Books like 'Wild Hearts'
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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
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... -
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... -
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Jewel by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA proposal she had no choice but to accept . . . Though Eli Grayson is one of the most handsome, charming, and intelligent men in Grayson Grove, no one will take a chance on a confirmed bachelor. Unwilling to give up his dreams, Eli convinces his friend Jewel to pose as his wife. Their masquerade is to last just one night . . -
From Wine to Water by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll Tyrell Fannin and his cousins Isaac and Micah Burnet want is to get out of a Texas jail and go home to Mississippi. Delia Lavalle didn't need three outlaws to escort her and her sisters to Louisiana but she doesn't really have a choice. The outlaws aren't happy about escorting nuns, but figure they might bring them luck, because not even Santa Anna would harm a holy woman... -
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... -
Sweet Tilly by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMatilda Jane Anderson drives a brand new 1917 Model T with Sweet Tilly painted on the heavy metal plate covering the radiator. Tilly doesn't care what people say. Well, until she finds herself put behind bars by a new sheriff determined to confiscate her automobile and her property. Sheriff Rayford Sloan cleans up boom towns... -
Lightning and Lawmen by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow did a simple hello turn into something so complicated? Love is about to leave one lawman thunderstruck in this sweet historical romance! Cultured and full of grace, Delilah Robbins agrees to accompany her meteorologist father to his new post in Baker City, Oregon... -
Learning to Love by Jo Noelle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClara Hatfield knows sorrow. Having been abandoned by her husband, then shamed with divorce, she traveled to Creede, Colorado to seek refuge with a brother who left the family a decade ago. She’s been living with him for the past year. Now he wants to sell her in marriage to settle his gambling debt to a known troublemaker, but Bernard Newell intervenes... -
RNWMP: Bride for George by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMiss Hazel has been alone for sixteen years following the death of her beloved husband. For more than a year, she has been finding brides for different Mounties, and it has mostly kept her fulfilled, but lately, she’s realized something is still missing from her life. For the first time since her wedding many years before, she takes off her wedding ring, and decides it’s time to live again... -
A Bride To Herd by George H. McVey
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTake one failed rancher turned matchmaker and ten unexpected women looking to become brides. Put them all together in a house in Bent, Colorado. What could possibly go wrong? Chance Redburn lost his ranch and his only living relative, his Aunt Viola, in the same week. Now he has no choice but to try and make a go of his inheritance., Viola’s matchmaking service...Categorized as:
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Lassoed in Texas Trilogy by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBask in laughs and tears as you visit Mosqueros, Texas, a Wild West town in the making, where you'll meet three matchless couples and a passel of children who begin their relationships on rough footing. Petticoat Ranch Sophie Edwards is doing jut fine alone, until a man walks into her life, insisting on rescuing her and her four daughters... -
The Cowboy's Son by Rhonda Lee Carver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe stipulations of his father's will might dictate his actions, but nothing can control his heart... For years, Lexi Lock has done the right thing, even referred to by her friends as a hopeless romantic. She believes in soul mates, passion and saving herself for the man of her dreams. And then sexy in Wranglers smiles at her and she has a new appreciation for tough and dirty... -
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To Charm a Scarred Cowboy by Charlotte Dearing
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTexas, 1889 - Daniel Honeycutt is no stranger to peril. The gruff cowboy is a man of honor. He’s never hesitated to risk his life and his scars bear the proof. The old wounds frighten most folks. His scarred face certainly scared off a fiancée a few years back.Since then, he’s resolved to lead a solitary life. He spends his days tending his family’s vast herds of longhorns... -
The Lady’s Mine by Francine Rivers
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save.1875... -
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... -
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... -
Mail Order Menace by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTired of being remembered only for her misdeeds as part of the demon horde, Ernestine Miller agrees to go out West to marry a banker in need of a wife. When she arrives in Montana, she discovers her groom has met with a fatal accident, and she has two choices. She can either find a way to support herself or go back home in shame... -
RNWMP: Bride for Robert by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMinnie, a young widow and mother of a small child, finds out she has no money and no place to live after a meeting with her dead husband’s lawyer. When she goes to her church to find help getting a job, Miss Hazel invites her to stay with her and offers to help her find a Mountie to marry instead... -
RNWMP: Bride for Gilbert by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMadelyn White finds herself in a difficult position. She is living in a large city for the first time in her life, and her boss is showing a very inappropriate interest in her. When she meets Miss Hazel—matchmaker to the Mounties—she worries that she’s being too hasty by even talking to the woman... -
Mail Order Melancholy by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGretchen Jensen has been in love with the same person for years. There are only two problems standing in the way of her marriage to him. She’s pregnant, and he’s dead. Most of the people in her town won’t even talk to her, because the woman who was to be her mother-in-law has shunned her... -
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... -
Her Hell Yeah Cowboy by Donna Michaels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYears ago, he unknowingly rescued his soulmate, now she’s back in Texas and about to save his guarded heart. Unlike his twin, Texas National Guardsman Sgt. Logan McCall would rather march barefoot and blindfolded through a cow pasture than date the same woman twice... -
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Blind Faith by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wounded horse. A half-dead man. She thinks she can save the horse. She doubts the man will survive...Painter Alena McClaine’s world turns upside down when an unconscious rider arrives on his injured horse at her isolated California cabin. Both the animal and the stranger sport bullet wounds. Much to her surprise, the man lives—and hasn’t a clue about his identity. Even worse, he’s now blind... -
Westward Holiday by Linda Bridey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. ** Sweet clean romance novel ** Rebecca Walker has been plunged from the pinnacle of high society into a life of poverty and shame. Her reputation in Savannah, Georgia has been irreversibly tarnished. Forced into menial labor, she dreams of escaping the cruel fate that has befallen her... -
