Western Life

Clayton Cooper is a bona fide daredevil. Always has been. Always will be. At first, he uses his talents for thrills and payouts on the rodeo circuit. Success seems to greet him at every turn. So when he marries his high school sweetheart, he assumes she’ll follow him anywhere. But after a year and a half, she calls off the marriage and turns Clay’s heart to rubble. He sees only one way to survive: lose himself in the rigors of Alaskan smoke-jumping.

What if you had a second chance with your first love? Pamela Emery, aged fifty-six, walked out of the courthouse with her divorce papers in hand. Life as she’d known it was over. Why had she let her son and his wife talk her into going with them on a vacation to a Colorado Dude Ranch? She just wasn’t in the mood, but she wouldn’t let them down. She’d spend a couple weeks with her adorable grandchildren, and with any luck, she’d come back home in a better frame of mind. Kenneth Tucker glanced around the Peaktop Dude Ranch dining room at all the young families. He felt more than a ...

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children.

When Daniel met Megan, he made an utter fool of himself. Can he turn things around in time for a Merry Christmas with the beautiful cowgirl? Daniel is the Big Sky Christmas Tree Farm’s foreman. He’s never been good with women. Seriously, he has foot in mouth disease. Whenever a pretty woman is around, he says the stupidest things the moment his mouth opens. It’s almost as if his mouth is trying to ruin any chance at all with a pretty cowgirl. Normally, it doesn’t bother him that women ignore him. But Megan’s Different. Now, Daniel wants to say the right things, and get a date with...

He wants the woman he left behind. She wants a fresh start in her hometown. When their secrets are brought to light, does love stand a second chance?Abby Baites is ready for a fresh start. After a horrific tragedy leaves her questioning her future, she's eager to return to Crystal Creek with her 5-year-old granddaughter to help a friend run her ranch. But her world is once more shaken when she finds the new ranch owner is her high school sweetheart--the man who broke her heart. Chet Hancock wants a second chance. He fled Crystal Creek at nineteen to become a country-western singer. But when...

Wickedly sassy and newly deceased, Morgan must tackle her karmic debt hunting demons on Earth. Dumped on the shady side of Pasadena, she teams up with a quirky trio of hunters: a repentant werewolf, a shape shifting Pucca, and a Phobic Djinn. Although Heaven erased her memory, she’s determined to discover the truth behind her death even if it means uncovering a murder. Her investigations unveil something far more sinister – an angelic plot to release the Old Gods with Morgan as the key. Get ready for a hellishly thrilling adventure that defies Heaven itself! Remember, karma’s only a ...

As Dylan talked to Gwen, he told her how he felt that some of the more important stories of the first two generations needed to be passed on to the younger Evans.

Wyatt Earp was one of the most famous lawmen that the Wild West ever produced. He was also one of the longest-lived. Considering the fact that he lived all the way up until his 80s while many of his contemporaries never made it out of their 30s, this in itself was quite a feat. Wyatt Earp’s good friend and sidekick Doc Holliday, for example, perished at 36. But even though Earp lived a long life, he was no stranger to danger. He was shot at more times than he could count, and there were plenty of people out there who wanted him dead.

With just one bite, a wakeful flea atop a pile of sleeping creatures causes a commotion.

Isobel Johnson has spent her career in Liston Heights sidestepping the community’s high-powered families. But when she receives a threatening voicemail accusing her of anti-Americanism and a liberal agenda, she’s in the spotlight. Meanwhile, Julia Abbott, obsessed with the casting of the school’s winter musical, makes an error in judgment that has far-reaching consequences for her entire family.

Resist and Evade follows Sam and Jane Archer as they continue their nightmarish journey through an increasingly hostile and unrecognizable landscape. Torn between a fundamental duty to protect family and their sworn service to community, the Archers reach a critical decision point -- with all or nothing stakes. As local police officers and military veterans start to retake their communities from a gang of ruthless criminals, unbreakable bonds will be forged and unthinkable sacrifices will be made.

Annabelle McMartin is gone for good, but something worse lurks just out of sight - watching, waiting, preparing to strike. Then a field trip to the local art museum reveals a shock. What Olive discovers will create a chain of events that propel her to discoveries she may not wish to uncover, involving Morton's vanished parents and the very deepest, darkest roots of Aldous McMartin's creepy painted world.

This city girl's about to get a dose of cowboy charm. Emily Baker doesn't rough it - anymore. Born and raised on a farm, she's worked hard to distance herself from that life, thank you very much. But when the seniors at the nursing home where she works beg for a ranch retreat, she caves and heads up to the Longhorn Canyon spread. With one glance at the sexy cowboy who opens the door, she's suddenly thinking a week with him might not be so bad after all.

Can a marriage of convenience uncover the truth? Merle Larsen doesn't believe in love. But he needs a wife to inherit the ranch, and the waitress at the local diner seems to be single, sweet, and not expecting too much of life. He can't offer his heart, but he can offer to take care of her. Lu is glad to have snagged a waitress job in a small town where nobody knows her. It's safe, but lonely... At least she can dream about the rugged cowboy at table four, even though he belongs to the town's most powerful family. When Merle asks Lu for a loveless marriage of convenience, she can't make ...

In Uncharted Hearts, cartographer Charlotte Foster leads a wagon train across the Oregon Trail to solve her father’s mysterious disappearance—until Army scout Marcus Blackwood, a man with secrets, upends her journey. As danger stalks the trail and betrayal brews, Charlotte and Marcus must navigate cryptic maps, buried truths, and a growing passion. With survival at stake and trust hanging by a thread, their love may be the only path through the untamed wilds of the frontier.

When Sheriff Flint Cahill's lover Maggie disappears, he knows his ex-wife is behind it. But with a winter storm coming, can he find her before it is too late?

Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, holds a unique position amongst leaders of all the major religions in that he lived in the limelight of history something that cannot be said about those who preceded him. From his birth to death all important events have been meticulously recorded by his contemporaries. And yet, he remains the most contested historical personality to win the battle of the heart for the last 14 centuries. To the faithful Muslims, he is the best of mankind that has ever been created by God. To the faithful Christians, Muhammad, on the other hand, is the blasphemer of Christ. ...

Patience was never one of her virtues. After her SUV runs off the road in the middle of a Texas blizzard and her cell stops working, Claire Mason is about to snap. Getting back home to Oklahoma with her four-year-old niece is top priority. And lucky for her, help comes in the form of a true Texas cowboy....

The fate of Artimé is at stake - and an unlikely alliance could redeem it - in book three in the New York Times best-selling Unwanteds series. The magical world of Artimé is gone. The Unwanteds have no food, no water, and no hope. And everyone is looking to Alex Stowe for answers. Overwhelmed and feeling totally helpless, Alex knows it’s up to him to find a way to restore Artimé, rescue his captive friends, and free Megan from her voice-stealing necklace of thorns - three impossible tasks.

Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark’s transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era’s new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land’s indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada.