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Tomlin by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDiscipline. Restraint. Control.Tomlin has been hiding his true nature his entire life, but cracks are beginning to show in his perfect facade. And then he meets a beautiful, intelligent female who could destroy all his barriers. He should run but he needs her help... he needs her.Etta is too thin and too plain to interest most men, and that suits her just fine... -
Lost In Time : An Old Fashion Western by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSawyer Reed is heading home after rambling for seven years after the Civil War ended. His family's cattle ranch is waiting, and he is ready to get to work. On his way home from Mexico, Sawyer runs into a mysterious woman who will change his life and his future forever. Josephine Alverez is a chef at a posh restaurant in San Antonio, Texas in the year 2020...Categorized as:
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Fourth Quadrant by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN, DISSOLUTION.Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the American banking system...Categorized as:
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Kalpar by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA ruthless alien, a lonely woman, and a dangerous plan…Constance has everything she could possibly want - everything except freedom. The material luxuries her father provides are no substitute, especially since his only interest in her is as a pawn in one of his games.When a massive alien warrior snatches her away from her gilded cage, she should be terrified... -
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Discretion by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA crew, scattered across enemy linesA father, separated from his daughterA daughter who will not wait for rescueThe bounty for bringing down a major crime syndicate may have removed Captain Evridiki “EB” Bardacki’s immediate financial needs, but no freighter captain wants to fly empty between the stars... -
Summoned in Time by Barbara Longley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeredith MacCarthy has plans for her future, and they don’t include volunteering as a tour guide at a haunted ghost town in Montana. But when the matriarch of her fae-gifted family tells her ignoring the summons of the spirit world will haunt her forever, Meredith packs a bag and heads West. There she meets a ghost whose story and presence are so compelling, she cannot resist his magnetic pull... -
Yellowstone Deception by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDan Osborne has one ambition in life. He wants to be a permanent park ranger in Yellowstone National Park, a place where his family roots run deep. He'll do just about anything to make his dream a reality. When a pretty tourist tells him an incredible story about his ancestors, his dreams might be realized sooner than he hoped.Jana Evans' best friend traveled back in time for true love...Categorized as:
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Yellowstone Awakening by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 7 in the Yellowstone Romance SeriesA man willing to risk everything, including his life and all he's worked for, to free the woman he loves from an impossible situation. Kyle Russell has worked with prominent men, led scouting expeditions through the Yellowstone country, and irritated more than a few Indian braves, but he will never duplicate his father's legendary accomplishments...Categorized as:
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Yellowstone Dawn by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 8 in the Yellowstone Romance SeriesDanica Jensen dreams of a man she knows she can never have. After one brief encounter five years ago, her heart is lost to him forever, and she won't give up hope of seeing him again. Raised by a bitter father, she's learned to be strong and resourceful on her own...Categorized as:
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Perdition by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsn this second volume of the two book arc that began with Insurrection (book 5), Lucas braves all odds to free his friends and in the process spawns the only hope for the nation's future: a new resistance movement that will take the battle to its enemies and drive them from its shores... -
The Sheriff by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn an Earth decimated by an alien war, a lone gunslinger delivers justice, protecting the innocent and righting the wrongs of a broken world. Some call him lawman. Some call him madman. Some call him vigilante. Some call him killer. Some call him legend. They all call him Sheriff...This is his story... -
The Sackett Brand by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsForty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They're fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him extra full of lead if they can't. But the Sacketts don't cotton to that kind of treatment. Hunt one Sackett and you hunt 'em all. So they're riding in from all over—mountain Sacketts, outlaws, cattlemen, bankers and the rest... -
Terror in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I usually give the enemy one chance to surrender. After that, I don't take prisoners." --Ben RainesD-DAY 2.0Having reclaimed American soil from the savage armies of terrorists, lawless street gangs, and mutant Night People, Ben Raines and his Rebel army have a new mission: to free the British Isles from a tyranny of evil oppression... -
Battle in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLed by descendants of Hitler's Third Reich, 200,000 heavily armed and highly trained fascist soldiers are determined to spread their doctrine of evil across the free world. As the doomsday forces turn Texas into a battleground, legendary soldier and survivalist Ben Raines and his Rebel Army must prevent America from erupting in a bloodbath of atrocity... -
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Return To Yellowstone by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLetting go might harder than they thought... Everything she'd hoped for has come true. Aimee Donovan's mountain man of her dreams came to 2010 to find her and take her home, and now they can live together forever. But a life two hundred years in the past is filled with challenges... -
Yellowstone Christmas by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 3 in the Yellowstone Romance Series Aimee Osborne has always looked forward to the Christmas holidays in the twenty-first century where she grew up. Now that she lives in the primitive wilderness of nineteenth century Yellowstone, she is determined to hold on to some of her traditions. Daniel Osborne is unfamiliar with many of the customs and beliefs his wife grew up with... -
