Western
The Little Bride
Sixteen-year-old Minna Losk dreams of her new life as a mail-order bride in America. She’ll have a handsome young husband,…
Spring for Susannah
Editors' choice
I loved this book! It was cuts above the average Christian prairie romance that the cover led me to expect.…
Honored Enemy
Culver Modisette’s novel presents a sympathetic story about real-life Indians. Quanah Parker is an Indian caught between two worlds and…
Tomorrow’s Garden
Harriet Kirk moved her five younger siblings to Ladreville, Texas, in 1857 to escape the shame that followed them after…
Stars of Fire
This historical romance ranges between 1820 and 1860. Young James Coleman has a memorable meeting with the child Jenny McAllister…
A Heart Divided
In 1878 Colorado, everyone knows of the decades-old feud between the Caldwells and the Wainwrights. Sarah Caldwell’s father is obsessed…
Hearts Aglow
Angelina County, Texas, in 1886, is a troubled stew of resentments, but Deborah Vandermark, heroine of Tracie Peterson’s new novel,…
Crown of Dust
Editors' choice
The tiny mining town of Motherlode isn’t just another place to try one’s luck in Gold Rush California. It’s also…
Remember Ben Clayton
What a thoughtful, psychologically penetrating novel this is. The action begins in a terrifying battle near the end of World…
A Hundred Little Lies
The quiet late 19th-century American Western town of Bodey, Colorado, is the setting for this gay romance. Widower Jack Tulle’s…
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