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  • The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon

    The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes a sweepingly romantic tale of risk, redemption, and what happens when America’s most famous outlaw falls in love.When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won’t let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he’ll have to become someone else entirely...
  • When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series, the Wild Horse Westerns Series, and the Hand Of Western Series comes When The Ties Bind, a story of loss, love, acceptance, and revenge!With the death of his pa, Wyatt Roundtree not only lost the last of his family, but he also lost their ranch at the hands of an unscrupulous banker and a vengeful rancher...
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  • Doctor Rose and the Outlaw by R. O. Lane

    Doctor Rose and the Outlaw by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Doctor Rose Devereaux moves to Durango, Colorado, after her father is killed by a business associate. She sets up her medical practice there. One night she's called out to help a gang of outlaws that have been shot to pieces while trying to rustle cattle. One of the outlaws is a young man that she develops feelings for, but he's in and out of her life for months on end...
  • Love and Marriage at Harpers by Rosie Clarke

    Love and Marriage at Harpers by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    London 1913The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street arehappy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace.United by the suffragette cause and now living under oneroof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache andtears.Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringingstrength through hardship and pain and friendship and love...
  • Ronan O'Higgins by R. O. Lane

    Ronan O'Higgins by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ronan O'Higgins is assigned to clean up a vicious gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He and his fellow marshal, Clive Sutton, take on the gang and start arresting them. O'Higgins narrowly escapes death. The Irish marshal meets an Irish woman with a son, and they make a life together...
  • The Homesteader's Sweetheart: Illustrated Edition by Lacy Williams

    The Homesteader's Sweetheart: Illustrated Edition by Lacy Williams

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **Special illustrated edition**Homesteader Jonas White is a single father to a passel of orphaned boys--and the tiny girl whose birth changed his life and got him banished from the only home he'd ever known. Penny Castlerock is the daughter of a wealthy banker. Far out of Jonas's reach. And the only person in the small Wyoming town who knows his secret...
  • Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm

    Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When the infamous retired gunman, Gabriel Wolff, took the job of city marshal in Crystal City, Kansas, he succeeded in taming the wild cattle town in short order. The trouble was that he took to the notion that taming the town would end all the evil that lurked there...
  • A New Day Rising by Lauraine Snelling

    A New Day Rising by Lauraine Snelling

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The 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...
  • The Salvation of Eli Ussher: A Western Frontier Saga by Sam Scott

    The Salvation of Eli Ussher: A Western Frontier Saga by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Out on the windswept plains, a captive boy is torn from his Comanche family and returned to the world of the white man — a world he finds even more cruel and unforgiving than the wild western frontier.In 1870s Texas, with the Indians all but defeated, a lone white captive is surrendered by Comanches to the Indian agent at Fort Sill...
  • Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Navarro is a bounty hunter who stumbles upon a woman who has been kidnapped in the wilds of Colorado in 1877. He rescues her and befriends her, but she has enemies, lots of enemies. She talks Navarro into being her bodyguard, and he takes off after her enemies and the result is another exciting novel from the pen of R. O. Lane...
  • A Land to Call Home by Lauraine Snelling

    A Land to Call Home by Lauraine Snelling

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Taming 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...
  • Queen of Swords by Sara Donati

    Queen of Swords by Sara Donati

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 34 ratings
    It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke's wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet's rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they'd hoped for...
  • Heart of Mine by Caroline Fyffe

    Heart of Mine by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    USA 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

    The Unwanted Bride And Her Protective Rancher: A Clean Western Historical Romance Novel by Ember Pierce

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Jane 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...
  • Ruby by Sadie Conall

    Ruby by Sadie Conall

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Its 1846 and after escaping by wagon train from St Louis and heading west, Ruby leaves Fort Hall for California, hoping to start a new life and leave her past behind...
  • The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman

    The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Book 1 in the bestselling “Ride” series, which won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel 2014 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Western Novel 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel for 2013. The Texas-Mexico border, the winter of 1886—The Great Die Up. A raw rift separates Mexicans and Anglos...
  • Wagon Train Song by Linda Ford

    Wagon Train Song by Linda Ford

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WAGON TRAIN SONGUnexpected romance on journey west.Haunted by a guilty secret, Marnie's eager to leave her past in the dust of the trail. She embarks on a wagon train journey to reunite with her son, a North-West Mounted Policeman. What she doesn't count on is Gabe, a widower and friend of her late husband coming along. He is a reminder of everything she yearns to escape...
  • The Mountain Man’s Mail-Order Surprise by Karla Gracey

