Elizbeth Humphrey wants a husband. Her expectations are not outlandish; all she asks is that he be reasonably handsome, reasonably wealthy and completely kind. Her brothers have offered their assistance, and it's given her hope that perhaps there is a man out there who might want her for a wife. But alas, the first man she meets after recommitting to the battle against spinsterhood is reasonably handsome, reasonably naked and completely soaked through and stranded on their front steps. He also has a head-wound and no memory of who he is, but Elizabeth Humphrey has larger mysteries to solve; namely, the mystery of who she might marry. Book 1 of the Humphrey Chronicles! Completed: March 2022 (~83000 words)

After spending years trying to better the world as a U.S. Marshall, Anson Colter has given up on ever making a difference. He has turned in his badge and sold everything he owned except his trusted horse and is going to start over in California. Perhaps there is still enough gold for him to strike it rich and live a quiet life, alone and away from everyone. All he knows is he's through trying to help people. That is until he finds a woman, all alone in the middle of the prairie. He could just leave her there and pretend he never saw her, but will his conscience let him when he knows just how dangerous it could be?

Sophie Landvik's life is going just how she planned. She has a great job and a great apartment in the city. She has everything she ever wanted and wouldn't change a single thing. So, what's a girl to do when she's mysteriously transported to Norway during what appears to be the middle ages? Can she get home, or will she have to keep herself from killing the pompous Chief's son, who thinks he's Odin's gift to women? And why do they keep saying she's the one from an ancient prophesy?

Having endured years of being bullied by him, when Lucas left town to work for the Union Pacific Railroad, all Allie could think was 'good riddance'. She hoped he was gone for good and she'd never have to see his face again. But now that the transcontinental railroad is compete, he returns to town. All Allie wants to do is avoid him, but Lucas wonders if there could be something between them and won't give her the space she wants. Trying to balance helping her father work the farm and helping her best friend who has a new suitor, it's hard for her to believe him when he apologizes for past wrongs. Can she trust that he's changed or is it just another one of his horrible pranks?

A man without a name. Without a history. Without any recollection of who or what he was. Fragments had been left behind, cut into his flesh with brutal force. Left for dead in the untamed vastness of the Australian wilderness, his only chance for survival comes in the form of a mute, disfigured Aboriginal woman. She has secrets to protect, secrets that involve more than his past.

The future marquess, lord Bradford is too wise to fall for any of his mother's marital schemes. With his icy English reserve and domineering personality he has managed to keep marriage minded Misses and their cunning mamas at bay. But with his father being ill with consumption, his mother is determined to see him settled and fills their manor with dozens of marriageable ladies. He easily dodges all the traps laid out by young Misses but then a mishap in the stables leaves him honor bound to marry a certain Miss Hughes. His bride-to-be is not too enamoured with him, as he had expected. She would rather be a spinster than be his wife. Hurt by her refusal, he is determined to show her what a great husband he could have been and means to make stubborn Vicar daughter repent. Katherine Hughes is an orphaned daughter of a Vicar After her parents' untimely death, her maternal uncle has taken to her care. Her aunt and her cousins however, deem her beneath them and often treat her with unkindness. When they are all invited to stay at Wimbledon manor, home of the noble Bradford family, she is strictly instructed by her aunt to make herself scarce as her cousins try to charm lord Bradford into proposing marriage. But fate keeps putting him in her way. When a mishap in the stables leads to a scandal, she is forced to be betrothed to lord Bradford. She fiercely refuses to accept such a fate for she knows deep down that a man of rank like him cannot truly love a girl like her. But lord Bradford wouldn't accept her refusal and makes her a counter offer which she accepts with reluctance. They will stay engaged till the end of summer and quietly break-off the engagement afterwards to avoid scandal. But will they break off the engagement or will they fall in love? Only time will tell

The Crown Trials have ended, but Willow is not going home to her family. Cornered by the golden king to accept a marriage she didn't choose, Willow is now betrothed to the prince of her nightmares, despite her lasting love for the forbidden prince of her dreams. An endless trial of diligence awaits when Willow must choose between her best friend, Heliac, and herself, all while a new secret must prevail. Golden blood is rare. So rare that only a few realize it exists, leaving only Willow's master, Arthur, to guide her to the truth behind the lies and a place that will give her all the answers she seeks - the cave where it all began. But whom can she trust? And what other lies have been told to mislead the World? Copyright © 2022 Tori R Hayes All Rights Reserved

After three years' imprisonment for high treason, a jaded princess is given one last chance of freedom through an arranged marriage to a foreign prince, but she quickly learns that she has traded one cage for another. __ Princess Alexandra has spent three years imprisoned in a tower for the crime of high treason, awaiting her execution. On the night she is to die, a reprieve comes: rather than be executed, she will be exiled to the far-away duchy of Selica to marry a foreign prince. It is a second chance. Her last chance. But in Selica, Princess Alexandra quickly realizes that she has traded one cage for another. The people of Selica despise her. Prince Marisuz, her husband, cares nothing for her. And the palace is full of dark secrets and dangerous conspiracies, which threaten not just Alexandra, but the home she can never return to.