Susannah Calloway has 31 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 26 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Married for Convenience Only.
The Groom's Wayward Half-Brother (Mail Order Brides of Missouri)
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Life in Rough Creek, Missouri, isn’t easy - especially if you’re the older brother of the most daring, troublemaking young man in town. Spencer Ludlow has spent his entire life trying to rein in his half-brother Markus, with only middling success. He’s willing enough to keep trying, but with the harvest season coming on, he’d like a little help. Besides, he’s got something more important to focus on - Tina Webber, a young lady from Boston, who has answered his advert for a Mail Order Bride. Tina became an orphan at a very young age, and the idea of marrying into a loving family is a dream come true. On the other hand, her rambunctious soon-to-be brother-in-law is a bit of a shock - and a bit of a challenge. If only he wasn’t so attentive to her, and if only her intended suitor would spend a little more time with her himself. Maybe then she wouldn’t be so confused.... When gambling debts, kidnapping, and the threat of disinheriting get thrown into the mix, Spencer and Tina have to decide exactly how committed they are to their relationship - and whether life together in Rough Creek is even a possibility.
©2020 Tica House Publishing LLC (P)2020 Tica House Publishing LLC
Christmas in Shallow Gorge
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Raising his three rambunctious children on a small farm in Shallow Gorge, Colorado, Billy Spence is at his wits’ end. It’s hard enough to eke out a living in such a rough area; it’s even harder caring for three little ones on his own. He’s desperate for a solution and would sure like to have one by Christmas.... After her last living relative succumbs to the Russian flu that cold December, Alice Fletcher wants to leave her nursing job in New York and settle somewhere new and fresh. But she doesn’t know where to even start. She’s desperate for an answer.... Billy’s advert for a mail-order bride by Christmas turns out to be just what both of them need - at least, that’s how it appears. But between Billy’s reluctance to let himself love again, Alice’s need for honesty, and a dastardly plot to take Billy’s farm from him by the New Year, things aren’t exactly going smoothly in Shallow Gorge. Only two things can bring these two people together when they’re as different as Billy and Alice: understanding and love.
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Her Sister's Missing Beau
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Lucas Kinkaid is sick of being pressured to marry his sister Marjorie’s choice for him - Florence Weston. Lucas doesn’t love Florence and doesn’t even want to get married, but the women in his life have teamed up against him. He’s had it. He’d rather marry a stranger than the lazy, mean-spirited Florence. When he overhears a couple of cowboys talking about getting Mail Order Brides, he decides that will be his solution. He’ll order a bride for himself. Sara Jones doesn’t believe in love. She’s lost her parents and raised her siblings and now is desperate to offer them more financial support. When she sees an advert from a wealthy rancher in Colorado looking for a bride, she decides to take the chance. This man is willing to pay her way to Colorado and home again if things don’t work out. What has she got to lose? Upon arrival, Sara isn’t prepared for the hostility she encounters from Marjorie and her 12-year-old daughter, Lilah. Nor is she prepared to face true love for someone who only wanted a way out. Sara fears she’d made a horribly bad decision in coming to Colorado, yet she dreads leaving the man she now loves.
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Thawing the Groom's Heart
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Sally Johnson is sick of her life - sick of the upper class, sick of the social gatherings, sick of the dirty, bustling city, and truly sick of never feeling as though she is good enough. When the odious son of a failing steel baron announces they are engaged in order to marry into her rich family, Sally is truly fed up. Taking her life in her hands, she runs away and decides to become a mail-order bride. Before she knows it, Sally is in Shallow Gulch, Idaho, married to a handsome, stoic rancher named Karl Homer. She cooks for him, cleans for him, takes care of his infant daughter - but all along, she suspects she is not cut out for this life. A marriage of necessity to an aloof man is certainly not what she hoped for, but there seems no way out of her new predicament. It’s only when disaster strikes that things change - and Sally begins to suspect that, against all odds, she’s falling in love with her own husband.
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The Doctor's Widow
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Reese Tait is a single rancher with two small children and a run-down ranch to care for, and he’s running out of time. Aileen Warrick is a young widow with debts to pay and nowhere to turn. She’s also running out of time. Valerie Tait is the frustrated, lovelorn bride who brings them together. When Valerie posts a mail order bride advertisement on her cousin Reese’s behalf, he’s anything but pleased. The last thing he wants is for some strange woman to come into his life and turn everything upside down. But Val’s about to be married and knows he needs someone - someone to care for his twin babies and someone to take care of Reese himself! Beautiful young widow Aileen answers the advert and finds far more than she bargained for at Three Cedars Ranch. A broken-down ranch with a broken-down owner, misunderstandings galore, and true love - none of which is quite what she was expecting.
©2020 Tica House Publishing LLC (P)2020 Tica House Publishing LLC
Christmas Bride at Rough Creek
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Life isn’t easy for a Mail Order Bride…especially when the bride isn’t sure she wants to be one in the first place. But when Naomi Paxton is left a young widow, her friend Kate suggests she apply to a bridal agency along with her. At a loss for what else to do, Naomi agrees, and is matched up with a young store owner named Steven Wragley in Rough Creek, Missouri. To Naomi’s surprise, the person who greets her in Missouri isn’t her intended husband, but his mother. Even more surprising, Steven Wragley has no idea she’s coming. Worst of all, he’s dead set against the idea of Mail Order Brides. As Naomi struggles to get used to life in her new town, she wonders what can possibly come next. Her new friends are certain happiness is just around the corner – and as she connects with a certain store owner at Christmastime, she dares to believe it herself.
