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Two Feathers was a young Native learning the ways of the Choctaw. However, he was not like the other men in his village who lived off of the land, farming and raising livestock. He enjoyed spilling the blood of the invaders and was absent, fighting, more than he was home. Still, he had fallen for the little white girl who couldn’t farm, couldn’t make baskets, and was generally a failure at native life. Returning from a battle, he discovered the white men had taken Bliss, the woman with whom he expected to share his life. Gone were his desires to do anything other than locate her.

Life is hard for the young Cheyenne warrior fighting off the invasion of the white man. Disillusioned with the killing, Shadow Wolf decides to covertly hit them where it matters most; he becomes the proficient thief who causes entire wagon trains to give up and turn around. When their ammo and weapons disappear in the dark of night, they lose confidence and decide to head back east. However, when a French trapper brings his younger sister into Shadow Wolf’s world, life gets tougher still.

The times are changing faster than Running Elk can keep up with. Every day when the Comanche wakes up, there are fewer buffalo and more white settlers invading the plains where he and his people make their home. Angered as he is by the relentless assault on the land he loves, Running Elk doesn’t think about the differences between his people and the settlers when he spots Alexandria Standish picking flowers one day. The woman’s beauty bowls him over, and Running Elk knows he won’t be able to avoid seeking her out, again and again, no matter the consequences.

Edna and Gertie Simmons live a leisurely life, and as they have aged in to their 70s, their thirst for adventure has slowly diminished. However, when Edna finds that her briefcase, containing some of her most sentimental pieces of jewelry, has vanished, she contracts Gertie to go on an unforgettable journey to locate it.

When a mysterious woman named Emily Haines approaches Gertie and Edna Simmons, claiming that the stray cat that they have been taking care of is hers, the couple decides to give the woman back her feline companion, but afterwards, Edna begins to suspect that Emily isn’t the woman that they originally thought that she was. In an attempt to find out the true identity of the new resident of Sanders, Edna and Gertie go undercover and find out that this woman might not only be a catnapper but a murderer.

A young woman from the Missouri Ozarks falls in love and is married to a man who has lived in the mountains of Colorado for several years. Her honeymoon is a trip of two weeks in a covered wagon. She and her husband experience all the adventures of the frontier. Trapping furs, panning gold, and finally herding sheep. On the frontier, a three day wagon ride to Denver, she soon learns to be self-sufficient. She and her husband carve out a home.

Are Christmas wreaths magic? In this Christmas novel, Jett's nicknamed "Grunch" by his sister at an early age and for good reason. He abhors Christmas. His mother purchases a wreath at a seasonal Christmas tree farm. She was instructed to place the magic wreath on his door. Christmas wreath magic promises to deliver Jett his true love within the 12 days of Christmas. Jett leads a Lothario lifestyle believing that women are good for two things only: to give a man their money and for sex. Is Jett ready for his pivotal moment of finding true love?

Taton has spent the last five years dedicated to improving an invention that will help people deal with stress. She came up with the concept in order to deal with the guilt of her late friend's passing. When she gets the opportunity to do a research study that might put the product on the market, she wastes no time in seizing the opportunity.

As a child, Clementine Monroe had an imaginary friend. Year after year, whenever she visited her grandparents' cabin in South Dakota, she and Wihanbla would meet and spend time learning about each other's worlds - hers in the 21st century, his on the cusp of the infamous battles that would eventually lead to the internment of his people on reservations. Now grown, Clementine and her friend continue to meet, though her family has decided that she should have long ago done away with her "imaginary" friend. Clementine knows better.

Lexy and her mother, Laine, were used to living a gypsy lifestyle. Moving from city to city, living off the land, making money on odd jobs when they needed it. When Lexy’s father is murdered, the pair is thrown into a world they could never have dreamed existed. As they come to grips with their new life, they must figure out what are legends and what are lies. Welcome to Rowen’s End...you are home.

Aron is wandering in the world alone. She never met her real parents, and she has a hard time getting close to people, but when she finds out that she has a twin brother that she never met, her whole world comes to a halt. Little did she know that a secret service agent, a noncommital hipster, and a grieving bachelor would help her find out who she is and why her past was kept a secret from her.

Cathy Matthews suffers a run of bad luck culminating in a 300-foot tumble down a French mountain while on holiday. After spending time in a hospital and an agonizing six months nursing her smashed legs, she is finally well enough to leave the confines of the family home one afternoon to cover a story for her local college newspaper, the proposed redevelopment of Becmead Wood. The area is a local beauty spot and a magical place where she spent lots of time as a little girl.

Now being made into a movie! Beverly Mansion is about a haunted house built in 1835 in Mississippi. A family moves in unaware of the property's dark past. They experience things unnatural to this world and unravel the secrets of the past.

After three months of training under Chief Stone and her uncle, Aron has managed to isolate a memory of a rebel agent that compromised the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ria has became a fighting machine, and Sam has mastered his new job in cyber security.

Aron is wandering in the world alone. She never met her real parents, and she has a hard time getting close to people, but when she finds out she has a twin brother she never met, her whole world comes to a halt. Little did she know that a secret service agent, a noncommittal hipster, and a grieving bachelor would help her find out who she is and why her past was kept a secret from her.

With 125 delicious, low-carb recipes, this book gives you the step-by-step game plan for achieving rapid weight loss on a budget.

When Macy is left with her best friend's child, Mazy, and has to raise her as her own, her life is changed forever. She learns to cope with work, happiness, and the true meaning of love while facing a few road blocks in the way.