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Charlotte by JS Anthony
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsWhen the least likely person in your life becomes the one who means the most.Charlotte’s father left her alone on the prairie with the wagon, a team and the mare. She was to wait for Ellis Gray and the wagon train he was leading. Charlotte understood that her father was paying Ellis Gray to see her to Fort Randall where she would meet her uncle and go to live out in the desert with a new husband...Categorized as:
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![Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson]()
Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson
In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever... -
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![Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati]()
Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsWith epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war. The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise...Categorized as:
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Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 15 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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![Good Enough by Kelly Elliott]()
Good Enough by Kelly Elliott
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... -
![Montana Surprise by Caroline Fyffe]()
Montana Surprise by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMONTANA SURPRISE- The McCutcheon Family series, Book TwelveY Knot, Montana Territory, July 1888Two months after the historic McCutcheon family reunion, the town of Y Knot is experiencing a sleepy summer lull... -
![Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati]()
Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati
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... -
![Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner]()
Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this totally unforgettable sixth book in the Savage Destiny series, a relentless wave of frontier progress forces itself into the lives of Zeke and Abbie Monroe, threatening their many years of abiding love and forcing a separation unlike any other they have experienced... -
![Dawn on a Distant Shore by Sara Donati]()
Dawn on a Distant Shore by Sara Donati
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...Categorized as:
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![Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake]()
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOrdered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.From the Paperback edition... -
![Winning the Mountain Man's Love by Misty M. Beller]()
Winning the Mountain Man's Love by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, second chances…and a hidden fortune. As the second brother of six, Jonah Coulter has no shortage of family, yet he’s more than ready to find a woman who doesn’t see him as her second choice... -
![Addison by Jennifer Foor]()
Addison by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAddison 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... -
![Grace on the Mountain Trail by Misty M. Beller]()
Grace on the Mountain Trail by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis epic journey is her last hope to find her lost brother—the only family she has left.When Lola Carson’s father died, his last words spoke of a half-brother she’d never known about. And now, to claim her own inheritance and come to terms with her father’s secret life, she must find this mysterious man—whose last known whereabouts are somewhere west of the wild Rocky Mountains... -
![Climb the Highest Mountain by Rosanne Bittner]()
Climb the Highest Mountain by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEver since her gaze locked with Lone Eagle's over a crimson campfire, young Abigail Trent knew her fate lay with the virile Cheyenne scout. She had married him, borne him children, and endured all the hardships of the rugged frontier. But even though so many years had passed, each night found the white squaw melded to her Indian mate, burning with the need to prove their passion again and again... -
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![Joy on the Mountain Peak by Misty M. Beller]()
Joy on the Mountain Peak by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill this epic journey be their second chance or the final heartbreak?Heidi Wallace came west with secrets. When she accompanied her cartologist cousin to map terrain in the Montana Territory, she never imagined he would die from a snakebite. As she and her maid bury the body in this wild country, the last person she expects to come to their aid is the man she's no longer sure she wants to find...Categorized as:
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![Ride The Free Wind by Rosanne Bittner]()
Ride The Free Wind by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAbandoning everything she had ever known, Abigail Trent left her family and chose her fate--to ride with Zeke Monroe, half-Cheyenne scout, into the unexplored west. Together they faced peril, until Zeke found his mother's people and became Lone Eagle, turning his back on the white man's world. To stay with him, Abigail must become Cheyenne too--even if it means death and warfare... -
![A Willow Creek Christmas by Lily Graison]()
A Willow Creek Christmas by Lily Graison
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWidowed 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... -
![Freedom in the Mountain Wind by Misty M. Beller]()
Freedom in the Mountain Wind by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe last epic journey before her life changes forever. Susanna Wilkins will do anything to make her father’s final dream come true, including trek along the path Lewis and Clark explored into the untamed wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Every mile is more crucial now that lung cancer is stealing Pa’s last days faster than she can come to terms with losing him... -
![Before the Dawn by Beverly Jenkins]()
Before the Dawn by Beverly Jenkins
Leah Barnett can't believe how far fate has carried her: from Boston to the towering Colorado Rockies...and into the life of an angry, ruggedly sexy man. Ryder Damien is not about to welcome this beauty with open arms, however, especially since Leah was the one who won the affection of Ryder's late father and now may inherit, his considerable wealth... -
![Always and Forever by Beverly Jenkins]()
