Spontaneous Combustion

Spontaneous Combustion

Bobby Hutchinson

Romance / Historical Romance / Westerns

A warehouse fire rages out of control. Firefighter Shannon O'Shea enters the burning structure. A beam shakes loose, her path is blocked. And then a miracle... Firefighter Shannon O'Shea is lifted from the rubble of a burning building by an unknown fireman, his protective gear shielding his identity. She's convinced her mystery rescuer is John Forrester, the newest member of their team. But when John denies it, Shannon becomes suspicious. Nothing about John seems to add up. Is he behind the explosion and fire? The only way to find the truth is to get closer to her sexy, enigmatic colleague...and risk the heat of their attraction.
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Laundry Lady's Love

Laundry Lady's Love

Sophie Dawson

Westerns / Romance

The Ladies of Sanctuary House is a spinoff of the Stones Creek Series. Many of the characters, places, and situations are from that series. I'd recommend you read those first in order to enjoy this series to its fullest potential. One man wants her, but the one she wants doesn’t seem to.Laura Duffle has come to Stones Creek, with her two young sons, hoping to find love again. She’s spent the last five years at Sanctuary Place Mission for Women after the death of her husband. She needs to set up her laundry business but doesn’t know where to start.Hank Johnson, the town barber, is flattered by and attracted to the lovely widow who comes seeking his advice. He hasn’t been looking for a wife, but maybe he’ll begin with Laura. Ranch foreman, Red Dickerson, would like a wife. He hopes to find one among the Ladies of Sanctuary House. He sets his sights on Laura. Hank sets her heart on fire, but is he only interested in helping her get her business off the ground?Red is solid and dependable, but is this enough to base her future on?Should Laura settle for safety and security for herself and her boys?Will she hold out for love?Or will she just chuck both of them into the washtub and rinse the men from her life altogether?
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Victoria_Bride of Kansas

Victoria_Bride of Kansas

E. E. Burke

Romance / Historical Fiction / Westerns

Victoria: Bride of Kansas is the 34th in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.Jilted society miss Victoria Lowell travels a thousand miles to marry an Irish suitor whose romantic letters won her heart. Upon arriving in Kansas, she discovers her betrothed has little enthusiasm for marriage and less Christmas spirit than Scrooge.Divorced shopkeeper David O’Brien wants nothing to do with matters of the heart. However, his young daughter needs a mother, and his meddling sister believes she’s done him a favor by corresponding with a mail-order bride. Reluctantly, he holds off on revealing the author of the letters, giving Victoria until Christmas Eve to prove she can manage his troubled child.When the truth finally comes out, it will take more than a miracle to deliver a happily-ever-after in time for Christmas. 
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The Beginning_Prequel

The Beginning_Prequel

Kirsten Osbourne

Romance / Westerns

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. 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?
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…A Dangerous Thing

…A Dangerous Thing

Crider, Bill

Mystery / Westerns

Professor Carl Burns knew the new dean wasn't going to work out when she bought the two goats. And that was the least of the problems. Hartley Gorman College was being attacked - with a vengeance - by the forces of political correctness, and the new dean was an unreconstructed hippie. Courses would have to be rewritten, manners watched... and everyone knew Burns should have been the new dean, anyway. As if this weren't enough to contend with, Tom Henderson's fatal fall through a window definitely wasn't part of the planned curriculum. But figuring out whodunit is going to be a lot more interesting for Burns than grading papers for his developmental English class.
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One-Eyed Death

One-Eyed Death

James W. Marvin

Westerns

No other name. Just Crow. Dressed in black from head to toe. The meanest man in the bullet-scarred annals of the West. Nobody ever turned their back on him. A cold voice in the shadows, a vengeful angel of death ...Time was when Crow found himself in Rosa Cruz, Arizona. Down on his luck, suck and stony broke. A time when the most menial of tasks would be welcome if it enabled him to eat. So when Ben Ford and the Spangel family ask Crow to guide them out west, he gladly agrees. He soon regrets his rashness, for the Reverend Spangel is a fiery, bible-thumping puritan, while his wife is half-witted. And almost all of Crow's charges are blind ...
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Her Happy Ever After

Her Happy Ever After

Lucy Evanson

Romance / Historical Romance / Westerns

It was only supposed to be a short visit. It turned into a love affair.Melanie White is in trouble. Young, unmarried, and with no resources to speak of, she's forced to flee home and hide out with her aunt on a ranch in a western mining town. She's just passing through on her way farther West, and it's a good thing, too: she can't stand the ranch owner. He's rowdy, immature...and undeniably attractive.David Tanner has his life just the way he likes it: he does what he wants, when he wants, and nobody can tell him any different—least of all, his former nanny's niece Melanie, who likes books more than people.But when a family emergency forces Melanie and David to work together, she discovers that there's more to him than meets the eye. And he finds out that life as a bachelor may not be what he likes after all.Contains mild language and sensual content within marriage.
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Bride For Gilbert

Bride For Gilbert

Kirsten Osbourne

Romance / Westerns

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?
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The Deer Stalker

The Deer Stalker

Zane Grey

Literature & Fiction / Westerns

In The Deer Stalker, readers will find all they have come to expect from the great Western author Zane Grey—swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the added valiant effort of a ranger's struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on the Buckskin range. Grey makes the reader see this colorful Arizona country, feel something of the awe that is the inevitable reaction of man to the majesty of one of nature's miracles, smell the tang of mingled pine and sagebrush, and thrill to the heroic struggle of a few dedicated men as they battle to undo the harm of the willful and greedy.
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Badman's Pass

Badman's Pass

R. W. Stone

Westerns

Badger Kershaw was becoming a familiar figure on the frontier after the War between the States. Riding an Appaloosa with Lobo, his dog-wolf hybrid, often by his side, he was feared by most outlaws on the dodge on whom there was a bounty. It was not a savory profession, perhaps, but Kershaw was honest about what he did. Frontier lawmen for the most part were accustomed to dealing with Kershaw. When the fugitive was willing to surrender—which was less frequent than it might be thought—Kershaw would bring in an outlaw alive, but it was not an option he encountered very often. Generally it was one man against another, but in what would possibly be Badger Kershaw's greatest feat, the odds were quite different.Colonel Benjamin Grierson had been Kershaw's commanding officer during the War between the States. When, years after the war's end, Grierson's daughter was one of the four women seized in a train hold-up and taken prisoner, Grierson appealed again to the man who...
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