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Light the Stars: A Romance Novel
by Raeanne ThayneReturn to the one that started it all with the very first book in the beloved Cowboys of Cold Creek series! Wade Dalton is having a bad day: his five-year-old has accidentally set the kitchen on fire. His daughter is surly, as usual. The baby hasn't been fed yet. And his mother—aka "the childminder"—has eloped with a scam artist. Could it get any worse? Turns out it can, when the annoyingly beautiful daughter of said scam artist shows up at the door, batting her doe eyes at Wade and offering to be his temporary nanny until the newlyweds' return. Could he trust her to be under his roof? Could he trust himself with her under his roof? Originally published in 2006
Lightning
by Zane GreyZane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bes selling book. This is one of his stories.
Lightning of Gold: A Western Story
by Max BrandFrom legendary Western author Max Brand comes a tale of covert espionage, gold, and a mysterious figure on horseback. In this dramatic and strange story, Lefty Bill Ranger, an Alaskan mail carrier, travels to Circle City through a terrific snowstorm. There he meets Menneval--a man who is widely feared throughout the territory--and is offered a job. He is to go to Tuckerville, California, and from there to the mountain fastness where Peter Crosson and his son, Oliver, live in total isolation. Menneval wants Ranger to watch and report what he sees for a period of six months. The pay for this espionage will be $6,000 in gold. Ranger, attracted by the money, accepts the assignment. In the Sierra Mountains, Ranger sets up his camp and, pretending to be a trapper, keeps the Crosson ranch under surveillance. One day, Ranger is amazed to witness a gigantic mountain lion being pursued by a pack of wolves and followed by a bronzed youth on horseback. The wolf pack seems to be under the guidance of the youth, who carries only a hunting knife. Later, two hardcases fully armed with rifles and revolvers attempt to enter the Crosson range, intent on rustling Crosson cattle. They disappear, and, when Ranger next sees them, the men are afoot, covered with wounds, their clothes in tatters, fleeing in terror for their very lives. It is here that Lefty Bill Ranger will experience, for the first time, what is called the lightning of gold.
Lights, Cowboy, Action
by Lesley Ann McDanielMatchmaking is not in Courtney’s job descriptionAs assistant to a famous actress, Courtney is used to fulfilling ridiculous requests. Then her boss demands a date with handsome cowboy Adam Greene while on location in Montana. Delivering up Adam just doesn’t seem right. Especially since Courtney’s got her eye on him, too.Adam’s not interested in high-maintenance actresses. But he can’t deny his attraction to sweet, fresh-faced Courtney. How can a small-town guy compete with glitz and glamour? Leave it to a cowboy to wrangle himself a Hollywood ending....
Lily (Seven Brides #7)
by Leigh GreenwoodThe way Zac Randolph saw it, he was the luckiest man on earth. The handsome devil even owned his own Little Corner of Heaven, the best saloon in California. And with every temptress on the Barbary Coast yearning to take him to paradise, he certainly had no plans to be trapped by the so-called wedded bliss that had already claimed his six brothers. Then an enchanting angel came into his life, and Zac had to fight harder than ever to escape the holds of matrimony.
