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Season’s Regency Greetings: Two Christmas Novellas
First Published in 2002. “Let Nothing You Dismay”: In 1810 England, Cecilia Ambrose is an oddity at the Bath academy for young ladies where she teaches. Although gently raised, she is half-Egyptian, and at age twenty-eight believes she will never marry. With Christmas only days away, Cecilia has agreed to escort twelve-year-old Lucinda back to…
Read MoreFor This We Are Soldiers
From master storyteller Carla Kelly comes this collection of frontier tales that take you behind typical army lines and into the hearts of ordinary men and women who perform extraordinary acts of bravery. From handsome hospital stewards and dashing soldiers to courageous children and wives who will pull at your heartstrings, there’s something for everyone’s…
Read MoreOld West Collection (Timeless Romance Anthology)
Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Old West Collection. Readers will love this collection of six historical western novellas, all with one thing in common: Romance. In BREAK A LEG, a charming story by two-time Rita Award winner Carla Kelly, hospital steward Colm Callahan is ready to move away from…
Read MoreCarla Kelly’s Christmas Collection
Beloved romance writer Carla Kelly shares a treasured collection of wonderfully written stories of dashing war heroes and the sassy heroines who can’t help falling for them. From daring sea captains to genteel lords, there’s a little something for every heart’s fancy. Readers everywhere will adore these four regency romances—-now available together for the first…
Read MoreHere’s to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army
Carla Kelly wants to tell the truth, to discard myths about the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars. This collection of nine stories set in the era of the frontier army gives an entertaining and educational glimpse into a world not often explored in fiction. “Kathleen Flaherty’s Long Winter” weaves a tale of an Irish…
Read MoreComing Home for Christmas
Three soldiers, three generations, finding love at Christmas 1812: A Christmas in Paradise To save nurse Laura Ortiz from destitution, British naval surgeon Thomas Wilkie has made her an offer this Christmas—a marriage of convenience…. 1855: O Christmas Tree A generation later, it’s Thomas and Laura’s daughter, widowed lone mother Lilian, who’s working as a…
Read MoreIn Love and War
Beloved romance writer Carla Kelly shares a treasured collection of wonderfully written stories of dashing war heroes and the sassy heroines who can’t help falling for them. From daring sea captains to genteel lords, there’s a little something for every heart’s fancy. Readers everywhere will adore these four regency romances—-now available together for the first…
Read MoreStop Me If You’ve Read This One: Prairie Lite
Carla Kelly is well known for her wit and humor as a novelist, but now you can also experience her best columns of “Prairie Lite.” Ranging from topics such as history and tradition to writing and family, this book gives an inside view of Carla’s thoughts and feelings about life in the Midwest. Fans will…
Read MoreA Regency Christmas, “Christmas Promise”
Scarlet Ribbons by Lyn Stone Captain Alexander Napier is battle scarred—from war and from life. For him, yuletide is just a reminder of all that he’s lost. Can enchanting Amalie Harlowe restore light into the festive season…and reignite the passion in his heart? Christmas Promise by Carla Kelly Now that peace has broken out, Captain Jeremiah Faulk…
Read MoreOn the Upper Missouri: The Journal of Rudolf Friedrich Kurz, 1851-52
In late 1846, Rudolph Friederich Kurz, a young and idealistic Swiss artist, came to the United States to study and paint American Indians. Because he also had to earn a living, he signed on with the Pierre Chouteau Jr. Company (commonly known as the American Fur Company) and traveled northward on the Missouri River to…
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