Beth Pendleton is tired of the gossip her three failed engagements--each arranged by her pompous father--have created. She knows she's not a jinx, an Ice Queen, a snob, or any of the other hurtful labels slapped on her. She takes food to the ill, serves the community in numerous ways, and is active in church. For her twenty-eight years she has tried to please her demanding parents. Neither her mother nor her father has ever had an encouraging word to say to her. Spiteful comments from her only cousin incite Beth to take charge of her fate. She proposes to Mason Whittaker, her lifelong friend...

A substitute mail-order bride? Bear Baldwin is crushed when he receives a wire notifying him that the woman with whom he has corresponded for almost a year has passed him off to her friend. Do the two women think he's like an old shirt to be handed down? His mother urges him to give the substitute fiancee a chance, but his pride is stung and he hasn't decided. Tabitha Masterson is certain whatever awaits her in Radford Springs, Texas will be better than what her brother and that awful William have in mind in Boston. After her father's death, her brother has become a tyrant. She escapes to...

Storm Kincaid wants justice; Rena Dmitriev wants vengeance. When Storm's best friend and the friend's wife are murdered, Storm secures a temporary appointment as Federal Marshal so he can trail and capture the killers. He follows them to twenty one year old Rena's home, which is in flames when he arrives. She has surived by following her elderly husband's instuctions while the men murdered the him. Storm intends to take her to the nearest town where she will be safe. She can identify the men who killed the person who had been her husband in name only and like a grandfather to her, and she...

Sensual western historical romance set in 1885. Second edition. New cover. After fleeing an abusive husband six years ago, Beth Jeffers wants nothing more than to protect her son Davey and to help her mother operate a Texas Hill Country boarding house. The strong women in her family have had no luck with men, and she has no intention of letting any man influence her son. Not even Matt Petrov, no matter how much her lonely heart urges otherwise. Federal Marshall Matt Petrov, also known as Lone Wolf Peters, fell in love with Beth the first time he saw her. Then she was another man's wife, so he...

Courtney Madison has battled poverty her entire twenty-five years but is determined to make a safe and happy home for her teenaged brother after the recent death of their mom. Her mom's illness left Courtney with a mountain of hospital bills, her formerly sweet brother Jimmy is now cutting class and hanging with a rough crowd, and she's just learned she's being downsized in two weeks. Hanging on by the threads of a fraying rope, she learns she's inherited two million dollars from a kind elderly man she befriended when he was in the hospital across the hall from her mom. She thinks her...

Gabe Kincaid has reasons to hate lies and those who tell them. He moved from Austin to Kincaid Springs and joined his great uncle's law firm. Gabe believes he's happy and pushes aside] those moments of loneliness, of wishing for more. He strongly believes in the law, in justice, and obeying rules. Doing what's right is fulfilling, isn't it? Then why is he so fascinated with a circus fortuneteller who spins tales faster than a cowboy whirls his lariat? Katie Worthington poses as Dorothy Duncan in a circus. If she isn't behind the scenes mending costumes or in the circus kitchen, she's...

Revised and updated, Death In The Garden is the first of the Heather Cameron mysteries. Garden center manager Heather Cameron must solve the Death In The Garden to prove her old family friend, mentor, and employee, Walter Sims, is innocent of murdering the meanest man in town. Heather can't trust the police to find the real killer when all clues point to poor Walter. The dead man was beaten to death with Walter's shovel several hours after they were overheard arguing, and the two men had a long history of enmity. Walter definitely looks guilty, but Heather is sure-well, almost positive-okay,...

Sweet western historical romance of 60,000 words by bestselling author Caroline Clemmons is a stand-alone novel of the Stone Mountain Texas series and includes murder, danger, and adventure. When Kendra Murdoch's brother in law murders her sister, she takes charge of her nephew and two nieces. Fearing the man plans the same fate for her, she seeks shelter in Radford Crossing where she opens a cafe to support her small family. Determined to be self-sufficient, Kendra shuns all advances from the handsome sheriff as danger hangs heavily over her head. Butch Parrish battled a snowstorm and a...

Finn O'Neill longs for his own ranch, his own horses, his own home and family but thought the lofty dream beyond him. Now the opportunity has arisen but to achieve his dream, he bargains with Grandpa McClintock and his nephew to pose as a miner and seek out the person or persons causing disasters at the Farland Coal Mine. Stella Clayton has witnessed the heartbreak and tragedy of a coal miner's life. Her family came from England to the promise of a better life only to find the same hardships. She is determined that her young brother will never follow in their father's footsteps. And she vows...

Nettie Clayton's well-planned life is stolen in a few moments when Josh McClintock mistakes her window for that of her carousing neighbor. Nevermind that Nettie'd had a crush on Josh since they met. Because of his carelessness, she loses her coveted teaching position, the community's respect, and her father's high opinion of her. Josh McClintock's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt end after his birthday celebration. He works hard by day on the family ranch; he plays just as hard on weekends. He loves being single to play the field of willing females and has no plan to marry for five or...