C.J. Carmichael

• Nov-2025
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Mysterious events threaten more than a new romance–check into Bramble House B & B this Christmas...Amy and Chet Hardwick anticipate another full house of guests for their third Christmas at Bramble House, including Amy's brother rancher Carson...

• Oct-2025
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A missing woman. A small-town sheriff. A cold case no one wants solved. Twenty years ago, a young hiker vanished in the Montana wilderness. No body. No suspects. No answers. New sheriff Zak Waller has always believed it was murder -- now, h...

• Sep-2024
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You never know who will be checking into Bramble House in the charming Montana town of Marietta...B & B owners Amy and Chet Hardwick have their hands full. They're fully booked, Chet's new rodeo school is taking off, and they're both trying to deal w...

• May-2024
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A murder rips through the quiet town of Tangle Falls, exposing a web of lies and buried sins.​​​​​​​Former science teacher Bobbie Galloway is shaken when a former student's body is found along the tran...

• Dec-2023
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Bramble House B & B is booked for the Christmas season, and new owner Amy Arden and her husband Chet Hardwick are excited to spend their first Yuletide season as a married couple. To spread the joy of the season, they have carefully selected their gu...

• Oct-2023
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Marietta has a way of bringing people together... Cowboy Chet Hardwick is in Marietta, Montana, to compete in the 85th Copper Mountain Rodeo. Chet's not there to make any waves, he needs to focus on the rodeo, avoid his deadbeat father, and...

• Sep-2021
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Finding old love letters in her father's closet inspires a teen to play matchmaker. Jessica Shanahan is off to college next year, but she's worried about leaving her father, Levi Shanahan, alone. He's been a single dad since his wife died when Jessic...

• Feb-2021
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She's looking for a second chance to reconnect with her daughter but finds so much more.Since her husband's climbing death a year ago, Maureen Shannon's relationship with her twelve-year-old daughter has spiraled out of control. Desperate, she resign...

• Nov-2019
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Murder in a small town is always personal. Local longtime librarian, Sybil Tombe, is missing, abducted from her home on the outskirts of the isolated ranching town of Lost Trail, Montana. An elderly neighbor reports seeing a gray-haired, bearded man ...

• Apr-2019
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Wren's most perfect Christmas ever is turning into a nightmare. The Carrigan family is in chaos with various medical issues, no one has put up the tree or done any Christmas baking. The only bright spot is Harris Quinby, a ranch hand at the Circ...

• Oct-2018
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Murder in a small town is always personal. When a young mother is murdered in the isolated ranching town of Lost Trail, Montana, the father of her child is the first suspect. In this case, there are two: the biological father who hasn't seen his daug...

• Jan-2018
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Murder in a small town is always personal. In the isolated ranching community of Lost Trails, Montana, Lacy Stillman, a rich elderly rancher has died of a heart attack in her own bed. What could be more normal than that? As Zak Waller, dispatcher wit...

• Sep-2017
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Three weeks ago, Portia Bishop mailed a letter to the father of her baby, Saddle Bronc rider Austin Bradshaw. It's a letter she should have written a long time ago -- like when she first found out she was pregnant, shortly after she ended things with...

• Apr-2017
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Dispatcher Zak Waller prefers working behind the scenes in the Sheriff's Office of Lost Trail, Montana, but when a newcomer to the sparely populated town is brutally murdered -- and the Sheriff is quick to pin the death on an unknown outsider -- Zak ...

• Oct-2016
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Who is the handsome cowboy who comes into small town Marietta's chocolate shop every week to buy a box of chocolates? More importantly...who is he buying the chocolates for? These are the questions sales clerk Rosie Linn asks herself as she waits for...

• Feb-2016
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A serial killer comes home. A missing boy. A shocking revelation. Charlotte Hammond wasn't prepared to be the guardian of her murdered sister's children. But when her brother-in-law is arrested for the murder, she has no choice. When nine-year-old Ch...

• Jan-2016
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A boxed set of 3 novels, by USA Today Bestselling author C. J. Carmichael, about women and their children, and the men who love them.Book 1: A Daughter's PlaceWhat's a single mother do when she's run out of options?After her father kicked her off th...

• Dec-2015
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All he wants for Christmas...is an answer Finn Knightly a.k.a. Finn Conrad wants to know why his recently deceased father left his nurse fifty thousand dollars after knowing her a mere six weeks. So he travels to Bramble House B&B in Marietta, Mon...

• Jun-2015
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Forgotten, Twisted Cedar Mysteries #2After a shocking secret is uncovered in Twisted Cedars, Oregon, fresh trouble surfaces. Sheriff Wade MacKay is fishing on the Rogue River when he comes across a cargo truck crashed off the side of a winding mounta...

• Apr-2015
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Buried (book 1, Twisted Cedars Mysteries)Justice is overdue in the coastal town of Twisted Cedars where two unsolved mysteries lay buried in the past. Over thirty years ago a series of murders targeting Oregon librarians was never solved. Now someone...

• Oct-2014
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For years Callan Carrigan has been her father's right hand man, so when her dad's will names city slicker Court McAllister the new owner of The Circle C Ranch, Callan feels betrayed on every level.  Then she and her sisters find their mother's d...

