It happened at the Pendleton Roundup 1974. Bronc and bull rider Bill Stempleton knew just what he wanted and how to get it. He needed to win his events long enough to buy the ranch of his dreams. He knew that is right up until he met the right woman at the wrong time. Sara had no idea what she wanted until a tall cowboy showed her some intriguing possibilities. He was like a wild wind blowing into her calm, ordered world and uprooting everything she thought she knew. Action, danger, drama, passion, and excitement are ahead when the rodeo comes to town. After this week, some lives will never...

Part 1," When Fates Conspire" asks the question is there fairness in life and what happens when we die, as two couples struggle to find their happily ever after while tragedy seems ever ready to put a period to their existence. With humor and pathos, two spirit guides, Remus and Justus try to make life better for these couples, but when fates conspire is that possible? Part 2, "The Dark of the Moon," the story advances a year and a half where Myra Farrell is struggling to hold onto her ranch, the Box Z, against formidable odds until a stranger appears. Will Pace Emerson be her salvation or...

In 1851, Independence, Missouri, a big wagon train waits to begin the 2200 mile trek to Oregon. Seventeen year old Amy Stevens shares her excitement at the journey with her best friend-- only to be disappointed in his less than enthusiastic reaction. When he suddenly kisses her, Amy, who fancies herself a future bluestocking, angrily tells him he is ruining everything. Changes are coming, but surely not for her and Matt. Three years older, already with too many hard experiences, Matthew shares none of her illusions as to what lies ahead. He also has seen how the train's scout, Adam Stone has...

Not everything in life can be explained or planned. Sometimes the unexpected take people places they never intended to go. In Tucson Moon as Priscilla is looking for answers to the unexplained, Cord has only problems and he is going to have more. Tucson Moon is about love, family relationships, the desert, and Arizona Territory in 1886-87 with main characters who carry over from "Arizona Sunset." Marshall Cord O' Brian and Priscilla Wesley disliked each other in the first book. Martin Matthews seemed mostly weak but he had since continued to make choices that carried him deeper into...

He had long loved her, a secret impossible love. At lonely campfires across the west, where death waited in the shadows, he had dreamed of her. Then word arrived that what had been impossible was no longer. When he came to convince her to be his own, she put up barriers. He could overcome those. Could he overcome the greatest of all-who he was? Oregon Territory held many dangers; but the one that killed Martha Stevens' beloved husband struck without warning on the most mundane of days. She has been forced to live alone, to make a life on her homestead, one that is purposeful, oriented to her...

In Arizona Territory, 1883, a woman's options were limited by her social status which Abigail Spenser resented. Despite her father's wishes, she planned to remain a spinster to avoid another man ruling her life-right up until she saw a way out. Was it safe? Who asks that question when an exciting option appears. Well maybe she should have. Sam Ryker had grown up in a brothel at the back of a saloon. He was tough, a gunslinger, and if not legally an outlaw in Arizona Territory, bordering right on it by rustling cattle south of the border to sell to rich Arizona ranchers. He didn't see any...