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"Young widow Joanna Watson is struggling to make a new home for her five-year-old son, Samuel, in the little mountain town of Settler's Fort. When she returns home from work to find Samuel and the woman watching him missing, with no lawman in town, she enlists a man she prays has enough experience in this rugged country to help. Isaac Bowen wants nothing more than a quiet, invisible life in these mountains, far away from the bad decisions of his past....

"Lilly Arendale has fought the anger of prejudice all her life. Her Guatemalan mother and wealthy English father were very much in love and gave her the best of upbringings, but their family was never accepted in either country. Now, orphaned and alone in the mining town of Butte in the Montana Territory, the effects of racism have left Lilly with a one-year-old daughter and a fierce desire to avoid men at all costs. Marcus Sullivan is a born adventurer,...

In the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, loyalty...and a hidden fortune. Two Stones has lived most of his life as an outsider, shifting between two different worlds--the orderly village of his Salish family and wild mining towns. Though he's not fully accepted anywhere, he's made a name for himself trading between the tribes and the miners, even making a trusted friend or two along the way. When he arrives...

New cover, same great story The wild Montana mountains are no place for an aging widow to live alone with dementia. And when Cathleen Donaghue discovers the poor woman's condition, there's no way she'll walk away without helping. After all, she left her comfortable Boston home to help her brothers with their mining town medical practice because she wanted to make a difference. But the wild elements she encounters on this mission of mercy are nothing...

"In the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, loyalty...and a hidden fortune and a bride he can't remember marrying. Jude Coulter is far more comfortable in his family's sapphire mine tucked in the Montana mountains than on the bustling streets of New York City, where he's been sent to deliver a shipment of gems. His relief at boarding the train for the first leg of his journey home is short-lived when an...

She's determined to make a name for herself as a news correspondent, but this mountain man may be her hardest assignment yet. As the fifth daughter in a family of nine, Noelle Grant spent her life striving to be unique. Her love of telling stories helps define her goal--to be known around the country as one of the top news correspondents of her time. And what better way to uncover sensational tales than to travel through the mountain wilderness...