• Oct-2014
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When Eliza Bramble signs up for the Christmas Mountain Ski package with Marshal McKenzie, owner of Grizzly Adventures in Marietta Montana, she's looking to escape. Her Bramble B&B Christmas blog has just gone viral attracting the attention of a two-t...

• Sep-2014
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Dani Carrigan has always relied on logic when making important life decisions, but when she discovers she's pregnant - and that there's a chance her baby may be born "not perfect"-- logic lets her down. It would help if the baby's father would po...

• May-2014
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Some love stories have to begin with a falling-out-of-love story. Mattie Carrigan's been helping her rodeo cowboy husband Wes Bishop run his family's Tennessee Walking Horse operation since they were married nineteen years ago. Blessed with twin daug...

• May-2014
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Fast Fiction Romantic short stories with a Happy Ever After Callie Anderson knows all too well the heartbreak and pain that come from loving a cowboy. Then her editor assigns her a makeorbreak article on why women are so gaga over ranchers. Jason ...

• May-2014
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Welcome back to Carol Falls and the next story in the Frost Family & Friends series. A dangerous twenty-year-old secret is about to be uncovered in the quaint Vermont town of Carol Falls, where not everyone is who they seem to be. At first meet...

• Dec-2013
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Christmas In July special price in effect. Ends July 31.Romance and Mystery in Carol Falls, VermontFrost Farm owner, Garret Frost, and his Public Relations Manager, Lily Parker, each have their own reasons for dreading Christmas this year. Garret's a...

• Oct-2013
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Sage Carrigan never meant to be the other woman. Unfortunately, bronco rider Dawson O'Dell neglected to mention he was married the night he invited her to his bed after they'd both placed first in their rodeo events. When his wife walked in on them -...

• Oct-2013
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A HOLIDAY FOR HEALING Jackson Stone will always be grateful to the Lamberts, who took him in when he was just a kid. But since the accident that killed his foster brother, Brock, he stays away from the family at Coffee Creek Ranch. Especially now ...

• Jul-2013
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A Cowboy With Something To Hide... On the rodeo circuit, B. J. Lambert had plenty of chances to forget about his first love. Back in Coffee Creek, it's impossible. Savannah Moody is as irresistible to B.J. as when they were teens. He'd still do an...

• Apr-2013
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Going Home Shouldn't Be This Hard... Cassidy Lambert traded in Montana's big sky country for the big-city lights-forever. Until a potentially devastating equine illness threatens her family's ranch, and Cassidy is needed at home to help. She thin...

• Jan-2013
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How Can He Not Remember Her? Corb Lambert is ready to marry Laurel Sheridan. She's pregnant with his baby-- and Corb is the type of guy who will do the right thing. He just wishes that he could remember the passion they shared before a terrible ac...

• Aug-2012
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A Change of Hart After years of tearing up the rodeo circuit -- and shirking his family duties -- Colton Hart shouldn't be surprised that his return to Thunder Ranch has been a bit thorny. His plan to put the Harts' prize stallion, Midnight, back...

• Mar-2010
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She's on the case! One missing person. One handsome adventurer. And one big case of mistaken identity: the detective's. Because Nadine Kimble isn't actually a private investigator -- she's a receptionist. To prove herself, she's determined to solve ...

• Feb-2010
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They don't want the same things -- only the same job Kate Cooper cut all ties to her NYPD precinct and dumped her cheating fiance. Jay Savage has gained custody of his teenage nephew and needs a stable job yesterday. When both are offered the only...

• Jan-2010
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If he says black, she says white... Lindsay Fox and Nathan Fisher couldn't be more different. In fact, she knew after her one-year stint with the NYPD, she'd driven her former partner as crazy as he'd driven her. He was even part of the reason she l...

• Nov-2008
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Detective Nick Gray loves his baby daughter, Mandy. But he's used to solving crimes--not changing diapers! So when he has sudden custody of Mandy, Nick is totally out of his element. Luckily his neighbor, Bridget Humphrey, is there to lend a hand. ...

• Aug-2008
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Did you hear about Matt and Jane? The rumor at their law firm claims that Jane Prentice is the reason for Matthew Gray's divorce. Matt only wishes it were true. Ever since his marriage ended, he's put his social life on hold to become a better fat...

• Feb-2008
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He'll sacrifice to make his family complete His daughter needs her mother. And Gavin Gray will do anything for Tory--even reunite with the woman who abandoned them. That's the only reason they've moved to Squam Lake, his ex-wife's last known address...

• Jul-2007
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Who says history can't repeat itself? Few people can say they're starring in a real-life version of Romeo and Juliet. And single mom Leigh certainly doesn't want to play the role of disapproving mother. But when her daughter runs off t...

• Feb-2007
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Overcoming her Ex-factors took perserverance... She was an ex-wife, ex-lawyer and soon-to-be ex-owner if her restaurant didn't turn around. To top things off, Margo Evans's ex was getting married again. What if her two children preferred their new s...

