Lori Beasley Bradley was born in 1958 in Benton, Illinois, a small town in the southern part of the state. Her mother was from the same area, but her father came from Alabama. Lori has a great love for the South and has traveled extensively, studying the histories of most of the southern states.
Lori hopes that you too will fall in love with the South and Old West through her writing, and that you will be entertained with each and every one of her books.
While recovering from a failed marriage, Shannon Duncan wins the lottery. Buying a new car and wardrobe, she travels to what was supposed to be her and her husband Ken's retirement property.
Times are changing around Roxie and Mattie. The two are barely surviving the bitter winters in the unforgiving American frontier. With Mattie's help, Roxie is moving forward and putting her life together, piece by piece.
Mattie Wallace is rejected by her family and her community, when she refuses to marry one brother - because she loves the other. Labeled a trollop and run out of town, she finds herself on the road with meager possessions and little money.
When recently divorced Casey Miller meets Tucker Riley - son of a famous actor - he invites her to visit the old set of his father's famous show, which has been turned into an entertainment venue.
Angelique Clairvoux lives in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, free of the slavery in other parts of the south. Living together with her grandmother, she practices voodoo and makes her living telling fortunes and selling charms and remedies.
Lissa Carter's mother died giving birth to her, and never told anyone who the father is. In the reading of her grandmother's will, Lissa inherits the Crimson Creek Mercantile and a large sum of money.
Farmgirl Lynnette Humphry's life changes when she submits herself as a mail-order bride, and receives a proposal from handsome Wyoming rancher Jacob Hardy.
Forty-year-old Callie Jamison thinks she has a good life as a rancher's wife, until her husband divorces her for a younger woman who can give him the children Callie never did.
When successful author Sherri Lambert moves back to her hometown after 40 years, she doesn't expect to run into high school heartthrob Dylan Roberts - or to the visions that haunted her childhood.