The Widow S Bachelor Bargain

THE MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR…UNDER HER ROOF The tabloids were right: Sloan Holden is rich, powerful and incredibly handsome. But he's just another paying guest, as far as B and B owner Maggie Potter is concerned. The hardworking widow has a toddler to care for, a business to build, and a heart to protect. She can't succumb to the charm of a man who is just passing through. Though drawn to his gorgeous landlady, Sloan knows "off-limits" when he sees it. Trouble is, Maggie and her little girl gave Sloan a taste of what he was missing—a family of his own. The bachelor businessman could strike a deal with anyone, but can he find a way to bargain his way into Maggie's life for good?

The Widow's Bachelor Bargain

THE MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR...UNDER HER ROOF

Could restoring a family... heal her own heart? When Jacob Unger arrives to retrieve his runaway orphaned niece, Amish widow Dorcas Bitler sees the conflict between the pair and suggests an arrangement. The teenager will stay with her for a while to give them both a much-needed break. Only Jacob's frequent visits--and Dorcas's growing attraction--isn't part of the plan. Now she's faced with an even bigger challenge: mending a broken relationship...while keeping her own heart intact. From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. Brides of Lost Creek Book 1: Second Chance Amish Bride Book 2: The Wedding Quilt Bride Book 3: The Promised Amish Bride Book 4: The Amish Widow's Heart Book 5: A Secret Amish Crush Book 6: Nursing Her Amish Neighbor Book 7: The Widow's Bachelor Bargain

This collection bundles the entire 3 volumes of Catherine Palmer’s charming Regency-period Miss Pickworth series together in one e-book, for a great value! #1 The Affectionate Adversary Charles Locke is risking everything to make his fortune in a tea-trading enterprise. Sarah Carlyle believes money is the root of all evil and is determined to be rid of her fortune. When Charles and Sarah are thrown together at sea, their hearts are unexpectedly bound. But when Sarah discovers Charles’s hunger for money and Charles discovers Sarah’s fortune, their love is suddenly in question. Can Sarah give her heart to a man motivated by money? And does Charles truly love her—or does he love her fortune? #2 The Bachelor’s Bargain Best-selling author Catherine Palmer brings readers another stand-alone Regency-period romance in the vein of Jane Austen. When Ruel Chouteau returns home after his supposed death, he shocks everyone. They are even more surprised when he mock-proposes to a common housemaid as proof that no woman in her right mind would marry him. Anne Webster is no ordinary woman, and when she is shot through the leg, it appears that she will surely die. She decides to accept Ruel’s proposal so he will be obligated to save and provide for her family. Since he will have a year to mourn her death, Ruel will be spared the hounding from his family and the many families of single women in the community. But after the marriage on Anne’s deathbed, she surprises them all by returning to full health! Now Ruel and Anne must face a future they never expected! #3 The Courteous Cad On her tour of the English countryside, a chance encounter in the streets alerts Miss Prudence Watson to the inhumane working conditions at the worsted mill. She learns that the owner is William Sherbourne, a Royal Naval officer just returned from sea. Following in his wake is his reputation as a cad and a secret so ghastly he’ll do anything to protect it. Even worse, he’s handsome and charming and not at all the villain Prudence expected him to be.

City Women is a major new study of the lives of ordinary women in early modern London. Drawing on thousands of pages of Londoners' depositions for the consistory court, it focuses on the challenges that preoccupied London women as they strove for survival and preferment in the burgeoning metropolis. Balancing new demographic data with vivid case studies, Eleanor Hubbard explores the advantages and dangers that the city had to offer, from women's first arrival to London as migrant maidservants, through the vicissitudes of marriage, widowhood, and old age. In early modern London, women's opportunities were tightly restricted. Nonetheless, before 1640, the city's unique demographic circumstances provided unusual scope for marital advancement, and both maids and widows were quick to take advantage of this. Similarly, moments of opportunity emerged when the powerful sexual anxieties that associated women's speech and mobility with loose behaviour came into conflict with even more powerful anxieties about the economic stability of households and communities. As neighbours and magistrates sought to reconcile their competing priorities in cases of illegitimate pregnancy, marital disputes, working wives, remarrying widows, and more, women were able to exploit the resulting uncertainty to pursue their own ends. By paying close attention to the aspirations and preoccupations of London women themselves, their daily struggles, small triumphs, and domestic tragedies, City Women provides a valuable new perspective on the importance of early modern women's efforts in the growing capital, and on the nature of early modern English society as a whole.