Western Bible

Biblical scholars Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. They identify nine key areas where modern Westerners have significantly different assumptions about what might be going on in a text. Drawing on their own cross-cultural experience in global mission, O'Brien and Richards show how better self-awareness and understanding of cultural differences in language, time, and social mores allow us to see the Bible in fresh and unexpected ways.

Annie Vale never expected to be raising her late sister’s twins while struggling to save a ranch she barely knows how to run. Desperate for help, the young seamstress places an advertisement for a mail-order groom. When a polished stranger arrives, his gentle way with the grieving twins begins to draw him closer to the fragile family she's fighting to protect. Julian Fairchild is a wealthy mining heir fleeing a ruthless stepfather determined to steal his fortune and end his life. After escaping West under a false name, he answers Annie’s advertisement, hoping her remote ranch will keep ...

Cordelia Fletcher awakens in a stranger’s home with no memory of who she is or how she came to be lying alone on the prairie. What she does know is that the quiet strength of the widowed rancher who rescued her stirs something deep within her, something that feels both dangerous and safe all at once. Micah Redmond has lived three years in the shadow of grief, his heart buried alongside the wife he lost. Devoted only to his daughter and his ranch, he never imagined fate would place a mysterious young woman in his care, one whose presence unsettles his resolve to remain alone forever. As ...

Widowed innkeeper Daisy Ross has spent the past year keeping alive the inn she once dreamed of building with her husband. But when she rescues an injured stranger near the river, his kindness threatens to uncover both her guarded heart and the outlaw past she has tried to bury. Will, a Northern Paiute tracker, has spent most of his life caught between worlds. Neither fully accepted by his father's people nor entirely at home among the settlers, he's learned to rely only on himself. When an injury leaves him in a settler's care, her warmth and compassion begin to break through his defenses. ...

“You’re too close, Mr. Walker.” “Then tell me to go, Grace. Mean it this time.” “The closer we get to Oregon, the more dangerous this becomes.” Grace Hawthorne joins a wagon train with one desperate goal: reach the West before the painful memories she left behind her catch up. To protect her little daughter, Emily, she tells everyone that the child is her sister hiding the truth locked behind a carefully practiced smile. Ethan Walker is a man who notices too much. Rough, guarded with secrets of his own. Abandoned by his father and forced onto the trail with the broken family ...

May wakes on the banks of a river with no memory of who she is or how she was swept there, rescued by a brooding wagon leader guiding his company west to Oregon. As illness, hunger, and suspicion threaten the journey, she forges fragile friendships and helps on the trail in ways no one expected. But she never imagined she could fall for the very man who saved her… Lucas, a widowed wagon master hardened by loss, leads the train west with discipline and distance, determined to protect both his people and the secrets of his cargo. When danger closes in, and an amnesiac stranger ignites ...

8 Books 2 complete series in one box set! Mail-order brides Historical Western Romance … This box set for heart-pounding action, true love, and characters so real they’ll walk off the pages and right into your heart. As the temperatures drop and the winds blow, you won't find a better collection to keep you warm inside. Peril or Prosperity Series Book 1 Wagon Train Book 2 Hope Book 3 Rocky Proposal Book 4 Westward and Wayward Book 5 Tempestuous Bride The Grant Boys Series Book 1 Taken for Granted Book 2 Patience Granted Book 3 Wishes Granted Read all the Complete Series by bestselling ...

"We agreed on boundaries” she reminded him. “We did,” Travis agreed while looking into her eyes. "But boundaries are a lot harder to keep when I remember that you're actually my wife, Anna." A ranch she’ll do anything to protect. A broken man with nothing left to lose. And a marriage of convenience that might just catch fire on the lawless Texas frontier. Headstrong Anna Montgomery will do anything to save her prosperous ranch from her envious cousin, Edwin. But her father’s will leaves her a desperate ultimatum: marry within thirty days, or lose her legacy forever. Refusing to ...

Trapped by her father's harsh expectations, Emmeline Spratt is devastated when he offers her hand in marriage to a rancher as part of a land deal. Yet, as she begins to see the quiet strength in her new husband, she can’t help but hope that he might be the love she never saw coming. Patrick McLeod, a young war veteran caring for his sick sister and younger brother, is doing his best to create a stable future. But his unexpected bride isn’t what he imagined—her strength and kindness slowly soften the walls around his heart. Now, for the first time in years, he wonders if love might ...

The complete cowboy collection at the ranch in Quinn Valley will sweep you away with heartwarming, uplifting stories of love, faith, and forgiveness - all with a sexy-and-sweet cowboy at the center of the romance & family saga! Contracted Cowboy: A fake ad brings a cowboy to Georgia's door just in time for all the Quinn family holiday parties, so she hires Logan to be her boyfriend. Nothing can go wrong with this plan...except she might lose her heart to her newly contracted cowboy. Secret Sweetheart: She's a domestic goddess. He works on her father's ranch. They could have forever...if ...

