Love in Old California
Summer Chaparral (Love in Old California 1)
When star crossed lovers end up in a shotgun wedding, they’ll have to fight for a love that was meant to be.
Jace Merrill has only ever hungered for one thing: a ranch of his own. After years of roaming, he’s found the place he’ll make his own. But he’s also discovered a new desire—a beautiful, unattainable rancher’s daughter.
Catarina Moreno wants only one thing: a home of her own free from her stifling mother. As a dutiful daughter, she can only do as her parents command, including avoiding all the men they deem unworthy. Until an American cowboy rides onto her father’s rancho and tempts her to forget her duty… and herself.
After her angry father catches them in a moment of weakness, they find themselves in a shotgun marriage. Soon, old family secrets surface, and they’ll find themselves battling to save their marriage—and their unexpected love.
Autumn Sage (Love in Old California 2)
This marshal will protect his witness from everything—including his own wounded soul.
US Marshal Sebastian Spencer is as coldly determined as the criminals he tracks. He’s spent years perfecting his iron control because when he unbends, things break and people bleed. But no one has ever tempted him to unbend as much as the witness in his latest case: a woman he could never think of having.
Isabel Moreno wants her life back, though that’s impossible when the outlaw who attacked her remains on the loose. She agrees to help with the hunt for the fugitive, even though the marshal is the most unsettling, and intriguing, man she’s ever met.
When more than just one outlaw threatens Isabel, Sebastian must keep her closer than ever, closer than he’s let any woman come—and the most dangerous threat of all might be to their hearts.
High Country Spring (Love in Old California 3)
They’ve always been best enemies, but fate has its own plans for their hearts.
Felipe Ortega has never met a man he didn’t like. But when it comes to his best friend’s little sister, he can’t stand her. And she’s definitely not a man. But when she stows away on a dangerous hunt, they find themselves trapped together in the mountains… alone.
Francisca Moreno is desperate to escape her mother’s attempts to lace her into the corset of propriety. Except her attempt at a grand adventure lands her square in the path of a man who’s only ever thought of her as a pest. A man who gets under her skin like no one else.
One starry night they crash into a passionate encounter. As their repressed desires break free—and danger draws closer—they’ll discover how much they’ll risk for the one person they were never meant to love.
The Farmer Takes a Wife (Love in Old California 4)
A sweetly sexy farmer falls for the girl of his dreams at first sight… but true love is never that easy.
Marcus Gries might be on the quiet side, but he knows what he wants, and he’s wanted Laura Kemper since he first saw her. But when his proposal of marriage goes sideways and he learns why Laura is determined to never marry, it will take the hardest work of his life to win her.
Laura has set aside her dreams to nurse her gravely ill father. She’s buried her wants so deeply not even she can see them. When Marcus offers her everything she’s been missing, she might not be able to bury those dreams again.
Marcus and Laura must risk everything—and trust in love to not leave them empty handed.
The Sheriff Takes a Bride (Love in Old California 5)
When a surly sheriff butts heads with an unstoppable woman, sparks fly.
When an outlaw’s bullet ends his career—and almost takes his life—Sheriff Joaquin Obregon locks himself away from the rest of the world. But when a stubborn woman comes into his life, refusing to take no for an answer, he finds himself wanting to say yes…to her.
Mary Margaret McCallahan is proud of her skills as a nurse, but she’s never had a patient as difficult as this gruff, handsome sheriff. She’s going to bring him back into the world no matter how much he grumbles—or how attractive she finds him.
The battle lines are drawn, and only love can win.
The Gaucho’s Lady (Love in Old California 6)
After a self-imposed exile in Argentina, Juan Moreno is ready to return home to California, wiser, wearier, and a widower. But the night before his departure, a wealthy landowner’s daughter appears in his simple room with a gun and demands that he kidnap her.
Eliana Suarez never wanted to leave home; the pampas are deep in her blood. But when her cruel father insists she marry a man even crueler than he is, she must flee. Luckily for her, one of her father’s gauchos is leaving Argentina—and only if she can convince him to take her along, will she be saved.
Juan never could resist a lady’s desperate appeal and soon they’re racing to Buenos Aires, barely two steps ahead of their pursuers. They’ll have to deal with outlaws, anarchists, and her father’s fury in their flight to freedom and safety. But no matter how fast they run, they can never escape their growing attraction… and their own hearts.
The Hidalgo’s Wife (Love in Old California 7)
He wants a lady, not a temptation…
When Alejandro Vasquez sends for a wife from Mexico City, the glittering capital of New Spain, he imagines a lady of refinement and breeding—not an enchantress who tests his iron will. With secrets to protect, he’s determined to resist her allure and keep his carefully constructed life from falling to pieces.
The California frontier is nothing like home…
Josefa expects to find adventure and a long-awaited family to call her own when she agrees to marry Alejandro. But Alta California is shockingly unrefined—no society, no watercolors, no books. At least her husband is the perfect gentleman… and utterly distant and unapproachable, in and out of the bedroom. Josefa refuses to settle for anything less than the passionate union of her dreams, and she’ll do whatever it takes to set her husband’s heart free.
But secrets and danger lurk, threatening to tear their newly formed bonds apart. Will they cling to their safe illusions about what love should be or dare to seize a future beyond their wildest imaginings?