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When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom 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... -
Love and Marriage at Harpers by Rosie Clarke
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLondon 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... -
Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen 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
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... -
Ruby by Sadie Conall
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIts 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
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBook 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... -
A Trail so Lonesome by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSpending 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
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEagle'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... -
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... -
A Constant Love by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHeartache has left them emotionally desolate, but traces of love and healing could forge a future.In the wake of a harsh winter, Micah Hamilton and Charlotte Aldrich are grappling with loss and guilt after the disaster that took the lives of their loved ones. Struggling to cope with his grief, Micah abandons his father's dreams of a prosperous ranch and cuts himself off from the rest of the world... -
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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An Untamed Land by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsShe 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... -
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The Soldier's Promise by William Black
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Healing Montana Sky by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAfter a grizzly bear kills Antonia Valleau’s trapper husband, she packs her few worldly possessions, leaves her home in the mountains of Montana, and treks to nearby Sweetwater Springs, seeking work to provide for her two young sons. Reeling from the loss of his wife during childbirth, Erik Muth must find a nursing mother for his newborn daughter to survive... -
Healing the Mountain Man's Heart by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, loyalty…and a hidden fortune.Jericho Coulter, the eldest of six fiercely devoted brothers, is entrusted with safeguarding his family and the secret that binds them together: the Sapphire mine. To keep tragedy from striking again, he allows no outsiders on their land... -
Sharpshooter in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMandy McClellen Grey, has become the focus of a feud thanks to her husband, who made this mess and then died. Far from home, Mandy, the best little rifle woman in the west, has resigned herself to a lonely life under siege rather than call for help and endanger her family... -
Husband Tree by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 26 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... -
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Captive Justice: A Classic Western by Sam Scott
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTEXAS 1872: Falsely accused of murder, orphan Jed Whittier’s on the run with one of the most feared renegades of all. And they’re heading to a canyon where the outlaws who killed his family are hiding out. To Jed, it feels like destiny. But if he rides into the canyon to face the evil, he’ll come out with blood on his hands... -
Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSun Over The Mountains is the latest novel by bestselling Western author Duane Boehm.When Sammy Landon is called home by his dying mother, he returns to his hometown to find that the things he ran from all those years ago are still as much a part of him as they ever were. Central City still holds the same old heartbreak, temptations, and problems that it always had for his troubled life... -
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... -
Wrangler in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCan the artist tame the cowgirl without breaking her spirit? Tough Texan tomboy Sally McClellan heads to Montana to visit her pregnant sister Mandy. But when her traveling party is attacked, Sally is left for dead... -
The Ballad of Uriah: A Mountain Man Story by Mike Mackessy
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA brand new Mountain Man adventure from Mike Mackessy!This is a story of a young man, quitting school to run to the mountains and join the beaver trappers and Indian traders. Understanding enough about himself, he realizes he is not yet prepared for such an adventure. He prepares himself by working for three years on a railroad crew... -
Escape From The Devil: The Crocketts' Western Saga by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWITH THE CROCKETTS' IN TOWN, EVERY TWO-BIT GUNSLINGER’S CHANCES OF SURVIVING ARE JUST ABOUT ZERO…After brothers Will and Gid Crockett deliver several horses to Colonel John Abernathy – a man they knew during the civil war – he hires them to accompany his sixteen-year-old daughter, Julia, on a stagecoach trip for fear she may be kidnapped and held for ransom... -
Sweet Boundless by Kristen Heitzmann
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNewly married Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to make a home for herself and her husband, Quillan, in the rugged mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Quillan, however, has turned away to confront the haunting pain of his troubled childhood. Out of her loneliness, Carina opens a restaurant, and through its success soon attains the independence and identity she has long sought... -
Love's Unfading Light by Naomi Rawlings
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEagle Harbor--Where Love Finds Its Anchor Lake Superior, 1880 Tressa Danell is finished with men—from the wastrel who left her a widow, to the smelly trapper who keeps proposing, to the banker who wants to repossess her bakery. Every hour is spent working to pay off her late husband’s debt and keep a roof over her son’s head, though it’s doubtful she can do both for very long... -
Sean Donovan by Lori Wick
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsLori Wick's bestselling series The Californians (more than 500,000 copies sold) has a fresh new cover design to delight avid Lori Wick fans and readers just introduced to Lori's beloved fiction. Caught in his first bank robbery, Sean Donovan is sentenced to hang. But Charlotte Cooper, who needs a blacksmith for her livery, has other ideas...Categorized as:
