Posted February 25, 2021 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Forever (Grand Central Publishing), NetGalley, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments

A small-town judge meets her match in a rodeo star troublemaker, but soon they may both end up targets of the town’s matchmakers in this delightful and heartwarming tale of romance.
Darcy Jones Harper is thrilled to have finally shed her reputation as the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. The people of Sunshine Valley have to respect her now that she’s the new town judge. But when the bad boy who broke her heart back in high school shows up in her courtroom, she realizes maybe things haven’t changed so much after all . . . because her pulse still races at the sight of him.
Jason Petrie wants to make amends for the mistakes of his youth—starting with the woman he never stopped loving. Darcy may not believe that he really intends to quit the bull riding circuit and stick around this time but Jason vows—with the help of the matchmaking Widows Club—to pull out all the stops to convince her that they both deserve a second chance.
Titles in the Sunshine Valley series include – Can’t Hurry Love (which now includes a novella) – A Very Merry Match (which now includes a novella) – Dream A Little Dream –
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Tags: Contemporary Romance, Dream a Little Dream, Melinda Curtis, Sunshine Valley #3
Posted February 2, 2021 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Modern Western Romance, Owned, Series, Small Town Romance / 0 Comments
She’s looking for Mr. Right…
…but can he fill those boots?
Former rodeo queen Emily Clark loves her life in Second Chance, Idaho, but she’s through waiting for a cowboy to sweep her off her feet.
Just as she’s thinking of leaving town, she’s offered a job by newcomer Jonah Monroe, a city slicker from Hollywood.
Career-minded Jonah isn’t looking to commit—to romance or a ranch—but Emily’s determined to show him exactly what he’s missing…
Titles in The Mountain Monroes series include — The Secrets to My Success (prequel) – Kissed By The Country Doc – Snowed In With The Single Dad – Rescued by the Perfect Cowboy – Lassoed by the Would-Be Rancher – Enchanted by the Rodeo Queen – Charmed by the Cook’s Kids – The Littlest Cowgirls – Caught by the Cowboy Dad (June 2021) – A Cowgirl’s Secret –
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Tags: Enchanted by the Rodeo Queen, Harlequin Heartwarming, Melinda Curtis, romance, The Mountain Monroes #5
Posted October 27, 2020 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, NetGalley, Owned / 0 Comments
There’s no place like home, especially during Thanksgiving. After spending ten years as an officer and analyst with a special division in a federal cyber-investigation, Tripp Atsilla is on the brink of burnout. Then he meets Parker Rutledge. Two years ago she changed her name and moved to a small town, hoping to leave the damage her ex-husband caused behind. Someone’s found her; someone who wants to make her pay for her ex-husband’s crimes. But can she trust Tripp? Can she trust anyone?
Miranda Cox isn’t looking forward to heading home for Thanksgiving. She’d raved to everyone that Matthew was the one; now she has yet another failed relationship under her belt. Despite working as a translator in Ottawa, and loving traveling abroad, she’s thirty-four and still single. When Miranda arrives at Union Station in Toronto, she’s surprised to see Taz, her childhood friend. Years earlier, they’d drifted apart. Miranda was so hurt over the loss of their friendship. She’s also shocked to learn that he’s divorced. Miranda finds herself inviting him and his sick mother for Thanksgiving dinner at her parents’ place. It is finally their time?
Chef Drew Barnett has been hired to create the perfect Thanksgiving for a potential restaurant investor, but a power outage has him scrambling to find a working kitchen. Jilted bride and food critic Claire Rothchild is pet-sitting a friend’s St. Bernard named Snowflake. She wants to hibernate for the holidays, but it turns out the guest house she’s staying in has power when the main house does not. Feeling uncomfortable for invading the privacy of his potential investor’s guest, Drew doesn’t know what to make of a food critic in his kitchen, just as Claire doesn’t know how to stop interfering with his dishes and passing tidbits to a mooching pooch. Is this a recipe for a Dog-Gone Holiday? Or for love?
