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The Christmas Lighthouse at Winterberry Cove

Twelve weeks before the auction, the state sent a man to inspect the lighthouse. Ruthie Alder has spent two and a half years writing letters about the keeper’s house her grandfather lived in for sixty-three years — and Caleb Nyström, who has spent nineteen years telling towns what they cannot save, has one sealed room on his list and every fact on his side. Behind four painted-over screws at the bottom of the tower, something has been waiting a long time.

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Ignored by My Billionaire Rancher Husband

In front of the whole county, her husband couldn’t answer a single question about her. Josie Hollister runs the volunteer ambulance in a Montana town of four hundred; Tate runs a hundred and eighteen thousand acres for his billionaire family and answers his father on the first ring. When she walks out of the fire hall supper and moves into the crew room at the ambulance barn, he has six weeks until Christmas to learn what his wife asked him for.

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The Cattleman’s Winter Bride

Lydia Kemp sold her boarding house on the first of December, and by the ninth of January she had told exactly one person. Ambrose Breck has eaten Sunday dinner at the foot of her table for two years and has never said why — and then the winter shuts everything: a boy with a fever, a houseful of stranded travelers, and a night in the schoolhouse with fourteen children.

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Courting the Amish Matchmaker

Ella Lambright has carried nine questions for the young men of Larkspur Prairie. Seven of them ended in weddings; she has never carried one for herself. When the new buggy maker asks her to find him a wife before Second Christmas, she says yes on one condition: he drives her three hundred boxes of Christmas candy all over the district.

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The Single Dad’s Snow Day at Merriwick

Polly Bascom drives the school bus. Graham Varney decides, at a quarter to five on every storm morning, whether there is school — and on New Year’s Eve his plow buried her sleigh. When his mother breaks her wrist, Polly comes home with his seven-year-old daughter, and the snow days start to become theirs.

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Alaskan Christmas Mayday

On a December noon with four hours of daylight, bush pilot Josie Kjelstad lands at Wisdom Creek to close up a dead man’s cabin. Fourteen minutes after she takes off again, her engine quits — and Sergeant Micah Varner, who ruled the old prospector’s death an accident, climbs into a rival’s Cessna to find her before dark comes down at 2:34.

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Claire Wexford

Coastal New England — harbors, Christmas letters, and towns worth staying for.

Clean small-town romance set on the New England coast, for readers who love a slow burn, a real place, and a community that shows up when it counts. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.

The Christmas Rivals at Bellwether Crossing

Meg Callender has until Christmas to make forty-eight thousand dollars, or her great-aunt’s store gets sold. For sixty-four years Callender’s has been at war with the Aldriches across the green — so when the Christmas committee sends the ballot jar to Luke Aldrich’s restaurant, Meg declares war. Luke never even wanted the jar.

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The Christmas Stand-In at Bellwether Crossing

Bea Lavoie told her whole family she was engaged. Then she had to go and tell the groom. Theo Brandt builds bridges and leaves every town the morning after the last peg goes in — but the Lavoies have an old barn with a good floor, and he agrees to twelve days as her fiancé.

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The Boatyard at Thimble Harbor

When Alden Rusk dies, the boatyard he ran for fifty-one years goes to six women in six equal shares — and it cannot be sold unless every one of them agrees. Nell has never owned anything in her life. Now she owns a sixth of the largest thing in town, and the surveyor sent to put a number on it is polite, thorough, and right.

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Second Tide at Thimble Harbor

Junie Vann kept Alden Rusk’s books for thirty years and never asked him a personal question. Now he has left her a sixth of the yard — and Emmett Pryor, who ran the mail boat for eighteen years and left without a word, is back and tying up at the town float as though three decades were a long weekend.

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The Christmas Homecoming at Merriwick

Frankie Ferrin closes stores for a living — forty-three of them so far. This Christmas she has come home to close her father’s: a New Hampshire tree farm that has sold balsam for seventy-five years. What she has no plan for is Reid Bascom, who runs the farm now, and who, ten years ago, told her to ask him again in a year.