Lily and the Major (Orphan Train #1)
by Linda Lael MillerThe first novel in the romantic Orphan Train trilogy is a beloved historical classic about a woman who must choose between her family and her one true love—by #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller.In his arms, she discovered how tender—and how bold—true passion could be… Lily Chalmers wanted only two things from life—a farm of her own, and to find the sisters she hadn’t seen since they were all little girls heading West on the orphan train. She certainly had no desire for a husband. Yet proud, innocent Lily had no idea what desire meant until she met Major Caleb Halliday, a man who could ignite her very being with a single touch…a glance…a whisper. Sheltered in his arms, Lily rode the crest of a wild, helpless passion. And though she struggled against her own willful heart, she knew she could never choose between the dazzling man who had claimed her love so completely, and her bold, long-cherished dream…
Lin McLean
by Owen WisterIn the old days, the happy days, when Wyoming was a Territory with a future instead of a State with a past, and the unfenced cattle grazed upon her ranges by prosperous thousands, young Lin McLean awaked early one morning in cow camp, and lay staring out of his blankets upon the world. He would be twenty-two this week. He was the youngest cow-puncher in camp. But because he could break wild horses, he was earning more dollars a month than any man there, except one. The cook was a more indispensable person. None save the cook was up, so far, this morning. Lin's brother punchers slept about him on the ground, some motionless, some shifting their prone heads to burrow deeper from the increasing day. The busy work of spring was over, that of the fall, or beef round-up, not yet come. It was mid-July, a lull for these hard-riding bachelors of the saddle, and many unspent dollars stood to Mr. McLean's credit on the ranch books. "What's the matter with some variety?" muttered the boy in his blankets. The long range of the mountains lifted clear in the air. They slanted from the purple folds and furrows of the pines that richly cloaked them, upward into rock and grassy bareness until they broke remotely into bright peaks, and filmed into the distant lavender of the north and the south. On their western side the streams ran into Snake or into Green River, and so at length met the Pacific. On this side, Wind River flowed forth from them, descending out of the Lake of the Painted Meadows. A mere trout-brook it was up there at the top of the divide, with easy riffles and stepping-stones in many places; but down here, outside the mountains, it was become a streaming avenue, a broadening course, impetuous between its two tall green walls of cottonwood-trees. And so it wound away like a vast green ribbon across the lilac-gray sage-brush and the yellow, vanishing plains.
Linda Lael Miller Brides of Bliss County Series Books 1-3
by Linda Lael MillerJoin #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller in Bliss County, where the women are ready to meet the men of their dreams! THE MARRIAGE PACT Ten years ago, Hadleigh Stevens was eighteen and this close to saying "I do," when Tripp Galloway interrupted her walk down the aisle. Now that she's recovered from her youthful mistake and Tripp's interference, Hadleigh and her single friends form a marriage pact. She doesn't expect Tripp to meddle with her new plan to find Mr. Right--or to discover that she's more attracted to him than ever! Divorced and eager to reconnect with his cowboy roots, Tripp returns to Bliss County to save his ailing father's ranch. He's not looking for another wife--certainly not his best friend's little sister. But he's never been able to forget Hadleigh... THE MARRIAGE CHARM The women of Bliss County have a pact--to find husbands. The right husbands. One already has: Hadleigh Stevens, who married rancher Tripp Galloway a few months ago. Now Melody Nolan thinks it's her turn. Melody has recently found success as a jewelry designer, and her work is the focus of her life. She's not exactly unhappy, but she wants more. She's always been attracted to Spence Hogan, the local chief of police, but she's convinced that Spence, a notorious charmer, isn't what you'd call husband material. Spence is a good cop who isn't scared of anything--except love. And yet...there's something about Melody. Something his heart can't ignore. THE MARRIAGE SEASON Since Hadleigh, Melody and Bex--the best of best friends--entered into a marriage pact, two of them have found (and married) the men of their hearts. But Bex doesn't think she'll be as fortunate as the others. Then single father Tate Calder comes to Mustang Creek with his two sons in tow, boys who befriend Bex's eightyearold nephew. Which means she and the handsome, aloof newcomer are constantly thrown together. But is the marriage season over? Or can a man with doubts about love be the right husband for a woman who wants it all?
