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Joshua Ryder is an orphaned young man raised by an old ex-cowboy. After his guardian's death, Josh is hired to help drive a herd of longhorms form Texas to the cattle markets in Kansas. Along the way he falls in love with a ranchers daughter, but feels he must leave to bring his mother's murderer to justice. who would lay bets on an eighteen-year-old going up against a seasoned, ruthless killer?
5) The Bargain
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Pub. Date
2007
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Clare Hobb is weary of the strict boundaries her uncles impose at the family conclave, Hobb's Mills. She's in love with Larkin Wade, a handsome farmer her uncles disdain. During one of many trysts between Clare and Larkin, they find her beloved, brain-damaged father, Frank, vainly attempting to aid his brother, Samuel, who has been fatally injured in a wagon runaway accident. It's a festering sore with her uncles that the mentally deficient brother...
7) Loner's lady
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Pub. Date
c2006
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In this historical Western romance, a woman with a missing husband hires a cowboy to work on her farm, but he hides a dangerous secret.
When a stranger turned up at her farm, in need of a place to rest, Ellen O'Brian didn't have the heart to turn him away. He looked darkly dangerous, but she could handle herself; she had learned hard and fast when her husband upped and left.
Jess Flint couldn't help but admire Ellen's courage and grit-even though...
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Harlequin historicals volume 773
Pub. Date
c2005
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19th Century American West.
Rescued by a ranger...Kidnapped by Indians, Charlotte Greenfield thinks her life is over. Yet when a Texas Ranger comes to her rescue, she soon discovers it has only just begun!
Rugged Will Bondurant sees her not as a buttoned-down schoolmarm, but as a vibrant woman with a passion for adventure-and for him!
Meeting every challenge their westward trek throws at them, Charlotte's fire and determination warm Will's troubled...
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Pub. Date
c2004
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EVERYTHING DR. SAGE WEST NEEDED TO KNOW SHE LEARNED FROM... A BOUNTY HUNTER? When she trekked into the mountains with Cord Lawson to save a life, she'd thought that book smarts alone mattered. Now one rain-soaked river swim and bare-chested kiss in the sun later, she knew that being alive meant feeling things. But could she survive the heartbreak when her tantalizing tutor resumed his wandering ways? Life was uncertain, so a man took his pleasures...
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c2009
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"Solomon, daughter of Rulon Clark Allred, was twenty-eighth of forty-eight children born to her father's seven plural wives. She recounts growing up in a family often split up, living on the run or in hiding. Choosing monogamy for herself, she struggles to remain close to her polygamous family"--Provided by publisher.
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Harlequin historicals volume 649
Pub. Date
c2003
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A widow before she'd even been a wife - Mary Margaret Hampton was in big trouble! Lonely loggers. One genteel lady. A dangerous combination, Tom Randall thought. He was trying to run a business, not a tea party! And if obstinate Meggy Hampton didn't hightail her moonlight and magnolias back south, the sweet sparks she was igniting would make the camp - and his passion - explode like the Fourth of July!
12) Rain of fire
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Pub. Date
2006
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When a new hot spring appears overnight in the park and a noted naturalist is scalded to death, Kyle Stone mounts an expedition into the Yellowstone backcountry to unravel the mystery.
13) Hoodoo
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c2008
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"After an environmental lawyer, a copper mining executive, and an ethnobotanist are killed, geologist Frankie MacFarlane becomes a suspect. Frankie must decipher interlocking puzzles to clear her name and to find the killer in a mystery that involves the conflict between mining and land values in the Southwest"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
c2004
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Extra! Extra! Mail-Order Brides Compete To See Who Can Deliver! That should be the headline in the Gazette, Lolly Mayfield swore. Here she'd gotten up the gumption to answer an ad, only to find herself competing for bride status against two other women, with Kellen Macready as the extremely eligible-and very masculine-prize! If it weren't for charity, Kellen Macready would never have agreed to be the grand prize in a public matchmaking contest. But...
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Pub. Date
2007
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Athletic and high-energy Marge, once widowed, is pushed into early retirement by the need to care for her second husband who has been disabled by a stroke. The limitations of the isolated care-giving life are complicated by her husbandas resentment and the dislike of his daughters. Facing the heartbreaking loss of her own daughter, increased care-giving demands, and financial threats, she leans on her good friends for support. With their encouragement...
16) Blue horizons
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 2
Pub. Date
2001
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Meg Brennon knows that her new life at her road ranch in Paragon Springs, Kansas, can't truly begin until she severs all ties with the abusive husband she'd fled years before. Although fearful, she returns to St. Louis determined to find him and obtain a divorce. But Ted Malloy refuses, hoping that Meg's return will win him his dying father's favor, and fortune. It's going to be a long hard fight, but Meg can't afford to stay away from Kansas and...
17) No other place
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
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A hard, high plains life has turned refined southern lady, Aurelia Symington, into a work-toughened, capable woman determined to give her best to those she loves.
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 4
Pub. Date
2002
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Lucy Walsh's heart remains with the struggling town of Paragon Springs, but she feels beholden to her husband, Admire, to make the Run to the Cherokee Strip for new land.
19) Lake of fire
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Pub. Date
2007
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It began with lies. One-quarter Nez Perce, Cord Sutton attempts to hide his Indian blood by adopting the life of a gentleman. As part of the ruse, he plans to buy the Lake Hotel, an island in the Yellowstone wilderness that offers elegant accommodations to travelers on the Northern Pacific Railroad. When Chicago heiress Laura Fielding is rescued from a stagecoach robbery in Jackson Hole by a rugged mountain man, she hides the fact she's wealthy. What...
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"In high desert plains, adobe villages, and farmsteads nestled in the folds of pinon-green mountains - even in centuries-old cities sprawling into modern shopping mall culture - time can seem to stand still. Step into another way of understanding place and time in these seven new short stories from award-winning author Martha Egan. They may be set in New Mexico but they resonate with basic human truths that trenscend the limits of regionalism."--BOOK...