Short Westerns

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 ...

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

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 ...

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They were the perfect family…until the summer that changed everything. Lauren Moorfield has everything - a wonderful husband, two adorable kids, a dazzling career, and a dream house to die for. Then one day, 20 year old Isabella shows up at the family home, claiming Lauren’s husband Jeff is the father she never knew - the father who left her mother before she was born. As Jeff and Lauren attempt to make sense of the situation, they welcome her into the family. Jeff assures Lauren that he has no idea about Isabella’s existence, but as time goes by, and despite her best efforts to make ...

Who knew being a good Samaritan would change the course of his life? Jude Harden answers the call from his cousin to assist him in adding on to the boarding house in the struggling town of Last Chance, Nebraska. Growing up the son of a woodworker, Jude finds helping others satisfying. He packs up his belongings and leaves Silver Springs for the foreseeable future. With only a few miles left until he reaches town, one of Jude’s horses needs tending. He discovers a farm and comes to the aid of a woman in trouble. When her father dies without warning, Martha Gossman discovers herself alone ...

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...

Inside these pages dwell denizens of the mythic Old West; ranchers and rustlers, wranglers and robbers, and Pony Express riders who spirits still inhabit dusty trails. Meet the men and women fiercely protective of their land and kin. Discover their loyalty. Marvel at their sacrifices. Learn about their deep passion for the animals that convey them; their magnificent horses. Sheehan's ode to Americana is on full display here.Tom Sheehan is also the author of these fine western books: The Nations, Where Skies Grow Wide, and Cross Trails.

THE MARSHAL’S MAIL ORDER BRIDE ~ Eight brides each find themselves in a compromising situation – and the only way out is to escape west and become a mail-order bride. But will trouble follow them? Good thing they are heading into the arms of a law man. All the brides have a different, stand alone story ~ Read each one and don’t miss out! With danger and redemption swirling around them, can a Christmas miracle be found in Virginia City? Schoolteacher Joy Stewart has never been lucky. Her father died before she was born. Her mother left her in the care of her grandmother so that she ...

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 ...

When the woman coming to be Josiah’s new bride and mother to his niece uses him to marry someone else, he’s not only devastated by the rejection, but worried. His niece is in desperate need of a mother’s love, and that’s his main focus. Especially as now, he’s worried no woman will want him for who he is. After losing her parents on the Oregon Trail, Joanne is in dire straits. As a young woman alone, she doesn’t have the means to fend off the men interested in her—in particular a miner who hasn’t seen a bar of soap since the day he was born and is convinced she belongs to ...

Ethan's got a cushy job and an empty apartment to prove he's mastered monotony. But a mysterious talisman sends him tumbling into a whole new world—quite literally. He says goodbye to spreadsheets and hello to becoming the first-ever human Goblin King. Rivals? The ex-King’s ticked-off offspring are itching to overthrow him. Duels? They’re on his calendar next to ‘avoid rebellion.’ Wives? He’s required to have at least two.

Can an invisible man find the love and acceptance that he's never had? As a halfbreed, Angus Macawi has never been accepted by his native tribe, or the townsfolk of Fort Pierre. He's lived on the outskirts both literally and figuratively. No one wants anything to do with him--he's invisible to everyone--until he meets Amelia Fletcher. This irksome female refuses to leave him alone, even though he does everything he can to stop her from visiting him, he can't help the feelings she's stirring within him. Would it be okay for him to feel hope for the first time?

3 Books Complete Series in one boxed set! Clean and Wholesome American Mail Order Bride Historical Tales short story romance. Sister Mary in New York City and her hands full providing guidance and compassion to the orphan children entering the convent where she herself came after the death of her mother. Ready to dedicate her life to God, she entered the sisterhood and finally found a life with peace. Follow Sister Mary from her place in the convent to her next destination – wherever that may lead! by bestselling author Katie Wyatt! Nuns and Cowboys Series Sister Mary Part 1 Sister Mary ...

What’s Cooking? It Must Be Romance. Three romances. One common ingredient: baking from the heart. The Heaven-Inspired Romance Bridal Collection—Bakers Edition features three spirited heroines who blend faith, baking, and a touch of matchmaking to discover the sweet taste of love. A Baker for Bear: A shy debutante with a passion for pastries and a widowed blacksmith with two daughters must learn to rise above their differences. Shoo-fly Pie by Selah: A mail-order bride faces unexpected challenges in her husband’s perilous profession. Can love be the secret ingredient to bring them ...

Sparks and Bullets fly between them. Their romance ignites amidst the chaos, With danger at every turn, will their love and determination be enough to lead them to brighter days?Jordan Ryder returns to Ryders’ Bluff to care for her sick mother, reluctantly leaving behind the life she once knew. Her siblings are slowly returning to Montana, but the threat of a ruthless land developer brings danger to their doorstep. Arnie “Viking” Pedersen, a military veteran and friend of Jordan’s brother, breaks down on a remote mountain road and encounters Jordan, a fiery beauty who makes him walk...

What happens when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs meets the Wild West? Charity Watson lost her mother at an early age. Growing up in Boston with only her father, servants, and her maid, she learns how to cook, clean, and manage a household. When tragedy strikes and she is left an orphan, she flees the only home she’s ever known in order to save her life. Danger follows Charity to Hope, Montana. Can a simple kiss save her in more ways than one? Rhett Lincoln loves his home in Montana. Owning the biggest ranch is a blessing but becomes a curse when he returns from a business trip and finds ...

A trap is set for Bounty Hunter Logan Holbrook, he just doesn't know it yet. Logan is on the tail of an outlaw when he makes a stop at a saloon that will change his life forever. Letting the criminal go, the Bounty Hunter instead is forced to pick up his irons for another cause. Now it’s life or death, and he doesn’t care what happens to him anymore, that is, until he meets her. Having more than one reason to fight, he goes all in, and the town of Wagon Mound--or the old west--may never be the same again.

I'm Avery Sinclair, a city girl who traded the comfort of urban life for the wilds of the Cascade Peaks as a mail-order bride. But when my journey strands me in the rugged wilderness, I'm rescued by Levi Blackwood, a man as untamed and mysterious as the mountains he calls home. As a storm rages outside, I find myself in turmoil, grappling with unexpected emotions. Levi is not the fiancé I was destined to meet, yet in the close quarters of his rustic home, I realize I've fallen for the very man who saved me from the clutches of the wilderness. Mountain Man's Rescued Mail Order Bride is a ...

Heart-pounding suspense. Slow-burning romance. A story of grace, grit, and God’s perfect timing. She’s running from danger. He’s sworn to protect his land. Neither expected to find love in the heart of Wyoming. Stella Cassidy’s world shatters the moment two strangers attempt to abduct her to silence her father’s testimony. With her life in danger and nowhere to go, the aspiring singer is placed under protective custody far from her comfortable city life—on a remote, working ranch in western Wyoming. Colt Remington, the oldest of three rugged brothers, never signed up to be a ...