Author: Zina Abbott

Madeline by Zina Abbott

Madeline by Zina Abbott

Madeline Denham realizes something doesn’t add up. More than with her siblings, her parents are very careful about whom they allow to socialize with her. As often as she is complimented on her appearance, there are those who study her as if they know something she doesn’t. She suspects her family is hiding something. Approaching her twenty-second birthday, she is painfully aware she has never […]

September 23, 2021 / 0 Comments
A Bride for Devlin by Zina Abbott

A Bride for Devlin by Zina Abbott

Searching for a new home for herself and her younger sister, Dolly, Carrie Watson decided they should write to two Baggs, Wyoming, cattle ranchers seeking wives so they could live close to each other. Too bad the man she wrote to never responded. Annoyed with her potential husband’s disregard, and after being warned that part of Wyoming was outlaw country, Carrie decided against her and […]

September 10, 2021 / 0 Comments
Lighthouse Escape by Zina Abbott

Lighthouse Escape by Zina Abbott

Stina Dinesen loves her older sister but felt relieved once Lisbet and her new husband moved away from the Crystal Beach Lighthouse. Her happiness was short-lived. She now realizes her parents expect her to take over many of her sister’s former responsibilities in addition to the ones already hers. Only, unlike her sister, Stina never wanted to manage her own lighthouse. She wants to move […]

August 10, 2021 / 0 Comments
A Bride for Quentin by Zina Abbott

A Bride for Quentin by Zina Abbott

Because of her controlling father, Olivia Stratton has lost everyone important in her life, including her first love. With her father now among those who are gone, she must find a way to survive. She knows she will never find a man in the town where she lives who would consider wedding her. Her only hope is marriage with a man who knows her only […]

June 25, 2021 / 0 Comments
A Lawyer for Linton by Zina Abbott

A Lawyer for Linton by Zina Abbott

Driven by the desire to people like the man responsible for her sister’s death, Samantha Robertson has recently graduated from law school. Aware that legal opportunities are limited for women, she knows entering into a business partnership with an established attorney is her best option for opening doors in the male-dominated profession. She is thrilled when she comes across an advertisement from an attorney seeking […]

April 23, 2021 / 0 Comments
Cole by Zina Abbott

Cole by Zina Abbott

Raised by a stepfather in Knight’s Ferry in the California foothills, once Cole reached adulthood, he found work on a local cattle ranch in the San Joaquin Valley. Now in his mid-twenties and living in a region where men still significantly outnumber women, he doesn’t give much thought to the prospect of marriage and family. Then again, he does not take into account one Lucy […]

April 2, 2021 / 0 Comments
Mail Order Blythe by Zina Abbott

Mail Order Blythe by Zina Abbott

Blythe Greenly works as a maid for the Stapletons, a prominent Chicago family until the oldest son returns home from the university and takes ungentlemanly notice of her. In spite of her attempts to avoid him, he manages to trap her. Because she knows her employer, who dotes on her son, will not support her cause against his best interests, she knows she has to […]

March 19, 2021 / 0 Comments
Kate’s Railroad Chef by Zina Abbott

Kate’s Railroad Chef by Zina Abbott

Kate Flanagan came to Jubilee Springs as a mail order bride for one of the local miners. Although she initially preferred another man with whom she corresponded, the major draw for accepting the proposal she did was that her sister lived in the same town. Only after she arrives does she realize another woman has claimed his heart. Garland McAllister works as the Jubilee Springs […]

January 12, 2021 / 0 Comments
A Shopkeeper for Christmas by Zina Abbott

A Shopkeeper for Christmas by Zina Abbott

Eva Barker cared for her father until his death. Now past the age most women marry, she does not know what to do with her life. Unhappy working for others at a wage that barely supports her, she allows her roommate to talk her into responding to an advertisement placed by a man looking for a wife. He has a young son who needs a […]

December 3, 2020 / 0 Comments
Gift of Restitution by Zina Abbott

Gift of Restitution by Zina Abbott

The gift of peace of spirit that comes from restitution. Ling Loi, originally from Canton, China, fled to Minnesota with Luke McDaniels. While still in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountain, they both escaped two scoundrels, Canadian-born Charley Jardine and American-born Tex Wilson, who trapped Luke into helping them abduct Ling Loi from a stagecoach. Luke abducted her again to free her from the Chinatown On […]

November 16, 2020 / 0 Comments