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This Healing Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s never left her home in the mountain wilderness of the Canadian Rockies—until now. Little did she realize this journey would change her life in every way. The mountain wilderness of her family’s home in the Canadian Rockies is all Hannah Grant has ever known. Now at the age of twenty-four, she’s on a journey to help her father to find the son he gave up for adoption three decades before... -
Hope's Highest Mountain by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIngrid Chastain readily agreed to accompany her father to deliver vaccines to a mining town in the Montana Territory. She never could have anticipated a terrible accident would leave her alone and badly injured in the wilderness. When rescue comes in the form of a mysterious mountain man who tends her injuries, she's hesitant to put her trust in this quiet man who seems to have his own wounds... -
Rail Detective by R.O. Lane
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCallum Devlin gets the assignment to accompany a rail car with $500,000 in gold double eagles from the San Francisco Mint to Kansas City. A gang attacks the train and dynamites the car with the gold and Devlin inside. The resulting fight is furious and deadly. Devlin decides to go to San Francisco and get revenge on the gang. On the trip, he unexpectedly meets a woman and falls in love... -
Walkin' On Clouds by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIsaac Burnet didn't want to go to Louisiana to deliver the letter from Delia to her sister Fairlee, but he did. He sure didn't want to be party to kidnapping the sassy, spirited lass on the eve of her wedding, or journey two weeks with a woman who didn't like him, but he did. Fairlee Lavalle was determined to marry Matthew Cheval no matter what her sisters, aunt, or uncle thought... -
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The Proud Breed by Celeste De Blasis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAN UNTAMED WOMAN... A FEARLESS MAN... A MAGNIFICENT LOVE. THE MONUNENTAL ADVENTURE THAT SWEEPS ACROSS A MIGHTY CENTURY OF AMERICAN HISTORY.The first time Gavin Ramsay sees Tessa MacLeod y Amarista -- a violet-eyed beauty swimming naked in a hidden pool--she reacts by attacking him with a knife. Realizing her mistake, she nurses him back to health and into a deep, enduring and courageous love... -
Away in Montana by Jane Porter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBeautiful, spirited heiress McKenna Frasier–daughter to one of the Butte Copper Kings—vowed eternal love to Sinclair Douglas before she left for college and an introduction to society. Four years in New York and travel abroad have opened her eyes, making her realize she wanted more than marriage and a simple Montana life... -
A Treasure Concealed by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBestselling Author Tracie Peterson Launches Exciting New Series Set in 1890s Montana Emily Carver wants a home where she can put down roots instead of following her gold-hungry father from one mining camp to another. She also longs for tenderness and love, both of which are missing in her life... -
McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan't get enough cowboys? Hooked on the McKettrick Men? Now get three McKettricks --Jesse, Rance, and Keegan --for one low price with the McKettricks Bundle! Bundle includes McKettrick's Heart, McKettrick's Pride, and McKettrick's Luck... -
A Narrow Road by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith her checkered past, Margaret Smith doesn’t expect that she’ll ever fall in love again. She’s happy as she is, surrounded by good friends, but she still sometimes wonders if there isn’t something more... -
Home at Last by Mary Jane Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAshley Richardson is coming home. After years of living away, guarding a long-buried secret, she accepts her brother’s offer to live on his new dude ranch and be the public relations director. Yet the minute she arrives, she encounters Hank Bradley—the man she’s spent twelve years avoiding and the one person who can never know the secret that’s shaped her adult life... -
Grace: Bride of Montana by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPractical Grace Davenport thought she had her life all planned, including picking out the perfect husband. But she couldn’t have predicted the disaster that changed everything, leaving her no choice but to become a mail-order bride to a most imperfect man... -
High Desert Haven by Lynnette Bonner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Is Jason Jordan really who he says he is? Everything in Nicki's life depends on the answer." "Oregon, 1887" When her husband dies in a mysterious riding accident, Nicki Trent is left with a toddler and a rundown ranch. Determined to bring her ranch back from the brink of death, Nicki hires handsome Jason Jordan to help... -
When the Meadow Blooms by Ann H. Gabhart
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWidow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home... -
Twilight in Texas by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was love at first sight. When Wolf Hayward and Molly Donivan gazed into each other's eyes in a crowded train station during the Civil War, they knew they were meant to be--and sealed their commitment with a passionate kiss. He promised to find her after the war--until he realized she was the daughter of a Union General when he was a Southern spy behind enemy lines... -
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Montana Sky Christmas: A Sweetwater Springs Short Story Collection by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Montana Sky Christmas, USA Today Bestselling author, Debra Holland, offers seven short stories set in the fictional town of Sweetwater Springs, Montana in 1894. These stories are about various kinds of Christmas love—the romance between a man and a woman, the devotion of a husband to his wife’s memory, and the love of a child for her goose... -
Yours Truly, Thomas by Rachel Fordham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor three years, Penny Ercanbeck has been opening other people's mail. Dead ends are a reality for clerks at the Dead Letter Office. Still she dreams of something more--a bit of intrigue, a taste of romance, or at least a touch less loneliness. When a letter from a brokenhearted man to his one true love falls into her hands, Penny seizes this chance to do something heroic... -
