marjorie baessler

Kooky Becky Ryan owes Deputy Nate Dalton, big time. He gallantly overlooked one of her rather innocent, but harum-scarum infractions, when he could have easily hauled her right off to jail. So, when Nate comes knocking on her door, she readily agrees to help him care for his infant niece…and play the role of his fake fiancée. Stoic Nate is clueless when it comes to babies and he’s grateful for Becky’s assistance, but the two of them mix like oil and water. Yet the longer the solemn lawman is around this fun-loving gal, the more Nate finds himself longing to propose a more permanent ...

Micah Walker is new to acting, but he's not new to his heartrate accelerating every time he sees Simone. They've tried a relationship three times, and he joined the Theater Group just to be near her. He and Simone audition for the play - a marriage scene, complete with a kiss - but it's not real, even if he's thought about what being married to her would be like. Then, his brother comes over with a marriage certificate....

Sadie Miller isn't expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. The straitlaced, impossibly hot deputy sheriff glares at her as if she's the same teenage hoodlum who fled town 10 years ago. But running from her demons has brought Sadie full circle, ready to make a commitment at last. Not to a man but to a bed-and-breakfast. On Garrett land. Okay, so her plan has a tiny flaw.

Lady Greer was a hellion from the moment she could walk. So when the young woman is forbidden by her father, the Earl of Sutherland, to sail, she steals a boat and rows it out into the firth anyway. But her relaxing jaunt turns into so much more when a storm ravages the chill waters and certain death is soon upon her. The last thing Roderick MacCulloch expects to find while out scouting his property is a soaked lass upon his shores. When she demands he take her back to her clan, he recognizes her as the mischievous lass who taunted him at a festival when they were children.