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The Judgmental Bridegroom

kd-tk-control Books, Western
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Judgmental Bridegroom cover artLucy Stoner has no idea who she is — or how she ended up fighting for her life in the Brazos River.

Gavin Asheland pulls her from the raging water, but the last thing he needs is a woman who can’t remember her own name. Betrayed by the woman he loved, Ashe learned the hard way that trusting a woman can destroy everything a man holds dear.

With nowhere else to go, Lucy joins Ashe’s cattle drive to Kansas, hoping she will recover her lost memories. But the longer she stays, the more she finds herself falling for the rugged cattleman and his little girl. If only she knew whether she left a husband and children behind.

Ashe fights his growing feelings for the tiny redheaded woman who is slowly tearing down the carefully erected walls around his heart. Then Lucy calls him by another man’s name.

As danger, heartbreak, and old wounds threaten to pull them apart, Lucy and Ashe must face the judgments they have allowed to shape their lives.

Can love survive when judgment stands in the way? And can two wounded hearts learn to trust again through God’s grace?

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The Vengeful Bride

kd-tk-control Books, Western
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Vengeful Bride cover artShe spent eight years away at boarding school, now, Lisa Tindal is coming home to the Rocking M Ranch carrying a secret vow in her heart. Find the man who killed her father and make him pay.

The rugged Texas frontier has changed little since she left, but Lisa has changed in ways she never expected. Determined to stand on her own, she refuses to depend on anyone—not even the handsome rancher now overseeing her late guardian’s estate.

Trent Morgan has spent years burying a painful truth. The Rocking M gave him a second chance after a past filled with guilt, prison, and regret. But the moment Lisa steps off the train, the life he carefully rebuilt begins to unravel. Because Trent knows something Lisa doesn’t

He is the man responsible for her father’s death.

As danger rises across the prairie and cattle rustlers threaten the ranches around Sweet Water, Lisa and Trent are drawn together by circumstances neither can escape. But can love survive the truth when vengeance burns in Lisa’s heart?

The Vengeful Bride is a powerful Christian Western romance filled with redemption, faith, heartbreak, and the healing mercy of God.

Perfect for readers who love frontier romance, emotional faith journeys, and stories of forgiveness that linger long after the final page.

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His Grace Forgiven

kd-tk-control Books, Victorian
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His Grace Forgiven cover artworkBOOK ONE IN THE HAVEN HOUSE SERIES

An impoverished gentlewoman mistaken for a doxy. A jaded duke with an aversion to marriage. Can two broken souls find forgiveness and love among the shattered remnants of their pasts?

19th century England: Sexual slavery is abundant in the seedier areas of London. One woman vies to change this. Amidst her own private war of forgiveness and obedience to God, lives are changed and hope becomes a house of haven.

Mistaken for a doxy — ruined by an inebriated duke—sold by her only family. Miss Beth Darnley desires to forget the horror one fateful night made of her life. She’s always served God, but when her world is shattered, she wonders why her loving Father would allow such dreadfulness to befall her. The battle to forgive is a long journey and she struggles with it every time she is in His Grace’s presence.

Greyson Brennen, Duke of Briarcastle, is used to having things his way. Painful experience has made him cynical were women are concerned. They have their place and he’s always been a generous benefactor. Miss Elizabeth Darnley will fit perfectly in the position of his new mistress. He is doing her a favor. Her own house with a bevy of servants—clothing and jewels a queen would envy. It will be a far cry from the destitution she is used to. Pity she won’t yield.

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Saving the Mckinnon

kd-tk-control Books, Medieval
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Saving the McKinnon cover artworkIn 2018, Kaye Sinclair steps into an art gallery in Louisiana to see a portrait that has haunted her since her childhood and is thrown through time, landing in fourteenth-century Scotland. Who knew her nursing skills would save an entire Scottish clan.

Duncan McKinnon is left for dead on a medieval battlefield. Imagine his surprise, when on the wake of skyward-tossed prayer, an eerie green mist delivers a strawberry-haired angel to save his life.

Kaye thinks she’s completed the job God sent her to do when she prevents Duncan’s death, but she’s not sent back home. Instead she’s tossed into a deeper conflict that might just cost her life.

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Joy to the Earl

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Joy to the Earl cover artBOOK TWO IN THE HAVEN HOUSE SERIES

Betrayed by the man she loves and the woman she calls friend. Can a heartbroken mother forgive them and accept the gift of Joy God has given her?

Forced to face his past mistakes. Can a heartbroken spouse stay true to his God and his child, at the cost of the woman he loves?

Miss Abbigail Thorne has no use for the Earl of Waverly. It’s his fault she’s been carted off to London to learn how to be a lady. She didn’t mean for him to be tossed into a mud puddle.

Blissfully unaware that her life is about to change, and that maturity approaches with indescribable pain, she remains oblivious and carefree, she believes herself to be a strong godly woman, but when heartache arrives in waves that continue to knock her to her knees, will she trust in God and the love of her husband, or will she give it all up to hold onto her hurt?

