COURTING THE WEST BOXED SET
PAINTED MONTANA SKY by Debra Holland
In 1894, Lily Maxwell, aspiring
painter, travels to Sweetwater Springs, Montana, with her precious cocker
spaniel to work on an artistic project that could launch her career. For years,
Lily has denied herself happiness because of her equestrian accident that left
her with a damaged hip, a limp, and a sense of unworthiness. Her inability to
bear children has kept her from giving her heart to anyone.
After rancher Tyler Dunn’s wife
abandoned him and their son, he wants nothing to do with women. But this new
girl in town, with her lovely violet eyes and her wonderful talent, stirs
feelings in Tyler.
After Tyler rescues Lily’s dog
from being swept away by the river, Lily develops a friendship with him, the
people on his ranch, and his young son, Oliver. Yet the two of them dare not
give in to their feelings for each other.
Can these lonely souls find their
hearts’ desires under the majestic Montana Sky?
DAISY (Suitors of Seattle Series) by Kirsten Osbourne
Raised with advantage and
privilege, Daisy must now find a husband. Because of her overwhelming shyness,
she chooses to let her aunt, Harriett Farmer, find her a husband.
Aunt Harriett’s suggestions are
not what she expected. Setting her up to be a Mail Order Bride, she sends her
to Montana to meet Eli King. What she finds is a life vastly different than
what she's used to. Can she possibly find love and contentment, or is she
doomed to a life of regret?
HIS BROTHER’S WIFE (Willow Creek Series) by Lily Graison
When Grace Kingston accepts a wedding proposal through a mail-order bride agency and travels across country to be married, she has no idea her bridegroom is a fourteen-year-old boy. There’s no way she can accept his offer but with depleted funds, and winter coming on, Grace has little choice but to stay. Things go from bad to worse when she meets Jesse’s older brother, Rafe. The attraction is immediate. He’s surly, rude and downright pig-headed but he makes her pulse race with a single glance.
Rafe Samuels thought to teach his
brother a lesson by making him take responsibility for his rash behavior but
one look at Grace and his plans go up in smoke. She isn’t the dowdy spinster he
imagined and having her live in his house and not be able to have her is the
worst kind of torment. But putting her out of his mind is impossible.
As fall turns to winter, Grace
finds that living with the two brothers isn’t as simple a thing as she once
thought. Jesse still thinks marriage is in the cards, and Rafe is a devilishly
handsome distraction she doesn’t need. She can’t decide if he hates her or
wants to kiss her. And how does she avoid breaking Jess’s heart when it becomes
clear that the attraction between her and Rafe is mutual?
TAME A WILD WIND (Tame Series) by Cynthia Woolf
Catherine Evans fell in love when
she was three years old, head-over-heels, forever kind of love. The very first
moment she saw twelve-year-old Duncan McKenzie, she told God and her pony that
she was going to marry that boy. He was handsome. He was kind. He was strong
and smart and all the good things a boy should be. For thirteen years she loved
him with every beat of her heart. And on her sixteenth birthday he walked away
from her father's ranch, and from her. He didn't look back over his shoulder.
Not even once. And from that day forward, Catherine Evans swore off all men.
Her heart turned to stone, her will to iron, and her vow to God changed. She'd
run her father's ranch. She'd succeed. She'd survive. And she would never, ever
love another man as long as she lived.
Duncan McKenzie left the ranch
ten years ago, desperate to escape temptation in the form of a budding young
lady too innocent to claim for his own. But Catherine's frightened father
summons him home. The ranch is under attack and the old man's stubborn daughter
refuses to seek help. Duncan left a sweet young girl behind a decade ago. He
returns to a defiant siren, a woman whose heart is as wild as the land she
would sacrifice her life to protect. When Catherine's father coerces her into
marrying Duncan, the fire in her eyes spells trouble, but it's the kind of
trouble Duncan has no desire to resist. Marriage is the only way he can protect
her. Especially when Duncan's own past comes calling in the form of one
extremely dangerous and vengeful outlaw, Catherine's cowardly enemies want the
ranch badly enough to kill for it, and his reluctant bride is very much in
their way.
