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A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. By day's end, when the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town... will be rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder. --
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There the quick-thinking, audacious fiddler can't help but notice the lovely Doris Mary Aherne, an indentured girl from Ireland, who is governess to a Union colonel's daughter.After the surrender, Simon and Doris go their separate ways.
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Ralph Compton's Gunslinger series is back with the story of an East Texas farmer pulled into the world of outlaws when he discovers the one thing that could bring him closer to his traitorous brother- his death. Brothers Ike and Cal Breckenridge, sons of a hardscrabble East Texas... farmer, hadn't seen eye to eye in years. Ike, the elder, returned home soon after the Civil War to help his father run the family farm; Cal deserted his military post to join forces with bloodthirsty outlaw Frank Miller. Everyone knew who was the good son, and who was the bad. Ike had almost forgotten his wayward brother until the morning he stood on the porch and saw a limping horse slowly making its way toward the house. Slumped in the saddle was young Cal Breckenridge, shot in the back, badly beaten, and dying. It was then that Ike finally realized blood runs thicker than water, and vowed to avenge Cal's death.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh and Veronica Chadwick comes Strong, Silent Cowboy, the second chance at love bodyguard romance--part of the Moving Violations series...
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Return to Montana as a tough-talking cowboy meets his match in Jennifer Ryan's newest Wild Rose Ranch novel. Ex-Army Ranger Drake McGrath has come home to Montana, locked in a battle with himself, lashing out at those who love him most-driving away his ex-fiancee and alienating h...is family.
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Chief Red Claw's Comanche renegades, supplied with latest rifles by a greedy gunrunning outfit, are terrorizing settlers, burning, looting and killing. In desperation, the Army re-hires former trail scout Clay Coleman, a man they once booted out for bending the rules. On the trai...l west, Clay rescues a mail order bride from a Comanche war party, then catches up with his old saddle partner, Shoshone Sam. Together, the two scouts match their wits and guns against Red Claw's warriors and the ruthless bunch of gunrunners. With the odds stacked against them, can they possibly bring peace to the frontier again? And can Clay survive to win the woman he loves?
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas, a romantic, heartwarming contemporary novel set in Honey Creek, Texas--a little town nestled in the rolling hills bordering the Brazos River, where family bonds and legends run deep, and friendship and love are alw...ays close to hand . . . A heartwarming, romantic novel (but not a romance) set in present-day Texas...for fans of Debbie Macomber, in addition to Jodi Thomas's enthusiastic fan base. Wayward Bend, Texas is a lazy little town of 12,000 people in book one. It was founded the year after the Alamo fell, 1836, on rolling hills that border the Brazos River. Family bonds and feuds run deep but kindness and honesty is usually the order of the day.That may be why: when the entire sheriff's office is arrested the town has trouble believing it. The sheriff, both deputies, and three part-time employees are in jail and the mayor, Darci Cassidy has to find someone to investigate as well as help her keep order. Sam Burns and Coby Riddell come highly recommended only everyone in town has a theory and wants to help. As they struggle to keep order, the mayor has one more problem arise, which one of the men does she love. At thirty-six she believes the right man will never come along. Now two show up.Coby, signs on as sheriff. He has to deal with people confessing to all kinds of small crimes so they can get in the courthouse and find out what is going on. Sam is appointed Justice of the Peace as he secretly helps Coby. Sam wins everyone's heart in town with his easygoing ways. Coby can't even get a dessert at the county monthly meeting. In a town where folks brag about how many outlaws they have in their family tree, Coby has trouble finding whom to trust. And the woman who seems to have the most secrets draws him closer.They all discover that in the worst of times, the best in people comes out.
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There was trouble in Fortitude Valley. Someone had set up a lumber camp smack in the middle of cattle country. And to make matters worse, the lumbermen drafted in to work the axes and saws, and float the timber down to the sawmill, were paroled convicts! If they made a go of the ...chance they'd been given, they could win their freedom. But the Fortitude Valley Cattlemen's Association had other ideas about that. Hank Brazos and Duke Benedict were hired to keep the peace between the two opposing factions, but that was easier said than done. Unwittingly, they landed themselves right in the middle of an all-out war in which neither side intended to go down without a fight... and their weapons ranged from red-hot lead to sweaty, unstable dynamite!
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When Blake Durant reached the town of Lincoln, he really should have just kept riding. But he didn't get the chance. Within moments of his arrival, a gun-tough named Nico Semole injured his horse and then tried to pick a fight with an old man. Blake stopped him and beat him to pu...lp. But Nico just didn't know when to quit. Later that day he came at Blake with a gun ... and set off a chain of events that was to end in murder and bloody revenge. Nico's brother Kent aimed to settle the account with Blake, and he had just enough gun-speed to do it. Furthermore, the local marshal was all burnt out, and Blake knew he couldn't rely on the man to keep the peace. So it looked as if the man they called The Loner would have to take matters into his own hands ... and when he did, there was gunsmoke in the air and dead men on the ground.
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Following the death of its guide, a wagon train bound for Gun Creek had stalled outside the small town on Conchita. But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in on the trail of the scar-faced man Shane had sworn to kill, wagon master Huston Whittaker saw an answer to their prob...lems. Whittaker was an old friend of Shane's, and when he asked for help in getting his emigrants to their destination, the black-clad gunfighter and his crusty old sidekick couldn't refuse. The trail ahead was going to be mighty hard, though. Somewhere out in the vast wilderness, a band of renegade Cheyennes were on the warpath. And there was no shortage of problems right inside the wagon train itself. A killer with a price on his head was trying to work his way west to a new life. A fiery half-Mexican girl on the run from a vengeful husband set her cap for the preacher who hoped to bring religion to Gun Creek. And three men masquerading as prospectors were planning a double-cross that would send the wagons and their occupants straight to hell!
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