Ride the Whirlwind by Jackie North
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSoulmates across time. Two hearts, stronger together. In present day, Maxton is good at finding trouble and bad at everything else.In 1892, Trent Harrington, sheriff of Trinidad, Colorado, lives a respectable but lonely life, devoid of any closeness.Trying to escape a past that keeps chasing him, Maxton drives south to avoid getting arrested... -
Under a Prairie Moon by Madeline Baker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"He is the most frightening, handsome man I have ever seen" Although these words had been written in another time, in another woman's diary, Kathy Conley thought they described Dalton Crowkiller perfectly. He was the kind of a man a woman would sin for, die for, if she could only keep him in her arms... -
A Wagon Train Weekend by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was just one night at a Victorian B&B. Until they woke up in 1857.Collette Donaldson never should have taken her boyfriend to her cousin’s wedding. Or introduced him to her parents. After a disastrous weekend, all she wants is to get back home and sort out the mess that had once been their relationship... -
Titanium Texicans by Alan Black
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSixteen-Year-old Tasso Menzies just finished burying his grandfather next to his mother and grandmother on the family farm when he receives an order from his estranged uncle to come to Capital City. He doesn’t want to leave the only home he’s ever known. He doesn’t want to be apprenticed on a space freighter crewed by Texas cowboys of Mexican descent...Categorized as:
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A Lesson in Patience by Jennifer Connors
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook #3 of the Lesson SeriesThey say that third times a charm, but that couldn't be further from the truth for Ginny. In her latest adventure as a modern day woman trapped inside the body of a romance novel heroine, she finds herself in the late 19th century, on the frontier of America... -
People of the Morning Star by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAward-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear begin the stunning saga of the North American equivalent of ancient Rome in People of the Morning Star. The city of Cahokia, at its height, covered more than six square miles around what is now St. Louis and included structures more than ten stories high...Categorized as:
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Insurrection by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLucas embarks on a cross-country journey for what's supposed to be a simple vaccine delivery mission, but which quickly devolves into a battle to survive when he and his team become embroiled in a conspiracy so large it will change the fate of America... -
The Children of First Man by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith its beautifully written and deeply felt descriptions of the feelings the first white settlers and Native Americans had for each other, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN tells the fascinating story of a European people gradually absorbed into the Amerindian culture until their literacy was lost and their Christian religion submerged in the legend of a Welsh Prince named Madoc, the First Man... -
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Yellowstone Redemption by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCity boy Chase Russell is on the fast track to self-destruction. A star athlete, he gets into trouble with drugs and alcohol. Fulfilling a community service sentence in Yellowstone National Park is the last thing he wants to do. After a night of drinking in the park, he wakes up to find his new friends gone, and everything around him has changed...Categorized as:
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To Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour, Луис Л'Амур
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses... -
Blood, Sweat & Tears by G. Michael Hopf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS is Book 5 in the exciting postapocalyptic series, THE NEW WORLD. War! All Gordon Van Zandt wanted was to find a safe place for his family to settle down after civilization came to an abrupt end following the detonation of a super-EMP over North America... -
D-Day in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Raines and his patriot army are driving the United States government into full-fledged retreat, as the Southern States win over one strategically after another. From the states in the American Northwest to the Canadian provinces, all want to be a part of a society based on law, justice, and old-fashioned values enforced by the barrel of a gun. As a result, the U.N... -
Courage in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I have nothing but contempt for the lawless."--Ben RainesThe Last FrontierBen Raines--rebel leader and America's greatest survival expert--has a dream: to free the nation from the deadly grip of outlaw gangs and armies of terrorists overrunning its once great cities. The dream is about to become real... -
Chase the Lightning by Madeline Baker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrey knows that the white stallion approaching him is the one his grandfather told him would always carry him away from harm. What he doesn’t know is that the horse will carry him away from danger and into another world.Amanda doesn’t know what to do with the wounded, beautiful man on the white horse, but she does know that he evokes an attraction that her fiancé never has...Categorized as:
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The Angel & the Outlaw by Madeline Baker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn outlaw, a horse thief, a man killer, J.T. Cutter wasn't surprised when he was strung up for his crimes. What amazed him was the heavenly being who granted him one year to change his wicked ways, Yet when he returned to his old life, he hoped to cram a whole lot of hell-raising into those 12 months no matter what the future held...Categorized as:
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Chaos in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the aftermath of the apocalypse, America has been reborn as the Tri-States. Now, a new breed of anarchists and malcontents have banded together to destroy everything Ben Raines and his new army have risked their lives--and the future of a new America--to build. As devastating civil war rages across the land, it's up to Raines to put America back into business, before the red dawn of Armageddon... -
Destiny in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Raines and his army won a war on two fronts, bringing law, peace, and prosperity to the Southern United States of America. But SUSA's northern neighbor and erstwhile enemy, the United States, is in chaos... -
