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Widow Emma accepts a Wyoming rancher's proposal to escape a precarious situation in Boston. While she must get away quickly, she hopes that she has made the right decision. But Wyoming will turn her life upside down, and her heart will never be the same. Widower rancher Ross still mourns for his late wife. When his children tell him all they want for Christmas is a mother, his heart breaks, for he knows he can never provide that. Ross does not believe he will ever be ready to marry again. As Christmas approaches, Ross' life is turned on end.

After finding out her marriage was a sham, Millicent must leave Philadelphia and the shame and gossip that surround her. She corresponds with a banker and after accepting his marriage proposal, travels to Montana. But what awaits her turns her world upside-down. Widower Clark lost his wife and son years ago and has not gotten over the heartbreak. As Millicent meets the widower next door, Clark makes a startling discovery, and will do what he has to to make Millicent his Christmas wife - although it may be too late.

As Christmas approaches, Ella's pregnant, alone and scared. Tragedy strikes her life, tearing apart all that she knows and loves in Chicago. She travels to Texas to marry a man she has been corresponding with. As she prepares for her new life, the tragedy haunts her....

Bernardo Cuesta is a Franciscan friar assigned to the mission of San Jose, hoping to follow in the missionary footsteps of Padre Kino. Bernardo, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush, is kept as a slave to the savages. Over the years of captivity, he attempts to convert the heathens and encounters the conflict between Christian beliefs and Apache shamanism. This is a novel of faith and courage. The remarkable journey of one man through an alien culture and the imprint he left.

Melody and Judd are young and living on the prairie as they make their way down to Texas looking for a better life. Along the way, they encounter events that rock them to their very core, altering their plans forever. Soon they battle between life and death. Forsaking their life in their wagon, they submit to total strangers and build a life more different than they had ever known. A series of events takes Judd and Melody from youth to adulthood faster than they ever expected.

When Jacinda Callahan lost her husband to an outlaw’s bullet years ago, she realized she simply couldn’t trust God to protect those she loves. So, though Marshal Zane Holloway has gently pushed his suit, she’s kept him at arm’s length. The last thing she needs is another man to worry about. But now the dratted marshal has been shot! He’s bleeding on her kitchen floor, and she realizes she might not have guarded her heart quite as well as she thought.

From slave to ranchman - a historical western based on true events. In return for his freedom, a slave is tasked with the job of delivering a valuable stallion to a horse farm in Tennessee. The Civil War is dying down, and the roads are dangerous, but with some help, the horse is delivered, and the slave sees freedom. Wishing to be freed from any remembrance of the slave farm, John has a last name that he refuses to use.

Rachel Newsome is desperate to leave home, where she’s treated worse than a servant. If only she can have her own home, somewhere far away from her demanding, heartless mother. She finds her chance when she learns about becoming a Mail Order Bride. Eager for a new beginning, Rachel travels west to marry Carson Gordon. Carson Gordon has good reason to worry. When his new bride arrives, she’ll discover what he neglected to tell her.

Jade Smith has always dreamed of teaching abroad. While she waits for her chance, she takes a nannying position at Blackwater Ranch. It’s supposed to be temporary, but she soon learns that this devoted single dad and his boisterous five-year-old won’t be easy to leave when the time comes. Aaron Harding was wrecked when his ex bailed on him and their son, leaving him to raise Levi alone.

She’s tired of making cheese and ice cream on her family’s dairy farm, but when the cowboy hired to replace her turns out to be an ex-boyfriend, Clarissa suddenly isn’t so sure about leaving town...Will Spencer risk it all to convince Clarissa to stay and give him a second chance? Spencer Rust has been at Hope Eternal Ranch for years. He loves Texas, the ranch, his boss, and his roommates. But he's ready to take the next step in his life now that he's healed from some past trauma.

