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Petticoat Ranch

Mary Connealy · 288 pages

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Springwater

Linda Lael Miller · 289 pages

Montana Territory, 1870 Evangeline Keating came west because she had to; after her husband's passing, she needed to build a new life for her young daughter, and marrying a stranger from Montana Territory was her best chance. After a difficult winter journey, she arrives at an isolated outpost called Springwater Station. But the handsome man who's come for her is not her husband-to-be, and Evang

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Where the Wind Blows

Caroline Fyffe · 291 pages

Cowboy Chase Logan has been in plenty of touchy situations, but pretending to be the husband of a recent widow and father to her adopted children is the most difficult job he's had yet.

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Aundy

Shanna Hatfield · 380 pages

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Tougher Than The Rest

Shirleen Davies · 224 pages

Book One of the MacLarens of Fire Mountain Series. Niall McLaren is the oldest of four brothers, and the undisputed leader of the family. A widower, and single father, he is focused on building the MacLaren ranch into the largest and most successful in norther Arizona. He is serious about two things - his responsibility to the family and his future marriage to a wealthy, well-connected widow w

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Not Wicked Enough

Carolyn Jewel · 308 pages

When Lily Wellston heads to the Bitterward Estate to comfort her widowed friend Eugenia she certainly does not have romance in mind. In fact the playful but level-headed Lily is amused to no end when, en route, a gypsy gifts her with a beautiful medallion, claiming it will ensnare the romantic desires of a stranger. But Fate has other plans in the form of Eugenia's ruggedly handsome brother, th

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The Devil to Pay

Liz Carlyle · 373 pages

By day, Sidonie Saint-Godard is a quietly elegant young widow who teaches deportment to the unpolished daughters of London's nouveau riche. By night, she is someone altogether different. The notorious Black Angel—so called for her lusciously located angel tattoo—ruthlessly takes from powerful men who exploit, and gives to those who suffer at their hands. Always in disguise, she has eluded captu

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Midnight Angel

Lisa Kleypas · 384 pages

A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee. In disguise and under a false identity, she finds unexpected sanctuary in the arms of a handsome and arrogant yet gallant British lord--who must defy society to keep her safe ... and overcome a tragic past to claim her as his own.

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Pushin' Up Daisies

Carolyn Brown

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The Loyal Heart

Shelley Shepard Gray · 309 pages

"Robert came to Galveston to fulfill his promise to a dying man and look after his widow. He didn't expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places. Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his comrade Phillip Markham. If anything happened to Phillip, Robert would look after his beloved wife, Miranda. She was his life, his world, his every

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The Inconvenient Duchess

Christine Merrill · 292 pages

Lady Miranda has been raised in poverty. Through the machinations of her stepmother and father, she is sent to be the bride of an embittered duke, a widower who has been persuaded by his dying mother that he needs to marry again. Miranda does her best to be a good wife, even as the duke’s younger brother plots against the new couple.

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Texas Bride

Joan Johnston · 369 pages

Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now it's her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of a Chicago orphanage. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: her husband-to-be, Jake Creed, knows nothing about the brothers she's bringing along.

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Tame a Wild Heart

Cynthia Woolf · 298 pages

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Texas Lily

Patricia Rice · 381 pages

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Heartbreak Creek

Kaki Warner · 368 pages

Edwina Ladoux hoped becoming a mail-order bride would be her way out of the war-torn South, but as soon as she arrives in Heartbreak Creek, Colorado, and meets her hulking, taciturn groom, she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. Declan Brodie already had one flighty wife who ran off with a gambler before being killed by Indians. He’s hoping for a practical farm woman who can corral his four ra

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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Jennifer Ashley · 321 pages

(Highland Pleasures #1) The year is 1881. Meet the Mackenzie family--rich, powerful, dangerous, eccentric. A lady couldn't be seen with them without ruin. Rumors surround them--of tragic violence, of their mistresses, of their dark appetites, of scandals that set England and Scotland abuzz. The youngest brother, Ian, known as the Mad Mackenzie, spent most of his young life in an asylum, an

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From a Distance

Tamera Alexander · 352 pages

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The Perfect Mistress

Victoria Alexander · 452 pages

Widowed Julia, Lady Winterset, has inherited a book that every gentleman in London seems to want. Harrison Landingham, Earl of Mountdale, can't let the obstinate Julia release the shameless memoir that could ruin his family's name, but the only way to stop her may be equally sordid, for his rivals are intent on seducing the captivating woman to acquire the book.

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McKenzie

Penny Zeller · 314 pages

"McKenzie Worthington heads west as a mail-order bride with plans to return to Boston as soon as she finds and rescues her sister, Kaydie, from an abusive marriage. What she didn't count on was falling in love with her husband, a handsome, godly rancher named Zach Sawyer"--Provided by publisher.

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Whisper of Scandal

Nicola Cornick · 384 pages

SCANDAL ISN'T JUST FOR ROGUES, AS THE DARING WOMEN IN NICOLA CORNICK'S SCINTILLATING NEW SERIES PROVES ... Lady Joanna Ware has no desire to wed again but that doesn't stop the flurry of suitors knocking on her door. Desperate to thwart another proposal, Joanna brazenly kisses Arctic explorer Alex, Lord Grant. Unable to deny the blazing attraction that flares, Joanna knows she's just set the go

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The Devil of Clan Sinclair

Karen Ranney · 378 pages

In order to save her family's estate after her husband dies, Virginia Traylor, Countess of Barrett, in desperate need of an heir, tricks the man she once loved, Scottish warrior Macrath Sinclair, into getting her pregnant, but her clever plan quickly unravels when he discovers her deception.

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A Place Called Home

Lori Wick · 252 pages

As the dim lights of the train station faded, Christine Bennett wondered if she would ever see home again. With the death of her grandfather, Christine experienced a deep loneliness she'd never felt before. The words of his will rang in her ears: "In the event of my granddaughter's death, everything will go to Vince Jeffers." Jeffers watched her with an evil look that made her shiver. Now, a

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The Bride Wore Spurs

Sharon Ihle · 257 pages

A RECKLESS LASS, A RELUCTANT LOVER Kathleen Lacey O'Carroll knew she faced an uncertain future when she arrived in Wyoming as a mail-order bride – especially when she learned that the man she was to marry hadn't actually ordered her. How could John Winterhawke, a fiercely independent and unsettlingly handsome half-Indian, possibly make room in his heart and in his life for her? As far as Hawke w

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Indiscreet

Mary Balogh · 497 pages

When Viscount Rawleigh attends a house party in the country, he plans to amuse himself with a beautiful young widow from a nearby village. He refuses to believe she is unwilling until it is too late. For her part, Catherine Winters has been living quietly in the village for several years, trying to keep a secret that could yet destroy her. She dare not give in to her attraction to the viscount. As

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