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A marriage of convenience blooms into heartfelt love in an Old West homestead. Over 1 million sold!

Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west continues as she searches for love. Canadian West book 2.

In this retelling of the biblical story of Hosea, Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea. He obeys God's call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. He defies her bitter expectations and slowly her heart begins to thaw. Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael does.

A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.

It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians, but he buried the treasure just before he died. Now Ronan Chantry, a handful of trappers, and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks...

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Journeying westward from his native Quebec, Jean Talon "stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman's search for her missing brother and a ruthless band of renegades" who want to take over the Louisiana Territory and turn it into an independent nation. Can Jean stop them and also realize his dream of becoming a builder of frontier steamboats? Jean Talon strikes out at a man who intends to make the Louisiana Purchase his personal kingdom. His...

East Texas wasn't much of a home for Cullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yet after three hard years of wandering, he's come back to farm the land that's rightfully his. Only Cullen's in for an unwelcome homecoming: his neighbors have long memories, the Reconstructionists have greedy hearts, and his worst enemy has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. But Cullen isn't about to back down. Instead, he's intent on perfecting a new...

As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn't be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live. Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn't about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated...