Return to 1800's Defiance, Colorado, in this beguiling story offinding love in the most unexpected places from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Susan Mallery Lucas and Jackson MacIntyre stand to inherit the saloon, gold mine andranch that define the town of Defiance, Colorado. There's just oneproblem: the uncle who has left them the properties created a clausein his will stipulating that both brothers must marry if they want toclaim their inheritance. Emily Smythe knew she'd likely never marry, and she's moved toColorado to prove her independence from her family. She has a shrewdbusiness sense, so when she approaches Lucas about turning thesaloon's vacant upper level into a hotel, he sees the logic in theidea. Lucas has a proposition for Emily, too: become his wife in nameonly so that he can claim his inheritance, and she can run her hotelin his saloon. But though the marriage may be a business arrangement,Lucas soon finds it difficult to resist his new wife… Previously Published Historical Novel.

To own the town saloon and mine, Lucas and Jackson MacIntyre need to get married within three months...or else they'll break that clause in their uncle Simon's will. Jackson has no desire for love, so it's up to Lucas to make their dreams come true. Luckily for them, schoolmarm Emily Smythe has found herself with no children to teach. She hopes that by marrying Lucas she'll be able to pursue her dreams of teaching those who missed out on an education. Could Emily be Lucas's convenient bride?

Now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie! The second book in the Nantucket Love Story series from bestselling author Denise Hunter! “No one can write a story that grips the heart like Denise Hunter . . . If you like Karen Kingsbury or Nicholas Sparks, this is an author you’ll love.” —Colleen Coble, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Lavender Tides and Hope Beach series She wrote the book—literally—on finding the right mate. But does she really understand what love's about? Five hours before her Nantucket beach wedding--and on the eve of her big book launch—celebrity marriage counselor Kate Lawrence has everything in place. Everything, that is, but the groom. She might not have a career, either, when her nationwide audience finds out their marriage guru has been left at the altar. Enter Lucas Wright, who offers to stand in for the missing husband-to-be and marry her. Kate's desperate enough to agree—although she's sure this Mr. Wright is completely wrong for her. But can they pull it off? And why would Lucas marry her in the first place? Could it be that "Dr. Kate" doesn't know the first thing about love?

After all they've been through following the tornado that hit their Texas town, there's no way Dr. Lucas Wakefield will let his best friend, Julie Kingston, leave because of a green card mix-up. The only solution is to propose marriage. But what starts as a platonic arrangement quickly blooms into red-hot desire-until Luc's ex-fiancee returns to reclaim her man and Julie questions whether happily-ever-after is in the cards. Good thing Luc has no intention of giving up his passionate new bride without a fight!

A story of friends...with marriage benefits, by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle Celmer After all they've been through following the tornado that hit their Texas town, there's no way Dr. Lucas Wakefield will let his best friend, Julie Kingston, leave because of a green card mix-up. The only solution is to propose marriage. But what starts as a platonic arrangement quickly blooms into red-hot desire--until Luc's ex-fiancée returns to reclaim her man and Julie questions whether happily-ever-after is in the cards. Good thing Luc has no intention of giving up his passionate new bride without a fight!

Now, thanks to their cagey uncle's ironclad will, saloonkeeper Lucas MacIntyre was forced to find himself a bride. So he proposed a chaste businesslike "merger" to Miss Emily Smythe, a uniquely enterprising schoolmarm. But how could he keep them wed in name only when all he wanted to do was bed down with his bride in her brand-new inn? And as for his brother.... The fur would fly sure enough when his bear of a brother, Jackson, woke up to find himself hitched to Miss Molly Malone. He'd thought surely she was mistaken. But delirious with fever, he'd unknowingly consummated their marriage. And the Irish firebrand was determined that their union stick "'til death did them part"! Well, now he was guaranteed his inheritance, but what was the miner to do with a wife?