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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... -
Mail-Order Duchess by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive sons of an English duke, all raised in the Rocky Mountains…A marriage born of duty. A love neither expected.When Enoch Balfour’s eldest brother tragically dies, the weight of family responsibility falls on his shoulders. Now this Montana rancher must train for his role as the next Duke of Clarence—and marry the mail-order bride his brother sent for... -
Doctor Rose and the Outlaw by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDoctor 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... -
Against the Rain by Naomi Rawlings
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if the one woman he was taught to despise is the one he’s meant to protect?Yuri Amos has spent years watching his family suffer at the hands of Sitka’s most ruthless businessman, Preston Caldwell. When Yuri discovers that Caldwell’s daughter is hiding secrets, he knows he should walk away. But he can’t.Because Rosalind isn’t like her father... -
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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... -
Ronan O'Higgins by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRonan 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... -
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 Forgotten Heart by Traci Summeril, Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRancher Nick McGraw had his dreams of teaching shattered and lost his chance for true love in one fell swoop. Years later, he’s finally moved on. The best Christmas gift he can give himself is a chance for a new start—with a mail-order bride of his own choosing.After he broke her heart, schoolmarm Elsie Atchinson hoped she would never see Nick again... -
A Joyful Ring: Wholesome Holiday Western Romance by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA rugged freighter, a hopeful dreamer, and a Christmas they’ll never forget.In 1876, Gunder Birke leaves the daily struggle of Pittsburgh behind, determined to build a better life in the rough-and-tumble mining town of Lovely, Oregon... -
Heart's Perilous Journey by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeeping secrets is nearly impossible on an Oregon-bound wagon train. But Alice Spencer has kept a whopper from her protective brothers for she once fancied herself in love with her wealthy boss’s grandson. Her brothers don’t know *she’s* the reason Rob Braddock came on this westward journey. Only that he’s part of the reason they had to leave their home and friends behind... -
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... -
The Salvation of Eli Ussher: A Western Frontier Saga by Sam Scott
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOut 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
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNavarro 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
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... -
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Snowbound at Christmas: A Wind River Mail-Order Brides Christmas Anthology (Wind River Mail-Order Brides) by Lacy Williams, Wendy Klopfenstein
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne Christmas snowstorm creates havoc for three couples who find themselves snowed in together—and a chance for new love to bloom and old feelings to be rekindled. Curl up on a winter's afternoon with this anthology of three heartwarming love stories set in the Wind River story world.Heart's Secret HavenLivery owner Lilly Murdock would prefer to skip over Christmas entirely... -
Montana Groom of Convenience by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan the ranch save her heart?Carly Morrison's father has given her an wed or lose her ranch. Desperate to keep her home, Carly agrees to marriage of convenience with Sawyer, a man who needs security for himself and his little sister, Jill. Their arrangement is a marriage in name only, no emotions, and no expectations.Sawyer's priority is protecting Jill... -
The Unwanted Bride And Her Protective Rancher: A Clean Western Historical Romance Novel by Ember Pierce
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJane 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
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... -
Wagon Train Song by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWAGON 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
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsGarrett 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
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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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... -
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The Blacksmith's Mail Order Doctor by Karla Gracey
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNever give up on your dream—or on love.Unlike other women her age, Anna MacDonald has never set much hope in finding herself a husband.Far more important is the task of finding a position of employment... in a society that is untrusting of female doctors and that has so far proved challenging, to say the least... -
A Mountain Christmas Romance by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNow with an extra bonus epilogue! Only the fearless believe in Christmas miracles. Stripped of the family so important to his Viking heritage, Matthias Bjork is now on the hunt for his sister. Despite combing the entire Wyoming Territory, he hasn’t found any substantial leads regarding her whereabouts, but he has discovered a most unusual woman... -
Loose Ends by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series and the Wild Horse Westerns Series comes the captivating new Western novel, Loose Ends!Little does the reclusive Jake Mason know that his life is about to take a dramatic turn when he catches the tomato stealing Nicolette Amar sleeping in his shed... -
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... -
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... -
