[BookStrand Cowboy Romantic Suspense, HEA] Race D'Onofrio had long ago left ranching—an existence of all work and no play. When he must travel to Wyoming to settle his deceased father's affairs, he expects a quick trip with little or no disruption to his exciting Vegas life. He does not expect to learn his father was murdered. He does not expect the legacy of a ranch and lucrative leases to minerals under the land of his neighbors—leases that, if sold, will make him wealthy. He does not expect to be beset by disgruntled ranchers or targeted by the mob. He especially does not expect to fall in love with a debutant, the polar opposite of his ideal woman, or to discover she is spying on him and he has placed her in danger. How much will he give up? How much can he forgive to have the woman he loves? ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance
Shane Whitfield has only one regret—letting Margarita slip through his fingers. When Margarita shows up on his doorstep with an offer to buy his ranch, Shane makes one thing clear: He’s keeping his ranch and his woman. After a passionate, unforgettable night, Margarita Ramirez left New Mexico—and Shane—to focus on her career. Now she’s back at Whitfield Ranch and Shane is the only thing standing in her way of a big promotion. She thought it would be easy to convince Shane to sell. But he’s as stubborn as the bulls on his ranch. When Shane turns up the heat, she’s tempted to run—again. But her rugged cowboy has a few tricks up his sleeve and he’s not giving up until Margarita is his.
Wilder Carey has always enjoyed living up to his name. When he spots pretty Cat Lisle in the seediest bar around, he ignores the bad blood between their families to step in. But his uncharacteristic good intentions scatter when she kisses him—and this unrepentant heartbreaker faces three uncomfortable truths: He’s been nursing an attraction to an innocent. He’s not a man built to resist temptation. And Cat is not only not the little girl he’s been pretending she is, she might be the one woman worth the trouble. Cat’s over being well-behaved, but thanks to her grumpy and overprotective older brothers, she’s had no choice. Now that she’s ready to ruin her reputation, she lucks into an encounter with the cowboy of her hottest fantasies. Cat knows she’s supposed to avoid the Carey family, but Wilder is everything deliciously naughty and if she doesn’t take her shot, she’ll regret it forever… Soon Wilder is secretly teaching her every sexy trick he knows, and Cat is falling in love… but what happens when sworn enemies want to go public?
For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such different guises in the twentieth century—the progressive, forward-looking politics of Rough Rider president Teddy Roosevelt and the conservative, old-fashioned character and Cold War politics of Ronald Reagan? This is the conundrum at the heart of Cowboy Presidents, which explores the deployment and consequent transformation of the frontier myth by four U.S. presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, historian David A. Smith finds major events in American and world history that have made various aspects of the “Old West” frontier more relevant, and more useful, for promoting radically different political ideologies and agendas. And these divergent adaptations of frontier symbolism have altered the frontier myth. Theodore Roosevelt, with his vigorous pursuit of an activist federal government, helped establish a version of the frontier myth that today would be considered liberal. But then, Smith shows, a series of events from the Lyndon Johnson through Jimmy Carter presidencies—including Vietnam, race riots, and stagflation—seemed to give the lie to the progressive frontier myth. In the wake of these crises, Smith’s analysis reveals, the entire structure and popular representation of frontier symbols and images in American politics shifted dramatically from left to right, and from liberal to conservative, with profound implications for the history of American thought and presidential politics. The now popular idea that “frontier American” leaders and politicians are naturally Republicans with conservative ideals flows directly from the Reagan era. Cowboy Presidents gives us a new, clarifying perspective on how Americans shape and understand their national identity and sense of purpose; at the same time, reflecting on the essential mutability of a quintessentially national myth, the book suggests that the next iteration of the frontier myth may well be on the horizon.
Falcon is icy danger wrapped up in sizzling temptation and absolute loyalty, and he’s coming for Bella Hart. The minute Falcon saunters uninvited into the fancy wedding that Bella Hart is catering, she knows he’s going to be trouble. He’s sexy, muscled, and carries all the secrets that Bella is fighting to leave behind. Falcon doesn’t have a last name. He hasn’t bothered with a home. For twenty years, he’s been hunting a monster, and now it’s finally over. What's next for him? Bella Hart. He’s been waiting to make his move, and he’s not leaving until he gets what he wants. But Bella has no time for love, for men, or for anything in her past. Especially not the man she had a mad crush on when she was sixteen, and they were both homeless teenagers living under a bridge. Falcon is her kryptonite, and she can’t afford to let him anywhere near her. But when danger targets her, Falcon is the one she has to turn for protection. His heated looks are pure temptation. His reluctant laughter lights up any room. And his commitment to keeping her safe goes right to her heart. Her new bodyguard could destroy her soul. She can handle it. Everything will be fine…as long they can keep the flames under lockdown and their secrets forever hidden. But secrets have a way of coming to the light, and some fires can’t be put out.
