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Something Like Love by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBlackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another lush historical novel featuring brothers that were first introduced in her award-winning novel Always and Forever . This is the story that readers have been waiting for. He was a wanted man. But no one wanted him more than she did. Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Olivia Sterling flees Chicago and heads west...Categorized as:
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![In Honor's Defense by Karen Witemeyer]()
In Honor's Defense by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLuke Davenport has been fighting all his life--for respect, for country, and most recently, for those unable to fight for themselves. But now that his Horsemen brothers are domesticated, he's left alone to battle the wildness within. When an opportunity arises to take a job on his own, he jumps at the chance.Damaris Baxter has mastered the art of invisibility... -
![The Lady and the Mountain Call by Misty M. Beller]()
The Lady and the Mountain Call by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance Novel The wild Montana mountains are no place for an aging widow to live alone with dementia. And when Cathleen Donaghue discovers the poor woman’s condition, there’s no way she’ll walk away without helping. After all, she left her comfortable Boston home to help her brothers with their mining town medical practice because she wanted to make a difference...Categorized as:
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![Sweet-Talking Cowboy by Vicki Lewis Thompson]()
Sweet-Talking Cowboy by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s roped in by a runaway bride... When Lucy Patterson shows up at the Buckskin Ranch with no groom, Matt Ramsey’s in a fix. Six years ago she gave him her heart. He sent her away. He was wrong for her then. He’s wrong for her now. But the years have fanned the flames.. -
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![Choices by Carolyn Brown]()
Choices by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDouglass Esmeralda Sullivan has just discovered that all men are gutter rats, all except for her six half-Irish, half-Mexican brothers, and sometimes she's not so sure about them. She's sitting in the middle of a dusty road on a hot Texas day, fuming because she's made a horrible mistake concerning Raymond Pierce, a despicable Yankee, one who has led her down the daisy path to destruction...Categorized as:
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![Carry the World by Susan Fanetti]()
Carry the World by Susan Fanetti
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEastern Kentucky, 1937. After the death of her husband, Ada Donovan returned home to live again with her aging parents. She does all she can to help them keep the small family farm going. But times are hard, and there’s never enough... -
![RNWMP: Bride for Nolan by Cassie Hayes, Mail Order Mounties]()
RNWMP: Bride for Nolan by Cassie Hayes, Mail Order Mounties
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe way to a man’s heart is through his stomach… At least that’s what Miss Hazel Hughes thinks. As a self-appointed Mountie matchmaker, she knows she’s found the right woman for one very hungry man when she meets professional chef Tilly Conway. Suffering from the fallout of a scandal that wasn’t her fault, Tilly finds herself jobless, homeless and…hopeless...Categorized as:
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Dillon by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsaude’s husband, John, had been injured and she desperately needed some cowboys to work the ranch. She found Dillon down on his luck and gave him, and five other young men, a home and trains them. Seven years later she is set on finding brides for all of the young men. Dillon’s not interested. He was robbed of everything by Slick McCall—someone he trusted...Categorized as:
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Absolution by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Irish are hardheaded so Elspeth Hamilton doesn't like them. The Mexicans are hotheaded so likewise, she doesn't think much of them either. Since Rebels burned her family home, killing both her parents in the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania fire, it stands to reason she surely doesn't waste affection on Rebels. Colum Sullivan is all three: Irish, Mexican and Rebel...Categorized as:
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![The Last Outlaw by Rosanne Bittner]()
The Last Outlaw by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTimes have changed, and the old Wild West is becoming a place of civilized law and order, where men like Jake Harkner no longer seem to fit in. As a nod to the changing times, Jake has sworn to hang up his guns once and for all. In fact, he and his wife Randy are enjoying this new era of peace on their ranch..Categorized as:
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![Danger on the Ranch by Dana Mentink]()
Danger on the Ranch by Dana Mentink
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer child’s life is on the line A Roughwater Ranch Cowboys story After putting his serial killer brother in prison, former US marshal Mitch Whitehorse chooses a solitary country life—until his brother escapes. Now Mitch’s former sister-in-law, Jane Reyes, needs protection…for herself and the toddler she’s kept a secret... -
![A Time to Bloom by Lauraine Snelling]()
A Time to Bloom by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill their dreams fall apart when confronted with all that is stacked against them?Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive...Categorized as:
