Showing results for "Order, Order!" in Contemporary

I live in a world of scandals, secrets, and straight-up lies. Mafia princess? By title only. My life? A pawn in my brothers' twisted power games. Enemies circle like sharks while I suffocate in their shadows, trapped in a web I can't untangle. My future? Just another sacrifice on the altar of greed. Then he arrives. No knocking, no asking. He just breaks in and takes over. My space. My soul. My body. He becomes my escape. The man I claim as my fiancé. My shield from the darkness clawing at my sanity.

There'd been a Rivers at the helm of Argyle Community Hospital for six generations, and Harper Rivers was set to take her father's place whenever he decided to hang up his shingle. Unfortunately, the board of directors had other ideas - they accepted a buyout offer from a health-care conglomerate with plans to close the hospital's doors to the community that depended on it. And Presley Worth, a high-powered corporate financier, came to town to oversee the closure.

Three mountain men with one goal in mind: finding a wife! Includes The Mountain Man’s Muse, The Mountain Man’s Cure, and The Mountain Man’s North Star.

After Caroline Myers gets her heart broken, her beloved great-aunts send her on a spur-of-the-moment northern adventure, equipped with little more than a batch of their special spiked tea. But soon after hopping a plane to Gold River, Alaska, a still loopy Caroline takes part in an odd ceremony that ends with a kiss from her personal tour guide. The next thing she knows, she wakes up with a ring on her finger.

Staff Sergeant Austin Hall has a brilliant record in the Special Forces - except for one disastrous decision that cost his best friend's life. Now he's heading home to Chance Creek, Montana, where he'd like to spend the rest of his days in the obscurity of his family's ranch. Too bad Great Aunt Heloise won't hand the ranch over unless all four of the Hall brothers marry and one of them produces an heir within the year. Austin is too broken to marry for love, so he places an online ad for a fake wife. What could possibly go wrong?

If Gunnery Sergeant Zane Hall wants to save his family's ranch, he'll need to fix up the buildings, stock the spread with cattle - and find a wife. The first two are easy with the help of his brothers, but getting hitched is proving more difficult. When he meets mountaineer Kenna North through an online ad, she seems like the perfect fit - at least in her e-mails. She wants the same thing he does: a temporary marriage to secure an inheritance.

Ethan Cruz should be mending fences on his Montana ranch, but instead he's driving to the Chance Creek, Montana, airport - to pick up the bride he didn't know he had. This latest salvo in his ongoing practical joke battle with his best friend Rob Matheson has gone too far, and Ethan plans to send his "bride" right back home, then get busy plotting his revenge. One look at Autumn Leeds changes his mind, however. Perhaps he needs a bride, after all. A breathtakingly beautiful city bride.

The Obsidian Order demands not just survival but submission. Every trial, every secret unearthed, binds me deeper to this clandestine world where power is currency and loyalty is conditional. Yet beneath the surface, a rebellion simmers within me. And Delilah, my obsession, my bride, is the reason. I vowed to protect her, to fight for her. But can I defy the very Order that shaped me? For my little raptor, I'd take on the world. Because she is everything.

Mason Hall, Navy SEAL, knows all about difficult assignments, but his current mission is one for the record books. Not only must he find a wife - and get her pregnant - or forfeit the ranch his family has prized for generations, he must also convince his three brothers to marry, too - before the year is up. Who knew one city girl and three wayward brothers could put up such a fight?

Tormented by the knowledge that his father died thinking the worst of him, Colt Hall never meant to come home to Chance Creek. But with his brothers banding together to rebuild the family's old ranch, he's finding it hard to stay away. In accordance with the conditions for them to inherit the spread, Colt must soon marry. Too bad the only woman he wants is Heather Ward, the girl he walked away from years ago without saying good-bye.

Grady Stevens doesn't need love. He needs a partner. A practical, no-nonsense wife to keep his rugged life in order and care for his aging black sheepdog while he spends his days deep in the forest, working as a brooding, solitary lumberjack. Inspired by his best friend's successful mail-order bride story, Grady places an ad for his own bride. But what he gets is not what he expected.

Amelia Grant thrives on adventure, sharing her travel escapades with the world through her wildly popular blog. But when a mix-up leaves her stranded in Devil's Peak with the wrong suitcase—and zero clothes—her biggest story yet might be the mountain man she didn't see coming. Fox Miller is a grumpy, snarky mechanic with a past he prefers to keep locked away. As an ex-military loner, he's no stranger to isolation—and he likes it that way. The last thing he needs is a nosy, sweet-talking woman invading his loft and turning his quiet life into chaos.

When pampered heiress Layla Hastings flees her high-society wedding in a swirl of satin and scandal, the last thing she expects is to land on the doorstep of rugged, brooding rancher Cal Walker in Devil's Peak. Answering a mail-order bride ad was a desperate gamble, but for Layla, it's the only escape from her controlling father and a life she didn't choose.

Tessa moved to Devil's Peak for a fresh start, but instead, she got him, the loudest, grumpiest mountain man alive. Finn–and his mischievous dog—have been the bane of her existence since she moved into the cabin next door. But when Tessa answers a mail-order bride ad hoping to find a life partner after heartbreak, she's blindsided to discover that Finn is her "perfect match."

Bane: Naked surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief, and a fraud. Last I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living. Which is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all - looking humbled. Thing is, I’m on a boycott. Literally - cut boys from my life. Permanently. Problem is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in his sweet, perfect lies.

Evan Eaton spent three years waiting for the right Mail Order Bride to bite the hook. Time was not on his side and the note was coming due. He had to marry and produce an heir. Believing he’d finally found the perfect bride in Claudia, but as the months turned to days and the days turned into hours, he soon realized his bride to be was not going to show.

— Здравствуйте, меня зовут Карина, и я жду от вас ребёнка, - на одном дыхании выпаливает молодая девушка, минуту назад зашедшая в мой кабинет. — Какой ребёнок? - разглядываю посетительницу, видя её первый раз в жизни. - Вы, девушка, что-то путаете. Мы с вами даже не знакомы. Уверенность незнакомки и абсурдность ситуации раздражают. — Вы Тимур Ринатович? – мне протягивают какие-то бумаги, с осторожностью беру их в руки. По первым строчкам понимаю, что моя жена воспользовалась услугами суррогатной матери. Только вот мы недавно развелись, а девушка передо мной вот-вот должна родить.

Running from a haunting past that clings to her like a shadow, Doc. Erin arrives in the picturesque town of Clover Springs with hopes of finding solace in its peaceful embrace. Little does she know, her short stay is destined to be far more transformative than she could ever imagine. As her heart wrestles with the pain of yesterday, she finds herself drawn into the lives of the town's residents, each struggling with their own demons.

When Alaskan native Sullivan orders a bride, he’s not planning on falling in love. A recent transplant to his childhood home in the middle of nowhere, he wants company. More than company - he wants a woman in his bed every damn day. Sully’s financially independent because of his own hard work and determination. His mail-order bride has other ideas.

Keeping secrets comes naturally to him ... but will it ruin his chance at love? Liam Castle knows the secrets of everyone in Bunyip Bay. As the owner of the pub, he's heard it all - from marriage proposals and farming disasters to family rifts and everything in between. The locals love to...