This book is about the real Old West. The research presented here comes from what I've found during my more than forty-five years of researching American history, but especially what I've learned in regards to the other side of the myths and legends of the Old West. In 2010, I started a blog, The American Cowboy Chronicles, to share what I've learned and celebrate the virtues of America. My articles on the Old West have never been meant to dispel the myths or attack legends but to simply explain what I've found after taking a hard look, an honest look, an objective look, at the evidence that's available. Since evidence proves or disproves what we've all been told about the Old West by Hollywood and writers who are not objective researchers, this is my attempt at taking a fresh look at Wyatt Earp, Tom Horn, and others. But mostly, this book is about why the American Cowboy became America's quintessential role model. This book looks at why the American Cowboy represents American toughness, independence, and resilience to the rest of the World.
At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who were active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the western genre as we now know it emerged. Victoria Lamont offers detailed studies of some of the many women who helped shape the western. Their novels bear the classic hallmarks of the western—cowboys, schoolmarms, gun violence, lynchings, cattle branding—while also placing female characters at the center of their western adventures and improvising with western conventions in surprising and ingenious ways. In Emma Ghent Curtis’s The Administratrix a widow disguises herself as a cowboy and infiltrates the cowboy gang responsible for lynching her husband. Muriel Newhall’s pulp serial character, Sheriff Minnie, comes to the rescue of a steady stream of defenseless female victims. B. M. Bower, Katharine Newlin Burt, and Frances McElrath use cattle branding as a metaphor for their feminist critiques of patriarchy. In addition to recovering the work of these and other women authors of popular westerns, Lamont uses original archival analysis of the western-fiction publishing scene to overturn the long-standing myth of the western as a male-dominated genre.
The drama with Rex is nothing compared to the visitor that comes calling at the ranch, and unfortunately, this time, all that Dean holds dear is caught up in the crosshairs of a madman come to claim what he believes was denied him. Dean is just trying to get back to the quiet routine before all the drama with Rex broke out. With Gabriel learning the ropes, Rachel visiting a lot longer than was expected, and new drama all around them, he is worried that his quiet existence is gone for good. Though he steals time away with Lexi, a turn of conversation about children could drive them apart once again. He is on pins and needles, constantly waiting for the next shoe to drop, but when it does, he is in for the shock of his life. Lexi loves the routine, even if a bit hectic, of being back at the ranch. She is growing a new clinic, helping take care of business, and spending her spare time getting to know Dean. Having her sister make a life-altering decision to move closer is just icing on the cake. Unfortunately, just as everything seems to be working out in her life, another nasty curveball is lobbied in her direction. With her sister now caught in the middle, Rex, and two small lives they are tasked with protecting, can she help prevent the biggest disaster to date here on the ranch? Or will someone pay the ultimate price for the secrets the ranch tried to hide all these years? Perfect For readers who love Debbie Macomber, Diana Palmer, Debra Clopton, Samantha Chase, Melody Grace, Annie Rains, Carolyn Brown, Maisy Yates, Cora Seton, Kate Pearce, Vivian Arend, Kelly Elliott, Jennifer Ryan, Linda Leal Miller, Kristine Raymond, Nicholas sparks, Nora Roberts, Julia Quinn, Lexi Ryan, L.G. Castillo, B.J. Daniels, SJ McCoy, Lisa Mondello, Jennifer Ryan, and Larry McMurtry Topics: cowboy romance, wholesome romance, western romance, sweet romance, contemporary romance, series, romantic suspense series,Texas, Texas cowboys, Texas romance, billionaire cowboy romance, horses in romance, small-town romance, western romance Christian, rodeo, romance series, contemporary Christian romance, heartwarming, heart-warming, Christian western historical romance, new york times bestseller romance, NYT romance, sexy, new york times romance, Christian billionaire romance, short stories, books under 4 dollars, hot romance, romance with a cowboy, western romance books, cowboys, rodeo romance, ranch romance, old and young romance, medical romance, romantic thriller, police romance, detective romance, cowboy romance books, western romance, westerns books, Western Dreams, wild west romance, historical western romance, historical western, secrets, historical western suspense, second chance romance, mail order brides, Christian books, urban books, urban books, urban, urban fiction, urban street fiction, Cowboys & Kisses, Rodeo Man, Rodeo Rebel, Rodeo Queen,historical fiction, mystery books, books to read and download, romance books for young adults, alpha male billionaire romance books,modern romance, urban romance, bad boy romance books, romance short stories, second chance romance, steamy romance books, contemporary romance books, hot romance books, women fiction books for young adults, love story and romance books, office romance books, boss romance books, beach reads, new adult, new romantic fiction, romance fiction books, romance stories, fiction books, romance novels steamy, cheap books under 5.00, romance novel, books romance, romance, books under 20 rs, adult romance novels, alpha male romance books, romance novels to read, love story books, books under 300, cowboy rodeo.
He Didn't Know He Had A Wife…Or A Daughter Dallas Henderson had gone missing six years ago. At last his wife, Gracie, had her answers—an accident…amnesia. Still, she had their child to protect. Would rekindled love be enough to heal her doubts? Did she have enough faith to start over? Dallas knew he belonged with this woman and his precious child. And he knew God had led him safely home. He vowed to put things right. Because a cowboy always keeps his promises. Especially to those he loves. Pennies from Heaven…add up to love!
