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Bride Lottery™ #1 Mistaken Identity

Shannon O’Shaughnessy is far from home on Lottery Day and looking for a kind man who won’t mind her siblings. When the hotel manager says Gabriel Blake is the kindest, handsomest man in town, she stands in front of him on Lottery Field, only to discover he’s not Gabriel.

Brian Bannon is not easily fooled, so when his new bride comes with four siblings, he’s done. He leaves here there on Lottery Field. But the magistrate and Shannon have other ideas. Suddenly there are five other people in his house and loud ones at that.

For three months, a grumpy husband is going to be mean to his bride until she finally leaves him. Then he’ll jump through hoop after hoop to get her back.

Bride Lottery™ #2 Two Brothers

Twenty-seven men. One unconscious woman. One girl.

On Lottery Day, Annie Blake’s sister Beth chickens out of entering the lottery. Far from home and with no money left and three siblings to care for, she does what she has to–she pretends she’s eighteen and enters the lottery.

Mason McNamara never imagined he’d actually get picked at the lottery. Now he has a cute little wife and her three siblings. The younger two are okay, but the older one Beth is a nightmare. And she keeps telling him that his wife isn’t who he thinks she is. Who is Evan and why does his wife speak his name in her sleep and wear his shirt to bed?

She’s underage. He has a meddling brother. This is going to be one rocky courtship.

Bride Lottery™ #3 Little Wife

Hannah Hannigan is sixteen when she loses her family and home and the Brennanmen enter her in the lottery. Ben is the kindest man, but she’s not what he wants in a wife. After three months, she finds herself alone again, looking for a family.

Ben Murphy has a huge ranch to lose in a divorce, so he only enters a rigged lottery with Elise Fairweather. Her father’s contracts and business connections are worth it. But the lottery her father rigged soon becomes unrigged when the Brennanmen enter a young girl and he’s stuck with her.

A foolish husband is about to send his wife into the cruel world, alone. It’ll take another orphan, a magistrate’s nephew, and a private detective to bring them back together again.

Bride Lottery™ #4 Arranged

Six farmers’ daughters. Six wealthy ranchers. An arranged lottery.

Violet Fernwood married Declan O’Neill expecting shopping, parties, and a doting husband. That’s the picture that he painted to her, but that’s not what her life becomes. Every day she’s up at five cooking for sixteen ranch hands and an angry husband. At ten in the evening when she’s finally finished cleaning the kitchen he’s already asleep. No matter how hard she works, it’s never enough and she’s always doing something wrong.

Declan O’Neill is trying to be patient with his young bride, but she makes so many mistakes, one after another, until he finally snaps. He never expected her to run or that he’d have to chase her to get her back. Now the least of his worries is the ranch when his wife is slipping through his fingers.

A hard-working wife who’s had enough. A careless husband who’s made one mistake too many. This runaway bride has no intention of going back.

Bride Lottery™ #5 Fragile Heart

A woman trying to escape an abusive home. A cowboy with a big heart.

Rachel McConnolly has raised her two brothers to be kind and generous, but the more time they spend with their dad, the meaner they get. On Lottery Day, only one man is brave enough to marry her–Griffin Hamm–and thankfully he lives hundreds of miles away.

Griffin Hamm tells his new bride it’s only temporary. On July first she can go her own way and start a new life. But the longer she stays with him, the more he likes having her around. It isn’t until her brothers try to kidnap her that everything goes awry. How do you undo something you’ve done and how do you get back to where you were?

A woman with a broken heart. A man desperate to keep her. Sometimes you need to let people go and sometimes you need to hang on tight.

Bride Lottery™ #6 Lullaby

A handsome farmer from a good family. A beautiful girl from a dead one.

Sarah Daniels is desperate. The handsome guy with the expensive hat looks a little dangerous but she enters the lottery anyway and stands directly across from him. Lucky for her, his name is picked.

Grant Stockton didn’t plan on entering the lottery, but it’s not every day you overhear a conversation that reveals your name will be picked. When a gorgeous blonde with blue eyes enters with her two siblings, he takes the leap. Being married is everything he’d hoped for until she confesses she’s only sixteen after they’ve consummated their marriage.

A girl trying to keep her family together. A husband who keeps comparing her to the sister-in-law he hates. This is going to be a long and dangerous courtship.

