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21) Loner's lady
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Pub. Date
c2006
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In this historical Western romance, a woman with a missing husband hires a cowboy to work on her farm, but he hides a dangerous secret.
When a stranger turned up at her farm, in need of a place to rest, Ellen O'Brian didn't have the heart to turn him away. He looked darkly dangerous, but she could handle herself; she had learned hard and fast when her husband upped and left.
Jess Flint couldn't help but admire Ellen's courage and grit-even though...
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"In high desert plains, adobe villages, and farmsteads nestled in the folds of pinon-green mountains - even in centuries-old cities sprawling into modern shopping mall culture - time can seem to stand still. Step into another way of understanding place and time in these seven new short stories from award-winning author Martha Egan. They may be set in New Mexico but they resonate with basic human truths that trenscend the limits of regionalism."--BOOK...
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Series
Harlequin historicals volume 649
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A widow before she'd even been a wife - Mary Margaret Hampton was in big trouble! Lonely loggers. One genteel lady. A dangerous combination, Tom Randall thought. He was trying to run a business, not a tea party! And if obstinate Meggy Hampton didn't hightail her moonlight and magnolias back south, the sweet sparks she was igniting would make the camp - and his passion - explode like the Fourth of July!
24) No other place
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A hard, high plains life has turned refined southern lady, Aurelia Symington, into a work-toughened, capable woman determined to give her best to those she loves.
25) Blue horizons
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Series
Women of Paragon Springs volume 2
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Meg Brennon knows that her new life at her road ranch in Paragon Springs, Kansas, can't truly begin until she severs all ties with the abusive husband she'd fled years before. Although fearful, she returns to St. Louis determined to find him and obtain a divorce. But Ted Malloy refuses, hoping that Meg's return will win him his dying father's favor, and fortune. It's going to be a long hard fight, but Meg can't afford to stay away from Kansas and...
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Women of Paragon Springs volume 4
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Lucy Walsh's heart remains with the struggling town of Paragon Springs, but she feels beholden to her husband, Admire, to make the Run to the Cherokee Strip for new land.
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Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Extra! Extra! Mail-Order Brides Compete To See Who Can Deliver! That should be the headline in the Gazette, Lolly Mayfield swore. Here she'd gotten up the gumption to answer an ad, only to find herself competing for bride status against two other women, with Kellen Macready as the extremely eligible-and very masculine-prize! If it weren't for charity, Kellen Macready would never have agreed to be the grand prize in a public matchmaking contest. But...
29) Rain of fire
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
When a new hot spring appears overnight in the park and a noted naturalist is scalded to death, Kyle Stone mounts an expedition into the Yellowstone backcountry to unravel the mystery.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Solomon, daughter of Rulon Clark Allred, was twenty-eighth of forty-eight children born to her father's seven plural wives. She recounts growing up in a family often split up, living on the run or in hiding. Choosing monogamy for herself, she struggles to remain close to her polygamous family"--Provided by publisher.
31) Hoodoo
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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"After an environmental lawyer, a copper mining executive, and an ethnobotanist are killed, geologist Frankie MacFarlane becomes a suspect. Frankie must decipher interlocking puzzles to clear her name and to find the killer in a mystery that involves the conflict between mining and land values in the Southwest"--Provided by publisher.
32) Lake of fire
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Pub. Date
2007
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It began with lies. One-quarter Nez Perce, Cord Sutton attempts to hide his Indian blood by adopting the life of a gentleman. As part of the ruse, he plans to buy the Lake Hotel, an island in the Yellowstone wilderness that offers elegant accommodations to travelers on the Northern Pacific Railroad. When Chicago heiress Laura Fielding is rescued from a stagecoach robbery in Jackson Hole by a rugged mountain man, she hides the fact she's wealthy. What...
33) The scout
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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Expecting The Unexpected Was An Army Scout's Job
Still, Major John Montgomery never anticipated finding love along the Oregon Trail. But Constance Weldon, outspoken, courageous and possessed of a quiet beauty completely at home under the wide Western sky, was like a balm from heaven to his wounded soul...;!
She'd promised her dying father she'd drive their wagon west, and Constance Weldon was always and forever a woman of her word. Though keeping...
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Portraits of the heart volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
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Jessie Ann Gaebele pursues her dream of owning her own photographic studio as she tries to put the shadow of a forbidden love behind her.
35) Haven
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Laila Mitchell sets out for Oregon with little money, a medicine kit, and not much more than the clothes on her back in the hopes of finding her last living relatives. What she finds instead is soul-satisfying work and a chance at love in a wild, enchanted canyon.
36) Fracture
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Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Now reunited, Frankie MacFarlane and Philo Dain attempt to recover the Dain coin collection stolen by Philo's murdered aunt. As they follow the trail, Frankie and Philo unearth secrets from Philo's past and discover a treasure hidden from the world for nearly two hundred years"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Tender ties historical series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A Name of Her Own is a fictionalized account of the life of Marie Dorion. With 2 young sons to raise, Marie refuses to stay in St. Louis when her husband heads West with the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition of 1811, making her the first mother to cross the Rockies and stay in the Northwest. On the trip, Marie meets the famous Lewis and Clark interpreter, Sacagawea. Both are pregnant Indian women married to mixed-blood men of French Canadian and Indian...
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Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-1930s to marry Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior. They have met only twice and have come to love each other through letters. Now, on an isolated ranch in the Dust Bowl, they must adjust to the harsh ranching life and the dangers of an untamed landscape, as well as the differences between them.