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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... -
Lassoed Hearts by DeathsDoll
She went to the West to marry her childhood sweetheart but finds her life totally turned upside down when she catches the obsessive gaze of a charming, but deadly, outlaw.Categorized as:
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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 Cowboy. A 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... -
Comanche Moon by Catherine Anderson
Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his control—or his touch...Categorized as:
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Hollow Out the Dark by James Wade
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAward-winning author James Wade blends atmospheric prose with soul-stirring themes in Hollow Out the Dark, a gothic adventure set against a Depression-era landscape where a whiskey war threatens to decimate a small Texas town. A veteran of the Great War, Jesse Cole is grateful for the quiet life he now leads... -
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsBold, passionate, and more urgent than ever, Debra Magpie Earling's powerful classic novel is reborn in this new edition. On the Flathead Indian Reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path...Categorized as:
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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. . -
Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers
An exclusive 30th anniversary edition of Rosemary Roger's beloved classic - a sexy adventure that pushed the envelope with two fascinating characters fueld by raging passion...Categorized as:
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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... -
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...Categorized as:
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Tempted by Molly O'Keefe
Book Two of the acclaimed INTO THE WILD series by two-time RITA-award winning and Bestselling author Molly O'Keefe. Denver, 1869. Annie Denoe has fought hard for her independence. She has a new life and new freedom as the assistant to a doctor, and though she risks both propriety and her safety, she is determined to be happy in a life on her own... -
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... -
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... -
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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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 Master... -
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 46 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 Wanton by Rosemary Rogers
They call her wanton, a woman of wild and independent spirit. But Trista Windham knows her heart -- and nothing can shatter her dreams. For love, in need, she surrenders her innocence beneath a radiant sky -- and binds her soul forever to Blaze Davenant, a dark and handsome man of dangerous secrets. .. and startling secret passions...Categorized as:
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Against Her Will by Carolyn Faulkner
With her stunning white blonde hair, Cassandra Juliet Winthrop was always the belle of the ball in the Colonies, so much so that she began to think that it was a bit of a bore. But a tour of the Continent, now that would be exciting! Her indulgent father acquiesced with surprising ease, and she found herself, one night, at a splendid gala in Paris fairly that wreaked of European elegance... -
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsShy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell, her brother and sister stolen, and knows she'll have to go back to bad old ways if she's ever to see them again. She sets off in pursuit with only her cowardly old step-father Lamb for company. But it turns out he's hiding a bloody past of his own. None bloodier... -
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 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
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
#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... -
Remnant III by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSteve doesn’t care who he was. He knows more than enough to realize it doesn’t matter at all. Now living in what had once been the Creeplands and maintaining a thriving farm there, they are under constant siege from the Creep itself. It's still better than life in Lamals. And that’s just how it is... -
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The Last Wizards' Ball by Charlaine Harris
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the sixth and final installment in the critically acclaimed Gunnie Rose series as sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia must face their fates at the last Wizards’ Ball... -
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 Appalachia. Leslie 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...Categorized as:
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A Rope of Thorns by Gemma Files
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe second book in the “top-notch horror-fantasy saga,” following A Book of Tongues , is “a spectacular blend of Aztec religion and Western gunslinging ( Publishers Weekly ). Welcome to Hex City. magicians. Thanks to hexslinger “Reverend” Asher Rook, sorcerers now have a sanctuary where they can live and work in peace. But a storm is coming—a tempest known as Chess Pargeter... -
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 Room to the West by Lauren Biel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 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...Categorized as:
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Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsFor readers of Circe or Ariadne, a brilliant literary revisiting of Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein with a fresh, queer, provocative twist. It's 1853 London. Ex-medical student Victor Frankenstein has been missing for years now. Frankenstein's great niece Mary Sutherland and her husband, Henry, are trying to follow in his scientific footsteps and become renowned paleontologists...
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