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Marianne Spitzer

Regina Caulfield was unhappy with the choices facing her in life and with her stepmother’s overbearing attitude. She dreamed of adventures and finding a job in law enforcement, unheard of for a lady in 1871.

Luke Tucker was a seasoned Pinkerton agent and a ladies’ man. He loved his job as an agent and the freedom of working cases alone.

When Regina saw an editorial about the Denver offices of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency hiring women, she decided it was fate.

Neither Regina nor Luke were ready for the new rule: newly hired female agents must marry a seasoned agent for their first assignment.

Could an independent female agent and a protective male agent find love, or will their marriage of convenience end in disaster?

Julia Hamra

Barr26 Publishing, LLC

Pinkerton Matchmakers

An Agent for Regina

Katie Marie Clark

A desperate woman, determined to prove her worth to the agency. An ex-outlaw and seasoned agent who only works alone. When Mr. Archibald orders a marriage for the sake of the case (and agency), will these two be able to keep things strictly business, or will their marriage turn into something to last?

When Victoria Gordon finds out her brother, Detective Archibald Gordon, is pairing his agents with wives in an effort to integrate women into the field, she can’t pass up the opportunity to join the Pinkertons. Besides living a life on the outside, always looking in, Victoria’s admired one particular agent—Mav Jones—for far too long. With the help of her brother’s secretary, Victoria finds a way to scheme her way into the agency, but can she scheme her way into the heart of one of the agency’s most dangerous men?

Mav Jones isn’t happy about the idea of female agents; he’s known too many silly women. So when Archie convinces Mav to marry for the sake of a case, Mav agrees but only under certain conditions. He determines the marriage is strictly business, but his new wife is surprisingly familiar, all too beautiful, and in deeper trouble than she realizes.

Thrust into the 1871-San Francisco world of stolen and smuggled goods, enemies and allies, truth and lies, can Mav and Victoria navigate their way without falling into harm’s way and into each other’s arms?

Chris Kenworthy

An Agent for Victoria

Marie Higgins

There’s only one way to escape Cecily Sheldon’s insane family – take on someone else’s identity. Along with this new identity comes a new job. Of course, to become a Pinkerton Agent, she must marry a male agent who will train her. Now she needs to keep her true identity hidden from Broderick Tanner for fear he’ll arrest her along with her father and brothers. Perhaps living a double life wasn’t a good choice after all.

Emma Faye

An Agent for Cecily

A seasoned agent, dreading the prospect of marrying to keep his job, and a feisty woman determined to make her own way in life. Will they learn to trust each other and find their own happy ending?

Delilah Fulmer is bent on escaping the rowdy home of her childhood. With little to recommend herself besides scrappiness and grit, she answers an ad to become a Pinkerton agent. But after she arrives at the Denver office, Delilah finds out a rare stipulation for her employment—she must marry her trainer. And not just any trainer, but the man she bested in a friendly wager.

Jack Davis takes the news of marrying a female agent like most of the other men employed by the Denver Pinkerton Office—with complete dread. However, when a feisty and particularly lovely woman shows up a day early, Jack begins to warm to the idea.

But when so much is on the line, including their very lives as they try to catch a dangerous gang of outlaws, will Delilah and Jack be able to put away foolish pride for a chance at lasting happiness?

An Agent for Delilah

Laura Beers

Widow Darcy Spencer abhors the very idea of marriage, but to become a Pinkerton agent, she must marry her trainer. She's assured that it's in name only, so she begrudgingly takes the position. Although her new husband is infuriating, she’s determined to prove herself worthy as an agent – and as a person.

Agent Porter Shaw can’t help but tease his tight-lipped, stubborn bride. She keeps her secrets locked up so dang tight that even his usual charm fails to break through her defenses. When they are assigned a case at a cattle ranch in the Rocky Mountains, they quickly discover that someone is very serious about keeping their own secrets buried.

Can a jaded widow and a cocky agent learn to work together, and maybe even find love?

An Agent for Darcy

Patricia PacJac Carroll

Arabella needs a job to pay for her sister's medical care at the sanatorium in Denver. After hiring Pinkerton agents to help her rescue her sister, she goes to the Pinkerton Headquarters for a job and is hired easily enough. Then, she sees that she is paired with Gerard Fletcher. Worse, the agency marries her to the man and sends her on a case with him.

