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Lady Chloe O’Shea lives life with her head in the clouds—or rather the stars. As a budding astrologer, she thinks the course of the world and her life is written in the stars, and if she just looks hard enough, she can see where the future will take her. But the last thing she saw coming was a handsome duke with a secret. Deane Crenshaw, the Duke of Blackburn, is in Ireland looking for a bride after an embarrassing scandal that has turned all of the eligible English maidens against him.

Melody Clutterbuck has her eyes on the prize, and that prize is handsome, uptight engineer, Will Darling. When they’re paired up for an orienteering competition and dropped into the middle of the Shoshone National Forest alone, more than one kind of sparks fly.

Olivia Walters is heading west along the Oregon Trail to escape a disastrous offer of marriage, but when gambler Charlie Garrett wins her hand in marriage in a poker game, she finds herself in exactly the situation she hoped to avoid. She is a woman of honor and determined to make the best of it, especially when her roguish new husband proves to be charming and seductive. But things aren't what they seem.

Estelle Ripley is not who she says she is. Running from the past she's left behind on a Georgia plantation, she's taken a job in a wagon train heading to new horizons along the Oregon Trail. If she can just keep her head down, do her job, and keep any of her new friends from discovering her secret, she'll be fine. After all, people don't ask questions on the frontier.

Lucy Haskell has a passion for danger and isn't afraid to let everyone know it. The Oregon Trail is the perfect way for her to travel home to her father's ranch in Wyoming, and to meet new friends and talk their ears off along the way. But Lucy's talking and risk-taking masks a darker fear - that no one could possibly love or even like a woman as unconventional as her.

Young widow Alice Porter, never thought she would fall in love again, and that her family's journey along the Oregon Trail was the end of her story. Rugged militiaman, Jarvis Flint, never thought he would fall in love in the first place, even though he is determined to be a man of honor and to do his duty. But sometimes the things you never think will happen are the ones that hit you when you aren't looking.

Katie Boyle has known Aiden Murphy her whole life. Everyone expects them to marry someday, but as much as she cares for her lifelong friend, Katie wants more from life. She craves adventure and excitement, and doesn't want to give in to the obvious choice. Heading west along the Oregon Trail is, in her mind, the beginning of the new life she has always wanted, and she intends to embrace it.

Emma Sutton fell in love with Dr. Dean Meyers on the very first day of their journey west on the Oregon Trail. Dean is handsome, caring, and noble. If only she could tell him! But between her crippling shyness and the marital machinations of her mother, she despairs of ever being able to say what's in her heart. When a sudden injury puts her in Dean's hands, literally and figuratively, she hopes she might just have a chance with him...until a ghost from Dean's past comes between them.

Callie Lewis is alone on the Oregon Trail. After her brother's death, she has been left to fend for herself on a journey she never wanted to take. Her only hope for safety and a life at the end of the road is to become a trail bride and wed grieving widower John Rye. But John is harboring secrets that could end their hasty marriage before it has a chance to begin.

The last thing Jo Burkhart ever thought she'd do was have a one night stand. But when a little harmless, coffee shop flirting with high-powered Broadway and television director Benjamin Paul leads to a steamy proposition, how could a romance novelist like Jo resist? The last thing Ben Paul needed was to fall in love. But when he lands in bed with a down-to-earth, genuine Jo - a woman who doesn't want anything from him but an afternoon of passion - his heart gets carried away. He can't let it end with one night.

Jenny Young fulfilled every girl's most sizzling fantasy the night she ended up with mega movie star, Simon Mercer, in her bed. It was hot, it was intimate, and it was the stuff of dreams.

When a fire destroys the factory where Willow Miller works, her only choice for a secure future comes through becoming a mail-order bride to ex-Amish Amos Stoltzfus and moving to her ancestral home of Pennsylvania. Hope carries her forward into a new life, but guilt over her part in the fire that destroyed the factory threatens to hold her back.

Rafe Hawthorne is a master glassblower with a commitment problem. He loves his life of artistic and romantic freedom, but the older he gets, the more he realizes he needs help to reach the heights of the glass world. As much as he hates to admit it, his old rival, Jake Mathers, might be the only person who can help him level up his career.

Ceramic artist Robbie Hawthorne is dedicated not only to his art, but to keeping the arts center and school housed at his family's ancestral estate vibrant and flourishing. But when the family runs into financial trouble and a heartless corporation offers to buy the estate to turn it into an amusement park, Robbie has to get creative to try to stop them.

Painter Rhys Hawthorne is a rising star in the art world and a favorite teacher at the Hawthorne Community Arts Center, but his inspiration has been stuck for weeks, he's still grieving for his sister, who lost her life in a car crash, and his personal life is a mess...because he can't stop thinking about younger, vulnerable Early Stevens, who is not only confused about their life, they're an employee of the family.

Lady Imogen Marlowe met the love of her life, Lord Thaddeus Herrington, at a summer house party in Shropshire. But can Imogen trust Thaddeus to save her in time or will Lord Cunningham stay one step ahead of them?

Miss Felicity Murdoch may be an heiress with a large fortune attached to her, but she is as far from the genteel, respectable sort of lady that most men of the ton would want to marry. Lord Sullivan Whitlock is desperate to find a bride with money to save his family's failing estate. But what starts out as a fun and passionate flirtation runs into trouble when the nefarious Lord Cunningham seeks to split the two lovers apart.

Everett Jewel is the hottest star the London stage has seen in a generation. He is brash, sensual, and sure of himself. Men and women throw themselves at his feet, and he laps up the attention. But all of Everett’s glittering star power hides his wounded heart. He has adoration, but he longs for a love that he doesn’t think he’s worthy of, due to his dark past. Metropolitan Police officer Patrick Wrexham has never been wanted by anyone.