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This Wilderness Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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The Heart's Charge by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMembers of Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he'd nearly married a decade ago...Categorized as:
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This Treacherous Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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Heart of Mine by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe makes love the grandest adventure on the frontier for the resistant darling of Eden, Colorado. Emma Brinkman is the most eligible bachelorette in town and staying that way. After learning twice that romance is a lie, she's focused only on making the mine she and her sisters inherited a booming success...Categorized as:
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Redemption by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGeneva Garner's mind was fixed on survival, her unborn child, escaping out of Savannah, and getting away from the men in the white robes with hoods over their heads. Covered in dirt and smoke from the cellar where she took refuge when the Klan burned her plantation home, she fled on the first stagecoach headed north. She vowed never to trust a man again as long as there was breath in her body...Categorized as:
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This Courageous Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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The Queen of Beauty by Petra Durst-Benning, Edwin Miles
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPetra Durst-Benning’s captivating historical novel pays homage to the trailblazing women of the early twentieth century—like Elizabeth Arden and Estée Lauder—who shaped culture, shattered convention, and strived to make the world around them more beautiful...Categorized as:
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Whispers on the Wind by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA straitlaced bookseller and a rowdy trail guide fight their ill-suited attraction in Book Five of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe. Wyoming Territory, October 1883 Tabitha Canterbury came to Logan Meadows with one goal: to open the bookshop she’s always dreamed of having...Categorized as:
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Augusta by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAugusta "Gussie" Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and now Gussie is hoping to find a man to love here at the end of the trail...Categorized as:
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New Day Rising, A by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSpring 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...Categorized as:
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Orphan Train Christmas by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKenny 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...Categorized as:
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The Sheriff's Mail Order Rescue by Amelia Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLove 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...Categorized as:
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The Lady and the Mountain Fire by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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This Homeward Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’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...Categorized as:
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Garnet by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGarnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just minutes inside the doors of the saloon she knew she'd made the right decision to leave her sisters and the wagon train of brides heading to California...Categorized as:
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A Loyal Heart by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe’s taken her as his prisoner. But she’s holding his heart captive. In gaining their freedom, will they lose what matters most?When Lady Olivia’s castle is besieged, she and her sister are taken captive and held for ransom by her father’s enemy, Lord Pitt. Loyalty to family means everything to Olivia... -
The Husband Tree by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHit 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...Categorized as:
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Heather by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMAIL-ORDER BRIDES OF THE WEST: HEATHER - Book Four in the McCutcheon Family Series (Western Historical Romance) Mail-order-bride-to-be Heather Stanford dreads the day the matron of the St. Louis bridal agency finds her a husband and sends her west. Heather actually has no desire to marry; she just wants to free her struggling family from the financial burden of another mouth to feed...Categorized as:
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Seeing the Elephant by Leah Banicki
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter 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...Categorized as:
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Courage in the Mountain Wilderness by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeeping 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...Categorized as:
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West Winds of Wyoming by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 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...Categorized as:
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An Untamed Land by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would never look back. The promise of free land lures Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway, and after three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, they finally arrive at the docks of New York City...Categorized as:
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The Lady and the Mountain Man by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLeah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fiancé’s plot to kill her after their wedding. She needs a safe place to hide, and finds herself accepting a newspaper marriage proposal from a God-fearing young rancher in the Montana Territory... -
With You Always by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Riveting Look at the Orphan Train from Historical Novelist Jody Hedlund When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special service: placing out seamstresses and trade girls...Categorized as:
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The Awakening by Tamara Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling author, Tamara Leigh, the seventh book in the inspirational AGE OF FAITH series—featuring Lady Laura Middleton of THE YIELDING and Sir Lothaire Soames of THE VEXING. FAR BETTER TO LOVE WITHOUT PROFIT… Even if she must sell herself in marriage to the highest bidder, Lady Laura Middleton is determined to provide her daughter a home and protector...Categorized as:
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Hope in the Mountain River by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis 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...Categorized as:
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Winter Winds of Wyoming by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe invites you back to Logan Meadows for a rousing town competition, a scandalous past that refuses to stay hidden, and a love that won't be denied in Prairie Hearts Novel Book Seven, Winter Winds of Wyoming...Categorized as:
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McCutcheon Family Series Boxed Set Books 4-6 (McCutcheon Family Series) by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnjoy books three through six of the award-winning McCutcheon Family series in this special offering. The ten book saga follows the McCutcheon family, as well as the characters of Y Knot, Montana Territory and Rio Wells, Texas from 1883 to 1887...Categorized as:
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The Heart of a Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrilliant 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...Categorized as:
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Doctor in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeth 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... -
Hope Within, The by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings1886 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...Categorized as:
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Sweet Boundless by Kristen Heitzmann
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNewly 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...Categorized as:
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The Tender Vine by Kristen Heitzmann
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey 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...Categorized as:
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Wrangler in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCan 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...Categorized as:
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Sharpshooter in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMandy 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...Categorized as:
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Evie by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMAIL-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... -
Aiming for Love by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJosephine 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...Categorized as:
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Montana Rose by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFire 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... -
The Coming Storm by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHeirs 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...Categorized as:
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The Raveling by Tamara Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBY HONOR BOUND TO SEEK THE FOUND, HERE BEGINS A TALESir Elias De Morville is no ordinary man of the sword, possessing both the heart of a warrior and a troubadour. When he sets out to rescue a boy who may be his son, more than ever he must prove worthy of the Wulfrith dagger that ranks him among the greatest of knights...Categorized as:
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The Lord: The Tenth Day by Danica Favorite
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn 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... -
The Piper: The Eleventh Day by Amanda McIntyre
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve 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... -
An Agent for Wilhelmina by Sophie Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWilhelmina 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...Categorized as:
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An Agent for Audrey by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen 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...Categorized as:
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An Agent for Belle by Nerys Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarriage 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...Categorized as:
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An Agent for Victoria by Kate Marie Clark
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA desperate woman, determined to prove her worth to the agency. An ex-outlaw and seasoned agent who only works alone. When Mr... -
Fairer Than Any: Christian Mail-Order Bride Series by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDaisy Weathers travels to Texas as a Mail Order Bride. The would-be groom takes one look at her scarred face and walks away without her knowing. Finding out she’d been jilted, Daisy is humiliated and despondent. There would be no second chance wedding for her. Sterling, a handsome cowboy is rolled out of the back of a wagon and left. He’s been injured and now it’s life or death... -
Sophie's Daughters Trilogy by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSaddle 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...Categorized as:
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Baron of Emberly by Tamara Leigh
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA WARRIOR DANGEROUSLY IN CONTROL England, 1334 ~ In the second book of The Feud series, Baron Magnus Verdun is a warrior whose handsome face gives little indication of the darkness he struggles to contain... -
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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