Ruth Ann Nordin

(Rated R)

When Mitch Grady goes to a saloon to take his wayward brother home, he finds that his brother’s horse isn’t the only thing being offered in a poker game.  Heather Curtiss’ brother has bet her as well.  Vowing an innocent woman won’t be forced to give up her virtue to a disreputable gambler, Mitch joins in the game of poker, and with luck, he wins and frees Heather.

Heather sees this as her chance to get away from her brother and appeals to Mitch’s kindness to marry her, offering to help him care for two children and his ailing mother.  He agrees and they start a life together.  But Heather’s brother hasn’t gone away.  And Mitch might find that being with her is going to take more than a poker game.



(Rated R)

What Boaz Grady wants more than anything else is to have his children living with him.  But in order to get them back, he needs to marry a woman who’ll be their mother.

Eva Connealy left Omaha, Nebraska to be a school teacher in Washington.  While in Montana, her stage coach is attacked, and the men decide to sell her.  While the men in Lewistown post bids for her, Boaz makes a wager of his own and wins the right to marry her.

Despite the shaky beginning, Boaz is sure she’ll adjust to her new life as his children’s mother.  But she wants to be more than a mother.  She also wants to be a wife and vows to figure out how to take their marriage of convenience into something much, much more.



(Rated R)

For as long as Patty Dixon can remember, she’s been in love with Greg Wilson.  The problem?  He doesn’t want to marry her.  In fact, he doesn’t want to marry anyone.  And all of her attempts to get his attention hasn’t worked.  Except, there’s one thing she hasn’t tried.

In a daring move, she stages a situation where he must rescue her.  Her ploy works, and she finally has the chance to show him that having a wife is just what he needs.  But Greg is proving to be harder to impress than she thought and all the fancy meals, beautiful dresses, and seductive maneuvers haven’t worked at all.

Is there any way she can secure her place in his life or has she just lost her gamble?