Books with author M R Callahan

A young bride. A husband who's in love with another woman. A disastrous marriage in the making.Christine Bishop has been in love with Chase Whitman since he moved to town. But he doesn't even notice her. All she needs is a chance, so when he picks her name at the lottery she's sure she can make him fall in love with her. Chase Whitman has been courting Lisa Mallory for six months. So he doesn't understand why God let Arthur Cambridge get picked first. Now Lisa is Art's wife and she seems darned happy about it. Worse, he's stuck with Christine Bishop who practically swoons every time he walks by. What was he thinking picking her name?A wife fed up with her husband is about to go on a road trip and come back with two kids. He'd better put up or shut up because this time he's not in charge.

Thirty-six men. One woman, a mother.Chanel McIntyre survives a flu epidemic but loses more than half her family. Her boyfriend's family is decimated too, leaving behind three siblings. Left with no one to marry who isn't her dead boyfriend's friend, she takes her siblings and his and rides to River Valley where they haven't had a woman in the lottery for three years. A desperate man just might marry her, even with six kids.Grayson Winter has waited five years for a wife and figures he'll probably be single forever. Then a seven year old boy tries stealing his horse on Lottery Day. Zack Roth turns out to be the adopted child of a gorgeous blonde who's come to town to enter the lottery. And lucky Grayson gets picked. But falling in love with Chanel was the beginning of his troubles. Her dead boyfriend's brother Alec pushes all of his buttons until he does the unthinkable. Suddenly he's trying to hang onto his new family and they're slipping through his fingers.A woman who had hope and lost it. A man who lost hope and found it. Together they'll make a family.

An orphan all alone. A gorgeous man in love with another woman. A lottery gone terribly awry.Hope Cummings is all alone after her grandmother dies. With no family or friends, she enters the lottery, praying for God to send her a family. Instead he sends her Chester, a gorgeous man who's in love with another woman. As she tries to help him heal his broken heart she falls in love with him and his family, but he doesn't want her. How do you keep a family that isn't yours? And how do you heal a broken heart all alone?Chester Brennan does everything Maggie asks of him--he moves his job, builds a cabin, and enters the lottery just for her. Then right there on Lottery Field she dumps him and runs off with another man. His name is called and he's forced to marry a stranger, Hope Cummings. Life with Hope is different than anything he ever imagined with Maggie. She's likable, easy on the eyes, and has a big heart. But when he takes her home to meet his family jealousy makes him say all the wrong things. Before he knows it shes left him, signed her name on the divorce list, and disappeared. He has nine months to find her or he'll lose her forever.A woman in search of a family. The Brennanmen trying to find her. Sometimes the families that God makes for us aren't made by blood.

Fifteen years ago, five year-old Maggie Dawkins was orphaned. Immediately after her parents' death, she was kidnapped from the McBrides and taken to Bethany Goodall's School for Orphaned Children. For years she waited for them to come and rescue her. Then she gave up. When Cooper McBride comes to the school and asks her to put her name in the Mayberry lottery she says no. But her four best friends are all going, leaving Maggie with a painful choice: be alone again or take a chance on the lottery.Cooper McBride has patiently waited for fifteen years. The children at Bethany Goodall's school have no idea what's really going on in their school, including his beloved Magpie. A chance encounter with the magistrate reveals that his name will be chosen first in the lottery. Risking everything, he rides to the school and asks Maggie to put her name in the Mayberry lottery.Two children who never should've been separated are about to become a family. But with every choice comes the responsibility for its outcome. And the next choice they make will determine the futures of thirty-two orphaned children.