Gerard Fletcher decides since his success with rescuing the mail-order brides from a Mexican brothel, he goes to the Pinkerton Headquarters in Denver for a job and is quickly hired. Then he sees Arabella and they are married. Great. She's beautiful, even if she does have an attitude. Then he gets the case, and his world crumbles. He's sent after his old partner to catch him in a swindle. Great. The very man that Gerard swindled and owes money to.

Love Never Fails, even as Gerard and Arabella do in this sweet romance.

An Agent for Arabella

Rebecca Connolly

Alexandra Drake is determined that her spoiled, Southern upbringing will have no effect on her new life as one of the few female Pinkerton agents. Tucker Waite is convinced that the wealthy heiress has no idea what she is in for and will get him killed. From the moment they say ‘I do’ and marry for the sake of their first assignment in Oregon, Alexandra will not let Tucker order her around, and Tucker refuses to let Alexandra have her own way. When every battle between them creates sparks, and every step in their mission puts them in danger, will they be able to avoid igniting something that could jeopardize both themselves and the innocent lives they're trying to save?

An Agent for Alexandra

Her father was gunned down by a ruthless gang. Enraged, Rosalie Addis leaves behind everything she knows, including her fiancé, to become a bounty hunter. She rounds up the members of the gang, one-by-one, until only the elusive leader remains. Hell-bent on vengeance, her heart is not prepared when her betrothed, Paden Brooks, shows up with the tip she's been waiting for. The only catch is that she must marry him.

Paden Brooks has a plan: convince Rosalie to marry him, train her to become a Pinkerton agent, then never let her go! For four years, he's waited for his beloved to return to him. Finally, when a tip arrives at The Pinkerton Detective Agency, he knows this is his chance to bring her home. However, he quickly discovers Rosalie is not the same girl he knew and loved so long ago. Will that alter his plan?

When the time comes for Rosalie to make a choice, will she choose vengeance or Paden?

An Agent for Rosalie

Sabrina is running from her past. He is running from his future. Sabrina Jones never expected to be set free from her life as a saloon girl. Thanks to a gift from Rand Ketcham, a notorious bounty hunter, she was able to leave her old life in the saloons. Colorado was where she wanted to go. What to do was still a mystery until she reached Denver and saw an ad in the paper for women to apply as Pinkerton agents. She figured she’d be good. All those years in the saloon had taught her how to read people. That ought to come in handy as a detective.

Tom Wesley liked the free, wild life. He was a Pinkerton agent and good at it. Not many would challenge his gun or fist. Only his father, Preacher Jacob Wesley, was a strict man. Tom had left because of his rules. But the old man still had strings attached to him. Growing up under the Word of the Lord to obey your father was glued to Tom’s soul. So far, he hadn’t outrun them, though he’d tried awfully hard. He had until he was thirty. At least, that was what his father had told him. Tom tried to duck the words, but they haunted him. Then again, he was only twenty-nine. When their lives collide, Tom and Sabrina are thrown together in a case that will test them both.

An Agent for Sabrina

Caroline Clemmons

She craves adventure, but this may be too much…

His job means the world to him…

Capturing jewel thieves will test them…

Magdala leaps at the opportunity to become a Pinkerton agent. Learning the position requires a paper marriage shocks but doesn’t deter her. Maggie plans to get an annulment before her unusual family learns of the situation. She’s determined to prove she has the grit to be an excellent investigator. But, why does she have to be partnered with the one man who has been rude to her?

Douglas “Cloud” Ryan loves being a Pinkerton agent. Otherwise, he’d never go along with his boss’ crazy plan to marry him to a female agent. He’s certain women have no business dealing with criminals. After barely surviving the stagecoach trip from Denver to San Antonio Maggie needs to stay in the background and let him solve the case. He has reasons to distrust women, especially women like Maggie.

Can Maggie and Cloud catch the jewel thieves plaguing an historic San Antonio hotel without becoming victims? Will they take a chance on the love growing between them?

An Agent for Magdala

Alexina Kimball is an experienced Pinkerton Agent, and arguably one of the best agents at the Chicago office. She works alone and always catches the bad guys. However, everything changes when she's transferred to the Denver office and is assigned a partner.

