A decade ago, Araminta’s father foisted her off on the elderly county squire with her prize herding dog. The squire’s dead and she’s living on the forebearance of her insufferable step-son and his wife as an unpaid housekeeper and governess to their daughters in exchange for room and board. She’s been tasked with organizing the holiday party and when it ends in disaster because of food poisoning, an ornery barn cat and a crashing tree, she seeks solace in the barn.She falls asleep over a pile of puppies and when she wakes up she’s cradled in the arms of a local farmer. He’s a single father of rambunctious twin girls and a Crimean war hero. He’s inexorably drawn to the quiet woman who’s always standing in the shadows.

A Victorian era romance inspired by Grey's Anatomy and House... Frances lost her heart in the Crimea to Cormac Byrne, an Irish doctor. He disappeared during the melee following the last battle and she doubts she'll ever see him again. She's spent the last three years praying he's still alive. Imagine her shock when she accepts a teaching position at Florence Nightingale's new London hospital and finds herself face to face with him again.

Grinch vs. Cindy Lou; Scarred, reclusive war hero; Epistolary; Widow; Forced ProximityCece Wainwright married her childhood sweetheart and lost him at Balaclava six years ago. The only thing she has to remind her of him is the stack of letters he wrote her.And now there’s a second stack sitting beside it - the ones she wrote him. They arrived via post three weeks ago from some remote Scottish hamlet.She wants to know who sent them and why. Because she’s suspected all along that her husband didn’t pen those letters.Malcolm Lockhart fell in love with his best friend’s wife through her correspondence. And his friend was ecstatic when Malcolm volunteered to answer her letters.He kept the letters after the war. Until he couldn’t stand the sight of them because they reminded him of all the hopes and dreams he’d abandoned.Now she’s standing on his doorstep demanding answers he’s not ready to give.

Jess Wainwright loves her teaching position at the village school. Despite the occasional frog in her chair. What she doesn't love is the interfering school superintendent, Cadoc Morgan. His niece and nephew attend her school and he thinks that gives him the authority to make unannounced visits to her classroom for observation, and remove the microscope she obtained for science lessons. Jess and Cadoc are both firmly opposed to each other - until a reckless bargain exposes everything seething beneath the surface between them.