Showing titles in Westerns

She’s running from trouble, and now he’s protecting more than just his ranch. Laney Parker is in dire need of a fresh start. With broken bones and a broken heart, she shows up at Blackwater Ranch hoping to land the housekeeper position for the new bed and breakfast. When the caring family begins to ask questions, she struggles to trust them with her secret. 

Murder at Mountain Creek is a three-book series about nonidentical twin brothers who set out during the Great Depression of the 1930s to get away from home. Frank Connell is a fast talker who would rather agree than fight or just plain run. Carl Connell is the taller and leaner of the two, the physical one. He is also good with a gun.

Strong-willed, successful and determined, Callan Matthews lives the facade of a happy, wonderful life. Unfortunately, unbridled chaos runs amuck in the deep, dark places of her heart as she struggles to keep herself together. Her once beloved husband, Clay, tugs relentlessly at the last few threads keeping her from completely unraveling. His laid-back attitude only serves to drive her further away instead of drawing her back into his arms.

Love and second chances aren't easy to come by in a town named Tombstone. When Christy Grey receives an urgent summons to Tombstone, Arizona, she reluctantly leaves her new life in California. The trip goes from bad to worse when four masked men hold up Christy's stage. She finally arrives in Tombstone to find her mother ill and her brother trapped in a life of gambling. Desperate for money to support her family, will Christy bow to pressure from the local saloon owners and return to the life she thought she'd given up for good?

Abandoned by the Wagon Train is about a teacher who needs to find a new job because her a schoolhouse is being torn down. Looking in the newspaper to see what might be available - anywhere - she spots an ad for both a schoolteacher in California and a mail order bride wanted by the same store owner who placed the ad. Chancing it, she writes to him and then deciding to risk it all she packs up her things and heads out west on a wagon train.

In these 10 stories (three of which appear here for the first time), Levi S. Peterson demonstrates his continuing engagement to take seriously the duty of the fiction writer to illuminate and entertain. His subject remains Latter-day Saints caught between the polarities of conscience and passion.

Serena Bailey is sold by her stepfather to a man in Texas to pay off a debt. Hating him for it, Serena is nevertheless forced to go to El Paso, Texas. Leaving her mother behind, she boards a train from New York, leaving her old life behind. Arriving in El Paso, she discovers that Hubert Bishop, her fiancé, is evil and cruel, and she is forced to fight him or die.

A fast-paced Western yarn that is hard to put down! Texas in the 1880's offered both opportunity and danger. Mike Stone comes to Texas to avoid the gunfighter reputation he had acquired in New Mexico. He finds adventure and danger as he settles in near Austin with an unexpected inheritance and a beautiful new neighbor. He finds it hard to put the guns away when the Texas Rangers come calling. You'll enjoy this Western mystery with a touch of intrigue and echoes of a famous outlaw from Texas history.

Clara Tempest in is trouble. Widowed and in debt...a lot of debt, she is all but imprisoned by her creditors. And the biggest shock of her life comes: she is sold off to become a mail order bride for a cowboy. Clara is informed of her husband's debt before the grave diggers have even had time to fill up the grave with dirt. She finds herself having to work off the impossibly large debt or face debtor's prison. She was all but imprisoned anyway.

Our Wagon Train's One Special Christmas Eve Along The Oregon Trail is a beautiful story about a young woman traveling west on a wagon train. She looks after the children and others before she does herself, but always tries to write in her journal. It’s her way of talking to God. During the trip they all have to contend with one bad apple, the weather setting in, and the splitting up of the wagon train because of a child's injuries and need for rest.

Setting Black Souls Free Along The Oregon Trail: The Christian Wagon Train, is a wonderful Christian novella with scriptures, about one woman's fight to free the slaves which a single family owns, as they head west along the Oregon Trail. It's a family consisting of one father and his six sons. The youngest son is already a believer but the woman has a hard time in convincing the others that all people deserve to be free and have the chance to learn about Jesus. Gradually, she is able to convince the group of men, except for one, to realize that God's word is the truth.

Charles Dickens on the Oregon Trail, is the story of one lonely young woman who decides to leave the haphazard care of her aunt and sets out on her own, on the long journey west along the Oregon Trail. She rushes to town to try and find someone who will take her amongst the hundreds of people and wagons massing, ready to make the trek across the country. One kind family with seven children take her in and she ends up teaching them, along with a group of other children, and so finds her niche as a teacher on the train.

Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer. Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from a seventy-year-old suitor. Faced with the...

When a fire destroys all that Lily loves, the heartbroken young woman struggles to support herself. When she corresponds with Wyoming rancher Seth, Lily experiences happiness again and travels to Wyoming. Seth's life was destroyed after tragedy struck his family. When Lily arrives, a devastated Seth shuts down, refusing to get to know her.

Saving Lonely Crippled Thomas: Thomas lives virtually alone in his house in Pennsylvania, with only his cousin to look after him. His legs were damaged in a railway accident and the only way he can get around his house is by crawling, or by means of an awkward chaise lounge prototype wheelchair that his cousin pushes. He loses his faith and reads only controversial books.

All roads lead home in the dramatic conclusion to one family's journey of love, sacrifice, and survival. Since the moment he saw her, Coop Spencer has been single-minded in his quest to protect Belle. She's running from something—someone—and he's never met anyone so scared. When the wagon...

He Said You'd Come is about what happens to a woman abandoned in the desert by her abusive and mentally ill husband, and how she survives. It is a truely inspirational Christian love and drama story, which will most certainly reinforce your faith in our Lord, Jesus Christ.

With her father’s plummeting business and health, 21 year old Josephine Hayden is urged to ease her parents' burden and accept an invitation to join hands with an unknown Western man in Cowtown, Kansas. Her first sight of blue-eyed Clae McKinley and his twin brother, Harland, is encouraging, but when she is presented with a contract outlining her responsibilities as a Mail Order wife, overwhelming fears of a loveless marriage besiege her tender heart. 

At 20, Savannah knew it was time to leave the orphanage and allow another girl to take her place. She decides to become a mail-order bride and starts to write Austin, a man who lives in Iowa. Austin owns a farm he inherited. He loves working the land, but he is lonely and wants a wife with whom to share his life. After following advice from his best friend, he brings Savannah to Iowa to marry. But soon, the unthinkable happens, and he loses his wheat harvest in one day. Austin decides he needs to leave and find a job so they can make it through the winter months. 

Jake McCabe is no stranger to trouble. Between serving in the army during the Civil War and being involved in a long-running feud in his home state of Kentucky, Jake has known some hard times. Some have said the McCabe family is known best for their run of bad luck.