How can two people so wrong for each other seem so right? After his divorce, Wayne Hammond hesitated to make anyone the second Mrs. Hammond. Topping the list of the women he shouldn’t pick is Maggie Harrison Sinclair. Maggie has already left Tucker, Montana, once. She’s back only to lick her wounds and figure out her next step. Not exactly the ranch-loving, stay-at-home wife and mother that Wayne has always wanted. But once Wayne and Maggie cross paths, the impossible-to-resist rancher and the bright-lights-loving woman succumb to their hotter-than-heck attraction, resulting in an even bigger complication…. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG SKY When Malibu meets Montana, it’s magic.
When Jo Jeffers was a young girl suffering from asthma, she promised herself, "When I grow up, if I ever do, I shall go to Arizona and be a cowboy." She did both, and Ranch Wife tells the story of her life as wife and partner of a rancher in the high country of northeastern Arizona. Here she describes the routines of ranch life and vividly recalls the dust storms, plagues, and other hazards that challenged the young city-bred woman. It offers readers not only an insider's view of a working ranch but also an appreciation of how ranchers' wives help sustain such a rugged enterprise.
Continue on the adventure with The Rancher Takes a Wife, the conclusion to Richmond Hobson's western frontier trilogy! The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a vast and still barely explored wilderness, whose principal citizens are timber wolves, moose, giant grizzly bears, and the odd human being. Into this forbidding land, Rich Hobson, Pioneer cattle rancher, brings Gloria, his city-raised bride. Her adjustment to life in the wilderness is sure to be difficult, as is her relationship with Rich and his backwoods cronies. Will Gloria find that she belongs in this strange, harsh land? Told with wit and wisdom, Hobson recounts a wild true adventure story in the last book of his collection of survival tales. These dramatic tales are described with the humor and vivid detail that have made Hobson's books perennial favorites.
"After knowing the woman for all of three hours, soldier Reese Cooper married waitress Cheyenne Jones. She was pregnant and scared, alone in Las Vegas--and he was about to ship out on a dangerous tour of duty. But months later, Reese comes home to Dawson, Oklahoma, no longer the strong cowboy who vowed to help Cheyenne. Shrapnel and a guarded heart changed everything. But with a wife and baby counting on him, Reese is about to learn what real courage is all about"--Publisher.
"Dazzling" --Publishers Weekly (starred review) When his mail-order bride arrives from New York, a Wyoming rancher gets more than he bargained for in this first-rate romance from the bestselling Jo Goodman. For fans of Linda Lael Miller and Catherine Anderson. SHE HAS NOWHERE LEFT TO TURN Jane Middlebourne needs a way out. In 1891, life in New York is unforgiving for a young woman with no prospects, especially when her family wants nothing to do with her. So when Jane discovers an ad for a mail-order bride needed in Bitter Springs, Wyoming, she responds with a hopeful heart. HE HAS EVERYTHING TO LOSE Rancher Morgan Longstreet is in want of a wife who will be his partner at Morning Star, someone who will work beside him and stand by him. His first impression of the fair and fragile Jane is that she is not that woman. But when she sets out to prove him wrong, the secrets he cannot share put into jeopardy every happiness they hope to find….
