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Aggie has shot the deputy but not fatally and he threatens to come back with the sheriff. With the help of a friend, Rose and Aggie get Billy out of his hiding place in the cellar. The fresh horse he needed is waiting in the barn ready for Billy's escape. Aggie shares words of wisdom before Billy leaves and Rose and Billy share their parting of "sweet sorrow" before Billy rides out of town. With no further word from her cowboy Rose sinks into despair. Sam and Rose spend time with each other in Billy's absence. Events escalate in a frightening direction causing Rose to come to depend upon ...

In the depths of the magnificent Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, a secret resides, shrouded in mystery and concealed from the world's prying eyes. Who is this enigmatic figure known as the MYSTERY Healer? And why does he diligently safeguard his true identity? Meet Marni Granger, a resilient young woman residing at the base of the mountains. In her early years, tragedy struck when she accidentally fell against a scalding cooking pot, leaving a burn etched on her face. The resulting disfigurement inflicted emotional wounds that haunted her throughout her childhood and adulthood. One...

In 1902, an exhausted Mariah Kingsford flees her life as an opera star in New Orleans to escape a dangerous pursuer. But as she returns to her family plantation in North Carolina, she wonders if life will improve or worsen. Upon arriving at her once-beautiful plantation home, its disrepair and disturbing secrets shock Mariah. Mysterious and terrifying occurrences with ghostly horse riders plague and baffle her. With the help of newfound friends, Colonel Jeb Craven, the town judge, and his lawyer son Hart, they unravel the tangled web of deception built by Mariah's crooked and evil ...

As Christmas day approaches, faith and family take center stage in Jake and Janet’s life. Will Jake ever forgive Janet? Will she ever forgive him? Will they find a way to save their family home and business? Most importantly, will Mary be okay? Meet Jake McDonald, a businessman at McDonald Ranch who’s on the brink of giving up. It’s not enough that his family business is so deep in the hole that Jake is afraid he’ll never dig out—his wife Janet, the love of his life and mother to Jake’s infant daughter, has also asked for a trial separation. Feeling like he’s losing ...

A scarred woman. A drunken wastrel. A love that changes everything. Mary-Anne Harper is hideously scarred from a dreadful fire. Desperate to relieve her ailing parents from the burden that she believes she is she responds to an advertisement for a mail order bride. An advertisement that makes no mention of physical attributes. Clarence Richards, is a wastrel, running the family ranch into the ground. Knowing he should do better, in a drunken moment he pens an advertisement for a mail order bride. He never expected he would fall in love with the woman he knows only through letters. But his ...

After the death of Isabelle's father, the last few years have been difficult for Izzy and her family. Employment for women in the late nineteenth century is limited, so her job as a waitress is a godsend. Isabelle's mother encourages Izzy to let go of the worries of the past and move forward. Why not consider the offer of courtship from one of her many admirers? The problem is—the so-called admirers at the diner are insincere flirts. Bart Ogletree, a successful businessman new to Carrie Town, Texas, is intrigued by the lovely waitress at the local diner. Isabelle Miller is hard-working, ...

Available as a value box set (Pioneer Wilderness Romance Complete Series) amazon.com/dp/B0743DNQTG (copy and paste the link into your browser) Meet Sarah Wainwright, she lost her husband, just a week shy of their first anniversary in an accident at the glass factory in downtown Pittsburgh. She was once a happy and contented wife, but now here she is. A twenty-year-old widow, a baby on the way, with no prospects and no income. She felt shattered and broken beyond repair. Far from home with no way to support herself, no relatives to ask for help. She felt hopeless until she saw an ad for mail...

"Ordering a wife through the mail is unnatural. Having your mother order one on your behalf is infuriating.” Asa Bailey grew up hard, on a daily diet of driving cattle, drinking coffee, and eating dust. Since his father’s premature death, the weight of the responsibility for the success of the ranch and the added pressure of his mother’s contrary and snobbish nature weighs like a millstone strapped to his neck. Disappointment from the betrayal of his childhood sweetheart has left him skittish about matters of the heart. The last thing he wants is a wife. Unfortunately, his mother ...

1889, out west in Colorado When Sheriff Veronica “Ronnie” Stinson shocks Trent by responding to his request, Trent is initially taken aback by the female law enforcement officer. Though he and Veronica start off on the wrong foot, it doesn’t take Trent wrong to realize the error of his ways. Sparks quickly fly between the pair. Then it’s only a matter of convincing Veronica that sharing a life with Trent won’t require her to give up the career she loves. Persuading her is difficult…but no more so than fighting for their lives when the bandits finally descend Cripple Creek ...

Some treasures can't be measured in silver. In 1880s Idaho Territory, Boston-trained assayer Katherine Lobmeyer is determined to prove her worth in her ailing father's Silver City office, even if it means challenging every convention about a woman's proper place. Matthew Sterling, owner of the richest silver mine in the Owyhees, doesn't believe a woman belongs in the scientific world of mineral testing—until Katherine's brilliant mind and fierce dedication force him to question everything he thought he knew about a lady's capabilities. When theft and sabotage threaten the mining community...