Born with a degenerative eye disease, photographer Kelsey Thomas knows two things: she will be legally blind within five years and her family wants to see her married and settled first. Then Kelsey’s boyfriend breaks up with her one week before she planned to introduce him to her family at her grandmother’s island commitment ceremony. At the resort bar, she meets Dr. Noah Lawson. He spends his life inside his lab developing cutting-edge techniques to slow the progression of vision loss. When he’s offered funding with strings—save the eyesight of the granddaughter of a wealthy investor—he’s reluctant to agree. Noah is smitten by Kelsey—so much so that he agrees to be her fake wedding date for the Thanksgiving holidays. Too late, he realizes her connection to his potential investor. Is this a set-up? Or fate?
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Tags: Anna J. Stewart, Anthology, Cari Lynn Webb, Contemporary Romance, Kayla Perrin, Melinda Curtis, Thankfully In Love
Posted August 29, 2020 by Marsha in Connection to another series, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Modern Western Romance, Multi-Author Series, Owned, Series / 0 Comments

A bride on the run
And a cowboy to show her the way home…
Lily Harrison’s wedding day isn’t quite what she imagined.
Not only does her fiancé not love her, but she’s also just discovered she’s a Blackwell—a member of Montana’s well-known ranching family.
Now Lily’s ditched her own wedding for a road trip with handsome cowboy Conner Hannah. But will Lily find her answers in Montana…or lose the cowboy she’s already begun falling for?
Titles in The Blackwell Sisters series include –Montana Welcome by Melinda Curtis – Montana Wishes by Amy Vastine – Montana Dreams by Anna J. Stewart – Montana Match by Carol Ross – Montana Wedding by Cari Lynn Webb
*this series, ‘The Blackwell Sisters‘ is either a spin-off or another in this particular world – depends on how you look at it. 🙂 Either way, it is connected to another series.
Here are the titles in the Return of the Blackwell Brothers multi-author series – The Rancher’s Twins by Carol Ross – The Rancher’s Rescue by Cari Lynn Webb – The Rancher’s Redemption by Melinda Curtis – The Rancher’s Fake Fiancee by Amy Vastine – The Rancher’s Homecoming by Anna J. Stewart
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Tags: connected to The Return of the Blackwell Brothers series, Harlequin Heartwarming, Melinda Curtis, Montana Welcome, romance, The Blackwell Sisters #1
Posted August 28, 2020 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Series / 0 Comments
If there’s a way to her heart…
…he’ll jump at the chance!
CEO Shane Monroe sticks out like a sore thumb in Second Chance, Idaho, where he’s investigating his grandfather’s connection to the town’s folklore of stolen treasure.
Feisty local Franny Clark ridicules his city-slicker ways but allows Shane to hunt for gold on her land…if he can help save her rodeo ranch.
Shane is captivated by Franny’s go-getting attitude, but what will it take for him to win her over?
Titles in The Mountain Monroes series include — The Secrets to My Success (prequel) – Kissed By The Country Doc – Snowed In With The Single Dad – Rescued by the Perfect Cowboy – Lassoed by the Would-Be Rancher – Enchanted by the Rodeo Queen – Charmed by the Cook’s Kids
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Tags: Harlequin Heartwarming, Lassoed by the Would-Be Rancher, Melinda Curtis, romance, The Mountain Monroes #4
Posted August 22, 2020 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Owned, Series / 0 Comments
She came to Second Chance
…he took a chance on love
Art curator Sophie Monroe is overwhelmed with starting a new business and raising four-year-old twins. Needing help, the divorced mom hires cowboy Zeke Roosevelt as her interim nanny!
French lessons and bookish pursuits give way to riding and roping. And scholarly Sophie falls hard for the strong, practical cowboy.
Until Zeke reveals a secret that may prevent this temporary posse from becoming a permanent family.
Titles in The Mountain Monroes series include — The Secrets to My Success (prequel) – Kissed By The Country Doc – Snowed In With The Single Dad – Rescued by the Perfect Cowboy – Lassoed by the Would-Be Rancher – Enchanted by the Rodeo Queen – Charmed by the Cook’s Kids
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Tags: Melinda Curtis, Rescued by the Perfect Cowboy, romance, The Mountain Monroes #3
Posted April 2, 2020 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments
You can’t rush romance but you can give it a nudge…
Head-over-heels in love, Lola Williams gave up everything to marry Randy, including a promising career in New York City. Now, after one year of marriage and one year of widowhood, Lola finds herself stranded in Sunshine, Colorado, reeling from the revelation that Randy had secrets she never could have imagined. She swears she’s done with love forever but the matchmaking ladies of the Sunshine Valley Widows Club have different plans…
Sheriff Drew Taylor also knows what it feels like to be unlucky in love. So when Lola comes to him for help uncovering Randy’s hidden life, Drew finds himself saying yes against his better judgment – especially with the Widows Club eyeing them both. Soon enough, Lola is upending Drew’s peaceful, predictable world…and he kind of likes it! But will this big-city girl ever give her heart to a small-town guy again?