Linda Lael Miller Classic Romance Favorites Volume 1: Wild About Harry, Ragged Rainbows, Snowflakes on the Sea, and Daring Moves
by Linda Lael MillerSometimes a second chance is all you need… Don’t miss a single classic story in this collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller.Wild About HarryAmy Ryan strictly defined herself in three ways: successful businesswoman, devoted mother and grieving widow. Wild certainly never entered into the description. That is, until she met powerful Australian businessman Harry Griffith. Suddenly, Amy was doing all kinds of wild things—enjoying romantic dinners, taking spontaneous luxury vacations… and maybe, finally, falling in love again? Ragged RainbowsMitch Prescott was Shay Kendall’s savior. He’d bought her mother’s mansion on the Washington coast, a financial albatross that Shay couldn’t handle. And now he’s offered her true financial independence—a dream as seductive as Mitch himself. But everything has a price, and the cost might be too much for Shay…Snowflakes on the SeaInternational singing sensation Nathan McKendrick has it all—the looks, the talent, the charisma. It’s not surprising that half the world was infatuated with him, but his heart is with his wife, Mallory. The success of their marriage had always defied the odds, but when the bond between them is damaged, they must fight for everything they took for granted. And now, every Christmas they spend together reminds them that their love is everlasting….Daring MovesAn encounter with dashing widower Jordan Richards is making Amanda Scott question the walls she’s put up around herself. She’d fallen for the wrong man once before, but perhaps there’s a chance Jordan is different. But dare she fall in love again with a man whose heart holds wounds greater than her own, especially when her own earlier mistakes refuse to stay in the past?Originally published in 1990, 1986, 1990, and 1990
Linda Lael Miller Classic Western Romance Favorites: Just Kate\Part of the Bargain\Deadly Deceptions
by Linda Lael MillerLove in the West has never been easy… Don’t miss a single classic story in this collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller.Just KateEver since Kate Blake’s sister died in a car accident, it’s been just Kate to live up to her senator father’s expectations and her mother’s idea of perfection. But now, after a painful betrayal by those she loves, she decides it’s time to live for herself and claim what she wants. And what she wants is Sean Harris. The only man she’s ever loved…her late sister’s husband.Part of the BargainTo heal the wounds left by a broken marriage and the death of her beloved stepson, Libby Kincaid returned to the ranch where she grew up. But instead of the solace she craved, she found Jess Barlowe—sexy, alluring, and mad as hell. For years Jess had been her enemy. But soon those adversarial sparks ignited into a fire of passion…Deadly DeceptionsMojo is trying to enjoy her lovely new home, courtesy of her wealthy sister, Greer, but she’d rather be back in her apartment in Cave Creek, Arizona. Life was a lot simpler then. Now her sexy cop boyfriend can’t seem to let go of his past, while her sister’s being blackmailed for secrets in hers. There’s also a ghost who who needs help, but as the murders pile up, Mojo’s starting to discover secrets that even the dead don’t want disturbed.Originally published in 1989, 1985, and 2008
Linda Lael Miller Stone Creek Series Books 4-6: A Stone Creek Christmas\The Bridegroom\At Home in Stone Creek
by Linda Lael MillerThe last three stories in #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller's reader-favorite Stone Creek series In A Stone Creek Christmas, veterinarian Olivia O'Ballivan communicates easily with animals, but men are another story. Especially globe-trotting architect-turned-rancher Tanner Quinn, who is thrust into Olivia's life when she cares for his daughter Sophie's pony. Will Tanner and Olivia discover the holiday spirit...together? The Bridegroom finds undercover agent Gideon Yarbro honoring a decades-old promise to help Lydia Fairmont, even though she's being followed by a host of trouble. But can he keep his promise--even if he needs to marry her to save her?Ashley O'Ballivan is At Home in Stone Creek, where everyone in her life is marrying and starting families--except her. But why bother dating when no one can compare to Jack McCall, the man who left her heartbroken years ago? Now he's back in town...but maybe he isn't who she thinks he is.The Stone Creek Box Set Collection, Volumes 4--6A Stone Creek ChristmasThe BridegroomAt Home in Stone Creek
Lines Undrawn
by Marco MayWhen Benny returns home after his first year of college, he hopes to spend time with David, his mom's friend and housemate, an older man who had been a father figure during his youth. But when he discovers David is involved with his own best friend, Brit, he's torn about his feelings of jealousy. And to complicate matters even further, Brit lets it slip that David is not only attracted to both sexes, but he's actually interested in Benny also. To learn that this older man has had a mutual crush on him, now that he's no longer a boy, but a college man, Benny doesn't know how to handle it.Yet this exciting truth lights up Benny's life in a way he never experienced, and he soon discovers that an older man makes him feel more alive, especially when they explore a sexual relationship with room for romance.But one major obstacle threatens their path to happiness -- Benny's mother, who has no problems with her son's sexuality, but does have a major aversion to age-gap relationships. Benny is wracked with guilt for sneaking around with David behind her back, and knows he should come clean with her. But how will she take the news? Will she throw David, her long-time friend and boarder, out of the house? Will her feelings for Benny forever change? Or should they risk not telling her at all?
