Bøger af Peggy Mckenzie

Little did they know that their Christmas bargain would blur the lines... Brody Mason has it all-wealth, charm, and a successful business empire-but what he doesn't have is a date for his college friend's Christmas wedding. Desperate not to be a pawn in the groom's momzilla matchmaking scheme, Brody catches a break when his childhood best friend calls in a favor-show his kid sister around New York City at Christmas time. But when Annie arrives in town, she's no longer the tall, skinny girl he remembers. She's stunning...and he has to keep reminding himself she's off-limits. Annette Montclair is a smart, no-nonsense kind of girl with a laser-sharp focus on her medical career. But when her brother's best friend, the one she's crushed on for years, proposes an outlandish bargain, she can't help but be intrigued. After all, what could go wrong with helping the handsome playboy out for a few days? Little does she know, this whimsical adventure will turn her world upside down. As the wedding festivities unfold, Brody and Annie find themselves drawn to each other in a charming mix of banter and undeniable chemistry. Will their Christmas bargain blur the lines between friendship and something more?

Langley's Legacy - 1933 Can an arranged marriage between two feuding families create a new beginning and help them survive the catastrophic financial devastation of the Great Depression or will secrets and betrayal doom them all to failure? Maura Jackson has heard about the feud between her family and the Langleys since she could walk. Her papa made certain she knew every despicable detail. She wanted to hate Aidan Langley. She needed to hate him. It was her duty to her family to hate him. But, ever since that hot summer day when she and Aidan caught each other swimming nude, she has had a hard time convincing herself what she feels for Aidan Langley is hate. It feels like so much more. Now, her parents have agreed to a business arrangement with the Langleys. She and Aidan will marry and have a child-the link that will bind the families together. But can she keep her part of this arrangement without losing her heart to the handsome enemy? Aidan Langley's life had been pretty good up to this point. But when financial setbacks threaten to rob his family of everything his parents and the generations before them worked so hard to claim, he was agreeable to do just about anything-even when his parents asked him to marry Maura Jackson, the great niece of the man who accused his dad of ruining him and caused a black mark on his family's name. Could their union truly unite these two feuding families, or will their animosity toward each other tear them even farther apart? Aidan wasn't convinced it could work but he would do his duty to his family's legacy. One thing was for certain, his heart would never belong to Maura Jackson-and as soon as he lived up to his end of the bargain, he would set her free. A story of perseverance and discovering love in the last place you expected to find it. " Beare and Forbeare"

Charlotte Johnson spent most of her adult life working as a bartender and occasional card dealer in the Holy Moses Saloon. And in all those years, she had made it crystal clear to anyone who pushed that she wasn't one of the upstairs girls. But one night, she was forced to defend herself against a persistent customer who refused to take no for an answer. As a last resort, she hit him over the head with a spittoon bucket. It wasn't the first time she'd defended herself this way, but this time something went terribly wrong. Now, the man was dead. She was shocked by his death, but not nearly as shocked when the dead man's brother hired a crooked judge to sentence her to three years in a women's prison. She had no choice but to run.A widower with three angry children hell-bent on punishing him for their mother's death, U.S. Marshal, Jeremy Maxwell, feels like a man twice his age. He's painfully aware he's walking a fine line between a responsible father and a dedicated lawman. So, when a stranger arrives in his town in trouble and needing help, he's convinced she's the answer to his prayers. Her kind heart and beguiling eyes are what he's been searching for. But soon, his lawman's intuition tells him there's something she's not telling, and although the man in him wants to protect this woman no matter what, the lawman in him knows he has a duty to learn her secrets.It's simple. All he has to do is decide what matters most. His sense of duty or the love of this woman who may very well be the ruin of everything he holds dear.