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  • Go as a River by Shelley Read

    Go as a River by Shelley Read

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century ColoradoOn a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way...
  • Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse

    Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    "Never Look Back" is the latest from bestselling author Lesley Pearse. One good deed takes her into another world...Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime. She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York...
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  • Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo

    Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many men, walked many miles...
  • The Wood's Edge by Lori Benton

    The Wood's Edge by Lori Benton

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    At the wood's edge cultures collide. Can two families survive the impact? The 1757 New York frontier is home to the Oneida tribe and to British colonists, yet their feet rarely walk the same paths. On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald Aubrey is beside himself with grief. His son, born that day, has died in the arms of his sleeping wife...
  • My Sister the Moon by Sue Harrison

    My Sister the Moon by Sue Harrison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An abused and unwanted daughter of the First Men Tribe, young Kiin knows the harsh realities of life in a frozen land at the top of the world...
  • Savage Paradise by Cassie Edwards

    Savage Paradise by Cassie Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Mariana Fowler arrives in the Minnesota territory, she is not prepared for the uncivilized world she encounters. What unsettles her most is the man who captures her attention, a handsome Chippewa brave named Lone Hawk - an enemy of her people...A fiercely proud warrior, Lone Hawk has every intention of resisting his powerful feelings for the beautiful woman whose life he saved...
  • Savage Moon by Cassie Edwards

    Savage Moon by Cassie Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Savage Moon, bestselling author Cassie Edwards brings readers another passionate historical romance set on the American frontier. Misshi Bradley knew two lives. As a settler girl, she'd seen her family die, one by one, on the grueling trail west. Stolen by renegade Indians, she'd grown to womanhood with an Indian family...
  • 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...
  • Charlotte by JS Anthony

    Charlotte by JS Anthony

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When 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...
  • 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...
  • Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

    Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    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...
  • Oldest Trick in the Book by J.V. James

    Oldest Trick in the Book by J.V. James

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Justice for the orphan child - time to find out the Truth.Lyle Frakes here again, and this time we sure got some trouble. After almost getting robbed by the world's youngest gang of train robbers, we arrive in Cheyenne to hunt down the skunks who killed Mary's parents...
  • 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...
  • Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati

    Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    With 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...
  • 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...
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