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When Marsha Calloway's daughter is accused of a crime she didn't commit, Marsha is determined to find the real culprit. She enlists the help of her Cadillac-driving mama, the man who ditched Marsha at her high-school graduation but kept her heart, and a bumbling police officer. Folks around River Valley are having things disappear while they are sleeping with their eyes open. Seems everyone has a dream and not enough funds. Someone is determined to kill for that dream.

Why can’t his brothers leave him alone? All Malcolm Armstrong wants is work on vintage cars and find the woman of his dreams. Everything changes when he tackles a pretty woman he thinks is a jewel thief and someone shoots at them. Ashley Lincoln’s life is boring and predictable until she’s caught holding a bag of stolen diamonds. When the handsome Malcolm hauls her into his sheriff brother’s office, she’s sure she’s going to jail. Instead, the sheriff reveals her unpaid speeding tickets and sends her to the ranch for her own safety and to work off her community service hours. ...

When Phoebe Ross's employer dies, leaving her with a wedding gown, Phoebe feels she has no choice but to answer the call for mail order brides to Angel Vale, Wyoming. When she arrives, her groom-to-be is nowhere in sight. With the other brides claimed, she sets off to find her groom. He is nothing what she expected.

A woman who can bring down a politician… A cowboy with a secret and a heart as big as Montana… Carly Simpson steals an incriminating file from the mayor of Copper Pass and accepts a job as chef at the Rocking 7 Ranch. Believing she would be safe surrounded by cowboys, one of whom is the sheriff, she wants only to do her job until the right time comes to put the mayor behind bars. She doesn’t count on falling for the big-hearted cowboy, Stetson. Stetson’s secret dims in comparison to the one Carly holds. Still, she’s an employee on the ranch and the cutest red-haired, freckle-faced...

Lisa Paxton loves her job as a Private Investigator. Spying on cheating spouses is easy work that pays well. But when classmates from high school twelve years ago are now targeted by a madman who kills them in violent ways, Lisa's job description got a whole lot more dangerous. Add in a handsome ex-fling who suddenly wants to join his investigative business with Lisa's and you have a fun, spicy, dangerous short story. EENIE MEENIE MINY MO. Who's next? Rating: PG13 A thrilling romantic suspense just the right length when you don't have a lot of time to read. By a best-selling, award-winning ...

Trinity Ashford and her friends are in over their heads this time. When a man is found murdered at Trinity’s best friend’s wedding, clutching the bride’s missing diamond earrings, Trinity sets out to find out who is stealing from the people of Waterfall. Not only is she trying to solve a mystery, she’s trying to plan her own wedding and renovate the “haunted” house her fiancé purchased for them. Trinity and her friends decide to spend a night at the house to see why the neighbors believe it to be haunted and find themselves terrorized by three men in clown masks.

After Trinity Ashford’s dog, Sheba, digs up a dead body, danger lurks at every turn. Trinity hadn’t gone snooping for trouble this time. Trouble came for her. Somebody is very interested in the crime she helped solve a few months ago. Attacks and threats on her life have made Trinity determined to take down a killer before somebody is digging up her bones.

The Civil War took everything from Ruth Stallings except for her grandmother and sisters. Now without a home or funds, they take the White River as far as it will go and end up in Painted Bluff, Arkansas, a town populated mostly by men out looking for a wife. Sheriff John Powell wants nothing to do with the pretty women or the trouble they bring, especially when a gang of marauders show up looking for Ruth. Can Ruth and John overcome their differences and find love?

Another fan wants their moment of fame and will do anything to get it. After Stormi Nelson's first mystery hits the NYT Best-Selling List, Stormi begins receiving threatening emails and is stalked by a clichéd person in a trench coat and hat. Her stalkers requests are straightforward: Finish writing her next book quickly, or face the consequences. When nothing Stormi does satisfies this unknown stalker, she and her best friend concoct a plan guaranteed to draw the stalker out of the shadows.

Sierra Wells was told that a person could disappear in Misty Hollow. After the secret her mother shattered her world with, she certainly hopes so. Only the very person she’s running from finds her.

Married less than a week, Delicious (Delly) Williams, watches her new husband die, leaving her to raise his five children under the age of 13. He also left her a deed to property in Oregon. His dying wish: for Delly to get the deed and the children to his brother in order for them to be protected. Zeke Williams wants to marry Delly in order to keep her safe. Another marriage is the last thing Delly wants. Can these two come together and forge a love and a new life in an untamed land?

Charity O'Connell receives a minimum of five marriage proposals a day from dirty miners and old men. When her pa drowned after being pinned in the creek by a fallen tree, Charity took up laundering to make ends meet. Especially after her gambling father lost every cent he ever made. Then, she receives a marriage proposal from handsome Gabriel Williams after Charity saves his daughter from being trampled, and Charity believes he's the answer to her prayer.

Jocelyn Nielson is on the run from a man involved in selling children. When a man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to be her knight in shining armor, she's reluctant to trust him. After all, memories are returning, and they are exposing things best left buried in the past.

In the gripping novel "Cowboy Peril," Parker Wells's life takes a chilling turn when a seemingly innocent night out with friends becomes a nightmare of stalking and tragedy. As the shadowy figure of a man with a dangerous vendetta against her appears, Parker is thrust into a world of fear and suspense. Fleeing to the Rocking W ranch for safety, Parker faces resistance from Colt Dawson, the rugged cowboy who runs the ranch. As ominous gifts and threatening notes escalate, Colt becomes Parker's reluctant protector. Determined to uncover the truth behind her parents' murder, Parker's quest for...

Shiloh Sloan, the girl from the wrong side of the bridge. The girl shunned because of accusations she’d made against the town’s star football player. Now, she’s returned to teach the children of the people who had turned their backs on her in hopes of showing them how wrong they were.

Ditched at the altar, Shelby Jenkins tosses down her bouquet, quits her job, and accepts a position as gardener and event coordinator at an upscale retirement community. Her first day on the job results with a dead body in the greenhouse under the orchids and with her as the prime suspect! Toss in a handsome handyman, quirky characters, and a flirtatious grandma and the fun never stops.

Maureen O'Shea arrives in Devil Falls, Montana, to marry a man she's never met. When she finds out her intended had died before her arrival she is met with an uncertain future. She decides to spend the last of her funds by bringing culture to the western town in the form of a tea shop. It never occurred to her that the town preferred coffee. Not until the handsome blacksmith, Micah Webster so rudely points it out. Stagecoaches enroute to the town are being robbed and Micah is deputized to help.

When Tarin Baker's beloved Nana dies, she is left with a letter and a plain wooden box. The letter instructs Tarin to open the box and find true love. Transported back to the year 1888, Tarin wants only to go home. How could her true love possibly be in the middle of nowhere, Texas?

When a beagle puppy is dropped off at Trinity’s pet store, Tail Waggin’, with a note calling the little thing a thief, she thinks nothing of it. Until, the four-legged rascal steals a Rolex that had already been stolen once. Trinity vows no more mysteries. Her mother and friend have other ideas sending the three of them along a path of revenge, murder, and the theft of more than a watch.

A wounded woman... A damaged child... A cowboy who wants to focus on his dream... Crystal Wells flees to the Rocking 7 Dude Ranch in hopes of healing, not only for herself but for her son, now mute after a violent attack. She realizes almost immediately that if anyone can help her son speak again, it's the handsome Dirk Armstrong. Dirk Armstrong's dream of running a dude ranch is laughed at by his brothers, but he forges ahead. When the lovely, haunted woman and her child arrive at the ranch, Dirk surprisingly takes them under his wing. It doesn't take him long to realize that maybe there ...