Abigail's Adventure by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWidow Abigail Hembree’s entire world has been the Wigg School and Foundling Home. She and her precious children have found a home there, safe from the evils of men, as she taught and nurtured the orphans who shared their lives... -
Waiting for Hope by Karen J. Hasley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s 1905 and the new century overflows with opportunities for the smart, the strong, the confident, and the determined. All words that describe Hope Birdwell to a T. Her first twenty years had their share of trouble and torment, but she’s certain the next twenty hold only promise. Hope leaves a sordid past behind and heads for Wyoming to take up homesteading... -
Love's Reckoning by Laura Frantz
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his apprenticeship and move west. But Liege soon discovers that Silas is a prodigious worker and craftsman and endeavors to keep him in York... -
The Wren by Kristy McCaffrey
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFull-length novel ~ Rating: Steamy ~ Word Count: 74,000 Ten years have passed since her ranch was attacked, her folks murdered and Molly Hart was abducted. Now, at nineteen, she’s finally returning home to north Texas after spending the remainder of her childhood with a tribe of Kwahadi Comanche... -
Oh, Kentucky! by Betty Layman Receveur
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSixteen-year-old Kitty Gentry and her family came to Fort Boonesborough to farm the rich land. But when fierce Shawnee attacked the white settlers, the horrified young Kitty was forced to seek refuge within the walls of the fort... -
Savage Innocence by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife in small-town Minnesota was too confining for an independent young woman who yearns for adventure --- so Danette leaves home to seek a new life along the rugged frontier. She never expects to find herself wrapped in the arms of Gray Wolf, the magnificent Chippewa warrior who rules the land with battle-hardened courage ... and unexpected compassion .. -
Nate by Lori Handeland
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Josephine Clancy befriended gun-for-hire Nate Lang, she knew he was the kind of man who needed someone. However, Jo hadn't counted on falling in love with the stranger, or the lengths she would travel to rescue him from his melancholy... -
Texas Tender by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe is the most beautiful man Idalou Ellsworth has ever set eyes on. When he appears at her front door, she is struck speechless at the very sight of him. Folks in Dunmore, Texas think her bossy, too focused on rescuing her familyâ��s failing ranch to be interested in courting. But in Willâ��s company, she canâ��t think of anything but him... -
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The Dangerous Thaw of Etta Capstone by Karen J. Hasley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Revenge is very good eaten cold” For most people food serves a purpose and the purpose isn’t complicated. You eat it. But for Etta Capstone it’s not that simple. An excellent cook and the owner of a successful restaurant on the Texas frontier, she’s had years to perfect other uses for food besides the obvious. Food as shield. As wall. As love letter. As peace offering... -
Savage Torment by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFree-spirited Judith McMahon's idea of a good adventure doesn't involve taking over her father's lumber business, but the Chippewa country surrounding the mill inflames her imagination. The reality is something she could never have prepared for - a virile stranger who sets her blood on fire, makes her tremble like a fawn, and calls her his enemy... -
Hawks Prize by Elaine Barbieri
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheirs was a tale of tragedy and triumph... Four children abandoned in an orphanage. Two missing parents. One man whose hatred had divided a family, whose duplicity ended in murder, inextricably weaving their lives together in a web of lies that only time could untangle. Drew He was the last of the four to return to Galveston, the first to admit he was in over his head... -
Jed by Linda Devlin, Linda Winstead Jones
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJed Rourke has been a soldier, miner, cowhand, gambler, and most recently a Pinkerton detective. Stopping in Rock Creek to see his sister, Jed finds a compelling reason to stay--prim and sensible Hannah Winters. Hannah has come to comfort her sister, whose husband has been charged with murder. Hannah doesn't believe the claim and sets out to solve the crime--with Jed's help... -
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Sarah Finds Freedom by Krissyann Granger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Heading out West as a mail-order bride is a damn stupid idea..."~Sarah1886, Boston.Sarah Forbes is a cowgirl at heart, but if she obeys her father's wishes she'll be living in a gilded cage. When she witnesses a crime and needs to flee the city, a mail-order bride agency seems like her only ticket to freedom and safety. But life throws her an unexpected responsibility and complicates everything... -
Savage Obsession by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhile her beloved family struggle to put down stakes in the harsh Minnesota territory, Lorinda Odell is in St. Paul to get a proper education. But the bustling city is not without its own hazards, especially for a young woman as lovely as Lorinda... -
Lily by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsZac Randolph owns and runs the Little Corner of Heaven Saloon in San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. He's a gambler by trade and by nature. He takes care of the girls who work for him, but no woman is as exciting as gambling, no woman means as much to him as his saloon. His life is perfect until a distant cousin, Lily Sterling, arrives from Virginia and upsets everything... -
Yesteryear by Dorothy Garlock
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAddie Hyde spent four years waiting to see if the high-spirited husband she had married in haste would come back after the South lost the war. Yet Kirby Hyde was never among the Confederates in rags and tatters straggling through Arkansas. Addie always had spunk, but now she also had a young son, two foster children she cherished, and trouble...Categorized as:
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A Cowboy's Temptation by Michelle Beattie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith a thirst for adventure and a new life, Katie Matthews heads west to Marietta, Montana to reconcile with her estranged sister and prove she’s matured. But during her journey, her stagecoach is robbed leaving her destitute and on foot and later framed for theft, which lands her in jail. Not the ideal beginning to prove she’s turned over a new leaf... -
A Sheriff's Passion by Michelle Beattie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShane McCall has dedicated his life to rising above the smear his father put on his last name. As sheriff of Marietta, Montana, his reputation is finally above reproach and he aims to keep it that way. A difficult task made impossible since he made the mistake of kissing Silver Adams...Categorized as:
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Laurel by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe latest historical romance in the bestselling series about the Randolph brothers--and the women who tame their hearts. Hen Randolph is the perfect choice for sheriff, but he's no one's idea of a model husband. Then a beauty with a tarnished reputation catches his eye, and the thought of taking a wife suddenly appeals to him as never before... -
Violet by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHealing Heart Broken and bitter, Jefferson Randolph coud never forget all he had lost in the War Between The States — or forgive those he had fought. Long after most of his six brothers had found wedded blss, the former Rebel soldier kept himself buried in work, only dreaming of one day marrying a true daughter of the South... -
The Texan's Dream by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNineteenth-century Texas was alive with lovers and scoundrels, drifters and dreamers. It was a land brimming with wild, glorious passions—passions USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas tenderly evokes in this exquisite new novel…Fleeing trouble in Pittsburgh, young Kara O’Riley has no choice but to travel as far West as her meager funds will take her... -
Untethered by Marcia Lynn McClure
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man tethered by pain and guilt borne of past tragedy, A young woman with the soul of a guardian angel, And an unspeakable evil about to be unleashed... -
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Daisy by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhile Tyler Randolph is prospecting for gold in New Mexico to get the money to build the hotel of his dreams he finds a woman wounded and left to die in a blizzard. He can't take her into Albuquerque because he doesn't know who's trying to kill her, so he takes her to his cabin. When the killers come after her, he makes it his job to protect her. Tyler is a loner not used to have a woman around... -
Mail Order Motherhood by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Clara's husband dies and leaves her with two children and a farm she can't run on her own, the bank evicts her small family, and she needs to find a new home fast. She answers an advertisement to be a mail order bride, hoping that the agency will find a place where she can not only be useful, but her children can be loved... -
Mail Order Meddler by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrancis knew something needed to change immediately. He was only sixteen, but he understood that his family couldn’t keep living on bread and beef jerky. In town one day, he noticed an advertisement for a mail order bride, and sent off a letter…after signing his older brother’s name. He’d just make sure to tell Andrew that his fiance was coming before she arrived... -
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Mail Order Mystery by Robin Deeter
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLeigh Hawthorne, a widow and local farmer in Beckham, Massachusetts, enlists the services of Elizabeth Miller, the creator of the nationally published, Groom’s Gazette, to find a husband. Leigh is a strong woman, who knows her own mind, and she’s willing to travel across the country to Oklahoma to in the hope of finding love again... -
Passage West by Ruth Ryan Langan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsON A WAGON TRAIN HEADING WEST, LOVE COULD BE AS FIERCE AS THE LAND--AND AS UNKNOWN! At seventeen, Abby Market left the only home she'd ever known--Missouri--in a covered wagon bound for California. With her sister and hard-drinking father in tow, she needed all her strength for the long trek westward. But Abby could hold her own with any man, until she met a rugged gunman named Rourke.. -
Emma and the Outlaw by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDespite her unconventional upbringing -- she'd been adopted off the orphan train by the local "madam" -- Emma Chalmers was the most prim and proper young lady in all of Whitneyville... -
Ride with Me by Janith Hooper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe is her dream come to life. She is invisible to him... Jessica Harper is a sweet and innocent woman, held back from a life of her own. Clint Wilkins is a cut above the rest, but he’s broken, and emotionally unavailable. When Clint’s vow to never marry and his attraction to Jessie square off, will he take her innocence...or her heart, and change both their lives forever... -
Tall, Dark, and Texan by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLARGE PRINT edition prepared especially for Jove Books/Doubleday Large Print Home Library/Berkley Publishing Group. Teagen McMurray would ride to hell and back to protect his land. He'd certainly never felt that way about a woman. At least not until Jessie Barton showed up with her three little girls, desperate for a place to stay... -
Cowboy Billionaires by J.P. Comeau
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAre you ready to binge-read six stories that will keep you up all night long? Follow the twists and turns combined with billion-dollar scandals… all for your reading pleasure. If you love sexy cowboys and enjoy forbidden relationships, secret babies, and second chances, then you have come to the right place...
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