Alone in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Raines is fighting to rebuild a nation from the bitter chaos and smoldering ashes of nuclear war and anarchy. But in this hellish new order, there are devils leading armed gangs of marauders, who bring destruction wherever they go. When Raines is cut off from his SUSA Rebel forces, he becomes their prey... -
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Gunslinger by Ed Dorn, Edward Dorn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature... -
Slaughter in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the apocalypse, Rebel leader Ben Raines helped create the Tri-States. But violent criminal gangs still roam the land. When a secret sect of cannibals threatens the nation's freedom, Raines and his SUSA army are determined to clear out the scum that have made life cruel for hard-working, law-abiding citizens... -
Death in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe war against the Night People continues as Ben Raines and his rebel army destroy the favorite living places of the cannibalistic mutants, forcing them into the open. But as they push through the rubble that once was Dallas, Ben is nearly killed by a death squad led by warlord Matt Callahan. Like Ben, Malt was a writer before the Great War; unlike Ben, Malt has turned to outlawing... -
Danger In The Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"We--the Rebels--are the only group of people in this land who are trying to restore the nation to greatness. There is no room for troublemakers. No room for those who want something for nothing... -
Now and Then, Complete Series by Bobby Hutchinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIndian legend said that the spirit could overcome all obstacles, even time itself. But Dr. Paige Randolph doubted that anything could help her recover from the loss of her child and her marriage--until a mysterious crop circle cast her back in time 100 years. A stunning time-travel romance about a modern-day woman's quest to find love and happiness in a past she's never known... -
A Whisper In The Wind by Madeline Baker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Black Hills - a land of fragrant pines and vast blue skies, a sacred land inhabited by the buffalo, the bear, the hawk and the eagle. An untamed land where the Cheyenne still roamed free Accustomed to the ways of the white man, Michael Wolf agreed to seek a vision to fulfill the dying wish of his Cheyenne grandfather...Categorized as:
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The Christmas Tree Bride by Susan Page Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPolly Winfield lives at the stagecoach station that her father operates and often sees Jacob Tierney, one of the drivers. But winter arrives on the prairie bleak and uneventful, and she confesses to Jacob that all she longs for is a Christmas tree... -
The Razor's Edge by G. Michael Hopf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGordon Van Zandt is a man accustomed to adversity and hardship, but now he is left with dwindling options. With his fledgling republic teetering on the verge of collapse, he must find a way to seize an unlikely victory from what appears to be certain defeat... -
The Blacksmith's Bride: A Brides of Golden Valley Story by Laura D. Bastian
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarriage was never her plan until her inheritance depended on it. He just wants a family to call his own. Can they find a happy ever after even with such different backgrounds? Susan Hanson’s life is anything but normal... -
Winds of Time by Zoe Matthews, Jade Jenson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBridget wants a family, more than she ever has before.. Now that her two older brothers are married- to women from the year 2006, no less- and her younger brother spends the majority of the year in Denver at school, Bridget decides it is time for her to find love herself. But she also wants something she has never had a chance to have before- an adventure... -
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Triumph in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLed by power-hungry lunatic Bruno Bottger, germ warfare strategy has turned African civilians into killing machines with no conscience and no mercy. With millions already wreaking havoc, it's up to Ben Raines and his Rebels to bravely defend a country under siege. Now, Ben and his men are outnumbered ten to one by Bottger's heavily-armed troops...Categorized as:
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A Tangled Road to Justice by Olan Thorensen, Neil Hellegers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen former soldier Everett Cole signed on to help colony planets prepare for joining the Federation, his employers were more than a bit vague about their identity and his duties. Ditto when - 11 light-years from Earth - he met his partner, Edgar Millen, an enigmatic man with a fetish for the mythology and language of the American Wild West... -
Seven Days To Die by J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe wasn't born to the gun. But a gunman's blood ran in his veins--and it was only a matter of time before there would be hell to pay. . . Six Days Of Killing. No Day Of Rest. . . Once he was a young, happily married businessman... -
Those Who Remain by G. Michael Hopf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA Today Bestselling Author, G. Michael Hopf brings you the final chapter in the Van Zandt saga!The war between the Republic of Cascadia and the rogue nation Western Canada is raging. With support from President Cruz in the United States, Gordon Van Zandt has assembled a formidable army to march north and engage the forces of Western Canada, who have occupied much of the panhandle of Idaho...Categorized as:
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River of Time by Zoe Matthews, Jade Jenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis book is part of a boxset called Time Travel/Mail-Order Bride Romances. Nicky can’t seem to adjust to life now that Kimberly has gone back in time. She enjoys her job and does things she loves, but she knows there is more to life. More than anything, she looks forward to her letters from Kimberly and Shaun, as well as his sweet daughter Colleen... -
Firefly - Carnival by Una McCormack
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA heist by the Serenity crew goes badly wrong in a captivating original Firefly tie-in novel from the award-winning series by Titan Books City of sinNeapolis: a desert city on planet Bethel where all manner of entertainment can be found: high-stakes gambling, luxurious hotels, exclusive clubs and any form of diversion imaginable may be had for a price...
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