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Mariposa by R.O. Lane
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNash Powell and Ewell Roberts take jobs Mariposa, Texas, to tame the town and bring law and order. It's a tough assignment, and both men escape with their lives repeatedly. Along the way, the men find love and romance. It's a story of two men who grow to respect one another because they always do their duty as their consciences dictate. Another exciting novel from the pen of R. O... -
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Wilbur by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWilbur dreams of being a U.S. Deputy Marshal, and when he's old enough, he's sworn in and has a taste of the life. He's shot, recovers and goes after the outlaws with an Osage tracker to help him. Eventually, he captures the head of the outlaw gang and transports him back to Fort Smith to face Judge Isaac C. Parker, the hanging judge... -
![Petrova imperatorica by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė]()
Petrova imperatorica by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPiše se leto 1727. Ura bije devet zvečer. V času, ko dvor spi, se najvplivnejša ženska Ruskega imperija v predsmrtni vročici prepušča spominom, precej drugačnim od zapisov v zgodovinskih učbenikih.Voltaire je njeno zgodbo imenoval »najbolj neverjeten vzpon 18. stoletja« in v njej prepoznal uresničenje Pepelkinih sanj... -
![The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane]()
The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Poker Chip is another classic western with a bit of romance. Vance Brennan falls in love with Lexie Moody, but she marries someone else, who turns out to be a scoundrel. Jeff Warren bets his wife, Lexie, on a game of poker. The winner insists that Warren pay up, and he devises a scheme to have his wife kidnapped and taken to Mexico to pay off his gambling debt... -
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![Retribution by C.J. Petit]()
Retribution by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoey couldn’t imagine a better thirteenth birthday. He’d been given his first pistol and now was going to join his six older brothers on tomorrow’s job. They were going to trust him with covering their escape after robbing the bank and he was determined to do it right. He was immensely proud to be a Hogan, and his tough brothers were his heroes... -
![Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane]()
Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young vaquero leaves a cattle drive to look for a woman stolen by Comanches. He spends months in Comanche country only the find that the Army will offer no help whatever. So he hires his own Lipan scout, and travels over much of Indian Territory and Texas to find the woman he loves... -
![War Adams by C J. Petit]()
War Adams by C J. Petit
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnited States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief... -
![Silva Rerum II by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė]()
Silva Rerum II by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRomāna darbība notiek no 1707. līdz 1710.gadam. Karš, mēris, bads, nesamērīga greznība un nāvīgs izsalkums, zviedru un krievu karavīri, jūdu ārsti, holandiešu kāršu spēlmaņi, turku konkubīnes, franču dāmas, spītīgi žemaiši un ironiski viļņieši, bezvārda mūks, kurš apglabājis vairāk nekā divdesmit tūkstošus mēra upuru, un, protams, vēl viena bajāru Norvaišu dzimtas paaudze... -
![Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit]()
Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsVirgil Scott and his best friend Roy Sheffield left their horse ranch and were making one of their routine runs to Denver to deliver thirty-two horses... -
![Y Julia retó a los dioses by Santiago Posteguillo]()
Y Julia retó a los dioses by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMantenerse en lo alto es mucho más difícil que llegar. Julia está en la cúspide de su poder, pero la traición y la división familiar amenazan con echarlo todo a perder. Para colmo de males, el médico Galeno diagnostica que la emperatriz padece lo que él, en griego, llama karkinos, y que los romanos, en latín, denominan cáncer... -
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Navarro by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNavarro is a bounty hunter who stumbles upon a woman who has been kidnapped in the wilds of Colorado in 1877. He rescues her and befriends her, but she has enemies, lots of enemies. She talks Navarro into being her bodyguard, and he takes off after her enemies and the result is another exciting novel from the pen of R. O. Lane... -
![Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane]()
Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTexas Ranger Jubal Coe returns to the Texas Rangers and tackles one assignment after another. He goes after three escapees from Huntsville Prison and kills all three after they riddle him with bullets. He's assigned to Eagle Pass to stop the cattle rustling and murders of gangs on both sides of the border... -
![Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense]()
Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdge of Eternity: by Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, Book 3) | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense This is a Summary & Analysis of Ken Follett’s novel, Edge of Eternity... -
