Books with author M R Callahan

Nine men. Seven women. Four sisters.Caitlin Carter is a girl with a plan: keep her sisters safe and out of the clutches of the Carter men. Marrying a man three times her age is only a small part of that plan. What wasn’t part of the plan is her nuisance of a stepson who is anxious to get rid of her.Grady O'Brien returns from a cattle run to find his sixty-six year-old father married. Again. Half of what he’s spent the last twenty years creating just transferred to a complete stranger via marriage. Now he’s forced to live in the same house with her and be civil.Two people who keep stepping in each other’s way are about to fall in love. But first someone’s going to get shot.

Six farmers' daughters. Six wealthy ranchers. An arranged lottery.Violet Fernwood married Declan O'Neill expecting shopping, parties, and a doting husband. That's the picture that he painted to her, but that's not what her life becomes. Every day she's up at five cooking for sixteen ranch hands and an angry husband. At ten in the evening when she's finally finished cleaning the kitchen he's already asleep. No matter how hard she works, it's never enough and she's always doing something wrong.Declan O'Neill is trying to be patient with his young bride, but she makes so many mistakes, one after another, until he finally snaps. He never expected her to run or that he'd have to chase her to get her back. Now the least of his worries is the ranch when his wife is slipping through his fingers.A hard-working wife who's had enough. A careless husband who's made one mistake too many. This runaway bride has no intention of going back.

Nine men, all locals. One cowboy knight from another town.Molly Brown has waited for this day, Freedom Day. Now that she's eighteen she can leave home and not worry that her drunken father will drag her back and beat her to death. There's just one problem--nine men are signed up for the lottery and they're all locals. Why couldn't just one out-of-towner show up? Then handsome rancher Dylan West comes to her rescue.Dylan West owns a very large and successful cattle ranch. He's a workaholic and lives alone. He likes it that way. The last thing on his mind is marrying an eighteen year-old kid. But then her father attacks her in front of him and he can't get her to Lottery Field fast enough. Now he's got a wife, curtains, canned apples, nail polish, and a nursery. But getting rid of the woman he's come to know is much harder than he thought.A girl who would do anything to save her brother. A dangerous flu epidemic. A husband who thought he didn't want her. Molly Brown is about to get her fairytale ending, but first she'll have to survive a flu epidemic.

Twelve men. Seven women. Four siblings. Orphaned at seventeen, Shannon O’Shaughnessy takes on the burden of caring for her four younger siblings. When Lottery Day comes, she faces another burden, how to conceal the fact that any man marrying her would also be taking on the responsibility of her four siblings. So she does what any sensible young woman would do–she packs up the kids and rides two hundred miles away from home for Lottery Day and hides her siblings in the local hotel. But a case of mistaken identity proves disastrous when the hotel manager tells her to choose the handsomest brunette there, Gabriel Blake. The handsomest brunette turns out to be Brian Bannon, her new husband.Brian is quiet and reserved. He’s been living in his great big farmhouse for three years all alone. When he’s finally ready to share the house with another person, a wife, he shows up at Lottery Day. But fate takes a disastrous turn when the cute little blonde with the freckled nose and blue eyes has something special waiting for him at the hotel, four kids! The lottery rules say nothing about siblings, so try as he might, he can’t shake the stubborn girl and the magistrate is helping her.A serious case of mistaken identity and a dangerous bull. The next three months of marriage are going to be difficult...

A beautiful bride. A Greek devil.A perfect marriage. A painful tragedy. It took five long years for Kenna Brogan to get her life back and forget about the man who ruined it. Then out of the blue a reclusive man buys the farm next door. Calvin Drake is horribly mutilated, the victim of a tragic crime. His days are in the darkness, hiding away from people. Then four year-old Nani Brogan walks into his life and everything changes.Kenna Brogan is about to fall in love for the second time in her life. And she has no idea that the man she's falling for is the same man who threw her back--her husband Calisto Drakos.

A talkative woman. A middle brother. A terrible tragedy.Brigham Caldwell fell in love with Clover Chapman two years ago at the Christmas Dance. Now that she's eighteen he's determined to marry her. Luck is on his side at the lottery and he draws her name. But one mistake turns into a tragedy and his wife is hurt most of all.Clover Chapman knows what the men of Rolling Meadows call her--talker. Is it her fault she's smarter than most of the men? Or that she has an opinion? When her parents decide it's time to move to San Francisco she enters the lottery, hoping to find the perfect husband so she won't have to move. Then Brigham Caldwell, the middle Caldwell brother, draws her name and tells her she talks too much.One off-hand comment on Lottery Day is going to haunt Brigham Caldwell for the next year. Getting a bride is half the battle. Keeping her is the harder half.

