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Down on her luck and looking for employment, ex-engineer, autistic and 20-something Holly Lawson wants nothing more than a month of less stimulation, sand, sun, and gorgeous Southern men when she takes on a job of beach house sitting for her Aunt Bess in lovely, Destin, Florida.

Charity O'Connell receives a minimum of five marriage proposals a day from dirty miners and old men. When her pa drowned after being pinned in the creek by a fallen tree, Charity took up laundering to make ends meet. Especially after her gambling father lost every cent he ever made. Then, she receives a marriage proposal from handsome Gabriel Williams after Charity saves his daughter from being trampled, and Charity believes he's the answer to her prayer.

The Civil War took everything from Ruth Stallings except for her grandmother and sisters. Now without a home or funds, they take the White River as far as it will go and end up in Painted Bluff, Arkansas, a town populated mostly by men out looking for a wife. Sheriff John Powell wants nothing to do with the pretty women or the trouble they bring, especially when a gang of marauders show up looking for Ruth. Can Ruth and John overcome their differences and find love?

After the death of his wife two years before, Dr. Jesse Baxter wants only what is best for his son, whose behavior changed for the worst after his mother's long illness. He had high hopes that school would give his son something to focus on other than death. It seems not to be the case. His son is fascinated with anything to do with death, often stopping to examine dead animals on the side of the road. Jesse is at his wit's end and asks the lovely schoolteacher for help.

Nothing is keeping Sierra Marsh in Moose Hollow once her sister's wedding is over. She has no job, no plans, no home, and no reason to stay. And despite what her sister said, Travis—the cowboy next door—might be the best reason of all to leave. But when lightning strikes his horse ranch, Sierra finds herself in the middle of a tempest once again. It's very last place she wants to be. But what if he is the kind of man who can hold back the storm?

In this fantasy-romance novella, we follow the lonely and miserable existence of Maria, a woman horribly disfigured and living in a traveling circus freak show. But when D'Arbignal stumbles into the circus, wounded and feverish, Maria sees a glimmer of hope. As D'Arbignal recovers and stays on at the circus, a friendship blooms between the two.

Shara is an impoverished seamstress who has fallen on desperate times. On the brink of starvation, she encounters a charming rogue and a menacing giant looking for a guide to the haunted village she had stumbled upon as a child. Shara recognizes this as her last chance: to break out of poverty, but also her last chance for adventure. She makes a desperate gamble and agrees to lead them.