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Beyond the Trail by Jae
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSix short stories that give us glimpses into the lives of Luke, Nora, and the other characters from Backwards to Oregon.● The Blue Hour: When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life—as a boy.● Grasping at Straws: No one knows that Tess Swenson, madam of a brothel, also owns a livery stable and a number of other businesses... -
The Art of Pretending by Jae
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsShort spin-off of Backwards to Oregon.Tess finds out that someone is stealing her money. She suspects Frankie, a woman who reminds her of Luke. But nothing is as it seems... -
Smoke Through The Pines by Sarah Goodwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIt is a long, hard journey from Indian Territory to Minnesota, but one that Laura and Cecelia are determined to make. Carrying with them the secrets and losses of the prairie, both women must fight to succeed in the lawless male world of the northern lumber camps. As winter prowls the pine forest and the darkening days draw in, Laura and Cecelia can at last be at home together in the wild woods... -
Grasping at Straws by Jae
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsShort story prequel to Backwards to Oregon.No one knows that Tess Swenson, madam of a brothel, also owns a livery stable and a number of other businesses. On one of her secret inspections, she makes a surprising discovery... -
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The Blue Hour by Jae
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsShort story prequel to Backwards to Oregon.When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life—as a boy... -
Promising Hearts by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsCan two outcasts find refuge in one another's hearts? Dr. Vance Phelps lost everything in the War Between the States - her career and her faith in herself. Mae is a frontier madam, used to standing alone. She guards the well-being of the lost young women who come under her care - she just never expected one of them to be a doctor... -
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan who finds friendship, romance, and her true calling as a revenge-seeking gunslinger.It's the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned... -
Tumbleweed Fever by L.J. Maas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn the Oklahoma Territory of the old west, Devlin Brown is trying to redeem herself for a past as an outlaw. Working as a rider on a cattle ranch, she meets Sarah Tolliver, a widow with two children and a successful ranch, but no way to protect it from the ruthless men who would rather see her fail. Sparks fly when the former outlaw teams up with the beautiful, yet headstrong, young Tolliver... -
Summer Winds by Andrews & Austin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWidow Maggie Tanner needs a ranch hand to work her thousand acres of Kansas hayfields. Young Cash Tate takes the job—a summer break from the city and her girlfriend troubles. Cash is irritated by and enamored of this self-sufficient rancher woman who refuses to treat her as an equal, and she vows to earn her respect... -
Charity by Paulette Callen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband) with anyone else... -
They Ain't Proper by M.B. Guel
1880s, The Wild West. An easy, solitary life on the outskirts of Ghosthallow is all Lou Ramirez wants. They want to buy some house plans, build a home, and live their quiet life far from townsfolk’s prying eyes. But somehow instead of house plans , a house wife is delivered to their door... -
Crossing the Wide Forever by Missouri Vaun
Cody Walsh leaves Arkansas for California. Lured by stories of opportunity, even for women, Cody disguises herself as a man and prepares for the arduous journey west. Lillie Ellis leaves New York to accept a post as a schoolteacher on the frontier near a small homestead she just inherited from her uncle... -
The Long Past & Other Stories by Ginn Hale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1858 –Warring mages open up a vast inland sea that splits the United States in two. With the floodwaters come creatures from a long distant past. What seems like the End Times forges a new era of heroes and heroines who challenge tradition, law, and even death as they transform the old west into a new world... -
The Submissive Bride by Carolyn Faulkner
King Marston is a man with a past: a gun-slinger and a gambler. Typically when he rode into a town, he rode out scant days later, richer, but no longer welcome. Then, his luck changed, and the sheriff of Hell's Pass, the aptly-named hellhole he'd ridden into, saw the benefits of having someone with King's skills on the "right" side of the law... -
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Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award Honor Book As the Crow Flies) puts readers in the saddle alongside Flor and Grace, a Latinx outlaw and a trans runaway, as they team up to thwart a Confederate plot in the New Mexico Territory...Categorized as:
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Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn this sweeping Dust Bowl-inspired fantasy, a ten-year game between Life and Death pits the walled Oklahoma city of Elysium-including a girl gang of witches and a demon who longs for humanity-against the supernatural in order to judge mankind.When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at the chance to prove herself to the town...Categorized as:
historical western queer young adult fantasy science fiction paranormal futuristic urban fantasy -
Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker
Shunned by her family, a girl is sent west on a one-way stage ticket. Penniless, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, and her first taste of pleasure - and happiness.Cowboys, however, are born to wander, and their kisses are as brief as the lives of young women without family or means... -
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
“You ain’t gonna like what I have to tell you, but I’m gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I’m one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It’s French, so Beatrice tells me...Categorized as:
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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 48 ratings“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with... -
My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsHold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou—better known as werewolves...
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