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Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house.

Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI.

This year, Becca Timm know the number one item on her Christmas wish list--getting over Denny Cutler. Three years ago, Denny broke her heart before heading off to war.

The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within.

During China's infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding.

Lady Celia Cleveden thinks of herself as eminently sensible from the tips of her sturdy boots to the top of her unadorned bonnet. It seemed logical she would marry an equally practical gentleman.

When she is forced to return to the home town she hated, widow and single mother Sarah Allen turns to Jackson Raines, with whom she went to high school, for help when her late husband's criminal pa

Charles Mountford, Marquis of Tonbridge, has long felt the weight of responsibility. He knows he must do his duty and take a wife.

Nine months ago, Draco Dante shared a passionate night with the mysterious Shayla Charleston. But she vanished just as quickly as she had appeared.

When theatrical entrepreneur Nicolas Dupre receives a request to return to Rocky Creek Australia, the past he thought he'd left behind comes rushing back, including his first love Serena, who has a

To live the life of independence she craves, Jane de Weston disguises herself as a young man.

As a teenager, geeky Sophie adored gorgeous Brandon. He protected her from the bullies, but was too tough for the sweet small-town girl to crack. Then he left for the army.

He'd certainly never set eyes on--much less gone to bed with--Tula Barrons. That he would have remembered.

After one uncharacteristically wicked night, the once-reckless Eleanor Bracewell-Lowen now leads a safe and prudent life.

Meg eloped to escape her reverend father's iron rule. Now widowed, she's desperate to return to her sisters.