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Wilde Love by Lucy Lennox
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWeston “Major” Marian: After running away at the age of seventeen, I found a home in the Army. It wasn’t long before my fellow soldiers became family, giving purpose to my time in Vietnam. But everything changes when Doc Wilde joins my medevac crew... -
![Come High Water by Carolyn Brown]()
Come High Water by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBridget O'Shea had sworn she'd never fall in love again. She had a hotel, The Black Swan, to operate alone, since her sisters - Catherine and Alice - had both married the previous year. And then there was Ella, her lovely baby daughter. The hotel and Ella took up all her time and energy... -
![Hidden Truths by Jae]()
Hidden Truths by Jae
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLesbian Fiction: Historical Fiction - Sequel to Backwards to Oregon - Commuter Novel - 19 hours reading - "Luke" Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women... -
![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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![How I Stole the Princess's White Knight and Turned Him to Villainy: Miracle 1 by A.J. Sherwood]()
How I Stole the Princess's White Knight and Turned Him to Villainy: Miracle 1 by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat’s a white knight to do when his princess wants to sacrifice a town to barbarians? Go to the famous Black Sorcerer of Grimslock for help, apparently. What’s a black sorcerer to do when the white knight comes to him for help? Keep him, naturally. Devan does not approve of this payment plan. Tan does... -
![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... -
![The Lady and the Mountain Fire by Misty M. Beller]()
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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![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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![A Match for a Bookish Bride by Tess Thompson]()
A Match for a Bookish Bride by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan a worried mother find the perfect matches for her family of eccentrics on remote Whale Island? Amelia In the spring of 1910, an advertisement I spotted in the Boston newspaper called out to me. “Wealthy family in need of secretary on Whale Island. Must have an affinity for books.” When I’m offered the position, I do not hesitate to pack my meagre belongings and travel to Washington state... -
![Vivid by Beverly Jenkins]()
Vivid by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's 1886 and Dr.Viveca Lancaster is frustrated by the limits placed upon female physicians of color. When she is offered the chance to set up a practice in the small all Black community of Grayson Grove, Michigan she leaves her California home and heads east...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.. -
![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...Categorized as:
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![Under the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse]()
Under the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTayler Hale is ahead of her time as one of the first women naturalists. She has always loved adventure and the great outdoors, and her remote job location also helps keep her away from the clutches of the man to whom she once made a foolish promise. It seems she must keep running, however, and in secret, her boss from Yellowstone arranges for a new job . . . in Alaska...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles]()
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ CharlesAbandoned by his father as a small child, Sir Gareth Inglis has grown up prickly, cold, and well-used to disappointment. Even so, he longs for a connection, falling headfirst into a passionate anonymous affair that's over almost as quickly as it began... -
![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... -
![The Lady and the Mountain Promise by Misty M. Beller]()
The Lady and the Mountain Promise by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLilly Arendale has fought the anger of prejudice all her life. Her Guatemalan mother and wealthy English father were very much in love and gave her the best of upbringings, but their family was never accepted in either country... -
![Across Time by Elizabeth O'Roark]()
Across Time by Elizabeth O'Roark
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a dangerous time before her own...a dangerous attraction.Amelie Besson is on the cusp of attaining the life she’s dreamed of—until she finds herself stuck in pre-war France, fifty years before her time. The country is about to be under German rule, but her most immediate problem is Henri Durand, the arrogant and infuriatingly handsome vineyard owner upon whom her survival depends...Categorized as:
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![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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![The Lady and the Mountain Doctor by Misty M. Beller]()
The Lady and the Mountain Doctor by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMiriam Bryant has always dreamed of leaving the never-ending work of her family's remote mountain ranch to travel abroad as a genteel lady. She's thrilled when the opportunity finally arises, until a gruesome hunting accident forces her to stay for weeks in the local mining town... -
![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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![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... -
![Years by LaVyrle Spencer]()
Years by LaVyrle Spencer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLINNEAEager to begin her first teaching position, lovely Linnea Brandonberg stepped off the train looking as grown up as her eighteen years would allow. The golden fields and fragrant wheat of Alamo, North Dakota, were as new and different as the Westgaard family with whom she would live... -
