Janice Cole Hopkins

Deadwood carpenter, Isaiah Yates, knows that he’ll never marry because of the secret he holds close, but he wishes things were different, especially after he meets the beautiful young widow, Leanne Moss. Leanne feels something spark between her and Isaiah, but why is the man avoiding her?

One scandal, one season, one shy baron, and a heart that doesn’t want to follow the plan.

A heartwarming story of resilience and the unexpected bonds forged through courage and determination. When Cody Taylor’s brother and sister-in-law tragically pass away in Alaska, he suddenly becomes the guardian of his young niece, Annie.

Widower Joseph McBride had resisted long enough. His little girl needed a mother, and the congregation expected their pastor to have a wife. Reluctantly, he wrote to his aunt for help.

Ingrid Palmer doesn't intend to ever marry. Her cruel father has taught her not to risk such misery. Instead, she helps her mother in her dress shop, volunteers at an orphanage, and does as much as she can to help the women's suffrage movement in Kansas City....

Danielle Gregory grew up in the saloons, where her mother worked, and she has never been able to escape that lifestyle. However, she’s promised herself never to work upstairs the way her mother did.

When Gwen McAllister is accosted behind the soup kitchen where she volunteers, she wants to repay her homeless rescuer, so she talks him into going to her home for a meal. Despite her son’s and sister’s objections, she trusts Hunter....

Grant Spencer figures the woman sent to set things right at the publishing house is Linwood’s spy, likely sent to set him up to fail and push him out. Grant might be forced to have her here since Linwood owns the controlling interest in the company, but he didn’t have to like it....

Jocelyn Wright would prefer to be outside, with her twin brother, instead of in drawing rooms and social events. But as Jonas gets ready to attend Philadelphia College, the colonies’ rebellion against the crown heats up, and Bennet Hart comes into the picture....

Carmen knows her beau's mother doesn't like her. Although her parents immigrated to the United States from Spain, the woman accuses her of being Indian, Mexican, or some other heritage she considers undesirable.

After his fiancée jilts him for not spending enough time with her, Avery Brown goes to San Francisco as a guest musician. Vowing to avoid such entanglements in the future, he hadn’t expected to meet such a beautiful young lady as Tessa McDonald or be so attracted to her....

Tara knows she will never trust another man, but would a husband help her court case as her lawyer says, and would she do even this to keep her son....

Simon Carlson couldn’t learn to read and therefore failed at school. Thanks to his bitter father, most people see him as a simpleton or worse. When a new schoolteacher comes to Flagstaff, she treats him as a normal person, even after she finds out that he can’t read or write....

Jillian Barker's father and brothers were harsh drunks, so when the older brother closest to her age decides to run away to the West, she talks him into taking her with him since he’s the most responsible brother. However, when they get to St. Louis he decides to stay there.

Annette Hunt prefers staying home to going to social events, but her cousin talks her into attending a competition between some of the best minds in Chicago....

Jackson Young brings the woman he wants to marry home to Kentucky to meet his parents, but Helen doesn’t act like the same woman away from Boston. As he reacquaints with people he hasn’t seen in five years, he notices Wylene Ward and remembers the time he rescued her....

Heather Perry has always resented the government’s hold over the Hot Springs Reservation, where even long-time residents and business owners must lease their property from the government rather than own it.

Abby Carter was horrified with herself when she blurted out a marriage proposal to Preston King. Preston is confused, but knows he needs a wife to help him ranch in New Mexico Territory, so he asks Abby to marry him. But will he ever purge Magnolia from his heart? Find out....

Cordell Atwood’s best friend and boss found a successful mail-order bride through a matchmaker, and Cord decides it’s time for him to marry since he’s started his own Texas horse ranch....

Mason Greene returns home from the war, but people see his episodes and want to have him committed to a mental hospital. However, no matter how hard he tries, he can't stop being drawn back into the fighting in his mind....