Bride Lottery™ #11 Almost Sister

For fourteen long years, Savannah Miles has nursed her mother until she finally passes. Now she’s alone. She enters the lottery with hope, only to be stuck with her old beau’s younger snottier brother. So when a dance hall opens and offers her a job, she takes it. Only then does her dope of a husband become interested.

Spencer never wanted to marry Savannah. His married brother is still in love with her after fourteen years. But once he gets to know her, it’s hard not to like her. Until she starts dancing at that stupid dance hall.

A husband’s jealousy is about to send his wife running, straight to an IVF doctor.

Bride Lottery™ #14 Devoted

Five years after her husband Max’s death, Kate McTierney finally enters the lottery again. But the man who gets her name is Tad Martin. Tad is young, impulsive, and follows Heather O’Leary around like all the other young men. She tries hard to remain just friends, but before she knows it, she’s fallen for a man in love with someone else.

Tad Martin goes to the lottery for Heather O’Leary, but ends up with Max Lafferty’s widow. He tries to remain cordial, knowing when they divorce she’ll take half his farm and half his bank account. Then a wonderful thing happens along the way–he falls in love with his wife. But all those little whispers from Heather that Kate will never love him the way she loved Max finally get to him and he makes the worst mistake of his life.

The most devoted wife in town is about to marry a young idiot. He’d better smarten up fast if he wants to keep her.

Bride Lottery™ #16 Aftermath

When Meredith Nash goes on vacation in March, she has no idea that a lethal flu epidemic is going to hit her small town while she’s gone. In a single week everyone dies and the Brennanmen close the town. In the aftermath, Meredith is left orphaned and homeless. On Lottery Day she gets off the train and enters the lottery, hoping God will send her a new family. Instead, he sends her an angry man.

Griffen McNair knows his name will be drawn on Lottery Day and his older brother Grady will be second. He couldn’t be happier when two women enter the lottery. Then with five minutes to go, the blonde talks the redhead into leaving. Now there’s one woman and she’s suddenly his wife. But he can’t forget that she robbed his brother of marriage and a chance at happiness.

A runaway bride who keeps dodging one tragedy after another. The angry husband chasing her. Two people who God threw together are about to get their happy ending.

Bride Lottery™ #17 Kidnapped Bride

A young woman looking for a family. Two boys determined to get a mom. A father trying to keep his boys from being judged.

Shannon Sullivan is on her way to the lottery when she comes across two teenage boys in a broken down wagon. In a matter of minutes, she’s injected with a sedative, kidnapped, and taken to another town to be Shane Black’s wife.

Shane Black has been a widower for eleven long years, but that time has been harder on his sons than on him. Then they do the unthinkable–they kidnap a young woman and bring her home. Now he has two problems–keeping a woman captive and preventing his sons from being judged by the Brennanmen.

What starts as a kidnapping turns into something much more as four people fall in love and make a family.

Bride Lottery™ #18 Motherhood

Chanel McIntyre survives a flu epidemic but loses more than half her family. Her boyfriend’s family is decimated too, leaving behind three siblings. Left with no one to marry who isn’t her dead boyfriend’s friend, she takes her siblings and his and rides to River Valley where they haven’t had a woman in the lottery for three years. A desperate man just might marry her, even with six kids.

Grayson Winter has waited five years for a wife and figures he’ll probably be single forever. Then a seven year old boy tries stealing his horse on Lottery Day. Zack Roth turns out to be the adopted child of a gorgeous blonde who’s come to town to enter the lottery. And lucky Grayson gets picked. But falling in love with Chanel is just the beginning of his troubles. Her dead boyfriend’s brother Alec pushes all of his buttons until he does the unthinkable. Suddenly he’s trying to hang onto his new family and they’re slipping through his fingers.

A woman who had hope and lost it. A man who lost hope and found it. Together they’ll make a family.

Bride Lottery™ #20 Singer

Penelope Jameson has had a crush on Warren Peterson for four years, but he doesn’t even know she exists. Then her parents die and she’s suddenly in charge of a farm and her three siblings. Time to grow up and find a husband.

Warren Peterson loves music. Every Saturday night he’s at the dance hall playing his guitar and singing. The throng of girls in love with him is just a perk. But that all changes the night that Penelope Jameson’s parents die. Before long, she’s being courted by the magistrate and she’s falling in love with him. He doesn’t stand a chance.

A girl, a singer, and a magistrate are about to form the weirdest love triangle.