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The Single Dad’s Snow Day at Merriwick

Polly Bascom drives the school bus. Graham Varney decides, at a quarter to five on every storm morning, whether there is school — and on New Year’s Eve his plow buried her sleigh. When his mother breaks her wrist, Polly comes home with his seven-year-old daughter, and the snow days start to become theirs.

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The Christmas Letters of Winterberry Cove

Maren came back to sell her grandmother’s inn before the first snow. Three days later the harbor master condemns her dock — and in the attic she finds forty-one Christmas letters, one a year, never mailed, all signed with a single letter: R.

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The Christmas Bakery at Winterberry Cove

The bank sent a man to close her bakery eighteen days before Christmas. He brought the paperwork himself, because he thought she deserved to hear it from a person. For four years Nell Pike has been paying her mother’s loan out of her own savings and telling the town the bakery is doing fine.

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The Christmas Lighthouse at Winterberry Cove

Twelve weeks before the auction, the state sent a man to inspect the lighthouse. Ruthie Alder has spent two and a half years writing letters about the keeper’s house her grandfather lived in for sixty-three years — and Caleb Nyström, who has spent nineteen years telling towns what they cannot save, has one sealed room on his list and every fact on his side. Behind four painted-over screws at the bottom of the tower, something has been waiting a long time.

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The Candle Works at Bayberry Harbor

Tess walked out on a corporate job and drove north to Bayberry Harbor, where the last real bayberry candle works in New England has stood locked on the wharf for twenty years. The town has voted to tear it down — she has twenty-three days to prove the room can still produce, and only one man has the key.

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Clean, faith-filled romantic suspense set on the shore of Lake Superior, for readers who want a real mystery, a slow burn, and a complete love story with a happy ending. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.

North Woods Christmas Rescue

Maddie Aho has carried the mail on the Ninemile for nine years, and she prays for every box on the route by number. On the first Saturday of December she leaves a package at the cabin of a fishing captain the whole town buried two years ago — and the bearded man who opens the door says “Wrong house.” Deputy Nate Halvorsen is the last man in Caribou Point who wants to believe her.

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Thin Ice Witness

Kit Lundeen never asks anybody for anything. Her search dog asks everybody for gloves. The night Kit and Moose find old Harold Strom alive on Basswood Lake, a fish house goes up in flames behind them — and in the ashes the new game warden finds lake trout that came out of Lake Superior in a net.

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Alaskan Christmas Mayday

On a December noon with four hours of daylight, bush pilot Josie Kjelstad lands at Wisdom Creek to close up a dead man’s cabin. Fourteen minutes after she takes off again, her engine quits — and Sergeant Micah Varner, who ruled the old prospector’s death an accident, climbs into a rival’s Cessna to find her before dark comes down at 2:34.

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Alaskan Polar Night Protector

At thirty-eight below on Hesper Summit, snowplow driver Rae Odell finds a pickup in the ditch at Mile 44 and a seven-year-old boy alone inside it. His father was driving him to his uncle, Trooper Wyatt Shepard, with proof that someone is cheating the fuel meters — and the sun has not touched Main Street since November.

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Clean Amish romance set in Larkspur Prairie, Indiana, for readers who love a slow burn, a hard winter, and a community that gathers when it counts. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.

Courting the Amish Matchmaker

Ella Lambright has carried nine questions for the young men of Larkspur Prairie. Seven of them ended in weddings; she has never carried one for herself. When the new buggy maker asks her to find him a wife before Second Christmas, she says yes on one condition: he drives her three hundred boxes of Christmas candy all over the district.

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The Amish Teacher’s Second Chance

On the first Monday of January, the roof of Larkspur Prairie School comes down with the teacher standing under it. The man who pulls Rosanna Eash out is Titus Lambright, whom she once refused to let answer, and the only man in the district who can raise the roof again before the fifteenth of February.

