Searching for a Santa As Christmas approaches, Carrie Madison faces a daunting challenge—finding the perfect Santa for the orphanage celebration. Little does she know, fate has a different plan for her when a mysterious burglar seeks refuge in her home. Faced with a life-threatening dilemma, Carrie must decide whether to trust this unexpected guest. Enter Roscoe Dalton, a Pinkerton agent on the run from a notorious gang. Despite the danger he brings, Roscoe finds himself drawn to Carrie's determination to spread holiday cheer. As an orphan himself, he can't resist the enchanting allure of her kindness and vows to be Santa for the children. Can Santa truly deliver in the face of danger, or will the outlaws cast a shadow over the festivities? The Debutante’s Santa is a must-read for those who believe in the miracles of the season and the power of love to conquer even the darkest of challenges.

Enjoy these marriages of inconvenience books from USA Today Bestselling Author Sylvia McDaniel The Debutantes of Durango are on the Loose and Looking for Husbands! Look out, men! Sadie wants more than a husband; she seeks a career. Fannie kicks tail at the bar room card tables. Daisy dreams of marrying a wealthy and attractive partner. Carrie has resigned herself to simply finding a man who’ll love her. In their pursuit of love, they face a meddling mother, a set of evil twins, a real shotgun wedding, and an undercover Pinkerton agent on the run from a gang of criminals.

St. Louis is a fragmented place. It’s physically dissected by rivers, highways, walls, and fences, but it’s also a place where one’s race, class, religion, and zip code may as well be cards in a rigged poker game, where the winners’ prize is the ability to ignore the fact that the losers have drastically shorter life expectancies. But it can also be a city of warmth, love, and beauty―especially in its contrasts. Edited by Ryan Schuessler (Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America), the collection features nearly 70 essays penned by St. Louis writers, journalists, clerics, poets, and activists including Aisha Sultan, Galen Gritts, Vivian Gibson, Maja Sadikovic, Nartana Premachandra, Sophia Benoit, Robert Langellier, Samuel Autman, Umar Lee, and more.

Will her lies be her demise? Grace Sinclair is in trouble. When her adopted sister, Faith, is forced to defend her honor against an over-ardent saloon patron, she shoots him in self-defense. But who is going to believe four orphaned females living and working in a saloon are innocent of anything. Grace is convinced that the only chance of saving them all is to leave town in hopes the law will think her guilty and hold the other three girls harmless. A friend suggests a ruse of leaving town as a mail-order bride and that plan worked like a charm. Unfortunately for everyone concerned, the plan worked a little too well. John Malone didn’t send for a mail-order bride, but somehow he found himself wed to one. Grace is a feisty city woman who showed up out of nowhere with a written marriage proposal signed by him. He tries to explain he didn’t send for a bride and that wasn’t his signature, but no one believes him. Now, one of Creede’s prominent attorneys is forcing him to keep a promise he didn’t make, and when his new bride is arrested for murder, he’s in jeopardy of losing his reputation and his ability to make an honest living. He has a decision to make, but will his heart let him? Before this is over, it will take all of Grace’s courage and all of John’s faith to overcome the secrets, lies, and betrayals standing between them and their chance at happiness, but will it be enough?

Sometimes things aren’t what they seem at first glance. Hope Anderson has been in love with Creede’s bad boy since the first moment she laid eyes on the handsome charmer. And now, he’s given her every indication he’s going to propose. So what’s his problem? Only that he confessed in front of the whole town that he cheated with his best friend’s wife and that he’s the reason she and her newborn son are dead. Hope loves Billy in spite of his obvious flaws, but can she ever trust him to be her devoted husband or forgive him for betraying his friend? Billy Buchanan knows what people think about him. He can see it in their faces. And yet, he would do everything all over again to keep his best friend from knowing the ugly truth about what really happened that day. But now the only other person who knows the bitter truth is back in town and hellbent to cause trouble. When Billy warns his no-good jailbird brother to leave town, Bobby sets his sights on his little brother’s girl. Will Billy be able to protect his friend and win the woman he loves, or will he be forced to choose between his best friend’s happiness and his own?

Enjoy this series of scandalous women in the west by USA Today bestselling Western author Sylvia McDaniel Bad Girls Have More Fun. Sadie and her group of friends have been labeled as scandalous by the local newspaper. Despite their reputation, they wear their title with pride. Join them as they face contempt, oppression, and a gender battle while trying to outsmart Nellie, their sworn enemy. Who will ultimately betray Nellie? Why, a knight in shining armor, of course. Fans of Linda Bridey, Louise Behiel and Ramona Flightner will enjoy this series.

Love can make a person crazy…the best kind of crazy. Misfit and social pariah Charity Montgomery has heard it all before and she doesn’t give two hoots what anyone thinks about her rough and rowdy ways—well, no one except a certain lawman who ignores her at every turn. If there was just some way to get his attention, she knew she could convince him she was the only woman for him. Miles Grayson has seen every kind of crazy during his years as a lawman, but he has never seen anything like the red-headed firebrand who has her sights on him—and he’s never wanted anyone more, but she’s the kind of woman who’ll get him killed. She’s a woman without boundaries and he’s a lawman who demands respect. What can go wrong when these two opposites attract? Just about everything.