❤ She's a perfect stranger . . . The perfect stranger to change his heart? ❤ As a single parent, cowboy Dax will do anything for his teenage son -- even become a role model at dating. Which is the last thing he’d do on his own. Enter the perfect stranger: an Easterner, visiting small town Bardville, Wyoming, for just two weeks. No way could he fall for this woman who’s his opposite in so many ways – yes, including being sunshiney to his grumpy, according to his matchmaking circle of friends. They’ve finagled things to make sure Hannah’s no longer a stranger. Their attraction is growing. Fast. That makes her the greatest danger of all to this rancher's stubbornly solitary heart. Emotion and romantic comedy blend in the tale of a single father whose desire to help his son turns his heart inside out in Book 3 of the contemporary western romance Bardville, Wyoming trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Patricia McLinn. ~ ~ ~ Three strangers arrive in rugged Bardville, Wyoming. They're never the same ... And neither are the people of Bardville. ~ ~ ~ "In Book 1 Bodie stole my heart, in Book 2 Cully took my breath away, and in Book 3 I fell in love with Dax." – 5* Praise for The Rancher Meets His Match: "It's great to get involved in the characters' lives and want to hit them over the head or have that moment that makes you go "Yes! Finally." The characters become friends of mine that I want to see happy." --5* “Very much like a going home feeling.”—5* "This is one cute, sexy story" -- Bell, Book and Candle “I am now on Book 3 of the trilogy and wishing there were more books to come.”—5* “"Very hot ... Dax and Hannah literally sizzle every time they're in the same room. ... highly recommend"—5* "This is the last of the Bardville trilogy and I am sad, I don't want it to be the last." -- 5* "More please." --5* Georgia Romance Writers' Maggie Award finalist Praise for the Bardville Wyoming, series "This is quite the trilogy. . . . I strongly recommend (Patricia McLinn) to romance readers who like a good storyline, a hot romance between strong men and women, family life, and hometown echoes." --5* "As I finished one book of the series couldn't wait to get next book!" --5* "From Cambria to Jessa to Hannah.... I loved them all! Awesome and I am so glad that I found this author." --5* "Had fantastic week reading this trilogy by Patricia McLinn. Wonderful read. Wonderful!" --5* "A spectacular read. This series is on my list to read again and again." --5* "I was so involved with the citizens of Bardville I hated to turn the last page of book 3. I wanted to know more about the next generation, because I felt part of their lives." --5* “I strongly recommend [McLinn] to romance readers who like a good storyline, a hot romance between strong men and women, family life, and hometown echoes.”—5* Bardville, Wyoming series A Stranger in the Family A Stranger to Love The Rancher Meets His Match Helping love find a way Characters from A Place Called Home, Bardville, and Wyoming Wildflowers series, join forces to bring together people they hope will find love and happiness as they have. The Wyoming Marriage Association First Date: Divorce Second Start: Family A Place Called Home series Lost and Found Groom At the Heart's Command Hidden in a Heartbeat Wyoming Wildflowers series Wyoming Wildflowers: The Beginning (Snowberry) Almost a Bride (Indian Paintbrush) Match Made in Wyoming (Fireweed) My Heart Remembers (Bur Marigold) A New World Jack's Heart (Yellow Monkeyflower) Rodeo Nights Where Love Lives (Threadleaf Phacelia) A Cowboy Wedding (Mixed bouquet) Making Christmas (Pasque Flower)
Hilarious and heart-wrenching stories about the realities of living life on a cattle ranch as the hired hand-told by a woman who knows nothing about agriculture. Kacee Rundell poses an upfront and honest look into the lives of ranchers through the fresh eyes of someone just learning about the ever-changing way of life. Her memoir offers moments of joy and triumph, followed by poignant stories of hardship and lessons learned on the way to becoming a Ranch Wife. THE RANCH WIFE details the daily struggles and life lessons of America's ranching culture-laid out in a unique way, so that readers everywhere can follow along and bask in moments of emotion and embrace America's humble hearts. "When the Rundell says, "The Real Life . . ." she gives us the down and dirty very real life of a Ranch Wife! Her experiences and life responses are not only enlightening but very entertaining. Few ever get to experience the realities of living on a ranch in the tough country of Wyoming, but once you start immersing yourself in this book of real life tales, you'll believe you were right there beside her. You are in for a real ride - hunker down, dig in your spurs, and hang on!" - B.N. Rundell, author of the Stonecroft Saga series
A mail-order mistake… Or a made-to-be match? When Della Mae Wagner’s train arrives in Missouri, she’s shocked to find that the couple who hired her don’t just want a teacher for their grandsons but a wife for their son! After a broken engagement, marriage is not in Della’s plans. And Hank Lamson isn’t pleased—with his parents, with his unexpected guest or with Della’s unfairly appealing smile. But his plans to send her packing are foiled as his family comes to love her…and he feels the walls around his wounded heart start to fall.