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Clean, faith-filled historical western romance set in the Montana of the 1880s, for readers who want a real winter, a slow burn, and a complete love story with a happy ending. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.

The Christmas Bride of Mercy Creek

Cora Bramwell came west on nine letters. The man waiting on the platform did not write a single one of them. Montana Territory, 1886: she will stay until Christmas, and twice a week, in the parlor with the door open, she will teach the rancher to write — and if she still wants to go on Christmas morning, he will buy her ticket home.

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The Cattleman’s Winter Bride

Lydia Kemp sold her boarding house on the first of December, and by the ninth of January she had told exactly one person. Ambrose Breck has eaten Sunday dinner at the foot of her table for two years and has never said why — and then the winter shuts everything: a boy with a fever, a houseful of stranded travelers, and a night in the schoolhouse with fourteen children.

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Hattie Vaughn

Montana ranches, marriages worth fighting for, and the work of showing up.

Clean western romance for readers who want real ranch work on the page, a slow burn, and a happily-ever-after earned one mile at a time. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.

Seven Years He Never Knew

Shay McCready shoes horses in Lodgepole, Wyoming, and for seven years she has kept her head down and her six-year-old son close. Then Boone Harlan, three-time world champion saddle bronc rider, climbs out of a pickup in his father’s yard and meets a left-handed little boy with his cowlick — and an envelope marked REFUSED.

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Four Years He Never Knew

Staff Sergeant Luke Brannigan carried Andie Brooks’s letter for four years and never opened it. Now he is back in Lodgepole as foreman of the Harlan Ranch — and in the back booth of the Wagon Wheel Café, one of two little girls holds a forkful of pancake out to him.

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The Wife He Didn’t Fight For

Laurel Kincaid filed for divorce so her husband would finally fight for her. Cole signed in two days and moved into the bunkhouse. Now the bank wants $168,500 by November, and the only way to raise it is the fall festival Laurel built from nothing — which they will have to run together, one last October.

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The Wife He Waited For

Dr. Ivy Kincaid comes home to Aspen Gap four days before Thanksgiving with divorce papers in the glove box and a job waiting in Kentucky in January. Wyatt never filed. Every Sunday since she left, he has started the pickup she left behind and let it run, so it would be ready.

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Neglected by My Billionaire Rancher Husband

Nora quietly saved her husband’s family ranch and never got a word of thanks. Now Wade has missed their anniversary, a photo of him with another woman has gone public, and Nora has filed for divorce — so he shows up at four-thirty in the morning to learn the work she carried alone.

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Forgotten by My Billionaire Rancher Husband

Lainey runs her late father’s sale barn; her husband Jesse signed the plan to tear it down without reading it. She walks out and files for separation — and that night Jesse finds forty-seven unplayed voicemails from his wife, and starts listening, one by one.

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Ignored by My Billionaire Rancher Husband

In front of the whole county, her husband couldn’t answer a single question about her. Josie Hollister runs the volunteer ambulance in a Montana town of four hundred; Tate runs a hundred and eighteen thousand acres for his billionaire family and answers his father on the first ring. When she walks out of the fire hall supper and moves into the crew room at the ambulance barn, he has six weeks until Christmas to learn what his wife asked him for.

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The Cattle Drive at Latigo Creek

Wren Callister came home to Montana to close the books on a dying cattle valley — not to find her late father’s ledger entry for a forty-one-mile trail drive that could still save it. She has twenty-six days, three gates, and a foreman who is right about everything and has never once been told so.

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Rebecca Hostetler

The Amish Widows of Kettle Creek — six widows, one Ohio district, and the land that holds them.

The Amish Brides of Sparrow Run

Rebecca Hostetler’s third Amish series — marriages of convenience, and the truths two people choose to tell each other.

The Amish Widow’s Bargain

Susanna has run her greenhouse and raised two daughters alone since she became a widow — and the bank wants four thousand dollars she doesn’t have. Gideon offers her a bargain in his own kitchen: his shop covers her note, and he won’t pretend to love her, because she’s been lied to enough.

