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Stowaway Bride
by Adrianne WoodAdrianne Wood lays the track for a steamy westward journey when a plucky heiress and a rugged railroad tycoon make sparks fly on the rails. Emily Highfill Grant is done with the rules of Boston society. She wants adventure--to see things she's never seen before--and that's exactly what she gets when she sneaks onto a train bound for San Francisco and finds herself face-to-face with a handsome, bare-chested stranger . . . who is also her wealthy grandfather's nemesis. As stowaways go, the breathtaking woman who turns up in Lucien Delatour's private Pullman Palace car is most intriguing. Though she refuses to reveal more than her first name, Emily creates a lot of scintillating commotion on their cross country journey. But when Lucien discovers her true identity, the real trouble begins, and he faces a choice between the trailblazing railroad he invested everything in, and the feisty lover who captured his heart.ve spent a fortune to create. Racing west, Lucien is determined to prove that the saboteur is his old nemesis--Charles Bertram Highfill. When Emily's family sends agents to retrieve her, Lucien marries her to keep her safe. But when he finds out who her grandfather is, Lucien can't help but feel betrayed...and soon he is torn between saving his railroad and saving his marriage.
Straight From Boothill
by William HopsonIn the short span of her seventeen years Lenore Devers had turned the heads of many men. Because of the beautiful willful and hotheaded Lenore, Slim Holcomb was corralled in a marriage that could only end in his undoing. Because of Lenore, Wes Allen was transformed from a happy-go-lucky wrangler into a drunken, trigger-happy gunman. Because of Lenore, Joe Docker, a tin-horn gambler with a fast shuffle, was playing stud with the Devil. Now, to save Lenore, someone would have to kill Wes Allen. And the only men with enough guts to do the job were two who had been Wes' saddle pardners--Lenore's younger brother Jim, and Quong, the mysterious Chinese cow-poke without a past. The range was ready to explode into gun fury... all because of Lenore!
Straight for the Heart
by Marsha CanhamMysterious, devious and gorgeous, Montana Rose was known on the gambling circuit as the Queen of the Mississippi riverboats. Equally cunning and rakishly handsome, Michael Tarrington was determined to become the one man who could call her bluff.
Stranded (Texas Law)
by Jennifer D. BokalAn unexpected reunionAnd the mission that may kill them Following a one-night stand, Eva Tamke ends up as the nurse on pilot Brett Wilson's air ambulance flight crew. They agree to keep things professional for the assignment, despite the chemistry still crackling between them. Until the helicopter crashes, freeing the serial killer they are transporting…and leaving them stranded as prey. The elements are deadly. The monster, likely injured but free from his bonds, is now stalking them. And their only chance at survival is each other…From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama.Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Texas Law series:Book 1: Texas Law: Undercover JusticeBook 2: Texas Law: Serial ManhuntBook 3: Texas Law: Lethal EncounterBook 4: StrandedBook 5: Desert Pursuit
Stranded and Seduced: Texas-sized Scandal (texas Cattleman's Club: Houston) / Stranded And Seduced (boone Brothers Of Texas) (Boone Brothers of Texas #2)
by Charlene SandsIn this sweet and sexy Texas romance, a woman’s fake engagement ring leads to real trouble when she’s stranded with the rodeo star who broke her heart.Things can be tricky when your new client is also an ex-lover. For smalltown Texas real estate agent April Adams, the commission from selling Canyon Lake Lodge is too good to pass up—but rodeo star River “Risk” Boone is also too sexy to resist.To ward off temptation, April dons a fake engagement ring. But when they’re stranded together at a remote lodge, there’s no running from their attraction—especially after Risk hits his head and wakes up thinking April’s his fiancée! Will she tell him the truth . . . or go along for the ride?