SLEIGHT OF HEART by Jacquie Rogers
A
Straight-Laced Spinster…
Lexie Campbell, more comfortable
with neat and tidy numbers than messy emotions, is determined find the sharper
who ruined her little sister and make him marry her. When his lookalike brother
Burke appears, she greets him with a rifle and forces him to help her. Can she
resist his magic charm?
A
Gambler With Magic Hands…
To claim the family fortune,
smooth-dealing Burke O’Shaughnessy has to find his brother Patrick, despite
being saddled with an angry spinster. But when Lexie shows an astounding talent
for counting cards and calculating odds, he figures she might be useful after
all. Can he draw the queen of hearts?
A HERO’S HEART by Sylvia McDaniel
Wade
Ketchum is searching for his only surviving sibling when he finds a ready-made
family.
Rachel Cooke is stranded on the
Oregon trail with three orphans and a rebellious sister, until gambler Wade
Ketchum rescues them. The hardened cowboy is searching to find his long lost
brother, is out of cash and has no time for a praying spinster. When Rachel
runs out of options, she makes a deal. Wade must pretend to be her husband and
help her reach Oregon. But somewhere along the trail, pretending becomes real.
Can she help Wade realize that he still has a heart capable of love?
LAYING CLAIM (Halsey Homecoming Series) by Paty Jager
Jeremy Duncan commits to haul one
last load of supplies across the great interior of the Yukon before heading
home. But, he has to trade his pack animals for sled dogs and leave Skagway in
the middle of a blizzard due to one strong-willed, business-minded beauty.
Determined to find her older
brother, Clara Bixbee doesn’t care how she gets across the pass, as long as she
does, and soon. Hiring handsome pack guide Jeremy Duncan seems to be her best
choice. Especially after she saves a young girl being beaten by the local gang
leader and needs to escape Skagway fast.
SARAH
SUNSHINE (A Montana Romance) by Merry Farmer
She
was done with her shameful past…
But Sarah Withers’s past isn’t
done with her. Though she longs for Roy LaCroix—body, heart, and soul—old
wounds and fresh battles threaten to end her second chance at an honest life
before it begins.
His
future is only a heartbeat away…
But how can Roy LaCroix stay true
to the woman he’s waited so long for when he and Sarah are embroiled in a
twenty-year-old feud that threatens to keep the star-crossed lovers apart? Roy
must choose: be a man of substance, or to stay true to his heart.
Only love can stop history from
repeating itself before it’s too late…
CHASING THE DEAD (Bannister Brothers) by Keta Diablo
The Apache kidnapped me to dispel
an evil ghost from their village. If I tell them I don't possess the same
skills my madre did, they'll cut my throat and feed me to the dogs. Celesta was
the best spirit chaser in all of New Mexico before she died.
The most I can hope for is that
Emmett, my fiancé, will rescue me. Is he capable of such a thing? Poppy must
not have thought so because he sent Deacon Bannister to save me. Deacon…the man
who walked away days before our wedding a year ago. The man who still melts my
bones after one look.
We're running for our lives from
Uday, the vaporous ghoul tracking us. He lusts after Sacheen, the beautiful
maiden banished from the Apache village who travels with us. The warrior killed
her father when Sacheen refused to marry him, and then Sacheen's brother killed
Uday.
The ghost's powers grow stronger
every minute on our journey back to El Vaquero...and so does my love for
Deacon.
THE MOST UNSUITABLE COURTSHIP
(Kincaid Series) by Caroline Clemmons
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 survived by following her
elderly husband’s instructions 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 vows to kill at least one of them. Whether or not
Storm allows her to accompany him, she assures him she will go after the
murderers. She is the only person alive who can identify the evil foursome
whose policy has been to leave no witnesses. Storm agrees to take her with him.