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![The Stable Master's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Stable Master's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings★★★ The second book in a brand new series from the author that brought you THE CHAPMANS and the best-selling THE BLIZZARD BRIDES series. ★★★A woman needing a home; a man needing a mother for his children and a marriage of convenience that is nothing like they imagined.Hannah Woods has lost everything... -
![Roping the Wrangler by Lacy Williams]()
Roping the Wrangler by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTeacher Seeks a Husband Schoolmarm Sarah Hansen longs for a family of her own. But horse trainer Oscar White is the last man she'd consider. Still, she can't help noticing the care he shows three motherless girls and the gentle way he helps Sarah overcome her fear of horses. Too bossy by half—that's the Sarah that Oscar remembers from their teenage years... -
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![Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North]()
Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJune, 1852.A preacher’s daughter with a secret. An outlaw running from the gallows. A love story spanning oceans and deserts and years. When Abby Proctor is kidnapped from a train in the middle of the desert halfway to her new life in California, she makes a promise to herself—she will escape... -
![Redemption's Edge: Book 1, Redemption Mountain Historical Western Romance by Shirleen Davies]()
Redemption's Edge: Book 1, Redemption Mountain Historical Western Romance by Shirleen Davies
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“A heartwarming, passionate story of loss, forgiveness, and redemption set in the untamed frontier during the tumultuous years following the Civil War. Ms. Davies’ engaging and complex characters draw you in from the start, creating an exciting introduction to this new historical western romance series...Categorized as:
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![Cora's Pride by Peggy L. Henderson]()
Cora's Pride by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCora Miller is fiercely independent and stubborn to a fault. Betrayed more than once by men she thought she could trust, she’s learned to rely only on herself. As the oldest of four siblings, she feels responsible for leading her family safely on the Oregon Trail for a new start. Nathaniel Wilder is no stranger to the hardships and dangers of the wilderness...Categorized as:
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Tempest by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins comes a new novel in a mesmerizing series set in the Old West, where an arranged marriage becomes a grand passion . . . What kind of mail-order bride greets her intended with a bullet instead of a kiss? One like Regan Carmichael—an independent spirit equally at home in denims and dresses. Shooting Dr... -
![Secondhand Bride by Linda Lael Miller]()
Secondhand Bride by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTo win his father's ranch, a hard-living cowboy settles down and takes a wife--another man's wife! The youngest McKettrick brother, Jeb, is the wild one who never could stay out of trouble. And trouble is what he gets when he proposes to Chloe Wakefield... -
![The Last Chance Cowboy by Jody Hedlund]()
The Last Chance Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a midwife, Catherine Remington is successful in bringing new life into the world, but she's failed one too many times in finding true love. When she's accused of a murder she didn't commit, she's forced to flee and decides to run away to Colorado to honor a patient's dying wish to deliver a newborn infant to his father.The repentant prodigal Dylan McQuaid is finally back in Fairplay... -
![Do Not Forsake Me by Rosanne Bittner]()
Do Not Forsake Me by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExperience the epic, sweeping story of Jake and Miranda Harkner from Bittner's beloved Outlaw Hearts, called by New York Times bestseller Heather Graham "a wonderful, absorbing read, with characters to capture the heart and the imagination". Fate brought them together. His past may tear them apart. Miranda Hayes' life was changed the day she faced down infamous gunslinger Jake Harkner.. -
![A Ruby Glows by Kari Trumbo]()
A Ruby Glows by Kari Trumbo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRuby’s heart froze as she threw her dead husband over the cliff. When Beau walks into her life, one glance has her running from her past. He couldn’t want someone like her. It should be easy to avoid his quiet charm. If he can convince her she’s a prize, not prey, he might have a chance. Beau’s captivated when Ruby scrambles from him whenever he gets too close... -
![Proposing Mischief by Regina Jennings]()
Proposing Mischief by Regina Jennings
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaisie Kentworth is stuck on the ranch. Having fallen in love with the wrong guy, she can't risk inflaming things between her former beau and her protective family. Left to rue her mistakes, she keeps busy exploring the idle mine at the edge of their property.Boone Bragg is also stuck... -
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Southern Boys Trilogy: Books 1-3 by C.A. Harms
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*On SALE for A Limited Time! (Regular Price $5.99) The Southern Boys Trilogy Has All 3 Books In One Box Set!* Forgiving Reed – Book #1 Kori suffered a great loss, one that left her feeling so desolate and alone, that she believed nothing would ever fill the void… The only thing that kept her going was the one little piece of joy she still had in her life, her baby boy, Rhett... -
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![A Sweetwater River Romance (Wyoming Mountain Tales) by Misty M. Beller]()
