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Working long hours in a New York City bakery is not at all what Sophia Hayes had planned for her life. When her fiancé breaks their engagement to marry her thinner, blonder, more beautiful sister, Sophia knows it is time to do something drastic, something completely unexpected. All she's ever wanted is to have a husband and family of her own. Agreeing to be a mail-order bride seems the perfect answer.

Isabella Latham's callous father sold her into marriage to settle a gambling debt. Rather than face life with a cruel man more than twice her age, she runs from New York and becomes a mail-order bride. Bella's dreams are simple. All she needs to be happy is a home, children, and an honorable man to love her.

Valerie Burrows is running from a wedding, her attorney fiancé, and the law. Pampered Valerie takes a bus to nowhere, where she learns her cash and credit cards have been stolen. Left with only her designer clothes and luggage she takes on a new identity and must learn to be self-reliant. She swears off men, especially attorneys, only to find the one man who refuses a one night stand and wants a relationship.

Jesse Donovan spent the last four years chasing gold, hoping to convince his New York fiancée to join him. He's now rich, successful, and eager for his wife-to-be to make the trip out west. But now that it's time to travel to Hope's Crossing and marry Jesse, the New York socialite sends him a letter informing him of her intention to marry another. Heartbroken and lonely, Jesse contacts Matchmaker & Co. for a mail order bride.

Five years ago, a band of outlaws murdered Josephine Shafter's parents and younger brother. Desperate for vengeance, Jo has spent every day since serving the law as a bounty hunter. But the trouble with justice served is that now that her family's killer has been brought in, she has nothing to do and no one to hunt. She decides it may be time for a new life and a fresh start. She longs for the arms of a strong man around her, and for a child of her own. But the Chicago dandies don't know how to kiss a woman who is tougher than they are.

In the historical western town of Fort Worth, Texas, matchmaking mother Eugenia Burnett has achieved her goals. Her three sons are happily married, and she has three grandchildren, with the fourth on the way. But she hasn't given up her matchmaking ways. Now she's introducing lonely widows and widowers. Until one widower, rancher Wyatt Jones, lets her know he's only interested in one woman: her. Sworn never to remarry, Eugenia doesn't want a husband. But Wyatt wants Eugenia and he's one determined cowboy.

Dhá is the bundle of The Hermit, The Devil, and The Tower.

As the local preacher, Gideon Fraser often talks about the many virtues of a good marriage, but that doesn't mean he has the slightest inclination of claiming a bride of his own. No, he's been burned before, by greedy women who only want the prestige and money the Fraser family name can provide. When his mother's devious matchmaking results in his unexpected wedding, Gideon looks at the beautiful face of the woman who has sworn to be his and wants nothing to do with her.

When her parents died, Molly McGregor did what she needed to survive in New York City all alone. She took a job for a well-respected banker, but made a discovery that put her life in danger. Now, in 1882, she is fleeing New York for the western frontier. Molly makes the desperate decision to become a mail order bride in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. She doesn't hope for much, just that her new husband will be strong enough to protect her from the danger she fears will follow.

Ready for a new beginning, Caitlin leaves her estate on the English Riviera in her aunt's capable hands, and with a hefty dose of optimism, travels to Hawaii's North Shore to practice her newly learned art of reading Tarot cards. Day one: Caitlin is faced with her personal prophecy. Day two: she trips over a dead body and hits the Honolulu PD's suspect list. Whoever said life in paradise was idyllic didn't know Caitlin Connor. Can she find the killer and get on with living her dream, or will her future be limited to a jail cell?

Dividers is a stand-alone novel that pays homage to stories told by Stanley Kubrick. Billionaire Jacob Calbraw has just started a relationship with famed singer Celeste Marie. Their forbidden love affair has stirred the wrath of Jacob's father, Earl Calbraw. Since the two billionaires have been at war for years, and Earl still has Celeste under contract, the situation comes to a head in rapid fashion. To further complicate things, Jacob awakens frequently in odd places, having lost several hours from his memory.

