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A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children. By the author of The Persian Pickle Club.

One of the bestselling Christian novelists of our time, Janette Oke's books have been described as stories that never go out of style. Her readers have enjoyed and benefited from the spiritual insights and practical faith in God that accompany her homey stories. This books is the moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.

The continuing story of mail-order brides in the successful Brides of the West series. Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from an 80-year-old suitor. Her only hope of eluding him is to seek help from an unwilling protector, U.S. Marshall Dylan McCall. Copeland's readers will delight in this rollicking story of romance and danger.

"End of the line!" The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to be the end of the line for her? She had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement. She had come to escape the humiliation of being jilted. She came here to find a welcome new life, but her cousin's chilly reception tells her she has made a terrible mistake. Here in Riverbend, 2,000 miles...

To get away from her oppressive family, a young woman from New England heads for 1840s California, which is still part of Mexico. The novel describes Nancy Maguire's journey in a covered wagon and the way she finds romance.

Book 2 in the "Dakotah Treasures".Ruby Torvald has turned Dove House, the scandalous inheritance her father left to her and her sister, into a respectable establishment. Her newest boarder is Pearl Hosfuss, a schoolteacher from Chicago who is fleeing her father's matchmaking schemes. Hiding scars within and without, Pearl has given up hope of marriage. But just as her future begins to look brighter, news arrives that her father is coming to take her...

Elizabeth and Wynn find that their commitment to God and to each other gives their life meaning.

In this new story in the Love Comes Softly series, the frontier railroad has bridged the miles and made possible a joyful reunion. But a tragic accident threatens to cancel out the happiness of the occasion.

Mattie Hamil is on a frantic journey West. On her own, with only her grit and determination to see her through, she has to find her charming gambler of a fiancé, and she has to do it fast...before her pregnancy shows.

The story of lonely, harsh Hondo Lane, yet beneath the harshness and the necessary violence, he was a kind and just man who had come to terms with the land in which he lived.