Central Kansas Library System

Charlotte Westin has always been more comfortable in a saddle than a ballroom. That wouldn't be a problem, except her father owns the largest ranch in Texas--and he insists she marry a wealthy city-slicker worthy of a cattle baron's daughter. There might be someone out there who'd love her for who she is instead of her money, but she's been fooled by a sweet talker before.

"Y Knot, Montana Territory, 1886: The long-awaited wedding date has finally been set, but when a young Cheyenne woman shows up in the loft of her family's barn, life as Charity McCutcheon knew it is thrust into chaos. Secrets her parents and brother Luke have held now explode with the power to shake her foundations. When Brandon Crawford, Charity's intended and sheriff of Y Knot, is drawn away by the haunting memory from a tragic event that happened...

"Young Ray Verity took to the outlaw trail when his three brothers were killed by ranchers who believed the Verity boys guilty of cattle rustling. He swore vengeance on Miles Tenbow, whom he held responsible for the crime. From the hills near the range which had once been his Ray came down to pursue his enemy; but when it was within Ray's power to kill him, Ray saved Tenbow's life instead, then fled to save his own. Ray returned again and again, and...

"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...

"Donal Cameron was killed at San Juan Hill in Cuba, but Donal Cameron was coming home. Both father and son shared the same name. Both had served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, but only one was coming home. Everyone was anxious to know which one it was. Fear stalked the range at Rio Seco, and murder lurked in every mesquite bush. The Circle C foreman who had helped Isabel Cameron run the ranch while her husband and son were away had been murdered...

1882, Wyoming Territory: Matthew Hawke is newly arrived in Juniper Falls, escaping his past back east and looking for a place to call home. But as soon as he gets to the small ranch town, Matt makes an enemy and loses everything. When a local rancher helps him out of the mess, Matt gratefully tries to repay him. He eagerly helps out on the ranch, becoming close with the rest of the family, especially the rancher's daughter. But when the same ranch...

"Newly widowed with her second child due in a few months, Lily Johnson has nowhere to go until Toby Grimes, her late husband's boss, asks her to stay on as housekeeper at his ranch. Remaining in the house Mr. Grimes built for her and her husband is an answered prayer. But malicious gossips see her godsend job as a ruse for a sinful dalliance since her employer is a nice-looking, single man. God and a lot of others turned their backs on Toby during...