3rd book in the "Magic Locket" series: Lisbeth marries Lord Thomas Kepley just as he is about to return to war. He is reported drowned, but a year and a half later, he reappears. Together they must find a way to salvage their marriage even though he does not believe her child is his.Note: This is the 3rd book in the Magic Locket Series and was originally published as a Signet Traditional Regency in 2001. The other 2 books in the series are: The Ambitious BaronetThe Widower's Folly"...fans of Regency romance are sure to enjoy this lively tale with its nonstop action and the author's usual charming narrative."--Romance Reviews Today"...Readers who have met some of these characters in the two previous "Magic Locket" novels will be pleased to meet some old friends. The story will captivate those encountering this enchanted token and these interesting characters for the first time. The mysterious locket, the allure of a more elegant age, and the sweet love story of THE SOLDIER'S BRIDE all work together to make this a book worth lingering over."--LDRS EBK Dazzl

Torn between love and duty... Letty Bancroft longs to be married but her father has other ideas – he wants his daughter to stay at home and help run his East End shop. Heartbroken, Letty must remain unwed while her sweetheart goes off to fight in France. But her love affair has had consequences that will see her more determined than ever to be a soldier’s bride...

A story about a young soldier named Joshua. Looking for his future companion, Joshua decided to give online dating a try. He meets a girl named Hollie, they are a perfect match. After six months of talking, Josh is heading home on his summer holidays. Joshua plans out the perfect date. The pair of lovers act on the kindling love of their online chats and are inseparable during his vacation. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. When Josh returns to the battlegrounds, Hollie's messaged begin to fade. Her interest seems to diminish and it scared Josh a great deal. When he finally gets a call from his lover, he realizes that something terrible and heart-breaking, magical and beautiful has happened all at once.

As WWII ration cards and battle scars become commonplace across America, it seems to Evelyn that even love is rationed out. When she finds a message from her late husband tucked inside a music box, Jim’s words have the power to change her life: Don't die with me.Words written out of love, long-lost but never forgotten.Grief stricken, Evelyn is unsure of how to honor his request, but she finds the courage to keep on living. Jim’s note urges her to give the music box away to unlock the secret within, and although it breaks her heart again, Evelyn trades the music box for a cradle to hold her infant son. Thus begins the decades-long journey of the music box, mending broken hearts, reuniting lost loves, and giving people the courage to heal themselves along the way. This romance crosses battlefields and time as the music box touches the lives of two soldiers, a broken father, a crippled child, a struggling farmer, and a woman once called the soldier's bride.The Soldier's Bride is the first in the Music Box Romance series

Alexandre Dumas, pre (French for "father," akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo (1845), The Three Musketeers (1844), and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848) were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. Though best known now as a novelist, He earned his first fame as a dramatist. His Henri III et sa Cour (1829) was the first of the great Romantic historical dramas produced on the Paris stage, preceding Victor Hugo's more famous Hernani (1830). He was also a wellknown travel writer, writing such books as From Paris to Cadiz (1847), and Travel Impressions: In Russia (1860). His other works include Twenty Years After (1845), The Two Dianas (1846), Queen Margot (1845), The Black Tulip (1850), The Wolf-Leader (1857), and The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (1869).

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? Ella needs to leave Hollywood-fast. It's bad enough another actress stole her fiance-on national television. Now she's ruined her comeback by decking her ex on a morning talk show. Pursued by paparazzi, Ella needs a new life, a new name and someplace to hide. When she reads Austin's ad for a stand-in wife, she knows she can act this part perfectly. To the rest of the residents of Chance Creek, they'll be a happily married couple. In private, they'll just be roommates. In a year when she'd old news and the Hall brothers secure the ranch, she and Austin will quietly divorce and she'll go on her way. Or will she? Austin's already finding it hard to remember his promise never to love again. Ella's finding it hard to keep her hands to herself. But when they're asked make a back-up baby, Ella realizes she may have stepped into a lifetime role. Can this pretend marriage go the distance?"