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Mary Connealy

Author Bio:

Mary Connealy writes romantic comedy with cowboys.

Mary tells love stories that make people laugh. She received a milestone pin from ACFW this year for having more than 50 books published.

She lives on a Nebraska ranch with her husband, Ivan. She is the mother of four beautiful daughters.

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Toward the Dawn

Kat Wadsworth and Sebastian Jones never imagined their lives would entwine so closely. Forced to flee on a wagon train from a vengeful uncle and an unknown gunman, they live in a hidden canyon with the family that rescued them. But as days turn into months, they each have separate reasons for wanting…

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Deep Trouble

Get ready for a Grand Canyon tour de force by award-winning author Mary Connealy. Gabe Lasley and Shannon Dysart are an unlikely pair. He’s an aimless wanderer who wants nothing other than to be left alone. She’s a fearless female determined to find a city of gold. When they are forced together…

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Chasing the Horizon

Her only chance at freedom waits across the horizon Upon uncovering her tyrannical father's malevolent plot to commit her to an asylum, Beth Rutledge fabricates a plan of her own. She will rescue her mother, who had already been sent to the asylum, and escape together on a wagon train heading west.…

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The Legacy of the Rocking K Ranch

Four Novella Collection: Eleanor by Mary Connealy 1850 – Wagon train guide, Ray “Wild Cat” Manning, can’t ignore the abandoned wagon stricken with smallpox. Eleanor Yates, now widowed with an ailing daughter, says yes to Wild Cat’s marriage of convenience. It is her only choice—but far from…

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The Laws of Attraction

If widowed town seamstress Nell Armstrong has to make one more pair of boring chaps for the cowboys in her tiny Wyoming town, she might lose her mind. So meeting Brand Nolte, a widower father struggling to raise three girls, seems like her dream come true. Brand has no idea how to dress the girls, and…

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Forged in Love

When sparks begin to fly, can a friendship cast in iron be shaped into something more? Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no memory when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoach she's riding in, killing both her father and brother. As she takes over her father's blacksmith shop and tries to move forward,…

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Marshaling Her Heart

Becky Pruitt has always prided herself on knowing everything that's happening on her successful ranch, so an unexpected admission from her foreman, Nate Paxton, comes as quite a surprise. With the notorious Deadeye Gang on the loose, Nate--a former U.S. Marshal--believes Becky's ranch is the best spot…

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A Model of Devotion

She's finally claimed her independence . . . how far will she go to keep it? A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father's lumber dynasty. With the company safe from her stepfather after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can now focus on her dream…

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Inventions of the Heart

Her heart seeks safety. But will trouble find her even here? After her sister's marriage, Michelle Stiles is left hiding at Two Harts Ranch with the handsome but stubborn Zane Hart. She's managed to stay one step ahead of her stepfather and his devious plans, but if he finds her, she will no longer…

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The Element of Love

With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother's unfortunate choice in husband, until they discover his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away--far and fast--to find better matches to legally claim…

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Love on the Range

Falling for someone who doesn't want to get married is soon be the least of his concerns. While his brothers and their new wives search for who shot him, Wyatt Hunt is temporarily bedridden and completely miserable. Somehow Molly Garner's limited skills have made her the most qualified in their circle…

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A Man with a Past

Falcon Hunt awakens without a past, or at least not one he can recall. He's got brothers he can't remember, and he's interested in the prettiest woman in the area, Cheyenne. Only trouble is, a few flashes of memory make Falcon wonder if he's already married. He can't imagine abandoning a wife. But his…

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Braced for Love

Left with little back in Missouri, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half brother he never knew existed. Turns out, Kevin's supposedly dead father led a secret…

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Woman of Sunlight

After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren may finally be ready to leave. Raised to fear the world, Ilsa and her sisters never planned on coming down, but when the Warden family arrived in need, they had to help. And it may cost them everything. Having made his fortune, Mitch Warden…

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Aiming for Love

Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world--a world she's been raised to believe killed her parents. When…

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Thankful for the Cowboy

Hero Tom MacKinnon rides up driving a wagon with a second wagon trailing him. He and his sister want to be hired to build windmills. They’ll ask for very little money and, in exchange heroine, Lauren Drummond, newly widowed mother of four nearly grown sons, will help them learn to survive in the Sandhills…

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The Unexpected Champion

City dweller John McCall never expected to be out in the High Sierras of 1868 on a wild-goose chase to find the Chiltons' supposedly lost grandson. But now that he's out here, things have gotten even more complicated, mostly due to wildcat Penny Scott. She's not like any woman he's ever met--comfortable…

