Short Westerns

Trust and love are two things that Leah Brady no longer believes in. The quirky freelance journalist with a reckless streak comes to Copper Canyon to attend her friend’s wedding and to escape her abusive ex. She doesn’t expect to fall in love with the kind, warmhearted town and its citizens. Nor does she anticipate befriending a sick little girl and possibly falling in love with the girl’s father, handsome rancher Carter Orbison. Carter Orbison has just signed the divorce papers that should have been signed years ago. With his daughter Amy in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant...

In Texas's Big Bend country, every man has a price. For crime lord Harry Holland and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, that price is $20,000 - a ransom demand for the kidnapped daughter of a retired Army colonel. So far, neither the Army, the Rangers, nor bounty hunters have been able to penetrate Holland's guarded fortress.

World champion bulldogger Sutton Grant works hard on the road, but his quiet charm has earned him the nickname "The Saint" because he's never been the love 'em and leave 'em type with the ladies. When he's sidelined by an injury, he needs help keeping his horse in competition shape, but he fears trying to sweet-talk premier horse trainer London Gradsky is a losing proposition - because the woman sorta despises him.

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B0896SKH6G (copy and paste the link into your browser) When Lillie begins corresponding with a wonderful man out West, it seems the sisters have found their avenue of escape. But then Lillie’s shyness causes her to make a terrible mistake. Will Lillie’s lie in her letters so upset Jonathan that he sends them both packing the very minute they arrive? Will Jonathan ever forgive Lillie? And what is the dark secret that Jonathan himself seems to be harboring? It’s all happening here in Montana, so grab your hat and suitcase and come on down! This...

In 1886 Cattle Ranching was big business in southwestern Missouri. On short cattle drives, a wrangler could make a month’s wages in less than a week. Sometimes unexpected obstacles stand in the way. But the cattle have to be moved forward, and the obstacles have to be overcome. Every cattle rancher knows there’s a payoff at the end of the drive. And he also knows that bad men will kill to get their hands on it. But what the bad men should remember is the ranches will kill to keep it.

Books 7, 8, and 9 in the John Decker Supernatural Thriller series.

I should have known when I couldn’t keep my eyes off her that this would be a mistake. I was hired to protect her, this woman who’s lost everything, yet there’s an obvious fire that blazes behind her beautiful gaze. She stares back, daring and tempting me. It calls to a side of me that’s darker and longs to tame her. The moment she agrees to my terms, I know I’ve crossed a line. One of many rules I’m willing to break. No one can know, not a soul, but secrets in the life I lead never last for long.

Ramona Middleton has dreamed her whole life of growing up to become married one day with a husband, children, and a family of her own, but now she must become a teacher out west to support herself after the unexpected passing of her parents. When Corinthia McPherson, on her way to marry a man she's never met, panics and offers to trade places with her, Ramona jumps at the chance. Jasper Shephard, a gentleman farmer from England, ordered an elegant, refined mail-order bride to help raise his children and stand at his side as the mayor of a small Missouri town after establishing his wheat and...

Denver, Colorado, 1914 Joy Michaels, grieving mother and widow, resides in an aging but remarkable Denver home: a beautiful, three-story Victorian/Queen Anne mansion resplendent with towers, turrets, peaks, and gables and known locally as Palmer House. Palmer House—a most extraordinary refuge for young women rescued from prostitution. Joy and her mother, Rose Thoresen, share the responsibilities of ministering to and mentoring the young women who live under Palmer House’s roof. But now Joy faces an agonizing decision: Should she remain true to the memory of her first love or open her ...

Get ready for these hot, rowdy cowboys to lasso your heart. Come over to Burly, WA, one town over from where the Rough family lives. Frankie Love has a whole new crew of rugged and ROWDY men to introduce to you. This edition includes the first five novellas in the TO TAME A BURLY MAN series, all collected together in one.

A trap is set for Bounty Hunter Logan Holbrook, he just doesn't know it yet. Logan is on the tail of an outlaw when he makes a stop at a saloon that will change his life forever. Letting the criminal go, the Bounty Hunter instead is forced to pick up his irons for another cause. Now it’s life or death, and he doesn’t care what happens to him anymore, that is, until he meets her. Having more than one reason to fight, he goes all in, and the town of Wagon Mound--or the old west--may never be the same again.

