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Embracing the DreamWhen is it time to give up on a dream? Grace fell in love with a man when she was just a girl. She knew she could never have him as he married another. When the marriage ended in divorce, he turned away from life and joined the call of the Rough Riders. Grace went east to college. When she returns, years later, will anything have changed as her dream love had not. Rafe, one time a deputy to Cord, came to Tucson to bring Grace home...
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In 1851, Independence, Missouri, a big wagon train waits to begin the 2200 mile trek to Oregon. Seventeen year old Amy Stevens shares her excitement at the journey with her best friend- only to be disappointed in his less than enthusiastic reaction. When he suddenly kisses her, Amy, who fancies herself a future bluestocking, angrily tells him he is ruining everything. Changes are coming, but surely not for her and Matt.
Three years older, already...
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He had long loved her, a secret impossible love. At lonely campfires across the west, where death waited in the shadows, he had dreamed of her. Then word arrived that what had been impossible was no longer. When he came to convince her to be his own, she put up barriers. He could overcome those. Could he overcome the greatest of all-who he was?
Oregon Territory held many dangers; but the one that killed Martha Stevens' beloved husband struck without...
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The "Last Taggert" Needing new inspiration, answers to a mystery, and healing from the death of her father, English professor, Wilhelmina Butler heads for a log cabin in the high country of Arizona. In the Mazatzals, Willy hopes to write the great American novel, something she can be proud of, unlike the very successful dime novels she has been publishing under a pseudonym. The lake cabin will give her all she could ever dream and a lot more. Asked...
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Neither Cord nor Priscilla want the other, or even like them, but something lights a spark. Priscilla has all the material wealth a woman of her times could want. Yet, she is curious about the world she can't see from her station.In 1885 Tucson, she is fortunate to have a level of independence not afforded to many women of the times. A caring woman, she helps others as much as she can. Wanting a mate of her own isn't in the cards for her and the one...
6) Going Home
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It's 1865 and the Civil War has just come to an agonizing end- even impacting far off Oregon with its destructive divisiveness.
With a loving family, successful businesses, and active theater life, Raine Stevens has all she could want except a love of her own. She prefers life without the sacrifices that kind of love requires. Only one man has ever tempted her to believe otherwise, and he went off to fight the war. He left and never wrote.
And then,...
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Still recovering from an unwanted divorce, with a family who no longer needs her, retired history and political science teacher, Diana Ashburn sells all she owns, buys a Class C motorhome, and leaves Chicago for an adventure- with no plans for what she hopes to find. As Diana and her two Chihuahuas settle into life in her RV, which she calls Redhawk, she begins an exploration of places depicting the history of the West from the Native American cultures...
8) Sky Daughter
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She hadn't intended to shoot him. Something was very wrong. Why was he stealing gas for a 'borrowed' truck?What do we really know about ourselves, our families, the reality of the world in which we live? Maggie is about to find all of that a challenge which can mean the difference between life and death.Maggie Gard has come to Idaho to live on her grandfather's mountain, to work in his service station, and find healing for her soul. What she doesn't...
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The heat of the desert isn't the only thing stirring up Abigail, trapped in a life she didn't choose. Working for her father, courted by a man who clearly doesn't love her, she is monetarily distracted by a rugged looking man in black leading a band of rowdies out of town, outlaw or gunman? When he abruptly stops to look at her, she imagines what he must see. A few days later, the Nogales stage is robbed. When the sheriff claims it is not his job....
10) Love Waits
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As a Pinkerton agent, Belle Stevens Morgan has led an adventurous life, far from her beloved family. On assignment in Oregon to investigate counterfeiting, she is posing as a governess in the employ of a wealthy and ruthless man. Lies are her stock in trade. To her regret, she has never forgotten the young cavalry officer, who rejected her love when she was seventeen. Meeting him again, in the midst of an Indian attack, she fears she still loves him...
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Moving to Tucson and living in Rose's Cottage provides a wellspring of inspiration for Lily Jacobs' art. It also helped her avoid a man in Chicago, who was threatening with his unwelcome attentions. After years of doing her father's bidding, Lily is now a woman of means, free to choose her own path. When famous painter, Patrick Jamison arrives in Tucson, Lily is eager to take lessons and improve her work. She isn't looking for love.
Slow from birth,...