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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A Wind River Promise: A Sweet Historical Western Mail-Order Bride Romance

A Wind River Promise
A Sweet Historical Mail-Order Bride Romance
When Abigail Carter answers a marriage advertisement from a Wyoming rancher, she believes she knows exactly what awaits her: hard work, a quiet life, and a husband she will learn to respect.
What she does
not expect is Daniel Mercer.
Daniel is nothing like the struggling farmer Abby...

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Captive of the Storm: A Dark, Historical Time Travel Romance (The Bitterroot Veil Book 1)

The Bitterroot Veil, Book One
A Dark Historical Time-Travel Romance
Eliza Morgan enters Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains seeking quiet after loss. Instead, a blizzard unlike any other drives her toward a strange, waiting light—and into the past.
She wakes in
1874 Montana Territory, half-frozen and rescued by a man the valley fears.
Caleb Blackwood...

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The Imperfect Storm: A Time-Crossed Historical Romance

A Time-Crossed Historical Romance
When U.S. Navy pilot
Kate is torn from the sky by an unexplained atmospheric phenomenon, she doesn’t crash—she falls through time, landing outside a remote U.S. Army cavalry fort in the 1870s. Stranded in an era that has no place for her training, her uniform, or her secrets, Kate knows one thing with absolute...

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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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