Marshal Tucker Burnett has cleaned up his gunslinger past and is now a respectable lawman. But he's determined to remain single even after his crafty mother has found eligible women for his brothers to marry. Until Dr. Sarah James returns home to Fort Worth, Texas due to an urgent telegram. Tucker is unable to forget that one night in Tombstone when Sarah patched up his body and his soul. Yet Sarah has returned with a secret of her own. A secret that could change Tucker forever.

Lorelei Stewart has always accepted her role as the town tramp's daughter and has earned her fast and loose reputation. She's a hard woman who pays her way and asks for nothing, but times change. Pregnant and overburdened with responsibility, she's given up on men and has a plan to provide her baby with what she never had as a child; a decent home and a loving mother. The old bootlegger, Rollie Roper, needs a caretaker and has room for Lorelei and her coming child; a fair exchange.

Everyone deserves a second chance. After the death of his best friend in the Battle of Atlanta, Tanner Burnett walked away from the civil war. Now, 10 years later, he runs with the Sam Bass gang, trying to escape the memories of that horrible battle. But when a stagecoach robbery goes bad, he rescues injured Elizabeth Anderson, wanting only to get her to a doctor and rejoin his gang.

Pièce radiophonique bilingue : En français et en anglais ! Marie la coccinelle voyage à travers les montagnes et rencontre la petite étagne Élodie qui ne veut pas sauter d'un rocher à l'autre. Mais soudain une avalanche se détache. Élodie et Marie se retrouvent enfermées dans une grotte... Bilingual radio play: In French and English! Ladybird Marie travels into the mountains and meets little chamois Chloe who doesn't like to leap over hedges and ditches. But then an avalanche breaks loose. Chloe and Marie are trapped in a cave.

Pièce radiophonique bilingue : En français et en anglais ! Le papillon citrin Paul aimerait absolument tomber amoureux. Mais quoi qu'il fasse, cela ne marche jamais vraiment. Jusqu'à ce qu'il se passe quelque chose d'inattendu... Bilingual radio play: In French and English! Brimstone butterfly Billy will eventually fall in love. But every time he tries he fails. Then something happens something unpredictable.

Pièce radiophonique bilingue : En français et en anglais ! Le petit Busard Benoît ne veut pas attraper de souris. Il préfère jouer avec elles. Cela ne plaît pas du tout à ses parents ! Mais voilà que la famille Busard est menacée par de méchants corbeaux... Bilingual radio play: In French and English! Ladybird Marie meets the little Buzzard Ben who doesn't like to catch mice. He prefers to play with them. His parents don‘t like this! But then the buzzard family is threatened by crows.

Pièce radiophonique bilingue : En français et en anglais ! Marie la coccinelle rencontre la petite hirondelle Isabelle. Comme Isabellechante des berceuses à longueur de journée, personne ne veut plus l'écouter. Cela rend Isabelle très triste. Lorsque sa famille veut migrer vers le Sud, Isabelle reste auprès de son amie Marie, qui est tombée malade. Bilingual radio play: In French and English! Ladybird Marie meets little swallow Olivia. Nobody wants to hear Olivia's good-night-songs any more which she is singing all day. Olivia is very sad about this. When her family flys south, Olivia decides to stay at home with her sick friend Marie.

Zitronenfalter Zitro möchte sich unbedingt verlieben. Egal was er auch probiert, irgendwie klappt es nicht mit dem Verlieben. Doch dann passiert etwas, mit dem er nicht mehr gerechnet hat...

Marienkäfer Marie macht eine Reise in die Berge und trifft dabei auf die kleine Gämse Jana, die nicht, über Stock und Stein, springen will. Doch dann bricht eine Lawine los. Jana und Marie werden in einer Höhle eingeschlossen. Bilingual radio play: In German and English! Ladybird Marie travels into the mountains and meets little chamois Chloe who doesn't like to leap over hedges and ditches. But then an avalanche breaks loose.