Grass Valley Brides

What's a matchmaker to do when the husband-to-be rejects the bride? Again . . . Widowed as a young wife, Cara Cargill turned her head for business and love of romance into a successful mail-order bride enterprise. She's never had a problem matching couples until one mule-headed man continues to refuse to wed the women she sends to meet him in Grass Valley, Oregon. In an effort to make a match he'll keep and uphold her sterling reputation, Cara is desperate to find the perfect bride. ♥ Daisy - When her fiancé leaves her at the altar, Daisy Bancroft knows it is far past time for a change. Her dearest friend, Cara, offers to send her to a newly established town in Oregon, where possibilities abound and the grass is rumored to be as tall as a man's head. Daisy arrives with plans to wed Tagg Thompson, only to find the obstinate rancher has foisted her off on his best friend. ♥ Birdie - Tired of waiting for her Mister Right to magically appear and whisk her away to a happily-ever-after, Bridget "Birdie" Byrne convinces her sister, a renowned matchmaker, to send her as the bride to Tagg Thompson. The man who greets her upon her arrival isn't Tagg, but Birdie is certain she's finally discovered the man she is meant to marry. ♥ Cara - Fed up with Tagg Thompson and his refusals of every bride she's sent to Grass Valley for him to wed, Cara decides to meet the exasperating man in person. Her feet are barely on the ground in the rustic town before she's nearly bowled over by a herd of stampeding cattle and swept into the brawny arms of a cowboy with the bluest eyes she's ever seen. Will true love find its home in the hearts of these Grass Valley Brides? Get all four books in the Regional Romance Series featuring scenic historic locations, exciting drama, and sweet (yet swoony) romance!

Dreaming of Grass Valley, a truer than life novel of the lives, loves, adventures, and hijinks of a couple of seasoned cowboys, a wolf dog, and a mail-order bride all trying to make their future in a California gold camp. When Big Jim von Reinhoff and his lifelong friend, Maximum Epps, decide to follow their dream of building a ranch in the pine-studded hills of Grass Valley, they are thrown together by chance with a mail-order bride from St. Louis and an escaped Apache pet wolf dog named Dee-Oh-Gee. Through Indian attacks, broken hearts, hardships, dangers, and unforeseen adventures, they develop a special relationship that keeps them together and, despite it all, they never lose sight of the dream. This riveting tale and revealing story will stir the hard core, historical, western buff, while capturing the allure and fascination of the romance reader.

ORCHARD VALLEY BRIDES— AND TEXAS GROOMS Norah Bloomfield is feeling a bit unneeded these days. Her father is recovering from his heart attack, and her sisters, Valerie and Stephanie, are busy planning their weddings. But then a cantankerous Texan named Rowdy Cassidy crashes his small plane in Orchard Valley. The same Rowdy Cassidy who'd been Valerie's boss…and who'd demanded Valerie marry him. Now he's Norah's patient, and in all her nursing experience she's never encountered a more difficult man. Or a more irresistible one! Except…is he still in love with her sister? When Norah's friend Sherry Waterman leaves Orchard Valley, Oregon, for Pepper, Texas, she's definitely not in the mood for Lone Star Lovin'. But if anyone can change her mind, it's Cody Bailman—a hardworking, good-looking rancher. Not only that, Cody has a twelve-year-old daughter who thinks Sherry's "just perfect for Dad"! Texas men are a breed apart…