“If I let anyone close again and something happens…” he whispered. “So you’ll keep everyone at arm’s length?” Her voice had gone quiet. “Your boys too? Me?” That wasn’t what he wanted. But he was stuck. How was he supposed to find a way out? Noah had been at the church for half an hour before they arrived. It felt wrong to be here again. Twice he almost left. But decency was his north star. Then he saw her. She was, in the plainest terms, one of the most striking women he had ever seen. And she was looking at him as though she were trying very hard to read something in ...

Isla Merrick, after her father's unexpected death, is determined to keep his relay station. But when a railroad contract threatens her inheritance, she's forced to marry within six months. Desperate, she places an ad for a husband—never imagining the stranger who answers will bring more secrets than solutions. Gale Remington, a former cavalry scout, came to Carson Pass seeking answers, not a wife. His brother vanished three months ago, and the trail leads him to the very station Isla runs. Marrying her puts him exactly where he needs to be, but the closer they grow, the more his deception...

When a dying woman washes ashore beneath her remote Oregon lighthouse, clutching a baby and a packet of documents, Elara Selkirk is pulled far beyond the lonely headland she has always called home. Determined to uncover the truth behind the child, she leaves the only world she knows, only to find a railroad detective standing in her way and stirring feelings she cannot deny. Jasper Rede arrives at the lighthouse believing he is searching for a kidnapped heir stolen from a powerful magnate. But Elara’s fierce protection of the child and the secrets hidden in the oilskin packet begin to ...

After years spent running from her past, Chloe Whitfield returns to Texas with one desperate hope: to find the daughter she was forced to leave behind. But when a stagecoach accident leaves her stranded in a strange town, she finds herself drawn to a man whose kindness feels more dangerous than the secrets she carries. Sheriff Nathaniel Cross has long guarded his heart, carrying the weight of his father’s death and a deep distrust of those who hide the truth. Yet the mysterious woman he rescues slowly breaks through the walls he has built with her kindness and determination, awakening ...

“How did you come here, and why Miss Hawkins thinks you are my wife and that we have a child?” Harvey served his country through the Civil War. With a shattered heart and faith, he returns to Rosewood Manor, expecting to reclaim the estate and rebuild his life. Instead, he finds a wife and son he knows he didn’t leave behind... Rosa’s life was never a bed of roses. When she is left with her friend’s newborn and the promise to take care of it, she knows she must have faith. Desperate for survival, she poses as the widow of a fallen Major. She only didn’t know that he would return...

After years of hardship, Kate Taylor has sworn off love. Running the Hollow Creek Inn alongside her aunt, she finds solace in the quietude of small-town life, until a wounded stranger is brought to her doorstep in the middle of a blizzard. Faced with the possibility of true love, will Kate be able to protect her peace of mind? Ashton Cullen is a bounty hunter looking for justice and the man who left him for dead. He never planned to stay in Hollow Creek, but the more time he spends in Montana town, the more difficult he finds it to leave. People are kind, and Kate is too beautiful to ignore...

“Your children sent for a bride.” Jacob rubbed his jaw. “They should’ve asked the groom first.” Olivia thought she knew what she was agreeing to when she answered a mail-order bride advertisement. But when she arrives in Wyoming, she realizes the man waiting at the ranch never sent for a wife at all… his children did. “You didn’t write those letters,” she says. “No,” his voice is steady. “But you’re here now.” Widowed rancher Jacob Hale never planned to remarry. His life is his children, the ranch, and the promise he made to the woman he lost. But when a stranded...

Emma Stiles' world grew dim after her husband's passing, trapped in the toil of farm life, despite her sister's companionship. Amidst the mundane, fate intervened when in her weathered barn, under the morning sun, she discovers Henry Billings – once a school crush, now an injured stranger. Nursing him back to strength forges a deeper connection, while his tales of adventure and narrow escapes weave a spell around her. Will this bond be the power to reignite a love Emma thought she'd never feel again? Henry Billings, a man burdened by false accusations, arrives seeking refuge in the barn ...

"Why do you push me away every time I get close?" "Because the closer you get, the more I realize I’d burn this whole mountain down just to keep you in it." Adelaide Whitford is a woman of high society fleeing a nightmare. After her obsessive, dangerous fiancé threatens her safety, she escapes St. Louis to become a mail-order bride in the rugged Montana Territory. She seeks anonymity and freedom, yet when she steps into her new home, she is met with the chaos of two grieving children and a lumberjack who is far too handsome for a man as cold as he is. Rhett Callahan doesn’t believe in ...

“I won't let anyone hurt you.” Ruth blinks. “I thought you didn't want me here.” All Ruth Bennett has ever wanted is a place to call home. Raised in a Dodge City brothel and left alone after her mother's death, Ruth is desperate to protect the only family she has left—her six-year-old sister. So when she discovers an advertisement from a Kansas rancher seeking a wife, she takes a leap of faith and travels west, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she finds Henry Collins. The brooding horse rancher never expected his mail-order bride to arrive with a child in tow. Worse, she makes ...