MARRIAGE BARGAIN

Marriage Bargain is set on the dusty trail of a wagon train traveling from St. Joseph, Missouri, to the California gold rush area at Placerville, California, in 1849. Betrayal and embarrassment drives Darrah Benjamin to run away from home to take a tutoring job in San Francisco. Darrah finds her journey a pathway to love and forgiveness when an arranged marriage to the wagon scout becomes much more than a convenience. Chase challenges her determination to keep their marriage in name only with his promise -- she’ll give him her heart and invite him to her bed before they arrive at their destination. Darrah has an immediate attraction to the rogue, but holds her emotions tight because she doesn't want her heart broken again.

Charles Danforth, a scout known as Chase, leads a wagon train of emigrants west through plains plundered by murderers. As an undercover agent of President Polk, he has sworn to stop the massacres.  Darrah's inadvertent comment gives him the clue he needs to achieve his assignment. His Sioux blood brother helps Chase end the killings, but almost ruins Chase’s chance of winning Darrah’s heart when he takes matters in his own hands to demonstrate the depth of love Chase has for his wife.

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NIGHT ANGEL

Sassy Amalie Renard, a poker-playing saloon singer, shakes up Paradise Pines, a former gold-rush mountain community by turning the saloon’s bar into her stage. Her amazing voice stirs the passions of the hotel owner, a man who anonymously travels tunnels at night providing help to the downtrodden as the mysterious Night Angel. Declan Grainger agrees to subsidize the building of a music hall to fulfill Amalie's dream, but a bounty for her arrest could spoil his plans.

Distrust and jealousy stir flames of malice and revenge threatening to destroy their town. Drawing from past experiences, Declan and Amalie turn to each other to find a way to save the community.

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FOREVER AFTER Coming October 2013

Used as a wager in a poker game, Marinda Benjamin’s life is drawn into a devious scheme of adventure and revenge. She acquiesces to her blackmailing boss’s demands and takes a maid’s job at the Braddock farm knowing full well she is expected to spy on Doctor Braddock. Her father’s life and care of her ailing mother depend on whether she cooperates with the hateful banker and retrieves files on a fraudulent insurance scheme. When Ethan Braddock discovers her cleaning his medical office and realizes from the first that she is the pawn of his arch enemy, he gives her a chance to prove herself.

Marinda survives being shanghaied and after a long journey ends up in San Francisco with Ethan. She is provided an opportunity to foil her former boss’s illegal insurance scam and reclaims her self-esteem by providing the proof to have him jailed.

BROKEN PROMISE Coming in May 2014

Rebecca Ryder hastens to Paradise Pines, a gold mining community in the Sierra Mountains of California, but fails to reach her grandfather before he suffers a heart attack. Upon arriving, she learns about the legacy he’s left her - a ramshackle cabin, a newspaper business, and a goldmine that she will find only if she solves her grandfather’s clues embedded in the rows of newspapers piled from floor to eye level in the cabin and at the newspaper office.
 
Rebecca is a young woman who discovers the depth of her courage and is determined not to give up in the face of adversity. She fights to keep her inheritance even though her grandfather’s underhanded attorney and the MacGregor brothers, who own the land surrounding the homestead she inherits, are trying to run her off.  

ONE-EYED CHARLY Coming December 2014

Escaping from an orphanage at the age of fifteen, Charly Sinclair disguises her female form as a teenage boy and finds work cleaning stables. When she proves her worth as a wagon driver, she travels to the Gold Rush area with her employers to drive a stagecoach. When she is robbed while driving a coach full of passengers, she vows to restore her damaged reputation as a loyal employee by capturing the bandits and returning the stolen money. Braden MacGregor, part owner of the livery, teams up with Charly to catch the men who've also been rustling livestock from his family pastures.

In order to hold her job, Charly must continue her deception of being male even though she's lost her heart to the Scottish cowboy and finds it difficult to hide her feelings for him. Braden has a strong sense of honor and holds truth and honesty as his cornerstone. He forgives the feisty woman of his dreams for the pretext of her identity and helps her join society as the person she is destined to be.