Always and Forever by Beverly Jenkins
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...Categorized as:
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![River Of Love by Rosanne Bittner]()
River Of Love by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbigail Monroe had been pierced by an arrow as a young girl...and pierced even more deeply by the love of a half-breed Cheyenne brave named Lone Eagle. But now Abigail and Lone Eagle could lose everything--and each other. Trouble was coming across the Plains to challenge them and test their love. No longer could they hide in a paradise of their own making... -
![Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner]()
Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWarriors and dreamers, pathfinders and rebels, the Monroes are a family divided between their Indian heritage and their white blood. At their head is the indomitable Abigail Trent Monroe, whose love for Cheyenne warrior Lone Eagle became a legend. Now, as the clan gathers for a long-awaited reunion on their sprawling Colorado ranch, old hatreds and new passions explode .. -
![Cowboy Surprise by Em Petrova]()
Cowboy Surprise by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFamily 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 ratingsIt 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... -
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![Marrying the Mountain Man's Best Friend by Misty M. Beller]()
Marrying the Mountain Man's Best Friend by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, loyalty…and a hidden fortune. Two Stones has lived most of his life as an outsider, shifting between two different worlds—the orderly village of his Salish family and wild mining towns... -
![The Indian Bride And Her Scarred Farmer by Florence Linnington]()
The Indian Bride And Her Scarred Farmer by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAn Indian mail order bride is not what she sees herself as, and certainly not what he expects… Ceeh'eenesie's whole family is dead. Her Arapaho way of life is dying. Sometimes Ceeh'eenesie wishes she could vanish as well. But she has a promise to keep. Her dead grandfather wants her to go on, to carry on their ways. And being a mail order bride is her only way... -
![Burning Desire by Scarlett Avery]()
Burning Desire by Scarlett Avery
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here. Two Strapping Alpha Billionaires. One Girl Looking For A Fresh Start. A Heck of A Wild Ride. ***POV from all 3 main characters.*** Allison may have left her ex-boyfriend behind in New York, but it seems that toxic relationship is still haunting her today... -
![The Dance Hall Wife by Cici Cordelia]()
The Dance Hall Wife by Cici Cordelia
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCAT . . .Cat Purdue has come a long way from the days when her father used her as partial payment for a gambling debt to a ruthless man. Reacquiring the saloon Father had lost, and turning it into a successful restaurant, is only the beginning of her drive for success.FRANK . . -
![Burning Sky by Lori Benton]()
Burning Sky by Lori Benton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAbducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family’s New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. At the boundary of her father’s property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path...Categorized as:
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![The Substitute Wife by Cici Cordelia]()
The Substitute Wife by Cici Cordelia
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHARRISON . . .Once his fortune in silver mining is secured, Harrison Carter finally sends back home for his fiancée. It's been four years since he's seen Jenny.But it's Retta Pierce, Jenny's sister, who arrives by stagecoach with young daughter Adeline in tow...Categorized as:
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![The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson by Nancy Peacock]()
The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson by Nancy Peacock
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFor fans of Cold Mountain and The Invention of Wings comes “a tour de force of historical fiction” (Henry Wiencek, author of Master of the Mountain) that follows the epic journey of a slave-turned-Comanche warrior who travels from the brutality of a New Orleans sugar cane plantation to the indomitable frontier of an untamed Texas, searching not only for the woman he loves but so too for his own... -
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Mail Order Bride's Baby And Her One-Arm Indian by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA mail order bride with an unwanted baby in tow meeting a one-arm Indian husband-in-waiting is nothing short of a disaster… Rachael Jeffers has spent her entire life living, and then working, in an orphanage. Until circumstances give her no option but to flee – with a baby in tow. Her only hope now is a man named Motega, whom she had corresponded via letters... -
![Savage Embers by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Embers by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter setting his eyes on Maggie, a scarlet-haired beauty, Falcon Hawk, a mighty Arapaho chieftain, is determined to protect her from her fiercest enemy. Original... -
![Savage Love by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Love by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMonster bones. They were the stuff of Indian legend, which warned that they must not be disturbed. But lovely, golden-haired Dayanara and her father were on a mission for the Smithsonian Institute to track down the mysterious bones and uncover them, despite the danger... -
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![Reckless Love by Madeline Baker]()
Reckless Love by Madeline Baker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTWO MEN CLAIMED HER ... ONLY ONE COULD TAME HER RECKLESS HEART JOSHUA BERDEEN was the cavalry soldier who had traveled the country in search of the lovely Hannah Kincaid. Josh offered her a life of ease in New York City, and all the finer things. TWO HAWKS FLYING was the Cheyenne warrior who had branded her body with his searing desire... -
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Savage Thunder by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Cassie Edwards introduces her 50th romance with Dorchester Publishing, with this historical sage of a passion between Moon Song and Swift Thunder divided by their tribes's mutual hate, but who come together in a forbidden love that could overcome even the fiercest blood feud... -
