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This Wilderness Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
A Christian Historical Romance novel Joseph Malcom has spent his life protecting those in need, but now that his sister is safely settled with her new family in the Canadian Rockies, his help is no longer required. That is, until he’s asked to safely retrieve the priest’s cousin to help minister to the local Indian tribe. But his passenger is not at all who he expects...

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This Treacherous Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
A Christian Historical Romance novel Widowed and with child, Emma Malcom is fleeing from the reward offered for her arrest. She’s innocent of the dirty dealings her deceased husband orchestrated, but the angry townspeople didn’t stop to listen to her defense before she narrowly escaped with her life...

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Heck's Gold by John Deacon
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
A heartwarming tale of courage and young love on a rugged frontier...After completing their fort, the residents of Heck’s Valley brace for winter. Many speak of spring—and the possibility of staying here and working together to build a town in this breathtaking wilderness.Heck and Hope don’t know what the future holds, but so long as they are together, they face it with confidence...

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This Courageous Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
A Christian Historical Romance Novel As the fifth daughter in a family of nine, Noelle Grant spent her life striving to be unique. Her love of telling stories helps define her goal—to be known around the country as one of the top news correspondents of her time...

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The Heart of the Mountains by Pepper Basham
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
To escape a forced marriage, Cora Taylor travels from England to the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of her brother, who is working as a teacher in a mission school...

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New Day Rising, A by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Spring of 1884 in Dakota Territory brings the promise of ... A New Day Rising The dream of a farmstead and a good life in America had led Roald and Inegborg Bjorklund to cross the Atlantic and 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...

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Orphan Train Christmas by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Kenny Clark knows Santa is magical and only he can find his family. Kathleen Collins fights poverty and desperation every day in her bid to find new homes for the orphans of New York...

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The Sheriff's Mail Order Rescue by Amelia Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Love is perilous – and that’s before you involve bandits and kidnapping.After five years of being the town’s sheriff, Matt Hanson is well and truly settled into his life in Iron Creek.Sure, there are still challenges, like the bandits that are occupying the nearby mountains, but Matt is content with his life in this small town...

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Mac's Way by Reg Quist
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Raised in poverty in Missouri, Mac is determined to find a better life for himself and the girl who is still a vague vision in his mind. Work on the Santa Fe Trail, and on a Mississippi River boat give him a start, but the years of Civil War leave him broke and footloose in South Texas. There he discovers more cattle running loose than he ever knew existed...

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Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Sun Over The Mountains is the latest novel by bestselling Western author Duane Boehm.When Sammy Landon is called home by his dying mother, he returns to his hometown to find that the things he ran from all those years ago are still as much a part of him as they ever were. Central City still holds the same old heartbreak, temptations, and problems that it always had for his troubled life...

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The Lady and the Mountain Fire by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
A Christian Historical Romance Novel Claire Sullivan has a soft spot for helping those in need. So when her widowed grandmother becomes blind, Claire is determined to travel to the Montana Territory to care for her. But she never imagined the country would be so wild compared to her North Carolina home. Even the local doctor doesn't seem to have a kind bone in his body...

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Mountain Massacre: Rocky Mountain Saint Book 4 by B.N. Rundell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
When a grief-stricken young mountain man goes to Fort William to re-supply, he runs smack into a bully and a drunkard. That meeting leads Tate Saint to take on the responsibility of guiding a bunch of dirt-farmers across the beginnings of the Oregon Trail and to the distant Wind River mountains and South Pass...

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This Homeward Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
She’s desperate for a new life in the Canadian mountains…He’s the last person she should trust to get her there.After her husband’s death, Rachel Gray is finally free from the turmoil his addictions caused. She wants nothing more than a new life with her twelve-year-old son. If she can reach her brother in the wilderness of the Canadian territories, they’ll have help to start over in peace...

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A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Cora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an inhospitable land.Convinced he won’t survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something...

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The Husband Tree by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Hit the trail into the Old West, where a tough lady rancher and a seemingly aimless wrangler attempt to avoid the matrimonial noose. When Belle Tanner hires Silas Harden to help her get her cattle to market, the last thing she’s looking for is romance...

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Seeing the Elephant by Leah Banicki
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
After three long years of separation Corinne Temple is heading West to see her father again. She marries Andrew Temple the day she leaves for the Oregon Trail. He is a family friend but far from friendly. Her third generation knowledge of healing herbs makes her an asset to the wagon train but her husband's iron grip leaves Corinne confused and angry...

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Lightning and Lawmen by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
How did a simple hello turn into something so complicated? Love is about to leave one lawman thunderstruck in this sweet historical romance! Cultured and full of grace, Delilah Robbins agrees to accompany her meteorologist father to his new post in Baker City, Oregon...