Titles in the Sunshine Valley series include – The Christmas Wish (prequel #0.5) – Can’t Hurry Love – A Very Merry Match (September 2020) –
Includes the bonus novella “Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs” by Annie Rains!
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Tags: Can't Hurry Love, Melinda Curtis, romance, Sunshine Valley #1
Posted November 26, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments
Everyone in Sunshine Valley, Colorado, is in the Christmas spirit except for Everett Bollinger, the new town manager. With money tighter than ever, Everett has had to make some tough decisions about the local holiday celebration. And taking the blame has put him in a very un-festive mood.
Rosalie Reyes has big plans to open her new pet shop during the Christmas parade. But it seems like Everett is determined to sabotage the parade and her business too. With the help of the local matchmakers and a rambunctious Saint Bernard named Remy, Rosalie is about to unleash the town’s holiday cheer and make it a paws-itively amazing Christmas for all. Including a certain town manager who’s about to discover the reason for the season…is love.
Titles in the Sunshine Valley series include – The Christmas Wish – Can’t Hurry Love (March 2020) –
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Tags: Contemporary Romance, Melinda Curtis, Sunshine Valley #1, The Christmas Wish
Posted June 5, 2019 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Series / 0 Comments
Never trust a Monroe—
Especially if she steals your heart!
To the mayor and single dad Mitch Kincaid, Second Chance, Idaho, is something of a time capsule, and he wants to keep it that way.
His problem? Gorgeous pregnant redhead Laurel Monroe, who, along with her family, now owns the town.
But sometimes all it takes is an unexpected opportunity—and a snowstorm—to turn Mitch’s bad first impressions into a second chance at love!
Titles in The Mountain Monroes series include — The Secrets to My Success (prequel) – Kissed By The Country Doc – Snowed In With The Single Dad – Rescued by the Perfect Cowboy –
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Tags: Contemporary Romance, Melinda Curtis, Snowed In With The Single Dad, The Mountain Monroes #2
Posted March 20, 2019 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Series / 0 Comments
She came to sell a town…
But she found a home
Never in her wildest dreams could single mom Ella Monroe imagine co-inheriting the small town of Second Chance, Idaho–or falling for its curmudgeonly doctor, Noah Bishop.
Despite his rough edges and protests for isolation, Noah has her believing in love at first sight again.
But when she’s pressured to sell her stake, Ella is torn between family loyalty and following her heart.
Titles in The Mountain Monroes series include — The Secrets to My Success (prequel) – Kissed By The Country Doc – Snowed In With The Single Dad –
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Tags: Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Kissed by the Country Doc, Melinda Curtis, The Mountain Monroes #1
Posted March 20, 2019 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments
She turned him down.
Five years ago, Philadelphia attorney Daniel Cross was stuck in an elevator with Samantha Parker and fell in love. Five days after their rescue, Daniel asked Sam to marry him.
Sometimes a girl has to choose. And sometimes she can’t choose love.
Five years ago, reporter Samantha Parker was taking on the burden of caring for her sister, who’d been in a horrific car accident. She needed to move to New York to care for her and was in desperate need of a once-in-a-lifetime scoop to land a job once she arrived. She didn’t plan on asking Daniel’s wealthy, reclusive client Harlan Monroe for an interview. She didn’t plan on falling for Daniel either.
Can they learn to love again?
Now Harlan Monroe is dying and his lawyers are wrapping up all his loose ends. Sam’s editor smells a story. But in order to chase that lead down, Sam will need to rely on the initial secret to her success – Daniel.
Titles in The Mountain Monroes series include — The Secrets to My Success (prequel) – Kissed By The Country Doc – Snowed In With The Single Dad –
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Tags: Contemporary Romance, Melinda Curtis, The Mountain Monroes prequel #0.5, The Secrets to My Success