Chet is dead to his family. That’s good. Maria is a beauty he’d like to spend time with. That’s bad—for her. Maria Hensley has moved to Creede, taken a job, and lives with several friends. As much as she loves her new independence, she begins to imagine a happily ever after when she meets Chet. She can’t explain it but knows they should be together. […]
He wants someone to share his heart. She wants someone to share her life. Can two friends find true love together? Katie “Long Shot” Dickson has to make a choice before time runs out. When a man with whom she corresponds proposes marriage, Katie’s heart tugs her toward the offer. However, tender feelings toward Judge Milton have recently emerged, and she’s torn with her decision. […]
He thinks he’s too old for her. She’s too shy to tell him he’s wrong. Giles Mealing was looking forward to ending his service as the mayor of Creede, Colorado—except the only other person on the ballot is a known thug. Having a suspected criminal as the mayor would be like holding a match to a town that’s already a powder keg. Giles reluctantly takes […]
He’s protecting his heart from more pain, and she’s protecting hers from love. Will their feelings for each other force them to reconsider? Isla McRae has been burned by love’s flame before, but she learned her lesson. Rich men don’t really love poor women. Her heart won’t let her make that mistake again. Asa Young enjoys a friendship with the fiery Isla. She ‘s smart, […]
1892. He’s bringing electric lights to Creede, Colorado, and she’s a new nurse in town. Will they have a chance at true love this holiday season? When Donella Turley meets Boone Morgan, she hopes her future is headed in a new direction. She works for the mayor of Creede, but it’s not really the kind of job she wants. When given the opportunity to use […]
If Rhona McRae could dream, it might be of a strong handsome husband or to become an authoress. When her parents die, her dreams are put away in the desperation of finding a next meal or even a place to stay. At the invitation of her brother, who immigrated to America, she and her sisters move to Creede, Colorado during the silver rush. Mark […]
Clara Hatfield knows sorrow. Having been abandoned by her husband, then shamed with divorce, she traveled to Creede, Colorado to seek refuge with a brother who left the family a decade ago. She’s been living with him for the past year. Now he wants to sell her in marriage to settle his gambling debt to a known troublemaker, but Bernard Newell intervenes. Bernard hopes his […]
At thirty, Millie has never had a suitor, but now she has two. She’s been satisfied with keeping house for her brother, Reverend Bing, and pursuing worthy causes. Soon, the new state of Colorado will be voting on women’s suffrage. Although it’s opposed by powerful, dangerous men, Millie is determined to rally support for it in Creede. Because his heart was wounded by a […]
As a result of mounting numbers of homesteaders abandoning Creede, Colorado, Eliza Turley suspects foul play. She’s worried for her friends and family if the real reason people are missing isn’t solved. She sends a letter requesting a detective come look into the strange disappearances. She hadn’t thought an agent would respond so quickly. The last thing Eliza is looking for is love. That’s when […]
December 1891, New York City After rejecting the unwanted advances of her boss, Vivian Leete loses her job as a seamstress and is kicked out of the boardinghouse above the shop during a snowstorm. With no family or friends to turn to, she takes the only chance she sees to survive and heads west to Colorado as a mail-order bride. When her prospective husband doesn’t […]