Kirsten Osbourne
1) Besotted Bob
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Marta Martinez is alone for the first time in her life. She has two wonderful sons and a baby on the way, but her husband has been killed in a shootout with the police. Not having any other options, Marta turns to a man who has a good reputation in the community, praying he'll give her a job so she can continue to feed her children and keep the baby growing inside her alive.Bob Calendar has always loved his family more than anything, and he has devoted...
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The second of the Calendar triplets, May is a quiet, critter-loving woman who enjoys being around her family but has issues with strangers. When she goes to the doctor for yet another animal-related injury, she is surprised to see the grown-up version of the little boy she did everything with from her first day in kindergarten to her last day of high school.Adam Petrowski moved back to Cauldron Valley after medical school simply to be able to reconnect...
3) Just July
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Julia Calendar, the seventh of the twelve Calendar sisters, feels as if she is just another month of the year. Her sisters all have amazing talents that set them apart, but there's nothing she really excels at. She watches as her six elder sisters fall in love and marry, and she knows she's expected to be next, but how could a man fall in love with her? She's just July.Brent Collings is a survivor. His wife Andrea died eighteen months before of breast...
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November "Novel" Calendar is ready to start her real life. She's always lived at home, and she's not able to truly research the way she needs to, so she calls a matchmaker whose specialty is introducing people at the altar. She's convinced that a marriage of convenience is the only way for her to be truly happy. Novel has read enough romance novels to know she belongs with a tall, dark, and handsome man who is just waiting for her to complete his...
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Trying to find a way to help with the family's scholarship fund, September "Berry" Calendar joins a cooking competition. Although she's had no formal training as a chef, everyone agrees she's the best cook around Cauldron Valley, so she hopes she won't go down in a pile of burning ash. When a handsome man flirts with her on her first night at the competition, she knows he'll flirt with any woman, because she is no prize.Jack Larson agrees to judge...
6) Conquered
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hristiana and her two sisters, women of power in medieval Europe, are left alone to defend their family's home when Duke William of Normandy invades England in 1066. When they are unable to fend off the invading army, the leader of their enemies claims Christiana was promised to him as his wife, along with her home and her family's lands. Betrothed to another, she fights him, but finds herself married quickly.Roland joined William of Normandy for...
7) Merry March
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Marci Calendar loves the children she teaches at the Calendar Girls' Ranch, and she loves her family whole-heartedly. However, she doesn't believe in love between a man and a woman. She's seen two of her sisters fall in love, but she knows it could never happen to her.Thomas Latham agrees to be the official electrician for the first year of the Calendar Girls' Ranch's drive-through Christmas display. He knows he'll need to spend a lot of time at the...
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Jana Calendar loves her life working with special needs girls at her family's ranch. When her favorite child loses yet another foster home, she decides to be the one to get her out of the system and adopt her. Working closely with Aubrey's social worker is no hardship. When there is a glitch in her plans, the two of them work together quickly to find a solution.Brandon Ziegler has been a social worker since he left college, and little Aubrey has his...
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Meg O'Reilly wonders what ever made her want to be a teacher. The last four members of the demon horde are making her life miserable. When one of them slaps a copy of the Grooms' Gazette on her desk and tells her to go see their older sister so she can find her a groom, she reads through the paper and decides to do just that. Confident in her decision, she sends a letter to the man she chooses that very day.
The one thing Lars Borgen is not looking...
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After helping countless women find suitable husbands, Harriett is embarking on her own mail-order bride journey, to marry a man whose sister has eight lovely daughters of her own. Her new husband seems to care for her, but doesn't understand Harriett's attachment to her faithful butler Higgins. Will she find herself in another bad marriage, or is this, at long last, her own happily ever after?
11) Trudie's Tears
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Trudie Brown has a horrible secret, something that keeps her from being able to make friends along the Oregon Trail. When she starts cooking for a little girl and her widowed father, she has no intentions other than feeding them and helping them get to Oregon. The child, a gregarious social butterfly, believes right away her father should marry the woman cooking for them, but Trudie is certain it will never work, because she can tell no one about...
12) Holli's Heart
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Holli Harris hates what she's doing with her life. She's always wanted to be a romance writer, but instead she's ghost-writing space operas to make a living. One of her closest friends, Heather, recently time-traveled to medieval Scotland, and Holli decides to follow, leaving her crummy job behind to hopefully find the man of her dreams.Bryson McClain sees no reason to marry immediately, for as soon as he does, he will have to take on the responsibilities...
13) Mail Order Meals
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Gertrude Miller is well-known for her cooking, working for the diner there in Beckham, Massachusetts. When she spots an old crush eating with his new wife, she realizes that there is no chance she will ever be able to find love there in Beckham, where everyone remembers her as a member of the demon horde. After some serious thought, she goes to her sister Elizabeth and asks to be sent west as a mail order bride.
Douglas Charleston wants nothing more...
14) Martha
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Martha Sanders has always been the quietest and least understood of the orphans adopted by Edna Petunia Sanders, and she likes it that way. When she has the opportunity to move to her sister's ranch and help her out with her growing family, she jumps at it. After all, she's never planning to marry, so what difference does it make if she's stuck in the country or spending time in town?When Andrew Ford moves to the McClain ranch, he has no idea he is...
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When Ellen and her sister, Malinda, are forced out of the only home they've ever known by a local banker after the death of their father, they answer an advertisement placed by Harriett Long for mail order brides. Ellen chooses to marry the sheriff of a small town in Colorado while Malinda agrees to marry his brother, a banker. When they arrive, each sister is immediately drawn to one of the brothers….too bad it's the wrong one! They each had specifications...
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Layla Becker, the meteorologist for a local news station, sees visions whenever the north wind blows. Her visions lead her to a fire at the haunted mansion in Popsville, TX. There she meets firefighter Jake Weston, a man who believes only in what he can see and feel. Layla and her friends trace the fire to a man who lived in the mansion more than a century before. Jake Weston feels himself being drawn into the investigation of a ghost in the house...
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Bobbi Radcliffe wants to have a normal, boring life with kids, a husband, and a white picket fence. Her problem? She spends all her time working, and there's no time to meet said husband. When she hears about Dr. Lachele-a matchmaker who introduces people at the altar-she believes her prayers have been answered. It would be so much easier to just let someone else do the work and for her to marry whoever comes along.
Gary Grant is living his dream-a...
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When Esther Carruthers realizes her father had been embezzling from her fiancé's father's bank, she doesn't expect her life to change. After her fiancé immediately ends the engagement, she is shocked and dismayed. Her younger sister-the thinker in the family-convinces her to talk to a matchmaker, and she immediately agrees to marry a rancher in Montana, somewhere she's never been, and no one knows her.Brody Finnegan has worked hard for the past...
19) Betty's Books
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Betty Meeks likes nothing more than to hide from the world with her nose in a good book, but on the Trail that's a little harder than usual. No longer wanting to be a burden on her sister and her family, Betty begins taking her meals with a friend who cooks for the bachelors in camp. When one of the men asks her to walk after supper, she decides to do so, no matter how difficult her shyness makes it for her.Dr. Malcolm Bentley is attracted to Betty...
20) Melody's Miracle
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Having lost her husband on the way to Oregon City, Melody was unsure how she should continue. She had no idea how she would make it on her own when they reached the land the government had promised. When she was offered the opportunity to marry a stranger in Clover Creek, a town her wagon train was traveling through, she jumped at the chance.
Jacob Appleby lost his wife on the Oregon Trail almost a year ago. Settled in Clover Creek, three of his...