This Christmas, love arrives unexpectedly to Castle Rock—by stagecoach. December 1876 – Felix Spencer has inherited his family’s mercantile, but everyone knows he’s never really had much business sense. His sister is getting married and moving away but worries her brother won’t be able to run the store on his own, so she tells him that he should look for a new accountant and put an ad out. As a joke, his best friend contacts an agency for a mail order bride/accountant to come. Felix is expecting a man, but a woman shows up instead— Bethany Thomas. Bethany loves numbers and ...

A Thrilling Western Finale You Won’t Want to Miss! A powerful tale of courage and hope in the heart of the West When FBI agent Seth Ryder is called back to his small Montana hometown by a letter from his father, he has no idea that his latest case will collide with family history in ways he never imagined. Joined by his fearless FBI partner, Nora, Seth must navigate a dangerous investigation while reconnecting with his siblings in the close-knit community of Ryders’ Bluff. But Jules Bishop, the corrupt land developer, is ready to stake his claim—and this time, the stakes are higher ...

When Ward Jessup and Mari Raymond meet after being brought together by Mari's wily matchmaking aunt, neither is what the other expected. The handsome oilman is anything but old and unwell, and Mari is hardly a helpless girl. A vacation at her grandmother's ranch would have been the perfect place for Maggie Turner to escape her ex-husband's threats. Perfect, that is, if it hadn't been for Gabe Coleman. The sexy rancher was just as direct—and undeniably handsome—as he'd been ten years ago. Could this rugged Texas cowboy give Maggie a new lease on love?

The most wanted man in the West, Big Bob McGraw has earned his reputation as a thief and killer. With a gang of trigger-happy desperadoes willing to do his bidding, McGraw has robbed banks, stagecoaches, and railroads, raised hell ravaging towns, and left bodies littering the streets in his wake. Carson Stone rode with McGraw’s gang exactly once, minding their horses during a bank robbery, before quitting. But with the marshal of El Paso, Texas, gunned down in cold blood as the bandits escaped, he’s been judged guilty by association.

In Holler, Child’s eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something—hope, reconciliation, freedom. In “Cutting Horse,” the appearance of a horse in a man’s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In “Holler, Child,” a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows too well from the other side.

Desert Sky Ranch: Where passion ignites under the Southwest sun. Jack's torn between duty and desire for wrangler Lily. He is an older man. And her boss. A fire between them they can’t deny. It would be easier if he weren’t engaged to another woman. Sparks fly as secrets unravel, risking all for a love hotter than the sands. Ride the wild winds of desire in this steamy tale of love and desire. A scorching romance that'll leave you breathless under the Southwest stars.

If you like kooky mysteries, you’ll love Mabel and Irma. Short Read for that airplane flight! A feisty 60-something woman and a spirited spirit solve a murder. After a cross-country trip driving an F-150 and hauling a vintage camper Mabel Gold has proven to herself—and her doubting kids—that she still has it in her. She’s not sure what, but it’s something. Brooklyn smarts? Or, perhaps, after transplanting herself to Florida, it’s just sheer wacky-ness. Florida is full of it. But that’s what she needed when she left her two-timing husband and his bimbo new wife back in Long ...

While housesitting in a remote mountain location while on spring break, young coed Livvy gets an unexpected visitor . . . When a young housesitter turns the tables on an intruder… he’ll have met his match and anything goes! He wants her, but what happens when she decides she wants him EVEN MORE? He's a BIG man... and she has a BIG appetite - plus a BIG secret she's saving till the end. She's NOT the only one who gets a BIG surprise! What happens when these two collide you'll NEVER believe! Who will be owned? Novella. Apprx. 10,000 words. Includes BDSM explicit encounter… with surprise...

ER doctor Daisy Blackwell never dreamed she’d fall for a saddle bronc rider or be running from a hitman. After relocating from New York City to small town Texas to escape her past, it has caught up with her in Sin City. Luke Reno is riding his way to the top. A win in the rodeo finals will make him the number one saddle bronc rider in the world, but there’s more riding on the competition than a title…his life. When an argument at a craps table pulls him into a confrontation with a mob boss, Luke makes a deal. Bet on Luke to win the rodeo finals and collect a big payoff. But everything...