Finally, Dawson Wayne’s dream of becoming a Pinkerton Agent is becoming a reality. The only catch is that he must marry his trainer… a beautiful, infuriating woman.

Together, they're sent to the small town of Hidden Ditch, Kansas. Their case: discover the whereabouts of two schoolteachers who've gone missing. As the stakes increase, can Alexina and Dawson work together to solve the case, or are they both too stubborn to recognize that there is more on the line than just the missing schoolteachers?

Can two headstrong agents learn to trust each other’s instincts when love is on the line?

An Agent for Alexina

Mark Johnson didn’t want a wife, but his Pinkerton boss demanded he take one. Then Mark saw Evangeline, and she stole his heart. Impossible as it may seem, he loved her.

Evangeline stared at Mark, but there was no love coming from her eyes. To go along with Archie’s deal, she’d marry Mark. Besides, she had plans. She needed to be a Pinkerton agent, and like it or not, she needed Mark to free her brother.

Another sweet and clean historical romance with some fun, faith, and always a happily-ever-after.

An Agent for Evangeline

Christine Sterling

A beloved secretary, the Pinkerton detective she’s been secretly in love with; the event that will force them to confront their feelings for each other.

Marianne Chapman has been in love with her broody boss for years. Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to return her feelings. Determined to squash her infatuation, she leaves Denver, CO for the Pinkerton home office, convinced time and distance will cure her of her traitorous feelings towards Denver's lead agent.

Archibald Gordon doesn’t know how to deal with the desire he has for his fiery redheaded assistant. He has always treated their relationship strictly professional, regardless of how she consumes his every thought. When Marianne suddenly leaves to help the Female Detective Bureau, Archie has to admit that he can’t survive without her. When Archie’s best friend is kidnapped, he asks her to help him solve the case.

Will Marianne help Archie solve the one case that is too close for comfort? When a disaster threatens, will Archie be able to overcome his reservations and convince Marianne to give them a chance?

An Agent for Marianne

Pinkerton Agent Vincent Brooks wants only one thing – to stop the southern rebels from uprising and creating another war. His assignment is to be the temporary sheriff of Bonham, Texas, which seems easy enough… until he runs across a woman he’d met eight months earlier, Francis Carlton, sneaking around in the dark, spying on the bank. Not only is the confounded woman following him around and prying into his Pinkerton business, but she has a strange way of filling his mind with desirous thoughts that shouldn’t be there. He can’t be distracted, and yet she seems to accomplish being his greatest diversion quite well. Frances Carlton is determined to show Agent Brooks that she would make an excellent Pinkerton agent. Eventually, she’d make him a wonderful wife, too. However, the stubborn man refuses her help, and he reminds her of that every time she gets in his way. It’s difficult to focus on catching the outlaws when Vincent is around since he seeks out her kisses almost on a daily basis. Now it is up to her to change his mind – and his heart.

An Agent for Frances

When Lydia Wood is left at the altar, she believes something beyond her groom’s control has happened. Two years with no word have hardened her heart. She has to get away from her parents’ constant urging her to choose an acceptable husband and wed. Becoming a Pinkerton agent suits her plans.

Pinkerton Agent Jake Hunter has recovered from injuries that put him in a coma and a long convalescence. He realizes Lydia would have been injured had she been with him. He vows to distance himself from the one person who means the world to him to protect her.

When they are paired for an investigation of bank robbers they must follow the trail to a dangerous hang out of men on the run. Can the two successfully pull off their charade and capture the robbers or will this trip confirm Jake’s worst fears?

An Agent for Lydia

Scarlett St. John is a lonely rich woman who can’t seem to follow society’s rules on being proper. She relies on her grandfather and his servants to keep her entertained from day to day until… an ancient artifact is stolen from her grandfather and a Pinkerton Agent arrives to solve the crime. Although Travis Hancock is very handsome and charming, he had broken her heart as a young girl, and she doesn’t think she can forgive him. But when the Pinkerton agent involves her in the case of searching for the priceless artifact, she’s anxious to find her grandfather’s ancient shield. Suddenly, the hunt becomes exciting. Working with an agent isn’t that terrible –quite the opposite, in fact. The sweetly conniving man just might change her mind about forgiving him after all.

