Romance Galore!

I got onto a romance kick in the beginning of December. All of them are ones I've read before, but they are still some of my favorites. :)

 Morgan and Seth strike up a business deal marriage and move to New Mexico for one year so she can get her inheritance from her father. Could they perhaps fall in love in that year???

Pages: 440

 Vivian inherits a beach house from her great aunt on the west coast and begins renovations, but since the house is on the Historic Homes list, she has to get everything approved by the local librarian/archivist Clark. They butt heads from the beginning, but could that be hiding other feelings for each other?

Pages: 256

Lucy and Josh work right next to each other and play the hating game all day long. But there is a fine line between hate and love.

Pages: 387

Darcy is a no nonsense woman who likes to run away from her problems. But when her old childhood friend comes by to help her with a project, she can't decide whether to stay or go.

Pages: 368

The Dempsey sisters, daughters of a successful con artist, come to a quiet town named Temptation to film a movie with a townie turned Hollywood actress. Sophie Dempsey soon meets the towns mayor Phin Tucker, and begins a short love affair that changes her world.

Pages: 416

Chole gets cold feet and runs out on her wedding to a man she doesn't love, and begins a new life running a pit bull sanctuary. She gets the help of the local vet and the vet's cute son Lucas in more ways than one.

Pages: 272

"Across the Plains in '49" by Reuben Cole Shaw, edited by Milo Milton Quaife

Originally a series of articles published in a small town newspaper in 1895, this book contains the recollections of Shaw, a Bostonian who makes his way to California to find his fortune in gold.  The book was edited and printed in 1966 with a long historical introduction and many footnotes by Quaife.  It seems that Cole wrote of his adventures from memory nearly 50 years after they happened, and Quaife points out his many mistakes.  That doesn't detract much from the author's descriptions of crossing the country on foot and horseback from Independence, MO, to Sacramento, CA.  He was quite taken with the beauty as well as the harshness of the many different types of geography he encountered.  His group met up with Native Americans a number of times, and his description of them are interesting.  174 pages.