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Photographer Meg Pero fulfills a contract her late father signed to serve on a survey of the Grand Canyon in 1871. She doesn't know that the leader of the expedition is the man she once refused to marry. Captain Ben Coleridge would like to leave without the woman who broke his heart, but he can't wait even one more day to get started. This survey is a screen for another, more personal mission, one he cannot share with any member of his team. As dangers...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller presents the Stone Creek story that started it all...
When trouble strikes in Haven, Arizona, Ranger Sam O'Ballivan is determined to sort it out. Badge and gun hidden, he arrives posing as the new schoolteacher, and discovers his first task: bringing the ranchers' children under control. So he starts with a call on Maddie Chancelor, the local postmistress...
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A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon-from child to determined young adult to loving mother-she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring...
4) Judgment day
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It began with a handful of bedraggled pioneer survivors. It took root because of the courage of one young man. In William W. Johnstone's new blockbuster Western series, a town called Fury rises up in the midst of a hostile Arizona Territory--and lives every day as if it were its last...
Between newcomers and original settlers, the few hundred people who inhabit Fury, Arizona, know about survival. After all, if man or nature had their way, the godforsaken...
5) Shavetail
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Thomas Cobb's second novel is based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and a woman kidnapped by renegade Apaches, the men's mettle is severely tested as they confront the brutality of life in the West.
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Arizona Territory, 1899. Ruby Fortune faces an untenable choice: murder her abusive husband or continue to live with bruises that never heal. One bullet is all it takes. Once known as "Girl Wonder" on the Wild West circuit, Ruby is now a single mother of four boys in her hometown of Jericho, an end-of-the-world mining town north of Tucson. Here, Ruby opens a roadside inn to make ends meet. Drifters, grifters, con men, and prostitutes plow through...
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Troubled waters: During the conflict between cattlemen and sheepmen, Wyoming sheepman J.C. Tate violates an agreed-upon line of demarcation with his sheep. Rancher Rowan McCoy organizes a night raid on the herd, but gives orders that guns are not to be used. One man with a grudge against Tait decides to disobey.
Robber's roost: Sheriff Val Collins from Pima County in the Arizona Territory is a witness to a botched train robbery by the notorious Dolf...
13) The lawman
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"Jess Porterfield fled to the big city after his father's sudden death, leaving behind his family ranch--and his childhood sweetheart. Now he's returned as the local lawman, determined to win back the one woman he could never live without. Young frontier doctor Addie Wilcox was devastated when Jess left her behind. Now it's difficult to remember why she should keep her distance. But with the town's richest man set to see her hang, Addie must put her...
14) The outlaw
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"Amanda Porterfield longs to experience real adventure. So when she's offered a position in bustling Tucson, she leaps at the chance despite unknown dangers--dangers like the mysterious Seth Grover. As an undercover detective working to stop a gang of outlaws, Seth can't afford the distractions a woman like Amanda inspires. Yet when the fiercely intelligent beauty is thrust into the middle of a heist gone wrong, Seth will fight for a future that may...
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"Loving Jack: When romance author Jackie MacNamara treats herself to a much-deserved writing retreat, she expects to work on her novel in peace. Unfortunately for her, the luxurious house she's leased already has a tenant: the temperamental owner, Nathan Powell. Jack's love for fairy tales just might rub off on Nathan if he lets her stay...and the longer Jack sticks around, the more she finds inspiration for her novel's romantic hero in Nathan!"--Publisher...
17) Chiricahua
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"The only individual standing between the white settlers and fierce Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Geronimo and Chatto is Pa-nayo-tishn (The Coyote Saw Him), a man of peace who forever alters the fate of the Apache"--
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