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Loving the Mysterious Texan

Amnesia, murder, treasure and ghosts. Garrison's Law goes gothic. A woman wakes up next to a dead man with no idea how she got there or who he is.....or who SHE is.Grey Devereau drags a terrified woman out of his cousin's bed...his very dead cousin. It looks for all the world like she killed him. But…

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Loving the Texas Stranger

An assassin takes a shot and hits two people with one bullet. Natalie Brewster, a deep undercover agent for a group that doesn’t officially exist, saw the gunman aiming. He definitely waited, lined up the shot, and tried to kill both of them. Nat and Case Garrison hit the ground bleeding. They both…

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Three Christmas Novellas

Longhorn Christmas Netty Lewis, a lonely young widow is saved from a raging mama longhorn by a passing cowboy who's been wandering since the end of the Civil War. She needs help surviving her rugged life and caring for Jeremiah, her young son. And that means rounding up a nice-sized herd of wild-as-wolves…

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The Reluctant Warrior

Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead he finds himself trapped by a blizzard with two children who are terrified…

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Loving the Texas Negotiator

Book #2 of the Garrison's Law series. Loving the Texas Negotiator. Not all the Garrison's are guys. Beth Garrison is the top hostage negotiator in Rocky Ridge Texas. She's called in to a task force to investigate a killing that is a copy cat of her first bust as a rookie cop. The Valentine Killer. Tate…

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Loving Her Texas Protector

Jacie Moreau is a tough-as-nails security specialist who works with the Long Pine Texas police. She takes care of herself and doesn’t ask for help from anyone. Brett Garrison is an odd-man-out in the Garrison family. He’s a soft-hearted veterinarian from a family of daring Texas lawmen. Jacie runs…

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Loving the Texas Lawman

Garrison's Law begins. A family of alpha Texas lawmen (and women) bring their own brand of justice to law and order in Texas. Trudy Jennings is a college professor with a string of bestselling pop psychology books about answering all of life's troubles with love. Ben Garrison is her student. He's a…

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Ten Plagues

A demon possessed serial killer acts out the ten plagues of Egypt on the city of Chicago. An inner city mission pastor and a lady cop with the spiritual gift of discerning spirits race against time as the killer targets the mission to find his victims. Can they stop his reign of death? Or will they…

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All For Love

Three of Christian historical fiction's beloved authors come together in this romantic and humorous collection of novellas featuring prequels to their latest series. New and loyal fans alike will enjoy these novellas previously released only as ebooks. Mary Connealy's "The Boden Birthright"…

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Cowboys of Summer

As the summer weather sizzles, relax by the pool with stirring tales of handsome cowboys and the spirited ladies who wrangle them into romance. Six of Christian fiction's most beloved authors join forces to bring you a collection of humorous, romantic and heartfelt novellas set against the sultry heat…

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The Tangled Ties that Bind

While running from an angry buffalo, two friends, who always wanted more, reunite. Connor has returned home determined to pursue the woman he never stopped caring about. But Maggie wants to be a city doctor, and he is a rancher through and through. Will either be willing to give up their dream? Or will…

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The Accidental Guardian

When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while serving as a self-appointed guardian…

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Hearts Entwined

Four top historical romance novelists team up in this new collection to offer stories of love and romance with a twist of humor. In Karen Witemeyer's "The Love Knot," Claire Nevin gets the surprise of her life awaiting her sister's arrival by train. Mary Connealy's "The Tangled Ties That…

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The Calico and Cowboys Romance Collection: Love Is a Lighthearted Adventure in Eight Novellas from the Old West

Love sneaks up on eight couples in the Old West. The Old West comes to life under the talented pen of bestselling author Mary Connealy. Enjoy a lighthearted ride alongside seven historical and one contemporary cowboys and the women who tame their hearts.  The Advent Bride Melanie Douglas is alone on…

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Too Far Down (The Cimarron Legacy)

Cowboys, Action, Humor, and History Collide in Connealy's Latest When an explosion kills men and damages the CR Mining Company, the Bodens realize their troubles are not behind them as they thought. Shadowy forces are still working against them. Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time…

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Long Time Gone (The Cimarron Legacy)

Connealy Combines Western Action and Charming Historical RomanceThe Boden clan thought their problems had ended with the death of a dangerous enemy, but have they truly uncovered the real plot to take their New Mexico ranch? Rancher Justin Boden is now in charge. He is normally an unshakable and rugged…

