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When Travis and Rebecca marry, rumors quickly spread that he has done so only for her dying father's ranch. Convinced that Travis can never truly love her, Rebecca disappears to make a new life for herself in a town far away, but her friends there are few, and life is hard. When desperate circumstances drive Rebecca home to Travis, she can see the change in the man she left behind. In her absence, he has grown from a rough-hewn cowboy to a confident...

"Two brothers were raised to know that Viking blood runs in their veins. But when it comes to passion and rivalry, they're desperate to discover if God's peace can dwell in their hearts."-- "From Christy Award-winning author Joanne Bischof comes the sequel to her beautiful novel Sons of Blackbird Mountain. Two brothers were raised to know that Viking blood runs in their veins. But when it comes to passion and rivalry, they're desperate to discover...

Back East for a reunion with his aging parents, Preacher gets into a fight with a pack of city bullies, and when one of them ends up dead, Preacher must high-tail it back west, with an angry posse in hot pursuit.

William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul...

Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher.

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Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smoke's arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang of raiders crashes into town and...

Zara Cinders, who has lost her business and marriage, accepts help from Ham Reece, who was unwilling to settle down with her despite their love, but finds it hard to trust him, even as he tries to prove to her that he has changed.

"Her sister couldn't be alive... could she? The little girl she spotted outside a store in Foggy Ridge had to be Riley Jo, her long-lost sister. Abby Cummings is certain. Almost. But her family has their hopes dashed before and quickly dismisses the idea. After all, her father and sister have been missing for five years, and are presumed dead. Abby refuses to ignore her intuition. She had her best friend, Jay, team up to track down the child in...

"A sudden, irresistible kiss results in a marriage of convenience between a Mountain Amish girl and the handsome Englischer professor studying her unique community. While in Atlanta meeting her husband's wealthy, overbearing family, a misunderstanding causes her to return to her remote Appalachian home heartbroken, but a crisis will work to show her the power of love"--

A letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. smoke knows only one person in the city by the bay: the well-rounded, open-natured Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure palaces.

Grieving the death of his partner, Theo Bosco has no room in his life for distractions. Though his instincts scream that he should avoid Juliet 'Jules' Jackson, he can't seem to stay away. It doesn't help that Theo's new K9 companion has fallen head over paws with Jules's rambunctious family. Or that when he's with her, Theo finally knows peace. When Jules rescued her siblings, whisking them away to the safety of the beautifully rugged Colorado Rockies,...