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Ninety Days to Marry The Farmer

by Constance Ruth Clark

A Heartland Haven Romance

Burned out and divorced from her own ambition, Cassie Doyle signs a Heartland Haven contract and ships herself off to a farm she is wildly unqualified to run. The deal is simple: ninety days to marry her assigned match, or walk away empty-handed.

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Burned out and divorced from her own ambition, Cassie Doyle signs a Heartland Haven contract and ships herself off to a farm she is wildly unqualified to run. The deal is simple: ninety days to marry her assigned match, or walk away empty-handed. Armed with homesteading books and a closet full of pristine aprons, she figures the hard part will be dealing with the cows.

Garrett Vance is nothing like the husband Cassie pictured. He’s a quiet, hardworking farmer convinced a city girl could never truly want a man like him. While the tension between them builds to a breaking point, Cassie refuses to admit her growing feelings first—she needs to know Garrett is choosing her, not just honoring the contract. But when her old life in the city calls with an irresistible offer, Cassie must decide if she’s going to run when things get complicated, or finally root herself in the life she didn't know she wanted.

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Honesty & Other Disasters

by Sage Kennedy

The Sweetheart Inn, Book 2

In the aftermath of her grandmother's funeral, Rachel Jones is drowning in casseroles and color-coded grief. When Nick Stanton's impossibly competent executive assistant, Kevin Park, steps into the goat shed to help and ends up with her lips on his, Rachel expects the usual disappointment.

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In the aftermath of her grandmother's funeral, Rachel Jones is drowning in casseroles and color-coded grief.

When Nick Stanton's impossibly competent executive assistant, Kevin Park, steps into the goat shed to help and ends up with her lips on his, Rachel expects the usual disappointment.

Instead, Kevin kisses her like he's been thinking about it for months — calm, deliberate, devastating — then walks away. Because she's grieving. Because she's twenty. Because he refuses to be something she regrets.

Three months of silence. One seven-word note. And now Kevin is back at the Sweetheart Inn, determined to do this the right way — full honesty, no games, no secrets. The exact opposite of everything that happened the last time a Stanton Holdings man showed up in Cupid's Corner with something to hide.

But Rachel has built walls higher than the goat pen Kevin's constructing with his own hands. She's got city plans, a color-coded filing system for her feelings, and zero interest in falling for a man who already walked away once. Kevin has rules — he follows her lead, always. And the inn has secrets buried under David's bench that will force them both to choose: play it safe, or stay together on purpose.

She wants to leave. He keeps showing up. The rooster has opinions about both.

A slow-burn, age-gap romance with competence kink, goat-related comedy, a legacy secret that changes everything, and the kind of emotional heat that builds until you can't breathe. For readers who love devoted heroes who fall first and never waver, snarky heroines who organize their feelings into filing cabinets, and small-town inns where choosing to stay is its own kind of courage.

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Accidental Valentine

by Sage Kennedy

The Sweetheart Inn, Book 1

She's fighting to save her family's legacy. Thea Jones has poured everything into The Sweetheart Inn - her grandmother's legacy, her late grandfather's roses, her whole heart. When corporate sends word they're "reviewing the portfolio," she knows what that means: prove the inn's worth by Valentine's Day or lose everything.

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She's fighting to save her family's legacy.

Thea Jones has poured everything into The Sweetheart Inn - her grandmother's legacy, her late grandfather's roses, her whole heart. When corporate sends word they're "reviewing the portfolio," she knows what that means: prove the inn's worth by Valentine's Day or lose everything. The last thing she needs is to train another clueless seasonal hire who can't fold a fitted sheet to save his life. Even if he does have unfairly gracious hands. And shoulders. And a smile that makes her forget she swore off charming men forever.

He's hiding who he really is.

Nick Stanton didn't mean to lie. He came to Cupid Corner to assess his grandfather's property - a sentimental acquisition the board wants sold. But when the inn's gorgeous, stubborn manager mistakes him for the missing help, he makes a split-second choice: What if, just once, someone wanted him for who he is instead of what he owns? The problem is, every day he doesn't tell her the truth, he falls a little harder. And the woman teaching him to fold hospital corners has no idea she's training her own boss.

When the truth comes out, will love be enough?

As Valentine's Day approaches and the Sweethearts Dance draws near, Nick's secret becomes impossible to keep. When Thea discovers the man she's falling for owns every piece of her world, she'll have to decide: Is he just another powerful man who used her, or is he the one person who finally sees the real her - Tabitha, the girl who changed her name but never stopped believing in love?

ACCIDENTAL VALENTINE is a steamy small-town romance featuring a billionaire who's terrible at laundry but excellent at grand gestures, a heroine who guards her heart like a fortress, meddling cafe owners who know everything, a cat named Eros with impeccable taste, and a Valentine's Day you'll never forget.

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How Not to Marry a Duke

by Marjorie Adams

Once Upon a Legacy, Book 3

A shattered leg. Twenty-nine unsent letters. And the fraudulent betrothal contract standing in the way of a nine-year obsession. Lady Florinda Ashbourne has spent nine years trying to forget the Duke who kissed her in a stable, went to war, and never looked back.

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A shattered leg. Twenty-nine unsent letters. And the fraudulent betrothal contract standing in the way of a nine-year obsession.

Lady Florinda Ashbourne has spent nine years trying to forget the Duke who kissed her in a stable, went to war, and never looked back. Now twenty-six and firmly on the shelf, her quiet life is upended when a catastrophic riding accident leaves her with a broken leg, stranded at the country estate of Frederick Hartwell, the Duke of Carthedge.

The problem is, Frederick is weeks away from marrying another woman to satisfy a ruthless betrothal contract. But as he carries the injured Florinda up and down the fourteen stairs of his estate each day, the carefully constructed numbness he has maintained since the war shatters. To save the only woman he has ever loved, Frederick must uncover the dark secrets—and forged documents—of his future father-in-law before the engagement ball seals his fate forever.

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