Laural Merlington

Alaska in the late 1800s: Presumed dead, Miranda Colton finds herself in the care of a native Alaskan and English botanist Teddy Davenport, who's studying the Alaskan frontier. Miranda longs to find her friends and continue north, even as a friendship with Teddy blossoms. Then the menacing force from her past returns . . .

To save herself from an arranged marriage, Grace Hawkins forsakes her affluent upbringing and forges a daring plan. For Peter Colton, the Alaska gold rush is an opportunity to establish his fledgling shipping business--and to meet Grace, who has purchased passage north.

The exquisite niece of Lord Edward and Lady Charlotte Malory, Regina Ashton is outraged over her abduction by the arrogant, devilishly handsome Nicholas Eden'and is determined to make the rogue pay ... with his heart. A golden-haired seducer, Nicholas has been hardened by a painful secret in his past. And now that he has besmirched Reggie's good name, the hot-tempered lady has vowed to wed him. Her fiery beauty stirs Nicholas as no woman ever has'and...

Heartsick and desperate to leave her sorrows on England's shores, innocent Georgina Anderson seeks passage on the "gentleman's ship," Maiden Anne, disguised as a cabin boy. The captain, however, is no gentleman; he's the ex-pirate and irrepressible rake, James Malory. The black sheep of a proud, tempestuous family, Malory soon sees through Georgina's masquerade and is enchanted by the courageous, high-spirited lady he has forced into intimate servitude....

When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered workd, she is devastated. Her plans for the future seem distant and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own.

Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.

When responsible rancher John Timmons rescues "Bert" Farrar from being hanged as a horse thief, he takes the boy home to work off the debt. But what will John do when he finds out that Bert is really a girl? And will Ember Farrar repay his kindness by stealing his cattle---or his heart?