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Embark on a journey through American history and witness the love stories of several couples brought together against the dramatic backdrop of a changing nation in this star-spangled romance by four best-selling authors. This collection includes “To Love a Spy” by Jennifer Moore, “Southern Belle, Yankee Heart” by Renae Weight Mackley, “Where Dreams Meet” by Carolyn Twede Frank, and “The Sun, Moon, Stars, and You” by Carla Kelly.

Dorothy Bednar is living a life she despises. Forced to work as a double-dealing saloon girl, Dorothy has finally had enough. The next train out of town is her ticket to freedom, and Dorothy jumps aboard without a thought for where she’s going - until she meets a kind woman aboard the train. Her fellow passenger was originally traveling to Colorado to marry a man she’d never met, but her cold feet offer Dorothy the perfect opportunity to set up roots somewhere new.

A recounting of a lost gem of Utah pioneer history and a novel to rival those of Gerald Lund with the added wit of a Mark Twain adventure. In 1855, as the young Utah Territory teeters under outside pressure and internal strain, a call goes out to settle the untamed frontier and teach neighboring tribes the gospel of Jesus Christ. William Sterrett—a recent convert, tailor, and devoted husband—has already survived one mission that nearly cost him everything.

It is no secret that infamous gold miner Cass Hite hates the Mormons. When he nearly dies while passing through a remote Mormon settlement, the kind-hearted widow, Sarah Hansen takes him in and nurses him back to health. She has the room and the time to take care of this man that everyone else in town shuns. She’s known loneliness since a young age, when her parents died and she became the third wife of a polygamist. And again when her husband died and her two children moved away.

British aristocrat Thomas Clayborne anticipated a grand adventure in America — but what he imagined is a far cry from the rough-and-tumble reality. When his journey West brings a bold young woman into his life, will he risk everything for true love?

When the new marshal in town needs volunteers, one of the first to sign up is Miss Rosie Decker. And why wouldn’t she? She’s a sharpshooting, horse-taming tomboy - and she’s out for revenge. Marshal Hank Walker is forming a posse to find the man who killed her sweetheart, and Rosie is determined to help track him down. When the marshal refuses her service on account of her being a woman, Rosie is undeterred. If it’s a man Marshal Walker wants, it’s a man he’ll get.

Snowed in, pretending to be in love, and falling harder than she ever planned. Stranded in a snowstorm on her way to a new life, Suzanne never expected her rescuer to be heading to the same place she was—Mistletoe Ranch. With no other option, she accepts a ride from the handsome stranger, only to discover he’s staying at the very ranch where she’s just been hired. Grateful but wary, she insists on repaying him. His price? Pretend to be his girlfriend for a family Thanksgiving dinner. Simple enough—until their friendly ruse begins to feel all too real.

Desperate for help raising his kids after his wife dies, Tom hires a live-in housekeeper sight unseen—only to open the door to Lacy Wilson, the girl who broke his heart seventeen years ago. She was his first love. The one who walked away. Now she’s back—broke, newly divorced, and needing this job as badly as he needs to fill it. Tom wants to send her packing, but he can’t afford to. So they strike a truce: she’ll stay in the apartment above his garage, cook, clean, and care for his kids... without stirring up the past.

When Cara Fernley literally runs away from a bad relationship and ends up in a small Montana town at the onset of the holidays, she only expects to fill up her tank, grab a bite to eat, and perhaps spend the night in her old pickup. But when an assistant manager job at the burger joint practically falls in her lap, and the climatized storage units across the street spawns an idea for a more-than-cheap place to live, she decides to stay awhile. At least until she can get back on her feet and her heart has a chance to heal.

As trouble seems to uproot everything in Maggie’s and Gabriel’s lives, decisions are made. But life remains daunting. Will God be there when Maggie and Gabriel need Him most? Can Gabriel learn to trust Him again? Can Maggie find the love her heart desires?