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His Unforgettable Bride by Jody Hedlund, Patti Stockdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA pickpocket turned lady and a prince with a forgotten past find love in the most unexpected place…Juliet Dash, orphan and former pickpocket, yearns to leave her troubled past behind. So when she arrives in British Columbia and takes a respectable job working for a pair of society sisters who offer to give her etiquette lessons, she’s one step closer to that dream... -
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EMBRACE THE WIND: An Historical Novel of the American West by Susan Denning
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW RELEASE!! EMBRACE THE WIND continues the story of Aislynn Maher, heroine of FAR AWAY HOME, an Amazon bestseller for four years in the categories of Historical Fiction-US and Romance-Western. This sequel begins where FAR AWAY HOME ends─ What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high... -
Doctor in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBeth and Alex survive a stage coach accident. Beth realizes the derelict in the stagecoach with her is a doctor and she forces him to help tend the injured. Alex finds he can care for the patients as long as Beth is right beside him... yelling at him. Alex saves Beth's sister’s life, but he only has the courage to treat patients as long as Beth is there... -
Revealed by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWords, once spoken, can mend a broken life…or cripple it. But words left unspoken can haunt the soul, inflicting a far deeper wound. Annabelle Grayson has been given a second chance at life, but she can't claim it with the cloud of her past hanging over her in Willow Springs... -
West Winds of Wyoming by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn Book Three of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe, two broken hearts just might find a second chance at love. When widower Charlie Rose shows up looking for work at the struggling Cotton Ranch, no one knows he’s secretly trying to outrun trouble—and he intends to keep it that way... -
The Woman Who Built a Bridge by C.K. Crigger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShay Billings is pleasantly surprised at discovering a new bridge over the river, as it cuts several miles from his trip into town. Ambushed and left for dead, he has even more cause to be grateful when the bridge-builder saves his life. Shay’s savior turns out to be a mysterious young woman with extraordinary skills... -
Liberation by Ellie Midwood
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrance, 1942 Having suffered a devastating blow from the Gestapo, Etienne Delattre’s Resistance cell is slowly recovering its strength. Giselle Legrand travels to Lyon to work in its infamous Montluc prison under her third alias, helping the Resistance in organizing prisoners’ escapes... -
Texas Ranger by William Black
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMitchell Rankin couldn’t stop his parents’ violent death when he was a boy. Now the outlaws and Indians of South Texas can’t stop Mitchell Rankin. Fifteen years after a Comanche raid upturned his young life, Mitchell joins the newly formed Frontier Battalion to help bring peace to his Texan homeland.He’s putting desperadoes on someone has to pay the price for what was done to his family... -
This Treacherous Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance novel Widowed and with child, Emma Malcom is fleeing from the reward offered for her arrest. She’s innocent of the dirty dealings her deceased husband orchestrated, but the angry townspeople didn’t stop to listen to her defense before she narrowly escaped with her life... -
Embrace the Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe American Civil War plunges Zeke and Abbie Monroe into violence and separation, danger and torn loyalties. Their first-born son, Wolf’s Blood, takes part in the Sun Dance, a tortuous ritual that initiates him into life with the Cheyenne. Then war forces Zeke to leave his family to join his white brother, Danny, in the conflict... -
River of Love by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 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... -
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Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEAGLE'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... -
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... -
Cowboy's Bride: A Secret Baby, Ranch Western Romance by KC Crowne
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I was absolutely riveted, all the way through." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Strong probability that you won't want to stop reading until the very last wonderful word." She doesn't realize it yet...But Juliana will happily wear my ring.I'll prove to her I'm not the enemy she thinks I am.She's a perfect balance of class and beauty.And she's perfect for me... -
The Runaway Children: The heartbreaking, page-turning new historical saga from Lindsey Hutchinson for 2022 by Lindsey Hutchinson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA heart-warming saga about surviving against the odds and finding a family, from top 10 bestseller Lindsey Hutchinson.In two rundown houses, at the side of a barren Black Country heath, live six children with no family but each other. Abandoned or orphaned, every day is a fight to find food and keep warm... -
The Widower's Mail-Order Bargain: Inspirational Western Cowboy Romance by Karla Gracey
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter Jonas lost his wife, he swore he would never marry again, but unless he does, he fears his in-laws will never let him have custody of his son, Teddy, again. The only course of action is to find a new bride… so he advertises for one, making it clear that although he can offer her a good home and a stable life, he will never be able to love her. That suits Geraldine just fine...Categorized as:
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Trailing Star by William Black
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStar Holiday is on the run.Left on her own to tend to a hopeless harvest, she watched as her husband, Fletcher, was seduced by saloon girls, card tables and violent robbery.Now Fletcher is dead. To free herself and the quiet Nebraskan countryside from her husband’s mounting cruelty, Star pulled the trigger. Star is the only person that sees justice has been served...
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