his premature exit from the boxing circuit, Chad is even less thrilled to discover his…

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What do you give a billionaire who has everything?Roman Cantona rises to CEO of an exclusive French winery, following the sudden death of his father. Roman always knew the day would come for him to run the family business; he just never imagined it would come this tragically or this soon. There are so many things on his bucket list he never got around to doing before having to shoulder the weight … the weight of the Cantona dynasty, and now he barely has the time for a social life, any more. When his birthday approaches, he accepts a friend’s…

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Sergeant Luke Jordan and his squad of K9 handlers have successfully routed out so many enemy combatants that he’s become known throughout his military police unit as Sergeant Fang. When he and his dog, Hellion, travel home to Texas for Christmas, they’re looking forward to two weeks of well-earned and uninterrupted rest.
They didn’t count on arriving home to the news headline of, Missing Child. … Child. All volunteers needed ASAP. However, he understands how important it is to find a missing person during the first twenty-four hours, so he and Hellion report to duty instead of vacation.
Coco Winslet has always…

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After a bad breakup, former bodybuilding champion Jett Channing decides to go on a girlfriend diet. So when his normal responsibilities as a forest ranger are interrupted to rescue a stranded hiker, he jumps at the chance to work off his wounded pride by doing something so meaningful and worthwhile.Gwyneth Moore can’t believe her T.V. celebrity boyfriend of three years is dumping her for an … for an anemic-looking supermodel. Too crushed to return to her job as a university research scientist, she decides to take the afternoon off to study a rare breed of flowers at the Sam Houston…

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When a tropical storm serves up a second chance at love for a once-burnt-twice-shy kind of guy… Champion surfer Ford Anderson is a classic shy guy. He’s far more comfortable riding the next big wave than he is braving the perils of dating. So when his best friend and self-proclaimed wingman tries to wheedle him into going on a blind date, he turns him down flat. A mere few hours later, a news … flat. A mere few hours later, a news alert identifies his would-be dinner date as the woman stranded on a sinking yacht. Though he’s certified to…

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With a heroic-sounding name like his, Axel Hammerstone naturally made all the “most likely to succeed” lists in his high school yearbook. So it comes as no surprise to his friends and family when their favorite defensive tackle player returns from Afghanistan with a Purple Heart for an injury sustained while saving three fellow soldiers during an ambush. He’s the only one who blames himself for … for the one man he failed to rescue from their burning vehicle before it plunged over a cliff. Despite his own injuries, he’s determined to atone for the loss of his battle buddy,…

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