A mail-order bride from Cincinnati, Ariah Scott traveled all the way to Oregon to marry one man, only to lose her heart to another. What will become of her now? Ever since her father died at the hands of a vengeful relative, Ariah's life has been shadowed by dark secrets. And now her forbidden desire for Bartholomew Noon fills her with uncertainty -- and a secret longing that can never be fulfilled. And forbidden . . . From the moment Bartholomew saw Ariah standing alone at the Portland train station. The keeper of the Cape Meares Light was lost. Hopelessly in love with this angelic beauty who is fated to live beside him at the isolated lighthouse as the wife of another man, Bartholomew never dreams that destiny will someday bring them together. Is Ariah truly the woman he can cherish . . . forever?

Thalia Plunkett has loved Dinky Moon all her life. Now he's in big trouble. Embarrassed to be one of the few men who survived the enormous mine disaster that has nearly turned Wildcat Ridge into a ghost town, and grieving over the loss of his wife who ran off with another man, Dinky has turned to whiskey. Now it's taken over his life.

Unable to watch him suffer any longer, Thalia decides she must do something to save him. Can she help Dinky kick the booze threatening to kill him and win his love? Or will he choose whiskey over her?

And who is the mysterious man lurking around, watching Thalia?

When Vella Givens learns three orphaned siblings are hiding in town and stealing to survive, she knows she must find and protect them from men who want to separate and adopt them out for cash.

But she fears Marshal Baird McKiernan and his lawman’s ethics would force him to do the legal thing and return the children to the orphan train they escaped from.

Unable to follow his dream of becoming a doctor, Baird wants to help—if only he can convince Vella to trust him to do what’s right for the children.

The orphans, Dewey, Jess and Nedra, have plans of their own. They want parents who will take all three of them, and Baird and Vella are the couple they choose. They’ll do anything they can to help them fall in love.

A woman's smile . . . Rosalyn Delaney's husband, Josiah, vanished six years ago. Following a private detective's lead, Rosalyn leaves Salt Lake City and boards a train heading to the mining town of Whiskey Ridge, Arizona. She arrives at Rose House, an old mansion reputed to be haunted, only to discover that her missing husband has been killed, and his business partner, Whip Kincaid, is wanted for his murder. Determined to uncover the secrets surrounding Josiah and his death, Rosalyn decides to stay--even though she begins to receive nightly visits from a charming "ghost" . . . A Ghost's Kiss . . . Escaping a troubled past, Whip Kincaid had hoped he could make a fresh start in Whiskey Ridge and open a saloon with his friend Josiah. Now, as a murder suspect hiding in his own house, Whip's future looks bleak indeed . . . unless he can find the real culprit. But the unexpected intrusion of Rosalyn ruins his plan to sneak out at night to investigate. Scaring her away is his first step in clearing his name, but Rosalyn doesn't rattle easily. And Whip isn't sure he wants the lovely widow to walk out of his life -- especially when she'll take his heart with her.

Gage Givens, who goes by the name Ridge, has lost his best friends in a buggy accident that appears to have been intentional. The couple leave behind their young daughter, five-year-old Bibi. As Bibi’s godfather, Ridge goes to the train depot to pick up her godmother, Honora Keane, who is expected to take the child home to Denver with her. To Ridge’s surprise, instead of stepping off the train, she comes from a flatcar driving an automobile, the first in the area.

He isn’t quite sure what to make of Honora. She’s single, a little flamboyant, a genuine individual who writes dime novels for a living, and a woman suffragist, God forbid. Despite everything he’s taken with her.

Cutthroat, Montana, and its citizens aren’t what Honora expected either. Not fond of children, Honora surprises herself by falling in love with her goddaughter at first sight. She’s enchanted with Montana’s beauty and not a little impressed by its marshal, Ridge Givens.

But Bibi is in danger. Her parents’ killer believes she might have seen him sawing the buggy’s axel the morning of the accident. If there’s a chance she can identify him, she must die.

Ridge sets up a plot to capture the man. Meanwhile, Bibi decides her Aunt Honora and Ridge would be perfect parents to replace her mama and papa, and she’s sure they love each other. Can she make them confess their feelings and marry before her parents’ killer gets to her?

Ghosts. Murder. Love. Time Travel. T.P.S.I. Agent Burke Jameson travels to Eagle Gulch, Colorado to investigate a report of ghost activity at a house where a murder took place in 1881. When his vehicle carrying his P.S.I. equipment dies, and a riderless mare appears, he mounts up, hoping the horse will lead him to her fallen rider. What he finds is a whole new life beyond his imagination.

Clorinda Halstead believes she’s a widow. After all, she was the one who shot her husband, Horace, on a violent night in 1881. He deserved it, the jury concluded. Living with the town marshal and his wife, all Clori wants is to be left alone. Then a stranger, Burke James, joins the household and nothing is ever the same again.

