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Gibran's Jesus: The Son of Man is a portrayal of Christ through the eyes of His contemporaries - men and women who knew him as an enemy, friend, teacher, and Son.

The characters, including Mary Magdalen, Simon Peter, Pontius Pilate, and Barabbas are brought to life against the social, political, and religious realities of Palestine and Rome at that period.

Jack McCabe returns home to Montana from medical school, but the family finds he is not exactly who they thought he was. And an old enemy of Johnny McCabe returns, looking for blood.

Two Stones has lived most of his life as an outsider, shifting between two different worlds—the orderly village of his Salish family and wild mining towns. Though he’s not fully accepted anywhere, he’s made a name for himself trading between the tribes and the miners, even making a trusted friend or two along the way.

Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fiancé’s plot to kill her after their wedding. She needs a safe place to hide, and finds herself accepting a newspaper marriage proposal from a God-fearing young rancher in the Montana Territory. But when Leah arrives at the mountain ranch, she learns her intended husband was killed by a grizzly, leaving behind a bitter older brother and a spunky younger sister.

As an orphan who was raised by the Chippewa Indian tribe, Garrett Harding has grown up caught between two worlds. But now, he has had enough of the loneliness - now, Garrett wants a wife. Katy Jones is desperate. After a deadly pandemic left her a widow, Katy now finds herself trapped in a disease-ridden town. Needing a way out of town fast, Katy advertises as a mail-order bride, and it seems that fortune is on her side when Garrett sends her his reply.

Jericho Coulter, the eldest of six fiercely devoted brothers, is entrusted with safeguarding his family and the secret that binds them together: the Sapphire mine. To keep tragedy from striking again, he allows no outsiders on their land. When two women stumble upon their ranch, claiming Jericho himself sent for one of them as a mail-order bride, he aims to send them straight back where they came from.

Joe McCabe returns the mountains, and the solitary life he prefers. It is alone by a campfire at night, or riding along the ridges by day, that he can let the pain from his past fully die. But when a figure he hasn't seen in years steps back into his life, bringing a whole new load of trouble, will it be more than he can handle?

First her father, then her best friend: two heartbreaking deaths have left Jules to look after both the potato farm Pop has left her and her friend's two children. In this relationally rich novel of faith and hope, a young woman struggles to salvage the farm, honor her promise to a dead friend, and win back the man whose heart she broke. How can one woman handle it all? The answer lies with a God who holds the keys to yesterday, today, and tomorrow....

After witnessing both his parents killed by a vicious gang, Samuel “Cully” McCullough has devoted his life to putting such outlaws either in their graves or prison. Having worked both as a US marshal and a bounty hunter, he ruthlessly pursues villains who plague the West. The son of a clergyman, Cully has strayed from the faith but not from righteousness. As committed as Cully is to law and justice, shrewd and ruthless outlaw “Smiley” James lives a life of crime. With his hardened gang of killers, he has created a horrific mail-order bride scam.

God's Way of Sending a Mail Order Husband: Abby, William, and the Little Man is about young Abby who just loves horses. She is out riding one day when she hears a thud and then a groan and then a mustang runs right past her and her mare. She finds out that the thud was the son of a neighboring rancher who she hasn't seen for years. When she looks into his gray eyes, she is hooked.

Maggie Saves Three Men From Death After the Oregon Trail, is a gentle story about love and faith and one lone woman on her Wyoming ranch, left by herself except for some transitory ranch hands, after her husband dies. There's a very long period of loneliness before God sends a man and his two sons who are near death after being abandoned by the people on their wagon train traveling the Oregon Trail, to her. What she does later will change four lives, and then many more, forever.

Always quick on the draw and first to a fight, Gerard's world was turned upside down the day a slip of a girl sheriff shot his gun hand and then showed him forgiveness in Christ. But time doesn't always heal all wounds. This Christmas, outlaws seeking revenge against the sheriff sisters offer him a deal: the ranch of his dreams and revenge for the life of his sweetheart. Gerard has a choice to make.

Have you ever wondered what happened to those Cartwright men of the Ponderosa plains? Did they fall in love? Marry? This book explores the possible connection between the Cartwrights of today and those four men of the past as Cartwright descendants try to solve a family mystery and in the process, introduce us to the women the four Cartwright men meet and fall in love with. These women seem perfect for Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe - but will avalanches, cattle rustlers, criminals, and wily women keep them apart from true love?

Teresa Beldon is forced to leave her home by a half-brother who is always in trouble. With no choice, she finds herself on the stagecoach to Denver and headed to the gold camps. After getting directions in Denver, they drive up the mountain when a blizzard forces the wagon off the road. She is thrown free of the wagon only to lay hurt and alone.