I’ll teach her everything I know, both inside the boardroom and the bedroom. Lanie Carmichael was in the right place at the right time. Just in time to meet me, Jax Cooper. She begged me to teach her the ins and outs of business. I’ll show her ins and outs. I didn’t become an overnight billionaire by accident. Good thing she’s a quick study, because I have just the position for her.

When Emily Murphy discovers she is inheriting a nephew she didn’t know existed, she realizes she can’t handle him on her own. Someone who has drifted from job to job as she has, doesn’t have the staying power to be a mom to a tween boy. Realizing she needs a husband fast, Emily contacts Dr. Lachele from Matchrimony, hoping she can make a miracle happen. Brodie Callahan witnesses one of Dr. Lachele’s matches first hand when his employer marries someone who seems totally unsuited to her. A year later, they have a happy marriage and a baby. Instead of continuing to watch enviously, he decides to contact the same matchmaker who set up his friends. When he sees Emily, he realizes she’s everything he needs in life. Together they move with her nephew Alec to a horse farm in Tennessee to raise horses. When they see the house, they worry they’ve bitten off more than they can chew. Can they work together to make a happy marriage? Or will Emily continue to run when she sees trouble?

Dan Rhodes, the sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, has seen more than his share of strange events during his time in office-most recently he exorcised a ghost from the county jail and he has always tolerated the banter between his elderly jailer and dispatcher. However, not even Hack and Lawton's friendly word play could have prepared him for the group of writers that have descended upon Blacklin County. When Vernell Lindsey, Clearview's newly published romance novelist, decides to hold a romance writer's convention, residents think this will finally get their town on the map. They are even more excited when they learn that former Clearview resident Terry Don Coslin will headline the event-Terry Don is now the most sought after male cover model for these very novels. Rhodes doesn't understand why so many people are interested in writing, but this becomes the least of his concerns when a local aspiring novelist is found dead in her room at the college. Was her death the work of a jealous rival? Or did her new book get a bit too close to certain people's real lives? As he investigates, Rhodes begins to learn more about the publishing industry and some sordid facts Terry Don. Is he at all connected to the murder? When another murder occurs, Rhodes receives the unwelcome aid of two aspiring novelists, eager to switch from romance to mysteries. Their theories are a little too far from the truth, but Rhodes does make some headway on his own. Relying on his trademark common sense and cunning and the help of his deputy sheriff Ruth Grady, Rhodes is able to solve the murders although he still can't figure out why so many people want to write a novel. **

The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. From the darkly brilliant imagination of Victor Milán, the novelette "Evernight" takes readers down to the depths of the Parisian catacombs. Candace Sessou is known to be many things: the ace known as The Darkness, a skilled negotiator in the field of diplomacy, a refugee with neither home nor family after fleeing a war-torn Congo. When she hears that her brother Marcel also survived but is now on the run as a wanted terrorist, Candace tracks him to the Parisian underground . . . only to strike a deal with dangerous forces in order to save both their lives.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Victoria: Bride of Kansas is the 34th in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.Jilted society miss Victoria Lowell travels a thousand miles to marry an Irish suitor whose romantic letters won her heart. Upon arriving in Kansas, she discovers her betrothed has little enthusiasm for marriage and less Christmas spirit than Scrooge.Divorced shopkeeper David O’Brien wants nothing to do with matters of the heart. However, his young daughter needs a mother, and his meddling sister believes she’s done him a favor by corresponding with a mail-order bride. Reluctantly, he holds off on revealing the author of the letters, giving Victoria until Christmas Eve to prove she can manage his troubled child.When the truth finally comes out, it will take more than a miracle to deliver a happily-ever-after in time for Christmas. 

At one low price, two complete novels by "one of the greatest and most gifted of Western writers." (Historical Novel Society) Bitter TrailTough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges he's ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with Union sympathizers and the betrayal of his best friend—his former partner and brother of the woman he loves. Barbed WireIrishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red-painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land-hungry thugs. This fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school, open-range baron of the huge R Cross spread. Rinehart wages a barbed...

Six months ago, Ellie was a newlywed, working the dry land in 1880s Texas. Then the desperados came. They raped her and killed her husband, leaving her for dead. But she hunted them down and, along the way, found an inner strength and relentless determination that no man can match. Ellie thought the killing was over...that she'd put her guns away for good to run a ranch that she'd inherited from a legendary Texas Ranger. She was wrong. A prison wagon is on its way to Huntsville when one of the prisoners, ruthless killer Angel Ware, engineers a bold escape. Now free, and blaming his sister Sue for his arrest, Angel and a gang of three other escaped murderers track her and her family down to Ellie's ranch. Angel and his gang mount a bloody attack and take Sue's young child with them. There's a posse on its way, but Ellie Taine isn't going to wait. She saddles her horse and loads her guns, prepared to enforce the only justice she can rely on...her own.