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Room at the Inn for Christmas

Amanda Star’s father always wanted her to come into the family business, and run the majestic old Star Inn with him but she had bigger plans. She’s a high-powered executive in the multi-national Halston hotel chain. One more promotion—which she expects to get by Christmas—will make her the youngest…

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No Way Up (The Cimarron Legacy)

New Western Romance Series from Bestselling Author Mary ConnealyWhen Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him. Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its conditions be enforced immediately. Without anyone…

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The 12 Brides of Summer Collection

Meet 12 adventurous Victorian era women—a beekeeper who is afraid of bees, a music teacher whose dog has dug up a treasure, a baker who enters a faux courtship, and six more—along with the men they encounter while making summertime memories. Will these loves sown during summer be strengthened by…

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Runaway Bride (With This Ring? Collection): A Kincaid Brides and Trouble in Texas Novella

1870s TexasBig John Conroy is a Texas Ranger asked by a friend to assist Carrie. He catches up to Carrie and her brother Isaac and races away from a dangerous man who will stop at nothing to make the beautiful young woman his wife. Soon Big John's feelings for Carrie turn to more than simply protective,…

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The Boden Birthright

After the death of his wife, prosperous businessman Chance Boden heads west along the Santa Fe Trail with his son to escape the powerful, controlling hands of his in-laws. He has plans to establish his own ranch, but instead he finds work with Frank Chastain, owner of a vast amount of land. Chance doesn't…

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With This Ring?: A Novella Collection of Proposals Gone Awry

Humorous Historical Romance Novella Collection Offers Love and LaughsFour top historical romance novelists team up in this new collection to offer stories of love and romance with a twist of humor. In Karen Witemeyer's "The Husband Maneuver," Marietta Hawkins decides to grab the reins when…

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The Lassoed by Marriage Romance Collection: 9 Historical Romances Begin After Saying "I Do"

Come along on a romantic journey jam-packed with all the angst of marriages founded upon practical choices as well as coercion. Meet nine couples who barely know each other before they find themselves suddenly married to please family, to stem the tide of gossip, to save the land and joined for life.…

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Fire and Ice (Wild at Heart)

Saddle Up for a Wildly Fun Ride in Mary Connealy's Latest Bailey Wilde is one of the best new ranchers in the West. She's been living disguised as a man for a while, but when Gage Coulter comes to drive her off her homestead, he quickly realizes he's dealing with a woman--a very tough, very intriguing…

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The 12 Brides of Christmas Collection: 12 Heartwarming Historical Romances for the Season of Love

Christmas is the time for love--and weddings--and twelve historical women are on their way to the altar, whether they know it or not. In nineteenth-century settings across the heartland of America, readers will experience heartfelt gifts, old-fashioned Christmas traditions, sweet romance, and inspiring…

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Now and Forever

Shannon Wilde is the middle sister--and the one who loves animals. She's established her own homestead and is raising sheep for their wool. Things are going fine...until Shannon gets swept over a cliff by Matthew Tucker! Tucker seizes every opportunity to get away from civilization, but one particular…

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The Homestead Brides Collection: 9 Pioneering Couples Risk All for Love and Land

Through nine historical romance adventures, readers will journey along with individuals who are ready to stake a claim and plant their dreams on a piece of the great American plains. While fighting land disputes, helping neighbors, and tackling the challenges of nature the homesteaders are placed in…

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The Advent Bride

Melanie Douglas is alone on the Nebraska plains, teaching school to get by. She finds a unique box with hidden drawers to use over the advent season to engage a young boy in his schooling. When Henry O’Keeffe sees a positive change in his son, he has to see for himself what this new teacher is doing.

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Tried and True (Wild at Heart)

Wildly Fun Adventure and Romance in Connealy's New SeriesKylie Wilde fought in the Civil War dressed as a boy and now she's homesteading as a man. But she makes one lousy man! When land agent Aaron Masterson comes to inspect her claim, he immediately realizes she's a woman. She begs him not to tell,…

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Four Weddings & a Kiss

In 1885 five western preachers sit around a campfire talking about unlikely couples they've seen God bring together. “Spitfire Sweetheart” by Mary Connealy Maizy Place is an unruly tomboy. When she causes an accident, injuring neighbor Rylan Carstens, she becomes his unlikely caregiver. Rylan…

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Spitfire Sweetheart

It’s 1885 and five preachers sit around a campfire out West, trading stories of unlikely couples they've seen God bring together. This is one of those stories . . . She’s reckless spitfire and, thanks to her, he’s a wreck . . . Maisy Place didn’t mean for Ryan to come to any harm. She was just…

