It's 1896 on the Canadian prairies, and Betsy Tompkins wants to be a photographer. Western prairie women have two choices: marry, and be a wife, or stay single, and be a spinster.Betsy knows the spinster option is the only one for her. She's deaf, and hearing men live in a different world. Also, wives simply don't have careers—they cook, clean, and raise children.Sergeant James Macleod of the North West Mounted has a troubling secret.Leaving his native Scotland was a painful and life-changing choice, and he feels he can't go back. He's determined to make a new life for himself on the Canadian prairies.He'd like a wife and a family, but eligible women are scarce, and he's an educated man.He's just doing his job when he meets Betsy, but suddenly he sees his future in a whole new light. He wants her to be his bride.James must honour his commitment to keep the peace on the wild...

He seeks high risksNelson Gregory has everything a man could want--success, wealth, beautiful women--everything except the hope of a future. So there's no way he wants to get seriously involved.She faces risks dailyBut Dr. Portia Bailey, the emergency room physician who sees Nelson following an accident, doesn't agree. Her uncanny intuition tells her Nelson's fears are groundless.Can they beat the odds?That same intuition tells her Nelson might be more than just another E.R. case to her--if she can trust herself... If he can trust her.

EMERGENCY! Pulse: Normal Temperature: Normal Heart: Out of control! Pediatric nurse Hailey Bergstrom, a nurturing but plain woman, knows the score. For her there will be no romance, no marriage, no child of her own. And then a little boy badly in need of a warm, caring home appears on her ward, and social worker Roy Zedyck walks into her life. Suddenly Hailey's heart is out of control with love for both the child and Roy. Gentle Roy, who feels as deeply for Hailey as she does for him. And then chooses to deal Hailey's hopeful heart a blow that will send her reeling

NOW AND THEN, Book One From now to the can happen in an instant— But can Doctor Paige Randolph gifted obstetrician find happiness and fulfillment in a time, of savagery and war? One moment, she's dealing with life and death in a modern hospital, sadly mindful always of her own lost baby. The next, she's back in 1883 on the rugged Canadian prairie. It's a time of savagery, war, and primitive medicine. Dying in childbirth is the norm rather than the exception. Surgery is more often fatal than not. Obstetrics as a specialty has yet to be invented. And she has nothing, no adequate clothing, no instruments, no medical supplies--and no money. Surgeon Myles Baldwin of the North West Mounted believes at first that Paige is mentally deranged. It's only when he sees how adept she is medically that he's forced to reconsider her preposterous tale of coming from another time. Two vastly different doctors with a common goal— To provide the very best medical treatment possible to those patients they encounter. To do so, they're forced to put their differences aside and work together. But working together means falling in love. And Paige is determined to find a way back to her own time. Can she leave Myles behind, in spite of the feelings they share? Can she leave him behind, because of those same feelings? YESTERDAY’S GOLD, Book Two Hannah Gilmore is about to be married, to a member of one of Victoria, B.C.'s notable families. But first, she's promised to take her mother, Daisy, to Barkerville, historical site of a B.C. goldrush, to search out the resting place of an ancestor. But the trip becomes impossibly complicated when her mother invites her difficult friend, Elvira, along--and insists on bringing her incontinent dog. And then a bridge collapses— And suddenly Hannah and her irritating companions are in Barkerville. But it's 1868, the height of the Cariboo goldrush. They have to accept accommodation from a saloon keeper named Logan McGraw, a mysterious, handsome man who fought in the Americal Civil War, and who has a secret agenda for being in Barkerville. Hannah and her companions quickly learn that women have no rights in this time and place. But stubborn, intrepid, and imaginative, they set out to bring a semblance of woman's liberation to the primitive and harsh conditions, always hoping to return to their own time. Hanna was about to be married—But now she’s falling in Logan is accused of murder, which means he'll hang. Hannah needs to find a way to free him. But as with everything else, nothing goes according to plan in this western historical time travel. A DISTANT ECHO, Book Three A mountain slides across the small town of Frank, Alberta, trapping and killing the residents beneath a million tons of rock. Tom and Jackson, fortune hunters, watch the catastrophe in a movie--the disaster occurred over a hundred years ago. But suddenly, inexplicably the two adventurers are transported back in time. The town of Frank is intact, the disaster still a year ahead. Can they warn people about what's about to happen? What can they do if no one is prepared to believe them? They have no usable money, nowhere to stay--and they're thrown in jail, suspected of robbery. They're about to learn lessons involving kindness, generosity, and the power of love--but they're also about to encounter brutality, disbelief, poverty and frustration. The lives they had before are nothing more than a distant echo. Is there a way back? They have a plan, but it will mean leaving behind all those they've come to love and abandoning the town on the very night of the disaster. Love and money—Tom and Jackson much choose between the two.

Romance short story

Jordan had tried to love and support her husbandEven after he'd cleaned out the apartment and sold many of their belongings for drug money. But when, as the doctor on call in the E.R., she'd been forced to treat Garry's overdose, it had nearly killed her, too. Knowing she couldn't survive much more, she left him and Vancouver behind. She hoped only to find peace as the new resident G.P. in the remote First Nations village of Ahousaht.She never expected to meet someone as gentle and nurturing as native healer Silas Keefer, a man who understands Jordan's need to escape her past. He'd done the same thing himself years earlier.Their love is unexpected and right, but can Jordan and Silas have a future if they cannot heal the past?

SUMMARY: A Fated Future.The most exciting thing to happen to twenty-sixth-century scholar Sameh Smith was being teleported to the earth of the past. But her journey was not supposed to lead her to Adam Hawkins, a man who seared her soul while striving to uncover her every secret. Though she looked like an angel, hard-bitten investigator Adam would not be swayed in his mission to find out who Sameh truly was. Hired to check into her past, he found Sameh didn't seem to have one! Yet he felt compelled to be part of her future. With her time in this world running short, they soon found a passion beyond limits. Would fate grant them more than mere moments together and allow them to decide their own destiny?

1903 CHRISTMAS IN A WESTERN COAL MINING TOWN CHRISTMAS EVE, SNOW, A NEW BABY COMING SOON, AND NO MONEY. Deep in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Anna lives with her husband, William, and her two young children, Sophie, 7, and Thomas, 5. The coal mine where William works isn't operating full time, and although they've made toys for Sophie and Thomas, Anna is frightened and sad, worried for her beloved family. It's snowing hard, and the world feels bleak and joyless. IT WOULD TAKE A MIRACLE TO MAKE THIS STORMY CHRISTMAS MERRY. Sometimes miracles can come in the most remarkable fashion.