Award winning author
Joanna Emerson
Last Chance Brides
A Chance for Elinor
With hardly a penny to her name, actress and seamstress Elinor Simmons leaves Yorkshire, England, and heads to Last Chance, Nebraska, to meet up with her childhood friend, Mariah. Ezra David, the man who meets her in town and takes her to her friend, is so kind and shy and handsome, it's too bad that she has sworn off men forever. And she has moved so often, it's unlikely she will stay here for too long. It would take some magic tricks to convince her to stay anywhere, and as an amateur magician, she knows most of the tricks in the book.
As Ezra David Meir, an immigrant from Romania, works as a farmhand for Clinton Tyree in Last Chance, Nebraska, he searches for his brother, Reuven, who might be the wanted highway bandit in the area. Not knowing the language well in his new country, he is surprised to meet a patient and dangerously beautiful woman, who is also a friend to his employer's wife, who offers to teach him English. But Elinor may have moved more often than Ezra David has. and her vagabond heart may be harder to tame than he anticipated.
Last Chance Brides
A Chance for Mariah
Running for his life, young Clinton Volfbreight changes his name to Clinton Tyree and lands in Last Chance, Nebraska, where he sets up a farm and a life for himself and his mother, who has a mysterious illness and too many secrets. His mother contacts a friend of his from his old life, Clarissa Klein, who travels all the way from Pittsburgh, PA, in the hopes of marrying a man descended from royalty. Nothing more would propel Clarissa's prospects in high society than marrying Clinton.
The day that almost cost Mariah Roberts her life was the day she also fell in love. But she was so young back then. Now that she is older and he needs a nurse for his mother, she's found Clinton again and reintroduces herself. She knows that nursing is one of the skills she excels at, aside from working with metal. But will the sting of heartache drive Mariah away from Last Chance? It might be the only chance she has.
Mystic Brides
The Blacksmith’s Honor Book 1
1870
Mystic, CT
She’s skillful enough to pound an intricate wrought iron gate into shape and strong enough to install it herself, but does Willa Monroe have what it takes to forge a friendship like this in a country that still needs to heal?
Everything in his heart tells Miles it was a bad idea to come to Mystic, CT. Everything, until he sees that look in her eyes when she smiles. Is she only as strong as she looks, or is there more to this beautiful blacksmith than meets the eye?
Mystic Brides
The Fishwife’s Prize
Book 2
After her father's death, Chloe Monroe takes over her father's fishing boat and business.. She has to endure ridicule and scorn, being the only fishwife in a market of fishmongers. But that may be easier than returning the affections of one Jamie Harrison and his persistent attempts to win her heart.
James has to find a better way to support his mother and sisters and pay off his father's exorbitant debt than through the wages of a longshoreman. Since Chloe, the one person keeping him in Connecticut, has no plans to return his affections, and since the promise of pay is so much, James embarks on a three year whaling expedition. But is whaling really for him? A different skill altogether may steer his destiny.
Mystic Brides
The Mystic’s Fighter
Book 3
1875
Poet and lighthouse keeper, Phillis Monroe, deeply enjoys the solitude necessary to explore the spiritual and mystical side of life. She loves how her half sisters call her the mystic of Mystic, Connecticut. So why is she this eager to pursue the boxer from the Pequot reservation in Noank?
Benjamin Baker, known as Awahsohs to his tribe in Noank, and as Bear to nearly every boxer from New York to Boston, is caught in a fight beside his uncle’s church. His mother and uncle send him away to the Brotherton Movement in upstate New York. But he doesn’t become the man of the cloth that everyone hopes him to be. He leaves his four years of instruction to pursue the young woman whose poetry makes more sense to him than all the teachings of that seminary. But how could a mystic ever love a fighter?
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Mystic Brides
Cooking Up Safe Passage
Book 4
1876
Frederick Pierson's leaving for a cattle drive in a couple weeks, going from Texas to Montana, and will most likely stay there permanently.
Ruby Harrison came all the way from Mystic, Connecticut, to Denton, Texas, to marry Samuel, Frederick's brother's best friend. But it doesn't take an expert to see that the engagement was a disaster in the making.
Life gets complicated in North Texas under the searing heat of relentless sunshine and storms unlike any she's ever witnessed before. Complications increase as the cattle drive turns north. When nations battle for land rights in the frontier, Ruby might be Frederick's only hope for safe passage.
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Proxy Brides:
A Bride for Alyosha (#63)
Their proxy marriage begins with the concealment of way too many secrets. What will happen to their marriage when the truth comes tumbling into the light?
Alyosha has run from his old life in Russia to establish a homestead farm in Montana. Kazia, hoping to make a clean cut from past mistakes, accepts his offer of a proxy marriage. But what they have run from starts to find them, even in this Wild West frontier.