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  • Heart of Mine by Caroline Fyffe

    Heart of Mine by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe makes love the grandest adventure on the frontier for the resistant darling of Eden, Colorado. Emma Brinkman is the most eligible bachelorette in town and staying that way. After learning twice that romance is a lie, she's focused only on making the mine she and her sisters inherited a booming success...
  • Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The fourth, and final novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series fires up the passion in a story about forgiveness and finding your soul mate.Dirk Littlewood had the world at his feet and a life he claimed to love. He was a world-champion bull rider with plenty of women to keep his nights busy and make his inner loneliness nothing but a delusion...
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  • Kendrick by Zina Abbott

    Kendrick by Zina Abbott

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kendrick Denham left his family farm back east, fought in the war with Mexico, then answered gold’s call after it was discovered in California. In late 1852, when he reached Columbia, known as “The Gem of the Southern Mines,” he realized the easy-to-find placer gold was no longer that easy to find. He decided he would do better providing fresh meat to the townspeople...
  • Where Wind Meets Wave by Caroline Fyffe

    Where Wind Meets Wave by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Drawn from Wyoming Territory for the first time in his life, Jake Costner sets off to find his destiny, leaving his love behind in Logan Meadows. NOVELLA Where Wind Meets Wave, Book 6 of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe, will keep you on the edge of your seat...
  • Love Remains by Sarah M. Eden

    Love Remains by Sarah M. Eden

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Sarah M. Eden, the USA Today Bestselling author of the Longing for Home series, LOVE REMAINS is a new romance novel set in the beloved world of Hope Springs. For nearly a year, Tavish O’Connor has carried the crushing weight of his family’s future on his shoulders. He has taken on the care of his youngest brother, Finbarr, who lost his eyesight in a terrible accident...
  • Montana Mail Order Brides Box Set: Books 13 - 15 by Linda Bridey

    Montana Mail Order Brides Box Set: Books 13 - 15 by Linda Bridey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Books 13 -15 in the series that critics describe as “a wonderful blend of hope, humor, passion, romance, and forgiveness.” Westward Secrets: Book 13 Gina Silvetti comes to Dawson to find that the man she was to marry has died. Handsome, Deputy Rick Westlake helps her and the two begin a romance. But, secrets and family strife threaten any future they may have together...
  • Redeeming the Rogue by Kit Morgan

    Redeeming the Rogue by Kit Morgan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A RogueAn InnocentAnd one forgetful angel …Persephone Dodge had never been out of New York City, so a trip to visit her cousin in Creede, Colorado was a big adventure. So what if her father tagged along? She was determined to have an adventure. Then he showed up on her cousin’s doorstep.Atticus Judrow was a bounty hunter with a reputation for bringing in men more dead than alive...
  • Adjacent But Only Just by Nichole Van

    Adjacent But Only Just by Nichole Van

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Viola Brodure, gentlewoman and celebrated authoress, faces a personal dilemma suited for a novel—everyone wishes for her to make a love match with Ethan Penn-Leith, the famous Highland Poet. And by everyone, she means everyone—her father, her adoring readers, the gossip columnists, and her patron, the overbearing Duke of Kendall...
  • Texas Lonesome by Caroline Fyffe

    Texas Lonesome by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TEXAS LONESOME - The McCutcheon Family Series, Book 8 Rio Wells, Texas 1886 Dustin McCutcheon gets the surprise of his life when he comes face-to-face with Sidney Calhoun, the spitfire offspring of his father’s worst adversary. The whole of Texas knows that McCutcheons and Calhouns just don’t mix. Period. Yet Dustin is drawn to Sidney...
  • Grayson by Linda Carroll-Bradd

    Grayson by Linda Carroll-Bradd

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A year ago, lawyer Grayson Wainwright's brother was killed due to faulty metal bridge braces. When Grayson files a wrongful death case against a company accused of supplying shoddy materials to the Transcontinental Railroad, he relishes his chance to achieve justice...
  • Montana Courage by Caroline Fyffe

    Montana Courage by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe is back with another epic tale of love and courage in the Montana Territory… MONTANA COURAGE - The McCutcheon Family Series, Book 9 Y Knot, Montana Territory, 1887 Shad Petty is a cowhand, plain and simple, whose days are filled with riding for the McCutcheon brand...
  • Westward Sight / Westward Horizons by Linda Bridey

    Westward Sight / Westward Horizons by Linda Bridey

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Books 22 - 23 in the series that critics describe as a spellbinding blend of mystery, humor, passion, romance, suspense, and forgiveness. Book 22 – Westward Sight. When Frankie Scorrano and D.J. Samuels meet, romance blossoms, but when a terrible illness strikes, leaving behind complications, will their love survive or will it succumb to bitterness and despair? Book 23 – Westward Horizons...
  • Whispers on the Wind by Caroline Fyffe

