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The Man Who Loved Cole Flores by K.A. Merikan
You want revenge? Dig two graves.Ten years ago, a vicious gang called the Gotham Boys descended on a homestead in the mountains like a pack of wolves, leaving nothing behind but death and destruction.Ned O’Leary was the only one to survive the ordeal.He lost hope for revenge long ago, but its flame erupts in his heart when the gang is spotted again...Categorized as:
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![Looking for a Cowboy by Donna Grant]()
Looking for a Cowboy by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA cowboy finds love in the most unlikely place in New York Times bestseller Donna Grant's newest Heart of Texas novel, Looking for a CowboyA beautiful stranger has come to Clearview, asking questions that are nobody’s business. Cooper Owens also wasn’t born yesterday. He knows that this out-of-towner is hiding a dark secret of her own... -
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![Tears of Gold by Laurie McBain]()
Tears of Gold by Laurie McBain
Haunted by the memory of her aristocratic father's desertion of his mistress and children, Mara O'Flynn grew up despising men. She sought her livelihood in the theater, where, as a beautiful actress, she found vengeance in enchanting and discarding suitors, teasing them with subtle promises of ecstasy only to reject them with an air of finely tuned cruelty. It was an amusing sport..Categorized as:
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![The Cowboy's Revenge by Zoe Blake]()
The Cowboy's Revenge by Zoe Blake
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternate cover edition for ASIN B01N0A8P8W. USA Today Bestselling author Zoe Blake brings you her FIRST Historical Western Romance. When Mason caught sight of the beautiful woman with honey-brown hair and violet eyes, he could think of only one thing...revenge. For three longs years during the War Between the States, he was forced to wait to learn who had murdered his brother... -
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![Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal]()
Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother's boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben's Mobil Station, Frmka's Superette, and a sign that says The Wages of Sin is Hell... -
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Lily by Patricia Gaffney
The Maid She arrived at Darkstone Manor without friends or fortune, welcomed only by the hiss of the sea in the midnight hush. Lily Trehearne had been born a lady, but now she resigned herself to a life of backbreaking drudgery, inescapable poverty . . . and unquestioning obedience to the lord of the manor... -
![The Road by Cormac McCarthy]()
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, post apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there... -
![Three Nights of Sin by Anne Mallory]()
Three Nights of Sin by Anne Mallory
Three nights of danger . . . When her brother was arrested for murder, the ton shut its doors to Marietta Winters. No one would help her save him from the gallows—no one but Gabriel Noble. In exchange for taking the case, Gabriel requests three favors from the desperate young beauty, and Marietta has no other choice but to make a deal with the sinfully handsome devil. Three nights of pleasure . -
![Bid for a Bride by Ruth Ann Nordin]()
Bid for a Bride by Ruth Ann Nordin
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA western historical romance where a blind man agrees to marry a woman whose marriage is annuled after her bigamist husband auctions her off to the highest bidder. The hero is Brian Evans who is the adopted son of Eliza and John from Loving Eliza... -
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Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsAn astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow... -
![The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Колийн Маккълоу]()
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Колийн Маккълоу
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsThe Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys...Categorized as:
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![The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris]()
The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris
#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris is at her best in this alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this third installment of the Gunnie Rose series... -
![Can't Ride Around It by Ann Charles, Sam Lucky]()
Can't Ride Around It by Ann Charles, Sam Lucky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome things you just can't ride around ... Jack “Rabbit” Fields knew a good thing when he saw it, whether it was a sound horse, a sure bet, or a pretty sage hen. When it came to locking horns with any curly wolves he ran into along the trail, he tended to shoot first—a notion that had saved his hide more times than he could count. But that was before he came to Deadwood... -
![All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris]()
All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 28 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author returns with the fifth installment in the bestselling Gunnie Rose series as sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia as well as brother Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma only to break apart before the Wizard’s Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates... -
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![Cracked Blue Sky by Shiloh Sloane]()
Cracked Blue Sky by Shiloh Sloane
Cracked Blue Sky is an enemies-to-lovers, pitch dark romance about a werewolf cowboy and a hellbent detective, set in 1950s Wyoming.A quiet ranching town in the mountains is plagued by brutal murders... -
![The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo]()
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all set in 1920s AppalachiaLeslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman... -
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Haunted by Kat Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this spine-tingling tale the New York Times bestselling author melds love story with historical mystery as past meets present in Jerome, Arizona.1898: Robbery, prostitution, and violence are commonplace in the fabulously rich copper mining city of Jerome. But a brutal murder sets the stage for a series of strange events that will echo far into the future... -
![The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry]()
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAward-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers... -
![Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas]()
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsVampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north... -
![The Room to the West by Lauren Biel]()
The Room to the West by Lauren Biel
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsSometimes to go forward, you must go back.So what if I’m jaded? No one ever asks me how I feel, anyway. They just use me.My clients call me Hannah. I’m an escort, but I refuse to work in a brothel. I always followed the law until I strolled alongside the lawless. I never wanted to be with a man until I met this one... -
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Sweetwater by Lisa Henry
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWyoming Territory, 1870. Elijah Carter is afflicted. Most of the townsfolk of South Pass City treat him as a simpleton because he’s deaf, but that’s not his only problem. Something in Elijah runs contrary to nature and to God. Something that Elijah desperately tries to keep hidden. Harlan Crane, owner of the Empire saloon, knows Elijah for what he is—and for all the ungodly things he wants... -
![Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman]()
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWhen Kate Thompson’s father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers, dust storms, and a pair of brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow... -
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Ralph 124C 41+ by Hugo Gernsback
Rated: 2.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy the year 2660, science has transformed and conquered the world, rescuing humanity from itself. Spectacular inventions from the farthest reaches of space and deep beneath the earth are available to meet every need, providing antidotes to individual troubles and social ills. Inventors are highly prized and respected, and they are jealously protected and lavishly cared for by world governments...Categorized as:
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![Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins]()
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 90 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime... -
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