![WolfeAx: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque]()
WolfeAx: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMagnus de Wolfe, who takes after his Viking forefathers, has his story told in a unique and powerful way. The story of a love nearly lost… but for an angel. Paternal grandson of England's greatest knight, son of the man known as Nighthawk, and grandson on his mother's side of a Norse king, Magnus de Wolfe has the blood of elite and royal warriors flowing through his veins... -
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![A Simple Wish: The upcoming heartwarming novel from Britain's best-loved saga author by Rosie Goodwin]()
A Simple Wish: The upcoming heartwarming novel from Britain's best-loved saga author by Rosie Goodwin
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Sam's County by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYavapai County in Arizona Territory was bigger than Pennsylvania, and Sheriff Sam Hicks and his three deputies were the only law that most of its residents knew. When China Joe's gang knocked off the huge cash shipment heading for Prescott, Sheriff Hicks left his office unsure if this would be his last job one way or the other... -
![Tate by C.J. Petit]()
Tate by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLaramie had just been hit by the Clayton gang, leaving Sheriff Joe Tate without any deputies to serve the entire county. But, as bad as the gunfight had been, the visitor to his office to file a complaint for something that wasn’t even a crime turned out to be much more significant and life-changing... -
![Sarah and Solomon: Only A Stone Should Be Alone by Roberta Kagan]()
Sarah and Solomon: Only A Stone Should Be Alone by Roberta Kagan
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“…Fathers and Give me your children!” – Chaim RumkowskiIt is September 1942, and the already battered occupants of the Lodz Ghetto have just been dealt another horrendous blow from Hitler’s iron fist. They must surrender their sick, elderly, and children for ‘deportation... -
![El buzón de las impuras by Francisca Solar]()
El buzón de las impuras by Francisca Solar
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEn 1863, en el momento más crítico de la Guerra Civil Norteamericana, los miembros de la misión diplomática que el presidente Lincoln envió a Santiago de Chile se transformaron en los inesperados héroes de una de las tragedias más sobrecogedoras de la historia mundial contemporánea: la muerte de más de dos mil mujeres atrapadas y calcinadas en el incendio de la Iglesia de La Compañía... -
![Forsaken by Rosie Goodwin]()
Forsaken by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBorn on a Friday, Sophie Winters has always been a loving and giving child, who'd do anything for her family. Yet her father, Bill, has always seemed to resent her. For her mother's sake, Sophie learns to live with Bill's animosity - until the night he drunkenly forces himself upon her.Left pregnant and ashamed at seventeen, Sophie doesn't know where to turn... -
![BattleWolfe: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque]()
BattleWolfe: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA super-star knight with a de Wolfe pedigree… and the Scottish rose who saves his life.In the turbulent lands of the English/Scottish border, their love wasn't meant to last.... but no one loves as strongly as a de Wolfe... -
![In the Shadow of the Angel: Three Critical Decades in Mexico's History by Kathryn S. Blair]()
In the Shadow of the Angel: Three Critical Decades in Mexico's History by Kathryn S. Blair
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the Shadow of the Angel," which has been called Mexico's "Gone with the Wind," takes place during three transformational decades in Mexican history: 1900-1931, as mirrored by the life of an extraordinary Mexican woman, Antonieta Rivas Mercado... -
![The Dark Conqueror by Kathryn Le Veque]()
The Dark Conqueror by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTitan Medieval Houses go head to head in this sweeping and poignant Medieval Romance!When the House of de Lohr (Rise of the Defender) and the House of de Velt (The Dark Lord) come together through their children, anything can happen—and anything does!Cassian de Velt came to foster with Christopher de Lohr at a young age... -
![Unwanted by C.J. Petit]()
Unwanted by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFifteen-year-old Joe Beck wasn’t listening as the minister eulogized his uncle but was already planning on what he would have to do as soon as they returned to the Quimby farm. He wasn’t welcome there even before his uncle had died and knew that his cousin John would soon order him to leave... -
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![يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم]()
يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsخلف الوادي انتشرت أشجار هرمة . إلا انها ظلت خضراء على طول عمرها الذي تجاوز مئات السنين . -
![Yo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo]()
