Deeanne Gist

A Bride Most Begrudging

Published 2005-07-01 · 352 pages

"Set in 1640's Colonial Virginia, a marriage of convenience becomes most inconvenient when the bride proves more than the planter had bargained for"--Provided by publisher.

A Bride in the Bargain

Published 2009-06-01

In 1860s Seattle, a man with a wife could secure himself 640 acres of timberland. But because of his wife's untimely death, Joe Denton finds himself about to lose half of his claim. Still in mourning, his best solution is to buy one of those Mercer girls arriving from the East. A woman he'll marry in name but keep around mostly as a cook.Anna Ivey's journey west with Asa Mercer's girls is an escape from the griefs of her past. She's not supposed to be a bride, though, just a cook for the girls. But when they land, she's handed to Joe Denton and the two find themselves in a knotty situation.

Deep in the Heart of Trouble

Published 2008-06-01 · 384 pages

Tony Morgan's new job with Sullivan Oil finds him butting heads with Essie Spreckelmeyer, who runs her father's oil company and causes him problems when she contradicts his orders, drafts him into a bicycle race, and tangles with his ambitions.

It Happened at the Fair

Published 2013-04-28 · 457 pages

Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair's Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons while intently watching her lips.

Love on the Line

Published 2011-10-01

Rural switchboard operator Georgie Gail is proud of her independence in a man's world... which makes it twice as vexing when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder. Dashing Luke Palmer is more than he appears though. He's a Texas Ranger working undercover to infiltrate a notorious gang of train robbers. Repairing telephones and tangling with this tempestuous woman is the last thing he wants to do. But when his stakeout puts Georgia in peril, he realizes more than his job is on the line.

Maid to Match

Published 2010 · 461 pages

The Measure of a Lady

Published 2006-06-01 · 320 pages