Stranded with a Cowboy: A Steamy Western Romance (Devil's Bluffs #2)
by Stacey KennedyAll this cowboy wanted was to escape the press. Now he&’s stuck in a tropical storm with a woman determined to leave when the rain is gone… Don&’t miss Stacey Kennedy&’s next Devil's Bluffs novel!She&’s given up on love…But a hot affair with a hot cowboy is ideal. Since being named Texas&’s Sexiest Bachelor, millionaire rancher Beau Ward has been hounded by reporters. The sexy single dad escapes to his remote cabin to protect his privacy—until Nora Keller appears amid a tropical storm. She says it&’s to plan her best friend&’s wedding to his brother…but she really wants a no-strings fling before she relocates to Paris. With the storm raging, the pair discover passion unlike any they&’ve ever known. Will walking away afterward prove harder than they&’d imagined?From Harlequin Desire: Passionate and provocative stories featuring rich, powerful heroes and scandalous family sagas.You&’ll be swept away by this bold, sizzling romance, part of the Devil's Bluffs series: Book 1: Most Eligible CowboyBook 2: Stranded with a Cowboy
Stranded with the Rancher (Wind River Cowboys #2)
by Rebecca WintersSTORY OF A LIFETIMEWyatt Fielding wasn’t just handsome. He was ridiculously gorgeous. So if more snow meant more time stranded in the Wind River mountains with him, Alex Dorney hoped it would never stop. For a New York journalist, two days trapped in a tent in a Wyoming blizzard should have been torture. But this was quickly becoming the best—and most important—story of Alex’s life.When Alex descended upon his camp, Wyatt was beyond stunned. Her breathtaking blonde beauty seemed out of place in the rugged landscape—but she was proving more resourceful, and intriguing, by the hour. His attraction came on stronger and more suddenly than the squall raging outside. But he didn’t know this woman. And she didn’t know his past…
Stranded with the Rancher: Her Montana Twins Small-town Billionaire Stranded With The Rancher
by Tina RadcliffeIn this sweet romance, a big city doctor is stranded in Colorado with a handsome single dad—only to discover the joys of country life, family . . . and love.Dr. Beth Rogers is about to start her new life in New York. The only thing standing in her way is a Colorado blizzard. Now she’s stranded on a beautiful ranch with Dan Gallagher, a single father she only just met. But while she waits for the roads to clear, Beth finds herself delivering babies in log cabins, helping to feed newborn calves, and teaching Dan’s little girl to play hymns on the piano. No-nonsense Beth even throws a snowball or two at the handsome, love-shy cowboy. She thought she had her heart set on leaving, so why does she dream of Dan asking her to stay forever?
Stranded with the Rancher: Stranded With The Rancher Her Secret Husband A High Stakes Seduction (Texas Cattleman's Club: After the Storm #2)
by Janice MaynardHigh drama leads to intense desire when a tornado forces rival neighbors to stay close in this contemporary Western romance series debut.Enemies forced together just might become lovers in USA Today–bestselling author Janice Maynard’s Texas Cattleman’s Club: After the Storm tale.For billionaire horse breeder Drew Farrell, the day starts with the usual argument with ornery neighbor, produce farmer Beth Andrews. But within minutes, he and the irritating beauty are huddled together in a storm cellar praying for their lives. They call a truce . . . and seal it with an unexpected kiss.They emerge to a scene of utter devastation. Their passion to rebuild is rivaled only by the very personal passion they’ve just discovered . . . until Beth’s past catches up with her, and a very different type of storm erupts.
Stranded with the Tycoon
by Sophie PembrokeThe man who sees her beauty... Ben Hampton is the last man in England that workaholic historian Luce would ever choose to be stranded with. Tall, dark and infuriatingly arrogant, he's also a reminder of her not-so-glorious romantic history-something she's spent the past few years burying herself in work to forget. Hotel tycoon Ben knows there's fire behind Luce's buttoned-up exterior, and fanning its flames is an irresistible temptation. Luckily, getting snowbound in the countryside gives him the perfect opportunity to tempt out the real Lucinda Myles!
