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Heart's Perilous Journey by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeeping secrets is nearly impossible on an Oregon-bound wagon train. But Alice Spencer has kept a whopper from her protective brothers for she once fancied herself in love with her wealthy boss’s grandson. Her brothers don’t know *she’s* the reason Rob Braddock came on this westward journey. Only that he’s part of the reason they had to leave their home and friends behind... -
A New Day Rising by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe dream of their own farmstead and a good life in America had brought Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund across the Atlantic to pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald's tragic disappearance in a winter storm had turned Ingeborg's dreams into a living nightmare. Against nearly impossible circumstances and overwhelming grief, she struggles to keep the farm and her family together... -
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A Land to Call Home by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTaming the land came at great price. Will their love survive the loss? It has required long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory, but in spite of heartache and back-breaking labor, the hardy immigrants recognize that God has been with them every step. What was merely a dream is now beginning to take shape... -
Snowbound at Christmas: A Wind River Mail-Order Brides Christmas Anthology (Wind River Mail-Order Brides) by Lacy Williams, Wendy Klopfenstein
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne Christmas snowstorm creates havoc for three couples who find themselves snowed in together—and a chance for new love to bloom and old feelings to be rekindled. Curl up on a winter's afternoon with this anthology of three heartwarming love stories set in the Wind River story world. Heart's Secret Haven. Livery owner Lilly Murdock would prefer to skip over Christmas entirely... -
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Montana Groom of Convenience by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan the ranch save her heart? Carly Morrison's father has given her an wed or lose her ranch. Desperate to keep her home, Carly agrees to marriage of convenience with Sawyer, a man who needs security for himself and his little sister, Jill. Their arrangement is a marriage in name only, no emotions, and no expectations. Sawyer's priority is protecting Jill... -
Heart of Mine by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe makes love the grandest adventure on the frontier for the resistant darling of Eden, Colorado. Emma Brinkman is the most eligible bachelorette in town and staying that way. After learning twice that romance is a lie, she's focused only on making the mine she and her sisters inherited a booming success... -
The Unwanted Bride And Her Protective Rancher: A Clean Western Historical Romance Novel by Ember Pierce
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJane Blanchard is well-educated shy girl from New York. She recently lost both of her parents from cholera, but she wasn’t able to be there for them, at the end because of her work at the factory. She feels guilty about that, but also feels like there’s nowhere for her anymore. Thornton Duvall was orphaned at a young age, and he was taken in by a rancher... -
The Blacksmith's Mail Order Doctor by Karla Gracey
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNever give up on your dream—or on love. Unlike other women her age, Anna MacDonald has never set much hope in finding herself a husband. Far more important is the task of finding a position of employment. .. in a society that is untrusting of female doctors and that has so far proved challenging, to say the least... -
A Mountain Christmas Romance by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNow with an extra bonus epilogue! Only the fearless believe in Christmas miracles. Stripped of the family so important to his Viking heritage, Matthias Bjork is now on the hunt for his sister. Despite combing the entire Wyoming Territory, he hasn’t found any substantial leads regarding her whereabouts, but he has discovered a most unusual woman... -
Guarding the Mountain Man’s Secret by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, second chances…and a hidden fortune. Miles is the youngest of six brothers, and he’s spent most of his life helping guard the family’s a sapphire mine hidden deep within the Montana mountains...Categorized as:
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Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fourth, and final novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series fires up the passion in a story about forgiveness and finding your soul mate. Dirk Littlewood had the world at his feet and a life he claimed to love. He was a world-champion bull rider with plenty of women to keep his nights busy and make his inner loneliness nothing but a delusion...Categorized as:
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Freedom's Distant Frontier by Lacy Williams
Lily Fairfax is drowning in grief and mourning the man she once loved when she finds herself tangled in a web of danger. She has no choice but to lean on a hired hand she barely knows for protection, though she vows she won't open her heart to love again. Matt Grayson has been traveling with the Oregon-bound wagon train on a secret mission to recover a stolen jewel... -
