Kristi Garrett has just finished training to become a nurse when tragedy strikes. When a handsome stranger offers her a job as the medical attendant for a long trail drive in New Mexico, she jumps at the chance to leave her sorrow filled home for adventure and maybe a new beginning.

Sign up to my email list and get free short stories! http://www.KateCarsonBooks.com There are no secrets that time does not reveal. - Jean Racine It began with a dram of whiskey, rumored to be cursed, which took the life of a Scottish Highland heir in the 18th century on the day of his wedding- a curse that brought great tragedy to the MacLeod clan. In modern-day Scotland, a single vial still exists.  Eager to make a name for herself at a popular tourism magazine, Emma Webster accepts a dare from James Duncan, a dashing bartender, to take “just a sip” of the artifact.  Her growing trust and affection for this stranger blinds Emma, as she brazenly agrees to taste the cursed whiskey.  Before she knows it, Emma is sent spiraling back in time, finding herself just days before the fated  MacLeod wedding.  Suddenly cast into the lands of the MacLeod clan, Emma must find her place in their world and learn who cursed the dram in the first place and why.  With the MacLeods in danger, Emma has only a few days to befriend the Laird and his family, before the MacLeod clan is met with the tragedy that she learned about hundreds of years in the future. But Emma isn't alone.   As she begins to unravel bartender James' role in both her past and future Emma begins to question whether their meeting was chance... or destiny? And whether their budding relationship might be just the luck she needs to solve the mystery. Sign up to my email list and get free short stories! http://www.KateCarsonBooks.com

This is a very short story in remembrance of past memories that tugs at the heart. It is a collection of fictional stories that will mean something different to everyone who reads it. I hope you all enjoy.

Clarissa Langston loved a man for four years only to be dumped mercilessly. Now, although she still believes in love, she is afraid of getting hurt the second time...until she meets the French man Nicholas Renoir who introduces her to an adventure she never expected... Nicholas Renoir is known as the shadow by both his family and his employees because even though he is around, he never associates with anyone other than his nephew, Christian. He is used to getting what he wants and when he wants it. People tend to his every whim until the day he is scolded by a beautiful, corky and loose tongued Miss Langston. She was something entirely different from what he was used to and he wants her all too himself...even if it means a forced engagement...

When the beautiful but impoverished Fenella Hawke takes up the position of Companion to the elderly Dowager Duchess of Wyndlesham, she is unprepared for the hostile attitude of the current Duke. The handsome and arrogant Devlin Deverell suspects Fenella has secrets to hide. From the moment they meet, Devlin and Fenella experience an overpowering and frightening attraction. They try to fight their growing arousal, but find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. However, when Lady Penelope Vane, Devlin's extremely jealous mistress, discovers that Devlin's attentions are wandering, she sets in motion a ruthless plot to discredit Fenella, with the help of her ally, the rakish Sir Marcus Solesby.

When the arrogant stranger Bess is forced to marry unexpectedly becomes a duke, she'll find herself at odds with her growing feelings as he hunts for a killer. ***** Sharp-tongued Elizabeth 'Bess' Jones is perfectly content living on her lonesome in a tiny village south of Derbyshire. She works as a nurse, owns a small home, and finds the label of 'spinster' an agreeable trade for her independence. But when her entire life is uprooted in an instant, she only has one person to blame: her new husband, Emmett Wilde, who was caught in a compromising situation with her. And now, despite his promise to fake a death certificate after their wedding--to free her of any duty to him or their marriage bed--he sends for her in the dead of night with startling news: his father has been murdered, and he is now the Duke of Ascot with a wife he can no longer deny... [[Word Count: 60,000-70,000 words]] [[Cover designed by Ren Tachibana]]