Not a hero. Not a villain. Just a man afraid to risk his heart…and hers. The Happily Ever After Company, Book 1 Aengus Yates broke Suzannah Hennessy’s heart. Twice. As an eight-year-old, she entreated the handsome young rancher to wait. He laughingly rebuffed her and went on to marry his beautiful fiancée. When he abandoned his family years later, Suzannah should have felt justified. Instead, her heart broke all over again—with disillusionment that the man she loved could do such a thing. Now fully grown, Suzannah signs up along with her shy, self-conscious best friend to let a matchmaker find them husbands. Love may not be in her future, but there is adventure to be had in the Wild West. Aengus has done his best to make a fresh start, to banish old betrayals. When Suzannah appears at his door, it’s clear she’s no longer a lovesick child. Now her womanly curves make his heart pound with desire. Yet he dare not trust himself to love again, and he plans to tell her just that…as soon as she stops berating him long enough to let him get a word in edgewise, to tell her he’s just trying to live an honorable life—against some very dishonorable odds. Product Warnings Contains a love-soured heroine and a love-starved hero who’d like nothing better than to sweeten things up.

When Erica Lane's wealthy fiancé proves inattentive, she announces that she's accepted a match made by the Happily Ever After Co. But when the proud Boston beauty sets sail for the Caribbean to meet her new intended, she suddenly finds herself marooned on a far-flung tropical isle with the most arrogant, impossibly attractive man she's ever met. Daniel McCullum, a widowed sea captain with three young children, has made it clear that he has no intention of marrying a pampered society miss. It isn't long though before desire flames between them and Erica discovers what it is to truly love a man...with passion as deep as the wild, raging sea.

Return to the rousing 1860's, where Chicago's Happily Ever After Co. is doing a brisk business in mail-order brides, and three spirited young women will risk it all on a once-in-a-lifetime chance at love... HARD TO RESIST Though her father had made a huge success of the Happily Ever After Co., Noelle Braddock wasn't about to let him play matchmaker for her. So when he opened their home to a brash young war hero —- and a buckskin-clad mountain man no less —- Noelle was determined to do everything she could to show her disdain for Lieutenant Zachary Dane. But ignoring the ruggedly handsome sharpshooter wasn't as easy as she imagined, especially when his shameless seduction tested every ounce of her willpower. And yet when an accident of fate turned Noelle's world upside down, she began to see what Zack had known all along...that their love was truly meant to be.

A New Beginning Disillusioned by the tragedies of her childhood, Maggie Gleason never wants to marry. So when she hires a matchmaker, it's to find a teaching job, not a husband. Scenic Shasta Falls, California turns out to be the perfect match for an independent woman determined to flee Chicago and start a whole new life. The boarding house where she lives even has a magnificent library...if she can get past the mysterious recluse in the room next door. An Unexpected Love Bounty hunter Alex Coburn pays a premium for his privacy and finds the persistent new lodger a most unwelcome intruder. Gradually though, he begins to savor Maggie's company, as they spend intimate evenings together reading by the fire—and falling in love. But when anonymous, menacing notes threaten the woman he has come to treasure, Alex must face the ghosts of both Maggie's past and his own...or risk losing her forever.