Books with author M R Callahan

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.

One man. One woman. It had never happened before and would probably never happen again.On a warm March night, Sarah Godwin rides to the Lottery Prelude, but she's accosted by the Leiman brothers along the way. It's her handsome neighbor Raja Jacobson who comes to the rescue, saving her from a terrible fate. Less than an hour later he saves her a second time when an explosion kills all of the lottery entrants at the prelude. Those two shared experiences bind them together for life. But soon after they're married Sarah learns that Raj has a terrible temper, one that he inherited from his abusive Viking father.It never occurred to Raj Jacobson that his future wife would be the youngest of the Godwin daughters, his neighbors. He'd spent all these years looking for a bride and she was right next door the whole time. But the prelude tragedy has everyone coming to his wife to be consoled and that includes her best friend Kate's two handsome cousins. In one jealous rage, his perfect marriage is ruined and Sarah's entered the Divorce Lottery.Two beautiful souls, two very different families. Sometimes fate sends you what you want. And sometimes it sends you who you need.

And so the story continues. When the Sword of Titan was once again returned to the tomb of King Arthur and Queen Shannon, their son, Daniel, now king of Dartmouth, had his revenge on the evil king and queen of Xeon, who had poisoned King Arthur. All was safe again in Dartmouth. But the peace and tranquility that they had come to enjoy throughout the years was not to last forever. It was rumored that there was a traitor amongst them who was working for a king from the far north who was making plans to attack King Daniel's kingdoms. King Daniel's children are now grown, each with their own dreams for the future. But this latest challenge to the kingdom meant that those dreams would have to be put on hold. The safety of the kingdoms and their people need to be the royal children's first priority. Will they be able to defend the kingdoms against the traitor and the northern armies? Journey with me as we go back in time and follow the lives of two families from different walks of life, who become more than each of them ever dreamed together and individually. Let the adventure begin!

When Natravis agreed to return the Sword of Titan to its homeland in the Orient he had no idea that this voyage, unlike the many he had taken before, would change his life forever. From his many trips around the world, he feared this one the most. For the waters he would be sailing were hostile and unforgiving to those that dared to challenge them. But when a man gives his word, that word must be honored, regardless of the circumstances that might present themselves along the way. Join me as we sail with Natravis to the Orient as he fulfills his destiny. And in doing so, creating his own legacy in which books shall be written about for many years to come. Let the adventure continue!

A beautiful widow with a child. A younger brother. A terrible tragedy.Amanda Lazarus's life is perfect--the perfect husband, a baby on the way, a big ranch, and safety. But all of that is shattered when her husband Ben leaves on a business trip and killers follow him home.Carter Lazarus is shocked when Gideon Brennan asks him if he wants to follow the Irish custom of marrying his brother's wife. She's beautiful and kind, the sweetest woman he's ever met, but she was Ben's wife and Ben was very angry with him when he died.Two people who loved the same man are about to make a new family. Time heals all wounds, even the deep ones.

Hannah Boyd has never cared that she wasn't the pretty sister. Then Sarah marries and tosses back three husbands. Now no man in town will marry a Boyd sister. So Hannah cuts her hair and enters the lottery race as a man. No one suspects anything until a handsome blond starts dogging her and asking a lot of questions.Connor Brennan is only in the lottery race as a favor to his father watching out for the troublemakers and stragglers. Pretty soon he finds himself tagging along after Hank Boyd, a kid who couldn't possibly be older than eighteen, three years too young for the lottery and for the race.A girl out to prove a point and a man who thinks he's just fallen in love with another man are about to ride into a gunfight and prove that love can happen to anyone.

A feud between two ranching families. A tragedy that no one saw coming.Juliet Capshaw has always lived in the shadow of her brothers, trying to be the third son her father has always wanted. When her mother dies she realizes her only chance at happiness is getting married and leaving home. Then she meets Rome Montgomery, the youngest son of the Montgomerys. It's love at first sight for both of them.Rome Montgomery falls in love with Julie Blue the moment he meets her. Marriage is bliss until he discovers her real name is Juliet Capshaw, youngest daughter of Hudson Capshaw, his family's enemy. In a moment of stupidity, he throws her out and sends her packing only to learn a week later that she died in a freak accident that also took the life of their unborn child.A shopkeeper living under an assumed name with her five year-old daughter. A shopper buying gifts for his brother. Two people who never expected to see each other again are about to be reunited.

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.

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 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.

A handsome widower with two small kids. A beautiful orphan with three siblings. Two hundred acres to farm between them.Olivia Cooper has had a crush on Milo Brewster for most of her life. When he marries and then his wife dies leaving him with two small children, she knows he will never be the same. But then tragedy strikes her own family when her parents are suddenly killed in a freak accident. Now she has one hundred and twenty acres to farm and three kids to raise.Milo Brewster is no stranger to tragedy or raising children all alone, so he makes one small suggestion to Olivia Cooper on how to get hired hands to work her farm. Before he knows it, she's hired forty of them and the rest of the town is struggling to work their own land. Then she shocks everyone by entering the lottery with the hopes of marrying an experienced farm hand.What starts as the seed of love on Lottery Day sprouts, wilts, and sprouts again as two people in love struggle to find their way through tragedy and to each other.