According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian-born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness-is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations-looking, listening, touching, and asking-something a man can never do with a female patient. From...

solde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. But her assassination attempt is thwarted, and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court. Except it isn't the...

Lenora Farnsworth is desperate to escape the drudgery of life in Boston. A life that would have her marry for family ties, not love. She follows her father to help him keep track of the mines in the budding town of Blessings, California. There are no drawing rooms and stuffy suitors to get in the way of her dreams. Money means nothing if she must give up her independence to keep it. Victor is a man on the run from his past. His history is only...

Single and pregnant, Annie Malloy is in a heap of trouble. Making matters worse, the baby's father is an outlaw. For this Kansas pioneer girl who fancies herself a "modern woman", there is only one way out ... to accept sheriff Jesse Harden's marriage proposal.

Spunky young Ruth Priggish is on the run from an 80-year-old suitor. Her only hope of eluding him is to seek help from an unwilling protector, U.S. Marshall Dylan McCall.