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In Low Branch, Texas, crime is low and community spirit is high. Denver Blanchett has been working as a bounty hunter for so long, he doesn’t know anything else. Two years after his partner and best friend, Hendricks Potter, decides to call it quits and find a woman to marry, Denver comes to the same conclusion. He has only known travel and outlaws. He wants the softness and peace of a woman by his side. So when he returns to Low Branch to visit Henry, he wonders if it is time to make the big change. Marti Williams lives a few hours from Low Branch in Southern Pines with her father and ...

Rachel Reed left Baltimore with a secret that none of her sisters are aware of. A secret so sinister she fears that drastic means need to be taken to protect herself and the ones she loves. She’d hoped she’d left the secret behind in Baltimore, until one fateful day a presence on the streets of Carson City brings the whole matter full circle. Mason Murphy’s on a mission to protect a witness from a group of criminals with one intent—leave no witnesses. Matters become complicated when the witness is the woman he fell in love with. A woman who left Baltimore abruptly and without notice...

Sue Cayden is the last of her friends to leave the orphanage in Cedarville, Nevada, heading to Deepwater, Texas for her eighteenth birthday. She hopes to find love, safety and happiness in the same town her three friends came to during the year before. Her birthday proves to bring to a close the quartet of friends coming to Deepwater to make their lives. Will she find what she’s looking for? Fred Louis is the wealthy son of the mayor and an all-around fun gentleman. Despite his upbeat nature and positive outlook, the woman he hoped to marry from boyhood lead him to the altar only to ...

Richard Corcoran’s been a ranch hand all his adult life. He loves his life. Positively loves it. Except, something’s missing. He knows what’s missing, but he just doesn’t know what to do to get it into his life. Tracy’s holding a secret. One she can’t afford to have come out. She’s got to protect her son from the cold, cruel world. Unfortunately, that same cold, cruel world took her son. She thinks she’s keeping her secret quite well. Until a stranger knocks on her door in the middle of a storm.

In the town of Deepwater, Texas, the community of people look out for each other. When influenza runs rampant through the town, they pull together so everyone can survive. Delfinia Yates has just arrived from Cedarville, Tennessee, to work for a man who lost his wife to the illness the year before, leaving him with two small children to care for. Delfinia is thrilled to get away from the orphanage where she spent most of her life and excited for the adventure of life she sees ahead of her. Keith Hall was deeply devoted to his wife, Laura, before her death. In the year since, he has not been...

Emma’s found herself attracted to a newcomer in town. Definitely not the type she’d ever expected to be interested in. This is no rough and tumble cowhand. No sir. This is a duke’s son. One who was bred aboard, and yet has spent enough time at boarding schools in the new country to rid himself of most of the accent. Will this royal come to his senses and realize the western bloom practically in his backyard?

The last thing an heiress needs is to be suspected of being not only a saloon girl, but also a thief. Especially when the one doing the suspecting is the town’s handsome sheriff. Phoebe Reed made the mistake of going into town. Maybe that wasn’t the mistake. Maybe it was staying in town after dark. Or maybe it was running into the saloon girl. Or maybe it was lying about the stolen wallet the saloon girl slipped her. Maybe it was a series of mistakes that have left her in hot water with the town’s hunky sheriff, Rance Connelly. Rance takes his job as the town’s law seriously. He ...

Isabella’s an Italian beauty that’s determined to make a go of it in this new wild country called America. She and her brother take a boat and make their way to Texas. Texas! She doesn’t plan to deceive the man who hired her by penning a letter to him under the guise of a mail order bride and she prays he will forgive her. Luke Turner love his job, managing a magazine he owns with his best friend. He loves his life. He’s not lonely, but he’s definitely alone and it hits home when he watches his best friend Dylan with his new wife. Luckily, a beautiful Italian belle has made her ...

Landon Smith’s got a problem. He’s accused of murdering his dead wife. This has turned him into an outlaw, one running from justice. Only it’s not real justice. It’s the machinations of a few crooked individuals. Landon needs help. The kind of help that only the West family can provide. He’s heard of the Wests. Who in that part of the country hadn’t? So he seeks out their help under duplicitous means. Lucky for Landon, Rose West has taken a liking to him. And the feeling is reciprocated. But will she reject him after learning the truth? Will her brother Daniel West kick him out,...

Ginny Fairway didn’t have a typical childhood. Her father, Arnold Fairway, was a criminal, a known thief, and a murderer. When she reaches the age of understanding, Ginny realizes what her father has had her involved in all her life and runs away from that life. She joins up with Jasper Connelly, who is acting as a bounty hunter, and Fairway is his target. They grow to trust each other and fall in love. But when Ginny is shot, and Arnold rides off with her on the back of his horse, Jasper pursues to no avail. He loses his woman and the man who took her in the blink of an eye. Will he ever...

Henrietta O’Malley has turned eighteen. It’s time for her to leave her home at the orphanage, the only home she’d really ever known. She didn’t remember much from the trip from Ireland that took the lives of her parents and her older brother. Only her grandma Lila had survived but was injured severely and was unable to care for the little girl. Henrietta is nervous to leave home. What will she do without the stability of her mentor and guide, Mrs. Saunders? Henri knows she has to leave and follows in the footsteps of her two friends, Annabelle and Delfinia, who traveled to their ...

Belinda Salinger was the last sister of four to find love. She wasn’t really looking and had a mind it would happen when it was supposed to. On the day her sisters all leave with their beaus, she realizes how lonely she will really be. Is she destined to spend the rest of her life running the private investigating agency the sisters’ uncle left to them? Lionel Calverson, the son of the mayor of Josephson County, very near Sacramento, arrives that very day unexpectedly. He is in need of help and heard the Wagon Wheel Justice Agency was run by professionals – even though they were all ...

Kidnapped and held for ransom, Holly Reed escapes and makes a run for it. Half Indian, half Scottish, Roan MacIntosh’s just another mountain man. One who wants to be left alone. He doesn’t want company, especially not some yappy female he saves from a blizzard. He also doesn’t need anyone. Until he’s got new set of unexpected visitors. And now, Holly Reed, the one who needed saving is the one to do the saving.

Cody Carson’s twin brother, Abner, has been murdered. Cody’s trust in the local law to solve the crime is not panning out. He feels the need to find an investigator himself. So he turns to Adelaide Salinger and her sisters, who run a private detective agency, the only one in Sacramento, California in 1849 that is run by women. Can he trust them to solve a mystery that is so close to his heart? The case twists and turns. Cody and Adelaide break laws to find answers. Adelaide wasn’t looking for love. She’s been an independent woman all her life. The oldest of her sisters, she’s the ...

Sophia loves Bighorn. She loves her job as a nanny. Her life is complete. Except… She’s not getting any younger and she’d like to settle down. Particularly with a certain ranch hand she’s got her eye on. Owen fancies Sophia. She makes his heart beat a little faster. Oh, who is he kidding. She makes it race. He’s so excited that he will spend the evening escorting her to the party at the ranch. It all seems fine until catastrophe strikes. Will a calamity force these two apart or will it bring them together?

Join Orange, a curious and adventurous tabby cat, on a delightful journey through her neighborhood as she sets out to discover what kind of cat she is. After slipping out of the house one sunny morning, Orange encounters a colorful cast of feline characters, each more intriguing than the last.