![The Duke's Refuge by Lorri Dudley]()
The Duke's Refuge by Lorri Dudley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen love comes in a tempest, who knew it would wear pink? Georgia Lennox has traded in her boyish ways for pink gowns and a coy smile to capture the eye of the Earl of Claremont. However, on the day she's convinced the earl will propose, Georgia is shipped off to the Leeward Islands to care for her ailing father...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Tin Can Serenade: A Short Story by Amanda Dykes]()
Tin Can Serenade: A Short Story by Amanda Dykes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo homes in the mountains Snowed in for winter’s keep; A river in between them, A rope tight o’er the deep. A mother and her daughter, A father and his son, A cottage and a cabin, A story yet unspun But time did freeze a tin can Dangling from that rope A messenger from days gone by, Echoing long lost hope...Categorized as:
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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... -
![From the Fields of Porthlenn by Deborah M. Hathaway]()
From the Fields of Porthlenn by Deborah M. Hathaway
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Regency Romance—Cornwall, 1818Poppy Honeysett wants to be seen as the woman she is—not as the naive young lady she was. She will no longer race across beaches or collect seashells like a child. And she will not, under any circumstances, pine after the lieutenant who broke his promise—and her heart—two years before...Categorized as:
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![The Song of Sourwood Mountain: by Ann H. Gabhart]()
The Song of Sourwood Mountain: by Ann H. Gabhart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhile the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises...Categorized as:
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![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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![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... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![By The Currawong's Call by Welton B. Marsland]()
By The Currawong's Call by Welton B. Marsland
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA small town, a new arrival, and a love that is as undeniable as it is unlawful... Victoria, Australia, 1891 Anglican priest Matthew Ottenshaw receives his first posting in tiny Dinbratten, two days’ ride from his Melbourne home... -
![Thunder On The Moor by Andrea Matthews]()
Thunder On The Moor by Andrea Matthews
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaggie Armstrong grew up enchanted by her father’s tales of blood feuds and border raids. In fact, she could have easily fallen for the man portrayed in one particular image in his portrait collection... -
![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... -
![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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![A Lady of True Distinction by Grace Burrowes]()
A Lady of True Distinction by Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHawthorne Dorning either finds a way to turn his family’s vast botanical resources into a successful commercial venture, or the estate the Dornings have called home for centuries could be broken up. He loves the land and he’s never shied away from hard work, but he knows nothing about creating perfumes or fragrances... -
![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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![Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth]()
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp... -
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![Sourdough Creek by Caroline Fyffe]()
Sourdough Creek by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCassie Angel is used to taking care of herself. With a spirit of adventure, and a need to stay safe, she departs a dying Nevada town for the golden opportunities that await in California--along with a new life. When charming Sam Ridgeway shows up, claiming to know her uncle, and offers her protection in her travels, she has no idea there is an ulterior motive involved... -
![Murmuration by T.J. Klune]()
Murmuration by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the small mountain town of Amorea, it’s stretching toward autumn of 1954. The memories of a world at war are fading in the face of a prosperous future. Doors are left unlocked at night, and neighbors are always there to give each other a helping hand. The people here know certain things as fact: Amorea is the best little town there is. The only good Commie is a dead Commie... -
![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... -
![Snowfall and the Duke: A Regency Historical Romance by Meara Platt]()
Snowfall and the Duke: A Regency Historical Romance by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCan ten kisses heal a wounded heart? Jonas Langford, Duke of Ramsdale, knows he is a beast and no one can possibly love him. He was the ton’s most eligible and desired bachelor before the Napoleonic War left him horribly scarred and had him retreating to Langford Hall in the quiet Yorkshire village of Broadmoor to live out his life in solitude... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![Claw Marks & Card Games by Maz Maddox]()
Claw Marks & Card Games by Maz Maddox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCooper Woodlock is a man who can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Between his gambling debt and being a widowed father, he can never seem to get Lady Luck back on his side. Desperate for a winning hand, Cooper starts hitting saloons and tempting fate in order to keep the bloodthirsty Spades at bay...
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