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It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins 43 other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she’s not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind.

THEY WERE GOING TO "THE BEULAH LAND" - THE PROMISED "FREE" AND ABUNDANT LAND IN THE WEST, WHERE RICH SOIL GUARANTEED RICH HARVESTS AND PROSPERITY FOR ALL — IF THEY LIVED TO REACH IT!. Bonus Material: Contains a 6000 word essay by Professor Blacker written for those who want to know more about the real Old West, detailing the best of the works he consulted while writing his novels. "This dramatic, well-written narrative maintains its course to the end of the trail." Victoria TX Advocate "Mr. Blacker's characterizations are uncommonly well realized." The NY Times As train after train of ...

Westering and Wanting brings to a conclusion the life of Derek Johns’ semi-autobiographical character Billy Palmer. In 'Westering', Billy is in his early 30s and living in New York. He has married an American, and is attempting to pursue a career in the arts whilst discovering married life and contemplating starting a family.

In 'Wanting', Billy is middle-aged. Divorced from Alice, and 3,000 miles away from both her and his teenage son, Michael, he is back in London....

Harland Bull Eaton has lost many things - his first wife, his beloved mother, those three women he proposed to.... Oh, and there was that time he almost lost the family dairy farm due to a scandal. He's losing faith in just about everything, especially love. But one night, his friends give him a dare. Just buy that gorgeous redhead a drink. The big-city bombshell he's set his eyes on swirls him into a tailspin that lands them in bed for a one night stand he's pretty sure he'll never forget. But this time he won't let his heart ride herd on his common sense. 

Benjamin 'Cowboy' LeBlanc is finally going home where he belongs. He'll work with the others in the field and when he's home, he'll do what he truly loves, work with the animals. Deciding to take the long way home, he gets sucked in by an elderly woman in need. How could he possibly turn away? A missing granddaughter whose plane went down and no one seems to want to help her. Believing he can at least bring the body home and give the old woman some peace, he never expects to find the woman alive. Very alive. Now the trick will be keeping her alive. Autumn Zeller never wanted to do anything ...

James Stewart is a chrono-cop who has trained his whole life for a mission of incredible importance: He needs to travel back through time to the Old West of 1845 and prevent a tragedy which killed hundreds of people and sparked centuries of mistrust between a group of settlers and a local Comanche tribe. To do this, he’ll make a one-way jump into the body of his nearest living relative at that time: frontier Marshall Edwin Stewart, who made the fatal error that originally sparked the conflict.

When the nuclear bombs start flying a single mother escapes to a Mutual Assistance Group retreat with her two small children. The post-apocalyptic world that soon follows is a dangerous place, and they will have to learn new skills to survive. Her young son especially will need all the help he can get, and he finds an unexpected boost from a cowboy action shooter who planned ahead for the worst.

I wasn’t 17 any longer, but I still had a problem—Jesse Compton kept up the pretense he was too old for me. I tried to move on, but he pulled me into his orbit. So, we rode off into the sunset of our happily ever after, right? Wrong. Fate tossed in some wicked plans in the form of a five-foot-five mafia princess and a nightmare from his troubled past, both threatening to destroy us.

Cowboy had been drifting ever since he left his home in Yellow House Creek, Texas, moving from ranch to ranch, following the work for nigh on 15 years. He had saved the pay he sweated so hard for. He looked into the Triple X Ranch, the one they called the Whiskey Brand. It was a bargain...or so it seemed.

US Navy SEAL Wes "Cowboy" McGraw goes home on leave to attend his 10th high school reunion. This brings him back into the orbit of a woman he knew in high school: Kia Silverbrook, renowned for her hacking ability. Hacker extraordinaire Kia has been making a sweet living doing some legal and not-so-legal hacking. But when a break-in makes her believe a secret investigation she has been conducting may be blowing back at her, she doesn't know where to turn. Except to Wes, the boy who had always intrigued her in high school with his cowboy charm and those ever-watchful, hot whiskey eyes.