Yo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratings192 d.C. Varios hombres luchan por un imperio, pero Julia, hija de reyes, madre de césares y esposa de emperador, piensa en algo más grande: una dinastía. Roma está bajo el control de Cómodo, un emperador loco. El Senado se conjura para terminar con el tirano y los gobernadores militares más poderosos podrían dar un golpe de Estado: Albino en Britania, Severo en el Danubio o Nigro en Siria... -
![باري by إبراهيم أحمد عيسى]()
باري by إبراهيم أحمد عيسى
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsعلى نصل السيف تنبت زهور رواها النضال؛ تقطفها فيما بعد أنامل الحب، تذبل الورود وتبقى أحاديثنا عن الحب والحرب، هذا الصراع الأزلي بين مفهومين لا يقبلان القسمة والتأويل، يتحرك بهما الساكن ويلغى بهما المستحيل، بل ويشتعل الكون من أجل أن ينتصر أحدهما !في تلك الحقبة البعيدة يصطدم عالمان مختلفان. -
![Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught | Summary & Study Guide by BookRags]()
Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught | Summary & Study Guide by BookRags
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion... -
![When Tomorrow Dawns by Lyn Andrews]()
When Tomorrow Dawns by Lyn Andrews
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1945. The people of Liverpool, after six years of terror and grief and getting by, are making the best of the hard-won peace, none more so than the ebullient O'Sheas. They welcome widowed Mary O'Malley from Dublin, her young son Kevin, and Breda, her bold strap of a sister, with open arms and hearts... -
![The Wolf At Large by Terry Cloutier]()
The Wolf At Large by Terry Cloutier
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“You have no idea what you are yet, Hadrack, but someday you will, and on that day the world itself will tremble.” - Einhard, Sword of the KingA year has passed since the Piths captured the Gander garrison at Gasterny. A year in which an unexpected and unwanted truce has been declared between the two nations... -
![Spindrift by Cindy Brandner]()
Spindrift by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpindrift usually refers to spray, particularly the spray blown from cresting waves during a gale. This spray, which "drifts" in the direction of the gale, is one of the characteristics of a wind speed of 8 Beaufort and higher at sea.Stories are like waves, slowly building and coming in toward the shore... -
![Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner]()
Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach of us carries within a map of memory. The map is worn at the folds--sometimes right through--and so place names are missing first letters or last or have a hole through the middle. We carry those maps with us always, and this map is mine--an island on the edge of the world and beyond it a place of dragons and sunken cities with bells that still ring a thousand years on.. -
![The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa by Julia Brannan]()
The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa by Julia Brannan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs well as telling the story of Caroline and Philippa, this book continues the tale of Harriet, which began in The Eccentric’s Tale.Now in her late forties, Harriet is so staggeringly rich and powerful that she fears no one. Along with her sister, she settles down to enjoy her freedom and to live the eccentric life she has always desired, estranged from her disapproving family... -
![Highlander's Destiny: A Scottish historical time travel romance by Mariah Stone]()
Highlander's Destiny: A Scottish historical time travel romance by Mariah Stone
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFiery passion. Fierce enemies. Forbidden attraction. A modern British spy and a medieval Highlander fight for a shared destiny of love and freedom.Scotland, 2022. Horses, tents, and handsome Highland warriors—preparations for the Battle of Bannockburn reenactment are in full swing when British intelligence agent Danielle Field visits Stirling Castle... -
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![Highlander The Cursed Lord by Donna Fletcher]()
Highlander The Cursed Lord by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe time has come for a curse that has plagued three clans for 20 years to meet its fate at the hands of three women who hold the key to its destruction... -
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![The Gift of Black Isle by Keira Montclair]()
The Gift of Black Isle by Keira Montclair
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTruth can be the most difficult gift to acceptRiley Cameron has watched her beloved cousins and finally her sister all find their Happily Ever Afters with the men of Clan Matheson. Now all the Matheson brothers are taken, and Riley stands alone. She's beginning to think she might never find someone to love... -
![The Christmas Kiss by Shanna Hatfield]()
The Christmas Kiss by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s a devoted single dad still grieving the loss of his wife.She’s an outrageously fun female with a temper that runs as hot as a teakettle.Will the two of them find a way to work together to give his son a Merry Christmas?When Gracy Randall returns to Hardman after almost six years away, she can’t wait to see the look of surprise on her parents’ faces... -
![Abducted Brides by Kathryn Le Veque]()
