Books

Celeste

I’m the last single girl standing in my friend group and what feels like all of Crescent Ridge. I survived one horrible relationship, but it cost me everything. He’s gone. I should feel safe but I don’t.

I keep looking over my shoulder, unable to trust anyone.

An uncharacteristic moment of courage has me signing up for Pearl’s Matchmaking....

He ordered peace and quiet. She’s neither.

Marshall signed up for a mail order bride like most men in Crescent Ridge. What was he thinking? Too many drinks down at Gilroy’s Bar and he did the one thing he swore he would never do again. Propose to a woman. He’s been burned before and he’s not looking for another scar to add to his collection. He...

Moki, a wendigo who relies on consuming human flesh to survive, doesn’t fit in anywhere. Not even in his adopted family of shifters. He’s a hopeless romantic who has given up on finding someone who will look past his unfortunate culinary requirements. The pack shifters reek of fear and dating a human is out of the question. Monsters are the...

Olivia is struggling to make ends meet as it is, and nursing school seems like an unattainable goal. There is no way she’ll be able to focus on her studies and hold down two jobs at the same time. Then she learns about the Valentine’s Day Virgin Auction. One night spent with the highest bidder and a cool million will hit her bank account. Her...

It’s all work and no play for men like him.

Nazario is a hitman who spends his off days doing work pro bono. One night he’s stalking a serial killer known as the Chicago Ripper when he discovers the Valentine’s Day Virgin Auction. It’s not something he would ever choose to participate in or be invited to, his clientele preferring to pretend they...

Tobias is the eldest Carmichael brother and determined to make his family proud running the lumberyard his father established. Too busy to look for his own bride his mother, the local baker of Sugar Crossing, holds interviews in the ruse of retiring but secretly seeking her first daughter-in-law. Unconvinced his mother is sincere about retiring,...

Jonathan has tried to ask the supplier for his mother’s bakery on a date and she has brushed him off. His mother isn’t being subtle by pushing the two of them together at every opportunity. He would love nothing more than to take the curvy woman out to dinner and introduce her to the squirrel family he feeds. But he doesn’t want to be rejected ...

Everett is the youngest Carmichael brother and he’s loved his best friend for years. With both his brothers married he’s reevaluating his relationship with Sam. The woman who has worked at his mother’s bakery has never seemed interested in him, but maybe that’s because he’s never made his interest apparent.

Will Everett finally gain the courage...

Travis is a loner. The town of Bramble talks like he can’t hear them. Only a few people in the town he would count as friends, and he prefers it that way. But when the town drunk begins bragging about a wife he ordered like a special malt whiskey Travis knows he has to intervene. No woman should be forced to marry a man like that. He plans to...

Judd has left his old life behind. A wanted man in the southern states, he has faked his death to start over in Bramble, Colorado as a law-abiding man. Accustomed to a life on the run he has no idea how to court the fairer sex. Seeking to find a wife he sends a letter to Pearl’s Matchmaking. The bride who answers his letter knocks him off his...

Benjamin never learned to read or write so he has the local postmaster write his letter to Pearl’s Mail Order Brides in hopes of having a woman pick him. Unbeknownst to him the postmaster writes that he is too lazy to write his own letter.

I’m always the matchmaker but never the bride.

He’s the larger than life Texan who shows up at my office...

Anna-Marie needs to escape before her aunt arranges her marriage to a high society gentleman. She’s lived a sheltered life but she’s ready for adventure. Better a husband of her own choosing than one Aunt Mildred bullies into proposing. Too bad she doesn’t have any suitors lining up to offer her their hands. Her cousin is the flirtatious one...

She was always meant to be his.

Gwen Truett grew up in Crescent Ridge, but she moved away the first chance she got. Now her mother is sick and she’s back in town for the foreseeable future. She’s a local but ever since she opened her tattoo studio downtown, she’s been receiving the cold shoulder. Despite her quiet and professional setting, other...

Scott has always served his community as a ranger, first in the Army and now in the forest of Crescent Ridge. He prefers the quiet of his cabin and the soft sounds of the forest to the bustle of town. But then he sees her and finds himself falling in love before he even learns her name.

We met at my friend’s wedding, sparks flying but men never...

Freshly promoted from probationary status to a full-fledged firefighter of the Crescent Ridge Fire Department Dennis doesn’t need any distractions. Enter Melody McKinney. Back from college, Melody is his older sister’s best friend and completely off limits.

He’s four years younger than me and my best friend’s little brother.

I’m only back in...

Caroline comes from money but her reputation is in tatters. In her social circles, reputation is everything. No one wants to do business with a disreputable family, and they certainly don’t want to let her marry their sons. She signs up for the mail order bride website imagining herself the wife of a wealthy man. One who lives far away from Los...

Miranda is tired of failed relationships.

She’s not getting any younger and her biological clock is ticking louder and louder with each passing year. Signing up for Pearl’s Mail Order Brides seemed like a great idea after a bottle of red wine. Not so much when her fiancé insists on an impulsive camping trip the same day he picks her up at the...

Willow is on the run.

100k is more money than Willow makes in a year. It’s also how much debt she inherited when her father died. The Carrisi family runs Chicago with an iron fist, and she needs a way out before they come to collect the debt one way or another. Then she sees the flyer for Pearl’s Mail Order Brides. Marrying a stranger seems crazy...

Alisa thought she was getting married to the man of her dreams.

But on the day of their wedding, she catches him banging her mom. Fairytale wedding with prince charming is out. When a mountain man swoops in to take her away from the trainwreck she’s all too happy to leave with him. It doesn’t hurt that he’s tall, blonde, with a body to die for....

Jeb never signed up for Pearl’s Matchmaking Service.

He may want a wife like any other man but he’s not delusional enough to believe a woman would ever pick a gruff man like him. All the locals think he’s crazy that he lives off grid. If the people who call Crescent Ridge home think he’s odd, there’s no chance that a bride would think any...