After the war, Jewel Eberhardt has few choices for a beau, so she writes to a mail-order bride agency. From Pike’s Bluff, Colorado, Dirk Walker writes her back. Nervous and self-conscious, he sends Jewel the train fare, praying it will be a good match. When they meet, he fears she’s far above him - a fine woman too good for the likes of him. Yet, he marries her and takes her home to his ranch.

She’s running from trouble, and now he’s protecting more than just his ranch. Laney Parker is in dire need of a fresh start. With broken bones and a broken heart, she shows up at Blackwater Ranch hoping to land the housekeeper position for the new bed and breakfast. When the caring family begins to ask questions, she struggles to trust them with her secret.

New owner Carli Jameson is left in charge of the Wild Cow Ranch for a week. All she has to do is keep the livestock fed and tend to the ranch herd until everyone returns. How hard can it be? Carli wants to prove to everyone that she can run the ranch she owns, but it seems that everything that can go wrong, does. When a wicked Texas norther storm descends on Carli while she’s out riding her horse, her life is suddenly in danger and she becomes stranded in a barn. Hungry, freezing, and full of doubt, she must rely on her growing faith to believe that she'll make it out alive.

In an effort to escape the pain of her past, Emma Jones answered an advertisement to become a mail order bride. When she became Adam’s wife, she never imagined that she would be widowed just a few months later. Alone and with a homestead to care for, she receives an offer from a neighboring cattle rancher that she finds hard to refuse. But her late husband’s best friend is determined not to let her give up that easily.

Wu-Pen Tseng is not getting the respect he craves. To use a bit of deception, he comes up with an operation he calls "Dragon's Fire". Dragon's Fire has three goals, and when all three are fulfilled, Wu-Pen is pleased. That is, until Matt Bannister begins an investigation and follows the evidence into Chinatown. Suspicion leads him to his prime suspect: Wu-Pen.

Forgive, and you’ll be forgiven. How can death, betrayal, a rash proposal, and revenge lead to romance? An abusive controller - ex-brother-in-law, new husband, uncle-stepfather - compels reluctant travelers - his brother’s widow and daughter - westward. To escape his abuse, Lilah proposes marriage to the wagon train scout, which only leaves Padraig thinking she's a bit soft in the head. It's 1855. Come join the journey along the Oregon Trail with Lilah. Wagon Ho!

Jennifer Mason loves medicine. She lives on the family farm with her beloved younger brother, feeds her thirst for medical knowledge through any books she can find, and spends her time learning from the doctor in town and the nearby Shawnee medicine man. Then tragedy strikes, and Jennifer’s life is changed forever. Unable to save her brother’s life after a horrifying accident, Jennifer wonders whether her search for knowledge was a waste. Unsure of herself and driven by loneliness and despair, she takes the first option she finds for a new start.

From horse showing in Georgia to riding the range in Texas - a tale of courage and finding faith. Carli Jameson is used to being on her own - abandoned by her mother as an infant - all she’s ever wanted is to feel like she belongs. She has had no choice except to be strong and independent, but now, can she learn to trust God to be her partner? Georgia girl, Carli Jameson, inherits a Texas cattle ranch from grandparents she never knew. After much thought, she makes the courageous decision to pack up her life and move to Texas to run the ranch.

Steel sharpens steel, but will its sparks ignite unfailing love? Instead of living a pampered life on the civilized East Coast with a new husband, rejection compels Christina Adams westward with her widowed brother and his two daughters. Harboring ulterior motives, Ethan Cord, the man her brother hires to accompany the family, is more a match for her. He appears almost perfect, but how could she possibly trust her instincts about him when she’d been so wrong about her previous fiancé? Will her past ruin her future?

Shiloh Wheaton has spent four years recovering from the greatest tragedy of her young life - the accident that claimed her parents and left her with a ghastly scar across her face. Now 22, it’s time to leave Boston and start over fresh somewhere else. But where? Widowed father - and the preacher of Shadow Gulch, Idaho - David Thompkins is seeking a mother for his five-year-old daughter. He writes to a matrimonial agency back east for a suitable bride.