    Whispers on the Wind by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A straitlaced bookseller and a rowdy trail guide fight their ill-suited attraction in Book Five of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe. Wyoming Territory, October 1883 Tabitha Canterbury came to Logan Meadows with one goal: to open the bookshop she’s always dreamed of having...
  • Pioneer Dream by Ramona Flightner

    Pioneer Dream by Ramona Flightner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Immerse Yourself In 1860’s Frontier Montana with the O’Rourke Family! Sensible Kevin O’Rourke does not believe in ghosts, in love at first sight, or in the happily-ever-after type of love. Instead, he is convinced only hard work, dedication to family, and self-sacrifice will bring contentment...
  • A Fearless Bride For A Wounded Rancher by Ember Pierce

    A Fearless Bride For A Wounded Rancher by Ember Pierce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mae is a fearless woman who grew up in a poor family in Massachusetts.She struggles for independence and respect in the world. For years, she felt as though she was just an object. She wants to be loved for who she is, not what she looks like. When her father tried to force her to marry the local banker, she decided to form her own destiny and answer a mail-order bride ad...
  • A Reluctant Bride For A Heartbroken Rancher: A Clean Western Historical Romance Novel by Evelyn Boyett

    A Reluctant Bride For A Heartbroken Rancher: A Clean Western Historical Romance Novel by Evelyn Boyett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mercy grew up an orphan. But her life wasn’t bad and at least she has her sisters. They aren’t blood but they’re family. When they lose their lodgings, Mercy isn’t sure what to do. When she loses her job immediately after, she knows she’s going to have to come up with a plan — and quick. She never thought she’d become a mail order bride but desperate times call for desperate measures...
  • Mail Order Magic by Kirsten Osbourne

    Mail Order Magic by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When widow Ruth Arbuckle discovers her ranch foreman is stealing from her, she decides to do something completely unorthodox—she sends for a mail-order husband. She refuses to continue losing money, and she wants someone competent to run all aspects of her ranch, including the financial side. It’s purely business, but when the man arrives to marry her, she’s stunned to find him so compelling...
  • Betty's Books by Kirsten Osbourne

    Betty's Books by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Betty Meeks likes nothing more than to hide from the world with her nose in a good book, but on the Trail that’s a little harder than usual. No longer wanting to be a burden on her sister and her family, Betty begins taking her meals with a friend who cooks for the bachelors in camp...
  • Dreaming of Her Cowboy's Kiss by Jessie Gussman

    Dreaming of Her Cowboy's Kiss by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A simple cowboy in love with a surgeon. A decade of unrequited love. A hopeless, one-sided romance. Except sometimes, if you’re patient, God writes your love story.Ethan Shuff had spent a miserable childhood with an abusive father and a mother addicted to drugs and men.No one had ever even pretended he wasn’t in the way, or that he was wanted...
  • The Distant Legacy by AnneMarie Brear

    The Distant Legacy by AnneMarie Brear

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Born in Ireland but raised in Australia, Bridget Kittrick, headstrong and independent, is ready to show her worth. She meets Lincoln Huntley, a man with a mysterious past, which only heightens Bridget’s attraction to him. As much as she admires Lincoln, his secrets drive a wedge between them...
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  • Kathryn by Caroline Fyffe

    Kathryn by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kathryn Ford knows one thing for sure; she will not marry the boring, arrogant man her father has arranged for her since the day she was born, simply as a pawn to enrich his vast holdings. When she discovers she’s been disowned for her defiance, the pampered socialite takes her destiny in her own hands...
  • If I Can Dream by Sable Hunter

    If I Can Dream by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The moment Tennessee McCoy lays eyes on Molly Reyes sitting astride a horse in the desert sun, love hits him like a bolt of lightning from out of the blue. She is his soulmate, his other half. They speak the same language, they want the same things. Their attraction is complete, the passion they share nearly consumes them. Knowing she is meant to be his, Ten can’t wait to make her his bride...
  • Corsets and Cuffs: by Shanna Hatfield

    Corsets and Cuffs: by Shanna Hatfield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sheriff Tully Barrett never knew trouble had such a pretty face. Brianna Dumont never knew the law could be so handsome and hardheaded. Pampered and privileged, Brianna Dumont escapes the life she’s always known in an effort to clear her father’s good name. She arrives in Baker City, Oregon, intent on selling her father’s shares in a mine...
  • Love is Blind by Kit Morgan

