Showing results by publisher "-emdashery books-" in Westerns

Abigail Jones intends to spend just one summer in middle-of-nowhere Montana with her Aunt Lucy. Time away from her job is just what Abigail needs to reassess her life. The slow pace has her breathing deeply for the first time in years. And the majestic scenery encourages her to get reacquainted with herself...and God. What she didn't count on was the handsome widowed cowboy who owns the ranch where her aunt lives. When the rancher loses his daughter's nanny, Abigail decides to lend a hand for the summer.

Sarah Prescott has never known a respectable life. Just a hardscrabble childhood and brothers who taught her to shoot first and ask questions later. Justin Wells left Boston in disgrace, heading out alone on the dusty trail to Texas. But when the once-respected clergyman encounters a feisty redhead in handcuffs with a dying US Marshal at her side, their journey takes a dramatic turn. His high-society expectations and Sarah's outlaw habits clash from the start. With a price on her head and recused orphaned baby, Justin and Sarah make the difficult journey toward Rocky Creek.

Cuddle up with a cowboy and enjoy these great, heartwarming and inspirational stories of love and laughter under the wide, North Dakota sky!

The Long Trail is the first book in the best-selling series about the McCabes, a family building a ranch in the rugged wilderness of post-Civil War Montana, and of a young man seeking his family and his destiny.

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 discovered 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 their portion of their father's lumber dynasty and seize control from their stepfather. During their escape, Laura befriends a mission group heading to serve the poor in California. She quickly volunteers herself and her sisters to join their efforts.

Meet the first three Walker brothers in this charming boxed set that includes three full-length cowboy romances. Set against the picturesque backdrop of Seven Sons Ranch in small-town Texas, these stories are packed with heartwarming Christmas cheer, sweet cowboy billionaire romance, and the faith and forgiveness it takes to maintain family relationships and lasting marriages.

Jeffery O'Donnell is captivated by the mysterious Simone, who arrives at his office hoping to acquire a position as a Harvey Girl at the popular way-stops along the frontier rail line. Jeffery is torn, however, when he suspects that Simone may harbor a disturbing secret.

Jack McCabe returns home to Montana from medical school, but the family finds he is not exactly who they thought he was. And an old enemy of Johnny McCabe returns, looking for blood.

It is 1893, and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers - they have aspirations of their own. Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young boy and longs to attend college to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree.

After growing up as an orphan, Josiah English wants nothing more than to have his own ranch and raise Arabian horses. Riding for the pony express seems like the ticket to his dream. And when he meets the stationmaster’s beautiful sister, it seems he may be within reach of the happy life he craves. Mara Reid is thrilled to finally meet the man of her dreams, and the fact that they both want to raise horses in the Sweetwater River valley seems like confirmation straight from God.

This set of cowboy romances includes every audiobook in Jessie Gussman's Heartland Cowboy Christmas Romance series.

Disgraced dime novelist Kate Tenney fled the city that banned her latest book for a fresh start at a cattle ranch in the Arizona Territory. She hopes ranching turns out to be as romantic as she portrayed it in her novels. But what awaits her is a much harder life. There is no room for mistakes on a working cattle ranch in 1895, and Kate is ill-prepared for her new life. She quickly learns that dawn comes early...every day. But she is tenacious. Having been abandoned by a string of men, Kate has no intention of ever marrying. But she didn't expect to meet Luke Adams either.

Summer Smith is at a crossroads in life. Fresh out of college with no idea what comes next, she agrees to take over her aunt's flower shop for the season. She arrives in the small, close-knit community of Sweet Grove, Texas, hoping to find some answers. Ben Davis has lived in the shadow of his family's mistakes for years. Forced to give up everything he ever wanted for himself, he begins to consider taking his own life in a final effort to end all the pain.

Pursued by a Texas bounty hunter, Matthew returns to Fountain Creek, Colorado, to apologize to his brother for insulting his wife Annabelle and to share his Idaho homestead. Learning that his brother has left already, he answers an ad for someone to guide a widow to Idaho. But he's shocked to see the widow is Annabelle, a woman whose sordid past repulses him.

Young & Daring Western Brides 10 Book Box Set collection is a mega bundle of 10 clean Christian romances, set in the 1800s. Thousands of young ladies took the courageous step to head west to meet Western pioneering husbands, not knowing what they would truly find. What must these young girls must have felt as they made their first steps toward an unknown future? The only sure thing for them was their faith in God, and his ability to bring them to a bright future.

Frank and Maggie have finally set off on their much-awaited and longed-for road trip. They relish the time together, exploring new places, meeting new people. But their trip is interrupted when Frank grows ill. How could this have happened? Will he survive? Meanwhile, more changes are underfoot at Goddard Downs. Sean has returned and has his eyes on Elizabeth, but does Elizabeth have her eyes on him? Can he truly give up his wild ways like Joshua did? Is David’s suggestion of building a bridge really a possibility? And can Janella leave Goddard Downs and embrace a new career?

The McCabe saga continues as the men of the ranch embark on a cattle drive. Charles is left in charge of the ranch, but when a would-be assassin takes the women captive, Charles finds he has to make some hard choices, and his life will never be the same.

Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges. Just when they've made new friends and started a new school, they are presented with a new posting. It seems Elizabeth's dreams for a family and home of her own are not to be. Will their love for each other, hope for the future, and their faith in God carry them through the crushing disappointments?

Johnny McCabe rides to California to visit the grave of his late wife, and to visit a brother he hasn't seen in 17 years. But everything with his brother is not as it appears.

When town marshal Vic Falcone takes a bullet, he calls on the local preacher Tom McCabe to strap on a gun and wear the badge. The man who shot the marshal is in the town jail and awaiting trial, and the man's outlaw brother is out there somewhere, intending to free him. A lot for McCabe to handle, but even though he's a preacher, he's also the nephew of the gunfighter Johnny McCabe.