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The Matchmaker: Agatha Returns
Series · 10 books · 2022-2023

Books in series

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#1

A Match for Ethan

2022

“Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.” It appears that this time Agatha’s match isn’t going to work. Ethan and Claire can’t seem to find any common ground at all. They decide to end the marriage while they still are able. The town lawyer is out of the state due to a death in the family. Ethan and Claire need to travel to Hays and consult an attorney there. Hays is a 5-day journey on horseback. Traveling to Hays is in the rough. They must camp out, find their own food, and watch for danger. It seems they can’t wait to get there and start the proceedings. However, a snake bite, a handsome stranger, and God all work together to complicate things... or do they?
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#2

A Match for Wyatt

2022

Wyatt Delton has four sons under the age of nine. He decides it’s time to find a mother for his boys. Writing to Miss Agatha’s Matchmaking Service, he specifically asks for a wife without any children feeling four is enough. June Woods is a young widow with two-year-old twin girls. She needs to get away from her living circumstances and writes to Miss Agatha, asking for her help to find a husband who will accept her little girls. She’d prefer a man without children so they can have time to get to know each other without a house full of children. While still recovering from her stroke, Miss Agatha sees both young people love children and decides they would be a perfect match. June leaves her home in Wisconsin to meet her intended in Wyoming. When they discover they have six children between them, chaos ensues. Can two people find love when it’s difficult to find a few moments of peace and quiet in a household with six children?
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#3

A Match for Monty

2022

Aspen Lockwood spends her days helping her family on their ranch in Colorado. With five younger brothers and sisters, she runs herself ragged, taking care of them and doing anything her parents require of her. She longs to have a family and ranch of her own and responds to a matchmaker’s advertisement. When Aspen gets a letter stating Agatha finds a man who meets her criteria, excitement bubbles through her as she tells her mother the good news, only to have her hopes dashed and an ultimatum placed before her. Montgomery Underhill loves his life in the growing town of Great River, Montana Territory. Running a lumber mill and helping out the town, his days are filled to the brim, but coming home to an empty house every night wears on him. Monty finally writes to the matchmaker he’s heard so much about from people in town. When the matchmaker pairs him with a woman, he can hardly believe it. Monty’s not an easy person to love, and suddenly he finds himself tied to a lady he doesn’t know. Monty and Aspen are complete opposites. Is love even a possibility?
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#5

A Match for Lance

2022

Lance is running, but he's not quite sure whether it is toward or from! His friends talked him into consulting a matchmaker, but now a bride-to-be is on her way and he doesn't want to get married! What if he just doesn't meet the train? Will she go back home?
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#6

A Match for Korban

2023

He didn’t want a wife, but his girls needed a ma. She wanted to travel but was destitute. Eddy (Edwina) needs a rich man to share her love of adventure; children are not part of the deal. Korban desperately needs a mother for his five-year-old twin daughters. When a shocking mix-up has them married, sparks and tempers fly. Korban makes a deal with Eddy to try his way of life, promising she can leave if she’s still unhappy. As they grow to admire and respect each other, jealousy, pride and deception drive them apart, with neither admitting they had fallen in love. Eddy makes her decision; she’s leaving…
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#7

A Match for Marshall

2023

Marshall Walker has built his successful ranch over years of hard work. He hasn’t had time to seek a wife. But when his brother dies, leaving him the custody of two nieces, he decides now is the time – after all, he’s thirty-one years old. So, he contacts a noted matchmaking service to speed the process since the girls are on their way, and he needs a wife as soon as possible. Callie Jones grew up on a farm and knows the toil it takes to eke out a living. When her parents suggest that she leave home to allow more food and clothing for her eight younger siblings, she decides to become a mail-order bride, but she’s determined to marry a man who lives in town. She wants nothing more to do with farms or ranches, but the matchmaker makes a mistake.
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#8

