When Mr. Mercer sends out a call for single women to travel to Seattle for teaching positions and the potential of forming marriages, 45 answer his call, becoming Mercer’s Belles. The following collection is based on based on true events during the 1860s: ONE DANCE by Heather B. Moore When Harriet Silverman arrives in Seattle for a fresh start and a new teaching position, the […]
Belle Gardner leaves her family to care for a dear friend who is extremely ill. When her home remedies fail to produce a cure for Mrs. Stribling, Belle reluctantly seeks the help of George Jepson, a vilified physician’s apprentice who returned home to Clover Creek in disgrace. If George Jepson and the doctor who was training him hadn’t been drinking while caring for a patient […]
Her perfectly ordered life unfolded the moment she was pushed into the past. Jane Barton was ready to start her life. She graduated University, inherited an old house, and is on the cusp of starting her own business. When she’s offered the job of dancing instructor to the mostly American’s who trek to Twickenham Manor each month to immerse themselves in a Jane Austen experience, […]
Falling in love with her sister’s suitor had never been part of her plan. After losing her parents, Elizabeth Watts and her two sisters are taken under the care of their great-aunt, who has promised them her estate upon her death. From a young age, however, Elizabeth has learned not to expect to keep things that can be taken away. An unforeseen change in the […]
Alexina Kimball is an experienced Pinkerton Agent, and arguably one of the best agents at the Chicago office. She works alone and always catches the bad guys. However, everything changes when she’s transferred to the Denver office and is assigned a partner. Finally, Dawson Wayne’s dream of becoming a Pinkerton Agent is becoming a reality. The only catch is that he must marry his trainer… […]
Charles is only supposed to guard Maude and her sisters to their destination. He should have guarded his heart. Still raw with grief after their father’s funeral, Maude Lancaster and her two younger sisters refuse an ultimatum from their ill-intentioned uncle. Since it’s a new century and women can travel unchaperoned, they decide to flee out west to live with their older brother. Their aunt […]
He never wished to abduct her. Can he help her escape? Ling Loi came from Canton, China; Luke McDaniels from Minnesota. Each of them find themselves trapped in situations from which they desperately wish to escape. As two unscrupulous men deny them their freedom and threaten their lives, they cross paths in the raucous gold mining town of Lundy high in the eastern Sierra Nevada […]
Pinkerton Agent Vincent Brooks wants only one thing—to stop the southern rebels from uprising and creating another war. His assignment is to be the temporary sheriff of Bonham, Texas, which seems easy enough… until he runs across a woman he’d met eight months earlier, Francis Carlton, sneaking around in the dark, spying on the bank. Not only is the confounded woman following him around and […]
Samantha wants nothing more than to get away from Mama’s ever watchful eye. When she sneaks away from a meeting with a possible suitor, Samantha finds about mail order brides and figures that anything is better than being forced to marry someone by her mama. David’s decision to follow his brother’s example to move to Idaho has brought him a freedom that he never thought […]
Sometimes life hands you a challenge, and sometimes a challenge gives you a new life. For Aurora Weathersby, a simple farmer’s daughter, falling for the mill house owner’s son in Belle, Wyoming was easy as pie. What isn’t easy is seeing Nick Carrington pay no heed to her while he pines for another girl. When the Western Renegades Show comes to a neighboring town and […]