A Sweetwater River Romance (Wyoming Mountain Tales) by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance novel. Taking flight from their quiet Pennsylvania town seems like the only way for Tori Boyd to protect her dearest cousin’s virtue. And the success of their escape may now depend on the man she’s been writing letters to for over a year now in the vast wilds of the Wyoming Territory...Categorized as:
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![Forget Me Not by J.M. Madden]()
Forget Me Not by J.M. Madden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou first fell in love with Chad and Lora in Embattled Home, book 3 of the Lost and Found Series. Chad Lowell and Lora O’Neil are in love, engaged to be married and happy … aren’t they? They’re in love, engaged and wildly over scheduled and over extended... -
![A Bride for Abel by Cyndi Raye]()
A Bride for Abel by Cyndi Raye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a marriage by proxy change a man's world for the better? Abel Roosevelt finds himself behind bars in Pistol Ridge for simply defending himself in a game of cards. He is given the ultimatum; marry the bride by proxy who was meant for the man that was killed. Or, hang. Kate Eisenhour's only choice is to marry by proxy. With no other options, she sets off to a new life in Montana Territory... -
![The Farmer's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Farmer's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman needing a home; a man needing a helpmate and a marriage of convenience that meets both of their needs. Forced from her home, Elizabet Garrett needs to find a husband, and fast. What she doesn’t anticipate is meeting a man who is nothing like she expects, but just might be the answer to her prayers... -
![The Cowboy's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Cowboy's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe much anticipated fourth story in the Flat River Matchmaker Series, which began in The Farmer's Wife.June Clark's reputation was in tatters. Her marriage was a fraud. She lost everything, including her pride, in a fire started by her grifter husband. And to make matters worse, she'd never be a mother...Categorized as:
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![The Drifter's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Drifter's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman escaping society's expectations of marriage; a man with nothing to offer, a match that threatens to tear two families apart. Addison Aland came west to escape the pressure of an arranged marriage. Her family is convinced that once she experiences dirty cowboys, cow patties, and the lack of retail establishments she will hightail it back home to be a high-society wife...Categorized as:
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![Country by Khloe Summers]()
Country by Khloe Summers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan this older mountain biker find love with his bounties ex?CountryI don't date. I have a busy job and a daughter to think about. But when I meet the ex wife of the man I'm hunting, I can't keep my mind off her. She's strong, determined, curvy, and sweet as hell. That, and she needs my protection.I shouldn't mix work with pleasure. Yet here I am, desperate to touch her and make everything right... -
![Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell]()
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 22 ratings"Eyes" is a story of family conflicts set in Colorado in 1885. Unmarried at 28, Anne Wells is a disgrace to her rigidly conventional family. Cord Bennett is the black sheep of the Bennett clan. When these two misfits are found alone together, violence explodes... -
![Temptation: Reckless Desires by Anna Lowe]()
Temptation: Reckless Desires by Anna Lowe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis darkest fears...her deepest desires. She-wolf Janna Macks knows trouble when she sees it, especially when it comes in the form of an irresistibly broody cowboy like Cole Harper. Her fledgling pack is already in the cross hairs of a ruthless group of rogues, and falling head over heels in lust with a human will only endanger her loved ones more... -
![The Wrangler's Inconvenient Wife by Lacy Williams]()
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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![An Improper Proposal: a novel by Davalynn Spencer]()
An Improper Proposal: a novel by Davalynn Spencer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSweet Historical Western Romance An Improper Proposal – First in the Front Range Brides collection of stories about strong women who find and defend love in 1880s Colorado. Love hadn’t brought her to Colorado, but it might be the one thing that keeps her there. Mail order bride Mae Ann Remington won’t let circumstances get in her way...Categorized as:
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![A Cowboy for Christmas by Lacy Williams]()
A Cowboy for Christmas by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRedemption Ranch After an accident leaves her injured, Daisy Richards stays secluded at her family's Wyoming ranch to avoid the town's gawking stares. Yet handsome cowboy newcomer Ricky White insists she can do anything she dreams—ride a horse, decorate a Christmas tree…even steal a man's heart. Once a reckless cad, Ricky is to blame for what happened to Daisy...Categorized as:
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![Return of the Cowboy Doctor by Lacy Williams]()
Return of the Cowboy Doctor by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Cowboy's Reluctant Sweetheart Two years shy of his medical degree, cowboy Maxwell White is out of money. So, he's back in Bear Creek, Wyoming, working part-time for the local physician. Though he is immediately drawn to the doctor's lovely, whip-smart daughter, she seems to be irritated by Maxwell's very existence...Categorized as:
