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![The Heart's Charge by Karen Witemeyer]()
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... -
![Rail Detective by R.O. Lane]()
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... -
![Molly's Man by Laylah Roberts]()
Molly's Man by Laylah Roberts
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s ticking things off her bucket list. Number one, find a sexy man to tie her up and spank her… Molly knows she’s not going to live a long life. Both her mother and grandmother died young. She’s determined to fit as much fun in as she can. Starting with quitting her job and moving to Haven where the men are sexy, protective, and dominant... -
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![Wild Sweet Love by Beverly Jenkins]()
Wild Sweet Love by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTeresa July has led a hard life, but now she has a chance to put her train robbing past behind her. Armed with a new job as a cook to one of Philadelphia's elite families, Teresa is determined to start her life anew, and nothing––not even her boss's stuck–up (and far too handsome) son––is going to stand in her way... -
![SEAL's Vow by Elle James]()
SEAL's Vow by Elle James
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReal estate agent Brenna Meyers is in a good position to work a side job as a private investigator searching for the money stolen from a bank. On a routine visit to a potential listing, Brenna discovers a grisly scene in an abandoned home. Her first thought is Squatters. A closer look reveals the house had been used as a place of torture... -
![Warrior's Resolve by Elle James]()
Warrior's Resolve by Elle James
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMolly McKinnon’s father disappeared on a manhunt for an escaped convict. From what they’ve been able to piece together, whoever kidnapped her father, wants the location of the money the convict escaped to retrieve. Getting desperate, the kidnappers will do anything to get the McKinnon patriarch to tell what the convict told him, even go after the rest of the McKinnon family... -
![Forever Cowboys Six Pack Omnibus by Hope Whitley]()
Forever Cowboys Six Pack Omnibus by Hope Whitley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is a six pack omnibus containing books one through six in the Forever Cowboys series. 1. Cowboys are Forever 2. The Color of Forever 3. Two Times Forever 4. Cowgirls are Forever 5. Love You Forever 6. Finding Forever You will find a recurring cast of characters in all of these books, but each one is a complete, stand alone book with no cliffhangers... -
![The Unexpected Champion by Mary Connealy]()
The Unexpected Champion by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCity dweller John McCall never expected to be out in the High Sierras of 1868 on a wild-goose chase to find the Chiltons' supposedly lost grandson. But now that he's out here, things have gotten even more complicated, mostly due to wildcat Penny Scott. She's not like any woman he's ever met--comfortable in the woods, with a horse, and with a gun... -
![Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown]()
Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith a “knack for romantic tension and page-turning suspense, this one is a winner.” The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful New York Times bestselling novel by Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas (Booklist, starred review)... -
![Undercover Holiday: Brotherhood Protectors World (Guardian Agency) by Regan Black]()
Undercover Holiday: Brotherhood Protectors World (Guardian Agency) by Regan Black
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe insists she is not the target...When Hannah Lynch learns one of her sisters isn't coming home for Christmas, she knows something is seriously wrong. A Guardian Agency tech assistant, Hannah starts digging and discovers her sister is caught in the middle of a crisis that threatens the whole family... -
![Stolen by Vikki Kestell]()
Stolen by Vikki Kestell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFaith-Filled Fiction at Its Best! Denver, 1910: Stolen continues to chronicle the lives of Rose Thoresen, her daughter, Joy Thoresen Michaels, and those who live at Palmer House—a most extraordinary refuge for young women rescued from prostitution. The opening of Stolen finds young Mei-Xing safely returned to her friends and family at Palmer House... -
![The Beauty of Love by Dorothy Wiley]()
The Beauty of Love by Dorothy Wiley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrought together after tragedy, Edward Wyllie and Dora Tudor find the true beauty of love in this poignant and thrilling historical romance set in 1800 Boston and New Hampshire. In an unlikely place for new beginnings, a cemetery, Edward and Dora meet for the first time. But in that forlorn place, the beauty of love blossoms... -
![Sleepless in Southampton by Chasity Bowlin]()
Sleepless in Southampton by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery touch brings with it a world of temptation. Eventually, there is a point of no return. Miss Sophia Upchurch is not having a good day. Her employer is dead, she’s been robbed, she’s now stranded in a strange city, and the handsome man she’d met on the stage, the man she’d flirted with, is no longer simply Mr. Henry Meredith, a possible suitor... -
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![One Wish by Jodi Thomas]()
One Wish by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes you back deep into the Texas Panhandle, where the winters are long, the storms fierce—and the Yuletide nights are unforgettable . . . It’s the week before Christmas in Kasota Springs and Maggie Allison is sweeping the floors before closing her shop for the night. But out in the cold darkness three men are keeping a close watch on her movements...Categorized as:
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![Stormy Montana Sky by Debra Holland]()
Stormy Montana Sky by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSchoolteacher Harriet Stanton believes she is in love with newly-married Nick Sanders, until a mysterious stranger rescues her from an accident. Anthony ‘Ant’ Gordon is chasing Lewis, the man who murdered his sister and kidnapped his nephew, David. Harriet and Ant join forces to find David. When they do, Ant fights with Lewis. The kidnapper falls off a cliff, and is presumed dead... -
![McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller]()
