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Birch River Brides: Books 1-5 is a charming collection of stories guaranteed to capture your heart and leave you wanting more! Will the men and women in these stories find a way to make it to the altar? Or will the challenges that lay in their path prove too much for them to overcome?

There's only one word to describe the devil's kiss. Violent. There's only one word to describe a hunter who locks lips with the most revered, most feared, and most despicable demon to have ever existed. Traitor. A hunter and the Devil. It's not just an unlikely pair. It's an impossible one. Add his two henchmen to the mix and there's only one word that spells. Disaster. I am Melody Black. Daughter of the New York Guild's leader. Daughter of the best hunter to have ever existed. But daddy dearest is about to lose his title.

When her husband leaves her for a younger woman, taking with him the company she's worked so hard to build, the tabloids go crazy. Desperate and in search of an escape, Honey Whitmore finds herself at Circle O, the O'Connor family ranch. Even though she has worked on Wall Street since graduating from college, she takes a job as a ranch hand, seeking only oblivion. Caleb O'Connor is an entrepreneur and he's at Circle O to help them transition into grass-fed organic beef.

In this true to life tale, Texas girl Amanda finds love in a young man named Andrew. However this new commitment is not all perfect. She has a variety of new worries including the approval of her father and pushing away difficult high school memories. Can their love survive rocky times?

Jessie is a drifter, and when he begins work for Bill, he doesn’t imagine he’ll be staying in Daisy Creek for long. But the town captures his heart, and finally, he feels the urge to settle down. Inspired by Bill’s marriage, Jessie places an ad for a mail-order bride, and soon he’s falling in love with Mary Marsh’s letters. Mary’s life has been beset by tragedy, and she’s a vision of strength as she wrestles with grief over her father’s death and her mother’s resulting sickness. A new life with Jessie in Daisy Creek could be exactly what she’s looking for....

When Rose Blalock agrees to take her long-lost grandfather on a cross-country trip, she never dreamed he'd drag her to his childhood home at Carson Hill Ranch. The former foster child has a family she never knew about, one that lives, works, and loves together in a way that she could never let herself imagine as a child. Thanks to Mason Carn, her self-appointed tour guide to the ranch, Rose begins to understand the allure of cowboy life despite brushes with danger and conniving con men.

When marriage-shy Mason Crawford and spitfire Jenny Carson meet, their unexpected attraction is undeniable. The road ahead looks promising until storm clouds of anger and pride roll in. Can they weather the tempest, or will it dash their hopes for love and acceptance?

She thought God had forgotten her, until a pastor reached out from Wyoming and offered her a brand-new life. But can she let go of the memories she left behind to love again? Missy Stanton believes her life is over when her husband, Tommy, dies in a tragic work accident in the railyards of Boston. Alone in the city with no family and worse prospects, she turns to the Matrimonial Times in a moment of weakness. There, she meets Pastor Jack Tibsdale, who offers her a home in a place in Birch River, Wyoming, in return for her hand in marriage.

Kimberly Carson, the oldest of Bernard Carson's grandchildren, is headed off to Princeton in the fall, much to her family's dismay. Everywhere she turns, one relative or another is trying to convince her to stay a little closer to home, if she leaves at all. But a stolen day with her grandfather will reveal more about Kimberly's family than she ever knew, including the secrets and the love surrounding the woman they have vowed never to speak of - Sarah Carson.

As the time draws near for the twice-yearly cattle drive, Mr. Carson is feeling his age. He wants to be there when his grandkids - all nine of them - experience the magic and the history of the drive for the first time. Emma Carson enlists her best friend to come from Houston to help wrangle the kids while their parents wrangle the herd. But from the moment Dee steps off the bus and comes face to face with a vision from her dark past, trouble begins.

After an unfortunate scandal robs her of all decent standing in society, Daphne can see no better alternative for her future than to go against her family's wishes and become a mail order bride. That is, until she receives a letter from her betrothed’s younger brother, saying that her husband-to-be, Dallas, has skipped town with another woman. As her hopes of starting over as a married woman begin to collapse, Daphne decides that her only option is to go through with her plan to move west to Daisy Creek. It is there she meets Parker, a local saloon owner.

Claire Calhoun wants nothing more than to continue her happy relationship with Deputy Peshenka but as he begins to press her for information about who she really is, she knows it can never work out. When he finally proposes, her heart says yes but her past speaks louder. Before she has the chance to make things right with Pesh, he's wounded in the line of duty. Can some help from Carson Hill's own posse bring him back to her safely in time for her to make it up to him?

Alyssa Fairfield has led the life of a hermit since the death of her husband three years before. When her childhood friend, Clara Roberts, turns to her for help fleeing her stalker it forces Alyssa to break out of her self-imposed shell. When Clara doesn't show up a cryptic letter forces Alyssa to go on a manhunt in Southwestern Oklahoma to find her friend. Alyssa pushes her way into a garage, only to be confronted by a man who will break down every wall she has constructed to protect herself.

Mathew Jenkins feels isolated on his remote, rural ranch. Though he longs for a family, women in mining country are scarcer than gold nuggets. So he’s delighted by the dapper response to his mail-order bride ad from a comely Virginian lady. Jenny Phillips’ good name was ruined by her father’s stupidity. Forced into hiding with her ma, she’s desperate to put her pa’s stained reputation behind. But when her domineering uncle tries to sell her to the highest bidder, she flees by answering a lonely Montana man’s classified....

Having grown up as the youngest child in an affluent and socially prominent family, Tabatha Martin understands what her parents expect from their only daughter. But, the life of a frivolous high-society socialite is the last thing Tabatha wants, and the mounting pressure from her parents for her to marry is quickly becoming unbearable.

Is it possible to outrun your destiny? These four brides are determined to find out. Four brides on four inspirational quests towards freedom and love. Can they outwit their pasts? Is true love finally within their grasp?

A lost, bedraggled stranger walks up to large animal vet Dr. Joshanne Ryan's cabin on Carson Hill Ranch in the middle of the night. Romney Jens has been wandering for three days since his car broke down, and Joshanne knew she couldn't just send him on his way. After his first food and drink in days, the stranger is allowed to spend the night in the barn until someone from the main ranch can come take him to his car.

When Mr. Black goes missing, Melody is left in charge of the New York Guild and burdened with the task of bringing her father home. She's also been offered a place in Hell. The decision should be a no brainer. Once a hunter, always a hunter. But with secrets unfolding and lives on the line, there's nothing easy about deciding between Hell and Home.

When Maggie Lucas (mail order bride) leaves Boston for Virginia City, Nevada, she's anticipating a marriage of convenience and life in a new home with a man she's never met. That's more than enough change, in her view. What she doesn't expect, is to find that home threatened as both the market for silver and the Comstock Lode mines themselves dry up and her new husband faces foreclosure. She also doesn't expect to fall in love with the new state, the people in it - and her new husband.

Since losing her husband to a fatal illness one winter, Susan Taylor has done her best to keep her farm afloat - including taking a loan out from the bank. But it seems that all her efforts have come to nothing, and Susan is now facing the cold reality that she is about to lose the farm. The only option she seems to have left is to pack up her life in Daisy Creek, leave her home, and start over somewhere new with her children. But just as her world seems to be crumbling around her, Edward Finnegan suddenly appears in her life.