Böcker av Peggy Trotter

Orphaned and widowed, eighteen-year-old Jubilee Stallings clings to her southern Indiana farm as her only refuge. The wilds of Gibson County are just being tamed in the year of 1850, and Jubilee ekes a meager existence. But when Rafe Tanner, a cousin of her abusive dead husband, shows up with the deed to her property, Jubilee's dream of her own home dissolves.Rafe, stinging from his ex-fiancée's rejection, offers a business marriage, throwing him and Jubilee together in an effort to make the farm successful. But scars from the past keep her in constant fear of her new husband. The pair masquerades as a love-struck couple at Rafe's family farm, enduring the romantic notions of his family, and the jealousy of his ex-fiancée. Once home, Rafe realizes his newfound love for Jubilee and sets out to court her.Meanwhile, Jubilee fights demons from her past as her husband reveals his interest. Can Jubilee let go of her distrust and pain to embrace God's plan of true love and finally find a place to belong?

Tyne Ciders is a widowed, single mother. At least that's her story when she arrives in town as a mail-order bride. But when she learns the arrangement was only a part of a newspaper scam, Tyne is stuck once again without a cover for her sordid past. With no marriage in her future, no job, and no money, she and her small daughter are forced to hole up in a nearby barn-the very barn of the man who'd witnessed her appalling encounter with the frightening old coot she'd thought to marry.Agony is Zephaniah Rowley closest friend. He's lost everything that mattered to him. His wife, his children. Now, living as a hermit, every day is a horrible cesspool of penance for his own selfishness and guilt. So when he encounters a needy woman and her charming child on the dusty road, he makes a quick bee-line to drop them off at the nearest boarding house. He can't afford to let his heart get involved. Or what's left of it. Yet, he finds them living penniless in his barn, and he rashly offers a permanent solution. One that will change everything. For better or...for worse...

Rhapsody Hastings finds herself in the arms of a ruffian, Cavanaugh Blackledge, when her carriage breaks down on a dark country road. Wedding him stills the scandal of their late-night tryst while soothing the guilt she holds of her first husband's untimely death. So, she accepts the arrangement as her own personal penance. Yet, an unexpected mission wakens her dead heart despite the fact that a high society lady shouldn't be involved with such...dangerous illegal conspiracies. Using his new marriage to shield his clandestine operations proves to be an unanticipated godsend for Cav. And how could he not appreciate the fetching Rhapsody's presence, creating the perfect buffer when he must face his former true love, now his smug brother's wife. But their artificial life turns ugly when information surfaces, putting both Rhapsody's and Cav's covert efforts in jeopardy. Secrets reveal even more scandalous secrets, and the skeleton discovered in Rhapsody's closet may not only undo her, it may make them both very dead.

Zero. That's how many suitors Cora "Too Tall" Taggart's entertained in her nineteen years. That is, until her father corrals a man nearly twice her age needing a mother for his children. However, Cora's heart aches to find true love with a man who would embrace all of her misfit qualities.When Trigg Gentry discovers Cora in a back alley, using his horse as her own personal writing desk, sparks fly between them. While he searches for his runaway sister, Trigg crosses paths once again with Cora on a steamer bound for St. Louis, and neither Trigg nor Cora can deny their blossoming relationship.But Trigg's unexpected exit from Cora's debutante cotillion comes under suspicion. The guests' jewelry is missing, and he's linked to a murder case. Cora fears these accusations will make it impossible to avoid her father's arranged marriage. And to make matters worse, her heart belongs to the man now pegged as a criminal. How can Cora convince her father that Trigg isn't involved in either crime when all the proof points straight at him?