    Love is Blind by Kit Morgan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucius Judrow was good at his job, maybe too good. Hired by Jack Carlson of Cutter’s Creek to track down and retrieve his sister Emma, Lucius got more than he bargained for. The free-spirited Emma wasn’t what he expected, nor was the family she’d taken refuge with...
  • A Real Cowboy Never Walks Away by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Never Walks Away by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nine brothers who stand by each other no matter what, even when all hell breaks loose…which it often does when the Stockton men are around. Country music superstar Travis Stockton used his music to escape the Wyoming town that betrayed him as a youth, but all his money and fame can't chase away the nightmares that still haunt him...
  • Recipe for Christmas by Kit Morgan

    Recipe for Christmas by Kit Morgan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eldon Judrow searched for his brother Lucius for years, during which, he just happen to strike it rich. Imagine Lucius’s surprise when Eldon shows up in Cutter’s Creek! But even though Eldon’s bank account makes it appear he has everything a man could want, his brother has something far more precious. A wife...
  • Mail Order Merchant: Brides of Beckham by Kirsten Osbourne, Cowboys and Angels

    Mail Order Merchant: Brides of Beckham by Kirsten Osbourne, Cowboys and Angels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Toria Miller realized her only option to get away from her over-amorous employer was to escape from Beckham, Massachusetts, her first thought was to become a mail order bride. After talking to her niece, the matchmaker for the only agency in town, she chose a letter and embarked on a journey that would take her all the way to Creede, Colorado...
  • Bargain for Baby by Kirsten Osbourne

    Bargain for Baby by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Becky Brown knew she’d made a mess of her life. Eight months pregnant, and her fiancé has been dead for almost that long. After her parents kick her out, she moves into a boarding house and helps the kindly woman there with chores for half her rent...
  • Montana Sky Justice by Debra Holland

    Montana Sky Justice by Debra Holland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    MONTANA SKY JUSTICE Book Nine in the Montana Sky Series K.C. Granger is the sheriff of Sweetwater Springs. Since she was five, K.C. has dressed like a man and been treated as such. She’s efficient at her job and has garnered the respect of the inhabitants of Sweetwater Springs. Red Charlie is a Blackfoot Indian and the blacksmith of Sweetwater Springs...
  • Mining for Love by Dana Alden

    Mining for Love by Dana Alden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cordelia Watson is ready to start over. Her husband didn’t return from the war, her fiancé jilted her, and she’s had enough. J.B. Wood agrees to help Delia start anew in Virginia City, even though all he really wants to do is mine his claim for gold. When bad things start happening, J.B. realizes he’d do anything to protect Delia...
  • Dorthy's Disasters: A Ryders Legacy Historical Book by George H. McVey

    Dorthy's Disasters: A Ryders Legacy Historical Book by George H. McVey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dorthy James is convinced she is bad luck, a Jonah, a pariah. When she’s around disasters happen to her, to others, all around her. Things break, people get hurt and there’s nothing she can do about it. The safest place for her is in her classroom at The Wigg School and Foundling Home or in the garden. Those two places are the only places nothing bad happens...
  • Mail Order Mother by Kirsten Osbourne

    Mail Order Mother by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Caroline Casey is a romantic in a world of realists. When she decides to leave her privileged upbringing to become a mail-order bride, everyone she knows is surprised, but she is convinced she can make a difference and find true love out west. There are two motherless girls who need her and her special brand of loving everyone around her to make their lives complete...
  • Reckless Love by Kelly Elliott

    Reckless Love by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The first time I kissed Scarlet, I knew I was in trouble. The night I slept with her, my life changed forever. The day I found out I was going to be a father, I ran from her. Now that I’ve been given a second chance I won’t be so reckless...
  • Savage Beloved by Cassie Edwards

    Savage Beloved by Cassie Edwards

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Terrified and alone, Candy huddled beneath the trapdoor in the floor of her father's cabin, listening to the bloodcurdling whoops of attacking Indians. When she finally crept outside, it was to find all the other inhabitants of Fort Hope massacred and a fierce-looking Wichita chief thundering toward her on his black stallion...
  • The Holiday Mail Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    The Holiday Mail Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ambrosia Winters and her father are in trouble, BIG trouble. If Ambrosia doesn’t consent to marry her father’s crooked business partner, Reginald Van Cleet, he’ll slap false charges on her father, and bring him to complete ruin if not worse. To escape the madman, Cecil Winters will do anything to save his daughter from suffering such a horrible fate...
  • A Mid-Summer's Mail-Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    A Mid-Summer's Mail-Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Bernice Caulder has been unlucky in love for as long as she can remember, and now that she was a mail-order bride, she wondered if her bad luck didn’t follow her from her home town of Independence, Oregon all the way to Nowhere. a tiny speck of a town in the Washington territory...
  • The Columbus Day Mail-Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    The Columbus Day Mail-Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Weaver clan was growing. Not only was Arlan, Ma Weaver’s oldest son and his wife about to have a baby, but Benjamin, one of her identical twins, was about to get his very own mail-order bride! Ma Weaver couldn’t be happier! Sure, Benjamin and his brothers had been sheltered in the small valley where they lived most of their lives, and maybe they didn’t live as fancy as some folks...
  • The Harvest Time Mail-Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    The Harvest Time Mail-Order Bride by Kit Morgan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Weavers. They were boisterous, rambunctious, some would even say wild, and until recently, unwed. First Arlan, the oldest, got himself a mail-order bride, followed by his younger brother Benjamin, one of identical twins. Now it was Calvin’s turn. But Calvin’s mail-order bride was different, really different. For one, she was Italian, an immigrant who spoke broken English...
  • Shane's Bride by Kathleen Ball

