by Mary Connealy
From Barbour Publishing
A New Series Begins
MONTANA MARRIAGE SERIES
 Left
pregnant and widowed in the unforgiving west, Cassie is forced into
an unwanted marriage to rancher Red Dawson.
No decent man could turn away from Cassie and leave her to the
rough men in Divide, Montana. Red Dawson can't turn his back on
the spoiled, snooty, beautiful woman. Now he's got himself a wife
he's sure God never intended. And when he informs her there'll be
no more silk dresses and she has to do some work around the ranch
he's surprised she immediately tries to help with everything. Too
bad she's a walking disaster. His ranch may not survive her efforts
to pitch in.
Now, instead of a spoiled wife he's got himself an overly obedient
and badly incompetent one, and poor Red is so charmed by her he
can't bear to scold. He's not much for bossing people around, anyway.
While Red tries to survive Cassie's help and Cassie tries to use
her own mind instead of meekly obeying for the first time in her
life, an obsessed man plots to make Cassie his own, something he
can't do as long as Red lives.
Montana Rose was actually inspired by Janette Oke's beautiful classic
novel Love Comes Softly. Of course, I'm not Janette Oke (unfortunately
for me) and my novel has taken an alarming turn to romantic comedy,
suspense and chaos.
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Book #2
THE
HUSBAND TREE
Belle Tanner buries
her third worthless husband and makes a vow over his shallow
grave. She’s learned her lesson. No more men.
Silas Harden just lost his second ranch because of a woman.
The first deserted him when times got tough. Now he’s
had to quit the whole state of New Mexico to avoid a trumped-up
shotgun wedding and the noose of matrimony. He’s learned
his lesson. No more women.
Belle needs hired hands to move a cattle herd late in the
season and there’s no one around but seemingly aimless
Silas. She hires him reluctantly.
Silas signed on, glad for the work, though worried about a
woman doing such a thing as hiring drovers, only to find out
he’s the lone man going with five woman, including a
baby still in diapers. After the cattle drive is over, he
might as well shoot himself to speed up the process of being
embarrassed to death.
A fast approaching winter.
The toughest lady rancher you’ve ever seen.
A cynical cowboy who has to convince five women he’s
right for their ma. . .and then convince himself.
And one thousand head of the crankiest cattle who have ever
been punched across the backbone of the Rockies.
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From Barbour Publishing
 Elijah
Walker's lost his father at the hands of a deceitful woman. Citified
Annette Talbot is on the run from something but all Elijah knows
is she's lying. Annette will choose death over betraying her faith,
but she may be forced into choices more horrible than death. Walker
steps in to protect her despite her secrets, but he will never trust
her with his heart.
As danger draws near and Christmas approaches, they get one special
chance to heal old heartbreaks and follow their own star.
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3 BOOK COZY MYSTERY SERIES
from Heartsong Presents
Mysteries
Coming in June 2009
NOSY IN NEBRASKA
COZY MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY
containing
 Of
Mice and Murder
Pride and Pestilence
The Miceman Cometh
OF MICE...AND MURDER
November 2008
PRIDE AND PESTILENCE
Coming 2009
THE MICEMAN COMETH
Coming 2009
Maxie, the World's Largest (Stuffed) Field
Mouse, must come through time and again to thwart the criminals
in his peaceful-albeit mouse-obsessed-hometown of Melnik, Nebraska.
Carrie Evans, hates mice and loves the big city, so why has she
returned to her dinky hometown and taken up residence in an infested
house?
Museum curator Bonnie Simpson is attacked while at work in the proud
home of Maxie. Can she believe the guy's claim to have never before
seen-let alone murdered-the person in Bonnie's storeroom?
Attorney Tyler Simpson thinks he's found a home in Melnik, but will
he be run out of town when he's forced to defend the town's nemesis
as her court-appointed attorney?
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From Barbour Publishing
LASSOED IN
TEXAS SERIES
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PETTICOAT
RANCH
February 2007
International Readers Choice Contest
Finalist
Long Historical Fiction Category
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 Sophie
Edwards’ life is one long struggle for survival, and, more importantly,
the survival of her four daughters. She wants to avenge her husband’s
murder, but she has no idea how to do it. And as if she hasn't got
enough to do, now a wounded man is disrupting her family’s lonely
life.
Clay McClellen left an idyllic, all-male world in the mountains.
