Books with author M R Callahan

A cute guy with a great farm. A clumsy girl with bushy hair. Polly Swan has loved Jackson Tucker for most of her life. He isn't just gorgeous; he's kind and generous too. He has the greatest parents and a farm big enough for a family. So when he gets her name at the lottery she's so happy she could die. That all changes when he tells her he's in love with her friend Sarah and that Polly is the ugliest, homeliest, worst thing that's ever happened to him.Jackson Tucker has always been lucky until Lottery Day when his name is drawn with only one bride left, the ugly and clumsy Polly Swan. In a drunken tirade he tells her every cruel thought he's ever had of her and she runs home in the middle of a thunderstorm. It isn't until she's flown to the San Francisco Hospital with a deadly heart infection that he realizes his mistake. A guy trying to make amends and a girl trying to start anew. Fate's gentle hand is about to lead them back...to each other.

Thirteen men. Five women. For a lottery day, those were good odds.Two blondes. Two sisters. The problem was that he stood in front of the wrong one.March Lincoln is Abe Lincoln's favorite daughter. She's smart, she's beautiful, and she's single. But when March finally enters the lottery and finds the perfect man, her sister June enters and ruins everything. Now June's on her fifth husband and March is in love with a man who likes her sister.Wyatt Odair is new to Haddenfield and he knows nothing about the Lincoln family or the seven Lincoln sisters. Until he enters the lottery and stands in front of the wrong sister. March has zero interest in being with him now and won't forgive him that one mistake. Before he knows it she's moving to San Francisco.

Emily Hubbard is living on the edge. Widowed with six kids, she's trying to keep afloat and losing the battle. This past winter has been the leanest and she doesn't know how much longer they can continue borrowing things from their neighbor Theodore Graham. Sooner or later, she's going to have to get hitched or move her family.Theo Graham has entered the lottery seven times and never come away with a bride. He's given up. Then six little kids start coming to his door asking to borrow things--a pound of bacon, a hammer, a plate of pancakes, his swimming hole, a box of nails, even his house. He knows Widow Hubbard is having a rough time of it, but she can't possibly expect him to keep feeding her kids. Or can she?Two people with different kinds of misery are about to have their fairytale ending. Not getting a bride at the lottery is going to be the best thing that ever happened to Theo Graham.

A young woman looking for a family. Two boys determined to get a mom. A father trying to keep his boys from being judged.Shannon Sullivan is on her way to the lottery when she comes across two teenage boys in a broken down wagon. In a matter of minutes, she's injected with a sedative, kidnapped, and taken to another town to be Shane Black's wife.Shane Black has been a widower for eleven long years, but that time has been harder on his sons than on him. Then they do the unthinkable--they kidnap a young woman and bring her home. Now he has two problems--keeping a woman captive and preventing his sons from being judged by the Brennanmen.What starts as a kidnapping turns into something much more as four people fall in love and make a family.

A beautiful woman reeling from the aftermath of a deadly epidemic. The angry man who's about to marry her.When Meredith Nash goes on vacation in March, she has no idea that a lethal flu epidemic is going to hit her small town while she's gone. In a single week everyone dies and the Brennanmen close the town. In the aftermath, Meredith is left orphaned and homeless. On Lottery Day she gets off the train and enters the lottery, hoping God will send her a new family. Instead, he sends her an angry man.Griffen McNair knows his name will be drawn on Lottery Day and his older brother Grady will be second. He couldn't be happier when two women enter the lottery. Then with five minutes to go, the blonde talks the redhead into leaving. Now there's one woman and she's suddenly his wife. But he can't forget that she robbed his brother of marriage and a chance at happiness. A runaway bride who keeps dodging one tragedy after another. The angry husband chasing her. Two people who God threw together are about to get their happy ending.

A loving daughter. A younger brother. A town with a history of Lottery Day mishaps.Savannah Miles has waited fourteen years to enter the lottery. It's only when her mother suddenly dies that she gets the courage. Nothing could've prepared her for being Spencer Hill's bride. Fourteen years ago Sam Hill, Spencer's brother, entered the lottery without her. The last thing she wants is to be married to a Hill brother.Spencer Hill has planned on marrying Teresa Moore for three long years. Just when everything is going as planned, Teresa starts a fight with Savannah Miles and leaves the lottery seconds before time is called. Now Spencer is in the lottery and Teresa isn't. With only one woman, chances are he won't even be called. Then the worst thing imaginable happens--his name is called and he's forced to choose Savannah.