A Match for Gabe

2023

A harsh, scar-faced, rancher, An impulsive, whimsical teacher go together like dandelions and daydreams. Well, she thinks so anyway... Carrie Ann Dixon’s impulsive nature has cost her a teaching position. Destitute, she agrees to seek the help of a matchmaker. She believes there’s a happily ever after within reach for everyone, and she’ll work hard to make her dream come true. Casting her past failures aside, she’s thrilled with the idea of moving west and requests a match with someone who embraces adventure and will be enthusiastic about building a romantic relationship. Gabe Russell, former solider and regimented rancher, isn’t looking for love. Instead, he needs a cook, housekeeper, and babysitter for his four younger siblings. Hence, his request to the matchmaker includes, “My desired match should be a no-nonsense, hard-working woman who knows the importance of following a schedule.
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#9

A Match for Bret

2023

When East and West meet, will there be fireworks or war? Breton John Sinclair is the son of a wealthy English aristocrat. To leave behind some troubles, Bret’s father sends him to Montana to oversee a ranch they own. Five years later, at the ripe old age of thirty, Father sends word that he is sending a mail-order bride to Bret and expects him to marry her so that their line will be secure. Father leaves a note. Consider it a challenge, and make me proud. Elizabeth Cornwall is a Texas girl used to riding the wild plains, but when her Indian mother dies, her English father sends her to relatives in Boston to be a servant girl. You can take the girl out of Texas, but not Texas out of the girl. Agatha studies her files of letters. “Cornwallis, where are you? Aha! Cornwall. There you are. Dear Elizabeth Cornwall. I am sending you your match. Bret Sinclair should make you a happy woman.” She smiled and stuffed the letter in the envelope and the return letter to Lord Cornwallis in England explaining she was sending Elizabeth Cornwallis to his son in Montana. Agatha sighed. “Another happy couple.”
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#10

A Match for Cord

2023

Cordell Atwood’s best friend and boss found a successful mail-order bride through a matchmaker, and Cord decides it’s time for him to marry since he’s started his own Texas horse ranch. With the forward town flirt casting her eyes from Marshall to him, he decides to write to the matchmaker as well. When Miss Moriah Williams arrives from Georgia, he’s never seen such a beautiful woman, but the moment he opens his mouth, she turns to ice. Moriah Williams is tired of being seen as just a beautiful object that men want to possess. Since her parents are pressuring her into a shallow marriage, she decides to go west as a mail-order bride. Men of the West were known to be real, practical men who appreciate hard work. But she barely gets out of the stagecoach before her intended is telling her how beautiful she is.
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#11

A Match for Billy

2023

The matchmaker had successfully paired two couples in Cottonwood Creek, Nevada, including Billy's best friend. He was confident she'd do the same for him. Yes sir, Billy was about as full of expectations as a poor, lonely cowpoke could be. Will Billy find the love he is searching for? Find out in this fun, light-hearted western romance from an author who adores a happily-ever-after. A Match for Billy is part of the multi-author series, The Matchmaker: Agatha Returns, part two of the Matchmaker's Mix-Up series. It can be read and enjoyed as a standalone story.

Authors

Joi Copeland
Joi Copeland
Author · 15 books
Joi Copeland is a wife, mom of three wonderful boys, and Christian novelist. Her husband and their three sons make their home in Galway, Ireland.
Krystal Anderson
Krystal Anderson
Author · 15 books

Reading has always been a passion of mine. I always wanted to become an author but it was a "someday" sort of goal. In 2017, I decided to make my dream a reality and began my first book. While I enjoy nearly all fiction, historical novels particularly fascinate me. My family and I live in Southern Utah, USA. I grew up on horseback and treasured any time I could spend riding through the red sands and sagebrush. My husband Randon and I have four children - including a set of twins. Nothing makes me happier than being a wife and mother.... but reading is a very close second!

