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4162) To Kiss a Cowgirl
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Their rivalry isn't new... but their attraction is! Wild spirit Jolie Brody never dreamed her new boss at the ranch supply store would be Dylan Culver. They haven't seen each other since high school, but he's just as straitlaced as ever. Good thing it's only temporary; Mr. Uptight is in town nursing an injury before he goes back to law enforcement. As they work together - surprisingly well - they can't deny their attraction. Letting a kiss lead to...
4163) Natchez
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A spooky and sinister army confronts Dr. Spectros in the swamplands of Mississippi The ship full of enslaved Africans arrived in Natchez just before the end of the Civil War. Freed by the Union army, the Telingas found themselves in a strange land whose language they did not speak and whose people they feared. The tribe fled into the bayou to make a new life with their old black magic-one so powerful it has brought the evil conjurer Blackschuster...
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It's never too late... right? Kayla Anderson is never going back to Montana. At least, that was the plan. But when her teenage son runs away to meet his great-grandparents, she ends up back in Schuyler... face-to-face with her high school sweetheart, rancher Jackson McGregor. It's complicated doesn't quite cover it, especially since Alex happens to be Jackson's son, too. Alex and his dad couldn't be more different, but Jackson will do anything to...
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Jay has lived in a once well-populated mining town in Colorado's Rocky Mountains for all of his fifteen years. Orphaned when he was very young, he spends most of his time working at his grandmother's store or as a cattlehand in Payrock Canyon with his friend Doc. Toward the end of the summer, all sorts of strange things start to happen in Payrock: Bighorn sheep are dying mysteriously, black beavers turn brown, cattle are running themselves off of...
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n unspeakable evil committed at the conclusion of Gathering of the Clans ignites a firestorm of unforeseen consequences. Joniah has forgiven Joshua Hotah for his "unexpected act of kindness," but the rifle shot attracts unwanted attention. After orchestrating the murder of an innocent family, a creeping edge of remorse invites Csongor Toth to consider the possibility of a conscience. Deeply in love with Nadia, Roshan Kuznetsov believes his abject...
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Excerpt: "The proper way to begin this story would be to assure the reader, first of all, that I have never believed in ghosts, that is the way ghost-stories usually begin, I think. Also, I should say that what I am about to relate is perfectly true-but I won't begin it like that. As a matter of fact, I don't care much whether you believe me or not, and I always did believe in ghosts-at least, I always hoped they were truer than Santa Claus, and that...
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Connie is a mother who struggles to keep her life together. A divorced woman, she tries to save her family from eviction by going to extreme lengths. But, it is then that she meets a mysterious, charming man, with the promise of being a great father, and a good husband. Somewhere inside him though, there is a dark secret that can destroy her life, as well her child's, a secret that almost drives her mad. With her child's life in danger, as well her...
4169) The Indian Mummy Mystery
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Lyman Cutler tells his grandson Joe a story about his days as a young cowboy when he came across a cliff dwelling containing abandoned pottery and an Indian mummy. When Joe and his friend Denny search for the pottery and mummy, they discover old relics including documents, photographs, and the skull of a man. This story of archaeology and preservation of natural places will thrill young explorers as they follow Joe and Denny's adventure throughout...
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Action packed and authentic, Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit is a vivid portrait of the men whose true grit left its mark on the American West.
Charley Sunday. Bloody Sunday.
In the lawless frontier town of Brownsville, Texas, a boy and his parents ride a carriage down a crowded street-when a kill crazy band of kidnappers strike suddenly. Now, to rescue his family, veteran rancher Charley Sunday cobbles together a ragtag posse that starts with an...
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What do you do when you see a naked man cowering behind a rock?
It's not every day that the passengers of a stagecoach in the Old West see a naked man hiding behind a rock. But, the motley group of people on a stage bound for Uvalde, Texas, stop and question Finnegan McCall, naked as the day of his birth. He says he is the new manager at the bank in town and a thief stole all his clothes.
But, if Finnegan McCall is telling the truth, then who is...
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In the Old West, the peaceful town called Shangri's Point is home to a man known simply as Undertaker. He is, of course, the undertaker of the town. Undertaker is a man with a secret, a secret that not too many folks in the town know about, but soon things begin to unravel in Shangri's Point when a group of men make their way through looking for a young Native American girl named Joana. To Undertaker's dismay, Joana breaks into his house in an attempt...
4173) Clay
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No 1 Best Seller in Western Romance in November 2018 and Top 5 during September, October and November 2018.A gal burned and scarred in a fire who wants nothing to do with the sexiest, most eligible bachelor in town.She's convinced he's out for only one thing.Add in an escapee bull who loves the ladies, a couple of idiot wannabe criminals who tell the law where to find them and their kidnap victim and you have a whole heap of Wild West fun with a large...
4175) Retributor
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Retributor Jeremiah Brandt has already riled up the zombie cavalry and he's still angry over losing a huge bounty on a clan of serial killers. So when the Helena Cattlemen's Association asks for help with a werewolf he jumps at the chance to take it on. There are a few little kinks to work through first before he can get down to the hunt-starting with zombies, a revengeful sister, and cold bath water. But the hunter soon becomes the hunted as Brandt...
4176) Hellgate, Montana
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There are more than just demons and witches that haunt the daylight and the dark. The Roman Catholic Church found men willing to take on the powers of darkness and called them The Retributors-men with a pure soul, no regrets, and no designs on a long life. Retributor Jeremiah Brandt headed for the most supernaturally and unnaturally infected place on the frontier-the bright blue Montana Territory sky of the Hellgate Valley. The longer he stays the...
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"Sam Michel is such a smart, manic, virtuosic stylist . . . the kind of deep insights that make you suddenly and newly appreciative of the world around you."-George Saunders
There was a hot, high sun, a hard ground and a long way off to any certain water, and my wife, a tenderfoot, I thought, not immodest, seemed bent on ruined feet and spectacle, on making of herself to passing innocents a living proof of what could happen to a man and woman ventured...
4178) The Woodcutter
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In the winter of 1888, Dana Reynolds has no reason to believe in anything, until he runs afoul of Wovoka. Dana doesn't believe in Truth. Telling the truth was what lost him his job back at the Chronicle in San Francisco. Well, that and drinking a little too much. In Nevada he's learning that Indian agents can be as crooked as politicians. Just asking a few too many questions around here earned him a beating and a cracked rib. Now he was supposed to...
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In prairie towns and backwaters, and in the big cities, people search for themselves and their lost way. Is the American dream still possible in this big, harsh land?
The short fiction in The Big Impossible explores guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and assumptions that are no longer holding steady.
In "Clean," a man waits...
4180) Killer Poker
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He came West in search of the truth. Out here, the truth is more than enough to get you killed. . .
Hunter And The Hunted
Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own--to take this city slicker...
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