Strange Cowboy
by Sam Michel"Sam Michel is such a smart, manic, virtuosic stylist . . . the kind of deep insights that make you suddenly and newly appreciative of the world around you."-George SaundersThere was a hot, high sun, a hard ground and a long way off to any certain water, and my wife, a tenderfoot, I thought, not immodest, seemed bent on ruined feet and spectacle, on making of herself to passing innocents a living proof of what could happen to a man and woman ventured too far off alone together in the desert. Yet who passed? Who could be so innocent? Snakes and ravens, rabbits, buzzards, toads-- these passed, these witnessed, and what could they have made from us?...I saw myself preceded by my wife. I wanted to follow her, feel what she felt; I thought that I might find myself absolved... Maybe I would get some. Somewhere in me was a cheerful voice assuring me that what this needed was our getting laid.Here is the head of his home-the one to speak, surely-on the occasion of his son Lincoln Dahl Jr.'s fifth birthday. Wife and mother order him to engage with his boy, but he remains in his chair dreaming up the speech he'll give to convey his life and glory to his boy, meanwhile avoiding his child and all others, until forced from his chair. Here's cowboy Beckett, a man of wonder and excess.Sam Michel is the author of Under the Light and Big Dogs and Flyboys.
Stranger in His Bed: Stranger In His Bed (the Masters Of Texas) / One Night Scandal (The Masters of Texas #3)
by Lauren CananHe says he’s her husband. But with her memory shattered, can she trust him—and give in to temptation? “A scrumptious and sensual story for romance fans!” —Fresh FictionVictoria Masters remembers nothing after the accident that stole her past, not even her name. Now she’s living in a billionaire rancher’s palatial home and finding this sensual stranger impossible to resist. He says he’s her husband, but why does she get the sense he’s holding back? Now, as a powerful desire leads her into Wade’s bed, a surprise she’ll never forget is in store . . .
Strangers and Pilgrims (Homestead #1)
by Stephen A. BlyThe Bowers are not your typical, late-nineteenth-century homesteading family. They did not move west to farm Nebraska; they moved east. Matthew Bowers won't be working the land; his wife Lissa will--despite her diminutive size. And while Papa is dreaming of new ideas and Mama is farming, it will be 17-year-old Jolie who runs the household and mothers her three younger siblings. It's unusual, but the Bowers are determined to make this plan--unlike all of Matthew's others--work. That is, if Mama can get the team of horses to settle down and plow. If they can conquer the challenges of floods, grasshoppers and cash flow that keep them on the edge of survival. And if Jolie can keep every young man in the state from fighting over her. The Bowers are a family of faith in a land where everyone is a stranger and pilgrim... at least for a few days. People of warmth, love and hospitality who don't hesitate to defy convention. A family no one ever forgets or wants to lose as a friend. A family readers will want to get to know for themselves.
Strangers in the Forest
by Carol Ryrie Brink Mary E. Reed"Strangers in the Forest, originally published in 1959, was included in the popular Reader's Digest Condensed Books series. Set in the white pine timberland of the Idaho panhandle in 1908, the story explores the early efforts of the new U. S. Forest Service to instill a sense of conservation - a new concept in Idaho's seemingly inexhaustible forests. " "The Forest Service's Bundy Jones heads west to investigate people taking timber homesteads in the north Idaho woods, suspecting that their real intention is to sell out for profit to lumber companies. Jones befriends the homesteaders, but when his connection with the Forest Service is revealed, most of the homesteaders turn against him. The inferno of a north Idaho forest fire once again unites Jones and the timber settlers. "--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Stranglehold: Stranglehold (A Duff MacCallister Western #9)
by William W. Johnstone J. A. JohnstoneJohnstone Country. Where others fear to tread. Descended from a long line of fighters, lovers, and dreamers, the MacCallister clan are legends in their homeland of Scotland. But when Duff MacCallister came to America, it seems he brought the legend—and the war—along with him . . . STRANGLEHOLD Here in America, life is full of surprises. Duff never expected to hear from his old friend Charles McGregor, his batallion commander from the Black Watch Regiment of Her Majesty’s army. Turns out McGregor lives in New Mexico now. And he needs Duff’s help. He’s started a new life as the mayor of Antelope Wells—a mining town that’s being targeted by a power-hungry madman Ebenezer Schofield, who wants to declare the whole area an independent principality—and himself as king. He’s already squeezing taxes out of the local businesses and citizens. But no one has the guts to stop him. Because Parker’s got his own private army of fifty uniformed men, six Mexican revolution cannons—and a traitor working on his side in the heart of Antelope Wells . . . This is more than just a favor for a friend. This is justice. This is payback. This is war. And this is Duff MacCallister. Live Free. Read Hard.
Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel
by Ye ChunLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of ExcellenceWinner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka PrizeWinner of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Best Book AwardA harrowing and redemptive immigrant story for readers of PachinkoA Chinese railroad worker and his young daughter—sold into servitude—in 19th century California search for family, fulfillment, and belonging in a violent new land"Heaven and earth do not pick and choose.They see everything as straw dogs." A sweeping historical novel of the American West from the little-seen perspective of those who helped to build it, Straw Dogs of the Universe traces the story of one Chinese father and his young daughter, desperate to find him against all odds.After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family. As she makes her way through an unforgiving new world, her father, a railroad worker in California, finds his attempts to build a life for himself both upended and defined by along-lost love and the seemingly inescapable violence of the American West. A generational saga ranging from the villages of China to the establishment of the transcontinental railroad and the anti-Chinese movement in California, Straw Dogs of the Universe considers the tenacity of family ties and the courage it takes to survive in a country that rejects you, even as it relies upon your labor.
Strawberry Lane: A Touching Texas Love Story (Someday Valley #1)
by Jodi ThomasSet in Someday Valley, surrounding the charming small town of Honey Creek, Texas, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas&’s latest novel tells the heartwarming, tenderly romantic tale of a man who drives his car off a cliff—straight into a life he never imagined . . . Starri Knight is a big believer in fate. How else to explain the compelling connection she feels to the stranger she pulls out of a wrecked car on the very same road where her parents died twenty years earlier? Alongside Auntie Ona-May, the only mother she&’s ever known, Starri saves Rusty O&’Sullivan&’s life—just as Ona-May once did when Starri was an orphaned babe. But convincing Rusty he has something to live for is going to take all of Starri&’s faith in miracles . . . Like a wish he hadn&’t even known to make, Starri landed in Rusty&’s life, filling him with a longing for a family. . . . Then Jackson Landry, a new lawyer, turns up to present a surprise that will change the direction of his life: An inheritance from the father Rusty never knew—and the promise of the family he&’d never had. It&’s a lot for the hard-bitten loner to accept as love from an unexpected direction rushes into his life . . . A sense of duty has Rusty heading to Honey Creek to deal with his father&’s estate—and find his lost siblings. But having family is one thing, learning to love them is another. Good thing new friends are by his side to help him along the way.
Streets of Laredo: A Novel (Lonesome Dove Ser. #No. 4)
by Larry McmurtryThe final book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism in the days of the old American West.
