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Storm's Refuge: A Longview Romance (A Longview Romance #1)
by Nancy M. BellThe only thing bigger than the storm in Michelle's heart is the blizzard raging across the Alberta prairie outside her window. Finding an injured stray dog is the last thing she needs. Add to the mix the handsome new vet who is taking over her beloved Doc’s practice and peace of mind is not in the picture. Cale Benjamin is too nice to be for real. Michelle is still smarting from being jilted by her high school sweetheart fiancé and not in the mood to trust any man, let alone one as drop dead gorgeous as Dr. Cale Benjamin DVM. The injured stray, Storm, keeps putting Michelle in Cale’s path whether she likes it or no. She is distressed to find that the handsome young vet is sliding past her carefully erected defenses and into her heart. A few well placed nudges from Doc’s match maker wife, Mary, help the young doctor’s cause, but will it be enough to make the lady rancher allow him into her life?
Storm's Thunder
by Brandon BoyceFrom the bloody banks of the Rio Grande to the edge of the American frontier comes this truly epic Western from the author of the acclaimed Here by the Bloods. A Twelve Man Massacre Along the Rio Grande, a dozen bodies fester in the sun. Harlan Two-Trees discovers the massacre, but wants nothing to do with it. Mistrusted by the whites who run Caliche Bend and estranged from the Navajo, Harlan heads west to California--to freedom. He will find the Rio Grande's bloody baptism does not wash off so easily. Death Rides Alongside From his berth aboard the gleaming Santa Fe railway, Harlan brims with the promise of a new life in California. But when a daring robbery maroons him in the desert, he is back in the world he knows--where death is king, and justice comes from the smoking barrel of a gun. Pursued by a murderous, insane, lone lawman who dogs his every move, Harlan has a new goal--to stagger out of the desert alive . . .
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 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.
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!
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 SandsShould she pretend to be the woman he loves?Working with new client and ex-lover Risk Boone is bound to be…enticing. So April Adams dons a fake engagement ring to ward off temptation. 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: Stranded With The Rancher Her Secret Husband A High Stakes Seduction (Texas Cattleman's Club: After the Storm #2)
by Janice MaynardEnemies forced together just might become lovers in USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard's Texas Cattleman's Club tale For billionaire horse breeder Drew Farrell, the day starts with the usual argument with ornery neighbor 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 only rivaled 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 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…
The Strange
by Nathan Ballingrud&“Stretches the boundaries of the genre.&” —The New York Times 1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt&’s gang who have stolen her mother&’s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance in this &“page-turner&” (Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun) from Nathan Ballingrud.Since Anabelle&’s mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father&’s diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher, as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked. At once evoking the dreams of an America explored in Ray Bradbury&’s The Martian Chronicles and the harsher realities of frontier life in Charles Portis True Grit, Ballingrud&’s &“brilliant&” (Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World) novel is haunting in its evocation of Annabelle&’s quest for revenge amidst a spent and angry world accompanied by a domestic Engine, a drunken space pilot, and the toughest woman on Mars. Nathan Ballingrud&’s stories have been adapted into the film Wounds and the Hulu series Monsterland, The Strange is his first novel.
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 CananShe felt no hesitation… She was his.“I’m your husband.”Victoria 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? As powerful desire leads her into Wade’s bed, a surprise she’ll never forget is in store…
A Stranger in Town (A Will Tanner Western #2)
by William W. Johnstone J. A. JohnstoneTHE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY America's greatest western storytellers begin the explosive new legend of Will Tanner, a U.S. deputy marshal who will risk everything to save a friend, and bring two desperados to justice . . . The train grinds to a halt somewhere in the Indian Nations, and the bandits get onboard. They take everything on the train worth stealing and gun down a guard to make their escape--just another notch on the belt for Ben Trout and Zack Larsen, two of the most savage killers in the west. U.S. Deputy Marshal Ed Pine follows them to Muskogee. There the trail runs cold, and Ed Pine diappears. To save his friend, Deputy Will Tanner rides for Muskogee, where justice extends only as far as the range of a Colt .45. Tanner earned his badge in a blistering gunfight, when he got the drop on a trio of killers and saved the life of another fellow marshal. Now, he'll have to be just as quick--and just as deadly. To bring in Trout and Larsen, Tanner must set his badge aside, and resort to the law of the gun.
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
The Stranger's Secrets
by Beth WilliamsonBetrayed By Her Own Heart Sarah Spalding has learned to forge her own way and never to trust anyone--least of all a Yankee. But when her companion abandons her while on a train to Colorado, Sarah begrudgingly accepts the help of Whitman Kendrick--a Yankee, yes, but one with the most bewitching green eyes. Allowing Whit to be her traveling escort is one thing, taking him as a lover is another--even though shes tempted beyond reason. . . Whit Kendrick isnt quite sure what to make of the sharp-tongued, sassy woman sharing his train compartment. All he knows is that Sarah is refreshingly different from most women--and his urgent, primal attraction for her is unlike any hes experienced. Breaking down Sarahs wall of defense wont be easy. But Whit is determined to prove to Sarah that theyre more alike than different--and loving each other is all they need. . . "Williamson spins a fast-paced story. . . that intrigues as it titillates. " --Romantic Times on The Education of Madeline
The Stranger's Secrets
by Beth Williamson Vonna HarperBetrayed By Her Own Heart Sarah Spalding has learned to forge her own way and never to trust anyone--least of all a Yankee. But when her companion abandons her while on a train to Colorado, Sarah begrudgingly accepts the help of Whitman Kendrick--a Yankee, yes, but one with the most bewitching green eyes. Allowing Whit to be her traveling escort is one thing, taking him as a lover is another--even though she's tempted beyond reason. . . Whit Kendrick isn't quite sure what to make of the sharp-tongued, sassy woman sharing his train compartment. All he knows is that Sarah is refreshingly different from most women--and his urgent, primal attraction for her is unlike any he's experienced. Breaking down Sarah's wall of defense won't be easy. But Whit is determined to prove to Sarah that they're more alike than different--and loving each other is all they need. . . "Williamson spins a fast-paced story. . .that intrigues as it titillates." --Romantic Times on The Education of Madeline
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 ChunA 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.
The Streel: A Deadwood Mystery
by Mary LogueFrom &“the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries&” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century DeadwoodWhen I was fifteen and my brother Seamus sixteen, we attended our own wake. Our family was in mourning, forced to send us off to America.The year is 1880, and of all the places Brigid Reardon and her brother might have dreamed of when escaping Ireland&’s potato famine by moving to America, Deadwood, South Dakota, was not one of them. But Deadwood, in the grip of gold fever, is where Seamus lands and where Brigid joins him after eluding the unwanted attentions of the son of her rich employer in St. Paul—or so she hopes. But the morning after her arrival, a grisly tragedy occurs; Seamus, suspected of the crime, flees, and Brigid is left to clear his name and to manage his mining claim, which suddenly looks more valuable and complicated than he and his partners supposed.Mary Logue, author of the popular Claire Watkins mysteries, brings her signature brio and nerve to this story of a young Irish woman turned reluctant sleuth as she tries to make her way in a strange and often dangerous new world. From the famine-stricken city of Galway to the bustling New York harbor, to the mansions of Summit Avenue in St. Paul, and finally to the raucous hustle of boomtown Deadwood, Logue&’s new thriller conjures the romance and the perils, and the tricky everyday realities, of a young immigrant surviving by her wits and grace in nineteenth-century America.
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