She won't be forced into an arranged marriage... But no matter where she goes, he'll use any means to find her... When Julia Ellis overhears her intended's sinister intentions, she decides to do the only thing she can think of to escape and ventures forward to become a mail-order bride in America. Forever impulsive, she sneaks onto the ship of her longtime friend, Philip Reinholt, and disguises herself as a cabin boy. But Philip isn't fooled. When he learns of her plans to become a mail-order bride and that his ship is her secret passage to reach her destination, he's beyond upset with her ...

The secret Georgia is hiding. When it’s laid bare and her life is on the line, will Tim prove to Georgia what real love looks? Georgia Petrillo becomes a mail-order bride and runs away from her abusive fiancé and greedy parents. She arrives in the sleepy town of Copper Trail to meet her fiancé Tim Clark, who isn’t expecting her but marries her almost instantly at her demand. However, Tim soon finds out that the woman he wrote to is very different in real life, and all kinds of troubles arise. Read all the books in Love Me Love My Dog Western Romance Series bestselling author, Katie ...

A Motherless Child. A Hostile Man. A woman in Fear. Is the devil she knows safer than the one that she married? ***FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED*** Once a well to do married woman, Caroline Wright’s life is ruined after the death of her husband. As money dwindles away and friends desert her, Caroline moves to a dingy part of town, but when the salacious Landlord Mr Cooperson takes a shine to Caroline, her situation becomes dire. Fearing for her safety, she must find a way out of her current life. Allan Bell has been grieving the loss of his wife for five years. But his daughter Elsie is ...

“No Ordinary Wildflower” is book two in the Unexpected Love series. Prince Everett and Princess Abigail have enjoyed over twenty years of marital bliss. After receiving tragic news from the palace, their lives will be changed forever. While their marriage is in distress, another problem arises. Prince Adrien, heir to the throne, has made a decision that could impact both the future of his family as well as the kingdom. With the help of old friends, Abigail attempts to secure the future of both her son and kingdom. As the plan is set in motion it quickly begins to unravel. Torn between ...

Rachel Stanhope tries to see the good in everyone. But even her good graces are challenged when she meets cocky reporter Josh Reegan outside her Arlington, Virginia dance studio on a brisk fall morning in 1951. Their paths cross, between Arlington and New York, between the melodrama of ballroom antics and the real drama of political corruption, between family involvement and romantic entanglement. The last thing either of them expects is mutual need and support. But once they stop dancing around the truth, the results are unforgettable.

In Then Came Love, Louise M. Gouge has masterfully woven unforgettable characters into a tale of forgiveness and grace that will touch your heart and keep you thinking long after you have turned the final page. Set during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, the message of this story remains significant today. Judith Miller, best-selling author of the Home to Amana series and The Brickmaker’s Bride. Louise M. Gouge made me care deeply about all her characters from the first page. I began reading Then Came Love and was pulled in and couldn’t look away as the story unfolded ...

India Hartley, a famous and beautiful actress, is now alone after her father's death and embarks upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah's Southern Palace. On the eve of the second night's performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is shot dead on stage in front of a packed house, and India is arrested and accused of the crime. A benefactor hires Philip Sinclair, the best - and handsomest - lawyer in Savannah to defend India.

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B084QHK8Z9 (copy and paste the link into your browser) Come out East and settle in with Jaqueline, an only child of two loving and well off parents in Manhattan, New York. She is having the roughest time looking for someone to start a life with and disaster after disaster of meeting guys with her rowdy friend, Gretchen; she decides to head out West after she finds an ad in the paper for what appears to be the man she has been waiting for. Even though her father is sick, he is passing it off as nothing serious so that she won’t miss out on the ...

The story unfolds in The New Mexico Territory, in 1878. Throughout her many years living in Lincoln, New Mexico, Agatha Price has had a mission. Several children have come into her life who have lost their parents and Aggie has taken them in as her own. She raises them up in faith and teaches them the word of God. Although she follows her “mother’s” teachings, the oldest child, the beautiful Rose, wants adventure in her life. One night at the town dance, Rose meets a mysterious cowboy named Billy. The young man sweeps her completely off her feet, both on the dance floor and in this ...

Bryn Farrell, the youngest sister of Darcy in Bandit Bride, grew up in Dodge City’s heyday as a cattle town. Rudderless since her fiancée’s death, she crashes into Ty Shelton, an old nemesis from school, as he is racing to the last of the big fires of 1885 with a bucket of water. She is drenched with freezing water, but her spirit is not quenched, and she returns to help fight the fire. Practical and reserved, Ty is a wheat farmer who takes care of his widowed mother and younger brother. When he rescues Bryn from the first blizzard of the big “die-up” of 1886 and must take her home...