©2020 Tica House Publishing LLC (P)2021 Tica House Publishing LLC
A New Mother for the Twins
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After a devastating rejection years ago, Bailey Evans has given up on finding love. Instead, he pours his energy into running the frontier town’s Hardware and Tinware Shop with his best friend, Jacob. But when Jacob is brutally killed in a robbery, his final whispered words seem to gesture toward a future Bailey didn’t think possible.... Kathryn Sandridge has been discriminated against her whole life. Despite growing up in a loving home in Boston, she worries that her physical appearance - one brown and one blue eye - is too off-putting to attract a suitor. Thinking she might have a better chance out west, she responds to a Mail Order Bride advert for a gentleman in Rough Creek, Missouri. But by the time she reaches Missouri, the man she is to marry has been murdered, leaving behind his twins. And the outlaws in this rough Midwestern town would do anything to put her in the ground alongside him. It will take all Kathryn’s determination and cunning to carve out a life for herself in this lonely outpost - and the persistence of a young man who is committed to protecting and taking care of both her and the twins he inherited.
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The Bride & the Twins
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How can a German immigrant in New York, who barely speaks English, find a husband and true love? Can a successful rancher in Colorado get over the heartbreak of losing his beloved wife and learn to love again? Before her death, Cole Tanner’s beloved wife, Amelia, insists that Cole remarry and find happiness in the arms of another woman. Fulfilling her promise to Amelia, Cole’s sister, Grace, places an advert for a mail order bride on his behalf. When young, beautiful Catarina Mueller arrives at his ranch, Cole wants nothing to do with her. Searching for a home where she can belong, Catarina knows her situation is hopeless. Cole will never love her nor accept her as his wife. While Cole’s son befriends her, his twin sister despises her on sight. Time passes, and Cole finally realizes the treasure he has under his roof. He is falling in love with Catarina, and when a bull attacks him and leaves him to die, Catarina is there to help him heal. Yet, tragedy strikes again when Cole finally realizes he loves Catarina. His unhappy daughter denounces them all. She runs into the woods, and smack into a hornet's nest. It is Catarina who selflessly pulls her to safety and saves the girl’s life. Catarina has done all she can to win over Cole and his children. Now, it is up to them. Will Catarina ever find a place to belong?
©2019 Tica House Publishing LLC (P)2019 Tica House Publishing LLC
A Groom Worth the Risk
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When her betrothed leaves her for another woman, Celina Murray is distraught. Certain that she will never love again, she agrees to a marriage of convenience, arranging to care for two small children of a bachelor guardian. But love is not an option. Carrying his own load of tragedy and rejection, Sheriff Troy Faraday is just as sure that he can never again trust - or love - a woman. But after his sister dies unexpectedly and leaves him to care for her two children, he has no choice but to arrange for a mail-order bride. But love is not an option. With danger waiting in the wings and history weighing them down, Celina and Troy must learn to trust each other in order to rebuild their lives. As each comes to terms with the past, they discover that love might be an option, after all.
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Lizzie's Secret
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Terence Heaton believes he’ll never find love. Not only are women in scarce supply in the frontier town of Little Rock, Arkansas, but all the girls stare at him like he’s something mysterious and dangerous. He loved his Cherokee mother, yet the townsfolk never understood her. Except for his housekeeper Harriet, the women in town have labeled him an outcast. Lizzie Emmerson can never trust again. The man she loved turned his back on her when she fell pregnant, her parents rejected her, and now, she’s left to raise her young son in the guts of New York City, alone. Little does Lizzie know that a Cherokee woman, thousands of miles away, will choose Lizzie to become her son’s wife. She considers Lizzie her last gift to Terence. But with Harriet’s interference and Lizzie’s great secret, Terence might never be able to accept that gift.
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The Sheriff's Missouri Bride
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When the notorious Linch Gang strikes in Rough Creek, Missouri, deputy sheriff Jordan Tredwell finds himself with a big responsibility on his hands - find the Linch Gang and bring them to justice, all while stepping into the shoes of the former sheriff. Jordan pours himself into the task, putting everything else on hold - which worries his mother to no end. Afraid that Jordan will make himself sick - or put himself in great danger, she follows the lead of another local family and writes for a Mail Order Bride...on her son’s behalf. Anabel Hayes is a strong, beautiful young woman from New York. Answering the call for a Mail Order Bride fills her head with dreams and fantasies - and at first sight, tall, handsome Sheriff Tredwell is exactly what she wants. But then she discovers it was his mother who wrote the letters. Even worse, Jordan is obsessed with his job and doesn’t seem to have the least bit of interest in her or in marriage. Jordan’s mother keeps insisting that everything will work out for the best. But for Anabel, the situation seems insurmountable. Until something unexpected happens, changing everything....
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