Montana Cowboy Family by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTemporary family. Sadie Young, a schoolteacher with a haunted past, discovers one of her students and his sisters have been abandoned. Without hesitation, she brings them to the saftey of her own home. But when the rugged and principled Logan Marshall offers to help her care for the children until their family is found, Sadie's walls go up... -
An Unconventional Mail-Order Match: An Inspirational Romance Novel by Lilah Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNellie Abrams can hog-tie a pig and outwork any ranch hand, but she’s after more than chores and chaos; she wants a love that sees her strength and spirit. When a mail-order match arrives, she dares to believe the unknown might just be everything she’s dreamed of. Widowed rancher Peter Cosgrove juggles twin mischief-makers, a struggling ranch, and far too many burned breakfasts... -
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A Blizzard Bride for the Bounty Hunter: A Historical Western Romance Novel by Mia Dunham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter years of hardship, Kate Taylor has sworn off love. Running the Hollow Creek Inn alongside her aunt, she finds solace in the quietude of small-town life, until a wounded stranger is brought to her doorstep in the middle of a blizzard... -
Montana Lawman Rescuer: Christian Western Romance- A Wounded Sheriff, an Amnesia Stricken Heroine, and Love's Redemption by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill she ever remember who she is? A stagecoach robbery leaves Emily Smith with no memory. She must rely on the dark-eyed Sheriff who rescues her and the small boy travelling with her. Jesse Hill is a principled lawman who guards his heart as thoroughly as he guards the town of Bella Creek. His tainted past makes the young ladies shun him... -
The Widower's Christmas Guest: Historical Western Romance by Callie Gardner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA grieving widower. A desperate mother. One Christmas that will change everything. When Maria Santos and her young son arrive in the snowy mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, they carry little more than a suitcase and a prayer. The job she hoped for has been filled, and the cold wind bites through the thin fabric of her dress... -
Remembered by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThough loss is often marked in a single moment, letting go of someone you love can take a lifetime. . . The threat of war—and a final request—send Veronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she searches for the man who has held her heart since childhood--her father... -
Trail of Secrets by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsStella is the oldest of three sisters and she’s got a long history of being the one to protect and provide for her family. When a dangerous threat sent the Fairfax sisters on a wagon train journey west, Stella knew her best bet was to disguise herself as a man to keep herself and her sisters safe. Collin Mason has secrets of his own... -
Beyond This Moment by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLives are made up of tiny steps. Some are chosen for us; some we choose. All hold the power to change who we become—but only if we let them. When Dr. Molly Whitcomb, Professor of Romance Languages, steps off the train in Colorado Territory, she makes a choice—one that goes against everything she stands for. Yet it’s the only choice that offers her a chance to regain a fraction of all she’s lost... -
Southern Heat by Natasha Madison
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWillow. After being left for dead, I was given a fresh start by my knight in shining armor. My protector. I never had a family before they took me in. But I don’t know how to stay or trust. I always had a bag packed and ready just in case I needed to escape again. Like they say, old habits die hard. Being in the shadows is lonely, but lonely is safe. Quinn...Categorized as:
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Donovan's Daughter by Lori Wick
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsWhen an angry snowstorm forces Marcail Donovan to seek shelter for the night at the town doctor’s house, the pretty new schoolteacher is thrust into a scandal that threatens her career. The unfortunate but innocent circumstances bring harsh condemnation to Marcail, but the compassionate bachelor doctor offers her a way to remain the town’s teacher...Categorized as:
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The Doctor and the Thief by Lynn Landes
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEveryone considers her a thief. But all she ever stole were the scraps that kept her going - shoes, food, medicine - whatever it took to survive. She’s not free. Not yet. She’s running from a life of pain and torment, fighting for the smallest chance at something better. Everyone thinks he walked away from medicine... -
The Tender Vine by Kristen Heitzmann
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThey Hoped Their Return Would Offer the Chance for Love to Grow. Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to leave behind the painful memories represented by the town of Crystal, Colorado, and start anew in the California vineyards of her youth... -
