Melissa Jagears
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lydia King knows what it's like to be in need, so when she joins the Teaville Moral Society, she genuinely hopes to help the town's poor. But with her father's debts increasing by the day and her mother growing sicker by the week, she wonders how long it will be until she ends up in the poor house herself. Her best chance at a financially secure future is to impress the politician courting her, and it certainly doesn't hurt that the moral society's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Desperate to keep the ranch where three of her children and a husband lie buried, Annie Gephart must marry or sell. Which of the few bachelors in town would consider a surprise proposal to wed a plain widow with a rebellious daughter, a spirited boy, and unpaid taxes--without laughing in her face?"--Book cover.
Author
Series
Teaville Moral Society volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Wisely has a heart for the orphans of Teaville and works at a local mansion that rescues children out of the town's red-light district and gives them a place to live. But her desire to help isn't limited to orphans. The owner of the mansion, Nicholas Lowe, is willing to help her try to get the women working in prostitution out of the district as well--if she can gain the cooperation and support of local businessmen to go against the rest of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In early 1900s Kansas, Mercy McClain, determined to protect Teaville's children from the bullying she experienced as a child, finds fulfillment working at the local orphanage and serving on the school board. When Aaron Firebrook, the classmate who bothered her more than any other, petitions the board for a teaching position, she's dead set against him getting the job. Aaron knows he deserves every bit of Mercy's mistrust, but he's returned to his...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four top historical romance novelists team up in this novella collection to offer stories of love with a twist of humor set in the American West. In these stories, authors Karen Witemeyer, Mary Connealy, Melissa Jagears, and Regina Jennings weave tales of unexpected engagements, giving minor characters from their books a special romance of their own.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
497 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Love doesn't always go as planned, but sometimes the best stories are the ones that are the most unexpected. In "The Husband Maneuver," Marietta Hawkins grabs the reins when the ranch foreman she loves seems to be leaving forever. When a dangerous stranger arrives, friends stranded by a rising river pretend to be newlyweds in "Her Dearly Unintended." A Texas Ranger rescues a "Runaway Bride" fleeing a dangerous arranged marriage, and a young woman...
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
647 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Karen Witemeyer's "Love on the Mend," set in post-Civil War Texas, tells the story of two competing doctors. Jody Hedlund's "Out of the Storm" finds a desperate woman shipwrecked near a Michigan lighthouse. Melissa Jagears' "Love by the Letter" is an unexpected mail-order-bride prairie story. Sarah Loudin Thomas' "Appalachian Serenade" finds love in a small-town West Virginia store. Finally, Jen Turano's "Gentleman of Her Dreams" tackles the New York...