She’ll be safer with him to protect her than she would riding alone.
As a powerful and passionate love blossoms, they
unite to rescue three orphaned children, fight the elements, and encounter the
killers. Will their love be enough to protect them?
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THE MOST UNSUITABLE COURTSHIP
(Kincaid Series) by Caroline Clemmons
She emerged from the
brush straightening her trousers and shoving her pistol back into her
waistband. “Where do you think those men are going?”
“Indian Territory.
They’ll steal all they can before they reach the Red River and leave no
survivors to identify them. They’re selling off the stolen stock along the way,
so that will slow them some.” He wondered if she knew how to use the gun.
“But I saw their
faces.”
He sent her what he
hoped was a frightening stare. “If they knew that, you’d be dead for sure.”
She shivered, but
glared at him. “Do not think to frighten me. I will do everything I can to kill
these men and reclaim my gold and my mother’s locket. It is not that I care
about the jewelry that once belonged to Abram’s wife. But to him, it meant a
great deal, and I want it because he gave it to me.”
Storm wanted to shake
her. Not that he hadn’t lived all his life with stubborn women. At least his
oldest sister Pearl made sense. He’d worried about shy Sarah, especially when
she’d appeared head over heels with a con man. Now that Sarah and Nate were
married, she had life figured out. Nate had surprised everyone, even himself.
Storm suppressed a smile and worked up his anger again at his traveling
companion.
“We can be in Llano by
nightfall. We’ll get a couple of rooms there and you can rest.”
She shot him a
suspicious glare. “You think to abandon me in that town. If we stay somewhere,
we will be in the same room so I can watch you.”
Shocked, Storm wondered
what he could do with this woman. “We wouldn’t be allowed to stay in a decent
hotel. You want to sleep over a saloon? Besides that, folks will be shocked
when they see you in those trousers. You want people to think you’re a fallen
woman?”
With her chin raised,
she placed her hands on her hips. “I am a good woman. You can tell them we are
married and I wear britches to ride more easily.” She held up her hand and
wiggled her fingers. “I have a wedding band, see?”
He raised his hands and
backed up a step. “Oh, no. I’m not even pretending to be married. If I were
ready to marry, which I’m not, I’d pick a woman who knew when to let a man do
his job.”
“Ha, and when I recover my dowry, I will marry a
man who knows a woman can do as much as a man.”
He swept a formal bow.
“And when you marry, will you be wearing the lovely gown you now wear?”
She appeared angry
enough to use that Colt on him. “You are wrong to…to talk so. I do not have the
English words to tell you what I think, but do not try to leave me behind. If
you do, I will go after the men alone.”
Disgusted, Storm
stomped over and retrieved the horses. “Then let’s go.”
They rode into Llano in
late afternoon. Since they arrived mid week, the town appeared peaceful and quiet.
Storm spotted a hotel by the livery he remembered.
“If you’re determined
to stick to me like glue, let’s stable the horses.”
At the stable, she
staggered when she dismounted and he thought she might fall. He grabbed her
arms. “Steady. You’re not used to riding so long.”
“Ja, my legs do not
work so well. Do not worry, I will be fine in a minute.”
She remained quiet
while he dealt with the hostler and insured his rifle and saddle would be safe.
He threw his saddlebags over his shoulder and retrieved the two pillowcases and
box he’d tied to the saddle pommel. They ambled the block toward the hotel.
He indicated a mercantile. “Just what we need.
After we get our room, let’s head for that store before it closes. You probably
need to replace a few things that burned.” When she glared at him. “I’ll give
you the money, all right? I don’t want folks thinking my wife runs around in men’s clothes. If anyone gets nosy, tell them
you lost your bag crossing a river.”
She sniffed and
sashayed as if she wore a ball gown instead of ill-fitting men’s trousers. “I
will keep track and repay you when I kill those men.”
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