Books with author M R Callahan

A naive shopkeeper. A corrupt rancher. A cattle stampede.Colleen Middleton doesn't really want to enter the lottery, but Simon Kaufman talks her into it. One moment she's in the middle of a huge wedding day party, the next she's in the middle of a dangerous cattle stampede trying to save her cat. Nothing could've prepared her for the pain Simon will cause her...King Laramy is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He saves Simon Kaufman's wife, but not before she suffers serious bone-breaking injuries. When Kaufman callously casts her aside, King swoops in and nurses her back to health. But no good deed goes unpunished when Colleen falls head over heels in love with King. The last thing he needs is a woman with hero worship. Or is it? Before long he's the one head over heels in love and he has only a few months to find her before Lottery Day.A woman determined to disappear. A man determined to find her. A cat who has no clue anyone's looking for her.

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.

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 beautiful bride. Two personalities. A deadly secret.Dr. Adam Jekyll has it all: a beautiful wife, a baby on the way, and a thriving medical practice. Then three months into their marriage, his wife Jessica Hide goes to sleep and never wakes. Amanda Faraday goes to sleep on December 23rd and wakes up 19 months later. During those 19 months her alter personality Jessica has taken her hundreds of miles from home, married a handsome doctor, and gotten pregnant. Something terrible must've happened to make her personality split, but finding out could make Amanda disappear forever, allowing Jessica to permanently take her place.What do you do when the enemy you fear is part of yourself?

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 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.

Sixteen men. Seven women. For a lottery those were good odds.A woman with beautiful blue eyes. A man ready to betray her.Blue Bennett enters the lottery for one reason--Jacob's promise that he'll draw her name and she'll be able to stay in Walnut Ridge near Gram. Then Jacob does the unthinkable--he draws another woman's name.Blue is everything Tad Ingersoll ever wanted in a wife, but he breaks one promise after another until eventually it ends in tragedy. For two years he tries to find her. Then she asks the Brennanmen for a divorce. Now he has three weeks to make her fall in love with him or he'll lose her forever.

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.

Hank Boyd isn't who he appears to be. He's really Hannah Boyd in disguise. After marrying and tossing back three husbands, her sister has made a reputation for the Boyd women that has carried down to Hank. The only way to avoid this stigma is to win the Christmas Lottery race and choose a husband for herself.Connor Brennan is only in the Christmas Lottery race as a favor to his father Magnus, to make sure the runts don't get hurt. Little Hank Boyd couldn't be more than fifteen years old, six years too young for the lottery, so Connor becomes his shadow to protect the kid. But when thieves and murderers kidnap a group of competitors and start shooting, it's little Hank who comes to the rescue.A girl out to prove a point and a man who thinks he's just fallen in love with another man. Two people who are more alike than they think are about to prove that love can happen anywhere, even in the middle of a dangerous horse race.

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 then ends up married to the right 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. How's a guy supposed to fall in love with his wife when she keeps running away?

A lonely wife. An angry husband. An unforgiving town.Beth Brennan is deeply in love with her husband, but he's never home. A year goes by and it gets worse, not better, so she does the unthinkable--she sleeps with another man to get Murphy's attention. But nothing could've prepared her for Murphy's rage or the town's cruelty. For the next year and a half they will make her life miserable until one of them finally shoots her.Murphy Brennan loves his wife, but he loves his job too. Time just seems to slip away from him until it's too late. Suddenly his wife is sleeping with another man and he hates her for it. For nineteen months he lives and breathes to bring Beth pain and their neighbors are only too happy to join in. He never expected it to go so far or cost him so much.For five years Murphy Brennan will pray to God for a second chance. Then magically that prayer is answered in the cruelest of ways.