Horse patrol captain Samuel Thatcher arrives just in time to save Abby. But she's simply another victim in a job he's come to despise. Tired of the dark side of humanity, he intends to buy land and retire. Abby pleads with him to escort her for the rest of her journey. He refuses--until she offers him something he desperately needs to achieve his goal. . .money. Delivering her safely will give him more than enough to buy property. So begins an impossible...

"I suppose I can't expect to keep you under lock and key. You're hardly a criminal. . .are you?"

It takes a criminal to catch one, and Nicholas Brentwood is just the man for the job. Reformed in more ways than one, the rough-around-the-edges Brentwood is a member of the Bow Street Runners, London's early nineteenth-century fledgling police force. There's none better than Brentwood at catching the felons who ravage the city's

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"Book 2 in Reader Favorite Michelle Griep's Charming Once Upon a Dickens Christmas Series. London, 1853: Innkeeper's daughter Mina Scott will do anything to escape the drudgery of her life, for there's nothing more mundane than serving customers day after day. Every minute she can, she reads and dreams of someday becoming a real lady--and catch the eye of William Barlow, a frequent guest at the inn. William is a gentleman's son, a charming but penniless...

"On the run from a brute of an aristocratic employer, Eleanor Morgan escapes from England to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. But freedom is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when she's forced to agree to an even harsher contract - marriage to a man she's never met." -- page [4] of cover.

Jessica Neale's faith is lost the day of her husband's death and with it her belief in love. In a journey to find peace, she encounters a gentle, green-eyed stranger who leads her to the ruins of the medieval castle Gallimore. On his way to battle, Colwyn Haukswyrth knight of Gallimore comes face to face with a storm the likes of which he' never seen and a woman in the midst of it who claims to live centuries in the future - and who's about to turn...

Ride into adventures alongside nine determined women of yesteryear whose acts of compassion and bravery attract male attention. Marcy helps displaced Indians. Emmy tends wounds at Fort Snelling. Ronnie stows away on a cattle drive. Daisy disguises herself as a Pony Express rider. Elinor becomes an abolitionist. Mae tames wild horses. Hannah gets help for accident victims. Lucy's curiosity unnerves criminals. Kate nurses soldiers on the battlefield....