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Searching for You by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDespite years on the run, Sophie Neumann is determined to care for two young children. She won't abandon them the way she thinks her older sisters abandoned her. But times are growing desperate, and when she falls in with the wrong crowd and witnesses a crime, she realizes fleeing 1850s New York is her only option... -
Pretending to be the Mountain Man's Wife by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, loyalty…and a hidden fortune. Gil Coulter's story is coming soon! From a USA Today bestselling author comes a mountain family saga filled with a pretend marriage, hidden treasure, and love that heals wounded hearts. -
A Desperate Bride For A Gloomy Sheriff: A Clean Western Historical Romance Novel by Evelyn Boyett
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGeneva’s mother makes her become a mail order bride because the rest of the family will have a better chance of surviving if she’s out of the house. Even though she wants a family, her hopes are dashed when she gets a glimpse of her new life. Despite her disappointment, she decides to make the best of the situation. That’s what she’s been taught to do. Sully always wanted to be a sheriff... -
More Than a Dream by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 3 of RETURN TO RED RIVER by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling. Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine... -
This Daring Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe only hope to keep her newborn baby alive is to reach the safety of her Indian people… This mountain man is the last person she should trust to get her there. As a half-Indian raised among her Peigan tribe, Moriah Clark knows better than to trust white people. The tragedy that resulted in her birth is proof enough... -
The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister by Jessie Gussman
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*Previously titled Cowboys Don't Have a Fake Marriage with Their Best Friend's Sister*. She’s his best friend’s little sister. He’s never noticed her. Not like that. He needs to marry to inherit his money, so he’s hired a woman to be his fake bride. Only he’s too sick to get married. Now he’s confined in his small house with his fake fiancée-to-be and his best friend’s little sister...Categorized as:
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Dreaming of His Convenient Kiss by Jessie Gussman
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’s losing her house. He never had one. A marriage would give them a house to share, but could they learn to love each other and make their house into a home? Natalie Moody’s house has been condemned and she has two weeks left to move out. When a friend at church offers to let her stay at his brother’s farmhouse while he’s out on assignment for two months, she jumps at the chance... -
The Delivery of Decor: Glover Family Saga & Christian Romance by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen he falls, he falls hard and deep. She literally drives away from every relationship she's ever had. Can Ward somehow get Dot to stay this Christmas? Ward Glover is now the foreman at Shiloh Ridge Ranch. He loves his new job, though he's over a lot more at a shallower depth... -
Noah by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo wounded and wary hearts. Both wanting what the other can help them attain if only they can get past the pain of their pasts. Twenty-three year old Noah Murray, is not interested in his boss’s plan to see all the cowboys of Circle A happily married. But the boss sweetens the plan by offering him the piece of land he has always admired... -
The Christmas Kiss by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s a devoted single dad still grieving the loss of his wife. She’s an outrageously fun female with a temper that runs as hot as a teakettle. Will the two of them find a way to work together to give his son a Merry Christmas? When Gracy Randall returns to Hardman after almost six years away, she can’t wait to see the look of surprise on her parents’ faces... -
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A Trail Untamed by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAugust is a loner and prefers it that way. He only took the marriage wager to gain breathing room from his overbearing older brother. Besides, the wagon train still has a long journey before it reaches Oregon. Maybe he’ll meet someone who turns his head. Felicity longs for love and family, someone to choose her above all...Categorized as:
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Mail-Order Bride Family by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf only she could erase the past. True wants to start over again in the West without the painful memories of her past. She accepts a job as cook for the ranch cowboys. When the happy couples around her suggest True might find a cowboy to marry if she were to look, her painful past conjures too many memories to allow her to hope again. Shorty longs for a family... -
Two Weeks: A Novel by Karen Kingsbury
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life... -
