Author: jografford
Poor little rich girl Bernadette Chambers is weary of being told what to do. All her life, she’s been instructed how to dress, how to act, and who she is allowed to befriend. However, she draws the line at being told she has to marry a man she’s never met, even if refusing to marry him means being cut off from her family’s fortune. Realizing she’ll need a job to support herself in her bid for … independence, she decides to become a Pinkerton Agent, only to discover she’ll be required to marry a fellow agent (in name only) before…
Olivia Rothschild has made yet another mistake. She tries to follow the advice of her social climbing Aunt Beatrice, but she never quite plays the game of a debutante to her guardian’s satisfaction. This time, she’s kissed the wrong man — in plain view of her biggest rival, no less, who can’t wait to spread the scandalous tale. According to her aunt, she must marry the man with haste or face … complete ruin.Jordan Branson and his brother run a vastly successful mail-order bride business, but sometimes he grows a tad weary of arranging everyone else’s happily-ever-afters and never his…
Camilla Powers (Boone Cassidy’s widowed sister from Wanted: Bounty Hunter) has traveled all the way to Silverpines, Oregon from Louisiana and arrived just in time for Boone and Rachel’s wedding. She’s brought with her their sassy southern Mama, her own precious four-year-old, Lucy, and a sizable chip on her shoulder against the uppity ways of rich folks. She’s poor, proud, and southern and has no … no plans of changing. Until a shady fellow from the bayou shows up in town, threatening everyone and everything she holds dear…At Boone’s insistence, she lingers in Silverpines for their collective safety — long…
Rebecca Copeland has always dreamed of becoming a mother, but a bout with scarlet fever takes away her ability to bear children. Instead of bemoaning her fate, however, she decides God must be calling her to teach school. She and her best friend, Hope Thompson (a former slave), embark on a new adventure to Pelican Rapids, never dreaming they would land themselves right smack in the crosshairs of … of a scheming matchmaker. Not only does Ms. Ella Milton not seem to understand their divine calling to serve as lifelong spinsters in the classroom, she already has the perfect beau…
Can the hope and joy of Christmas light the way for two hearts devastated by war?Elizabeth Byrd receives an invitation to join her friends in Angel Creek, Montana to become a mail-order bride. At first, the young battlefield nurse is scandalized by the idea of agreeing to marry a man she’s never met, but the war has taken everything from her — her brothers, too many friends to count, and her … and her fiancé. There’s nothing left for her in Charleston but more heartache.Captain David Pemberton retreats to his hunting lodge in Montana the moment the war is over.…
A dreamer like her father, Rose Addington has been secretly penning novels for romantic-minded young ladies under the pseudonym of R. Addington. Unfortunately, her dragon of a guardian, Aunt Flo, doesn’t approve of dreaming. Her crotchety spinster heart is set on marrying off her niece by summer’s end to a suitable gentleman of good breeding.When a local farmer accidentally bumbles his way into … way into their unlocked townhome, Aunt Flo decides to add shooting lessons to Rose’s endless list of educational past-times. It soon becomes clear to Rose that gun shop owner Lancaster Tracy is shamelessly courting her during…
An impoverished debutante who signs a mail-order bride contract to avoid financial ruin and the rugged cowboy determined to save her from such a disastrous decision… her matchmaker and his lovely new wife to find her the perfect groom. In fact, it makes the task next to impossible! Kane Jameson, cowboy by day and innkeeper by night at the Black Barrel Inn, sees no point in marrying and settling down any time soon. Life is one big adventure, and he’s fairly certain it doesn’t begin and end in Brownsville, Texas Until Bert Langston bursts uninvited into his group of friends…
To the world, Daisy Danvers is a spoiled young debutante from Boston who always gets what she wants. But she has secrets — big, festering secrets she doesn’t want her best friend, Meg Nicholson, to find out. All she needs from Meg is a promise to help her find the perfect husband the moment she steps off the train in Headstone, Arizona. Her very life might depend upon it.She never dreamed her … dreamed her troubles would follow her out West, and a whole posse of armed robbers would be waiting for her when she disembarked. She also never dreamed…
Patty Cason has always packed a few extra pounds. Even though she’s a successful college campus minister in L.A., this is her private struggle, something she’s tried to keep hidden from her friends and family while it slowly erodes her confidence and social life. It doesn’t help that she’s been privately crushing on Reverend Duke Carlson for months, a doctoral student who hardly seems to notice … notice her existence.When her campus co-pastor’s fiancee, Tanya, invites her to serve as her maid of honor at their wedding in Wyoming, Patty is forced to face her biggest fears all at once.…
Orphan and widow Rachel West is returning home to Oregon after eight years of living with her guardian on the East Coast. Thanks to a lavish inheritance from her great-aunt, she now has the funds to realize her dream of opening the Silverpines Finishing School for Young Ladies.Unfortunately, a former co-instructor from Boston follows her to Silverpines, claiming a deathbed promise to look after … to look after her. Highly suspicious of his intentions, she sends off for a mail-order husband to provide a buffer between them; but she makes it clear in her letter she wishes to court first…