Charlotte Watkins has always been considered the odd one. Now that her husband has passed, and she’s been trying to run a ranch as well as care for her young son and her home, life is becoming overwhelming. Highly aware that none of the men in town will even consider marrying her, Charlotte decides to send off for a mail-order husband. She doesn’t care what the townspeople thought of her. She has no use for them other than church anyway. Earl Miller loves farming more than anything else in the world, but all the good farmland around Beckham has been purchased by others. The fourth son of a farmer, he knows he won’t be inheriting his father’s farm, so he needs to find a way to make all his dreams come true. When Earl’s sister sends for him, and tells him she’s found him the perfect wife, and all he has to do is move to Montana, he decides it’s the only thing he can do. Will Earl be able to look past Charlotte’s strange past and her reputation in town? How will he take to being a father?

When Phoebe Durbin answers a mail-order bride ad, she doesn't realize the groom-to-be didn't post it. Worse, the day she arrives at her destination, she learns he doesn't even want to get married. Having nowhere else to go, she convinces him to give her a chance to prove having a woman cook and clean for him will be the best thing that ever happened to him. Abe Thomas reluctantly agrees to take Phoebe in, though he doubts they will make a good match. They're much too different. While she sees the best in things, he knows the world is much darker than she can ever imagine. No woman in her right mind would be his convenient wife. He's sure when the stagecoach comes back to town, she'll be the first one on it. After all, two people so completely different can't make a good match, can they?

A STEAMY STORY OF DECEPTION AND DESIRE...AS TWO LOVERS DISCOVER THAT AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE CAN SIZZLE WITH MORE HEAT THAN A TEXAS NIGHT! She was a pampered Mississippi belle who had never known a single day of hardship in all her twenty-three years. But now Skylla St. Clair was desperate. Why else would she have advertised in the newspaper... for a husband? And here he was, galloping onto her newly inherited Texas ranch--a handsome, sweet-talking rogue Skylla couldn't trust--or resist. The ex-Rebel soldier and con man took pride in his deceiving art. Now, in the booming post-war West, Braxton Hale intended to make the biggest killing of all. He would play the groom the lovely lady wanted...right before he stole her land and high-tailed it to the richer horizons of California. But that was before Braxton held the sweet, sensuous Skylla in his arms--and discovered a woman he desired far more than gold...

In this steamy tale of deception and desire, the highly praised author of Wild Sierra Rogue tells of two lovers who discover that an arranged marriage can sizzle with more heat than a Texas night. A pampered Mississippi belle who lost everything in the Civil War is determined to rebuild an inherited Texas cattle ranch--with help from a mail-order husband.

Since the death of her parents, Susan Rhinehart is more determined than ever to keep the family farm going, except she needs help. A strong man to do the heavy lifting would make things easier, but without any local prospects, is she willing to advertise for a husband? Unsatisfied working as a bookkeeper, Jesse Irvine is longing for a significant change in his life. On impulse he responds to an ad for a mail order husband, one who's willing to provide a helping hand on a small farm. Seeds of love are being sown on a Colorado farm, but will love bloom and grow between a rebel bookkeeper and a devoted farm girl as they are forced to weather the storm of an emotional past?

MAIL-ORDER MIX-UP From the moment she stepped off the plane and into Donovan Masters's arms, Jodie Richards knew this man whose touch set her soul on fire was the perfect husband for her. But she quickly discovered Donovan wasn't the man she'd come to wed in a mail-order marriage—but her out-of-town fiance's brother! Donovan should have resisted Jodie's welcoming embrace, but he was only a man. Swept into a dream he found strangely compelling, this confirmed bachelor found himself torn between his duty to his irresponsible brother—and his heart's desire!