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On Wings of Devotion by Roseanna M. White
All of England thinks Phillip Camden a monster--a man who deliberately caused the deaths of his squadron. But as nurse Arabelle Denler watches the so-dubbed "Black Heart" every day, she sees something far different: a hurting man desperate for mercy. And when their paths twist together and he declares himself her new protector, she realizes she has her own role to play in his healing... -
Freedom's Distant Frontier by Lacy Williams
Lily Fairfax is drowning in grief and mourning the man she once loved when she finds herself tangled in a web of danger. She has no choice but to lean on a hired hand she barely knows for protection, though she vows she won't open her heart to love again.Matt Grayson has been traveling with the Oregon-bound wagon train on a secret mission to recover a stolen jewel... -
Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer
LOVE IN A STRANGER'S EYES... ELLY In town, they called her "Crazy Widow Dinsmore." But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule--she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way... -
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...Categorized as:
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Sarah Mayfield by J.S. Anthony
An unexpected journey of the heart.The war is over and Sarah Mayfield has put the sorrows of her life in Virginia behind her. On the strength of three letters she has traveled by railroad, riverboat and stagecoach to meet her new life out west...Categorized as:
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Guarding the Mountain Man’s Secret by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, second chances…and a hidden fortune. Miles is the youngest of six brothers, and he’s spent most of his life helping guard the family’s a sapphire mine hidden deep within the Montana mountains...Categorized as:
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How West Was Won by Laylah Roberts
Theirs was a love story like no other. . . Or at least it was in Flick O’Malley’s mind. All she’d ever wanted was a man to love her. A family to adore her. Protect her. And she’d do the same in return. Oh, she knew West Malone wasn’t your typical Prince Charming. He was blunt. He was gruff. Sometimes, he was downright scary...Categorized as:
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To Win Her Heart by Karen Witemeyer
Having completed his sentence for the unintentional crime that derailed his youthful plans for fame and fortune, Levi Grant looks to start over in the town of Spencer, Texas. Spencer needs a blacksmith, a trade he learned at his father's knee, and he needs a place where no one knows his past. But small towns leave little room for secrets.. -
Buck You! by Elle Thorpe
Summer Hunt was destined to be the first woman on the pro bull riding tour, until a devastating accident shattered her dreams. With the injury not healing, and her fiancé pushing to move to the city, there’s nothing left for her at the small-town bull riding school she runs with her father. Dominic West has always secretly longed to know his biological parents... -
Beautiful Bad Man by Ellen O'Connell
In 1866 on the empty Kansas prairie, two children shared a few desperate moments that changed their lives. For years afterward, each nursed a secret dream—that the other had grown into a special person—brave, good, kind. When Norah Hawkins and Caleb Sutton cross paths again, dreams die. She is a bitter, suicidal widow. He is a gunman with little conscience and few scruples... -
Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr
For the second time in a year a woman arrives in the small town of Virgin River trying to escape the past. John “Preacher” Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of a wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one—the woman is covered in bruises... -
Cherish by Catherine Anderson
SHE WAS AN INNOCENT IN A DANGEROUS WORLD, AND HE'D RISK ANYTHING TO KEEP HER SAFE. HE LONGED FOR HER ... Race Spencer's gunslinging days are far behind him. He is now a respectable rancher, but it's a solitary life. But then Fate lead Race to an earthbound angel --- lost and alone, the sole survivor of an outlaw attack --- and even his hardened heart is moved... -
The Colonel's Lady by Laura Frantz
In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father's place as scrivener. Before long, it's clear that the colonel himself is attracted to her...Categorized as:
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More Than Words Can Say by Karen Witemeyer
After fulfilling a pledge to a dying friend, Zacharias Hamilton is finally free. No family entanglements. No disappointing those around him. Just the quiet bachelor existence he's always craved. Until fate snatches his freedom away when the baker of his favorite breakfast bun is railroaded by the city council. Despite not wanting to get involved, he can't turn a blind eye to her predicament . . -