Lionhearted & Christmas Guardian (Long, Tall Texans Ser. #40)
by Diana Palmer Delores FossenBESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTIONReader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors.Lionhearted by New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer As the holiday season approaches, the residents of Jacobsville, Texas, are whispering about Janie Brewster's hopeless crush on Leo Hart. Up until now, all her efforts to lasso the dynamic cattleman had crumbled quicker than the mouthwatering biscuits the Hart men coveted. But this time bold Janie knows the perfect way to dazzle Leo: become a courageous cowgirl! Though her sudden transformation gets the wrong reaction from Leo, the last Hart bachelor begins to see her in a new light. Perhaps some Christmas magic will be just the thing Leo needs to warm up to Janie.FREE STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!Christmas Guardian by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen Despite his dark past, Jordan Taylor fell for the helpless infant left on his Texas doorstep with a frantic plea for help. The millionaire security agent had built a fortress around baby Gus…or so he thought until Kinley Ford shows up at Christmas fourteen months later, desperate to see her son and hoping for some protection.
Little Big Man
by Thomas BergerThe story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Little Big Man: A Novel (Little Big Man #1)
by Thomas BergerFrom kidnapped child to Cheyenne brave to General Custer's aide, no hero in the West had such a time as Little Big Man Jack Crabb sits in his nursing home, 111 years old and ready to spin a yarn. He's the last surviving western hero, a frontier original with a knack for stumbling into history. After his family was killed in a raid, Crabb was raised as an Indian, learning to ride, hunt, fight, and kill like the proudest of Cheyenne warriors. For the rest of his life, he slipped back and forth between the worlds of the Cheyenne and the white men, watching 1 half of his people extinguish the other, bit by bit. From the moment he 1st learned to notch a bow to the bloody day known as Custer's Last Stand, Little Big Man lived the wildest life in the Wild West. An utterly original novel, Little Big Man is considered one of the funniest Westerns ever written and a classic of American literature.
Little Century: A Novel
by Anna KeeseyIn the tradition of such classics as My Ántonia and There Will Be Blood, Anna Keesey's Little Century is a resonant and moving debut novel by a writer of confident gifts.Orphaned after the death of her mother, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers heads west in search of her only living relative. In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, she's met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. Pick leads her to a tiny cabin by a small lake called Half-a-Mind, and there she begins her new life as a homesteader. If she can hold out for five years, the land will join Pick's already impressive spread.But Esther discovers that this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a range war. There's plenty of land, but somehow it is not enough for the ranchers—it's cattle against sheep, with water at a premium. In this charged climate, small incidents of violence swiftly escalate, and Esther finds her sympathies divided between her cousin and a sheepherder named Ben Cruff, a sworn enemy of the cattle ranchers. As her feelings for Ben and for her land grow, she begins to see she can't be loyal to both.Little Century maps our country's cutthroat legacy of dispossession and greed, even as it celebrates the ecstatic visions of what America could become.
Little Cowgirl on His Doorstep
by Donna AlwardLittle cowgirl makes threeFor Avery Spencer, the sight of rugged, sullen and dangerously sexy Callum Shepard is enough to set her pulse racing. Too bad she's only on his ranch to tell him that her adorable baby niece is his daughter!Reclusive rancher Callum is shocked to discover he's a father. But now Callum must learn to believe he does have what it takes to become a dad, and convince Avery that both she and baby Nell belong on the ranch-with him!
