Author: marisamasterson
He was her rescuer. Would he also be the love of her life?Lilah Levitt made a terrible mistake when she answered a job advertisement for a hotel in Idyll Wood, Wisconsin. Kidnapped and carted off to a brothel in the North Woods, she barely escaped being abused. If not for Sheriff Fred Sittig, her situation would have been tragic.No matter how often he tried to reason with Lilah, Sheriff Sittig … Sheriff Sittig could not get her to realize that she didn’t love him. She was only grateful. After all, what would a beautiful and talented young woman want with…
Massachusetts, 1861All’s fair in love and war. Hardly! Neither war nor love have been kind to Milo Roberts. He survived a battle no one expected only to have his brother die next to him. Wounded, he lays in a cot and determines to leave war behind, no matter what his abolitionist father says. Fiona immigrates to the United States after her cousin promises her a job. While on the ship, she worries … ship, she worries about the war ramping up in that country. Little does she know danger is much closer than the battlefields. At the Boston docks, she…
Rustlers and a mystified marshal. A treasure map and a missing child. Why does nothing make sense to this smart school teacher?Forced into the role of a U. S. marshal, Delia Perkins keeps that a secret and goes on with her life as a teacher in the small town of Belle, Wyoming. After all, she’s only a courier. While waiting for her contact, she’s drawn to the man she’s sure is a part of a gang of … a gang of rustlers.Roland Anderson juggles training both his horses and his daughter. The bad thing is that the horses are better…
This full-length Christian romance is more than 37,000 words. Trapped in a lie… father believed that his son’s education as a lawyer had been a waste. Instead, the man bribed him by offering to pay for seminary if his son spent a year working as a lawyer in wild, barely settled town of Kearney, Nebraska. Attraction and an unscrupulous boss have Theodore second guessing everything he knows to be true. And just why does the mysterious Ginger Snap keep disappearing?more
How could this man fool the people around him? At first glance, mail-order bride Merrilee Rollins knew her deranged groom was normal. Actually, incredible seemed more apt. With his black wavy hair and blue eyes stirring something deep within her, she ignored mystery surrounding him and went ahead with their Christmas wedding.Why did the strange accidents begin happening?Soon after his bride’s … happening?Soon after his bride’s arrival, Carl Sittig’s problems started. Merrilee’s presence made it difficult to maintain his facade of lunacy. After touching her once, he longed to be her husband in truth. Having witnessed a murder, if he…
After a matchmaker convinces her to take a chance on widower Ezra, lonely spinster Ruby heads out west as his mail-order bride. But as their convenient arrangement transforms into something much deeper, can they lean on their faith and open their hearts to love?
From the author of A Bride for Darrell and A Shadowed Groom for Christmas comes a sweet historical romance laced with mystery and suspense…Bode needs this is opportunity to prove he can be a successful businessman. His trustee, however, won’t release the necessary funds unless Bode marries, by proxy, the man’s choice of brides. He willing agrees. After all, he can annul the marriage after the … after the money is in his possession.All thoughts of annulment disappear when he meets his less than shy or wilting Violet. But will Violet stay with him when she learns how Bode makes…
Children! Myra Smithson is tired of them. She didn’t expect to be disinherited or to end up as her brother’s unpaid nanny and cook. Thank goodness her matchmaker neighbor offers Myra a way out of the situation.Reinhold “Holder” Sittig knows he can’t expect his terminally ill mother to care for his daughters. Following advice, he sends away for a mail-order bride. Too bad he forgets to mention his … mention his children in the letter.What happens after this Christmas bride discovers she’s once again expected to be the unpaid nanny and cook? Will she find any tenderness from her stubborn…
An orphan, Carlene January travels to Idyll Wood for a job. What she finds instead is trouble that sends her fleeing into the night.Manny Strong wants to escape the demons that drive him—namely his father and alcohol. After overhearing his father tell his lawyer that Manny wasn’t his child, he decides to leave that night.From a logging camp to a local farm, this man and woman are on a collision … collision course that leads them into marriage and a fight for Carlene’s life. Will Carlene’s determination and Manny’s desire to save her be enough to give them a happy…
Alone! Kitty Donaldson’s marred face keeps her isolated from others. When offered the opportunity to be a mail-order bride to a stranger who refuses to leave his home, Kitty gladly accepts. After all, she’s always lived without friends.Kit Randolph has been hideously scarred in a mysterious fire. Did someone purposefully burn down his home? His cousin Phineas suspects someone near to Kit is a … is a murderer. How can he prove it?Married to a man in a mask, Kitty begins to wonder about her husband. Who or what lies under the hood he wears? Why is she constantly shadowed…