Strength Under Fire (Silver Creek #3)
by Lindsay McKennaNew York Times bestselling author Lindsay McKenna returns to Silver Creek, Wyoming, where a Black Ops veteran finds the strength to fight again when a dangerous terrorist group comes after his beautiful boss . . . Bereft after the brutal loss of her parents, Dana Scott sinks nearly every dime of her inheritance into buying Wildflower Ranch, believing that once she restores the rustic cabin, and farms the untamed acreage, her soul will be whole once more. Hiring wrangler Colin Gallagher to help out just makes sense. But as she works side by side with the handsome loner, she feels an unexpected kinship, and a longing for connection she believed was lost to her forever . . . Colin is only in Silver Creek long enough to make some money and move on. Restless, spiritually broken, the former Army Ranger has nothing left to give after his harrowing time in battle. But helping Dana make a life for herself has him yearning for more. Until the domestic terrorists that destroyed Dana&’s family catch up with her, determined to silence her forever. It&’s a threat that has Colin calling on all his considerable training to keep safe the woman who has taken hold of his heart . . . &“The romance is . . . rich with emotion and intensified by suspense.&”—Publishers Weekly starred review on Silver Creek Fire
Strike of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man #40)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneA young man has inherited a ranch—and a whole lot of trouble—in this Western in the New York Times bestselling series.In Colorado Territory, Smoke Jensen is trying to live at peace with the big, beautiful world around him. Then a tinhorn named Puddle enters his valley—and unleashes a hellstorm of a range war.Then the shooting startedMalcolm Theodore Puddle is a twenty-one-year-old shipping clerk—from way back East. What is he doing out here? The Mountain Man's former neighbor, Humbolt Puddle, has died and left his crumbling six-hundred-acre ranch to his only living heir, just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron is circling the Humbolt ranch like a ravenous vulture. Poor, unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap.Smoke is the not the pitying kind. But any enemy of Smoke's neighbor is his enemy, too: Kill-crazy hired gunmen are threatening the whole valley and good men are dying. Puddle may not be much, but he's all Smoke has—as a take-no-prisoners mountain man and a timid tinhorn make for an army of two . . . in one hell of a fight.
Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea
by Vera B. Williams Jennifer WilliamsStringbean describes his trip to the west coast in a series of postcards.
Stringer
by Lou CameronHe's making news with his fists, his gun...and the ladies. The San Francisco Sun's freelance field stringer Stuart "Stringer" MacKail needs a new story to sell to pay the bills. His editor sends him back to MacKail's home town in Calaveras County for an update on an old legend about a stagecoach robbery by "Sulky Jack" and its missing treasure. Stringer's feet barely hit the ground when the bullets begin flying and it quickly becomes clear that folks are still trying to find the treasure and will stop anyone who gets in their way. Dead bodies, hard drinking and friendly women abound, and it's up to Stringer to uncover whatever truth may exist to get the story written and get himself back to Frisco in once piece.
Stringer and the Border War
by Lou CameronOnly Pancho Villa, king of bandits, is gutsy enough to make war on Terrazas the tyrant. And only Villa would sell tickets to one of his massacres. A curious mob settles along the Rio Grande, waiting for a bloodbath. They don't know that they've wasted their two bits on a phony war. Only one man is wise to Villa's crafty fake-Stringer MacKail. The adventurer-turned-newsman saddles a fast horse and tracks the real war to Mexico's sun-parched badlands. The desert erupts in a hellish inferno of torture and death as Villa's fearless gang shoots it out with Terraza's battle-scarred army. A murderous band of Yaqui warriors adds to the slaughter. It's a hell of a war. And a hell of a story...if Stringer lives to tell it.
Stringer and the Deadly Flood
by Lou CameronEveryone knows that Salton's Sink is the driest patch of greasewood in the whole damned Colorado Desert. So when a slick land syndicate promises cheap water to a pack of greenhorn settlers, Stringer is more than a mite suspicious. One booze-thirsty engineer knows the truth about International Irrigation, but he's six feet under with a chest full of lead. Just a drunk's bad luck? Maybe, but Stringer's hanging on to his Winchester. Because in the Colorado Desert, the cheapest piece of land a man can buy is an unmarked grave.
Stringer and the Hanging Judge
by Lou CameronThey say Judge Roy Bean's been up to some legal tomfoolery again. And it's MacKail's job to get the scoop on the infamous "hanging judge." But someone is out to stop Stringer...dead. Now it could be old Bean and some of his boys. Or maybe it's just another Lone Star gunslick with too much nerve and too little smarts. The only thing MacKail knows for sure is that newspaper men ain't welcome. Especially not around Bean or his laughing pack of blood-simple coyotes. The only person who even says howdy is a south-of-the-border bandit about to turn revolutionary. But with Pancho Villa on your side, you don't need any enemies!