In 1850s Missouri, the religious Bethel colony is resolved to remain pure in the midst of a tainted and sinful country. However, Emma Wagner, young and independent, is at odds with the community's submissive society. Learning to...
Western fiction
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Author:Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary: - Author:Crews, Caitlin, Helm, Nicole, Ashenden, Jackie, Yates, MaiseySummary:
June Gable left each of her four granddaughters a handwritten bequest, to spend a season at her beloved farmhouse in Jasper Creek, Oregon, before they sell it. The four cousins will have to confront secrets from the past, deal with old...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
"Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars ..." From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes...
- Author:Greenwood, LeighSummary:
Zac Randolph is a gambling man. One of seven infamous brothers, he kicked the Texas dust off his boots and found his new home in the Little Corner of Heaven Saloon in San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. Running a saloon is exactly...
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Three weeks before Christmas, the little town of Chug Water in Wyoming Territory is stunned by a brutal crime. The mayor's family has been slaughtered in cold blood on their ranch outside of Raw Hide Butte. As the townsfolk gather to...
- Author:Grey, LorenSummary:
The hero Lassiter is called into the town of Bluegate to help Josh Falconer save his failing business. But Lassiter arrives too late, and Josh has already made an untimely departure from the land of the living. Now Lassiter will move...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
In this series finale by Lauraine Snelling, Astrid Bjorklund is trying to stop the epidemic ravaging South Dakota's Red Bud Indian Reservation. Tribal elders remain suspicious of her until some begin to recover. Although Joshua...
- Author:Miller, Linda LaelSummary:
The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman, and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband or income, until Clay McKettrick comes to town. When they say "I do" to a marriage of convenience, the temporary...
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
In both of these tales by Louis L'Amour, a young gunslinger must face danger brought on by his background, or his own actions, and then decide to follow his destiny--or seek a new one. Stories include "A Man Called Trent" and "The Rider...
- Author:Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal...
- Author:Soper, S. I.Summary:
When Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe was charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems. But it doesn't take long for Gibbs's gang to find them and Fyffe is overtaken...
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Matt Jensen's scenic trip on the Denver railway is derailed when an avalanche strikes the train. Far from an accident, its cause is a reckless band of outlaws out to free their leader. Surrounded and outgunned in a driving snowstorm,...
- Author:Snopek, Roxanne WillemsSummary:
After a change in occupation and lifestyle, Austin Sweet is determined to make his wife proud of him again. But when he is offered the family farm, he decides he is done trying to make everyone happy.
- Author:Robbins, David, Compton, RalphSummary:
In West Texas, Lucius Stark is regarded as a no-good killer with nothing to say in his favor. But when Stark goes tender for a woman he's hired to kill, he's shot in the back and left with a burning desire for revenge.
- Author:Bryant, TimSummary:
In Texas, every man has his price. For a young man of seventeen, Wilkie John Liquorish has lived one sorry life. From his ill-fated stint in the U.S. Army to a back-breaking job as a gravedigger, Wilkie just can't seem to catch a break...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
This suspenseful courtroom drama is based on the actual historical trial of Jack McCall, who shot James Butler Hickok from that most dishonorable position - behind.
- Author:Stone, R. W.Summary:
Retired sergeant Thaddeus McCallum teams up with Pedro Peralta to rescue a friend from the clutches of the notorious rebel Pancho Villa.
- Author:Kelton, ElmerSummary:
In the aftermath of a bitter and bloody war for independence, Texans have finally claimed their freedom from Mexico--but they don't have much else to brag about. Joshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his...
- Author:Martin, KatSummary:
The most unsettled of the "no-account Raines boys," Devlin Raines has long been protecting his heart from injury. But his latest case - and client - forces him to lay everything on the line--Back cover.
- Author:Rushing, Jane GilmoreSummary:
Granny Albright's time has come and relatives have gathered to say goodbye to the matriarch. Linda Kay has recently married into the family, and tries to do her part to help. But when Cousin Herman arrives, feelings of resentment and...
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