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Livia Stroud didn’t cross half of Wyoming to play the damsel, but adjusting to life as Jackson Holt’s mail-order bride is tougher than she expected. The sprawling ranch feels foreign, and her husband is as distant as the land. Burned pies, prickly silences, and endless days of back-breaking chores only deepen her loneliness—but Livia refuses to quit. She’ll prove she belongs, even if her heart longs for something more… Jackson Holt never wanted a wife—he needed one. Marrying Livia was supposed to serve a purpose: keeping unwanted eyes off the secrets he’s worked years to ...

Laura May Beckett never sought love—especially in a town where power is bought with blood. When she inherits her grandfather’s silver mine, the ruthless saloon owner wants it—and her hand. However, when his cousin Jesse, appears at the funeral, he catches her eye, and for the first time in years, she feels something she can't ignore… Jesse Rickett never planned to stay in Lake View. Sent to check on his cousin Jack, he expected trouble—but not a fiery schoolteacher fighting for her freedom. Jack’s schemes put Laura May at risk, and Jesse offers a desperate solution: a fake ...

Eighteen of the very best American short stories, each a classic in its own right. Stories include "The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots", by George Pope Morris; "The Angel of the Odd", by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Schoolmasters’s Progress", by Caroline M.S. Kirkland; "The Watkinson Evening", by Eliza Leslie; "Titbottom’s Spectacles", by George William Curtis; "My Double and "How He Undid Me", by Edward Everett Hale; "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters", by Oliver Wendell; and more.