A man betrayed by his fiance and best friend. A woman tired of being alone. A marriage off to a rocky start.Amy Campbell is tired of being alone. So she enters the lottery and prays for a good husband. What she gets is an angry man on the rebound. But then she learns why he married her--because she was the homeliest girl there. Homely. Christian Brennan waits two years to enter the lottery with Holly only to learn that she's been sleeping with his partner Angus for the past six months. He goes to the nearest town on Lottery Day and uses the Brennan Clause to marry the homeliest girl there, Amy Campbell. Over the next few weeks she becomes the center of his world and makes him unbelievably happy until she overhears a conversation she never should have heard.A repentant man desperate to make things right. The wife who keeps outrunning him. A dozen small townsfolk who keep helping her escape his grasp.

A woman who wakes from a coma. A young man looking for a bride.When Rory Van Winkle wakes from her coma she has aged eight years. Frontal lobe cerebral contusion--that's what it's called. Her father has died, her uncles have died, and her husband has remarried and has three kids. But worst of all her unborn child is dead, a child she didn't even know she had. So she enters the lottery to get a new family. Levi Campbell gets called at the lottery his very first year. And his bride is absolutely gorgeous. So what if she's a little older? But then he learns she was in a coma and that makes him protect his heart from heartbreak. The more she tries to get close to him, the more he pushes her away until he pushes her right back to her hometown, hundreds of miles away. Now he's trying to make his wife forgive him while her ex-husband is living next door.An old lover. A jealous husband. A memory that won't go away. This runaway bride and her husband will go through one trial after another until they finally find each other.

Thirteen men. Two women. Neither of them was marrying who they wanted.Annabel McCoy has been waiting to marry Brady Dillon for three long years. Until finally she comes right out and asks him to come with her to the lottery. And he says...no. When he takes off on another one of his trips days before the lottery she realizes he was serious and enters without him. Now she's married to Bartholomew "Bat" Andrews who's in love with Alana East. There's nothing worse than two people in a marriage who are both in love with someone else. Or is there?Brady Dillon fell in love with Annabel McCoy the day he met her. He's spent three long years building a ranch for the two of them up in Foster Springs. But as Lottery Day gets closer he realizes it's going to take one more year. So when she asks him to the lottery he tells her no, knowing she'll wait for him because she loves him too. His world is shattered when he returns home and Annabel is married to an idiot named Bat. For the next year, Brady will jump one hurdle after another to be with Annabel, no matter what it takes or what he has to do.People make plans and plans change. The plans of Annabel McCoy and Brady Dillon are about to get a lot more complicated as they find their way to the coast, to an orphan named Coconut, and back to each other.

A Brennanmen who never wanted to get married. A gorgeous brunette in a red dress. The neighbor who will come between them.Edwina Lewis left the Sisters of the Cross to get married and have kids. But Chester Brennan is gone half of every month. How is she supposed to get pregnant when her husband is never home?Winchester Brennan never wanted to get married. But the gorgeous brunette in the red dress changes his mind. Now every day is a joy and he can't wait to have kids. But being a kept husband is about as boring as can be...so he goes back to work and tells his wife to stay away from their handsome neighbor.Mark Costa's name was called before Chester Brennan's. But like an idiot he picks the wrong girl. Now every day the woman he's in love with is right next door on his neighbor's farm--Edwina Lewis's farm. What starts as friendship blossoms into something much more. A cruel and unforgiving man. A broken wife. A neighbor willing to do anything to help his best friend. Two men are about to switch roles in the most karmic way.

Twenty men. Two women. One Petitfois.She was more than beautiful; she was gorgeous. He never stood a chance.Sarafina Dramada knows entering the regular lottery could be a terrible mistake rather than entering the Petitfois lottery, but her mother is sick and she's not sure how much longer she might have. The least she can do to ease her mother's mind is marry a kind husband so her mother knows she'll be cared for.Sam Shepherd can barely string a sentence together when he sees the girl with the purple eyes. She's not just beautiful; she's stunning. When he gets her name in the lottery he knows he's the luckiest man on the planet. Until he takes Sara to dinner with his parents and learns for the first time just how prejudiced they are against the Petitfois.A woman with everything to lose. A man with everything to gain. Two young people are about to learn that it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from--love finds a way.

A sudden orphan looking for a family. An older man looking for a business partner. Eight days before Lottery Day, tragedy strikes Hannah Hannigan's family and she's suddenly without a home or family. The Brennanmen allow her to enter the lottery and she finds herself married to the kindest man in the world, Ben Murphy. But fate is not so kind to Hannah and for a second time she finds herself all alone and without a home. Ben Murphy never married for a very good reason--he has a huge ranch to lose in a divorce. Elise Fairweather, however, has excellent business connections and a rich father. But the lottery her father rigged quickly becomes unrigged when the Brennanmen enter a young girl. Suddenly he's saddled with a young bride who brightens his days and makes him happier than he's ever been.A runaway bride trying to find a family. The husband trying to find her. Her search will take her from the beaches of Monterey to the gardens of Atlanta and finally back home.