Short Westerns

"Con Men and Carved Birds! Lawmen and artists! Aebelskivers and cabbage. Spur-Award winner Richard Prosch has roped together an exciting new collection of stories with themes as vast as the wide open frontier and as close as the human heart. Waking Face - A sleepless man is tortured by the lost face of his wife's killer-a visage he can't remember, but at the same time, will never forget. Hard Times for the Vanilla Cream Kid - a would-be bank robber invents the perfect heist, but does he have the stomach for it? The Magic of Summerland - Nine year-old enemies of a long gone war forge a ...

She’s a women’s suffrage advocate with her own substantial wealth, he’s a livery worker seeking a mail-order bride. What happens when she comes tumbling into his life? Elizabeth Holt has her own inheritance that she wants to be in charge of, but her aunt and brother think her incapable of running her own life. When she makes one mistake in Boston, her aunt sends her to stay with her brother in Westwind. When she arrives, she is less than happy about the situation, and she doesn’t want to be stuck in the remote town filled with strangers. George Caldwell left his home in Rockwood ...

He's gruff. He's guarded. He says I don't belong here. And the craziest part? I think I might want to stay... Cade Hawkins is a brooding mountain man. Okay, fine. He's a hot, brooding mountain man. Still. He's only known me since he rescued me from a blizzard. And now he's telling me I need to leave as soon as the storm clears. Like I said. Brooding. But there's something else about him too. Something wounded in the way he keeps his distance. And when he sees me struggling to adapt to this harsh wilderness, He doesn't even hesitate. He just starts teaching me how to survive, saying "You ...

Journey to Coral Canyon, Wyoming, and meet all four Whittaker brothers in one boxed set! Experience family saga fiction, strong brotherly ties, Christmas traditions, and the swoon-worthy cowboy billionaire romance. You'll get four full-length novels, each featuring a Whittaker brother, feel-good sweet romance, and Christmas stories full of heart in this Christmas in Coral Canyon boxed set.

Meet three Southern men who work hard, but play harder. Living on a ranch isn’t easy, but neither is falling in love.

Forbidden to marry Heath, the one man she truly loves, Lydia Catherine Hayden, an American heiress from Boston, boards a train and heads west to become a mail-order bride when matchmaker, Milly Crenshaw, introduces her to Wyatt from Iowa. Five years have gone by, and she isn’t interested in any of the society gentlemen of whom her father would approve. Her love for Heath has turned to a mild hate since hearing he married someone else. When the Wild Whitman Gang involved in an Iowa train robbery use orphans traveling west as human shields to make their escape, they converge on Lydia’s ...

My name is Ellie, but in my Amish community a lot of grown men call me Madame Eleanor or The Amish Temptress. In private, of course. You see, I was nineteen when I first snuck out to meet a guy, and realized how much fun it is to fulfill a repressed man’s desires. Ever since then, I've been taking care of the men’s needs in my community. Giving them the space to satisfy their unmentionable cravings is what I enjoy doing most. It certainly makes my life more interesting around here. When I meet up with Jeb for a second time, I assume it’ll be similar to the first time we got together. ...

Clean and Wholesome American Mail Order Bride Historical Tales short story romance. Best Selling Author Katie Wyatt Summer 1872 Chicago Clara is getting ready to meet her future husband and she’s not sure what to expect – will he be handsome and young, or a man old enough to be her father? As soon as she sets her eyes on Jesse Mayfield, she feels as if she’s met her match. Working alongside Aaron Montgomery in a new business, Jesse is in charge of the bookkeeping and unbeknownst to him, Clara has the talent and smarts to calculate numbers in a matter of minutes – which could prove ...

In the shared setting of fictional Balford, Wyoming, the characters in Darin Cozzens's short stories demonstrate both the follies and the virtues of rural Mormons in the late twentieth century. Hewell Penroy is a forty-two-year-old bachelor who, unbeknownst to his mother, falls in love with Benita, the meter reader he has never met. Flynn Darlington plays matchmaker with the youngest of his four unmarried daughters and an itinerant roofer. For all their married life, Rowe Sloan has struggled to supply his wife Vida with enough water for her household, but his crowning effort ends in tragedy...

This collection introduces you to the small island town of Four Points, where the men are big and strong and come in groups of four! Includes Four Play, Four Kicks, Four Real, and Four Keeps.

