Cheryl St. John

• Jan-2023
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A tormented man driven to seclusion...A relentless beauty who won't take no for an answer...      Shaine Richards' sister and nephew were in a car that went off a bridge into the river. Maggie's body was the only one recovered. Searche...

• Aug-2022
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While adored by millions, her world has become very smallAudrey Knox sacrificed to make a successful career in Nashville, but the bigger her star shines, the smaller her world has become. After an eye--opening incident on tour, she wants her daughter...

• May-2022
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Husband needed: One week commitment. Children optional.I, Francie Karr, take you, Ryan MacNair, in bogus matrimony to convince my grandma and high school reunion class that I'm blissfully married -- you provide the kids. A week should do it. You pled...

• Sep-2021
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A high-stakes poker game, first meets, a dog rescue, loves lost and rekindled, and life-altering choices fill the history of Spencer, Colorado. Discover the challenges faced in these heartwarming stories crafted by the multi-author group who brings y...

• Oct-2020
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She was the girl behind the headlinesLaurel Whitaker has been her name for fifteen years. Anyone hearing her true identity would know who she was, and she's had enough of cameras, questions and stares. Spencer, Colorado is a great place to blend in a...

• Sep-2019
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He'd had his own baby. Without her.Dusty Cavanaugh has loved Kendra Price since she walked into the school cafeteria and captured a dozen boyish hearts with the sweep of her stormy gray-green gaze and the lift of her chin. College, marriage, and chil...

• Apr-2018
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Unexpected Father The pretty redhead Seth Halloway pulls from a derailed train has surprising news for him. The children she's accompanied to Cowboy Creek aren't hers -- they're his, thanks to the last wishes of a late friend. Busy rancher Seth mu...

• Nov-2016
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When Marlys Boyd moves West hoping to find acceptance for her doctoring skills, she's surprised to find her former fiancé, Sam Mason, running the local newspaper. And with the ladies in town determined to make a match of the doctor and the single fa...

• Apr-2016
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Second Chance Bride When Daniel Gardner convinced the residents of his Kansas boomtown to advertise for mail-order brides, he never expected the woman he once loved to respond. But Leah Swann steps off the bride train...pregnant and widowed and i...

• Aug-2015
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Her last chance at redemption Singer Ruby Dearing is tired of life on the stage and yearns for a place to belong. She returns home to beg forgiveness from her mother and sister, only to find stubborn Nash Sommerton -- her sister's widower -- in c...

• May-2014
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Fast Fiction Historical short romantic stories to take you back in time Vaughn Donnelly's work has taken him to many different villages over the years, and he's never regretted saying goodbye to anyone in them. Until he promises to help Darcy Keeg...

• May-2013
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An Unexpected Homecoming Ryanne Whitaker isn't proud of having to return to her hometown of Elmwood, Iowa. But with a failed marriage and a financial mess waiting for her back in the city, she needs a place to regroup. She also wouldn't mind a fri...

• Jan-2013
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If Violet Kristofferson had known that her new employer was the town undertaker, she might never have come to Carson Springs as his cook. Yet she needs a fresh start away from scandal. And Ben Charles's unflinching faith could be her path to somethin...

• Dec-2012
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Charlie McGraw never should have bought the angel book for his precocious daughter. Because then Meredith wouldn't be convinced that getting a new mommy was as simple as having an "angel" sprinkle him with her "miracle dust." And she never would have...

• Apr-2012
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The mysterious inheritance is the answer to a prayer. Now Irish lass Maeve Murphy and her sisters can come to America! She's sure happiness awaits her, even if it won't -- can't -- come from widowed ship doctor Flynn Gallagher. Yes, he made her his a...

• Oct-2011
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Meredith has always dreamed of a grand life but, stranded on a train in heavy snowfall with two young stowaways, she unexpectedly finds she has everything she needs with just one strong man to protect her.......

• Jul-2011
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City courtesan to country wife A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE WITH A VERY INCONVENIENT SCANDAL Courtesan Ella Reed escapes dangerous city life to rural Wyoming and says "I do" to a marriage of convenience! But she may not live the life of a ...

• Jun-2011
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Bounty hunting was just a job for Gabe Taggart -- one he needed to fund his sister's education. But now Irene has finished school, and Gabe is ready to settle down, find a husband for Irene and -- best of all -- set aside his past. His adventuring da...

• Oct-2010
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Chloe Hanley must save the town church. But only if she can convince reclusive carpenter Owen Reardon to help repair the broken heart of the community and open his own up again -- in time for Christmas!...

• Apr-2010
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Teacher Olivia Rose knows what it's like to grow up alone and unwanted. But convincing reserved rancher Jules Parrish he can give his orphaned niece a real home won't be easy -- unless Olivia seizes the chance of love and motherhood she never expecte...

• Dec-2009
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Her make-believe husband... THE FAMILY SHE'D ALWAYS WANTED! When eighteen-year-old Mariah found herself pregnant and unmarried in her small Colorado town, she disappeared. One year later, she returned with a baby -- though minus the "hu...

• Jun-2009
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"My Children Need A Mother." There was nothing remotely romantic about widowed father Samuel Hart's marriage proposal. Yet Josie Randolph said yes. The Lord had finally blessed the lonely widow with the family she'd always dreamed of. And she was de...

• Dec-2008
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DRIVEN BY DUTY...AND DESIRE Protecting people runs through Jonas Black's blood, and Eliza Jane Sutherland is one woman who needs his strong arms around her. A rugged Montana man, Jonas will guard Eliza from her vile brother-in-law as fiercely as he...

• Oct-2008
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Turner Price hasn't been the same since he lost his wife and child. But when he finds a young woman and newborn twin babies in his stable, he realizes this may be his second chance to be a loving husband and father, just in time for Christmas!...

• Oct-2007
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Marvel Henley thought she was content until the new handsome doctor Seth Paxton and his adorable kids crashed into her life! Suddenly she began to yearn for things she had long stopped wishing for.......

• Jun-2007
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Lorabeth Holdridge longed for life and experience! Cloistered by her strict father, her world was confined to chores and prayer. Her chance of escape came when she took a job as housekeeper to a boisterous family. Lorabeth reveled in her newfound fre...

• Feb-2007
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Sophie Hollis could charm any man... Kidnapped as a child, sold to a con man, she'd fast learned how to sweet-talk her way out of trouble. Now all Sophie wanted was to be left alone to build a new life -- one that was honest and decent, based ...

• May-2006
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The only unmarried woman in town, Charmaine Renlow has been waiting years for her beau to propose, and she's had enough. Maybe it's time to move on to greener pastures...like single father Jack Easton's homestead!...

• Sep-2005
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Nick Harding had seen enough of life's darker side...and bore the scars -- inside and out -- to prove it. Plus, years of tracking reprobates had hardly improved his opinion of his fellow man. Yet some spark of hope remained in him, he suspected. W...

• Jul-2005
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NOAH CUTTER WAS A MAN OF HIS WORD... Scarred in body and soul, rancher Noah didn't consider himself fit company for anyone. But when his brother's philandering finally caught up with him, honor dictated that Noah claim his brother's widow as his o...

• Jun-2005
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SURPRISE OF THE SEASON! Well, readers, the search for the owner of the Queen of Hearts Mine is finally over, and the lucky lady is none other than Thunder Canyon's own favorite dog-walker, Lisa Martin! The Douglas family is no longer the richest i...

• Feb-2005
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No mother should have to bury her child. Amy Shelby had learned this sorrow well. Her heart had gone into the ground a year ago along with her boy's tiny casket. And not even her husband, Jesse, wrestling the same pain, could resurrect any hope in he...

• Dec-2004
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After enduring so much tragedy, Meredith Malone celebrated her latest triumph -- delivery of a healthy baby girl! Meredith's dreams of motherhood had finally come true despite the fact that little Anna happened to be a different race than her mommy. ...

• Aug-2004
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Charlie McGraw never should have bought the angel book for his precocious daughter. Because then Meredith wouldn't be convinced that getting a new mommy was as simple as having an "angel" sprinkle him with her "miracle dust." And she never would have...

• Nov-2003
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Secrets and lies made poor references, Linnea McConaughy knew. But her survival depended upon keeping her past hidden, especially from her employer, rancher Will Tucker. True, he'd shown her kindness, even tenderness, but could he ever accept her sha...

• Aug-2003
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FROM THE DANCE FLOOR TO THE ALTAR... Marrying footloose cowboy Devlin "Devil" Holmes after their heart-stopping one-night stand was the most reckless thing Dr. Brynna Holmes had ever done. With one rough-and-tumble smile he'd lassoed her heart and p...

