VELLA: Cupids & Cowboys Book 3
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.
More info →GAGE (Ridge): Cupids & Cowboys Book 7
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?
More info →CONNOR: Cupids & Cowboys Book 12
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?
More info →BARCLAY, Bachelors & Babies Book 4
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?
More info →JARED, Bachelors & Babies Book 7
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?
More info →CHASE, Bachelors & Babies Book 12
Chase Givens never again expected to see the girl, Minnie, who mysteriously appeared at the ranch he shared with his brothers, Barclay and Jared, gave birth to triplets and disappeared three years ago. Roots to the special bond that had developed between Chase and Minnie during her stay at High Mountain remain. Now, single and lonely, he sows his wild oats holding a horse race through the center of town. Nothing new, but this time a young woman is nearly run down. Mortified, he leaps to help her, not realizing until she shows up at the ranch later Minnie has returned at last.
Jessamine (Minnie) Styles spent the years following the birth of her babies in Paris at a finished school, thanks to her parents who felt she needed polishing. At eighteen, she’s a beautiful, sophisticated, well educated young woman planning to open her own school in the house she grew up in not far from High Mountain ranch. The bitter, defiant child is gone. Everything has changed, including her feelings toward her children. When she goes to the ranch and asks to see them, old emotions between her and Chase re-emerge. Neither of them knows that both their lives are about to change forever.
More info →Ride for a Bride in Wyoming: Western Historical Romance (Rocky Mountain Romances Book 4)
Marriage is the last thing on Annora Lee Bostwick’s mind when she moves to Wyoming to start a new branch of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Her focus is centered solely on saving animals…until blackmail and deceit force her to reconsider.
Buffalo Birch Struthers has no desire to marry, but must if he wants to keep his father’s ranch, and time is running out. His only option is an event scheduled for the upcoming yearly ranch competition called the Ride for a Bride Race, which he's bound to win if he rides his buffalo, Hezekiah.
Can two strangers who find themselves in an unwanted but unavoidable situation set anger and obstinacy aside long enough to fall in love?
More info →The Lady Lassoes an Outlaw
Aurora Cavender travels to Utah to find her missing brother and carry out a secret government assignment. She knows her brother still lives but is hurt. As identical twins, they sense each other's emotions. She must find him.
She boards a stagecoach likely to be held up by the gang, hoping to learn something about her brother. When the gang attacks, she's shocked to find Garret Mosely among them, the man who left her at the altar years ago. He denies being Garret and says he's Nebraska Joe. He claims her as his woman and warns her to go along with him, or they, and Jason, could die. She soon finds herself in Robbers' Roost, a notorious Utah hideout for local outlaws.
She becomes the gang's cook, and they come to admire her for her spunk and courage, except for two of the gang who have their own malicious plans for her.
But where is Jason?
Can Garret help her find her brother? Will they be able to escape Robbers' Roost? Or will they wind up in lonely, unmarked graves in Utah's Redrock country?
And will Garret ever admit he still loves her, as she does him?
More info →Taming Jenna
Deserted by her good-for-nothing father at the tender age of seven, Jenna Leigh Whittington taught herself to ride, shoot, brawl...and steer clear of the opposite sex. But now, in a lonely Utah canyon, the Pinkerton agent has drawn her six-gun on a rugged stranger—only to discover that, far from the dangerous outlaw she's been tracking, he is Branch McCauley, hired gun . . . and the most irresistible rascal ever to tempt and torment a woman. If there's one thing McCauley trusts less than a female, it's a female that packs a six-gun. Vowing to bring the sensuous hellcat to heel, McCauley has no inkling that their passionate battle of wills has just begun. Taming Jenna will be the most seductive—and satisfying—job he's ever taken on . . .
More info →Ophelia: The Widows of Wildcat Ridge Book 16
When the man she loved vanished, Ophelia wed Mortimer Crane hoping for a new, better life. After 20 years of lies and infidelity, she wants out, and luck offers her an opportunity when the mine collapses, and she learns that Mortimer had put all his holdings in Wildcat Ridge in her name to avoid losing them in a pending lawsuit.
She moves to Wildcat Ridge to claim her rights and discovers her old flame waiting there. She still loves Brody Duvall, but can she trust him? He abandoned her once twenty years ago.
Brody can’t believe his luck in having Ophelia back in his life. He won't interfere in her marriage, but can’t help but hope she leaves Mortimer. She has plenty of cause for a divorce. Can Brody win her love once again?
Can Ophelia and Brody defeat Mortimer at his own devious game and win all that they want, including each other, or will Mortimer win again?
More info →Cadence: The Widows of WIldcat Ridge Book 13
A foolish mistake left Cadence Biggler and her little sister Regina at the mercy of strangers in a strange town—until Mortimer Crane stepped in, paid her bills and offered her a job as a maid at his Gentlemen Only Salon in Wildcat Ridge, Utah Territory. Soon, she realizes Crane wants more from her than her labor. More than she's willing to give.
Since the salon is no place for a child, he takes Regina to stay with a family then refuses to tell Cady where the little girl is.
Garrick Brant became a traveling photographer to make a living and search for his missing sister July. He's drawn to Cady the first time he sees her, but Mortimer Crane orders his thugs to keep him away from her. How can Garrick and Cady's romance develop under such restrictions? Can Garrick help Cady find Regina and free her from Crane's clutches? Can Cady help him find his sister July?
One thing is certain, they'll have to fight Mortimer Crane every inch of the way.
Priscilla: The Widows of Wildcat Ridge #1
A mining disaster turns most of the women of Wildcat Ridge into devastated widows. Losing her father and husband, Priscilla Heartsel faces poverty and eviction from her home by a heartless mine owner, as do most of the widows. Tricked into a bank robbery gone wrong, Braxton Gamble grabs the stolen money and flees. Shot and needing help, he stumbles upon what appears to be an abandoned town, goes into a house, and collapses on a bed. After a town meeting to decide how to survive, the women of Wildcat Ridge return home, but Priscilla finds a surprise awaiting her--an unconscious man with a bullet in his back. She believes his story, and together, they try to do what's right, but can't anticipate the treachery they receive. Can they survive hardship and threats by the gang long enough to discover a love more precious than gold? A sweet read.
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