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Courage in the Mountain Wilderness by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Keeping her son safe on this epic journey may be harder than she imagined. Caleb Jackson is on a journey. And not just the mission he and his friends have embarked on to fetch the Nez Perce chief’s runaway daughter. Maybe someday, he could also find God’s plan for his life...

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West Winds of Wyoming by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In Book Three of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe, two broken hearts just might find a second chance at love. When widower Charlie Rose shows up looking for work at the struggling Cotton Ranch, no one knows he’s secretly trying to outrun trouble—and he intends to keep it that way...

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Oregon Disaster by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Pregnant and alone, Sarah Hughes finds herself in a village at the mercy of strangers. Along comes Bear who is determined to bring her home. She doesn’t want to leave but having killed a man she is left with little choice. On the run with an Indian who calls her a spoiled brat isn’t the best of starts to romance. Over time, she comes to see the person behind the stony face...

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Lassoed in Texas Trilogy by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Bask in laughs and tears as you visit Mosqueros, Texas, a Wild West town in the making, where you'll meet three matchless couples and a passel of children who begin their relationships on rough footing. Petticoat Ranch Sophie Edwards is doing jut fine alone, until a man walks into her life, insisting on rescuing her and her four daughters...

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Hope in the Mountain River by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
This epic journey is not at all what she expected. Joel Vargas can’t believe he’s lost his older brother in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains after surviving their harrowing voyage across the Atlantic. And he can’t shake the feeling that Adam—his only living relative—is in dire trouble. No matter what the cost, he and his band of friends won’t stop until Adam is found...

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Fitzpatrick: Cowboy Reluctant by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
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Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
From the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the classic second adventure in The Eagles, one of the most iconic and beloved sagas of the American frontier, is back in print as legendary Scottish frontiersman Jamie MacCallister blazes through the Wild West.In peace and war, he was the soul of a nation—and the flesh and blood of the American Frontier . .

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Oregon Bound by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Eva Thompson’s Pa is determined to take his family to a new life in Oregon. Eva is adamant she won’t leave David, the love of her life behind. But Pa wants her to marry Harold Chapman, the son of a wealthy store owner. Marriage to Chapman will provide Eva with everything a woman could want except love. David Clarke wants to make Eva his wife, even if that means traveling across country...

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The Heart of a Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Brilliant scientist Linnea Newberry is on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling the Santa Fe Trail with her grandfather, Dr. Powell, on a botanical expedition to Colorado Territory. She longs to be taken seriously by the other team members, but at every calamity she faces, her grandfather threatens to send her home...

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Doctor in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Beth and Alex survive a stage coach accident. Beth realizes the derelict in the stagecoach with her is a doctor and she forces him to help tend the injured. Alex finds he can care for the patients as long as Beth is right beside him... yelling at him. Alex saves Beth's sister’s life, but he only has the courage to treat patients as long as Beth is there...

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Hope Within, The by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down. Cole takes her and the children to Kansas to care for his dying father, but after the funeral, Cole's mother insists he stay and take over his inheritance. Unable to deal with her mother-in-law's cruel treatment, Dianne takes the children back to Montana alone...

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Sweet Boundless by Kristen Heitzmann
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Newly married Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to make a home for herself and her husband, Quillan, in the rugged mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Quillan, however, has turned away to confront the haunting pain of his troubled childhood. Out of her loneliness, Carina opens a restaurant, and through its success soon attains the independence and identity she has long sought...

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The Tender Vine by Kristen Heitzmann
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
They Hoped Their Return Would Offer the Chance for Love to Grow Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to leave behind the painful memories represented by the town of Crystal, Colorado, and start anew in the California vineyards of her youth...

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Wrangler in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Can the artist tame the cowgirl without breaking her spirit? Tough Texan tomboy Sally McClellan heads to Montana to visit her pregnant sister Mandy. But when her traveling party is attacked, Sally is left for dead...

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Sharpshooter in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Mandy McClellen Grey, has become the focus of a feud thanks to her husband, who made this mess and then died. Far from home, Mandy, the best little rifle woman in the west, has resigned herself to a lonely life under siege rather than call for help and endanger her family...

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Texas Twilight by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
TEXAS TWILIGHT - Book Two in the McCutcheon Family Series Fresh out of medical school, John McCutcheon finds his stagecoach under attack by brutal outlaws. With the help of a feisty acquaintance, Lily Anthony, he manages to fend off the assault. Lily is attracted to the charming cowboy-doctor, with his chiseled good looks and teasing ways, then heartbroken to learn he's engaged to be married...