But, after plunging headfirst over a cliff, Clay finds himself at
the mercy of a widow and her four girls.
A suspenseful romantic comedy about a mountain man trapped in a
pretty, sweet smelling, confusing all-girl world.
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 Let
yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace
Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who,
in an attempt to escape the clutches of a relentless pursuer, runs
smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's - widower Daniel
Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons. When a marriage is forced
upon this hapless pair - two people who couldn't dislike each other
more - an avalanche isn't the only potential danger lurking amid
the shadows of Calico Canyon. Will they make it out alive? Or end
up killing each other in the process?
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rancher runs head-on into the new school marm, who believes he's
made slave labor out of eight orphaned children.
Grant Cooper crowds too many orphans into his rickety house, just
like Hannah Cartwright's cruel father. Grant's family of orphans
have been mistreated too many times by judgmental school teachers.
Now the new schoolmarm is the same except she's so pretty and she
isn't really bad to his children, it's Grant she can't stand.
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From Heartsong Presents
| ALASKA
BRIDES
August 2008
By Cathy Marie Hake, Mary Connealy
and Kathleen Y'Barbo
Contains Golden Days winner of
ACFWs Book of the Year contest as Best Short Historical
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 The
historic Alaskan frontier makes a wonderful setting for romantic
adventures. Trek into the wilds alongside three women who have strong
faith, determination, and no need for a husband. Can they surrender
their independent hearts when love comes to call in the form of
a friendly neighbor, a grieving widower, and a secretive gold miner?
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DAYS
February 2007
 Amy
Simons is saving God for when she really needs him. Until then,
she’ll manage on her own. After a mishap on a bustling Seattle street
nearly kills her, Amy is going home to Alaska.
Braden Rafferty, devastated by the loss
of his wife and child, needs to get away from his home. He failed
his wife and, as he sees it, that makes him a failure to God. His
brother’s new life in Alaska lures him north in the midst of the
Klondike Gold Rush.
A chance encounter on the trip opens recent
wounds for both. Amy, frail from her recent injuries, reminds Braden
too much of his fragile wife. Amy’s independence is crushed when
she has to accept Braden’s help getting home, and she vows that
as soon as her strength returns, she won’t need anybody. But when
Amy finds out she has no home to go to, Braden must step in and
take her to his brother’s.
After Amy has another near death experience,
she begins to wonder if her accidents aren’t accidental at all.
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SOUTH
DAKOTA WEDDINGS
BUFFALO GAL
October, 2008
Book #1 in the South Dakota Weddings Series
from Heartsong Presents
 They'll
never see eye-to-eye.
Buffy Lange has spent her life learning about, caring for, and protecting
buffalo. She's landed the job of her dreams, managing a huge buffalo
ranch in South Dakota. With stars in her eyes, she imagines all
of the Midwest given over to free-ranging buffalo. To her, buffalo
embody beauty, majesty, and strength.
To Wyatt Shaw, however, the buffalo are a constant threat. Wyatt's
ranch adjoins the Buffalo Commons and he watches in trepidation
as its owner expands and rides roughshod over the local ranchers.
Buffalo are wild, untameable, and dangerous. They present a hazard
to man and beast.
When disaster strikes, Wyatt's worst fears are realized and Buffy can do nothing but clean up the mess. With one determined to rid the area of buffalo and the other determined to see them flourish, the dust seldom settles around these two. Will they find a common ground or are they destined to forever stand alone?
CLUELESS COWBOY
November, 2008
Book #2 in the South Dakota Weddings Series
from Heartsong Presents
Emily Johannson discovers a cranky man living in a derelict house
in the woodland behind her ranch. When she orders him off, Jake
Hanson tells her he bought this wreck and is planning to live there.
He's filthy, starving, and furious that Emily found him. He wants
to be left alone. And she would if she didn't keep needing to save
his worthless life.
BOSSY BRIDEGROOM
December, 2008
Book #3 in the South Dakota Weddings Series
from Heartsong Presents
 Michael
Davidson was a tyrant for a husband, and Jeanie was born to be a
doormat.
They got along great.
Then Michael abandoned his submissive wife,
just another way to be a jerk.
Michael returns a Christian and wants to
heal their relationship. Jeanie is in possession of the first bit
of hard won self esteem of her life, and she doesn't believe for
a minute her cranky husband can change his ways.
They commit to building a healthy marriage but his new job as her boss slips them back into old habits.
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