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Over six short weeks in 2022, Betsy Thibaut Stephenson lost her son to suicide, mother-in-law to dementia, and family dog to cancer. Rather than succumb to grief’s darkness, Betsy chose to face her losses head-on, accepting grief as an uninvited yet permanent companion in her revised life. Blackbird is a memoir composed in real time, a concise and brutally honest look at the emotional, physical, and spiritual impact of deep despair.

Lucy Haskell is returning home to Denver after four years living abroad in China. She's eager to see everything that has changed in her absence, and to start the next chapter of her life. When her dear friend and traveling companion, Delphine Collins, goes missing, Lucy realizes she's in a unique position to help. She decides to apply to become a Pinkerton agent, offering her familiarity with the culture to help search for Delphine in Chinatown.

Charity’s escapades have only been between the pages of books. Seth is a man with a temper. Together, they just might discover the love they’ve been looking for.

Pinkerton Agent Vincent Brooks wants only one thing–to stop the southern rebels from uprising and creating another war. His assignment is to be the temporary sheriff of Bonham, Texas, which seems easy enough, until he runs across a woman he’d met eight months earlier, Francis Carlton, sneaking around in the dark, spying on the bank.

Evelynn Tanner, the local preacher’s daughter, has made one too many mistakes. Apparently, marching into a brothel to confront her unfaithful beau is considered unacceptable behavior for an unwed young lady, and her father has turned her out of his home! Evelynn must now find a means to support herself. Her cousin, Broderick Tanner, is a Pinkerton Agent, and she manages to convince him that she’d make an excellent addition to the agency’s female ranks. After all, Broderick’s wife, Cecily, is a Pinkerton as well.

Claudia Cummings will do anything to keep her family’s plantation from falling into her greedy cousin’s hands–even going as far as accepting a business arrangement–a marriage in name only. However, she must make her family and friends believe she and Blake are happily married. Now the trick is trying to stop her heart from getting involved.

Penelope Chapman’s youngest sister leaves town with a traveling preacher and Penny is sure something is wrong. She goes to the only person she’s sure can help her get to the bottom of it–her twin sister, Marianne. She hopes Marianne will convince the Pinkerton Detective Agency to get involved. What she didn’t count on was the gruff bare-knuckled fighter that appeared to have more bruises than sense, who is assigned to the case.

An optimistic widow longing for freedom. A roguish womanizer longing to settle down. Thrown together, they must solve a case that could split them apart forever.

Head of the Denver Pinkerton office Archie Gordon has been tasked with hiring female agents. The problem? They need to be trained by existing agents while solving cases. Alone and unchaperoned. In 1871. The solution? Have each pair marry temporarily, for the duration of the case. If Archie can convince his reluctant agents and the even more reluctant women to agree, that is.

A quiet woman with no desire to become an agent; an agent with no intention of ever having a partner, and the case that cooks up surprises. Pearl Bolton has enough on her plate, she doesn’t want to add anything else. She loves her job as a cook for the Pinkerton’s Denver office. At night she rushes home to help take care of her invalid father. The last thing she needs is a husband, no matter how temporary. What she didn't count on was a case that involved her two passions: baking and Pinkerton Agent Zeke Preston.

Marianne Chapman has been in love with her broody boss for years. Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to return her feelings. Determined to squash her infatuation, she leaves Denver, CO for the Pinkerton home office, convinced time and distance will cure her of her traitorous feelings towards Denver's lead agent. Archibald Gordon doesn’t know how to deal with the desire he has for his fiery redheaded assistant. He has always treated their relationship strictly professional, regardless of how she consumes his every thought.

Regina Caulfield was unhappy with the choices facing her in life and with her stepmother’s overbearing attitude. She dreamed of adventures and finding a job in law enforcement, unheard of for a lady in 1871.

This is book 3 in the Pinkerton Matchmakers series.

Scarlett St. John is a lonely rich woman who can’t seem to follow society’s rules on being proper. She relies on her grandfather and his servants to keep her entertained from day to day until… an ancient artifact is stolen from her grandfather and a Pinkerton Agent arrives to solve the crime. Although Travis Hancock is very handsome and charming, he had broken her heart as a young girl, and she doesn’t think she can forgive him.

Mark Johnson didn't want a wife, but his Pinkerton boss demanded he take one. Then Mark saw Evangeline, and she stole his heart. Impossible as it may seem, he loved her. Evangeline stared at Mark, but there was no love coming from her eyes. To go along with Archie's deal, she'd marry Mark. Besides, she had plans. She needed to be a Pinkerton agent, and like it or not, she needed Mark to free her brother.

Sabrina is running from her past. Sabrina Jones never expected to be set free from her life as a saloon girl. Thanks to a gift from Rand Ketcham, a notorious bounty hunter, she was able to leave her old life in the saloons. Colorado was where she wanted to go. What to do was still a mystery, until she reached Denver and saw an ad in the paper for women to apply as Pinkerton agents. She figured she'd be good. All those years in the saloon had taught her how to read people. That ought to come in handy as a detective.

This book is about a giant tortoise named Korie. He is on a mission to find the animal in the forest that is proud of himself. Korie talks to different types of animals, but he is never satisfied of the answer he is getting. But, one day he meets the lion, the king of the jungle, who helps Korie puts end to his chase.

Leah Braden chose to remain on the family farm. Her mother, Claire, and stepfather Ethan take their younger children, Amelia and Jess, to Chicago to seek medical treatment for little Jess’s hearing loss. Surprised that she is the one left to carry on the farm for her father, Leah is determined to outlast the drought and make a go of it. The town of Last Chance has a new well that has brought life to the dying town. Now, if only she could find a life of her own.

Hope’s fiancé is dead, and the only way she can repair her heart is to become a Pinkerton agent and marry her trainer–in name only, of course. But after working so closely with a man for several months as husband and wife, can she continue to guard her heart from someone who is completely different from her dead fiancé?

A woman, an agent, and a missing person case to investigate. When Genevieve Trafton secures a job at the Pinkerton Detective Agency. the last thing she expects is a wedding ring on her finger. But the desire for adventure and the need to leave the farm, give her no choice. Trace Stapleton is an agent with two working wives in his past and is hesitant to become involved with a third. But Gen is everything the others were not, and when she pushes past his defenses, he is at a loss as to handle this independent, fiery spinster.