Gray's Good Samaritan

Gray's Good Samaritan

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

On an ordinary Saturday morning, Robin Cavanaugh's life takes a wild turn. A wounded man leaps into her car at a traffic light. He refuses to go to the hospital and after he reveals his real name, she realizes she knows him from church. When he swears he's one of the good guys, Robin abandons common sense to help him. As his condition worsens, she soon learns he's not really Spike McGee, a criminal but an undercover agent whose life is in danger. His brother, Jack, a doctor, pulls Gray through and soon, Robin is part of the action too. Their love grows under the unlikely conditions and when Gray heads home to visit his mother, Robin comes too. While there, Gray proposes and she accepts but a family tragedy brings them back to Tulsa. Everything hangs in the balance as Gray goes undercover as Spike one last time...if he survives, they can find their happily ever after.
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The Endurance of Moses Wilson

The Endurance of Moses Wilson

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Moses Wilson left Kentucky with a mission to save his brother, Boone, from the hangman's noose and succeeded just before all hope was lost. Almost five years later, he's made his home in Texas, working on the ranch where Boone is top hand. When he meets ranch owner Liam Rafferty's sister-in-law, he's smitten with her blonde beauty and sassy manner. Ranch life in the 1870s isn't easy, though. After enduring mishaps, including a fall from a horse and a sprained ankle, nearly freezing to death, and a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, he also has problems courting Mattie. Although she's willing, her prosperous German family isn't, and their efforts to force her into marriage with a wealthy banker cause trouble. Moses must endure much to have the life he wants on the ranch and marry the woman of his dreams.
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At Face Value

At Face Value

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

His little niece calls him "Uncle Beast" after her favorite fairytale. Marine veteran Nicholas Reilly, severely scarred from surviving a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, calls his isolated home "Beast's Lair". He's reclusive, suffers from PTSD, and has a lonely existence until he meets Maribel Barbier, who goes by Belle. He rescues her after her car slides off the road during an ice storm and brings her home. Unlike any other woman, Belle sees the man behind the scars. Their attraction is there from the first night and deepens as they realize this is something more than either one expected. He battles PTSD but with Belle at his side, Nicholas learns to live a little more each day. They have more to overcome together than his PTSD but he comes to believe what Belle tells him – scarred or not, it's just a face, it's not the man. Together, they seek a future and a life where looks don't matter at all.
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Huck's Legacy

Huck's Legacy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

He's an undercover DEA agent, trying to infiltrate The Diamondbacks, an infamous motorcycle club, in Hollywood. When Huck sees a beautiful woman who intrigues him, he wants her.Summer is on the run from an incident back in Nashville that put her in fear for her life. Working as a waitress in a diner near Hollywood Boulevard, Summer is drawn to the bad boy biker. Their mutual attraction fires a wild passion and shared nights but as the danger increases, passion turns to something deeper, something real. When he's outted as a Fed, he's about to be executed when Summer steps in to save him. Although he's seriously injured, they escape the Diamondbacks and leave Hollywood, but trouble follows them all the way back to his hometown in Mississippi. The stakes are high—life or death—and the chance for a happily ever is in jeopardy.
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The Widow's End

The Widow's End

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

When widow Katie Lafferty arrives at the Pythian House, a home for widows and orphans, she has little hope for the future. She soon learns the reality offers more grueling work than she could have imagined. One of the few bright spots in her daily drudgery is Latin Master Everett Brown at the school across the street. As Katie struggles to conform to the rules and settle into her new life, she looks forward to her chance meetings with Mr. Brown When she fails to meet the standards of the home, her future becomes even more uncertain. If she has a knight in shining armor, it's Everett Brown.
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The Legacy of Boone Wilson

