Kirjahaku

Kerley McFarland's brother, Dale, is killed in Omaha, Nebraska. Determined to find out what really happened and to recover Dale's prize pinto horse, Kerley's search leads him to a prosperous Nebraska farm. Here he learns the farmer's niece, Isabella Greely, has run away on the horse. Determined to find the animal, he tracks her. He spies her on the road ahead, then a couple of outlaws appear from behind some trees and attack her.After freeing and escaping with her, it isn't long until she tells him she is his brother's widow and has run away from home because her uncle is trying to force her to marry an unsavory neighbor. Knowing his brother is not the marrying kind, he doesn't trust women and thinks she's lying, but doesn't confront her until he learns her next secret. She is soon to be the mother of his brother's child.Realizing she could be telling the truth, he knows there is nothing he can do but protect her until he sorts out the truth. But it becomes harder each time he looks at the beautiful young woman, the first woman who has stirred his blood since the loss of his unfaithful wife.

Wilma Lawson works in the town's only mercantile and lives in the apartment above the store. Her job gives her a chance to get to know all the town's residents as well as to see her three best friends, who have all married: Amelia to a half-breed rancher, Grace to the sheriff, and Nelda to a retired Army major who now owns the mercantile. Would Wilma ever meet a man and establish a home of her own instead of envying her friends? After a severe beating from his father, Clay Hunter left town before his 13th birthday. After falling in with the wrong crowd, he ended up in prison. The government offered him a pardon if he'd secretly work for them. He was in his mid-twenties when they released him, and he decided to return to his hometown. Though he planned to keep a low profile in town, he came upon a wagon load of orphans and their murdered guardian. He soon found himself not only the man who rescued them, but the man they looked to as their new guardian. Would he ever be able to lead a normal life and pursue a relationship with Wilma, or would he always be Mr. Clay, the children's provider?

Zelda has to care for her bedridden stepmother and her two children. She doesn't know her stepmother has made a secret deal that will force Zelda to marry an unscrupulous man.Wiley Hendrix shows up and finds Zelda trying to save a failing ranch with no help. He decides to help her save the place as well as saving herself.

Nineteen-year-old Opal Barnett never dreamed that leaving her home in Memphis, Tennessee to settle on a ranch that her father had inherited near the little town of Wildweed, Arizona would bring such an unsettling change in life. Not only did she find a half-breed cousin, but she found she had to give up dreams of wearing beautiful gowns and dress in britches, ride a horse, round up cattle, and do many jobs required of a rancher. She never dreamed that the hired hand who was such a help to would become the object of her secret dreams. She knew she had to fight the impulse she had to touch him every time they were together because she didn't have time in her life for anything except helping her family.Jace Renwick had one goal, to find the man who had murdered his father in a Colorado gold field ten years earlier. The fact that he was pushing thirty, time most men who wanted a family had settled down, didn't tempt him to give up the pursuit. Informed the culprit was in Arizona, he set out to track him down and landed up at the Barnette ranch. Knowing this would be a good place to keep a low profile in his search, he volunteers to help George Barnett get the place up and running. But the auburn haired Opal was harder to ignore than he ever dreamed a woman would be.

Valissa Prescott's half-brother has gambled away her Galveston estate, Heartsong and it's been bought by Nathan Stone a hardnosed cowboy and businessman who owns several businesses in Galveston. Though she thinks she has three weeks to vacate the estate, he arrives early to claim his property. Without money or close relatives, Valissa has no choice but to remain at the house until she can find somewhere else to go.When she realizes she is beginning to fall for this giant of a man who thinks he can bully everyone into doing his will, she tries everything she can think of to get away from him. But the one thing she didn't count on was his smoldering desire to keep her in his home.