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Whispers on the Wind by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA straitlaced bookseller and a rowdy trail guide fight their ill-suited attraction in Book Five of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe. Wyoming Territory, October 1883 Tabitha Canterbury came to Logan Meadows with one goal: to open the bookshop she’s always dreamed of having...Categorized as:
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The Beast Gets His Cowgirl in the Show Me State by Jessie Gussman
A celebrity chef that can’t cook. A scarred cowboy who hates cameras. And the little girl who could bring them both together.Madeline Reese has a successful cooking show, a best-selling line of cookbooks and is considered one of the top celebrity chefs in Hollywood. One small problem – she can’t cook...Categorized as:
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The School Mistress of Emerson Pass by Tess Thompson
How easily can an open heart unlock the door to happily-ever-after? When Miss Quinn Cooper arrives in Emerson Pass, Colorado, her entire life is packed into one small suitcase. Her widowed mother and baby sister are depending upon her for their survival back home in Boston...Categorized as:
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Preston Men of Clifton, Montana Book 10 by Susan Fisher-Davis
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove and marriage is one path Preston Mitchell has no desire to travel down again. His ranch is his life and if a woman cannot appreciate his dedication to it, she has no place in his life. He learned that lesson the hard way when his marriage ended because his wife wanted more. But then a dark-haired beauty enters the diner and he cannot resist having a taste of what she is offering...Categorized as:
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Reece Men of Clifton, Montana Book 11 by Susan Fisher-Davis
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRissa Gates did something totally out of character for her…she spent the night with a strange man she met in an elevator. An amazing night with a gorgeous blue-eyed cowboy. A night that left her hoping for more especially after her love life came to a bitter end and she sees her sisters in happily-ever-after bliss...Categorized as:
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The Spinster by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer love died on a battlefield. He carries a torch for a woman he’s never met. Can the tragic death of a soldier entwine the souls of two strangers?Colorado, 1920. Josephine Barnes wrote every day to her beloved fiancé battling in the trenches of the Great War. Devastated when he’s killed in action, she vows never to marry and buries her grief in the construction of the town’s first library...Categorized as:
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Love's Healing Path by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMaddie Fairfax may be young, but on this Oregon-bound wagon train, the pioneers welcome help from the self-trained nurse. Until Dr. Jason Goodwin joins up with their company. The doctor portrays a frosty exterior, but Maddie may be the only one who sees the profound loneliness that haunts him.After losing his wife and children in a terrible accident, Jason has vowed not to open his heart again...Categorized as:
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Matilda's Last Waltz by Tamara McKinley
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsIf you love Lesley Pearse, you're sure to fall for Tamara McKinley. When tragedy strikes, Jenny craves a fresh start away from the memories of her past. So when she unexpectedly inherits a sheep station in the Australian Outback called Churinga, she welcomes the escape. But Churinga turns out to be a lonely place, where the weather is extreme and the neighbours hostile... -
Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins
The second novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’ compelling new Women Who Dare series follows a female rancher in Wyoming after the Civil War.A reporter has come to Wyoming to do a story on doctors for his Black newspaper back east. He thinks Colton Lee will be an interesting subject…until he meets Colton’s sister, Spring... -
The Unexpected Champion by Mary Connealy
City dweller John McCall never expected to be out in the High Sierras of 1868 on a wild-goose chase to find the Chiltons' supposedly lost grandson. But now that he's out here, things have gotten even more complicated, mostly due to wildcat Penny Scott. She's not like any woman he's ever met--comfortable in the woods, with a horse, and with a gun... -
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The Lady and the Mountain Man by Misty M. Beller
Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fiancé’s plot to kill her after their wedding. She needs a safe place to hide, and finds herself accepting a newspaper marriage proposal from a God-fearing young rancher in the Montana Territory...Categorized as:
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Riley by Susan Fisher-Davis