The Christmas Journey by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis Christmas Violet needs to find a husband before the orphanage finds one for her. Violet had been an orphan all her life and although she is grateful to the orphanage for their care, she knew she couldn’t stay forever. With her eighteenth birthday looming it was only a matter of time before she was turned out to find her own way... -
In Debt to the Cowboy: Western Romance by Natalie Dean
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe thinks he’s a rich land shark come to steal her home and livelihood. He’s out to prove her wrong…. Silas Miller is going through life just doing what his Dad tells him to. What he’s best at—finding properties in poor neighborhoods to buy out, tear down, and make way for the rich to use. As a son in a billion-dollar ranch family, he sees nothing wrong with that... -
Reckless Love by Kelly Elliott
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe first time I kissed Scarlet, I knew I was in trouble. The night I slept with her, my life changed forever. The day I found out I was going to be a father, I ran from her. Now that I’ve been given a second chance I won’t be so reckless...Categorized as:
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Breakwater Protector by Christy Barritt
One secret will tear them apart. The other will pull them closer. Lizzie McCreary needs to disappear. As danger stalks her, she escapes to windswept Cape Corral with her eight-year-old son, Preston. The isolated island offers her a desperate hope for safety. Saltwater cowboy Dash Fulton isn’t looking for love... -
Mail-Order Bride Surprise by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLove challenged. Truth revealed. A home where she is welcome. That’s all Honor Ward wants. Oh, and maybe tenderness and yes, even love. She’s willing to do most anything to get it…even appear as a mail-order bride under false pretenses. She instantly falls in love with her new groom and is determined to prove she is the best wife and homemaker Luke could want... -
Husband Tree by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHit the trail into the Old West, where a tough lady rancher and a seemingly aimless wrangler attempt to avoid the matrimonial noose. When Belle Tanner hires Silas Harden to help her get her cattle to market, the last thing she’s looking for is romance... -
Remembered by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThough loss is often marked in a single moment, letting go of someone you love can take a lifetime. The threat of war—and a final request—send Véronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she searches for the man who has held her heart since childhood—her father... -
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Borrowing Bentley by Melanie Shawn
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 14 ratings𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐻𝐸𝐴--𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦! 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐲. Maisy Turner and I had been butting heads since we were five years old. That girl knew every one of my buttons and loved to push 'em... -
Whispers on the Wind by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA straitlaced bookseller and a rowdy trail guide fight their ill-suited attraction in Book Five of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe. Wyoming Territory, October 1883. Tabitha Canterbury came to Logan Meadows with one goal: to open the bookshop she’s always dreamed of having...Categorized as:
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Always and Forever by Wendy Lindstrom
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA Mail Order Bride He Doesn’t Want—A Woman He Can’t Resist. Nancy Mitchell refuses to marry the man her father chose for her. Her only escape from the dreadful arrangement is to find another husband quick—so she concocts a desperate plan and agrees to become a mail order bride...Categorized as:
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Faking a Date with Her Cowboy Boss: Western Romance by Natalie Dean
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow far will a cowboy go to protect the woman he’s forbidden to love? Handsome cowboy Simon Miller has traveled the world, gone to college, and put off going home to Texas for as long as he can. Now he’s back on his family’s billion-dollar ranch. And he remembers why he stayed away. Time for him to find a bigger purpose, so he doesn’t end up like his father... -
A Sweetwater River Romance: Expanded Edition (Wyoming Mountain Tales by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNow with an extra bonus epilogue! Only the fearless face danger when it strikes. Taking flight from their quiet Pennsylvania town seems like the only way for Tori Boyd to protect her dearest cousin's virtue. And the success of their escape may now depend on the man she's been writing letters to for over a year now in the vast wilds of the Wyoming Territory... -
Texas Lonesome by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTEXAS LONESOME - The McCutcheon Family Series, Book 8. Rio Wells, Texas 1886. Dustin McCutcheon gets the surprise of his life when he comes face-to-face with Sidney Calhoun, the spitfire offspring of his father’s worst adversary. The whole of Texas knows that McCutcheons and Calhouns just don’t mix. Period. Yet Dustin is drawn to Sidney...Categorized as:
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