As a reporter for Ranching Guild magazine, Andrea Colbert wanted the low down on J.D. Colbert's announcement to sell his place. After all it had been around for over forty-five years and since he was her estranged father, she couldn't quite believe it. So after seven years of absence, she went home to find out what was going on. She hadn't been home since she left her husband, Dwayne Dillon. It was simply too painful to go back.To her shock her father had been suffering from Alzhei...

Widowed after only a year of marriage, Kate Marley had a problem getting her crops to market. But that wasn't her only problem. She couldn't mourn her husband who'd been attacked by a Cougar. He'd been so brutal on her wedding night that she refused to have relations with him. She realized after his death that there had been no love in her marriage. She'd married Jim out of loneliness. Her husband had been a great farmer, but love had never been a part of their marriage. After his frightfu...

Bonnie McDaniel had spent the last four years trying to keep her brothers and sister alive. She'd managed somehow to feed, cloth and keep a shelter over their heads.But now, she was lost. There was no money left. She owed a mortgage she couldn't pay. There' wouldn't be enough money for food, and she had to figure out what to do? Her only answer was to find a husband that could help her. She needed someone that would stand beside her and help support her siblings. But who?So ...

Mitch Connor had a son, and heir to the Connor Industries. But he'd have never known it if Maria Montoya hadn't gotten word to Niles McFarlane, his best friend and business partner. The bad news was that Maria had died in an accident on a horse. Now Mitch had set himself out to get his son. He'd taken the necessary test to prove his fatherhood, and it truly was his son. He raced to Pecos, Texas to collect him.But Sarah Montoya, his aunt was his guardian and she had no intention of ...

Jodi's parents were yelling al the time. So much so, most of the neighbors heard them. But it upset Jodi so much. She didn't understand.They never listened to her anymore. Sometimes they didn't even know she was in the room. So when Henry, the neighbors cat came overand crawled up in her lap, Jodi felt she could tell Henry everything. She could cry now, and talk to Henry because he listened. Henry wouldcrawl right up into her lap and snuggle with her, making her laugh....

Joe Armstrong came home from the civil war eager to marry his sweetheart, Melanie Hamilton. After a long war, and being abducted by pirates on a ship, there is no end to the lies he's willing to tell to have the woman of his dreams. What shocked him was the change in Melanie, and how eager she was to wed him. Everything was going just as planned, even though Ole Jen, his nanny knew all about his deception. She wouldn't tell, she loved him like a son.The marriage took place before h...

Coming home from the Marines, Jacob Hamilton faced a problem that he was determined to tackle his parents murder. Deep in the piney woods of Lake Houston and the San Jacinto River, lay the cabin where they were murdered. The police hadn't a clue and it was now considered a cold case. But Jacob was determined to pick of the pieces of the puzzle and find their murderer. When a beautiful woman, Tara Hughes show up at the cabin and tells him she's taken care of his cabin and his family dog, he...

Melanie George just finished college and her nursing school and was ready to take on her first job as a nurse at Mercy General. She also had another first, her first apartment. Her life seemed on track and now that she had broken up with Brad, she looked forward to settling into some kind of routine work at the hospital. She took an apartment close to her work so she could walk if she had to. But it wasn't long after she settled in that her first walk home scared her to death. She was sure...

This is another very graphic thriller-horror novel. Not a romance. Victor Frank is no ordinary killer. For one he kills women...with his bare hands. When he kills John T.'s mother and tells him he's "Better Off Without Her" John T. swears he'll track him down someday and kill him. Wesley Collins is a Texas Ranger, who's already had a run-in with Victor in his earlier days.He's bound to find him once the Rangers retire him before he does any more damage.Rascal Mills wife was ...

Brides of the West Series, book twenty-two. Hannah Norton just laid her folks to rest. When her brother wrote for her to come up to Oregon and he would give her a job, she jumped at the chance. She sold the farm and bought a wagon and supplies to join the wagon train headed for Oregon. There was only one problem, the Wagon Master informed her she had to be married to go on his train. She had a week to find a husband. Where could she find a man to marry and go west? Braving the odds she wen...

This is a novella for Christmas. Christmas can be joyful or lonely, depending on what you make it!Lori Lanningham flew from New York to Plano, Texas, all to put a doldrum boyfriend and job behind her and be with her family, Aunt Judy.Handyman Mark Sutton had been sweet on Heather Lewis for years, but she hardly knew he was alive.Aunt Judy lands Lori in a spot when she suggests he date Lori to make his lady friend jealous. Mark agrees to it befor Lori has a chance to st...

This is a Christmas Short Story for teens. Emily Morgan ran her families' Holiday Shop to help her mother. Her father was retired military and had come home with PTSD. However, Emily loved running the shop. It got her in the Christmas mood, and she knew her customers' names and habits. She also had a crush on Noah Ingram who worked for her family every holiday he was home from college. Noah was studying to be a doctor. The problem was Noah was interested in Emily's older sister, Cassie.