Books by Nancy Pirri

Laura Elizabeth Woodbury, heir to a Montana cattle ranch, has just lost her father. The independent Laura is astonished to learn her father has hired a fancily-dressed stranger to assist her--in finding a suitable husband. Matt Black is the right hand man of a Minnesota railroad baron who'd been a friend of Laura's father. Matt's been hired to head up a team of railroad workers replacing damaged railroad tacks across Montana and to find a decent man to marry Laura. Matt is completely unprepared for the headstrong, willful blond and soon finds himself in love with her. Laura feels the same way about Matt-until she learns his secret that will change her life completely.

Cane Smith, recently released from prison, serving years for a crime he didn't commit, comes looking for the son he's fathered, but has never met. Cane, hungering for love and family, arrives in Bozeman to claim his son and finds the boy's mother has died. But the boy had been adopted by successful rancher, Tom Callahan. Tom's daughter, twenty-year-old Annie, can't give up the eight year old boy she named Mark but Cane has a solution: Miss Annie will have to marry him if she wants to keep Mark in her life. Annie will do anything to keep her little boy with her-but can she live with the hard, rough Cane Smith?

James Freeman is Bozeman's new Marshall and plans to close down every brothel in town, including Katie's Palace. Katie O'Malley has the fight of her life on her hands-convincing James Freeman she's running a legitimate establishment-a saloon, diner, and boarding house. Due to James' mother's horrific death from syphilis, he's bound and determined that another woman not die from the awful disease. And what better way to do that than to close down the brothels? But then an incident occurs and Katie is forced to close down the Palace. Katie has her hands full with this 'burr under her saddle' with whom she's fallen in love. Like two passing ships in the night, can the two of them find common ground?

Food and Romance do go together. Enjoy these romance stories created around food from Satin Romance authors, Sue Jody Vitek, Nancy Pennick, Amy Hahn, Sue Gesing, Gisele Margaux, J. A. Noelle, Nancy Pirri . *RECIPES INCLUDED!

Amy's Gift-Amy Gallagher, gain the amorous attentions of her handsome boss? By playing tricks-until they backfire on her! Winning Sylvia's Heart-A broken-hearted Sylvia Maxwell finds true romance, with more than candy kisses and clichés, with Jack MacNamara, her next door neighbor. Wishes and Kisses For Angelina Marrone's twenty-first birthday she receives a birthday present to remember; a night in the arms of sexy escort, Burke Severson, along with the proverbial birthday spanking. When Maggie Loved Patrick...then John- Maggie discovers her fiance' is cheating on her. She wants revenge. Then the secretary's fiancé, approaches her with a plan. Maggie gets much more than she bargained for. Riding Blue Steel-One woman, biological clock ticking; one widowed father with no desire for more children.

Social worker, Maggie O'Hara, arrives at the Minneapolis airport where she awaits the arrival of her family welcoming her home for Thanksgiving. She has a surprise for them in her arms-her newly adopted baby girl from Korea. With little thought, Maggie grabs a stranger getting off the same airplane, and asks him to portray himself, temporarily, as her fiancé. She knows that her old-fashioned family will disapprove of the adoption because she's not married. What Maggie doesn't count on is falling in love with Dr. Nick Capra, who does more than a passable job of posing as her fiancé that day, and over the holiday week. From the moment Maggie snags Nick, a confirmed bachelor, his gut tells him his single days are over and that she's the woman for him.

The Wild West gets tamed by love. Three stories showcasing everything you love about Western Romance, and it's not all about cowboys. Starr For The Teacher, Tysche Dwai Fresh out of teaching school, Jayne Kincaid is forced to accept a position in Temptation, Texas. Will feisty Sheriff Prescott claim the teacher's hand? To Tame A Gambler, Nancy Pirri In 1894, college Professor John O'Connell arrives in Bozeman, Montana. He meets seemingly shy Grace Morgan but discovers this 'Penny Dreadful' writer is anything but proper. Winning the Ranger's Heart, Jane Carver Jenny Lincoln keeps one big secret from middle-aged homely rancher Neal Franks. Can he win the Ranger's heart? Maybe, but first he has to rescue her.

**Special Offer: Contact the author at nancy@melange-books.com if you purchase BAIT SHOP BLUES. Nancy will send you (upon providing mailing address) a personally made beach/tote bag. Finding love shouldn't be so hard... What does a successful businesswoman born and bred in Chicago want with half-ownership of a quaint bait shop in northern Minnesota, willed to her by her grandfather? And how will the reclusive half-owner of the shop convince the woman to sell out her half to him? For Cassandra Thompson, a Marilyn Monroe look-alike who's recently been dumped by her second fiancé in two years, it could mean a well-needed change in life. For Leif Halverson, a handsome man of Ojibwa extraction, and co-owner of the shop, it could mean disaster-like falling in love. Leif is far from happy about this city woman invading his territory so he challenges her to a wilderness survival contest where the winner takes all.