Little Girl Lost
by Janet GoverWinner of the RoNA Award for Epic Romantic Novel of the Year: A tale of love and suspense in the Australian Outback. When Tia Walsh rides into the small town of Coorah Creek on a Harley-Davidson, Sergeant Max Delaney can tell that she’s got trouble written all over her. But Tia's trouble is not all of her own making—and the past she tried to leave behind is hot on her heels . . . Sarah Travers has returned home after three years of college to find that her parents have been keeping a devastating secret. And her childhood crush, Pete Rankin, is facing his own struggle with a harsh reality that will take him away from the girl and the life that he loves . . . Tia, Max, Sarah, and Pete are all trying to find a better future for themselves—but when a little girl goes missing in the outback, they will put aside their own concerns and join together as a community to find her before tragedy strikes.
Little Souls: A Novel
by Sandra DallasSandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America’s last deadly flu pandemicColorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and nightly horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Ohio after their parents’ death. Helen, a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer at Neusteter’s department store, share a small, neat house and each finds a local beau – for Helen a doctor, for Lutie a young student who soon enlists. They make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. When their tenant dies from the flu, the sisters are thrust into caring the woman’s small daughter, Dorothy. Soon after, Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body, an icepick in hand. She has no doubt Helen killed the man—Dorothy’s father—in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a victim of the flu.Meanwhile Lutie also worries about her fiance “over there”. As it happens, his wealthy mother harbors a secret of her own and helps the sisters as the danger deepens, from the murder investigation and the flu.Set against the backdrop of an epidemic that feels all too familiar, Little Souls is a compelling tale of sisterhood and of the sacrifices people make to protect those they love most.
Little World Apart
by S. Omar BarkerThe Kaiser's march on Belgium seemed far away. For here, high in the rugged mountains of New Mexico, wonder was all about them and the world was for the taking, which they did with great zest. Deer hunting, camping, riding--the Bohannon boys went everywhere together. This is a poignant novel of two brothers in the most sublime days of their youth, a novel that shines with affection, spirit, and compassion. Separated by conflicting temperaments and two years of age, Jeff and Chad share an intense and unusual bond of loyalty and love as they grow up on their father's small cattle ranch. Theirs is a hard way of life, filled with rugged duties, dangers, and devotion to their strict parents. Yet it is a life of happiness. Together Jeff and Chad had learned how to rope cattle and shoot deer. The younger Jeff never forgot the time he had to rescue Chad from the mountains, or the time the two of them went out after the great white buck Chad knew he'd seen. But suddenly the war comes very close and Jeff now realizes that Chad will one day go beyond their hill, into the wide world so different from their little one. Vaguely the two brothers sense that they will never again share experiences such as these, as they reach, first eagerly, then reluctantly towards manhood--and the end of their little world apart. Written by one of the most distinguished authors of the American Southwest, Little World Apart is a book filled with the enthusiasm of youth, the glow of the great outdoors, and the spirit of the bold people who made the Southwest what it is today.