Westward Sunrise by Linda Bridey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. Sweet Clean Romance novel Abby Porter dreams of finding the perfect man. He doesn’t exist in Wabasha, Minnesota, however, so she casts her net wider by answering mail-order-bride advertisements. She has no luck until she comes across one from a general store owner in Dawson, Montana... -
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... -
Mail Order Miscreant by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharlie Miller moved to Montana to help her friend Merry, and she did so happily, knowing there were more men than women in the west. She expected to meet someone and live happily ever after. When she’s still alone three years later, she seriously contemplates writing to her sister Elizabeth, hoping she’ll find a husband for her...Categorized as:
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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... -
A Mail-Order Destiny by Janelle Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWillow Packer has one clear goal: to make her business thrive. Determined to collect what is owed her, she confronts her client, the hotel owner's wife, only to end up rescuing another lady from being thrown out on the street... -
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... -
Olivia's Obligation by Peggy McKenzie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Palmer has lived her entire life within the safe, protected walls of Madame Wigg's Foundling Home and School for the forgotten. Now, her benefactor claims she's dying and wants Olivia to choose a husband from a newspaper advertisement. "Choose wisely." The elderly woman counseled. Olivia takes her advice to heart...Categorized as:
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Phebe's Promise by Cathryn Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis head is in the clouds, but her feet are firmly on the ground. Can they ever find a way to make a life together? Phebe became an orphan the day she was born. Her mother died giving birth, waiting for her husband and son to return from the gold fields in California. But neither one was ever heard from again...Categorized as:
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Uma's Umbrage by Dallis Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUma is a spitfire who is usually in an uproar about something—whether it's women's rights, or the Morgan dollar, or labor laws for children. But when she discovers the reason for her abandonment at the orphanage doorsteps was to save her infant self from the same demise as her murdered mother, she finds a new calling... -
Romancing the Conflicted Cowboy by Crystal Walton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn out-of-place writer risking everything to stay. A conflicted cowboy afraid to risk letting her. And one little arrangement about to become more complicated than either bargained for. For romance author Callie Claston, visiting a Texas dude ranch to save her career makes perfect sense... -
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
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... -
Her Unexpected Courtship by Megan Walker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIsabel Reed has promised to marry for love. At present her heart belongs to the one companion she knows accepts all her eccentricities—her horse. So when her older brother threatens to trade the animal on a whim, Isabel must force aside her progressive beliefs and bargain to entertain her brother's flirtatious, albeit handsome, friend Lucas Ashcroft in exchange for keeping her horse... -
Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. Comfort by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDear Mrs. Pettigrew, My name is Major Comfort and I am writing to you to clear up a matter of great importance. It seems a grave mistake has been made. A woman by the name of Lucretia Lynch arrived in town claiming to be my mail-order bride. The trouble is, I didn’t send for one! My guess is my father is behind this... -
Mail Order Mother by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaroline Casey is a romantic in a world of realists. When she decides to leave her privileged upbringing to become a mail-order bride, everyone she knows is surprised, but she is convinced she can make a difference and find true love out west. There are two motherless girls who need her and her special brand of loving everyone around her to make their lives complete... -
Mary's Musket by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Mary Mitchell agrees to go on the Oregon Trail with her family, she certainly has ulterior motives. Believing that married women are no more than servants to men and children, she wants to get her own homestead, and Oregon is the place she can do just that... -
Margaret's Music-Box by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith only two young girls, Margaret Bolling, a widow, has been left with nothing. Desperate to survive, she takes her girls from their home in Kentucky to Independence, Missouri—the starting place of the two-thousand-mile trek to Oregon Territory. She only has herself to rely upon, and with her finances in dire straits, she sells baths and meals on the trail after driving her wagon all day... -
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Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. White by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDear Mrs. Pettigrew, My name is Oscar White. I run a stage stop with my family between Clear Creek and Oregon City in the state of Oregon. We homesteaded here in 1849. I live with my two younger brothers, Henry and Anson, and our mother. After careful consideration, I find myself in need of a wife. I’m not getting any younger, and figured it was time... -
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Building Forever by Cat Cahill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA haunting guilt. A family to save. A love that can’t be.When Emma Daniels’ well-to-do family finds itself destitute, she answers an ad for the Gilbert Company seeking young women to be waitresses at hotel restaurants along remote railroad lines out west. The rules for a Gilbert Girl are work hard, act respectably at all times, and no courting allowed...Categorized as:
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Dear Mr. Weaver by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMail-Order Bride Ink! Mischief, Marriage and Mayhem, these brides have something to write about! Mrs. Pettigrew, of the Pettigrew Mail-Order Bride Agency sees to that! She likes to hear from all her brides and loves a happy ending. But to ensure her brides get one, she does things to help love along. Sometimes, however, those things don’t always go as planned… Dear Mrs... -
RNWMP: Bride for Kendall by Kirsten Osbourne, Mail Order Mounties
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoAnn Becker, a wealthy socialite from Ottawa, has devoted her life to music and teaching others. She is content with her unmarried status, still living at home with her parents. That is until one of her closest friends moves west to marry the Mountie of her dreams. Once her friend is gone, she feels a bit lost and confused... -
Montana Rescue by Linda Bridey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA clean historical western cowboy romance novel about a mail order bride. Echo Canyon Brides: Book 1 Josie Bainbridge has watched all of her friends get married and despairs ever finding a husband—especially because her home city of Pullman, Washington has too many women and not enough men...
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