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... -
![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.. -
![Yellow Rose Trilogy 3 In 1 Collection: Every Little Thing About You, A Texas Sky, City Girl by Lori Wick]()
Yellow Rose Trilogy 3 In 1 Collection: Every Little Thing About You, A Texas Sky, City Girl by Lori Wick
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree in one... -
![Brides of Beckham: Books 8-10 by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Brides of Beckham: Books 8-10 by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 8th-10th books in the bestselling Brides of Beckham Series. Included are: Mail Order Motherhood, Mail Order Matron, and Mail Order Meddler. Mail Order Motherhood: When 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... -
![Happier Than We Deserve: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Melissa Halcomb]()
Happier Than We Deserve: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Melissa Halcomb
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThat terrible event Elizabeth and her family has ever dreaded has come to pass and brought with it changes which none of them could have anticipated... -
![A Clean Slate by Amelia C. Adams]()
A Clean Slate by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Markham is a socialite from New York City who came to Topeka with one goal—to marry Adam Brody. But Adam has married someone else, and Olivia has nowhere to go. Taking a job at the Brody Hotel requires her to swallow her pride, but she has no choice in the matter. Now she must learn to adjust to simple living and wearing cotton dresses—cotton, when she should be wearing silk... -
![An Agent for Alexandra by Rebecca Connolly]()
An Agent for Alexandra by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlexandra Drake is determined that her spoiled, Southern upbringing will have no effect on her new life as one of the few female Pinkerton agents. Tucker Waite is convinced that the wealthy heiress has no idea what she is in for and will get him killed...Categorized as:
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![A Limitless Love by Montana Ross]()
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![A Narrow Road by Amelia C. Adams]()
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... -
![Never a Lawman by Rachel Bird]()
Never a Lawman by Rachel Bird
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove can ruin the perfect getaway...When Belle LeClair's US Marshal husband dies, she flees Boston and her wealthy, overbearing mother-in-law—who has already chosen Belle's next husband! Belle won't rule out marrying again, but any prospective partner better not have a job that will get him killed.Sheriff Brady Fontana's fiancée was murdered on her way to join him in Break Heart, Colorado... -
![Playing With Fire by Elle James]()
Playing With Fire by Elle James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat started as a way to teach a young firefighter a lesson on what an older woman has to offer, widow and designer shoe store owner Lola Engel’s hot little class on love has taken a turn for the worse. Her best and only student, Daniel Flannigan, drops out of school and avoids her altogether. Not that she intended on making her teaching career a full time job... -
![Zook by Bex Dane]()
Zook by Bex Dane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"She sucked in my kisses like she'd been underwater without air for hours and my lips were an oxygen ventilator. Whatever she needed, my mouth provided." Can the prisoner set the princess free? Zook My second chance at life is going better than I expected. Got a job doing construction where my boss doesn't care about my criminal record... -
![Mail Order Man by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Mail Order Man by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharlotte Watkins has always been considered the odd one. Now that her husband has passed, and she’s been trying to run a ranch as well as care for her young son and her home, life is becoming overwhelming. Highly aware that none of the men in town will even consider marrying her, Charlotte decides to send off for a mail-order husband. She doesn’t care what the townspeople thought of her... -
![Scars of the Heart by Kristene Holloway]()
Scars of the Heart by Kristene Holloway
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill their pasts keep them apart? Or can love heal their scars?Adelaide Harris is seeking a new future. Jilted by an unrequited love, she heads West, beginning a new chapter of her life as a mail-order bride in a marriage of convenience, determined to never fall in love again. However, she is about to discover that fate has other plans in store for her.Jackson Preston is haunted by his past... -
![A Mother for Rosie by Emma Ashwood]()
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![Rescuing Elizabeth Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Kate Beauford]()
Rescuing Elizabeth Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Kate Beauford
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn arrogant gentleman concerned with family pride. A spirited young lady who vows only to marry for love. What happiness can they find if they are forced to wed?Fitzwilliam Darcy distrusts the workers employed to prepare Netherfield Park for the much-awaited ball...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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![Pillsbury Crossing by Donna Foley Mabry]()
Pillsbury Crossing by Donna Foley Mabry
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the second of The Manhattan Stories, Emma is nine on the day they meet, hot-headed and wild-haired. Akecheta is twelve, already the man of his house. He saves her life and tells her she belongs to him... -
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![Markham Hall Series Bundle by Sierra Simone]()
Markham Hall Series Bundle by Sierra Simone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYorkshire, 1879 I am alone. When Ivy Leavold is left destitute by her brother’s death, she is taken in by her cousin’s brooding, tortured widower--Julian Markham. Handsome and possessive, it’s not long before Ivy falls for him. But Mr. Markham has dark secrets, secrets that may put Ivy in danger... I am afraid... -
![The Mavericks by Leigh Greenwood]()
The Mavericks by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHawk and Zeke have been inseparable ever since boyhoodâ��two loners, outsiders, as free as the wild horses they chase across the Arizona desert. So when they join up with two misplaced dancehall girls on the trail, they react about the same way as unbroken mustangs to the saddle... -
