Short Westerns

Enjoy two classic Lone Star romances from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer!

Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. Meet four amazing women and their journey to motherhood, their men and the challenges of the Wild West in one boxed set! Book 1 Hope in love Mary Jackson wants a family more than anything. Her sister Kathleen's daughter is the apple of her eye, but Mary despairs of ever having a baby girl of her own. That is until she applies to marry a man she has never met on the other side of the country. Book 2 Love Never Fails Julia Milligan lost her one true love, Robert, in the war. She knows she will never love ...

This third volume of Louis L'Amour's collected stories is a thrilling tribute to the unique spirit of our frontier heritage and proves again the enduring popularity of America's favorite storyteller.

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a wish-granting spirit rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a Victorian orphan navigates an occult situationship, and a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away. With both iconic fan-favorite stories and entirely original pieces, Januaries features modified fairy tales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry, and at least one set of actual wedding vows. Escape the slow trudge of mortality by diving into these enchanting new worlds with a master of imagination.

Readers, please note that this is PART TWO of a THREE PART sweet and clean mail order bride series. Emma has started a new life as a married woman after becoming a mail order bride and moving to Nebraska. Unfortunately, her new husband is not the man he seemed to be at first. Emma tries her best to make the marriage work, even though her husband does not show any love toward her. When he falls ill, the town doctor is there to help.

He began his life as a slave. During the Civil War he escaped and lived among the Indians in the Oklahoma Territories. He learned to ride, shoot and track prey from his adopted people. When the war ended, he was recruited as one of the first black marshals in the history of the west.

Heart-pounding Fear. Chilling Anguish. Heartbreak. Priceless Love. The Ultimate Sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes precious moments is all there is. Between one heartbeat and the next, Susa is plunged into a devastating nightmare, wounded and broken, yet desperate hope filled her heart and soul. Nothing in her life had ever prepared her for this. Adam Manning arrives at a crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems. Unknown to the town’s small police force, neither is he. If you enjoy clean mystery romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with ...

U.S. Marshal Lucas Graham had been assigned to look into the deaths of several gold miners in Havilah, California. Though the job is routine, delivering the news to the murder victim’s proxy bride that her husband is dead is not. Neither is the growing attraction he feels for her as he tries to find out the truth of what happened to her husband. Sadie Steele is running from the law straight into the arms of her childhood best friend, Sam Clayton. The only problem, when she arrives to start her new life with him, a Marshal informs her that he’s been murdered. With nothing to return to, ...

Jack Carlson spied for the union army for four, long years and what did he get for his trouble? Blindness. Battered by the war and lost without his sight, he seeks refuge in Cutter’s Creek, Montana. There he hopes to heal his bitter heart. But he’s going to need a lot more help than what he can come up with. His cousin, the local preacher, thinks so too and sends off for a mail-order bride for him, praying a wife will do the trick. Willow Bennett has been in love with the same man all her life. As a young girl she followed Jack Carlson and his friends until they managed to out run her. ...

This Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly to Castle Rock—by stagecoach. December 1876 – Felix Spencer has inherited his family’s mercantile, but everyone knows he’s never really had much business sense. His sister is getting married and moving away but worries her brother won’t be able to run the store on his own, so she tells him that he should look for a new accountant and put an ad out. As a joke, his best friend contacts an agency for a mail order bride/accountant to come. Felix is expecting a man, but a woman shows up instead— Bethany Thomas. Bethany loves numbers and ...

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B07D4LYDBP (copy and paste the link into your browser) Alice has the chance to be married sooner than she had expected she leaps at the opportunity of marrying Mr. Jacob Riley, a struggling goldminer hoping to strike it rich. How will Alice settle into life in tent city? Is Jacob Riley the honest and trustworthy man that Alice believes him to be? What big secret is Jacob hiding from his new wife and when will he tell her? Join practical Alice on her adventures as she agrees to marry a man who promises her a future that he may not be able to deliver...

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 ...

A Mail-order Bride meets a US Marshal who just stepped out of a dime store novel... Gerald Tucker leaves the ranch in Blanco County, Texas, to find himself after losing the only woman he'd ever thought he'd loved. Uncertain of his future, he finds an advertisement for a U.S. Marshals training camp in Silverwood, California. There he finds that he must take on a bride before he can assume his new post in Jasper Junction. But she might be everything he needs to survive what lies ahead. Constance Brown is an orphan living as a nanny to her young cousins, but when they both begin to go to ...

A Spicy BWWM Interracial Romance Jazmine: Of all the things I thought I would be doing at twenty-four, hiring a male escort was not one of them, but it was the only thing I could think of to help me prepare for my big date and little did I know, how life-changing it would be. Daniel: I tried to tell myself that she was just a client but she wasn't. The moment I saw Jazmine, I knew what I was feeling was different. I didn't want to be her practice, I wanted her to be mine. A Spicy & Sweet Interracial Love Story Love Practice is a steamy interracial instalove romance that will make the ...

After looking for a quiet town where he can finally hang up his gun belt, a weary gunslinger has to face one final enemy before he can retire in peace. "Tumbleweeds" is part of the Tumbleweeds & Terror™ series of standalone tales of the weird west.

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.

Dreams of love presents two captivating stories of mail-order brides, each encountering unexpected turns and twists in their lives. In “Rosabella’s Dream,” a journey to Ellis Island leads to a heart-wrenching separation from her family, with danger lurking at every corner. Will Rosabella reunite with her loved ones and summon the courage to trust and love once more? "Ester’s Dream,” After mourning her husband's death, Ester is finally ready to embrace love again. Setting out on a journey as a mail-order bride, she wonders if she can open her heart to a new chance at happiness, or ...

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B085VHYTLJ (copy and paste the link into your browser) Clean and Wholesome American Mail Order Bride Historical Tales short story romance. Bernice Hall has not had an easy life. With both parents dead in a shipwreck, she and her brother Henry have been raised by their horrible uncle Albert. When he dies, they are free to leave and start their lives anew. With an invitation to come out West from Amos Chapman, the local blacksmith, things seem set to improve. However, things aren’t as idyllic as they seem. Who is the strange man in the woods who ...

He's an injured cowboy who learns he may never ride again. She's his physical therapist determined to get him back in the saddle. This short-read steamy romance can be read as "STAND ALONE" or in the Maverick Mountain Series

Deciding to give their spontaneous Vegas marriage a chance, Zoey moves from her big city life to a small-town Texas ranch. She has to figure out if the connection she shared with Riley Bishop is deeper than their one-night stand before announcing to her family she got hitched to a cowboy. One moment changes everything—for better or worse—and a secret could destroy them both.