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHis father’s death may have brought Riley Madison home to Clifton but nothing is going to make him stay in a place filled with so many bad memories. He’s made a life in Texas and not even a beautiful woman with a little girl who melts his heart is going to make him change his mind. He doesn’t do relationships. Kaitlyn Garrett Parker is happy with her life since her husband’s untimely passing...Categorized as:
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Sam by Susan Fisher-Davis
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsEveryone tells Sheriff Sam Garrett to find a good woman and settle down. When he sets his sights on Clifton’s veterinarian, he fears she despises him yet he’s desired her from the first moment they met. She is quite possibly the only woman in town who isn’t attracted to him which might be why he wants her even more...Categorized as:
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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... -
Pretending to Wed by Melissa Jagears
It’s a match made in heaven, as long as they don’t fall in love!The ranch Nolan Key has spent decades working for, even lost a leg for, is now his—or at least it should be. But an absurd clause in his father’s will means he’s in danger of losing the place to his lazy, undeserving cousin. Nolan finds himself scrambling to save his home—by proposing marriage to the town laundress... -
Years by LaVyrle Spencer
The sweeping plains held the promise of a lifetime. Linnea Eager to begin her first teaching position, lovely Linnea Brandonberg stepped off the train looking as grown up and worldly as her eighteen years would allow. The golden fields and fragrant wheat of Alamo, North Dakota, were as new and different as the Westgaard family with whom she would live...Categorized as:
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Where the Road Bends by Rachel Fordham
As Norah King surveys her family land in Iowa in 1880, she is acutely aware that it is all she has left, and she will do everything in her power to save it--even if that means marrying a man she hardly knows. Days before her wedding, Norah discovers an injured man on her property. Her sense of duty compels her to take him in and nurse him back to health...Categorized as:
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Indigo Blue by Catherine Anderson
Back in print after more than ten years. Torn between the white and Comanche worlds of her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from the townspeople of Wolf's Landing, Orgeon. No one understands her elusive spirit-until Jake Rand comes to town to act as foreman of her family's ranch... -
Parting Gifts by Lorraine Heath
The USA Today–bestselling author delivers a poignant historical romance of a desperate woman, a lonely cowboy, and the never-ending search for hope... -
Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath
She was his brother's wife... Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. The tall cowboy at the station wasn't Dallas. He was Houston, Dallas's brother, sent to escort her on the rugged three-week trek to the ranch where Dallas waited...Categorized as:
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The Prospector's Only Prospect by Dani Collins
After eight days in a cramped stagecoach, divorcée Marigold Davis already regrets her decision to come to Denver City to marry. She certainly didn’t realize she’d signed up for mosquitoes, mud, and scores of rough men eyeing her like a hot meal on a cold day. But with her life in Kansas all but incinerated, Marigold needs a husband... -
Love at Any Cost by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJilted by a fortune hunter, cowgirl Cassidy McClare is a spunky Texas oil heiress without a fortune who would just as soon hogtie a man as look at him. Hoping a summer visit with her wealthy cousins in San Francisco will help her forget her heartache, Cassidy travels west... -
RNWMP: Bride for Theodore by Kirsten Osbourne, Mail Order Mounties
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJessica Sanderson knows what it means to love unconditionally. She has doted on the same man for over a decade, and she’s in her early twenties. When that man’s mother asks her to be her traveling companion, she gladly accepts. She doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life sitting in a bank, after all... -
These Healing Hills by Ann H. Gabhart
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrancine Howard has her life all mapped out until the soldier she planned to marry at WWII's end writes to tell her he's in love with a woman in England. Devastated, Francine seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian Mountains, training to be a nurse midwife for the Frontier Nursing Service...Categorized as:
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A Long Way from Yesterday by Lynda J Cox
THIS IS A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS *THE DEVIL'S OWN DESPERADO* He's everything she fears… Colt Evans didn’t choose to be a gunfighter. When he’s injured in a shootout and stumbles onto a remote homestead, he didn’t expect to find compassion. But beautiful Amelia McCollister is like no other woman... -
