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Analise Becke writes romance with western heroes, men she has dreamed up by combining the looks of her favorite western actor with the qualities she discovers in her online chats with the Texas rancher, Riley Morgan. She's cooked up more than a few fantasies about Riley over the last year, but knows them for what they are - fantasies of a lonely woman whose marriage is falling apart.

George covers his fear of loss by trying to be as much of a man as he can. As a boy, he lost his mother and feels like it’s his fault. He doesn’t want to find a wife, she would be just another woman for him to lose. When he seeks the attention of the new poetry teacher, it’s only to have a good story to tell the other hands. Unfortunately, every time he gets near her, he can’t think of anything but poetry.

Just when you thought things were starting to simmer down in Cotton Creek, something new crops up. And this time the attention is on the Sweet gals. Hannah may have found her dream guy in Cooper Quinlan, and she's damned determined to plan the perfect wedding - no matter who she drives crazy. Everything would be perfect if she could just ignore the little bursts of excitement she gets every time she sees Bryson Weathers. Cody isn't being much help. She doesn't give a hoot in hell about fancy dresses and weddings.

He's the hot bad boy who knows how to give a woman a night of wild pleasure and some laughs and then leaves them wanting more and chasing after him. Not that they're likely to catch him. Jayce isn't opposed to settling down, he just hasn't met the right woman - if she even exists. He's starting to wonder.

A pretty, single woman in the Old West where there is a shortage of women would surely cause heads to turn, as well as garner some serious suitors. As soon as Marissa steps off the stage, every man in Hunter’s Grove is mesmerized. Three likely suitors are bold enough to throw their hats in the ring for her attention: Cole, her aunt’s attorney, Alan, her farmer neighbor, and Nash, a neighboring sheep-ranch owner. Since her aunt left an unusual stipulation to her will, Marissa finds herself forced to choose one of them to marry.

A plague is coming, and it’s not COVID-19. Terrorists have engineered a bioweapon called Siren’s Tears that strikes hard and kills quickly, and the clock is ticking for the country. FBI Agent Rita Goldman uncovers the first clues, which lead her to investigate a Chechen terrorist group operating in East Texas. The Piney Woods are filled with snakes, ticks, mosquitos, and rednecks, and that’s the last place she wants to be...except that the area also happens to be the territory of a certain Texas Ranger, Sam Cable.

Eight years ago, Toby Keller had been a clumsy, shy adolescent when he left his hometown of Brownville, Nebraska, to go live with his grandfather, the famous Marshal Hampton Gibson. Now confident, mature, and handsome, 25-year-old Deputy Tobias Keller has come home to visit his family. Once there, he finds out about a young woman under the employ of a mutual acquaintance, in a city 600 miles away, who is in dire need of a hero. Although they’ve never met, he takes it upon himself to volunteer to give her the protection of his name.

Mathematics teacher Daisy Murphy agrees to participate in a new matchmaking service organized by her pastor and the matron of the orphanage where she has spent the last 15 years. Romantic, yet practical, she's systematically eliminated all candidates but one and anticipates getting to know him better through months of correspondence. Time is not on the side of David Taylor. He has a nephew and niece to think about, and his attorney has warned him he will lose custody of both to their rich grandfather if he doesn't have a wife.

Texas Ranger Sam Cable flies to California to extradite Jade Stone, a prisoner accused of the murder of her police detective boyfriend. On the way back, their small plane crashes in a remote area of the Gila National Forest. Sam, Jade, and the injured pilot soon discover that the crash was no accident. The charges against Jade aren’t as simple as they seem.

It's fall roundup at the Broken Circle O, and a new crop of hands sign on for the job. When Charles is assigned a small, mute man to watch over, he despises the injustice. That is, until he realizes there's more to Will Galliger than meets the eye. Wilhelmina "Will" Galliger will do whatever it takes to earn her own plot of land, including acting like a man.