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![The Bowes Inheritance by Pam Lecky]()
The Bowes Inheritance by Pam Lecky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEngland, 1867- A Game of Chance and a Property Lost Who could have known what the consequences would be? Fifteen years later, Louisa Campbell, living in genteel poverty in Dublin, Ireland, is more than surprised to learn that she is the new owner of Bowes Farm...Categorized as:
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![Pushing Limits by Emma Creed]()
Pushing Limits by Emma Creed
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoin these dark, dirty, and corrupt cowboys on the Carson's ranch. Where boundaries are pushed, laws are broken and limits get tested... I’m the quiet one,The one who everyone assumes is dead inside.But they're wrong.If you're dead inside you can’t feel pain…And pain is what consumes me.I’ve experienced love.I’ve suffered from it.And I’ve lost it...Categorized as:
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![Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson]()
Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAnnie Trimble lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie holds in her heart. Alex Montgomery is horrified to learn his wild younger brother forced himself on a helpless "idiot girl... -
![Colin's Quest by Shirleen Davies]()
Colin's Quest by Shirleen Davies
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsColin’s Quest, Book One, MacLarens of Boundary Mountain Historical Western Romance SeriesFor An Undying Love…When Colin MacLaren headed west on a wagon train, he hoped to find adventure and perhaps a little danger in untamed California. He never expected to meet the girl he would love forever...Categorized as:
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![Morning Glory by Carolyn Brown]()
Morning Glory by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClara Anderson has her routine, and she likes it that way. But oil has brought change to Healdton, Oklahoma, and she doesn't like it one bit. She might not have the means to stop history in the making, but that doesn't mean she has to rent rooms in her boarding house to oil well riff-raff... -
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Artek by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWorn down by war and conflict, Commander Artek and his brothers - the soldiers under his command - have chosen to start a new life on a backwater planet. As hard work and peaceful surroundings start to heal old wounds, he realizes that something - or rather someone - is missing from his new life...Categorized as:
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![High Country Bride by Linda Lael Miller]()
High Country Bride by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides... -
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![A Bride for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath]()
A Bride for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsMina’s well-ordered life is thrown into disarray when her father drops a bombshell on his deathbed: she has a brother she never knew of. Not only that, he is on his way to rescue her from the collapse of their school under a mountain of debts... -
![Dacey: Bride of North Carolina by Shanna Hatfield]()
Dacey: Bride of North Carolina by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDacey: Bride of North Carolina is #12 in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.A conniving mother, a reluctant groom and a desperate bride make for a lively adventure full of sweet romance.Braxton Douglas spends his days managing the family’s plantation and blissfully avoiding the state of matrimony...Categorized as:
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![Wyoming Wild by Sarah M. Eden]()
Wyoming Wild by Sarah M. Eden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHearts collide when a sheriff’s daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father. Wyoming Territory, 1876 US Marshal John “Hawk” Hawking is one of the most respected lawmen in the West, so when a telegram arrives from the small town of Sand Creek warning him of a death threat against him, he immediately begins an investigation...Categorized as:
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Bran by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClear Creek was a quaint little place, one most men took one look at, and decided to settle. There was only one problem. There were no women. In fact, the town was so small, when women looked at it, they laughed then whipped their horses into a frenzy to get as far from it as possible. This of course, left a mighty big hole in the hearts of the men who lived there... -
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Chase by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when three more English ladies are shipped off halfway across the world as mail order brides? EVERYTHING! Three sisters, Lena, Fina and Apple go from an even more posh lifestyle than their cousins before them, and arrive in Clear Creek, a nothing of a town full of quirky characters, crazy live-stock, and bumbling villains! Escorted by their strict and very proper distant cousin,... -
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Amon by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone deserves someone, even if that someone is a little … odd. Amon Cotter came to Clear Creek to help build Mr. Van Cleet’s hotel. His craftsmanship with wood was second to none, and when the hotel work was done, he decided to stay on. Nettie Whitman, the daughter of the nefarious Thackary Holmes, was sent from England to Clear Creek to find a husband...
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