A girl tormented for ten long years. The boy grown to a man who has always loved her. A marriage off to a rocky start.Babette Clark enters the lottery for her parents' sake. As their only child, she's expected to at least give marriage a shot. Then James Stockton gets her name. He's one of the four boys who has relentlessly made fun of her for the past ten years. She cries herself to sleep the first night. The next morning James' three buddies are on the back porch calling her names. She grabs a rifle and starts shooting.James Stockton has made a lot of mistakes in his life, all of them surrounding the girl that he loves, beautiful Babette. When his name is picked at the lottery, he's so happy he could float. But Babette is deeply ashamed of the way she looks and that's his fault. When she runs to San Francisco to be a clothing designer, he chases right after her. Slowly he realizes the extent of the damage he's done. And he falls in love with Babette all over again.A beautiful flower and a repentant soul are about to fall in love amid the trials and tribulations of a fashion show.

A broke young woman. A wealthy young widower. A ruthless banker.When June Chandler's father dies he leaves their family heavily in debt. Without farming experience or money she's left with only one choice--to take out a loan from the bank that has a lottery clause. As long as she marries Cole Sherman, who has no money or no land, everything will be fine. Austin Hathaway didn't plan on falling in love with June Chandler. Her family has a mountain of debt. But once she starts babysitting his kids he can't help but fall in love with her. Less than four hours after he marries June, the bank takes most of his bank account for June's loan. His almost perfect marriage is over in a heartbeat. Suddenly there's another man in her life and he's in love with June too.Two broken hearts are about to learn they can only heal in the arms of each other.

In the middle of a horse race, Connor Brennan is about to find his bride. He just doesn't know she's a woman yet.After his girlfriend Allison marries someone else in the lottery, Connor Brennan thinks he'll never fall in love again. Five years later, he's in a horse race shadowing the youngest entrants when he falls in love for the second time. With Hank Boyd. A guy. Now he's more confused than ever. When they encounter thieves and murderers, he learns the meaning of true love.In a post-apocalyptic world where there is no government, men by the last name of Brennan represent the only justice. Reverently referred to as Brennanmen, they are tied by kin, guided by honor, and fueled by a need for justice.

Two Beaumont sisters. One Shields brother. A dangerous lottery.Nicole Beaumont has loved Cameron Shields for as long as she can remember. But Cameron only has eyes for her prettier sister, Bethany. The problem with Beth is that she's after Cameron's money and nothing else. Cameron Shields is the third Shields brother to enter the lottery and the first to be called. But being married to Bethany Beaumont is not as perfect as it seems. She has a dark and deadly side driven by greed. Within a week he realizes he married the wrong sister. Two sisters who couldn't be more different--one a kind and loving daughter, the other a deadly psychopath--are about to learn the meaning of love and family.

A brunette, a blonde, a redhead. A man with a big wallet and a bigger heart.Jane is a chameleon by necessity. Raised on the streets she knows a good man when she sees one and she sees one in Michael Shore aka Robert Hood, the man who takes from the rich and gives to the poor. But how could she possibly explain her gift without making him suspicious?Michael Shore is used to street kids falling for him, but this one is different. She knows things she couldn't possibly know and she's insinuated herself into the lives of the wealthiest men in the country, his clients. The more he digs into her past the more an enigma she becomes. Not just an enigma, but a chameleon who changes her past and her appearance at will. Two people from different backgrounds are more alike than they could possibly imagine. Cupid's arrow will hit them both, but not before one of them dies, again.

A girl hiding from her wicked stepmother. A magistrate who'd lie to protect her.Caley Cartwright has an idyllic life until her mother dies of a heart attack at age thirty. Mired in misery over the loss of his wife, Callum Cartwright makes a fatal mistake--he marries Onella Brood, a lethal blonde. On Caley's seventeenth birthday, Onella poisons Callum and orders Caley's murder. Only the man hired to kill Caley sets her free.Devin Blake has already lied about his age to get the job of magistrate of Cottage Grove. He's forced to lie again when strangers start asking questions about the girl known as Snow White. When she enters the lottery he's forced to do the unthinkable to protect her--cheat. If he isn't fired, he still has to worry about being judged by the Brennanmen, and then there's Snow who is so determined to avoid him she runs headlong into danger.Two people running from different things are about to find each other and fall in love while dodging a black widow.