John Oleson has never courted before, but when he catches a woman being badgered by a strange man, he pretends to be courting her to save her. Tongues wag when everyone hears about the heiress courted by the cowboy, but will he be able to keep up the act until Alicia is safe from a man who only wants her money?

A butcher, a baker, and a cadaver maker walk into a bar. Who comes out alive? You never know in the twisted town of Cold Hollow, but you know it's not going to be an ordinary day when you receive half a human face in the mail. Mayor Myrna Gillette and Chief Hanover are at it again when an unwanted visitor, bent on revenge, refuses to leave their town. With arsonists, the Mafia, and murderers to keep in check, Myrna is determined to keep her pleasant town intact.

Vince finds himself taking the role of a treasure hunter immersed in a 1920s pulp adventure filled with deadly bootleggers, spooky caves, lost airships, and a beautiful spear hurling girl who was raised by wolves. It doesn't take long for Vince to realize something fishy is going on, and there's more to this game than meets the eye. He must make his way from plot cache to plot cache as he searches for lost jewels, the truth about the game, and enough ammunition to keep the tommy gun barking.

A shocking true crime story of sex, greed and cold-blooded murder! Veteran true crime author Gary C. King spins a gripping real-life tale of a woman caught in a deadly web of lust and violence...a riveting story of love gone horribly, tragically wrong. Kathryn Ann Martini graduated from Yale with a bright future in the banking business. Young, beautiful, and ambitious, she had everything going for her. Until she met Michael David Lissy, the sleazy proprietor of a scuba diving school.

From the thunder of legionary boots on marble roads to the whisper of incense in sprawling basilicas, this book brings to life the cities, battles, emperors, and philosophies that shaped Rome’s eastern frontier. Explore the rise of Ephesus, Pergamon, and Antioch under Roman rule. Witness how Roman engineering, law, and military precision fused with the cultural soul of ancient Anatolia.

Egypt, 1360 BCE. The greatest civilization on earth is about to tear itself apart. When Pharaoh Akhenaten launches the most radical religious revolution the ancient world has ever seen, temples are sealed, gods are erased from stone, and an entire capital rises from empty desert. Ordinary people must choose between obedience and conscience. A scribe ordered to erase the names of gods he was raised to honour. A priestess driven underground, keeping forbidden rituals alive through memory alone. A soldier whose unquestioning loyalty makes him the instrument of a regime he slowly comes to doubt.

Twenty-year-old Meriwether Walker enjoys the challenge of teaching her varied group of students in the one-room schoolhouse. What she doesn't like is the nomadic lifestyle that comes with it as she rotates boarding with families in the community on a month-to-month basis. Meriwether longs for a home of her own, but since single female teachers have to follow so many rules, she doesn't see any end to her plight, until the letter from the attorney handling her uncle's estate arrives.

“Killing is easy. It’s the forgetting that’s hard.” The year is 1923 and Prohibition is the law of the land. Levi Bowman and his four sons struggle to survive and thrive in the remote woods and mountains outpost of Sultan, Washington. It is a time and place governed by the gun and the fist where family comes first, rules are meant to be broken, and enemies put down.

The Culpeppers are in Vegas for a vow renewal when missiles from a coordinated terrorist attack streak across the sky, delivering a deadly new chemical weapon that disperses wider and lasts longer than previous generations. Separated from their family amid the chaos, Jake and Hannah must find their way to each other so they can locate their missing children and Hannah’s mother. No one is safe, and no one knows if they'll all survive Vegas.

Arnold's first love died in the Cheyenne River. He's sure he's had his one love. To guard his heart, he wants nothing to do with women. No one could ever compare to his Lynellen. He will work hard, be respectful, and never forget. Stephenia is the new teacher in Belle Fourche when she almost meets her maker. Arnold saved her life and maybe her heart. She's avoided relationships her whole life, afraid of the pain of loss. When she finally gives up on him, he has to choose between the love he's lost and the one who found him.