Kirsten Osbourne

The second of the Calendar triplets, May is a quiet, critter-loving woman who enjoys being around her family but has issues with strangers. When she goes to the doctor for yet another animal-related injury, she is surprised to see the grown-up version of the little boy she did everything with from her first day in kindergarten to her last day of high school.Adam Petrowski moved back to Cauldron Valley after medical school simply to be able to reconnect...

Julia Calendar, the seventh of the twelve Calendar sisters, feels as if she is just another month of the year. Her sisters all have amazing talents that set them apart, but there's nothing she really excels at. She watches as her six elder sisters fall in love and marry, and she knows she's expected to be next, but how could a man fall in love with her? She's just July.Brent Collings is a survivor. His wife Andrea died eighteen months before of breast...

November "Novel" Calendar is ready to start her real life. She's always lived at home, and she's not able to truly research the way she needs to, so she calls a matchmaker whose specialty is introducing people at the altar. She's convinced that a marriage of convenience is the only way for her to be truly happy. Novel has read enough romance novels to know she belongs with a tall, dark, and handsome man who is just waiting for her to complete his...

Jana Calendar loves her life working with special needs girls at her family's ranch. When her favorite child loses yet another foster home, she decides to be the one to get her out of the system and adopt her. Working closely with Aubrey's social worker is no hardship. When there is a glitch in her plans, the two of them work together quickly to find a solution.Brandon Ziegler has been a social worker since he left college, and little Aubrey has his...

Emma Saxton is a single mother whose life is going nowhere. All her time is spent earning enough money to put food on the table, and she feels as though that will never change. After speaking with a friend, she calls Dr. Lachele at Matchrimony and agrees to meet a man at the altar and marry him immediately. She's lonely, but her main concern is her daughter, Josie, who is her entire world. Tired of spending all his time working and knowing he needs...

Beverly Snow lived a charmed life until a car accident when she was eighteen. She lost her father and sister, and her mother became a quadriplegic all in one night. After giving up her own life for twenty years to care for her mother, she's at loose ends in the midst of her grief with her mother's passing. When her last promise to her mother turned into her agreeing to an arranged marriage to a stranger and moving to Alaska, she's not sure what to...

Gertrude Sanders is completely devoted to her family and her job as the librarian of the Nowhere, Texas library. When a man starts parking his book wagon outside the library, she makes it her business to force him to leave town. It doesn't take her long to discover that most of the people in town are happier to go to the book wagon than go to the library. Jed Thorn owns a traveling book wagon, and he's happy to keep traveling, not settling down anywhere....

Betty Meeks likes nothing more than to hide from the world with her nose in a good book, but on the Trail that's a little harder than usual. No longer wanting to be a burden on her sister and her family, Betty begins taking her meals with a friend who cooks for the bachelors in camp. When one of the men asks her to walk after supper, she decides to do so, no matter how difficult her shyness makes it for her.Dr. Malcolm Bentley is attracted to Betty...

Needing to escape her mother's world of constant dances to find her a husband, Ada Applebottom reaches out to a friend who helps people travel west as mail-order brides.All Ada wants from life is to be a farmer or rancher's wife. She knows that's the exact opposite of what her mother wants for her, and she can't let her mother force her into a life that she has no desire to live. With Elizabeth Tandy's help, she heads west to marry a rancher.Wade...

Opal's life had gotten much better since she'd left New York. Her twin had just married, and she was living in a house with thirteen other girls, with a crazy old lady as their new "mother." Florence Reid, a little girl Opal met in town, was just what Opal needed to stop worrying about being left behind and move on with her life. The little girl needed help, and Opal was just the woman for the job!Nathaniel Reid was a widower, doing what he could...