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 Most Inconvenient Visit: A Wind River Romantic Comedy (Wind River Mail-Order Brides Book 2)

A Most Inconvenient Visit
by Susan Leigh Carlton
A Wind River Romantic Comedy
Margaret Whitlock does not believe in foolish decisions.
So when her sister Ella abandons the order and predictability of Brevard, Missouri for a life in the untamed uncertainty of Wind River, Margaret does the only sensible thing—she goes west to see for herself exactly...

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The Misplaced Bride: A Mail-Order Bride Romantic Comedy (Wind River Mail-Order Brides Book 1)

The Misplaced Bride

A Mail-Order Bride Romance

When Ella Whitlock boards the stage in Brevard, Missouri, she carries everything she owns in a single trunk—and a plan as carefully organized as her ledger columns. A matrimonial correspondence service has matched her with a respectable gentleman in Wyoming Territory, and Ella intends to fulfill the...

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The Editor’s Truth: A Historical Romance / Time-Travel Thriller (Wind River Romances)

“The Editor’s Truth”
A Historical Romance / Time-Travel Thriller

When investigative reporter Hannah Rowan discovers her boyfriend’s betrayal on the same night she’s supposed to meet a promising dating match, she never makes it to the coffee shop. A catastrophic pileup on a Wyoming interstate sends her not to a hospital—but to 1872.
She wakes on...

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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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