A Man With A Shameful Past - A Woman Forced From Her Home - Can Two Outcasts And An Orphan Build A New Life Together In Cooper's Ridge? Marie Wilson feels like the bad side of Cinderella living with her step-mother and step-sister who make her life miserable. When she is forced to leave home, a new life waits for her in Texas. Except it's not the life she imagines. Finding herself in a unique situation, she agrees to step in as a mail-order bride to help raise an orphan who would rather run away than have someone love him. Can she put her own dreams aside to make a new life with strangers? The new doctor, Owen Gorden, has a shameful past he's trying hard to come to terms with. When he orders a boy from the Orphan Train and a new mail-order bride for a marriage of convenience, the past seems to fade away. Or, has it? Will guilt cause him to spill the beans and ruin any chance with his new family? Outlaws & Orphans of Cooper's Ridge is a spin-off from Cyndi Raye's Sons of Nora White series. Cooper Murphy wore many badges in his outlaw days after the war. When he realizes he was becoming like the outlaws he chased, he returns home to change his life. Now a rough-speaking, gun toting man of God, he buys a plot of land and slowly builds the town of Cooper's Ridge. But there are rules and regulations to follow. Cooper's Ridge is for those who were once sinful and now have redeemed themselves, wanting to build a new life in a town that won't shame a man for his past behaviors. Can he keep peace and help build a town filled with character and redemption? This series is about the people who find this haven and make it their own

A Man Wanting To Change His Ways - A Woman Forced To Start Over - An Innocent Child Filled With Shenanigans! There’s a new sheriff in town and he has his eye on everything. Including the children’s agent stranded at the boarding house. He vows to keep Cooper’s Ridge free from riffraff. As a former bounty hunter and soldier, Sheriff Mac is ready to settle down, start a family and change his wandering ways. When a harrowed wife from a neighboring farm gives the orphan she ordered back to the children’s agent claiming the child is a spawn of the devil, Winnie has a decision to make. Without a home to go back to or a job, will Winnie accept Sheriff Mac’s offer of marriage of convenience or leave the first chance she gets? Outlaws & Orphans of Cooper's Ridge is a spin-off from Cyndi Raye's Sons of Nora White series. Who started this town? Cooper Murphy wore many badges in his outlaw days after the war. When he realizes he was becoming like the outlaws he chased, he returns home to change his life. Now a rough-speaking, gun toting man of God, he buys a plot of land and slowly builds the town of Cooper's Ridge. But there are rules and regulations to follow. Cooper's Ridge is for those who were once sinful and now have redeemed themselves, wanting to build a new life in a town that won't shame a man for his past behaviors. Can he keep peace and help build a town filled with honorable men even if sometimes the past shows up to haunt a man?

A Woman longing for more - A man content where he is - an unruly child everyone thinks is crazy - Can this thrown together group find their second chance in Cooper's Ridge? Cordie McAlister plans to leave Cooper's Ridge as soon as she heals from a gunshot wound. Well, two gunshot wounds. Her job as a Pinkerton Detective is on the line if she doesn't get back to work. After all, not everyone is happy that women are allowed to join the agency now. Along comes a child who causes so much trouble the town wants to have her institutionalized. Cordie knows she can calm down the feisty orphan and find out what's really going on since the child reminds her of herself so long ago. Joseph Bodhi is content building wooden furniture and living in the shadows in Cooper's Ridge. When a woman so sassy and bold comes along, his heartstrings begin to loosen. While Cordie finds solace in a runaway orphan with a free spirit, Joseph fights the bond the three are developing towards each other. Can three free spirits find the dream of a united family or will they run from a world where second chances can change their lives forever?

“Sam the Book Lady” has her own story to tell. You may have read about her in the prior stories. Did you know that she was once an orphan? She left the orphanage at eighteen with some cash they allotted her and a carpet bag with her belongings and began a journey to look for the man she thinks is her father in Cooper’s Ridge. Once she gets there, she doesn’t want him to know who she is yet, realizing all the good he us doing and she isn’t ready to reveal herself since he was recently married. So, she becomes the book lady, leasing a building and running her own book store. The only proof she has is a small piece of jewelery from her dead mother. If you haven’t read THE CHRISTMAS INN, Sam was in that story. What happens when she meets up with a hard-nosed man with an orphan who wants to learn to read and he doesn’t think the child needs books in her life? For Sam, she has to give that child a reading education. This is her story.

A Grumpy reformed outlaw who hates Christmas - A desperate woman trying to find homes for orphans before Christmas - A group of mischievous children who try to sabotage the holidays. Nick Winters wants to be left alone on the farm he just purchased. Except, a woman with four children in tow need a place to stay when they are dealt with bad news. Not only that, but Nick's Granny also moves in and stirs up some chaos in town. Can Nick get the holiday spirit back that he lost so long ago? Hope Holiday is on a mission to find four siblings a home by Christmas before returning to a new job in Philadelphia. When complications arise, she has to make some hard decisions, especially when she falls for Nick and when the children decide to become naughty elves so no one else will want them. A seriously adorable tale of finding home and family during the holiday. The Outlaws & Orphans of Cooper Ridge Series is a historical western romance filled with handsome, redeemed outlaws, women with a purpose, small town life and adorable orphans you can't resist.