    The Mountain Man’s Mail-Order Surprise by Karla Gracey

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Garrett Harding (Waabshkizi Mnidoo - Chippewa name meaning white spirit), was orphaned then found and raised by the Chippewa, whose camp is near Red Lake. His connections to the tribe and his birth heritage meant he was perfectly suited to move between the white towns and the tribe to trade...
  • A Trail so Lonesome by Lacy Williams

    A Trail so Lonesome by Lacy Williams

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Spending five months eating trail dust wasn’t Leo Spencer’s first choice. Or his second. He’s not one to run away, but some situations can’t be fixed and his family—two brothers and a sister—needs to start over. Which is how he finds himself on a westbound wagon train.Evangeline has a secret, one that has sent her on a journey across the plains on the Oregon Trail...
  • Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner

    Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Eagle's Song is the final book in the Savage Destiny series, taking readers into the lives of Zeke and Abbie's children and grandchildren. This very moving story depicts the emotional end of an era for a once wild and free People, America's Native Americans, and the sometimes traumatic changes in the American West as civilization moves in to tame a lawless land...
  • One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker

    One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier. Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival...
  • The Blacksmith's Mail Order Doctor by Karla Gracey

    The Blacksmith's Mail Order Doctor by Karla Gracey

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Never 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

    A Mountain Christmas Romance by Misty M. Beller

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Now 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...
  • A Marriage of Convenience in the Show Me State by Jessie Gussman

    A Marriage of Convenience in the Show Me State by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It is wonderful to read a book with a warm core of love and values at the center, that still asks important questions. -Amazon reviewerZane Hudson just got custody of his four young children. Only problem is, he can’t watch his kids and run his farm, too. He needs a permanent housekeeper...
  • Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The 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...
  • Loose Ends by Duane Boehm

    Loose Ends by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series and the Wild Horse Westerns Series comes the captivating new Western novel, Loose Ends!Little does the reclusive Jake Mason know that his life is about to take a dramatic turn when he catches the tomato stealing Nicolette Amar sleeping in his shed...
  • Within My Heart by Tamera Alexander

    Within My Heart by Tamera Alexander

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    UPDATED Cover — Over 4,000 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ + ratings on GoodreadsSometimes the greatest step of faith is taken neck-deep in fear.Determined to fulfill her late husband's dream, Rachel Boyd struggles to keep her ranch afloat with the help of her two young sons. But some days it feels as though her every effort is sabotaged...
  • Good Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Good Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    The third novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series shows how family and true love can heal a broken past.After her mother died in a car accident when she was only five, and her father was determined not to show any emotions toward his only daughter, Timberlynn longs for a normal family...
  • Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas by Cora Seton

    Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Orphaned at seven, kicked out by his aunt and uncle at 16, Sergeant Emerson Myers gave up on family until General Augustus Reed chose him as his assistant, becoming as much a father-figure as a commanding officer...
  • Trail of Secrets by Lacy Williams

    Trail of Secrets by Lacy Williams

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Stella 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

    Beyond This Moment by Tamera Alexander

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Lives 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...
  • War Adams by C J. Petit

    War Adams by C J. Petit

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    United States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief...
  • A Secret Baby in the Show Me State by Jessie Gussman

    A Secret Baby in the Show Me State by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A midnight tryst, an unknown admirer and a baby that is delivered to church with just a short note.On the day Deacon Hudson was set to be ordained, a bundle shows up at the church with a simple note on it. Deacon Hudson is the father. Take care of her.Deacon knows he’s not the father. The Immaculate Conception was a one time thing...
  • An Untamed Land by Lauraine Snelling

    An Untamed Land by Lauraine Snelling

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would never look back. The promise of free land lures Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway, and after three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, they finally arrive at the docks of New York City...
  • The Soldier's Promise by William Black

    The Soldier's Promise by William Black

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After his service in the Union Army, Damon Jarret’s only goal is to fulfill a promise he made to his dead brother-in-arms and return an heirloom to his lost kin.But the Oregon Trail is long – and it’s just as rabid as the war he left behind...
  • Searching for You by Jody Hedlund

    Searching for You by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Despite 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...
  • Issued to the Bride One Soldier by Cora Seton

    Issued to the Bride One Soldier by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Jack Sanders built his career as an army intelligence operative on his uncanny ability to anticipate what the enemy will do next--but he never anticipated the trouble he's landed in. Removed from duty, his future on the line, he'll have to accept a truly unusual mission to redeem himself...
  • Warrior of Mercia by M.J. Porter

