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Traveling through the Wyoming wilderness, all Bridger Jamison wants is a job and a safe haven for his brother. Finding work with lovely Lola Martin solves one of his problems. But a string of mysterious deaths has Quiver Creek on edge, and Lola isn't sure what to make of the new man. Yet she can't help trusting the handsome carpenter who shows such tenderness toward his brother. When secrets come to light, can Lola put her faith in the man who's stolen...

When his wife is kidnapped during a visit to Boston, Smoke Jensen, the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier, travels back to Dodge City and up to Yellowstone, where he faces a showdown with the culprits, a gang of hired guns.

"In the 1830s, in the wild Wyoming territory, Jonathan Byrd is working as a fur trapper. But the quiet young man dreams of giving up the high country life and decides to make his home in a little valley called Shywater. Before long, however, other Byrds arrive. Jonathan’s cousin is a failed farmer and an alcoholic. He has brought his wife, son, and infant daughter to Shywater with no thought as to how he will support them. Along with them trails...

"At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young...

Rafe Caradec promises a dying man that he will save the Long Valley ranch in Wyoming for the man's wife and daughter. But the daughter does not trust him and plays into the greedy hands of enemy ranchers.

"Silas Pine was about to turn fifty. That tended to start a man thinking, especially when the doctor told him he had a bad heart and he had to take it easy if he wanted to see his next birthday. What Silas wanted more than anything was one last chance to make peace with his son, who was marshal in the isolated town of Grafton, Wyoming. But arriving in the middle of a bank robbery wasn't the way Silas had pictured his reunion. Neither was leading a...

"As the old ways of the nineteenth century fade, Out of the Darkness tells a story that touches on the themes and issues America will face in the new century that looms ahead. It is a story of technology and its place in society. It is a story of violence, a doctor's responsibility to his patient, and a lawyer's responsibility to his client. It is a story of forbidden love, and a story of a timid, terrified young woman's finding her courage. It questions...

"Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband...

"Simon Steele and his friend, Buell Mace, leave home at nineteen, Simon because theres no reason to stay and Buell because theres every reason to run. At a roadhouse outside Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, where there are few rules and even fewer consequences if you break one, Simon finds work as the houses supply man and Buell as an enforcer. Hanging tenaciously to the morals of his parents, and to the memory of the woman who rejected him, Simon...