    Shane's Bride by Kathleen Ball

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Rescued from Indians, Cecily McGuinness suffers from horrendous nightmare; ones that have her running from her lodging into the woods. She’ll never be normal again and most of the townspeople look at her with disdain. All she ever wanted was a family and a place to call home. Sheriff Shane O'Connor is tired of tracking Cecily down each time she takes flight...
  • The Runaway Children: The heartbreaking, page-turning new historical saga from Lindsey Hutchinson for 2022 by Lindsey Hutchinson

    The Runaway Children: The heartbreaking, page-turning new historical saga from Lindsey Hutchinson for 2022 by Lindsey Hutchinson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A heart-warming saga about surviving against the odds and finding a family, from top 10 bestseller Lindsey Hutchinson.In two rundown houses, at the side of a barren Black Country heath, live six children with no family but each other. Abandoned or orphaned, every day is a fight to find food and keep warm...
  • Joy on the Mountain Peak by Misty M. Beller

    Joy on the Mountain Peak by Misty M. Beller

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will this epic journey be their second chance or the final heartbreak?Heidi Wallace came west with secrets. When she accompanied her cartologist cousin to map terrain in the Montana Territory, she never imagined he would die from a snakebite. As she and her maid bury the body in this wild country, the last person she expects to come to their aid is the man she's no longer sure she wants to find...
  • A Trail Untamed by Lacy Williams

    A Trail Untamed by Lacy Williams

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    August is a loner and prefers it that way. He only took the marriage wager to gain breathing room from his overbearing older brother. Besides, the wagon train still has a long journey before it reaches Oregon. Maybe he’ll meet someone who turns his head.Felicity longs for love and family, someone to choose her above all...
  • Montana Snowfall by Caroline Fyffe

    Montana Snowfall by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MONTANA SNOWFALL – McCutcheon Family Series, Book 7 Y Knot, Montana Territory, 1886 When Roady Guthrie, longtime foreman for the McCutcheon ranch, takes time off to go bear hunting, he never expects to find a young woman asleep in his hunting cabin in the midst of a snowstorm...
  • Calico Canyon by Mary Connealy

    Calico Canyon by Mary Connealy

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Let yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutchs of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's—widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons...
  • Demelza by Winston Graham

    Demelza by Winston Graham

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Demelza, the miner's daughter that Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry bring her confusion and heartache, despite the joy in the birth of their first child. Additionally the seeds of dispute with Warleggan are sown...
  • Joshua Healy by Jennifer Foor

    Joshua Healy by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    They say without the support from his family, a man is lost. My parents have been pushing me to make the right choices throughout my life. Instead of taking their advice, I’ve gone against their guidance more times than I care to admit. Now I’ve done the unthinkable; something they would never approve of...
  • McKettricks of Texas: Austin by Linda Lael Miller

    McKettricks of Texas: Austin by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller Linda Lael Miller brings you the next installment in her unforgettable McKettricks of Texas series. The three McKettrick brothers meet their matches in the three Remington sisters, and now it's Austin's turn…  World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull...
  • Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

    Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chloroform during labour. Florence Nightingale makes headlines as she leads a troop of middle-class women out into the war zones as nurses...
  • Kari: A Sweet Western Historical Romance by Miriam Minger

    Kari: A Sweet Western Historical Romance by Miriam Minger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Still grieving the loss of her mother, Kari Hagen leaves her younger siblings behind and travels to Walker Creek, Texas. She promised to deliver a letter to her mother’s first love, so now she just has to find him. Should she accept an offer of assistance from that tall cowboy who’s as handsome as any man she’s ever seen? The sooner she gives the letter to Mr...
  • Mail Order Meals by Kirsten Osbourne

    Mail Order Meals by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gertrude Miller is well-known for her cooking, working for the diner there in Beckham, Massachusetts. When she spots an old crush eating with his new wife, she realizes that there is no chance she will ever be able to find love there in Beckham, where everyone remembers her as a member of the demon horde...
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