Mary knew the moment they met, Earl Bishop would be the love of her life. Together they survived the Civil War and the loss of their children, only to face a much greater danger from the people of one small northern town. When Earl dies, Mary is left alone to continue the fight against those who would harm her. Can she trust local shop owner, Oliver Polk, when he offers his help, and his heart! Just when all appears lost, an old friend returns to help Mary overcome her grief and learn how to love again.

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It’s 1918, and Alice, Betty, and Lizzie have been best friends for as long as they can remember. But everything changes when one goes on a campaign to lure away the fiancé of another. How can they remain friends when one betrays another?

Harry Barnes returns from France with half his face damaged and his nights haunted by the friends he lost on the battlefield. How can anyone love the monster he has become?

Alice Armstrong wanted nothing more than to be Harry’s wife. But when he returns from the Front wounded and angry, he repeatedly pushes her away. How can she convince him their love is all that matters?

Harry’s brother Jack has secretly loved Alice since they were children. When Harry is caught spending time with Betty, Jack sees his chance and declares his love. How can he make Alice see that he’s the one who can make her truly happy?

When one brother offers the dreams of the past, while the other promises all the possibilities of the future, how does a girl choose?

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It’s 1919, and Betty Young has always loved Harry Barnes, but he was engaged to marry Alice Armstrong, her best friend. Bound and determined to have him for herself, Betty tricked him into marrying her instead. Now that she has the husband and big city society life she always wanted, is she living her dream, or a nightmare?

Prohibition is the law and women are fighting for the right to vote. Betty’s eyes are opened by the disparity between the lives of those around her and the immigrants living in the Minneapolis neighborhood known as Bohemian Flats. Exciting doors are opening for her out in the world away from her small hometown of Pine Lake, Wisconsin.

But at what cost?

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It’s 1919, and one friend’s betrayal has put all three Pine Lake Girls in danger.

Lizzie Finley is overjoyed with the arrival of her newly adopted daughter, but she’s terrified of a secret she’s learned from her mother’s past. A secret she fears will ruin her future if discovered by her friends and neighbors.

Alice Barnes has started a new life with Harry’s brother, Jack. Married and carrying his child, Alice’s future is bright, but the shadow of Betty’s betrayal still haunts her past.

When Betty Barnes returns to Pine Lake, forced to flee Minneapolis and her husband Harry’s murderous rage, she turns to the only two people she feels she can trust to protect her and her unborn child.

Is this the opportunity Lizzie’s been searching for to heal the rift between her two best friends? Can Alice ever forgive Betty? Or is it truly the end of the Pine Lake Girls, friends forever?

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Annie March is devastated when she catches her fiancé in bed with another woman mere weeks before the wedding. But when she decides to go on the honeymoon without him and meets a handsome cowboy, a whole new world of possibilities opens before her.

Rancher Rod MacCray is attracted to the beautiful Annie from the moment they run into each other on a busy Deadwood street. But when he offers to take her to the ghost town of Custer Creek and show her the renovations he’s made to his four-times great-grandparents’ hotel, their lives are changed in a most unexpected way.

While in pursuit of a pair of ghosts, they fall through a broken staircase and wake up in 1880 Custer Creek running from an armed posse. Can they find their way back to their own time before Annie is hung for murders she did not commit?

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Three stories from the Hope Harbor anthologies.

A Light in The Darkness

Annalise Hopewell O’Shay inherits an emerald ring and a train ticket to Hope Harbor, Maine. The ring, originally the property of pirate Gideon O’Shay, is believed to grant true love to whoever owns it. Widower Connor Hunter moves to Hope Harbor with his young son, Andrew, to be the new lighthouse keeper. When Connor and Annalise meet, there is an instant attraction. Could it be the power of the ring?

A Christmas Kind of Love

Legend says the Whalehouse Tavern was blessed by an Irishman, a stranger to Hope Harbor during the Revolutionary War, with the power to bring lovers together. When a December fire destroys the cannery, threatening the jobs of all the men who work there, the women get together to plan a community Christmas Eve dinner at the Whalehouse Tavern. Can a charmed tavern bring love to a lonely widow and a confirmed bachelor?

A Storm in His Heart

An afternoon of ice-skating and a Christmas storm brewing off the coast combine to bring either happiness or tragedy to two Hope Harbor families. Andrew Hunter buried himself in his art after his fiancé left him for another. Adelaide Ransom comes to Hope Harbor to spend the holiday with family after losing both her parents in a carriage accident. Seeing the opportunity to help his big brother find love again, Gideon partners with Adelaide’s cousin, Caroline, to bring the two together. What could possibly go wrong?

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It’s 1890, and Hannah Becker does not want to marry her father’s cousin, Gunter. Grandmother suggests she go west to South Dakota and file a claim under the Homestead Act. This would take her far from Guter’s reach, and allow her to own land of her own. Prairie life would be hard, but the rewards would be hers, not her father’s or husband’s. On her journey, she befriends the Bergen sisters of Rock Creek, experienced girl homesteaders who know of the abandoned neighboring Goldman claim now up for grabs

Frederick “Dutch” Schmidt has had his eyes on the Goldman claim for some time, and now that it’s available, he hopes to file and make it an extension of his own. But when he gets to town, he finds yet another girl homesteader has beat him to it. A confirmed bachelor, he resents all the women filing on land that should rightly go to men.

Can they find common ground, and love?

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