Books with author Emily Barker

Elizabeth Corrington is about to turn twenty-one, the age when she will be in control of her own affairs. She finds out that her aunt, who has also been her guardian from when she was fifteen, intends to get hold of her vast inheritance by marrying her off to a distant cousin of her husband’s. To prevent all this from happening, Elizabeth needs to find a husband, but on her own terms. Albert Ridgeway is considered the prince of scoundrels of London. His father’s will stipulates that he can only take up his title when he finds and marries a young woman with a title and money. When Elizabeth approaches him with a proposal, he is only too happy to take it so as to save his estate. Their marriage of convenience leads to something the two of them didn’t expect.

Autumn Roses: A Mail Order Bride Romance It’s Springtime 1884, and Sara Watson’s stepmother wants her out of the house. At twenty years old, Sara will gladly leave her home, but has nowhere to go. Then she finds an advertisement in the church bulletin and answers it. The wilds of Montana are more alluring than staying in Atlanta with a woman who despises her. To be honest, she holds no respect for the older woman and can’t wait to be on her own. Curtis Duncan is a widowed farmer in Mule Pass, Montana whose previous wife died while giving birth to his now four-year-old son. He can’t stay in the fields all day and take proper care of the boy, so he places an ad in several church bulletins in Atlanta, Georgia. He receives a few letters, but the one from Sara catches his attention. Is she the one God desires for him to marry? Wanting to be as far from her stepmother as soon as possible, Sara quickly agrees to his marriage proposal. When she meets him at the train station, she feels this was the right decision. Happy with her new life, she wakes early one morning with a desire to make him a nice breakfast. She goes out to the chicken coop to collect some fresh eggs, but an accident ruins everything. Are the folks in town willing to help with the situation? If not, what will she and Curtis do? Better yet, will he ever forgive her?

Mail Order Bride Romance Grace Bookman is a young woman on the run trying to escape from a wicked plot hatched by her stepsister and brother in law. She flees to a town in the west where she meets a young farmer who is looking for a wife. Grace yearns for love and a man who will prove himself, and Darrell Winters wants a wife who can settle down to farm life and be his help. They hope to be able to fulfill each other’s deepest desires, but are also cautious about not getting into marriage for the wrong reasons. Forces from Grace’s past force Darrell’s hand and he kidnaps her because he cannot bear to lose her and be used in other people’s evil machinations. Get your copy now.

RUNAWAY FIONA : Mail Order Bride Romance Fiona Calwell was in the middle of a very bad year. Her mother had died the year before and now that she was of age her father was determined to force her to marry the suitor that best helped advance his wealth and status. Desperate to escape her father’s schemes, Fiona takes her aunt’s advice and heads west to become a mail order bride; not sure what is going to be waiting for her when she gets there. Hensley is a mystery that she is keen to unravel. He has kind eyes, but she soon learns that there is more to him than what meets the eye. He is not the rancher that she thought he was. With only days till she is expected to marry her husband-to-be, Fiona has to make a choice to stay or to go. Can she live in such a wild place, with such a wild man as her husband?

From the author of the "unputdownable" international hit The One Memory of Flora Banks comes a fast-paced cross-continental journey of identity, family, darkness and light, and the ways in which we define ourselves.Ella Black has always had dark inclinations. She's successfully hidden her evil alter ego from her family and friends, but Bella is always there, ready to take control and force Ella to do bad things. When Ella's parents drag her out of school one afternoon and fly across the globe to Rio de Janeiro with no believable explanation, Bella longs to break free--and so does Ella. Because for all that her parents claim to be doing what's best for her, Ella knows there is something going on that they're not divulging, and she is through with being treated like a child. Once in Rio, when Ella learns the truth--that the couple she's always called Mom and Dad are actually her adoptive parents--she runs off through the streets and waterways of Brazil in search of her true self. But the truth has many layers, and as Ella uncovers more and more about her own history, she struggles to come to terms with just where it is that she came from. Perfect for fans of Ellen Hopkins and Kathleen Glasgow, The Truth and Lies of Ella Black will have readers on the edge of their seat until the shocking, satisfying end.

A cross between Memento and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this is a unique, breathtaking page-turner about a girl with no short-term memory and her remarkable journey to find the one boy able to penetrate her fractured mind. Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. She lives under the careful watch of her parents, in a town she is familiar with, among people who are equally familiar with her story. She has not been able to recall any part of her past since she was ten, when the tumor that was removed from her brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses Drake, her best friend's boyfriend, the night before he leaves town. Miraculously, this singular memory pierces Flora's fractured mind, and sticks. Flora is convinced that Drake and their shared kiss are responsible for restoring her memory and making her whole again. So when an encouraging email from Drake suggests she meet him on the other side of the world, Flora knows with certainty that this is the first step in reclaiming her life.With little more than the tattoo "be brave" inked into her skin, and written reminders of who she is, how old, where she lives, and why her memory is so limited, Flora sets off on an impossible journey to the land of the midnight sun—Svalbard, Norway. There she is determined to find Drake, and to explore the romantic possibilities and hopeful future that their reunion promises her. But from the moment she arrives in the arctic, nothing is quite as it seems, and Flora must "be brave" if she is ever to learn the truth about herself, and to make it safely home.Rich with psychological twists, powerful moments of hope, despair, and confusion, and a landscape very much a character unto itself, The One Memory of Flora Banks is an emotionally compelling and immersive read that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit, the depths of the human heart, and the power of the human mind.

A cross between Memento and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this is a unique, breathtaking page-turner about a girl with no short-term memory and her remarkable journey to find the one boy able to penetrate her fractured mind. Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. She lives under the careful watch of her parents, in a town she is familiar with, among people who are equally familiar with her story. She has not been able to recall any part of her past since she was ten, when the tumor that was removed from her brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses Drake, her best friend's boyfriend, the night before he leaves town. Miraculously, this singular memory pierces Flora's fractured mind, and sticks. Flora is convinced that Drake and their shared kiss are responsible for restoring her memory and making her whole again. So when an encouraging email from Drake suggests she meet him on the other side of the world, Flora knows with certainty that this is the first step in reclaiming her life.With little more than the tattoo "be brave" inked into her skin, and written reminders of who she is, how old, where she lives, and why her memory is so limited, Flora sets off on an impossible journey to the land of the midnight sun—Svalbard, Norway. There she is determined to find Drake, and to explore the romantic possibilities and hopeful future that their reunion promises her. But from the moment she arrives in the arctic, nothing is quite as it seems, and Flora must "be brave" if she is ever to learn the truth about herself, and to make it safely home.Rich with psychological twists, powerful moments of hope, despair, and confusion, and a landscape very much a character unto itself, The One Memory of Flora Banks is an emotionally compelling and immersive read that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit, the depths of the human heart, and the power of the human mind.