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The young woman has not been completely honest with the Christian man and feels that he may not love her for who she truly is. Will the cowboy see past her troubled history and love her for the woman she truly is?

Half-white, half-Cheyenne Yakima Henry has been ambushed and badly injured. Bleeding to death, he doesn't know who'll get to him first: the gunslingers or hungry wolves. Thankfully, comely widow Aubrey Coffin comes along and drags Yakima to safety. But as he heals, lawless desperados circle closer to finish the job they started by putting his innocent savior in the cross fire.

When archaeologist Annja Creed attends an auction in Botswana featuring personal effects of an infamous explorer, she purchases a small and seemingly unremarkable piece of art. It's not until the explorer's son makes a desperate attempt to steal it that Annja uncovers the secret of the painting...or rather, the secret map behind the painting.

Almost Missing the Boat: A Victorian Christian Mail Order Bride Romance is about a woman living in London who is to be married off to a man of her mother's choice; a baron she has no feelings for. She runs off to the docks hoping to escape the situation, but sees him by the ticket office, searching for her. Making a last minute leap to a ship, with no idea where she'll end up, she puts her faith in God that she's made the right decision.

Maggie Falls Off A Train is about an independent Victorian woman who travels from London to New York, in order to get a business degree and run her father’s business back in the old country. She falls sick and is advised by a doctor to take a semester off from the university and recuperate in California. As she gets off the train she faints, and literally falls into Tom’s arms. She finds out later why he just happened to be at the train station at that very moment in time.

When Smoke Jensen sees a gang of outlaws holding up a stagecoach, his gunfighter instincts take over and he storms in with guns blazing. He kills one of the gunmen, the rest scatter like the rats they are. Another notch on the sharpshooter's weathered grip. But the dead man is the brother of the notorious outlaw Gabe Briggs, and Briggs will want revenge....

When a farmer's wife is murdered, an innocent man is accused: Patrick O'Brien. The book-loving brother had shared his love of literature with the woman, but her husband claims she spurned Pat's advances and that's why he killed her. Now it looks like Patrick will swing from the gallows - especially after his lawyer is targeted, too. 

"Amanda and Cecil Get the Boot" is about a young man who takes the bullet for an older man and becomes paralyzed. "Mail Order Bride: A Little Child Shall Lead Her" is about a widower who was left with a traumatized daughter who cannot see, hear or speak. "The Western Mail Order: Garret and Meredith": In Montana's Bitterroot Foothills, is the story of a horse rancher who desires a life full of love and marriage, but he is at a loss as to where to find a potential bride.

Mail Order Bride: Two Sisters and the Family Quilt Go West for Love is the story of two sisters sent by their parents to California, where one is to be a mail order bride. On the train journey they meet two men who seem strangely familiar and along the way, grow to like them. The one intended mail order bride fights her feelings, knowing that she is to be married as soon as she gets to the west coast, but it is very hard when the handsome stranger seems to be interested in her, as well.

Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way, she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child. After finally arriving at her cowboy's ranch, she falls for the handsome man but knows she must soon reveal her unfortunate circumstance.

Lou Prophet is accompanying his sometime-partner, sometime-lover Louisa Bonaventure to Seven Devils, Arizona. She’s chosen to give up bounty hunting and settle down - and wants Prophet to settle down with her. Although flattered by her offer, he isn’t willing to retire his guns. But Louisa’s dreams are shattered when they arrive at the scorched earth that was once Seven Devils - and the graves of her cousin’s family. 

In Elizabethan London, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her education has endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but still she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees the theatre, Emilia discovers the power of stories to beguile audiences. Secretly, she forms a plan to bring a play of her own to the stage – by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.

Zack Tripler, a psychiatrist, admits to the hospital Youssef al Saud, an agitated young Saudi American, in the midst of what appears to be a psychotic break. Youssef has been hearing voices and was found hiding with his laptop in the woods from unidentified assailants whom he believes are trying to kill him. He’s found coded messages on the laptop that he suspects portend a terrorist plot.

Having taken a job shotgunning a stage coach, Yakima gets tangled in corrupt town where theft, lies and murder dog him at every turn. The deeper he gets involved with the townsfolk, the harder he struggles to make things “right,” Each choice making things more dangerous and deadly.

Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it’s personal and it’s bloody—and going to get bloodier. First, they stole fifty of the hundred horses Smoke delivered to his old friend Big Ben Conyers in Tarrant County, Texas. Then they stole two thousand cattle from Big Ben...and killed him just for the fun of it. Now they’re going to pay.

In a near future world on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a mysterious woman brokers an anonymous pact between two men for the older man to inhabit the younger man’s body when he dies in exchange for a fortune and access to vast knowledge. The consequences for both men evolve over the ensuing years, while the covert agency behind the mind swapping technology seeks to use it to rule the world.

The Maker Movement represents a dramatic shift in the democratization of design and manufacturing. Advancements in new technologies such as 3D printing and laser cutting are putting powerful tools once only available to large institutions like NASA in the hands of millions of people worldwide. This rapid pace of change opens up new possibilities that were never before imaginable, placing strong emphasis on resourcefulness as the path to technical competence.

Going to Meet Lee is about a newspaper editor dissatisfied with his life in the Big Apple. He decides to head to Nebraska, where a family he barely remembers has offered to provide him with the ranch life, plus a daughter whose name he doesn't know, to perhaps become his mail order bride. There are two hearts to be healed in this western romance.

Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era.

Becky, a widow who was abused by her former husband, is weary of love. Luke, a cowboy from Texas is seeking a love that he once had. He is a God-fearing man who lost his wife and children in a wagon accident years ago. They have both grown accustomed to their lonely lifestyles and lack of companionship. God begins to work through them, and leads them to begin a correspondence via a mail order bride advertisement.