![Thunder on the Plains by Rosanne Bittner]()
Thunder on the Plains by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE SOUND OF TWO HEARTS BEATING, JOINED BY A LOVE MADE STRONGER BY STRUGGLE, CAN BE AS LOUD AS ... THUNDER ON THE PLAINS Lovely young heiress Sunny Landers was utterly devoted to her father's great dream --- a transcontinental railroad that would run from Chicago across the Great Plains to the Pacific... -
![Savage Secrets by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Secrets by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhile scouring Wyoming for her outlaw brother in the wake of the Civil War, beautiful Rebecca Veach is taken captive by the Cheyenne and meets their strong yet sensitive chief, Blazing Eagle. Original... -
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Rogue by Sable Hunter
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA loner by choice and a renegade by nature. Rogue is living up to his name. He’s lived life on his own terms, doing everything from team-roping in college, Texas Hold ‘em champion to founding his own company, Lone Wolf Oil. Everything he’s accomplished has been in spite of Dusty Walker, a man who sired four sons by four women – none of them his wife...Categorized as:
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![Comanche Sunset by Rosanne Bittner]()
Comanche Sunset by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mail order bride—and her heart—get ambushed in this moving historical western romance from the bestselling author of Sweet Mountain Magic. Mail order bride Jennifer Andrews heads to Texas ready for adventure. But when her stagecoach is attacked, the auburn-haired beauty wishes she had never left St. Louis... -
![Song of the Wolf by Rosanne Bittner]()
Song of the Wolf by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBorn to be a Holy Woman among the Cheyenne, Medicine Wolf’s life as a young child is saved by a pack of wolves that keeps her from freezing to death. From then on, wolves are her guiding spirit and her protector. As she grows into womanhood, Medicine Wolf is forced to live among whites for one year, in an effort to learn the way of the white man... -
![Protector: Doms of Mountain Bend Book 1 by B.J. Wane, Joe Dugdale]()
Protector: Doms of Mountain Bend Book 1 by B.J. Wane, Joe Dugdale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeputy Sheriff Shawn McDuff can’t figure out why the new teacher in Mountain Bend seems so familiar, but Lisa Halldor’s evasive answers to his inquiries confirms his suspicions they have met before. When he sees her struggling to focus and respond during a scene at his private club, he intervenes and finds himself as drawn to Lisa’s submissive nature as he is determined to unearth her secrets... -
![Rocky Mountain Journey by Misty M. Beller]()
Rocky Mountain Journey by Misty M. Beller
Masquerading as a man, Faith Collins embarks on a perilous journey through the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains in search of the Peigan Blackfoot woman who once saved her father's life. She joins a group of trappers who may be able to lead her to the place the woman is hiding, but keeping Faith's identity a secret proves more difficult than she imagined...Categorized as:
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![A Fearless Man by Leigh Greenwood]()
A Fearless Man by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAll it takes is one FEARLESS man... As the sheriff of Sycamore Flats, Hen Randolph has seen just about everything this lawless land has to offer. Quick in the saddle and quicker on the draw, he's cultivated a reputation for being a ruthless sharpshooter—and an unapologetic loner. Hen's had more than his fair share of complications and is happiest keeping his distance from the world... -
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![A Bride in the Bargain by Deeanne Gist]()
A Bride in the Bargain by Deeanne Gist
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn 1860s Seattle, a man with a wife could secure himself 640 acres of timberland. But because of his wife's untimely death, Joe Denton finds himself about to lose half of his claim. Still in mourning, his best solution is to buy one of those Mercer girls arriving from the East. A woman he'll marry in name but keep around mostly as a cook...Categorized as:
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![Savage Obsession by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Obsession by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhile her beloved family struggles to put down stakes in the harsh Minnesota territory, Lorinda Odell is in St. Paul to get a proper education. But the bustling city is not without its own hazards--"especially for a young woman as lovely as Lorinda. Her fiery red hair and seductive curves have caught the eye of a vicious trapper who hungers to make her his own...Categorized as:
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![Lily by Leigh Greenwood]()
Lily by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsZac Randolph owns and runs the Little Corner of Heaven Saloon in San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. He's a gambler by trade and by nature. He takes care of the girls who work for him, but no woman is as exciting as gambling, no woman means as much to him as his saloon. His life is perfect until a distant cousin, Lily Sterling, arrives from Virginia and upsets everything... -
![A Lesson in Patience by Jennifer Connors]()
A Lesson in Patience by Jennifer Connors
Book #3 of the Lesson Series They say that third times a charm, but that couldn't be further from the truth for Ginny. In her latest adventure as a modern day woman trapped inside the body of a romance novel heroine, she finds herself in the late 19th century, on the frontier of America... -
![Walk in My Soul by Lucia St. Clair Robson]()
Walk in My Soul by Lucia St. Clair Robson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee... -
![Calder Born, Calder Bred by Janet Dailey]()
Calder Born, Calder Bred by Janet Dailey
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTy Calder was a stranger to the mighty empire that was his legacy -- the ranchlands that rose to meet the Montana skies. He learned the ways of ranch life from young Jessy, who knew the land her own heart. But Ty worshiped dark, glamorous Tara, scion of the new "corporate West," of vast power and big money. Tara lured Ty on, greedy to be mistress of the Calder kingdom...
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