Mail Order Bride And The Gift of Children (A Western Historical Romance Book) (Evergreen Frontier) by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFinding love is never easy for a single mother listing herself as a mail order bride. But it is necessary.Eliza Buell has just given birth to her second child. Now a single mother after the death of her husband, she finds herself alone and desperate for a way to help her children survive the coming winter. With no other option, Eliza opts to become a mail order bride... -
Mail Order Bride's Baby And Her Mismatched Rancher by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mail order bride with a baby mismatched to a rancher with no interest in children… Abbie Hustley thinks her future is secure when she becomes a mail order bride for a rancher in the west. There will be no more singing in saloons, no more late nights. Sam Sayler has everything he wants, a ranch of his own, loyal ranch hands, and a life under the wide Colorado skies. All he needs now, is a wife... -
A Convenient Heart by Lacy Williams
Spinster schoolmarm Merritt Harding is done waiting for the future she’s always wanted. Which is why she answered a mail-order bride ad and is anticipating her groom’s arrival on the eve of Christmas. She’s about to get everything she’s dreamed of...Except the Jack who steps off the train can’t be the same man who wrote her letters. That Jack was a steady, mild-mannered businessman...Categorized as:
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Blacksmith's Beauty by Caroline Lee, River's End Ranch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStart with a hot anvil, add a little bit of aloha, a failure of an anxiety pig, a whole lotta Elvis Presley, and what do you get? Christmas at River's End Ranch! Since moving to River’s End Ranch to take over the blacksmith shop, Elvis “Elf” Redfern has been surrounded on all sides by deliriously happy couples in love. And despite his well-earned reputation as a flirt, he’s beyond jealous... -
RNWMP: Bride for Elijah (Mail Order Mounties) by Kay P. Dawson, Mail Order Mounties
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat does a wealthy, pampered woman from the city have in common with a simple Mountie on the frontier? Nothing—and that’s exactly why Miss Hazel Hughes decides they need each other. Rose Lambert has grown up in the wealthy society of Ottawa, but longs for a life where people will respect her for who she is, and not what her family’s status can give them... -
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RNWMP: Bride for Samuel by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeth James, daughter of Reverend James of Ottawa, suddenly finds herself alone in the world when her father is taken ill and passes away. With very little choices and even fewer resources, she decides to take up Miss Hazel Hughes on her offer--she will travel far away from home to marry a Mountie in a place she's never seen before--Cougar Springs... -
Bride for Robert by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMinnie, a young widow and mother of a small child, finds out she has no money and no place to live after a meeting with her dead husband’s lawyer. When she goes to her church to find help getting a job, Miss Hazel invites her to stay with her and offers to help her find a Mountie to marry instead... -
RNWMP: Bride for Malcolm by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLearning to live with what fate has dealt her, Annie has accepted that she’ll never be as beautiful as her sister. After her father is arrested, she realizes her entire life has been a lie. She needs to start over somewhere far away, so her friend sends her to see Miss Hazel in Ottawa. Miss Hazel has four Mounties coming for brides before they make the trek into a remote Ontario community... -
Tanner (Bachelors and Babies Book 14): American Western Historical (Bachelors & Babies) by Cheryl St.John
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of the most reliable western romance writers today!♥ "Story and style remind me of LaVyrle Spencer." - Linda HowardHe's focused on the future...The past is all she knows.Together they're forced to face today.His months in Salisbury prison taught Union Captain Tanner Bell to detest a southern drawl, and Widow Cranford's exaggerated Dixie twang has him gritting his teeth... -
A Hope Unburied by Kimberley Woodhouse
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the bustling world of paleontology in 1916, Eliza Mills defies societal expectations to pursue her passion. Having published her early groundbreaking papers anonymously, she has finally earned her place at the Carnegie Museum and seizes the opportunity to work at Dinosaur National Monument with a renowned paleontologist. But things in Jensen, Utah, aren't what they appear...Categorized as:
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A Creed Country Christmas / The Doctor's Blessing by Linda Lael Miller, Patricia Davids
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsBESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors. HOLIDAY ON THE HOMESTEADMontana, Christmas 1910: For widowed rancher Lincoln Creed, the holiday serves as a harsh reminder of what a tough year it’s been—and who he’s lost...Categorized as:
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