Barbara Goss
Barbara Goss
Author · 45 books

AKA Barbara A. Masci & Barbara Masci-Goss From Kindle Author Page: Barbara Masci Goss is now just Barbara Goss. I live in Western New York State and have three grown sons, two step daughters and 10 grandchildren. I wrote my books in the early '90's and now that I'm retired I have obtained the book rights and am converting them to Kindle. That's exciting for me because I don't read paper books at all anymore. I have designed new covers with a new author name: Barbara Goss. My first two books "Captured Heart" and "Forbidden Legacy" went to a second printing in the mid '90's and the publisher added my name as Barbara Masci-Goss, but I now prefer to keep it short and sweet. From Author Website: I'm from Western New York, and I live with my husband and two cats, Mandy and Molly. I wrote these books in the early 1990's in paperback. My publishers were Fleming Revell and Baker Book House. Now, I have the rights and have put them out on E-Books so people can still enjoy them. My goal in writing these books is to provide clean but still romantic and adventurous novels for all ages. I've always felt that we needed more clean, wholesome books. When I wrote these books there were but a handful of Christian romance writers. Now, thankfully there are more. My biggest influence in writing was Grace Livingston Hill. Enjoy.

Janice Cole Hopkins
Author · 19 books

Janice Cole Hopkins grew up in rural Wilkes County, North Carolina, with an Appalachian heritage. She loved stories and learned to read when she was five. She graduated from Appalachian State University with degrees in history and reading, and she also taught school, wrote and published in magazines, and dreamed of someday publishing a historical novel. Janice has always attended church and has done short and long term mission work. All the profits from her books go to a scholarship fund for missionary children. Sown in Dark Soil is a stand alone novel and is the second book in her Appalachian Roots series. Facebook

Kimberly Grist
Kimberly Grist
Author · 21 books

Kimberly Grist is married to her high school sweetheart, Nelson, who is a pastor in Griffin, Georgia. She and her husband have three adult sons, one with Down syndrome, and she has a passion to encourage others in offering a special needs ministry in the church. Kim is also a grandmother and proud to be a child of the living God. She feels called to help and encourage others and to share experiences both good and bad in order to be the witness that God would have us to be. Kim has enjoyed writing since she was a young girl, however, began writing her first novel in 2017. Inspired by so many things life has to offer one of which includes her oldest son’s diagnosis of cancer she finds it especially gratifying to write a happy ending. “Suffering is, of course, is my least favorite thing. My objective is not to discuss my struggles specifically but to combine a love of history with biblical principles to produce a clean historical Christian romance, that shows how God uses adversity for our good in ways we may never expect.” Combining, History, Humor, and Romance with an emphasis on Faith, Friends and Good Clean Fun, Rebecca’s Hope, a work of fiction that reminds us how God can use adversity to strengthen us and draw us closer to Him and give us the desires of our heart in ways we may never expect. Fans of historical romance set in late 19th-century will enjoy this beautiful story of love and forgiveness. As the unfortunate circumstances of Rebecca's childhood are revealed, we discover a heroine who is both resilient and kind. Rebecca and Sam's love story will have readers rooting for their happy ending DO YOU ENJOY HISTORICAL WESTERN ROMANCES? The Pioneer Hearts Facebook group is a wonderful place for historical western romance authors, and readers discuss their favorite stories, recipes, and photos. Join the group http://www.facebook.com/groups/Pionee...

Lynne Lanning
Author · 4 books
Lynne Lanning has such an effortless way of evoking emotion from her readers. Her characters are so realistic that the reader can feel their pain during trials and their joy during triumphs. Reviews state: "...it's as if Mrs. Lanning lived through this herself." "Couldn't put it down..." "A real page turner." Lynne enjoys turning history and her love of God into enjoyable, relatable stories with practical life lessons that can benefit people today. Each story tells of true bonds of love and loyalty, mixed with tough times and decisions, with a twist of humor and sometimes devastation...the same is true in life. With a blend of her own family members and heritage along with lots of fiction, it's hard to tell where reality stops and fantasy begins.
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