Live by the West, Die by the West: The Smoke Jensen Saga (Mountain Man)
by William W. JohnstoneJohnstone Country. Where others fear to tread. With his bestselling Smoke Jensen series, William W. Johnstone has created a hero whose mountain-man roots, trail-driving grit, and gun-blazing sense of justice embody the frontier spirit of America. Here, in one volume, are two of the Western legend’s most powerful adventures . . . TRIUMPH OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN In a land of opportunity, there will be opportunists. But few are as vicious, cruel—or flat-out evil—as Clifton Satterly. This power-hungry robber baron has set his sights on Tua Pueblo, a quiet town in the New Mexico Territory. He plans to seize the timber-rich land through brute force and strip it clean with slave labor. But there’s one thing he didn’t plan on: a one-man wall of resistance named Smoke Jensen . . . JOURNEY OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN When it comes to outbursts of violence in the Old West, there’s nothing worse than a range war. They’re fueled by greed, fanned by gunfire, and fated to end in bloodshed, Which is why Smoke Jensen would just as soon keep his distance. But when his cousin Fae is involved, he’s got no choice but to strap on his Colts, team up with four old friends—and get ready for a hundred-gun showdown. This is going to be one hell of a fight . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
Live, Ranch, Love: A Novel (Willow Ridge Series #1)
by Emma LucyA sweet and sexy enemies-to-lovers romance about a wellness influencer who returns to her late aunt’s ranch in Colorado where she clashes with the grumpy and handsome head rancher. She’s here to sell my ranch, but now I think she might steal my heart.Rory Jones prided herself on the successful life she’d built as a wellness influencer and author—until she walked in on her boyfriend with another woman after a family funeral. Forced to run away to her late great aunt’s ranch in Colorado, Rory’s hoping that fixing up and selling the place will help her find her confidence and inspiration to write again.But Wyatt Hensley, the grumpy head rancher, isn’t willing to hand over the reins to the job he gave everything up for. Especially not to a yoga-loving, manifestation guru who doesn’t even know how to ride a horse. Yet, with a past that’s taught him to not bother dreaming anymore, even Wyatt knows he can’t hold on forever.Until one day they strike a deal that might just save both of their careers—help Rory turn the ranch into a wellness retreat and Wyatt can stay.With Rory’s shattered self-confidence and Wyatt’s last drop of hope also on the line, staying professional is a must. But can they ignore the sizzling tension growing between them that could jeopardize it all?Especially when the rocky path ahead seems a lot easier with the other riding beside them.
Llano River
by Elmer KeltonWhen former cattle man Dundee wanders into the town of Titusville, he's broke, tired and itching for a fight. Instead, he gets a job offer...from none other than the top man in town, John Titus.Titus recruits Dundee to find out who's rustling his extensive herd of cattle. But for Titus, it isn't enough that Dundee find the missing cattle. He wants to place the blame on a specific person...Blue Roan Hardesty, a one-time friend turned sworn enemy of the powerful Titus clan. All Titus needs is hard proof, and Dundee is just the man to get it.What Dundee uncovers creates a shooting war out of a simmering feud...with him in the middle.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Lock, Stock and McCullen
by Rita HerronDon't miss USA TODAY bestselling author Rita Heron's new miniseries, The Heroes of Horseshoe Creek... Sherriff Maddox McCullen cradled Rose Worthington, every protective fiber of his being firing as she shuddered against him. She told him how she had been brutally attacked and had killed the man-her fiancé!-in self defense. But when Maddox investigates the crime scene, he finds nothing. No bullet casing, no blood, no body. The deeper Maddox probes, the more questions arise, revealing a mysterious past that shatters all Rose has ever known. Caught in the crosshairs of escalating danger-and his powerful desire for Rose-Maddox vows to protect her. He'll risk his life to find a desperate enemy who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried.
Logan (Montana Creeds #1)
by Linda Lael MillerThis isn't your average eBook...As a special bonus, this eBook-exclusive edition of Montana Creeds: Logan comes enhanced with extra images of thre three Creed brothers-Logan, Dylan, and Tyler-and the Montana land they call home. This Enriched Edition will bring the world of the Montana Creeds to life, all without leaving your screen...Descendants of the legendary McKettrick family, the Creeds are renowned in Stillwater Springs, Montana-for raising hell...After years of wandering, Logan Creed, a cowboy with a dusty law degree, has returned home. To put down roots, to restore his family's neglected ranch...to have kids of his own proudly bearing the Creed name.Divorced mom Briana Grant has heard the stories about her gorgeous neighbor. So Logan's kindness with her young boys is a welcome surprise, especially when her ex reappears. And when an unknown enemy vandalizes her home, Logan shows Briana-and the folks of Big Sky country-just what he's made of.