Böcker av Maryanne Ross

A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE - RUNAWAY BRIDE HISTORICAL ROMANCE Saucy cotton mill lass>Rugged Scots-Aussie hero>Banter and mayhemSadie hesitates on the church steps on the day of their arranged marriage, then flees, causing scandal and uproar. Yet Connach has fallen hard for golden, unique Shipwreck Sadie. He vows to woo her and win her, while Sadie discovers how to employ her courage and talent for the good of her new colony-with the help of her rejected fiancé.

Bagpipe-playing bluestocking Ruari MacDonald must protect the standing stone circles and ancient Picti-carved pillars around Callanish Castle-but the laird plans to lease his croft lands and force her to marry a sinister English earl. After years abroad in the East India Company, Lochaber Gordon returns to Scotland to wreak long-awaited vengeance on his father, the Duke of Aberdeen. First stop, the Outer Hebrides, to create a world-class whisky distillery on leased MacDonald lands. Sparks fly and desire sizzles when Ruari and Lochaber clash. They flee the Hebrides and race across the Scottish Highlands to escape the earl, evade the warlike MacDonalds, save the Picti artifacts, and claim their destinies.

Gunslinger turned playwright Opal Calahan is handy with a pistol and even handier with a pen. She arrives in town dreaming of creating the new Wylder Playhouse. Rugged prospector Heath Rawdon tantalizes as her perfect leading man-but why does he hate theaters? And why does he have a price on his head? Heath is running from his past and wrestling mental demons. Thanks to his visit to the playhouse in the lawless Ballarat goldfields, he lost his mate and his goldmine-and got slammed with the charge of murder. The last thing he needs is a beautiful, charming playwright disturbing his harsh existence. But feisty Opal has secrets and needs his help. Together they banter, dance, face theatrical disaster, and combat danger in a race to rewrite their future and achieve their dreams.

Asphodel Quick fights her wicked great-uncle for possession of her grandmother's legacy--the Black Hart Hotel on the remote North York moors. Her uncle demands she marry him or be tossed into the dread Harrowlick Lunatic Asylum. Then a dashing highwayman aids her, firing more than her business desires. Returned from the lawless Australian goldfi...