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Stuck Together (Trouble in Texas)

Bestselling Author Mary Connealy Delivers Laughs, Romance, and Western AdventureTina Cahill, newly arrived from the East, is determined to get the saloon in Broken Wheel, Texas, closed for good. To that end, she pickets outside the place every afternoon. Unfortunately, so far no one has paid any attention.Vince…

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Match Made in Texas, A: A Novella Collection

There's a secret matchmaker at work in frontier Texas! In the small town of Dry Gulch, Texas, a good-hearted busybody just can't keep herself from surreptitiously trying to match up women in dire straits with men of good character she hopes can help them. How is she to know she's also giving each couple…

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Meeting Her Match

When the tables are turned on a tenderhearted meddler, and she becomes the beneficiary of a matchmaking scheme, her world is turned upside down. As her entire life changes, will she finally be able to tell the banker's son how much she cares for him?

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Alaska Brides Collection

Experience five Alaska adventures through the lives of determined women who overcome the many challenges to build their lives in the wilderness. From the gold rush, through a diphtheria epidemic, to the building of the Alcan Highway, readers will enjoy the stubborn fight each woman displays as love…

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Fired Up

Glynna Greer, faced with a town full of men, decides she can make a living opening a diner…even though cooking is not her greatest talent. Men are lucky to escape with their teeth. But they keep coming because Glynna is the prettiest thing they've ever seen. And her bad cooking is helping Dare Riker's…

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Winter Wedding Bells

It all started with an ad in a mail-order bride catalogue . . . David’s convinced he’s not long for the world. He needs someone to mother his boys when he’s gone—nothing more. Can plucky Irish Megan convince him to work at living instead of dying?

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Winter Wedding Bells (novella from A Bride for All Seasons)

It all started with an ad in a mail-order bride catalogue . . . David’s convinced he’s not long for the world. He needs someone to mother his boys when he’s gone—nothing more. Can plucky Irish Megan convince him to work at living instead of dying?

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A Bride for all Seasons

“And Then Came Spring”—Margaret Brownley When mail order bride Mary-Jo Parker arrives in town she receives the shock of her life; not only is her fiancé dead, he left behind an eight-year-old son he neglected to mention. But the biggest challenge of all is the boy’s way-too-handsome uncle.…

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Swept Away

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…

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Over the Edge

Seth Kincaid survived a fire in a cave, but he's never been the same. He was always a reckless youth, but now he's gone over the edge. He ran off to the Civil War and came back crazier than ever. After the war, nearly dead from his injuries, it appears Seth got married. Oh, he's got a lot of excuses,…

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Sophie's Daughters Trilogy

A 3 in 1 collection of historical western romantic comedy, featuring the little girls from Petticoat Ranch, all grown up with love stories of their own. You didn't think Sophie's Daughters would grow up to be quiet little things, did you? Saddle up for sure-fire fun when three sisters meet their opposites…

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Bury the Lead

Historical Society Murders Book #1 Bury the Lead Carrie Evans loves the big city, so why has she taken up residence in her dinky hometown? She has visions of success as a big city journalist, instead she’s the editor of the Melnik Bugle, the smallest of small town weeklies. She wants her life back,…

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Fright at the Museum

Fright At the Museum … Museum curator Bonnie Simpson is attacked then nearly run over, then she finds a dead guy in Melnik’s Historical Museum, which is the closest she’s come to having a visitor to the museum all week. Joe, the guy who attacked her might have been diving on her to save her from…

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Trial and Terror

Historical Society Murders Book #3 Trial and Terror Just when Melnik looks set for revitalization, Maddie a troublemaking doctoral student comes to town doing research that could ruin everything. When Maddie finds a dead body and is arrested, Tyler Simpson finds out he’s the court-appointed attorney…

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In Too Deep

Ethan doesn't expect Audra to affect him so profoundly, and when she begins to, he's terrified of the pain he's felt before when someone he loved was seriously injured on his watch. He's determined that his new wife will do as he says so he can keep her safe from the dangers that lurk on their ranch.…

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Ten Plagues

A demon possessed serial killer acts out the Ten Plagues of Egypt on the city of Chicago. An inner city mission paster draws the attention of a madman and becomes the focus of his rage. A lady cop with the spiritual gift of discerning spirits gets the case and is confronted with an evil unlike any she's…

