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Desert Fire

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Under the Desert Moon

Marsha Canham · 500 pages

HER FATE WAS UNCERTAIN... But that did not keep spirited Aubrey Blue from journeying to Santa Fe to avenge a shattering past that tormented her soul. Disguised as a prim schoolmarm, she hid more than her alluring beauty. For no one could see her fierce determination, her able sharp-shooting, her survivor's heart. No one except the one man determined to claim her as his own... HIS PAST WAS A

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Lawless

Nora Roberts · 340 pages

Jack's Stories Prequel The Arizona Territory was a dangerous place, but gunslinger Jake Redman was half-Apache and all man--more than a match for the wilderness. Sarah Conway was something else again. She was every inch an Eastern lady, yet she was determined to make Lone Bluff her home. Jake was annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to this tantalizing innocent--even more disgusted

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Dancing on Coals

Ellen O'Connell · 332 pages

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Love's Long Journey

Janette Oke · 234 pages

Newlyweds Missie and Willie share a dream. However, it means that Missie must leave her parents, family and friends behind to join a wagon train and claim land in the West with her new husband. Overcoming incredible hardships on the journey, she grows into a mature wife and mother. Her faith in God and love for her husband give Missie the strength to make a new life and home in an unknown terri

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A Lady of the West

Linda Howard · 483 pages

N THE SAVAGE NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, LOVE COULD REDEEM... OR DESTROY Victoria Waverly was a noble daughter of the war-ruined South, sold in marriage to a ruthless Western rancher. Only honor and pride could help her endure her painful role as wife in name alone. Yet honor. could not quench Victoria's forbidden desire for the hired gunman Jake Roper. His narrow gaze was hard as ice, but the tender

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Lo que dicen tus ojos

Florencia Bonelli · 336 pages

Córdoba (Argentina), 1961. Francesca de Gecco es una joven que, a pesar de su extracción humilde, con la ayuda de su rico padrino ha sabido labrarse una sólida educación. Comienza una brillante carrera en el diario que dirige su padrino y mentor, sin embargo en sus planes para convertirse en periodista se cruzará una historia de amor imposible. Sufre un terrible desengaño amoroso, que sólo el tiem

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Wild Fire

Zane Grey · 274 pages

From the book:For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotions - a sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly content - a vague loneliness of soul - a thrill and a fear for the strangely calling future, glorious, unknown. She longed for something to happen. It might be terrible, so long as it was won

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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry · 945 pages

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The Dream Hunter

Laura Kinsale · 348 pages

Searching for a legendary mare known as String of Pearls, restless wanderer Lord Winter discovers the disguised Zenia Stanhope, the daughter of the Queen of the Desert, who longs to reach the bloodless lands in England.

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Forbidden

Kimberley Griffiths Little · 389 pages

Devastated by her betrothal to a violent boy she does not love, Jayden is forced to accept her fate as her ancient Mesopotamian tribe moves to the Summer Lands, where she falls for a mysterious youth from the Southern Lands.

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The Lioness of Morocco

Julia Drosten · 448 pages

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Taming Charlotte

Linda Lael Miller · 346 pages

Kidnapped and confined in a harem--that's not the scenario 23 year old Charlotte Quade envisioned when she prayed for just one grand adventure before sailing home to Washington Territory from Europe. While exploring the ancient, exotic island kingdom of Riz, Charlotte foolishly lost her way. In a dizzying moment, she was snatched, bound up in a sack and unceremoniously dumped--completely naked!--i

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Golden Urchin

Madeleine Brent · 508 pages

In the scorching Australian desert, a wild, beautiful woman rescues a man from death. And discovers a stunning new life. He is a handsome English aristocrat, sprawled in the dunes, dying of thirst. She was a white-skinned savage, fleeing the aborigine tribe that found her and raised her but still shunned the fiery-haired outcast. Suddenly Meg is able to escape her primitive life as Luke introduces

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City of Jasmine

Deanna Raybourn · 368 pages

"Famed aviatrix Evangeline Starke never expected to see her husband, adventurer Gabriel Starke, ever again. They had been a golden couple, enjoying a whirlwind courtship amid the backdrop of a glittering social set in prewar London until his sudden death with the sinking of the Lusitania. Five years later, beginning to embrace life again, Evie embarks upon a flight around the world, collecting fam

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Shadows on the Nile

Kate Furnivall · 442 pages

A dramatic story of courage and betrayal and of a determined young woman's search for her brother and her discovery of an all-consuming love in the shifting deserts of Egypt.

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Sheik

Connie Mason · 448 pages

Princess Zara, 20, had been raised a warrior, always at her father's side in battle against the Arabs who had stolen their land. So when she was taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal abd Thabit during a raid, she was determined not to succumb to his wishes. She thought it would be easy, for rather than take her as his concubine then and there, Jamal struck a deal--if he was unable to seduce her within fou

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The Golden Barbarian

Iris Johansen · 210 pages

Sedikhan #1 From the halls of a palatial prison to the hot sands of an endless desert... Here is a timeless story of love and adventure set among hills of gold, warring tribes, and fabled kingdoms—the story of a fearless princess and a barbarian sheikh.... She was a ravishing pawn in a game of politics and passion... Flaunting the oppressive destiny decreed for her by the kingdom of Tamr

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Sam's Creed

Sarah McCarty · 384 pages

Known for making up his own rules of right and wrong, Texas Ranger Sam "Wildcard" MacGregor takes what he wants when he wants it, especially when it comes to women. But seduction is the last thing on his mind the moment he stumbles across an Hispanic beauty crouching in fear beside a burned-out wagon. And it doesn't take long before he realizes the woman the townsfolk call "cursed" is hiding

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Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls · 313 pages

It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decay

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Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

Oliver La Farge · 283 pages

Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"--Educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and

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The Panther and the Pearl

Doreen Owens Malek · 400 pages

On an innocent excursion to Constantinople, Sarah Woolcott finds herself a prisoner in a handsome sheik's harem. Although she spurns his passionate overtures, Kalid Shah vows to tempt her with his masterful skills until she becomes a willing companion on their journey of exquisite ecstasy.

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Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas · 371 pages

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Sarah's Quilt

Nancy E. Turner · 424 pages

Arizona Territory pioneer Sarah Prine struggles with drought, starving cattle, and a neighbor's unwelcome advances, a situation that is further complicated when her brother's family is devastated by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

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The Salt Road

Jane Johnson · 400 pages

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