Her entire backlist, particularly To Have and To Hold, To Love and To Cherish, Crooked Hearts, Wild at Heart, and Lily. Her entire backlist, especially Pale Moon Rider, Sea Swept, Across a Moonlit Sea, Bound by the Heart Here’s our list of those authors we still hope will make it to audio one day soon.

We started this page with a long list of titles not yet recorded – now a majority of them are done, and new works are often released both in print and in audio at the same time! Win! DANCING ON COALS (with an Apache hero) is my favorite but Matt Slade from SING MY NAME is on my favorite Heroes & Heroines list.What are those romance authors we’re longing to see in audio format? Either their backlist has yet to produce a single audio or their current audio backlist is small, representing only a portion of their work. I highly recommend this one and all her romances. I absolutely love her writing! Simply put, O’Connell tells GREAT stories and she does it very well. It’s about sacrificial love and standing up to bias that says a fallen woman and a gunslinger aren’t worthy citizens (“What did you do with a man who loved you too much to love you?”). Along the way, O’Connell will make you laugh and she’ll make you cry. But they will have many hurdles to cross before they can be together. The tender budding love between Matt and Sarah is the genuine thing. O’Connell has a way of putting you right in the action, of making you feel the emotion and of understanding what led the hero and heroine to be who they are. It will be 1875 before the story is over… When they finally arrive, and Sarah's fiancé learns that she has fallen in love with “Rebel trash,' he takes his revenge on the young lovers. To get to the fort, they must depend on each other-and they grow close.

Matt and Sarah survive only because of Matt’s resourceful thinking. Abhorring the abuse of Matt by the bounty hunters, Sarah intervenes to assure Matt is properly fed and no longer beaten. While being transported with a group of calvary escorting some women to Fort Grissom, Matt encounters Sarah Hammond, the young daughter of passionate Massachusetts’s abolitionists, who is on her way to join her fiancé, a Yankee major, a man she does not love. They won’t take him dead, as in “dead or alive.”

So when two shady bounty hunters seize him for a crime he didn’t commit, he determines he’ll survive. Young Matt Slade, the son of Texas settlers, fought for the South in some of the bloodiest battles-and he survived.

Sing My Name by Ellen O'Connell