The Legacy of Boone Wilson

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Boone Wilson, a Civil War veteran and cowboy, figures he'll die before the month is out after he was shot in the chest playing cards. His comrades talk the owner of the local saloon, the aptly named Out of Luck Saloon, to provide a bed that he can die in, and while the weather is warm enough, they carry him down to the porch each day for some air, wrapped up in blankets. That's where new schoolteacher Rachel Rose McGarrity first sees him. When she stops to see if she can offer any help, she has no idea what she's getting herself into, but she's taken with Boone and vows to keep him from dying if she can.That desire leads to the loss of her job as a schoolteacher because nursing a cowboy in a saloon isn't respectable. As the wound festers and his fever rises, Rachel remains determined to save his life with the help of his two friends and his fifteen-year-old brother.While his life hangs in the balance, there will be a reckoning for Rachel's actions, and if there is a...
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Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

They met during the holiday season and married in May. Jessica savored every moment of happiness with her beloved husband Johnny but their newlywed bliss is shattered when he's caught in a storm on the lake on the Fourth of July. First missing, then presumed dead, Johnny Devereaux appears to be gone and everyone mourns him except his wife. Jessica refuses to believe he could be dead and she steadfastly refuses to give up hope that he is alive and will return.As the months pass, each holiday is another reminder of his absence and it becomes harder to believe but she refuses to yield to despair. As his family, especially his brother Tad, struggles to accept Johnny's death, only his great-grandmother and bride hang onto their hope. Jessica comes to believe he'll return to her at Christmas so the holiday takes on new significance as she waits for tidings of comfort and joy.
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Slattery's Sin

Slattery's Sin

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Living in California, working undercover is still surreal for Louisiana native Pride Slattery. He stands out—because of his unusual name, his military service in Iraq, and even his disability. Although he's never quite adjusted to Los Angeles, he remains in place because he's lost any enthusiasm for the future. One day is just like another and he's schooled himself not to care. Things change, however, when he rescues a stolen purse for a beautiful woman, Sabetha Hill, who turns out to be from back home. He risks his heart for the first time in years as events propel him closer to an unexpected future. When he's billed as a hero at a traffic accident, Pride is unmasked as a federal agent and danger looms ahead for both him and his lady. Someone will live, someone will die, and whether or not there can be a happy ending rests in Pride's hands.
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The Marriage Cure

The Marriage Cure

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Half Cherokee, half Irish Johnny Devaney leaves Fort Gibson in the Indian Nations. The place is nothing more than a pest hole of disease and he hates that he has descended into living life as a filthy drunkard. He yearns for the woodlands and peaceful life he knew back in Tennessee and so he follows the rivers away from the fort into the Ozark country he recalls from the march through on the Trail of Tears.Widowed pioneer settler Sabetha Trahern struggles to eke out her existence from the rough and rocky Ozark hills. One day as she struggles to bring her single cow home, she meets a stranger who drives the cow back to her crude barn but then collapses, ill.She nurses Johnny Devaney, growing attached to him as he fights for his life against the deadly typhus fever he brought with him from Fort Gibson.The title, The Marriage Cure, is taken from an old Irish proverb that says the only cure for love is marriage.
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Will's Way

Will's Way

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

When Marine Will Nichols returned from Afghanistan with some serious scars, he retreated from almost everything and everyone. His late night radio talk show is the one place no one can judge him by his appearance but he lives lonely. One of his regular callers, however, Samantha Callahan, manages to catch both his fancy and affection. No matter how he feels, though, he refuses to meet her because he fears she’ll reject him. But stubborn Samantha doesn’t give up easily and cares enough to take a chance because where there’s Will, there’s a way.
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Byrd's Desire

Byrd's Desire

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

When Cajun gal Celia Lecompte leaves Louisiana for her cousin’s ranch in Oklahoma, she wants nothing more than to put her past behind her and plan for the future. She’s sworn off men so romance isn’t in the picture. When her cousin warns her to watch out for the Thunderbird, a mythical creature, she’s sure Angelique is joking until she catches a glimpse of something she can’t explain. One night while cooking up a pot of gumbo, a dark and mysterious man knocks on the door. He sweeps her into a sizzling kiss, and she shares her bed in mutual desire. Although she’s not sure who he is, she wants him in every way possible. Byrd has a secret, however, and when he reveals it, he makes a request. If she accepts it, her life and heart will be transformed forever.
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