Madelyn White finds herself in a difficult position. She is living in a large city for the first time in her life, and her boss is showing a very inappropriate interest in her. When she meets Miss Hazel—matchmaker to the Mounties—she worries that she’s being too hasty by even talking to the woman. But the letter she reads from a Mountie who recently lost his wife makes her want to go and be a mother to his two young girls.Gilbert Keeler has no desire for a woman in his life, but he recognizes the fact that his girls need a mother, especially with the danger involved with his job. He decides to use unconventional means to find a bride, immediately making it clear that any woman who responded would be there for his girls and not for him. When his new bride appears, he’s more attracted to her than he expected, but he’s determined to keep his heart intact. Will Madelyn be able to convince him that she really would make a good wife? Or will the two of them spend the rest of their lives in a loveless marriage?

Monte Walsh has never met a horse he couldn’t ride, and Chet Rollins has never met one he couldn’t rope. For a decade they are unbeatable and inseparable, working as trail hands throughout the West until finally settling with Cal Brennan’s Slash Y. Their rough cowboy ethics see them through every imaginable challenge: blizzards, rustlers, outlaws, and card games gone wrong. Partial to pretty women, gambling, and practical jokes, Monte is often on the receiving end of trouble, while Chet is always there to break him out of jail or serve as a decoy until Monte can get out of town in a hurry. As the West begins to change, however—the automobile replacing the horse, the herds breaking up—the two friends part ways. Chet marries and goes on to become a successful merchant, banker, and politician; but Monte, unable to imagine anything but the cowboy’s way of life, refuses to the end to leave the range.

Milt Dale is the Man of the Forest. Living alone in a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation that changes his life and convinces him to leave his wild paradise to save a young woman from certain doom. The pioneer spirit runs in Helen Rayner’s blood, but it may not save her from the nasty end that tough guy Snake Anson has planned for her. To get his hands on her uncle’s ranch, he needs to get rid of Helen—by any means necessary. But luckily for Helen, the Man of the Forest is not about to let that happen.

Aged 65 Emmett Dalton is the last survivor of the legendary Dalton gang, now he lives off his memories in Hollywood. Combining fact and fiction Ron Hansen depicts the outlaw past of the Daltons and the West they travelled. The Daltons brothers turn from being peace officers in the Indian territories to a life of rustling. When their leader, Bob, meets Eugenia Moore, a schoolteacher who begins to plan their robberies, they become the most notorious outlaws of their time. As their raids, on trains and banks, become more daring and successful the price on their heads and the pursuit of the law increase. Then they ride into Coffeyville, intending to rob both the town‘s banks. Ron Hansen was the first writer to approach the mythology of the West with the intent of rewriting history, to show the mixed motives and dubious intentions of heroes and outlaws alike. In Hansen’s carefully styled authentic voice (drawing on contemporary newspapers and accounts) his novels would pave the...

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Becky Brown knew she’d made a mess of her life. Eight months pregnant, and her fiancé has been dead for almost that long. After her parents kick her out, she moves into a boarding house and helps the kindly woman there with chores for half her rent. She wants what’s best for her baby, but how on earth is she supposed to provide it?When handsome stranger, Amos Bowen, shows up at the boarding house and asks her to marry him, her first instinct is to tell him he’s lost his mind. Instead, she finds herself married to him three days later. Can this couple survive the bitterness of her parents, a visit from his mother, and an early baby? Or will they break under the pressure?

Let's get one thing straight. I love pu$$y. Effin'. Love. It. Call me shallow, call me a perv, call me a cocky bastard, but the reason I know there's a heaven is because God made women. Because no matter who a woman is, a ball-buster in the courtroom or a flower child at an Avitt Brothers concert, I have the keys to their kingdom, and they all want it. Until Mariah Sanchez - aka Sparky She wants me. I can feel it. I can smell it. But for nine months, sixteen days, twelve hours and forty-seven minutes she's had my "you know what" in irons. Worse, my mouth and my fingers, too. Locked up in an invisible prison of my own making. And because I'm a stupid idiot, the only person I can blame for my predicament is me. But that's about to change...

Have you missed the couples from River’s End Ranch? Want to know what they’ve been up to since they got their happily ever after? Here are five little episodes to show you what they’re doing this holiday season and how their lives have changed since falling in love. This short includes Joni and Max, Michelle and Steven, Gabrielle and Noah, Jennifer and Maynard, and Jaclyn and Simon. These are not complete stories, and are only meant to “catch you up” on where these couples are at Christmas of 2018. 

Available for the first time in a single collection, eight stories featuring the World's Greatest Detective, Sherlock Holmes, written by award-winning author Bill Crider. Return to 221B Baker Street as Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Dr. Watson, investigate vampires, ghouls, ghosts, and other mysterious creatures.Featured in this collection:"The Adventure of the Young British Soldier""The Case of the Vampire's Mark""The Adventure of the Christmas Bear""The Adventure of the White City""The Adventure of the Venemous Lizard""The Case of the Vanished Vampire""The Adventure of the St. Marylebone Ghoul""The Adventure of the Christmas Ghosts"and a bonus story:Death Did Not Become Him, by Patricia Lee Macomber & David Niall Wilson

The summer day was all but spent when Richard Jennifer, riding express, brought me Captain Falconnet schallenge. Twas a dayfall to be marked with a white stone, even in our Carolina calendar. The sun, reaching down to the mountain-girt horizon in the west, rilled all the upper air with the glory of its departing, and the higher leaf plumes of the great maples before my cabin door wrought lustrous patterns in gilded green upon a zenith background of turquoise shot with crimson, like the figurings of some rich old tapestries I had once seen in my field-marshal scastle in the Mark of Moravia.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

When Jerry Lambert, "the Duke," attempts to safeguard the cattle ranch of Vesta Philbrook from thieving neighbors, his work is appallingly handicapped because of Grace Kerr, one of the chief agitators, and a deadly enemy of Vesta\'s. A stirring tale of brave deeds, gun-play and a love that shines above all.

This 1500 word prequel is what ties together the ground-breaking American Mail Order Bride books. The project includes fifty mail order bride books, one for each state, which will be released one per day from November 19th, 2015-January 7th, 2016.This 1500 word prequel is what ties together the ground-breaking American Mail Order Bride books. The project includes fifty mail order bride books, one for each state, which will be released one per day from November 19th, 2016-January 7th, 2016. Roberta, manager of a garment factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts, finds a very large discrepancy between the amount of money on hand and the amount her books say she should have on hand. When she calls in the owner to talk to him about it, she knows immediately the discrepancy is caused by him. After the factory burns to the ground a short time later, she feels responsible for the women who are now jobless. Can she find a solution that won't leave all of the women unemployed?