• Dec-2006
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• Oct-2006
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In preparation for his new book, author Nick Lancaster has spent years researching the life of murdered jazz singer Simone DeRosier. But one mystery still haunts Nick--who was Simone's "one true friend"? Nick travels to Summer Island, convinced th...

• Sep-2006
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Lauren Holloway: The mother of twin daughters, this cashmere-and-pearls housewife has always been careful to do the "right" things in life. Erin Karmeli: Clad in tight jeans and low-cut tops, she's a vodka-swilling, straight-shooting single mother...

• Jul-2006
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Aidan Wythe and Rae Cordell had one incredible night together -- just before Aidan transferred Rae, his star VP, to Pittsburgh. Now, more than eight months later, Aidan arrives on Summer Island to spend his vacation. But instead of the empty house he...

• Jun-2006
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For six friends, summers on a British Columbian island revolved around the beautiful Simone DeRosier. A talented singer, Simone was destined for stardom. Years later when she made it big, she immortalized her friends in a hit song just before her une...

• May-2005
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It's amazing how one decision could change your life Back in law school Sally Stowe and Colin Foster argued in and out of class. One night, after a study session in the library, Colin offered to drive Sally home. They ended up in his dorm room makin...

• Nov-2004
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A dozen roses...then you'll be mine Georgia Lamont, host of a late-night radio show in Seattle, is used to secret admirers. Her sultry voice gets lonely hearts through the night -- especially during the holiday season. But this note -- stuck to a ...

• Oct-2004
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A tractor trailer jackknifes. E.R. nurse Jackie Kellison's car is slammed into the ensuing pileup. She climbs free and rushes amid the flames and wreckage to help others. And then Jackie hears a baby cry.... Jackie Kellison pulls the injured baby fr...

• May-2004
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Heather Sweeney has always wanted a baby. Unfortunately, she's in love with a married man, so her chances don't look good. Then one lonely night she turns to T. J. Collins, who always seems to be there for her when life is at its lowest. A few weeks ...

• Dec-2003
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Nolan McKinnon is shocked when he's named his niece's guardian. He knows nothing about taking care of a little girl -- especially an orphan -- but he still would have bet he knew more than Kim Sherman. Kim's a newcomer to Enchantment -- one who se...

• Sep-2003
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A group of MBA students at Harvard made a pact -- to each become CEO of a Fortune 500 company before they reached forty. Now their friendships, their loves and even their lives were at stake... Annie Hughes had become the Martha Stewart of cosmeti...

• Mar-2003
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After her son is seriously injured in a car accident, Julie Matthew wants two things: for him to regain his health and for her family to return to normal. What a shock when she learns that Russell, her husband, sees normal as a rut. His solution? To ...

• Nov-2002
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Some old acquaintances are never forgot Miranda James is back in the tiny prairie town of Chatsworth, Saskatchewan, to work on a video biography of reclusive writer Warren Addison. While she's there, she hopes to help her best friend, Chad English...

• Apr-2002
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He made her an offer she couldn't refuse -- bud did she ever try! Jake Hartman's heli-skiing operation in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies has been hugely successful. But because of the major outlays he now wants to make, he needs a capital inf...

• Mar-2002
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She was doing her duty. Now he'll do his... While investigating a local murder, Kelly Shannon, an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is forced to kill in the line of duty. Afterward she feels the terrible responsibility of having take...

• Feb-2002
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He's back! Two years ago, almost everyone in Canmore, Alberta, thought Dylan McLean was responsible for the death of a teenage girl on his father's ranch. Only Cathleen Shannon believed he was innocent. Then he left her at the altar and fled to...

• 2002
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From the back cover: "Check-in: Since childhood, Kerry Dumas had been in John Eagle's blood...a piece of his soul. But the deputy sherrif fought his obsession, believing, from bitter experience, that his native heritage put the beautiful geologist ou...

• Feb-2001
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She needs answers: With uncanny accuracy Amalie Fremont knows the exact moment her identical twin is swept away by an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies. What she doesn't know is what her timid, unathletic sister was doing up in the mountains in the f...

• Dec-2000
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Home is where the farm is Libby Bateson was seventeen and pregnant when her father kicked her off the farm. She never intended to go back. But now she and her daughter need a place to stay. So for the few months it'll take to get her life ...

• May-2000
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MOMENT OF TRUTH... Claire Ridgeway has everything--a handsome, hardworking husband of twelve years, a beautiful home in the suburbs, three delightful children she can raise without having to worry about money. Until one morning. Claire's lif...

• Jan-2000
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The only man she'd ever wanted... Detective Morgan Forester's resolve was as steely as his gun and the badge he wore with pride. And he'd belonged to Trista Emerson -- until a tragedy drove them apart. Now, two of Trista's clien...

• Jan-2000
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One stormy weekend's indiscretion Mallory Lombard and Drew Driscoll are still best friends, even though Drew moved away from the sleepy town of Port Carling, Ontario, years ago to pursue a career as a foreign-affairs journalist in the power capita...

• Jul-1999
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Jessie has a father. She wants a mother, too! Grace Hamilton is an unflappable businesswoman whose self-discipline helped her build a successful company and brought her a glamorous life. But even she is momentarily unhinged when fourteen-year-old ...