Abducted Brides by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a knight’s lady is taken, the beast in him comes alive. Welcome to the ABDUCTED BRIDES collection, FIVE FULL-LENGTH Medieval Romance novels with over a thousand pages of Medieval greatness, all by USA Today Bestselling author Kathryn Le Veque. In days of old, men were ruthless and women were fiery... -
![The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet by Julia Brannan]()
The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet by Julia Brannan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarriet Ashleigh, much-loved eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Darlington knows exactly what she wants from life. Just one simple thing; the freedom to be herself. But for a young woman living in the seventeenth century, freedom is not such an easy thing to achieve... -
![Silva Rerum III by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė]()
Silva Rerum III by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsŻywot człowieka majętnego. Rokokowa odsłona bestsellerowej sagi o dziejach szlacheckiego rodu z Litwy i historii, która stała się kamieniem węgielnym naszej współczesności. Wilno, Anno Domini 1748. Trzydziestosiedmioletni Piotr Antoni z Milkont Narwojsz, najstarszy syn Anny Katarzyny i Jana Izydora, wraz z żoną i trójką dzieci mieszka w okazałym dworku w mieście... -
![Yesterday's Woes by Jane O'Brien]()
Yesterday's Woes by Jane O'Brien
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTraveling through time and life has never been easy for the Clark sisters, but in this fourth book of the ‘A Slip in Time’ series, life is more problematic than ever. Every character we have grown to know and love has a trouble or ‘woe’ of their own. Every thought or idea of the way we expected life to turn out for them is turned upside down... -
![Dream Sellers by Ruth Hamilton]()
Dream Sellers by Ruth Hamilton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Shawcross family was a strange and unhappy one. Edward Shawcross absented himself as much as possible and kept a red-haired mistress in Tintern Avenue. Alice, his wife, sought solace in chocolate and continually carped at Connie, her beautiful daughter. And Connie and Gilbert, their children, formed an uneasy alliance in the face of their parents' antipathy... -
![Erin's Child by Sheelagh Kelly]()
Erin's Child by Sheelagh Kelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFamily ties have united the Feeneys through famine and poverty, but can they withstand success? It is 1875 and the Feeneys have left the squalor of York’s slums behind them. Yet all is not well. Patrick remains a man of simple tastes, increasingly out of touch with Thomasin’s ambition to expand her business empire still further across Yorkshire... -
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![Jessie by Anna Jacobs]()
Jessie by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJessie Burton is lively and intelligent - she wants more than the respectable life in service her mother has planned for her. Times are changing, railways are being built across the land bringing new freedom and possibilities. Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets an ambitious young navvy, newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming... -
![Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop by Michael Kroft]()
Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop by Michael Kroft
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTO BE RELEASED VALENTINE'S DAY, 2017 The Amusing and Heartwarming Prequel to the Family Saga Series, Herring Cove Road With her mother's death two years before, her father's recent marriage to a woman she doesn't get along with, and then finding herself engaged to a man she isn't even sure she loves, Ruth Goldman has decided to take a year off to discover what she wants in life... -
![Last Breath by Duane Boehm]()
Last Breath by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Breath is the highly anticipated fifth book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand, Last Chance, Last Hope, & Last Ride. Cattle are being rustled from ranches around Last Stand and seem to vanish into the night by the time they are discovered missing... -
![First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane]()
First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGus craves adventure… A real-life challenge… Not a made-up obstacle course of ropes and tin cans. Bred and trained to be a warrior–up to now–boredom and hard work have been his fiercest enemies. The winter’s hay safely in the barn, he finally gets a few days of leisure with his best friends. They discover one of his father’s cows butchered and only the best cuts taken... -
![The Long Way Home by Sam Scott]()
The Long Way Home by Sam Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the arid lands of Arizona, a guilt-ridden rancher protects a vulnerable young woman from a vicious outlaw. A year after burying the last of his family, Texan rancher, Newton Tanner, sets out for Arizona to buy horses from the legendary horseman, Joey Thunder. The trip offers Newt a respite, both from the past and from the lonesomeness of the Tanner homestead... -
![The Far Horizon by Gretta Curran Browne]()
The Far Horizon by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Complete stand-alone Novel and the second novel in The Macquarie Series As a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing...
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