Central Kansas Library System

Given the assignment of escorting Miss Darvi Wingate to the town of Aurora, Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings thinks it will be an easy task until Darvi becomes a pawn in one of the biggest rackets in town, and Dakota must come to her rescue.

"Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes an insolent nobleman by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter widower, long accustomed to the sovereign's capricious and malicious whims. He regards his new bride as utterly inconvenient ... though undeniably fetching. But Juliana Romanov is no ordinary thief--she is a Russian princess forced into hiding by the...

When a vision of an injured Highlander appears to Tabitha Rose, she knows she's been called to help him. What Tabby doesn't expect is to be taken against her will to Black Macleod's dark, violent time.

Fleeing from her brutal brother-in-law with her recently deceased sister's children in tow, Molly McFarlane escapes to frontier Texas. When she learns that the victims of a recent train accident will receive a large insurance settlement, she claims to be a badly injured man's fiancee, believing that she will get the money when he dies. However, when the man recovers--and turns out to be from a wealthy cattle baron's family--Molly finds herself trapped...

Unprepared for the hardships of the Wild West, English authoress and milliner, Jessica Thornton, sets out in search of her brother, and must put her life in the hands of the rough rancher Brady Wilkins after her stagecoach crashes.

Rose's older sister, Hen, knows more than she should about falling for the wrong man. Unable to abandon her Amish ways, Hen is soon separated from her very modern husband. Mattie, their young daughter, must visit her father regularly, but Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, despite her husband's wishes. Will Hen be able to reestablish her place among the People she abandoned? And will she be able to convince Rose to steer...

Rose Kauffman pines for prodigal Nick Franco, the Bishop's foster son who left the Amish under a cloud of suspicion after his foster brother's death. His rebellion led to the "silencing" of their beloved Bishop. But is Nick really the rebel he appears to be? Rose's lingering feelings for her wayward friend refuse to fade, but she is frustrated that Nick won't return and make things right with the People. Nick avowed his love for Rose--but will he...

Once in Many Generations Does a Woman of the Fitzgerald Clan Bear the Mark — and the Gift—of the Rose.Years before in Ireland, seven-year-old, Deirdre dreamed about a handsome young man with hair as dark as a raven's wing and eyes as blue as the summer sky. Not long after, she discovered a wounded young man hiding in her father's stables and helped hide him from the English troops. Though her family scoffed at her declaration, Deirdre

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Aisleen Fitzgerald flees a troubled past in Ireland when she sets sail for Australia. Her life has always been clouded by the legend of a rose-shaped birthmark on her hip, which marked her for a destiny as brilliant as those of her distant ancestors. Yet her "gift" failed when her heartless father commanded her to use it to save their beloved home, Liscarrol Castle.Now she is daring to dream of adventure, of excitement, and glory. What she dare

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