A woman trying to escape her stalker. A man pining away for an old lover.Haley Monahan rides a hundred and eighty miles from her home in Brook Creek to attend the lottery in Clearwater for one reason: Jeremy Longworth, her stalker. But she doesn't realize that when she puts her name in that jar she's giving her new husband more than just three months of her time. She's giving him her heart and a chance at happiness.Mitch Montgomery has waited seven years for Kelly Riley to be single again. In a heartbeat it's over and she walks off Lottery Field with another man. Now he's married to a kid from another town and has no interest in keeping her. But the more he gets to know her, the more he realizes maybe she's worth keeping.A meddling magistrate. A family torn apart by obsession. Two people ten years apart are about to learn that God has a plan for everyone and age is only a number.

Twelve men. Five women. One wild child.Marrying his bride would be one thing, taming her another.Keira Fitzgerald is only in the lottery because her sister made her enter. She needs a husband about as much as she needs a hole in the head. But with each passing day and every conversation she begins to realize that not all men are mean like her brother-in-law. Some of them are kind-hearted.Kevin Flannery knows a wild child when he sees one and Keira is definitely a wild child. The more he talks to Keira the more he realizes there's a reason she avoids men and maybe what she really needs is a friend she can trust.Two people from different backgrounds are about to fall in love and narrowly escape a killer.

Ten women. One artist.Patience Marston finally has a chance to start her life over again, free of the cruelty of her parents. She gets as far as Dovetail Creek and something odd happens--a local artist, Malachi Stone, kisses her out of the blue. Things go from odd to worse when the coach breaks down and can't continue to Lincoln. Now she's stuck in Dovetail Creek for Lottery Day.Malachi Stone has always been a loner. Until now. The beautiful blonde who has crossed his path on the way to Lincoln has made all the difference and changed his path in life. He pays the coachman to abandon her and he pays the men at the lottery to remove their names. Those were the two things he did right. What follows are several serious wrongs. If he can manage to hang onto her, it'll be a small miracle. It'll take a lot of patience and his family's help.

Twenty-seven men. One unconscious woman. One girl.On Lottery Day, Annie Blake's sister Beth chickens out of entering the lottery. Far from home and with no money left and three siblings to care for, she does what she has to--she pretends she's eighteen and enters the lottery. Mason McNamara never imagined he'd actually get picked at the lottery. Now he has a cute little wife and her three siblings. The younger two are okay, but the older one Beth is a nightmare. And she keeps telling him that his wife isn't who he thinks she is. Who is Evan and why does his wife speak his name in her sleep and wear his shirt to bed?She's underage. He has a meddling brother. This is going to be one rocky courtship.

A dying mother. An old lover. A terrible betrayal.Grace Jennings has always been the good daughter, the one who does exactly as everyone expects. That includes entering the lottery and undergoing a dangerous bone marrow extraction so her mother can have a chance. What she doesn't expect is to be betrayed by the three people she counts on most.Mackenzie Crawford is a flirt. It started when he was seventeen and six years later he's still at it. He can't pick just one woman to fall for; he's been through about half a dozen. Then the one untouchable girl in town decides to enter the lottery. He can't help himself from falling in love with beautiful Grace. Then everything falls apart.The dying wish of Hope Jennings is about to wreak havoc on the town of Prairie Ridge. Sometimes faith is more than prayer and doing the right thing. Sometimes it means doing what you hate the most so the people you love can be happy.

Nineteen men. Eleven women. One land baron.Every week for a year, Megan O'Mara has mailed a letter to Grant Holdings in San Francisco about the land at the base of Berner's Mountain. Megan needs that land if she is to fulfill her father's dream. When no reply ever comes, she enters the lottery, hoping to marry wealthy and acquire the money to buy the land outright. Those hopes are dashed when Morgan O'Malley picks her name. He lives in a ramshackle cabin at the top of Berner's Mountain with no indoor plumbing and an outhouse. And yet with each passing week she finds herself enjoying his company more and more.Morgan O'Malley arrives in Bakerstown with a plan. That plan starts with Megan O'Mara. He makes himself look as pathetic as possible and adopts a mutt who looks even more pathetic. In three months he'll go back home to San Francisco and take half her land. But marrying Megan is not what he thought it would be. For a woman he has no interest in, he finds himself becoming very attached to Megan and that can only mean trouble when she finds out the truth.