An Agent for Scarlett

A quiet woman with no desire to become an agent; an agent with no intention of ever having a partner, and the case that cooks up surprises.

Pearl Bolton has enough on her plate, she doesn’t want to add anything else. She loves her job as a cook for the Pinkerton’s Denver office. At night she rushes home to help take care of her invalid father. The last thing she needs is a husband, no matter how temporary. What she didn't count on was a case that involved her two passions: baking and Pinkerton Agent Zeke Preston.

Zeke Preston has a crush on the shy cook, and he has the extra ten pounds to prove it! He wishes he could get her to open up to him, but Pearl doesn’t appear to need anyone or anything. Every time Zeke comes around, it’s as though Pearl avoids him. He knows exactly what to do to get her attention. Someone has sabotaged a national baking competition and he needs her to help solve the case. The fact he must marry her is just a bonus!

Does Pearl assist Zeke in finding the saboteur? When Pearl is the victim of a crime, will Zeke be able to protect her and solve the case? Will their marriage end at the case’s conclusion, or will they bake up something new together?

An Agent for Pearl

Ulyssa Long has been a Pinkerton agent for seven years. She likes working alone. and is ruthless in solving the cases she’s been given. She is surprised when she is called into the Denver office to take on Sam Paxton as her partner in training. She refuses but is told that she can look for another job if she doesn’t want to do as she’s told.

Sam Paxton needs to prove himself as a good man to make up for his outlaw past. He’s eager to learn, but Ulyssa is a beast of a woman. Oh, she’s pretty all right, but meaner than a snake. He’s met outlaws that were friendlier.

The case – Roy Allred, a wealthy rancher in southern Colorado, has a problem. His only child, a daughter – Trucilla, Rusty, Allred, who is twenty-three years old, pretty, and in love with a man who Roy thinks is only interested in the ranch.

Ulyssa and Sam are to break up the young couple and protect Rusty from Chad Monroe. Well, all I can say is you’ll just have to see what happened.

An Agent for Ulyssa

Marlene Bierworth

A woman, an agent, and a missing person case to investigate. When Genevieve Trafton secures a job at the Pinkerton Detective Agency. the last thing she expects is a wedding ring on her finger. But the desire for adventure and the need to leave the farm, give her no choice.

Trace Stapleton is an agent with two working wives in his past and is hesitant to become involved with a third. But Gen is everything the others were not, and when she pushes past his defenses, he is at a loss as to handle this independent, fiery spinster.

The Pinkerton assignment soon proves to involve more than simply locating the spoiled daughter of a wealthy family. The adventure compounds into a well-planned scheme that will test the couple's character, loyalties and heart.

Join the investigation and fall in love with another Pinkerton couple as they seek to untangle emotions and solve a case riddled with many surprises.

An Agent for Genevieve

Despite her parents threatening to disown her, Amey Barney decides to leave her life in Tucson to become a Pinkerton Agent in Chicago. She discovers she has a real knack for the work, but her obsession with catching the man who killed her brother gets her into trouble. When she oversteps her authority, her supervisor decides she must transfer to the Denver office or face termination. Reluctantly, she makes the move, even knowing she will be forced to marry her partner to maintain their cover. However, she's determined to never stop searching for her brother’s killer.

Lincoln Hoyt is a complex man. After serving as a sniper in the Civil War, he is left broken, a shadow of the man that he once was. He finds some fulfillment working as a Pinkerton agent, but he shudders at the thought of having a woman as his partner, much less his wife.

As the newly married agents begin to track down a murderer, Amey quickly discovers that working with Lincoln might not be as terrible as she had once thought, but can she earn his respect and trust as an agent? Will Lincoln be able to let his guard down long enough to listen to his heart?

THE PINKERTON MATCHMAKERS SERIES:Lady Pinkerton detectives, their rough and ready agents, and a whole lot of excitement and romance! The Pinkerton Matchmaker series tells the stories of the women determined to bring criminals to justice, and the agents who win their hearts. Each book is a standalone story and they can be read in any order.

Pinkerton Matchmakers - The book series

Pinkerton Matchmakers - The book series

Pinkerton Matchmakers books in order

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