Author: parkerjcole
Chen Wen Hui has spent the last six years working hard to become a man of means in order to gain the one woman he has ever loved to be his wife. He is close to succeeding when his business partner charges him to become a proxy husband to the very woman he loves. Li Yuping grudgingly accepts her fate that she will marry by proxy a man she has never met until she sees that the proxy husband sent in … husband sent in his stead is none other than the childhood friend she once cared for. Will Wen…
A mulatto heiress, a former slave, and the case that tests their resolve…Mulatto heiress Arielle Bradford refuses to marry the politician her father has chosen for her. When she sees an advertisement that the Pinkerton agency in Denver, Colorado is looking for female recruits, it seems like the perfect escape plan. And then she discovers she has to marry her training agent.Former slave and … agent.Former slave and Union spy Caleb Smith is leery of his beautiful but fiery partner’s ability to be a good agent, but when a prominent Negro politician receives a threat on his life, it’s up…
Sterling Montgomery fell in love ten years ago with a young girl who had the voice of an angel. Yet, due to his father’s demands, he was unable to pursue her. Since that day, she has remained in his heart. His father, a prominent minister, seeking to further his position in his church, demands he court the daughter of the elder so that he can climb the echelons of church hierarchy. Sterling, … knowing that he will never love any woman like he does his angel, decides to marry any other woman but the one his father has set for…
Mallet Thorne is in trouble, big trouble. All because he listened to a gypsy fortune-teller and not his own heart. He just wanted to make right the pain his brother, outlaw Mace Thorne, caused in Silverpines. So at the advice of the Gypsy he answers an advertisement for a groom. He has every intention of becoming the husband and father to a widow and her children even though he is unsure if he … if he would be a good father and husband. That is until he sees the most beautiful woman ever. He’s drawn to the beauty even as…
Faith Burke has been waiting for the return of her husband, the Mayor of Lantern, from the War for the past eighteen months. In his absence, the responsibility of keeping Lantern a thriving community falls on her shoulders. When her brother-in-law, her staunch protector and defender, Cyrus, challenges her to stop waiting and bring new men to town, she rises up to the challenge by hosting a … festival sure to lure in potential new husbands for Lantern’s eligible women. She’s not seeking one for herself. She could never betray her husband, and she’ll continue to wait for him no…
Becoming a widow is the best thing that has ever happened to Charity Chance. Her loveless marriage was a disaster and she intends to avoid the trappings of matrimony for good. She can run the successful cattle ranch without any man’s help. But when the town mayor asks her to open her bunkhouse to competitors who could become potential grooms for the many widows and single women of Lantern, Texas, … Texas, she reluctantly agrees.Bounty hunter Hezekiah Brunston comes to Lantern in search of murderous Yankee rebels causing terror throughout the war-torn South. When he encounters the beautiful but cold…
When her brother dies in the earthquakes that destroy Silverpines, Elena Somersville knows she needs protection from the ruthless gunslinger, Mace Thorne. Her brother’s gambling habit had betrothed her to the outlaw and now there is no one to keep him at bay. A mail order husband seems the only way to keep Mace from collecting his debt.Tobias Clayborne vows to avenge his best friend and his … and his wife’s death at the hands of the notorious gunslinger. When he discovers Mace Thorne has a wife waiting for him in Silverpines, he responds to a mail-order husband advertisement in…
Gargi Kapoor is the only one convinced her brother, Dev, is innocent of the crime he was convicted of. When he is sent to the hospital with an unexplained paralyzing disease she finds herself having to lean on the last person she’d ever want to depend on — a man who wants her brother to pay for stealing his mother’s life savings.Leon Reckley is extremely satisfied to find the man who ripped his … ripped his mother off suffering from an unknown disease that leaves him paralyzed and in need of rehabilitation therapeutic services. He’s even happier when he is…