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Claire and Amelia wake from cryo aboard a small escape shuttle, find themselves adrift 80 years in deep space. This is the story of their journey home. This volume contains all seven episodes.

Trading her reporter’s ID badge for the vocations of selling horse tack and showing horses, Pepper enjoys her new life and friends in Oregon’s Rogue River Valley. While line-dancing with her Brassbottom Barn buddies one night, she learns a prize show horse has been killed. A suspect herself, she must find the killer before the killer closes in on her.

This witty romance follows Robert Hervey Randolph and his adventures through the glitter and drama of early 20th-century New York City as a gentleman of leisure turned taxi driver for love.

One midnight 17-year-old Cora Cassidy gallops away from her abusive family on a modern Oregon ranch to illegally catch mustangs. She hoped to be a famous trainer and writer. The desert is breathtaking, its way is hard. Grit by grit, Cora learns to survive, and meets helpful strangers.

Martha Moses Kane—a former rodeo queen and a shirttail relative of Annie Oakley—sees being an 80-year-old widow as no obstacle, but a banquet. By staying fit, loving pets, and baking pies for a cafe and her daughter’s Bed, Barn & Breakfast, she blows a raspberry at old age. But she’s bored. She wants more. Color. Excitement. Maybe a man. When her daughter dragoons her into headlining a Wild West show like her famous 19th-century sharpshooter cousin, she reluctantly agrees. But practicing is a blast.

Granny Oakley—aka Martha Moses Kane—bakes killer pies, and enjoys her new career of trick shooting like her famous shirttail relative Annie Oakley. Especially as it helps daughter Pepper Kane's Best Little Bed, Barn & Breakfast in Oregon. She's eighty and greaty. Older and bolder. Has a new man and is hot to trot out her skills and horse at the famous Bites, Kites & Lights Festival on the Coast.

Ex-reporter Pepper Kane and friends bring their horses from Oregon to a Seattle show to vie for jackpots that will kick up their plans for a Western Bed, Barn and Breakfast. On the eve of the show Pepper hears violence going down in a fairgrounds restroom, and learns someone was killed. Security is slow to help. Her Lakota-police partner is busy with another case. A transgender rider is threatened. When Pepper's daughter doesn't return calls and Pepper herself is threatened, she sticks the spurs to her sleuthing.

Martha Mosey Kane—former rodeo queen and shirttail relative of Annie Oakley—sees life as an 80-year-old widow as no obstacle, but a banquet. Staying fit, loving pets, baking pies and starring in trick-shooting shows for daughter Pepper Kane's Best Little Bed, Barn & Breakfast in Oregon help her blow a raspberry at old age. But when "Granny Oakley," her bestie, new man and old horse bring their act to Las Vegas for National Finals Rodeo week, a murderer puts Martha in their sights.

First Sgt. Carlos Gonsalves has pledged his allegiance to the rogue Mars colony and to his best friend, the former rebel aristocrat, Jack Windsor. Going all in for the colony means he's been declared AWOL and cannot return to Earth, but it was worth it, especially now that he's found the love of his life: Safia Asfour. With the off-world colony on the brink of civil war, the rebels recruit a savior to tip the balance.

A spirited ex-reporter questions her deepest beliefs and desires while rushing to learn who killed a woman in the long-abandoned cabin of a famous writer—a riverfront gem she and a fellow horsewoman hoped to turn into a guest ranch. The timing couldn’t be worse: She’s preparing for a major horse show and trying to save her tack store, The Best Little Horsehouse in Oregon. But when she receives a death threat and, with her Lakota police partner, finds shocking evidence related to Indian adoptions, she shifts into overdrive. Unless she IDs the killer, her dreams—and life—will go up in flames.

Emily Sweeney, MD, is a vibrant young trauma physician at a major Seattle medical center who is tragically taken from the comfort of her 21st Century life. Suddenly, dropped into the 1880s unforgiving frontier, she is determined to survive, or die all over again. Using her knowledge and skills as a physician, Emily struggles to save a stranger in the desert hills of the Arizona Territory. In the end, can she return to her previous life and leave behind the man she's come to love?