The Bride He Never Wanted: A Western Historical Romance Book by Lydia Olson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I didn’t come here to marry you."Jeremy smirks. "That makes two of us." Cora never expected freedom to come with a broken promise. Answering a mail-order bride ad was supposed to be her escape, but when she arrives in Montana, she finds her supposed groom already married to another woman... -
Their Nebraska Marriage Deal: A Western Historical Romance Book by Ava Winters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I don’t want to fall for you,” she admitted.“Then stop looking at me like you already did,” he said. With her parents gone, May is losing the horse ranch they left behind. The only way to keep the ranch is to marry. “I don’t need a man,” May insists. “I need a loophole.” But what arrives on her doorstep is a tall, grim ex-sheriff with a daughter on his hip—and too many secrets in his eyes.. -
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... -
His Texas Mail-Order Mistake: A Western Historical Romance Book by Lydia Olson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“This isn’t love,” she said.Jay stepped closer. “It’s getting harder to pretend it’s not.” With no say in her future and a marriage arranged to save a family that was never truly hers, Estelle runs. She trades it all for a train ticket and a newspaper ad promising freedom in Mail-order bride wanted. Ranch life. No romance required.Jay’s hands are full... -
Forced to Be the Rancher's Wife: A Historical Western Romance Novel by Mia Dunham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrapped by her father's harsh expectations, Emmeline Spratt is devastated when he offers her hand in marriage to a rancher as part of a land deal. Yet, as she begins to see the quiet strength in her new husband, she can’t help but hope that he might be the love she never saw coming... -
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A Blizzard Bride for the Bounty Hunter: A Historical Western Romance Novel by Mia Dunham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter years of hardship, Kate Taylor has sworn off love. Running the Hollow Creek Inn alongside her aunt, she finds solace in the quietude of small-town life, until a wounded stranger is brought to her doorstep in the middle of a blizzard... -
Every Bend in the River by Emerson Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom bestselling author Emerson Ford comes an unforgettable true story of a spirited woman caught between freedom and duty, set against the sweeping backdrop of the American Revolution. Perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing, The Four Winds, and A Girl Called Samson.Virginia, 1749... -
Montana Lawman Rescuer: Christian Western Romance- A Wounded Sheriff, an Amnesia Stricken Heroine, and Love's Redemption by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill she ever remember who she is? A stagecoach robbery leaves Emily Smith with no memory. She must rely on the dark-eyed Sheriff who rescues her and the small boy travelling with her.Jesse Hill is a principled lawman who guards his heart as thoroughly as he guards the town of Bella Creek. His tainted past makes the young ladies shun him... -
A Moment to Love by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDr. Carrie Vogel's heart is shattered when her groundbreaking medical research is stolen and falsely credited to her ex-fiancé. With years of diligent work lost, she grapples with the disastrous turn of her career and leans on her faith for strength... -
The Widower's Christmas Guest: Historical Western Romance by Callie Gardner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA grieving widower. A desperate mother. One Christmas that will change everything. When Maria Santos and her young son arrive in the snowy mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, they carry little more than a suitcase and a prayer. The job she hoped for has been filled, and the cold wind bites through the thin fabric of her dress... -
The Woman Who Saved His Christmas: A Christian Historical Romance Book by Chloe Carley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe shouldn’t be able to care for someone like this. To be drawn to her. To want in the core of his body to bring her closer, even as he pushed her away. The other passengers on the train stared at Isabelle Heart with narrowed eyes as she shuffled her way down the aisle, a suitcase in each hand and a crying baby strapped to her front. She prayed again and again that everything would be all right... -
Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas by Cora Seton
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOrphaned at seven, kicked out by his aunt and uncle at 16, Sergeant Emerson Myers gave up on family until General Augustus Reed chose him as his assistant, becoming as much a father-figure as a commanding officer... -
Remembered by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 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 Veronique 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... -
Trail of Secrets by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsStella is the oldest of three sisters and she’s got a long history of being the one to protect and provide for her family. When a dangerous threat sent the Fairfax sisters on a wagon train journey west, Stella knew her best bet was to disguise herself as a man to keep herself and her sisters safe.Collin Mason has secrets of his own... -
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker
From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier. Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival... -
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Beyond This Moment by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLives are made up of tiny steps. Some are chosen for us; some we choose. All hold the power to change who we become—but only if we let them. When Dr. Molly Whitcomb, Professor of Romance Languages, steps off the train in Colorado Territory, she makes a choice—one that goes against everything she stands for. Yet it’s the only choice that offers her a chance to regain a fraction of all she’s lost... -
War Adams by C J. Petit
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnited States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief... -
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... -
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...
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