Oklahoma Lovers

What has happened to his once easy life? Widow Rachel Stevens is very happy with her job as a cook for the Lazy Sunset ranch where she is raising her son. However, the new foreman, Rusty McIntyre, is turning her life upside down. She could overlook how her son has begun to idolize Rusty, but she's having a heck of a time ignoring the flutters in her stomach every time the man smiles at her. But Rusty has problems of his own. His previously unknown fourteen year old daughter has just arrived to live with him. Used to always being on his own, now he has a young boy following him around imitating his every move, and a surly young lady glaring at him. Throw into the mix the tug he feels toward the ranch cook-who wants no part of him-and life is no longer as easy as it once was.

Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1906 History teacher Ellie Henderson, has been a thorn in High School Principal Max Colbert's side ever since he took over three months ago. When she's not flying by his office, late for her class, with books and papers jumbled in her arms, she's attending Suffragettes meetings against his orders. Because of her family connections, Max can't fire her, but he can certainly find someone to marry her, and keep her busy in the kitchen—and far away from his school. Max soon finds that what seemed like a good idea can turn into disaster when Miss Ellie Henderson is involved. The woman is a master at getting into trouble. With the Christmas season in full swing, he has many opportunities to introduce her to prospective husbands. However, he gets the uncomfortable feeling that no one is worthy of the minx...

1907 Guthrie, Oklahoma. What or who is Emily Cabot hiding from? Hunter Henderson is home from a ten-year stint with the Texas Rangers and wants to know. The Harvey House waitress has caught his eye and possibly his heart. But he knows she's hiding something and he won't stop until he uncovers her secrets . . . And then she disappears.

In the wilds of Colorado, one Christmas changes everything. In 1912, spirited Priscilla Cochran is determined to prove she's a capable, independent woman. Leaving her comfortable life in Oklahoma, she travels to rugged Dogtown, Colorado, to become the town's new schoolteacher-after assuring the hiring committee she's a "woman of mature years." Mitch Beaumont, Dogtown's hardworking councilman and widowed father, is weary of flighty young teachers who flee at the first sign of hardship. When twenty-year-old Priscilla steps off the stagecoach-and straight into the mud at his feet-he knows trouble has arrived wrapped in petticoats and big ideas. But as Christmas approaches and Priscilla wins over Dogtown's children-and Mitch's skeptical heart-sparks fly between the independent young teacher and the gruff gunsmith who vowed never to love again.