How did Burke find his way through time to the year 1881, and who is haunting the lovely but distant Widow Halstead? Can Burke find the ghost of Eagle Gulch without his P.S.I. equipment? And how will he ever choose between going home to his own time and a life of love and happiness with Clorinda?

Like any decent Montana cattle rancher, Connor Givens hates sheep, so when he learns squatters have settled on High Mountain Ranch with a flock of woollies, he’s determined to see them gone.

But he doesn’t count on the stunning black-haired beauty who owns the flock with her parents and brother.

Rosalina Camila Antonella DeLeon has good reason to distrust cattle ranchers, having lost her husband at their murderous hands. Yet, there’s something about Connor Givens that sets him apart from the others.

Can they find a way to set their differences aside and find love, or will the other sheep-hating ranchers, take the choice out of their hands?

A woman without a prayer . . . A widow with two children, Tempest Whitney has had to mortgage everything to repay the money her husband had stolen. But even as she struggles to hold onto her Utah homestead, a scheming rancher buys up her debts, demanding she either get off his land or marry him. Then a dark-haired stranger shows up, claiming to be her dead husband . . . A man without a past . . . Buck Maddux spent two years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Now a deathbed promise has brought him to Tempest's homestead. A man without roots, he doesn't plan to stay—or to feel so fiercely protective of this feisty beauty he saves from a hated marriage of convenience. Suddenly, Buck years for a home, a family, a lasting love. But what can he offer Tempest? The surprising answer lies in the forbidding canyons of an ancient Anasazi tribe, where fortune and danger await—along with a passion more precious than gold….

No bachelor could be prepared for what happens to the Givens brothers one stormy night in 1876. Finding a pregnant woman on their road, they take her in. Before they can learn anything about her, she gives birth to triplets and disappears. Luckily, the doctor supplies a much-needed wet-nurse— Cynara, a recent widow who lost her baby. Her sad eyes and gentle acceptance awaken something in Barclay’s staid soul. But she’s not ready for a new man in her life. She’ll stay at the ranch and tend the babies, but that’s all.

Meanwhile, where is the babies’ real mother? Who and where is the father? And what will become of these helpless infants?

Sierra West has a murder to investigate. One that comes with a mine, a Native American fetish, and a hole. A hole to 1878.

The mine's owner, Gidry Tyrell, helps Sierra and her brother settle into Tyrell Town, Idaho, a ghost town in 2017, but thriving in 1878. Gidry is on a murder investigation of his own. Can Sierra and her brother help him find who murdered his brother, without becoming victims themselves?

Will they all live to help save the orphans who survived a smallpox epidemic only to fall into the clutches of a cruel child abuser?

Jared Givens rides into town to invite his best gal on a picnic. Before he can get there, he’s summoned to the hotel where a young lady he’d never seen before awaits him. A young woman claiming to be his wife.

Ruth Healy Kimbrough heard something she shouldn’t have. Now, she’s on the run. Her ex-fiancé wants her silenced forever. Her sister is married to Jared’s brother, Barclay, so she travels to Montana seeking help and a place to disappear.

Will the Givens family hide Healy from Skelly Bernard and keep her alive? Will Jared agree to pretend he’s married to a stranger? Or will his bogus marriage turn into a true, loving union in this sweet western romance novella?

8 Western Stories you will love!

“One Way or Another” by Frank Kelso
A bitter water dispute twists two Texas cattle ranches one way or another after the son of one rancher takes a shine to the other rancher’s daughter, new from the east.

“The Schoolmarm’s Hero” by Lyn Horner
The Sheriff leads a posse after two drunken cowboys who kidnapped the spinster schoolmarm. The chase forces him to realize how much he loves her.

“Bad Day at Round Rock” by CJ Petterson
The pursuit of stolen gold culminates in a “Bad Day at Round Rock”–a story of greed, death, and love torn from pages of West Texas history.

“The Reckoning” by Charlene Raddon
A half-breed boy seeks his place in the world—with the Shoshone who raised him, or his white aunt and uncle where he has been sent for an education.

“Headed for Texas” by Chimp Robertson
Rowdy Hawkins’s been shot, stabbed, and caught in Custer’s attack on Black Kettle, but it’s the first time he’s ever been in love—with Black Kettle’s granddaughter.

Bonus Story
“The Savage Posse” By JS Stroud
A death-bringer, neither whites nor Apaches wanted her until they needed one full of venom to lead their Savage Posse in rescuing stolen children.

“Set a Thief” by Chuck Tyrell
The man who stole Kimberly’s prize pinto returns the mare. “Let the man have his say,” her Pa says. “Don’t expect to come courting,” she warns.

“Tibby’s Hideout” by Frank Kelso
After the Civil War, Bess Newcomb, a single mother, wants to remarry, but Tibby, her eight-year old son, isn’t sure he wants a new dad—he decides to hideout.