Chase Montclair, Earl of Waverly rides the fence spiritually. He goes to St. George’s sporadically, but he imbibes in spirits a lot. And the lovely ladies need companionship. Who is he to deny them? That is, until he admits his love for the woman who exasperates him beyond belief. Before he makes the decision to surrender to God and Abbi, in a fit of anger he has one last fling. He didn’t know it would bring him his worst pain and his greatest Joy.

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Crowns of Destiny

kd-tk-control Books, Medieval
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Crowns of Destiny cover artIn 2019, Lucy Gordon, a fictional romance author, is on a research/vacation in Scotland. She is having the time of her life until her best friend disappears. During a harrowing search through an ancient castle, a family heirloom catapults her across time and into the path of a battle-weary fourteenth-century highlander.

In 1311 Adam MacDougall is returning home from a skirmish with the English when he comes upon a wee Elven-looking creature in the middle of the road. Suddenly, his routine existence is thrown out of balance. She speaks with the tongue of a Sassenach, but ’tis a different dialect than any he’s heard. And she travels aboot with na’ escort, wearing lad’s clothing. What’s a good Scot to do? Take her home with him, of course.

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Vengeance is Mine Saith Mi’lord

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Vengeance is Mine cover artBOOK THREE IN THE HAVEN HOUSE SERIES

Forced into a peer’s realm. Devastated by the death of his beloved sister. With vengeance burning a hole in his heart, will a distraught brother see the damage he’s causing in time to prevent the worst mistake of his life?

Kidnapped for a crime she didn’t commit. Ostracized from society. Can a broken debutante find the peace she craves at Haven House, or must she face her monsters over a ballroom—again?

Nicolas Rutherford vows revenge against the man who murdered his sister. When the coward escapes, Nick discovers a way to flush him out. Never mind that what he proposes goes against everything he believes in.

Lady Piper Connor faces society’s whispers with her head high. When Captain Rutherford, the new Marquess of Blackwell, forces her to spend the night in his townhouse, she wants to hide in shame—for a moment. Is it wrong to feel relief when one is cast out of society?

Squaring her shoulders, she steps into the morning wearing the same clothes she’d worn to a ball the previous evening. Let them stare.God loves her unconditionally, and that is enough. If only a certain marquess didn’t plague her thoughts.

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Their Scottish Destiny

kd-tk-control Books, Medieval
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Their Scottish Destiny cover artworkA Medieval Scottish Time Travel Novella

Four Women—One Fate

A collection of inspirational short stories by Tammy Kirby and Carole Lehr Johnson that intertwine to reveal the destinies of these modern women in fourteenth-century Scotland.

Saving the McKinnon
In 2018, Kaye Sinclair steps into an art gallery and lands in fourteenth-century Scotland. Who knew her nursing skills would save an entire Scottish clan?

A Rose in Time
Genealogist Rose Douglas travels with her best friend for a Scottish adventure—part research, part vacation. She discovers a photographic anomaly which sends her to a medieval castle tower where she touches a glowing ring and spirals through time to find herself in the midst of a bloody skirmish. Can she survive without her friend?

Crowns of Destiny
While on vacation in 2019, Lucy Gordon loses her best friend. In a harrowing search through an ancient castle, a family heirloom catapults her into the path of a fourteenth century highlander. Will finding love mean losing her friend forever?

Canvas in Time
In 2020, artist Sophie Fraser is running away from a tumultuous relationship. A near drowning in the River Orchy brings her in contact with a small party of traveling Scots. Forced to travel with them, she begins a journey that will be more than she bargained for. Her dependence on God is the only thing that will see her through.

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Hunt for Grace

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Hunt for Grace cover artBOOK FOUR IN THE HAVEN HOUSE SERIES

Duncan Connor, English viscount and newly appointed Earl of Huntington, is unworthy. Past indiscretions keep him in turmoil. His only peace is found in the bottom of a bottle of spirits where he can forget what he did—for a time.

Now, not only is he saddled with a Scottish earldom complete with a castle in the highlands, he has become sole guardian to a precocious five-year-old female. In a matter of minutes, he finds his new ward has an uncomfortable way of cutting to the truth with her honest observations. On top of this, the governess his sister hired to train the child just happens to be the one woman his demons will never let him forget.

Marisa Douglas has found freedom at Haven House, though she longs for a true home. But that’s a pipe dream her past will never allow because she is unworthy. When she is offered a job in Scotland as governess to an earl’s ward, she is ecstatic. She will be able to leave her past behind in England and make a life where no one knows what she has been.

Her dreams of anonymity disperse like the highland mists under bright sunshine when she meets her new employer. Duncan Connor is the very man who aided her despicable uncle in her downward spiral into the dregs of society.

Can two people find peace in the present when faced daily with their pasts?

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