    Warrior of Mercia by M.J. Porter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Icel is a lone wolf no more...Oath sworn to Wiglaf, King of Mercia and acknowledged as a member of Ealdorman Ælfstan’s warrior band, Icelcontinues to forge his own destiny on the path to becoming the Warrior of Mercia.With King Ecgberht of Wessex defeated and Londonium back under Mercian control, the Wessex invasion of Mercia is over. But the Wessex king was never Mercia’s only enemy...
  • McCabe's Luck: The Feud Goes On by Patrick Lindsay

    McCabe's Luck: The Feud Goes On by Patrick Lindsay

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jake McCabe is no stranger to trouble. Between serving in the army during the Civil War and being involved in a long-running feud in his home state of Kentucky, Jake has known some hard times. Some have said the McCabe family is known best for their run of bad luck.Jake decides to move to central Texas, along with a beautiful neighbor lady and her family...
  • Pretending to be the Mountain Man's Wife by Misty M. Beller

    Pretending to be the Mountain Man's Wife by Misty M. Beller

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In 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...
  • Beyond The Wildflowers by Duane Boehm

    Beyond The Wildflowers by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series, the Wild Horse Westerns Series, and the Hand Of Western Series, comes Beyond The Wildflowers!On a beautiful Colorado morning in 1879 while Jamey Purdy is out collecting wildflowers to make into medicines for her apothecary, her tranquility is shattered at the sight of a shot-up cowboy just barely alive...
  • Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati

    Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 39 ratings
    In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore , award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family...
  • Dawn on a Distant Shore by Sara Donati

    Dawn on a Distant Shore by Sara Donati

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 43 ratings
    In an icy, untamed world of pristine beauty, a husband and wife are torn apart by fate but reunited forever by a love that can't be broken.... An unforgettable love comes alive in this masterful epic of passion, treachery, and adventure...
  • Addison by Jennifer Foor

    Addison by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Addison is the youngest daughter of Colt and Savanna Mitchell.She's also turned out to be the most trouble during her adolescence. Now that a few years have passed since her last bout of problems, she's gotten back into the good graces of her whole family, by securing a job, and also donating her free time to community outreaches for those suffering from addictions...
  • A Willow Creek Christmas by Lily Graison

    A Willow Creek Christmas by Lily Graison

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Widowed with two young children, Keri Hilam is desperate to escape her abusive brother-in-law, going so far as sneaking away in the dead of night in hopes of finding a better life. She never regrets leaving, not even when they find themselves stranded, starving, and alone...
  • Always and Forever by Beverly Jenkins

    Always and Forever by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    A desperate need Sassy Grace Atwood never expected to find her proper self accidentally tumbling into a stranger's bed. If she weren't desperate for a man to lead a wagon train of brides to a woman-starved town out West, she never would have gone near Jackson Blake-former lawman or not. She should send the ruggedly charming Texan packing...only he's perfect for the job...
  • Ridden Hard by Kim Loraine

    Ridden Hard by Kim Loraine

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    They call me the wild one. The Ryker brother who'd rather have more notches on his bedpost than rodeo championships. I'm good with horses, even better with women. I've been warned that sowing my oats might have consequences, but I'm always careful. And there's nothing wrong with having a little fun. But the truth is, I want more than fun. I want it all. With the right girl...
  • Cowboy Surprise by Em Petrova

    Cowboy Surprise by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Family ties run deep in the heart of Texas. Who knew that having the Dalton looks—dark hair and blue eyes—would deem Justus as a trustworthy person? That’s exactly what happens when a friend of the family turns up on the Daltons’ ranch and thrusts a baby at him to watch because nobody else is home. After she leaves, he realizes he doesn’t even know her name—or how to care for an infant...
  • Stolen Hearts by Kelly Moore

    Stolen Hearts by Kelly Moore

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    It was a day like any other on the ranch. Hard work and no play make for a cranky cowboy. Needing a night out on the town left me sneaking into my father’s house like a teenage boy. That was my first mistake of the day. The second was playing hero to a damsel in distress that turned out to be no damsel at all, but a sexy, snarky woman who took me by surprise...
  • The Star Garden by Nancy E. Turner

    The Star Garden by Nancy E. Turner

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Based on the real-life tales of her own great grandmother, author Nancy E. Turner continues Sarah's extraordinary story as she struggles to make a home in the Arizona Territory. It is winter 1906, and nearing bankruptcy after surviving drought, storms, and the rustling of the cattle, Sarah is shocked when her son brings home a bride who was slated to become a nun...
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