WANTEDFamily Man. Must Love Children.Payment Negotiable.Rider Magrane knows what "wanted" means; he's just been released from prison after serving five years for cattle rustling. He's come back to Drover, Kansas, to make amends to David Warner, the man he'd wronged. He discovers the man has run off and left the most appealing woman he's ever met – Jane Warner – in charge of his farm and his two young boys.Jane posted the ad to lure a capable male into caring f...

Missing Gold –Travel weary army scout Clay Sullivan wants nothing more than to recover a lost gold consignment, then leave army life to settle down on his ranch. He never expected to cross paths with the spirited, spunky Nora-Leigh Dillon. The eccentric schoolmarm not only rides a bicycle scandalizing the staid citizens of Steamboat Bend, Montana, but she wears men's trousers and cuts off her beautiful, long blonde hair.Dreaming of Adventure –Nora-Leigh never intended...

FINNIGAN JONES HAS A PASSION FOR COOKING AND A PENCHANT FOR TROUBLEDead bodies aren't on Finn's New Orleans walking tour of cemeteries and haunted houses. Ditto disappearing bodies. Now she has to explain to Detective Jack Boyle how her missing corpse has turned up in the Mississippi putting her smack-dab in the middle of a murder investigation.Unfortunately, another of Finn's odd jobs is taking questionable photos for Jack's PI brother, Tommy. After she snaps shots of a dubi...

SHE SHOT THE SHERIFF!Trixianna Lawless can’t believe the man she’s shot on her front porch is the sheriff. She thought he was an intruder. What was he doing scaring her to death before the sun even rose? She is a proper woman who bakes pies for the restaurant in Grand Fork, Kansas. She isn’t dangerous; she’s simply run to Grand Fork after a misunderstanding with her sister. And she certainly isn’t Mad Maggie West, a notorious bank robber. Can she help it if she slightly resembles th...

Katherine Holman needs a husband to inherit her father's ranch, so she snatches a man off the gallows, thinking he will leave as soon as she has the deed in hand, but Wes Merrick has other plans and sticks around to complicate her life in the best possible way.

Book 5: The Owen Family Saga. Jessie Bingham put heartbreak away to tend to her sister's needs, but when she settled for second best in love, she didn't foresee that James Owen would come back into her life.The aftermath of the Civil War creates cruel circumstances for the Bingham family. A brutal attack on Jessie's sister, Hannah Fletcher, drives the extended family to flee to the West. They are soon joined by Heppie Bingham's beau George and his brother, Ned, who bring news that ...

A man has finally proposed to spinster Leah Whitman, and she's prepared to leave behind the Oregon town and the dry goods store she loves to follow him to a wilderness in need of a school teacher.Austin Ryder, the earthy gunsmith who rents the other half of her building, is not a man she would consider proper company for any respectable woman. Too handsome, too rugged, too much of everything, he is intriguing to Leah's sister Bethany, who yearns for excitement and adventure beyond ...

Book 3: The Owen Family Saga. Winner of the 2013 USA Best Books Award for Western Fiction.Marie Owen yearns for a loving husband, but Colorado Territory is long on rough characters and short on fitting suitors, so a future of spinsterhood seems more likely than wedded bliss. Her best friend says cowboy Bill Henry is a likely candidate, but Marie knows her class-conscious father would not allow such a pairing. When she challenges her father to find her a suitable husband before she ...

Book 2: The Owen Family Saga. Young cavalryman Carl Owen returns from the Civil War to find the family farm destroyed, his favorite brother dead, food scarce, and his father determined to leave the Shenandoah Valley to build a cattle empire in Colorado Territory. Crossing the continent, Carl falls in love with his brother's fiancée while set to wed another girl, but he might lose everything if the murderous thug Berto Acosta has his way. Carl battles a band of outlaws, a prairie fire, bliz...

Book 4: The Owen Family Saga. Thinking he's been treated unjustly by his father, James Owen leaves the family homestead to make a new life for himself.The turbulent world of post-Civil War Colorado Territory is fraught with danger and prejudice that increase his bitter loneliness as personal setbacks threaten to break him. Then James's journey brings him into contact with another wayfarer, beautiful young Amparo Garcés, who has come from Santa Fe to Colorado to marry a stranger. Th...

Chloe Maitland lives in a dying Oregon mining town and has given up her girlish dreams of love and marriage. What she needs is a man to answer her advertisement for a blacksmith to work in her shop and help save her home from foreclosure. Instead she gets Travis McGuire, an exhausted stranger who collapses in her yard, looking like the devil himself, and proves to be far more dangerous.

Abandoned by his father and betrayed by his half-brother and fiancée on the eve of his wedding, JAKE GALLAGHER no longer believes in love. Though he longs to go home, his undercover work for the Texas Rangers keeps him in a lawless Texas border town. Even though it jeopardizes his mission he refuses to stand by and watch outlaws rape and murder a young woman. Getting shot and losing his memory wasn't part of his plan.While fleeing from her stepfather's plans to steal their ranch, C...