Bride Lottery™ #21 Siblings

Bonnie has always been the perfect daughter. She’s spent most of her life working hard and getting little appreciation. So she’s understandably picky when it comes to marriage. Jimmy had hygiene issues and Kyle was more than a little OCD. But Jacob seems perfect until planting season begins and she has to spend long days with her jealous sister-in-law and fastidious mother-in-law. After two days of being humiliated and under appreciated she ditches her third husband and runs home.

Jacob Foster never expected to win the lottery. Now he’s got the prettiest wife in town and the kindest. But things get out of hand when her sister Beth starts spilling secrets and his sister-in-law MaryBeth gets jealous. When his mom begins clearly favoring MaryBeth, he takes his frustrations out on the wrong person, his wife. Now she’s run home and he’s trying to win her back. But can he convince her he’s worth it?

A woman trying to protect her ex-husband. A man trying to protect his younger brother. Two sisters and a mother are about to meddle and make things worse.

Bride Lottery™ #22 Abandoned

From the moment Jonathan Mahoney meets Magnolia Winters, he’s madly in love. But the first year of their marriage goes awry when the entire corn crop gets blight. He makes the worst decision of his life, leaving her to go work on a merchant ship. Before he knows it five long years have flown by.

Magnolia Winters marries Keith Larson in the hopes of giving Venus a father. It’s been nine years since Jonathan left and disappeared. Then he drags them to Laramy on a vacation with the mysterious Oswald Christoyannopoulos, a wealthy rancher looking for the love of his life. Little does she know that Oswald is Jonathan or that he’s been searching for her for four years.

A rich rancher trying to make things right with his wife and daughter. A single mother trying to protect her heart. An old wound is about to open and finally heal.

Bride Lottery™ #23 Young

China Meadows comes to Mountain Bluffs hoping to start over with her siblings. In a mountain farming community with no women she’s hoping the men there aren’t picky and won’t mind a wife bringing her four siblings into the marriage. God answers her prayers with Dakota, the perfect husband. But at the first bump in their marriage, her husband threatens her with the Brennanmen. Big mistake.

Dakota Strothers never expected to win the lottery or to get a beautiful wife. He doesn’t even care that she comes with four siblings. But he does care when he finds out she lied to him. A few harsh words and she’s living at the town’s hotel and getting ready to go back home. Where did he go wrong and how does he fix it?

A magistrate, a reverend, and four out-of-town jerks are about to push a separated couple back together again.

Bride Lottery™ #24 Scarface

A girl with scars. The boy who calls her Scarface.

Lucy Lambert enters the lottery with hope. Until Jared Hamilton chooses her. Right there on Lottery Field she has a complete meltdown and sobs hysterically. But nothing can change the rules. Jared is now her husband for a year.

Jared Hamilton never meant for Lucy to hear the terrible names he called her. The fact is he really likes her. The only thing that seems to bring her closer to him is that scary alien novel. In fact it sends her right into his arms and his bed. Now if he could just keep her there.

A scary alien novel and a wounded mountain lion are about to shove a couple back together again.

Bride Lottery™ #25 Magistrate’s Daughter

Morgan Monroe never expected to be married to the magistrate’s daughter. Kelly Fletcher is an odd bird and she talks too much. But try as he might to dislike her, there’s just something about her that pulls him in. By the time he realizes she’s worth keeping, she’s run off and fallen for some guy named Cooper. How’s he supposed to win her back when she won’t come home?

Kelly Fletcher has dreamed of being married to Morgan Monroe. But the kind man she’s come to love from afar is nothing like the cruel man she’s married to. He just can’t seem to stop insulting her. When he finally starts flirting with another man’s wife, she’s had enough and flees to her Aunt Polly’s. There she meets someone who will change her life forever.

A husband in love with his wife is about to pull out all the stops to woo her back.

Bride Lottery™ #26 Child Snatchers

Fifteen years ago, five year-old Maggie Dawkins was orphaned. Immediately after her parents’ death, she was kidnapped from the McBrides and taken to Bethany Goodall’s School for Orphaned Children. For years she waited for them to come and rescue her. Then she gave up. When Cooper McBride comes to the school and asks her to put her name in the Mayberry lottery she says no. But her four best friends are all going, leaving Maggie with a painful choice: be alone again or take a chance on the lottery.

Cooper McBride is determined to take his beloved Magpie away from that school. But when he marries Maggie, he sets in motion a series of events that will devastate her, and all of her siblings.

Two children who never should’ve been separated are about to become a family. But some choices come with everlasting consequences.