THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a light contemporary romance by New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Marilyn Brant, who also penned the award-winning and Jane Austen-inspired novels ACCORDING TO JANE and PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND THE PERFECT MATCH.When successful building contractor Austin Knightley returns to his hometown of Crystal Corners, Minnesota after a decade away, he vows to avoid pampered and popular types like his old high-school crush Emma Westwood—...

ONE NIGHT LOVE AFFAIR is Book 5 in Marilyn Brant’s Mirabelle Harbor series, but this book and all of the contemporary romances in this series can be enjoyed as stand-alone stories.**Note: This is a steamy romantic novella with adult language and situations, and it's intended for mature audiences.**After her first marriage ended in a divorce that left her heart in tiny shreds, Sharlene Michaelsen Boyd vowed to keep her distance from men, at least emotionally. An occ...

A short story collection about love, relationships, friends, family, and finding oneself by New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Marilyn Brant! This contains 12 stories and 1 novelette, including "The Firestarter," "Persistence of Memory," "Sometimes a Fantasy," "Love's Fingerprints," and the award-winning "The Wish Box."

STRANGER ON THE SHORE is Book 4 in Marilyn Brant’s Mirabelle Harbor series, but this story and all of the contemporary romances in this series can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels.On the verge of turning forty and having just lost her job, Marianna Gregory flees Mirabelle Harbor for the summer with little more than a suitcase, her beat-up car, and the blessings of her good friend Olivia Michaelsen. Her ex-husband is living a new life in California. Her college-aged daughter is spen...

Who needs a man when you have a pint of fresh Wisconsin ice cream and full access to Cary Grant on The Movie Channel?That's what second-grade teacher and MGM-devotee Caitlin Walsh believes. After being left at the altar by her ambitious rat of an ex-fiancé, Cait has rededicated her life to her students and to the citizens of small-town Ridgewood Grove.But when the school's new financial director, Garrett Ellis, cancels the much-beloved Harvest Hoopla festival, Cait rallies ...

Funny, touching and steamy by turns, this multi-book boxed set contains three original contemporary romances by national bestselling author Marilyn Brant!The stand-alone novels included in this collection are:On Any Given Sundae -- a light romantic comedy between a shy dessert cookbook writer and the ex-football player turned restaurant owner she once had a crush on, as the two of them run an ice cream parlor together for the summer. (A Top 100 Bestseller on both Barnes & N...

A pair of fast-paced romantic comedies with an Austen twist, both written by New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Marilyn Brant! These two contemporary romances are companion novels but they can be enjoyed as stand-alone stories.Pride, Prejudice and the Perfect Match:A single mother and an ER doctor meet on an Internet dating site—each for reasons that have little to do with finding their perfect match—in this modern, Austen-inspired story. It's a tribute to the pow...

FRIDAY MORNINGS AT NINE is a standalone women’s fiction story about:Three close friendsTwo competing love interests (each!) &One of life’s biggest “What-if?” questions...Each Friday morning at the Indigo Moon Café, Jennifer, Bridget and Tamara meet to swap stories about marriage, kids and work. But one day, spurred by recent emails from her college ex, Jennifer poses questions they’ve never discussed before. What if they all married the wrong man? What if they...

THE ROAD AND BEYOND is the expanded book-club edition of THE ROAD TO YOU by New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Marilyn Brant. This novel contains not only the completed original story set in the late 1970s, but it also includes the brand-new present-day tale of Aurora, now a mature and married woman with two adult sons, who must confront her worst parental nightmare. One Disappearance Had Been Enough To Last Her A Lifetime… Aurora Gray is no stranger to tragedy. In the summer of...

Nothing tops the sweetness of an unexpected love... Elizabeth “Please Don’t Call me Lizzy” Daniels and Roberto “You’d Better Call me Rob” Gabinnarri may have grown up together, but other than that they have nothing in common. So, when Elizabeth's uncle Siegfried and Rob's uncle Pauly rush off to Europe for a month, temporarily relinquishing the reins of their ice cream shop to their respective niece and nephew, the unlikely pair tries to make the best of being stuck together. Can hot summe...

GOING FOR IT is Book 7 in Marilyn Brant's Mirabelle Harbor series and is a romantic crossover novella that can be enjoyed as a standalone story.Mirabelle Harbor meets Sapphire Falls...Journalist Trevor Cayne is working on the biggest feature story of his career, and he's on a road trip from his home in the lakeside Chicago suburb of Mirabelle Harbor to Colorado Springs to get the final details. But a quick stop to see his grandmother in Sapphire Falls threatens to derail hi...

In Marilyn Brant's smart, wildly inventive fiction debut, one modern woman in search of herself receives advice from the ultimate expert in matters of the heart: Jane Austen.It begins one day in sophomore English class, just as Ellie Barnett's teacher is assigning Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. From nowhere comes a quiet "tsk" of displeasure. The target: Sam Blaine, the cute bad boy who's teasing Ellie mercilessly, just as he has since kindergarten. Entirely unbidden, as Jane m...