• Oct-2002
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Finding two orphans on her doorstep, Rosalyne Emery is determined to make local tycoon Sam Calhoun responsible for them, but the mismatched pair soon find themselves trapped in a pretend engagement that might just become a reality....

• Jun-2002
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Boy-next-door Nick Sinclair had grown up into a hunk extraordinaire -- that was Ryanne Whitaker's first shock on reencountering her sexy, single-dad neighbor. The second was that she was facing this broad-shouldered Mr. Gorgeous across the barrel of ...

• Sep-2001
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Eight years ago, Brock Kincaid had tried to put Abby -- and her brother's senseless death -- out of his mind. After all, a man whose livelihood was tied to the ivory-handled six-shooters at his hips couldn't allow emotions and memories to dull his se...

• Mar-2001
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"A LIFE WITH YOU JUST ISN'T POSSIBLE." Heather Johnson had never intended to return to Whitehorn, Montana. But restoring an inherited ranch seemed the perfect way to pass the summer with her three kids. The moment she hired carpenter Mitch Fielding,...

• Feb-2001
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Annie Sweetwater Wasn't Like Other Girls All her life everyone she'd ever known had told so. Except Luke Carpenter, who never let her limp blind him to seeing her as she really was: a woman grown, full of dreams, desires and hopes for a future -- wit...

• Mar-2000
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A family of strong women and the passionate and unexpected loves they find in Whitehorn, Montana. Spirited Isabelle had married a handsome Native American to save her family ranch-and secretly set out to win her groom's hungry heart ... any way sh...

• Oct-1999
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How Could She Say Yes? People like Ellie Parrish did not get proposals of marriage from someone like Dr. Caleb Chaney. Even if his offer was the answer to her prayers, a man as decent and kind as Caleb didn't deserve a woman whose past was a lie....

• Jul-1999
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COME CLEAN... OR COME UP WITH A HUSBAND I, Francie Karr-Taylor, take thee, Ryan MacNair, in marriage to convince my grandmother and my tenth-reunion class that I'm happily married -- you provide the kids. A week should do it. You should pledge to ...

• Mar-1999
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After Meg Telford's husband dies in the war and is lauded as a hero, she must face the fact that she can't keep the ranch without a man to shoulder the workload. Nothing will stop her from saving Joe's dream. The war has taken nearly all ...

• Sep-1998
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I'm Not Who You Think I Am! Sarah Thornton wanted to shout, but revealing her true identity could only bring disaster on herself and her infant son. Still, sorrowful circumstance had turned a mistake into a miracle. She suddenly had a home, a fami...

• Sep-1997
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WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE... Shaine Richards' sleep was filled with dreams and nightmares. Dreams of a brooding, sexy, handsome man who made her long to touch him. And nightmares of her toddler nephew, who'd been lost in a river, crying out for her. ...

• Dec-1996
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A HUSBAND BY ANY OTHER NAME... On the morning of his fourteenth wedding anniversary, Dan Beckett's greatest fear came true. His long-lost brother was coming home--home to claim his rightful place as first-born son, eldest twin ...and as Lorrie...

• Aug-1996
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Shooting a bandit was reporter Hallie Wainwright's introduction to the Wild West, where she'd traveled with a bevy of mail-order brides. But it was the more intimate 'hello' in the arms of Cooper DeWitt that sent her heart racing - and made it all th...

• Oct-1995
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A Match Made in Heaven Home from the war, Joshua McBride was determined to put his rakish youth behind him and grab a second chance at a life worth living. Yet how could he convince the oh-so-correct Miss Adelaide Stapleton that his hell-raising d...

• Apr-1995
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JEWEL OF THE PRAIRIE Ex-Major Booker Hayes had seen how much love this sun-kissed farmer's daughter had to give. And he wanted her in his life. As a mother to his orphaned niece, and much more. For Thea was the first woman to ever make him lon...

• Oct-1994
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Paradise In her secret heart, sheltered Lydia Beker yearned for more -- a sea of sensation, a husband to be tender with. Surely such longings couldn't be wrong? And then came Jakob Neubauer, an outsider who promised her a world of passion... ...

• Mar-1994
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A Guarded Heart Raised among the Lakota Sioux, Rain Shadow was the picture of an Indian princess. Exotic. Ethereal. But away from the glamour of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, she was a mother alone. An orphan in search of her past. And, armed wit...