06.18.09 at 2:40 pm by Kara_S
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Wedding Is All Planned…
Someone Just Needs to Tell the Bride
In 1860s Seattle, redwoods were plentiful, but women scarce. Yet a man with a wife could secure 640 acres of timberland for free.
Joe Denton doesn’t have a wife. His died before she could follow him to Seattle and now the local judge is threatening to take away his claim. In desperation, he buys himself a Mercer bride–one of the eastern widows and orphans brought to the Territory by entrepreneur Asa Mercer.
Anna Ivey’s journey west with Mercer is an escape from the aftermath of the Civil War. She signed on to become a cook–not a bride. When she’s handed over to Denton, her stubborn refusal to wed jeopardizes his land. With only a few months before he loses all he holds dear, can he convince this provoking, but beguiling, easterner to become his lawfully wedded wife?
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03.16.09 at 3:00 pm by Kara_S
Breach of Trust by DiAnn Mills is the first in her new Call of Duty series. Paige Rogers, a former CIA agent, is hiding out in Split Creek, Oklahoma. She started a new life as the small town’s librarian, attends Friday night football games, cares for the local high school kids, and finds herself falling in love with Miles Laird, the football coach. In all appearances, she’s just an average person. But seven years ago, she “survived every CIA agent’s worst nightmare – a covert mission gone terribly wrong and a betrayal by one man she thought she could trust.” Now, she isn’t who she says she is. She’s living another life to protect her family from danger. Then, that man she thought she could trust, the only other survivor of that mission, shows up. If she chooses to expose him for his wrongdoing, especially in his bid for governor, her family and those she
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