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Out of Control

Julia Gilliland has always been interested in the natural world around her. She particularly enjoys her outings to the cavern near her father's homestead, where she explores for fossils and formations, and plans to write a book about her discoveries. The cave seems plenty safe--until the day a mysterious…

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Montana Marriages Trilogy

Mary Connealy’s complete Montana Marriages series all under one cover. One volume encases three acclaimed novels by Mary Connealy. Montana Rose--Readers will laugh and cry along with Cassie Griffin, the vulnerable pregnant widow; The Husband Tree--Belle Tanner, the tough as nails ranch woman who has…

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Sharpshooter in Petticoats

Mandy McClellen Grey, has become the focus of a feud thanks to her husband, who made this mess and then died. Far from home, Mandy, the best little rifle woman in the west, has resigned herself to a lonely life under siege rather than call for help and endanger her family. Tom Linscott is fed up with…

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Lassoed in Texas Trilogy

Enjoy the pleasure of owning Mary Connealy’s complete Lassoed in Texas series all under one cover. Bask in laughs and tears as you visit Mosqueros, Texas, a Wild West town in the making, and meet three matchless couples and a passel of children who begin their relationships on rough footing. Will…

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Wrangler in Petticoats

Sally McCellen finds herself injured and in the care of the biggest wimp she's ever met. Logan McKenzie paints pictures of the wild west—and claims he makes a living doing it. When the two of them see an elk she reaches for her rifle, he reaches for a sketch pad. The word DRAW means completely different…

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Doctor in Petticoats

A burned out doctor is called in because he's a man, the town's lady doctor does all the work and keeps the town's doctor at her side so she'd allowed in the sick room. While she's at it she keeps the doctor from cracking up.

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Wildflower Bride

Wade Sawyer saves a white woman, raised by Indians, when her tribe is massacred and she's the only one left alive. Glowing Sun has no home left among the native people who loved and cared for her. And she hates the white men who let her live because of her blonde hair. Wade will live with her where…

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Black Hills Blessing

Black Hills Blessing is a 3 in 1 collection of Heartsong Presents novels. Buffalo Gal Clueless Cowboy The Bossy Bridegroom BUFFALO GAL They'll never see eye-to-eye. Buffy Lange has spent her life learning about, caring for, and protecting buffalo. She's landed the job of her dreams, managing a huge…

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Alaska Brides

Contains Golden Days by Mary Connealy; Golden Dawn by Cathy Marie Hake; Gold Twilight by Kathleen Y'Barbo--The historic Alaskan frontier makes a wonderful setting for romantic adventures. Trek into the wilds alongside three women who have strong faith, determination, and no need for a husband. Can they…

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The Husband Tree

Belle Tanner buries her third worthless husband and makes a vow over his shallow grave. She’s learned her lesson. No more men. Silas Harden just lost his second ranch because of a woman. The first deserted him when times got tough. Now he’s had to quit the whole state of New Mexico to avoid a trumped-up…

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Montana Rose

Left pregnant and widowed in the unforgiving west, Cassie is forced into an unwanted marriage to rancher Red Dawson. No decent man could turn away from Cassie and leave her to the rough men in Divide, Montana. Red Dawson can't turn his back on the spoiled, snooty, beautiful woman. Now he's got himself…

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Cowboy Christmas

Get ready for a fun and suspenseful Christmastime romance. Trouble follows singer Annette Talbot to Wyoming—and rancher Elijah Walker finds himself directly in its path. Though still wounded by the betrayal of his ex-fiancée, Elijah finds himself attracted to the secretive singer. When it appears…

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Nosy in Nebraska

Three book anthology of romantic cozy mysteries. Maxie, the World's Largest (Stuffed) Field Mouse, must come through time and again to thwart the criminals in his peaceful-albeit mouse-obsessed-hometown of Melnik, Nebraska. OF MICE...AND MURDER Carrie Evans, hates mice and loves the big city, so why…

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Gingham Mountain

A rancher runs head-on into the new school marm, who believes he's made slave labor out of eight orphaned children. Grant Cooper crowds too many orphans into his rickety house, just like Hannah Cartwright's cruel father. Grant's family of orphans have been mistreated too many times by judgmental school…

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Calico Canyon

Let yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutches of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's - widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy…

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Petticoat Ranch

Sophie Edwards’ life is one long struggle for survival, and, more importantly, the survival of her four daughters. She wants to avenge her husband’s murder, but she has no idea how to do it. And as if she hasn't got enough to do, now a wounded man is disrupting her family’s lonely life. Clay McClellen…


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