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The Measure of a Lady

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A Promise for Ellie

Lauraine Snelling · 320 pages

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The Inheritance

Tamera Alexander · 373 pages

McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.

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The Bride Bargain

Kelly Eileen Hake · 317 pages

When dropped from the wagon train along the Platte River for not pulling their load, Clara Fields is determined to find a way to provide for her newly-widowed aunt. So she strikes a bargain with an aging storekeeper that in exchange for finding a bride for his son Clara can have his house to run a boardinghouse. But Dr. Saul Reed is not interested in getting tied down to Buttonwood in the middle o

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Summer of Promise

Amanda Cabot · 410 pages

The last place Abigail wants to spend the summer of 1885 is Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, but can a handsome lieutenant change her mind?

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While Love Stirs

Lorna Seilstad · 341 pages

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Love Comes Softly

Janette Oke · 192 pages

WHEN MARTY CLARIDGE'S HUSBAND IS KILLED IN A HORSE ACCIDENT, SHE MARRIES CLARK DAVIS, WHO IS IN NEED OF A MOTHER FOR HIS DAUGHTER, MISSIE. AS TIME PROGRESSES MARTY BEGINS TO ATTACH TO LITTLE MISSIE AND CLARK. WHEN THE WAGON TRAIN RETURNS IN THE SPRING WILL SHE GO HOME, OR STAY WITH CLARK AND MISSIE?

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Every Little Thing About You

Lori Wick · 364 pages

The first meeting between Slater Rawlings and Liberty Drake could hardly be called ideal. As acting deputy of Shotgun, Texas, Liberty is simply enforcing town laws. But Slater, a former Texas Ranger with a restless spirit, is surprised to find himself on the wrong side of the law-and even more shocked that it's a *she* that's arresting him! Yet despite his rocky start in Shotgun, Slater finds

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Short-Straw Bride

Karen Witemeyer

No one steps on Archer land. Not if they value their life. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off their ranch, a twelve-year-old debt compels her to take the risk. Fourteen years of constant vigilance hardens a man. Yet when Travis Archer confronts a female trespasser with the same vivid blue eyes as the courageous young girl he once aided, he can't brin

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The Golden Braid

Melanie Dickerson · 320 pages

Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter, and warns he

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Distant Dreams

Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson · 382 pages

Only her father understood her love of the unknown and the promise of distant dreams. Caught up in the excitement of America's westward expansion in 1835, fifteen-year-old Carolina Adams falls in love with the railroad. Living in a society that decidedly looks down on such aspirations in a woman, Carolina longs to study more masculine subjects such as science and advanced mathematics. Fresh out of

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Swept Away

Mary Connealy · 318 pages

"Swept away when her wagon train attempts a difficult river crossing, Ruthy MacNeil isn't all that upset at being separated from the family who raised her. All they've ever done is work her to the bone. She prayed for a chance to get away, and then came the raging flood. Alive but disoriented, she's rescued by Luke Stone...so unfortunately, there are more chances to die in her immediate future. Lu

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That Certain Spark

Cathy Marie Hake

Gooding, Texas, is about to gain a double blessing--a veterinarian and a doctor. But when siblings Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive, the discovery that Taylor is a lady doctor has the town up in arms. Especially Karl Van der Vort, the town blacksmith, who becomes the first patient...against his will.Though hesitant to believe in Taylor's doctoring skills, Karl finds himself oddly protective of this

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Fit to Be Tied

Robin Lee Hatcher · 272 pages

Cleo dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving, and can ride, rope and wrangle as well as any man. In 1916 Idaho, those aren't talents most women aspire to. Cleo believes God's plan for her does include a husband-- but it couldn't possibly be Sherwood Stanton, could it?

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Land of My Heart

Tracie Peterson · 392 pages

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Drops of Gold

Sarah M. Eden · 182 pages

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The Rose of Winslow Street

Elizabeth Camden

The last thing Libby Sawyer and her father expected upon their return from their summer home was to find strangers inhabiting a house that had been in their family for twenty years. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family from Romania to the town of Colden, Massachusetts, with a singular purpose: to claim the house willed to his father. Since neither party has any intention of giving up their

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Whence Came a Prince

Liz Curtis Higgs · 551 pages

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A Daughter's Inheritance

Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller · 383 pages

Seventeen-year-old Fanny has never put much stock in the conventions of society. In fact, she has given her heart to Michael, the family boat-keeper. But when she receives a surprising inheritance, she discovers just how oppressive society can be . . . and that she may be trusting the wrong people. Dare she follow her heart and risk going against her family? What if she loses everything she's e

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Blue Moon Promise

Colleen Coble

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My Heart Remembers

Kim Vogel Sawyer · 352 pages

United by blood, divided by time, will three orphan train siblings ever find one another again? Orphaned in a tenement fire, three Irish-immigrant children are sent to Missouri to be adopted. Despite eight-year-old Maelle’s desperate attempts to keep her siblings together, each child is taken by a different family. Yet Maelle vows that she will never stop searching for her brother and sister…an

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With You Always

Jody Hedlund · 368 pages

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The Governess of Highland Hall

Carrie Turansky · 487 pages

“Worlds lie between the marketplaces of India and the halls of a magnificent country estate like Highland Hall. Will Julia be able to find her place when a governess is neither upstairs family nor downstairs help? Missionary Julia Foster loves working alongside her parents, ministering and caring for young girls in India. But when the family must return to England due to illness, she readily a

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The Heiress of Winterwood

Sarah E. Ladd · 317 pages

Darbury, England, 1814. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word -- even to the point of proposing to Graham, the child's father -- a sea captain she's never met.

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No Place for a Lady

Maggie Brendan

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