Susan Leigh Carlton

Susan Leigh Carlton

Susan was born in Rock Hill, SC. She attended Purdue University. She has traveled throughout the US, and has visited 47 states. She began writing in August, 2012 and currently has 185 books on Amazon, most in her name and another pen name. To serve more readers, all of her books are in Kindle Unlimited (KU). Her writings are now primarily in the Western Romance, Time Travel, and Historical Romance genres. She has visited most of the settings in her books. Susan is an avid reader, and a history buff, primarily interested in the Civil War era. She spent a lot of time researching her family history, and is a member of the DAR, the Huguenot Society, and the Barons of the Magna Carta.


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Almost Valentine: A Sweet Historical Romance Comedy

Almost Valentine
A Sweet Historical Romantic Comedy
Becky Hartwell has learned that the safest way to love is quietly—from a distance, with expectations carefully lowered and feelings neatly tucked away. Thomas Reed is kind in all the ways that matter and hopeless in the one that counts: saying what he feels. For weeks, they circle one another...

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Because He Stayed: The Lives the Light Touches (The Lives the Light Touched Book 1)

Some lives are changed by miracles.
Others are changed by the people who live because of them.
When Eliza Moore receives notice of an unexpected inheritance in Montana Territory, she is stunned to learn that the land belonged to a man she never knew—someone who appeared suddenly, built a homestead, and left behind no family, no explanations, and...

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When the Light No Longer Calls: A Time-Travel Romance Series (Book Three) (The Light Trilogy 3)

Anna Bennett was only four years old when the Light brought Ethan into their valley—an impossible stranger who became her father and the living proof that miracles sometimes choose ordinary places. Raised in the quiet certainty of frontier life, Anna learned early that love is an act of faith, and belonging is something you choose.
Years later,...

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Chapter 1

The Last Straw

Eliza's alarm blared at 5:00 AM, jolting her from a fitful sleep. For a moment, she stared at the water-stained ceiling of her studio apartment, disoriented. The locket she'd found last night lay heavy against her chest, its silver chain tangled around her neck from tossing and turning. Christmas morning. The thought brought no joy, only a hollow ache and the pressing weight of reality.

She silenced the alarm and forced herself to rise from the mattress on the floor. No...

Chapter 1: The Last Straw

Sarah's apartment smelled like failure.

That was the first thought that crossed her mind when she opened the door at 9:47 PM, arms laden with grocery bags containing exactly $23.47 worth of food that would have to last until her next paycheck. The smell wasn't literal—not garbage or mildew or anything she could spray away with the dollar-store air freshener she couldn't afford this week. It was the scent of dreams deferred, of potential curtailed, of a life that had...

The Firefighter Who Rescued Christmas: Chapter 1  Empty

Empty Cupboards

The fluorescent lights of Brennan's Department Store cast everything in a harsh, clinical glow that made Sarah Mitchell's eyes ache. Or maybe that was just the exhaustion. She'd been on her feet for seven hours straight, and her shift didn't end for another three. "Excuse me, miss?"

An elderly woman held up a cashmere scarf, price tag dangling. "Do you have this in navy?" Sarah summoned a smile from somewhere deep, somewhere that still remembered how to pretend everything was...

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