![Forsaken by B.J. Daniels]()
Forsaken by B.J. Daniels
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDanger runs high and passions burn hot in Montana's wild country Big-city detective Bentley Jamison is a long way from home in the Beartooth wilderness when one of local rancher Maddie Conner's ranch hands goes missing. Towering mountains and a small, tight community are as unfamiliar to Jamison as herding sheep, but he's never shied away from a challenge... -
![Brides of Beckham: The First Four Books by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Brides of Beckham: The First Four Books by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis box set includes the first four books in the bestselling Brides of Beckham Series by Kirsten Osbourne. Included are: Mail Order Mayhem, Mail Order Mama, Mail Order Madness and Mail Order Mix-up. Harriett Long, a widow in Beckham, Massachusetts, begins her journey as a matchmaker by matching up four brides with grooms in the West... -
![Sweet Mountain Magic by Rosanne Bittner]()
Sweet Mountain Magic by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe bestselling author of Tame the Wild Wind delivers a western historical romance of a lonely trapper and a woman with a deep and wounded past. When Sage McKenzie comes across a wild-eyed beauty in obvious distress, his first instinct is to turn and flee like the native tribes who fear this “crazy woman.” As a man of the mountain, affairs of the heart are low priority... -
![Hawks Prize by Elaine Barbieri]()
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... -
![The Dark and the Dawn by Amelia C. Adams]()
The Dark and the Dawn by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJeanette Peterson and her sister, Abigail, are running from a dark past and hiding from an even darker future. When they happen upon the Brody Hotel in Topeka, Kansas, they're given a chance at a whole new life, one where they can choose who they want to become. When Jeanette assists the town doctor with a difficult case, she realizes she has a calling and a passion to become a nurse. Dr... -
![Love's Greatest Gift by Montana Ross]()
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![Savage Desire by Constance O'Banyon]()
Savage Desire by Constance O'Banyon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGOLDEN GODDESS Abducted by two brutes, frightened beyond despair, beauty Mara Golden was elated to be rescued by the tall dark Indian. His bare chest was smooth and rippled with muscle. Soft buckskin hugged his long lean legs, and all she desired was to be crushed in his strong protective arms. She had been courted by countless suitors -- but she had finally found her true love.. -
![Renegade Love by Donna Fletcher]()
Renegade Love by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRosa’s friend warned her not to look at Esteban Cesare that he was evil and once she looked upon evil she was doomed. But she felt sorry for the handsome ranchero. He had finally returned after having been abducted sixteen years ago by renegades and no one but his family welcomed him home. Rosa didn’t heed her friend’s warning. She looked upon him... and sealed her fate...Categorized as:
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![Beth by Kay P. Dawson]()
Beth by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDetermined not to be a burden on her mother, Beth takes a job working with the local sheriff. Hoping to use her position to help take down the much hated Barlow men, she doesn’t plan on the feelings she will start to have for the man she is working beside...Categorized as:
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![Untying His Not by J.M. Madden]()
Untying His Not by J.M. Madden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrock Lowell is discontent, even though he’s at a point in his life when he should be thriving. After a recent heart attack, his father has given him control of the Blue Star Ranch, just like he’s always wanted. It has to be wedding-perfect within a few months for his brother’s nuptials. He has the power to implement the programs he’s wanted to for so long... -
![Seized by the Lawman by Rhonda Lee Carver]()
Seized by the Lawman by Rhonda Lee Carver
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpecial Agent Nixon Cade wasn’t looking for anything long term when he met Melissia, but it turned out she left a lasting impression. When he landed a special assignment, a favor for the boss to help his daughter, Nix found out it was the very woman who had haunted his every waking hour. There are lines a man wouldn’t—shouldn’t—cross. He never messed with the boss’s daughter...Categorized as:
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![Stormy Montana Nights: Brotherhood Protectors World by Paige Yancey]()
Stormy Montana Nights: Brotherhood Protectors World by Paige Yancey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecovering from being kidnapped by human traffickers, Jeanie Finley hoped she had finally found a safe haven at the Brighter Days Rehab Ranch in Montana. Having been imprisoned by heartless fiends she has a great distrust of most men. Unfortunately, the rehab ranch is full of men—veterans recuperating from career-ending injuries... -
![The Hidden Duchess by Isabella Thorne]()
The Hidden Duchess by Isabella Thorne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Duke is an odious man.To keep her father from hanging, Caroline must marry this repulsive man. Unless fate steps in and lends a hand, she will be miserable for the rest of her life.Fate does step in, but only to muck up the works.Caroline is thrust into a seedy world where she must struggle to survive.Love is the furthest thing from her mind, as she scrubs chamber pots...Categorized as:
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![Wild Forever by Cat Cahill]()
Wild Forever by Cat Cahill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA missing girl. A damaged heart. A love that risks it all.Penny May would do anything to forget her past, even traveling all the way to the Colorado Territory to become a Gilbert Girl. Learning to be a good waitress wasn’t easy, but Penny is happy with her new life and friends at the Crest Stone Hotel...Categorized as:
western suspense industrial-era romance historical-fiction historical fiction religion
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