The weird, wild west - an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time travelers, and steampunk! Twenty-three of science fiction and fantasy's hottest and most popular authors create all-new tales, written exclusively for this anthology. Aliens and monsters, magic and science are introduced to the old west, with explosive results.

Birch River Brides: Books 1-5 is a charming collection of stories guaranteed to capture your heart and leave you wanting more! Will the men and women in these stories find a way to make it to the altar? Or will the challenges that lay in their path prove too much for them to overcome?

When her two dreams collide, she must decide which is more important. When he can’t let go of his expectations, he risks everything. Penelope Haven loves working with her family at their restaurant in Pinewood, Colorado. One day, she hopes to take over ownership and pass it along to her own children. That is, if she can find a husband who will support her dream and not strip it from her. With the law stating a married woman’s possessions belong to her husband, Penelope thinks she must decide between her dream of having a family and her desire to own the restaurant. Owen Kasper’s loved...

Kentucky Derby Series special 2-in-1 EDITION - 2 books for the price of 1! Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. Book 1 Deborah's Discovery Deborah Price is an artist. She loves the way light plays in the world and is always sketching and drawing. However, when she finds herself in Texas, engaged to Jeffrey Anderson who breeds horses, her life takes a drastic turn. Suddenly she is thrust into a world where being good with horses is a must and she can’t ride. book 2 Ruby's Race Come and meet Charles, Ruby, and Luke. Meet the mercurial ...

Available as part of a super value boxed set AMZN.COM/B084JRTQW6 (copy and paste the link into your browser) Meet Claudine, she was the product of an unfortunate sexual assault incident and because of that, her family has shunned her as an outcast. She fell from a horse when she was younger onto a jaded rock because her mother didn’t keep a good eye on her which created a long scar on her pretty face. Struggling to find love and acceptance, she puts her faith in God and heads clear across the country to meet a young, handsome and wealthy man in the Wild West. On the first class train ride...

Moussane: The River’s Daughter (A prequel to Blood for Pearls and Beyond—The Door of No Return) Before the transatlantic slave trade changed the course of history, a woman in West Africa saw it coming. Senegal, 1500. In a peaceful pre-colonial village along the Gambia River, Moussane lives in harmony with the land, the spirits, and her family. A mother, healer, and spiritual seer, she carries new life within her—but also carries a heavy burden: visions of a distant island drenched in blood and sorrow. Its name is Gorée. As her ten-year-old son plays among the millet fields, Moussane ...

She’s making a run toward hope, love, and family and she’s not letting go. Orphaned as a young girl, Ella longs for a life she’s only read about in books. To escape a desperate situation, she heads west as a mail-order bride, narrowing her choice of spouse to three brothers, a millwright, a businessman, and a horse trainer, all searching for a marriage of convenience which will provide the inheritance that will finance the family’s business venture in Oklahoma. Newspapers claim the unchartered territory is a land where streams flow with milk and the heavens rain down a supply of ...

Jonathan Asher hides in a hollowed log with his sister while his family’s cabin on the River of the Cherokee burns. There is complete darkness. Outside, a boy’s voice promises, “I’ll come back for you.” This early memory haunts Jonathan Asher as he comes of age in the epic decade leading into the American Revolution. Raised at the Asher Trading Post, his world changes with a blood payment for his life to the Seneca. He takes to the road, first as an itinerant preacher, too young to be not led into temptation, Then as a peddler and vagabond traveling through a country increasingly ...

“The west is too wild for an unwed woman. If you want to ride on my wagon train and make it to Oregon, you’ll need to find yourself a husband.” THE RELUCTANT WAGON TRAIN BRIDE ~ Twenty brides find themselves in a compromising situation – they have to get married in order to travel to Oregon on their wagon train. Each story in the series is a clean, standalone romance. Will the bride end up falling in love with their reluctant husband? Or will they get an annulment when they reach Oregon? Each bride has a different story ~ Read each one and don’t miss out! A JOURNEY FOR DOROTHY A ...

A bounty hunter who thinks he knows everything about the chase until love comes chasing after him—sent by his grandmother. Rugged bounty hunter Cody Dalton lives for adventure on the run until his Nana decides to rein him in. But taming this restless cowboy proves tough, even for quick-witted banker’s daughter Eva Lovelace, whose eyewitness duty thrusts her on a manhunt filled with robbery, revenge, and undeniable romantic chemistry. Outlaw action and opposite attraction collide as Grandma’s matchmaking scheme holds fateful surprises for two unlikely partners learning to trust in each...