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The Amish Bookkeeper’s Silence

Miriam steps off a bus with her fifteen-year-old sister and a four-line letter from a deacon following behind her — and has decided to say nothing about why. Eli keeps the ledger for eighty-one households and has no patience for people who know something and won’t say it.

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Coming Home to Cider Hollow

Rebecca Hostetler’s second Amish series — the ones who left, and the district that learns to be at the door when they come back.

The Amish Nurse’s Return

Sadie Zook left Cider Hollow to become a nurse. Eight years later, one letter brings her home: her father has fallen from the cider press platform, and the district’s only press is running without him.

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Her Amish Second Chance

Leah King left under the Bann at nineteen, on an Englisch boy’s empty promise. Eight years and a daughter later, she comes home to a district that has to decide whether it meant what it said — and a deacon’s son who has waited at her garden fence every evening since.

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The Amish Widows of Kettle Creek

In Kettle Creek a woman who buries her husband is expected to sell the land, move in with family, and stop asking for anything. These six do not. Each book is a complete story with its own happy ending. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.

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The Baby Left at Kettle Creek

The basket was still warm when Miriam Beiler found it on her porch step. Three years a widow, with a farm too big for one woman — and a newborn left at her door with no name and no note.

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The Englisch Child She Kept

A car stops at the bottom of the lane, a nine-year-old girl gets out with a garbage bag of clothes, and the car does not come back. The Amish school will not take her. The schoolteacher leaves a slate on the porch.

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The Widow and the Bishop’s Son

Everyone in Kettle Creek knows who Caleb Raber will marry. They just have not told him. Anna Mast is thirty-seven, has three sons, and stands at the gate without opening it — for fourteen Saturdays.

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The Land She Wouldn’t Sell

Thirty-five years ago Daniel Bontrager climbed out a window at nineteen and never came back. Now he is standing in the auction ring, and the first face he sees belongs to the woman who waited at the end of the lane.

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The Boy in the Snow at Kettle Creek

On Second Christmas morning, Sarah Lapp found a boy lying in the snow at the bottom of the lane. He has no coat, no name, and no words. The district has until spring to decide what happens to him.

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The Midwife of Kettle Creek

Hannah Schrock has delivered two hundred and thirty-one babies in this district. There is one night she has never told anybody about — and the man who was there has come back.

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Clementine Ashworth

The Buttered Crumb Mysteries — a bakery, a small Vermont town, and a body nobody saw coming.

Iris Calloway came home to Briar Hollow to run her grandmother’s bakery, not to work out who killed the man on the gazebo steps. No gore, no cynicism, and the culprit is always someone who was already in the room. Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.

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A Sprinkle of Suspicion

She accused him of stealing her recipe, in front of the whole festival. Four hours later Walter Kemp was dead on the gazebo steps — and every person who had watched them argue already had a theory.

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A Dash of Deception

Sabrina Holt never left a door open. That morning the cellar stood wide, the brand-new padlock hung undone, and Gideon Pratt lay at the bottom of the stairs. Briar Hollow decided it was an accident. Iris didn’t.

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A Bushel of Betrayal

“They found remains. Decades, not years.” Under six old apple trees, on a farm that had just changed hands — and a town that had been telling itself the wrong story for thirty-four years.

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Josephine Crane

Wyoming Territory — mail-order brides, fourteen days, and a town that watches from every porch.

Clean historical western romance, for readers who love a slow burn, a good man who does the wrong thing for the right reason, and a happily-ever-after that has to be earned. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.

A Bride for Thistle Bend

Clara crossed thirteen hundred miles for the man who wrote her eight months of letters — but he wasn’t the one waiting on the platform. Thomas cannot write; his partner Gideon can, and somewhere around the fourth letter, he stopped being able to stop.

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A Secret for Thistle Bend

Eliza steps off the train wearing her sister’s name — the letters Nathan fell in love with were signed by Hannah, and every word of them was hers. She has fourteen days at Larkin House to tell a good man the truth before the town decides for her.

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