Josephine Nailor is desperate to escape a terrible situation. When the opportunity arises via a newspaper ad, she and her best friend slip away from their oppressive fathers and head for Richmond. Neither can relax until they're far away from their tiny hometown. With wealthy young widow Lydia Harrison's help, Josephine and six other young women have a new life waiting in Tarnation, Texas.
Michael Buchanan is fairly content running his mercantile and being mayor of Tarnation. The town is dusty and tiny, but it's growing. He believes it holds all he needs to be happy-except a wife. There are no available women in town, but he hopes Lydia Harrison's Bride Brigade will offer a woman he can wed. He is immediately attracted to Josephine.
But Josephine has every reason to mistrust men in general and politicians in particular. Will her misgivings ruin her chance at happiness?
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Book
2: Angeline
A
desperate young woman
A
second chance
A
life-changing decision.
Angeline
Chandler didn't invite the attack that created her condition but she's
suffering the result. Disowned by her family and left alone and
destitute, she gets a second chance when a kind woman rescues her and
invites her to travel to Tarnation, Texas with six other young women
for the purpose of marriage. The prospect of marrying one man while
carrying another's child worries Angeline. Who would want her with
another man's baby?
Grady
McIntyre is a minister whose wife died soon after their son was born.
The woman who has been helping with his toddler has told him she's too
old to continue. When Angeline's name is suggested as a part-time
nanny, he seizes the chance to hire her. Their attraction is
instantaneous but Angeline resists. A minister needs a virtuous woman,
not a fallen one. Soon they marry and both are happy.
Trouble
rears its ugly head until matters come to a crisis. Will detractors
destroy the happiness Angeline and Grady have found?
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Book 3:
Cassandra
A
masquerade to achieve a goal-
Lies
that create a web
Cassandra
Bradford has the cast off wardrobe to pose as a lady. Her goal is to
marry a wealthy man who can provide her young brother with a sound
future. Drat the luck! The first man she sees in Tarnation is a dusty
cowboy who sends her heart pounding. Not for her. She has a better life
in mind.
Samuel
Drummond is one of the wealthiest ranchers in that part of the state,
but he wants that kept quiet. His first wife married him for his money
then left when she became bored with ranch life. He won't let that
happen if he remarries. He intends to find a woman who wants him no
matter how poor she thinks he is.
When
both Cassandra and Sam learn omissions the other has made, there are
fireworks between them. They must work through their anger and hurt to
achieve happiness
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Book 4: Ophelia
Escape
A
painful past
Hope
for the future.
Ophelia
Shipp wants safety, a home, husband, and to raise a family. To achieve
her goal, she travels halfway across the country to a tiny Texas town,
Tarnation. What awaits her there must be better than what she left. She
longs for a respectable man who will be a gentle and kind husband.
Elias
Kendrick had a difficult childhood but he has overcome poverty to build
his empire in Tarnation. Now that he owns a successful saloon and the
opera house, he is ready to marry and start a family. He's vowed his
children's life will be different from his-if only he can find the
right woman.
Two
opposites attract-or are they? Ophelia and Elias must learn to overlook
their superficial differences to work out their chance at lasting love.
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Book 5:
Rachel
Rachel
Ross secret haunts her. She joins other women leaving Virginia for
Texas, object matrimony. Vowing never to trust again, she is rebuilding
her life. She likes the dusty little town of Tarnation and is attracted
to Zane Evans. Her past has made her cautious, but she allows him to
court her.
Zane
Evans is a former Pinkerton agent who wants to forget all he saw in
that profession and the war and found a good life in Tarnation, Texas.
He has carefully planned his future. When he meets Rachel, he is
instantly attracted.
One
event reveals her past in a spectacular way. Will Zane forgive her
silence?
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Book 6:
Lorraine
How to escape marriage to an odious man . . .
Leave the state.
Lorraine Stuart joins a group of women traveling to Tarnation, Texas, a town with numerous bachelors but no unmarried women. She longs to meet a man who will admire her and the writing ability that has her published in several publications, by a pseudonym, of course. Just her luck, out of all those in Tarnation, she falls for the most stubborn man she's ever met. But the handsome newspaper owner is the only one who makes her heart flutter.
Grant Pettigrew has worked hard to establish the Tarnation Gazette. He is intrigued by Lorraine but he won't let a woman write for his newspaper. Besides, he can't afford to hire anyone yet. The redhead is gorgeous and ignites dreams of family, but he's never met a more obstinate woman.
Will two immovable forces join to form a forever love?
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