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Evie by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
MAIL-ORDER BRIDES OF THE WEST is a new series created in collaboration by USA Today Bestselling Authors Caroline Fyffe and Debra Holland. Well-bred socialite and bride-to-be Trudy Bauer arrives at the St. Louis based Mail-Order Brides of the West agency full of excitement for an adventure of a lifetime...

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The Reluctant Warrior by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother...

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Aiming for Love by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world--a world she's been raised to believe killed her parents...

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Revealed by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Words, once spoken, can mend a broken life…or cripple it. But words left unspoken can haunt the soul, inflicting a far deeper wound. Annabelle Grayson has been given a second chance at life, but she can't claim it with the cloud of her past hanging over her in Willow Springs...

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Montana Rose by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Fire up your love of romance with Montana Rose , where Cassie Griffin, a seemingly spoiled pregnant woman, is widowed one day and wedded the next. Marrying handyman Red Dawson seems the only alternative to Cassie’s being hitched to a brutal rancher...

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The Coming Storm by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Heirs of Montana book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Land of My Heart . With the love of her life missing in the Montana wilderness, a young woman must manage a ranch on her own. 1870 Montana ranching proves to be a hard life for Dianne Chadwick. Her &supl;ancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east...

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Remembered by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Though 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 Véronique 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...

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Full Steam Ahead by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Nicole Renard returns home to Galveston, Texas, to find her father deathly ill. Though she loves him, Nicole's father has always focused on what she's not. Not male. Not married. Not able to run Renard Shipping...

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Donnell: Cowboy Scrutiny by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
What Woman in Her Right Mind Would be Trusting Enough to Become a Mail-Order Bride?Having no other options Clarissa Plunkett makes a terrifying decision to become a Mail-Order Bride. She's never been anyplace other than her boarding school in Pennsylvania. Worried and unsure she agrees to marry, Joe Kingsley of Texas.She exits the stagecoach and to her dismay no one knows Joe Kingsley...

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The Lord: The Tenth Day by Danica Favorite
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Desperately trying to avoid an arranged marriage to a cruel lord, an heiress takes on Minnie Gold’s identity to marry a man she hopes will be kind. He has to be better than what her parents have planned...

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The Piper: The Eleventh Day by Amanda McIntyre
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Twelve men. Twelve brides. Twelve days to save a town. A young war widow, a secret confession from the soldier chosen to return her deceased husbands belongings, and a forbidden kiss. Genevieve Walters has spent the last decade delving into her matchmaking mission work to quell the unsettled emotions the solider stirred within her...

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Losing Lincoln by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
"The time has come when I must change my plan...." She thought she'd saved them all, but now a more nefarious plot emerges, increasing the stakes and threatening to bring a nation to its knees. Displaced, rejected, forsaken… Annabelle finds herself pulled farther from home and ever closer to the malicious repercussions of war...

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An Agent for Wilhelmina by Sophie Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Wilhelmina Cutler had wanted to be a Pinkerton agent ever since she moved in with her aunt and uncle who was an agent himself. Now’s her chance. They are hiring women in the Denver Pinkerton Detective Agency. Already trained in most of the skills needed, Mina is confident she can handle any case they assign her...

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An Agent for Audrey by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
When heiress Audrey Hardwick is given the opportunity to become a Pinkerton Agent, she wholeheartedly leaves her life in Cincinnati behind and sets out for a new adventure. But her mission turns into mayhem when she meets Agent Warren Rockwell, a former gunslinger, who is too stubborn – and handsome – for his own good...

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An Agent for Belle by Nerys Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Marriage is the last thing Belle wants, but she’ll have to get married to avoid it.When Isabelle Wood answers a newspaper advertisement for female Pinkerton detectives, it seems the perfect way to avoid her parents’ desire for her to wed… until she discovers she has to marry her training agent for the duration of her first case...

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Sophie's Daughters Trilogy by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Saddle up for sure-fire fun when three sisters meet their opposites in a collection of Old West romances: Alex Buchanan is a wanted man. Beth McClellan is an idealistic nurse. When the two cross paths, will they find enough common ground for a future together? Sally McClellan is a tomboy through-and-through... until she's rescued by Logan McKenzie...

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The Wrangler's Inconvenient Wife by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
“…pure sweetness in a very readable package, perfect for those who like their romance gentle, G-rated, and family-style.” - Publisher’s Weekly on The Homesteader’s Sweetheart. ”…smart, gentle, and uplifting…” Publisher’s Weekly on Return of the Cowboy Doctor. Lacy Williams is the USA Today bestselling author of the acclaimed Snowbound in Sawyer Creek and Cowboy Fairytales series...

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