Aimee Lilly
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dixie Griffin had the perfect plan for Flynn's Christmas present-a sleigh to speed up his medical trips to the logging camps and allow him to carry more supplies. She'd even already ordered it from the Seattle sleigh maker, and scheduled the trip to pick it up. But then the early arrival of her infant daughter prevents her from being able to make the journey, and the sleigh maker has buyers waiting. What's worse, all her trips to the post office,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Charlotte Brindle is relieved that her long journey from Boston to Wyldhaven is about to come to an end. And then the bullets start flying! As she sprawls on the floor of the coach and curls her arms around her head, she wonders whatever in the world possessed her to give up the civility of a Boston school for the promise of adventure on the wild frontier?!
Her fellow passenger, an elderly man named Patrick Waddell, has obviously angered...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Zoe Kastain wakes on the morning she's to leave to take her teaching exam, with one goal in mind-arrive early for every step of the journey! Thankfully a glance at the clock shows that Washington Nolan should arrive in just a few minutes to escort her and Ma to the station, and they are right on time-half an hour early just like she planned. However, when her little brother, Aidan, insists he can't be parted from Ma and must accompany them, things...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Aurora McClure tamps down her excitement as she hurries to the church to meet Parson Clay for their weekly service planning. She really oughtn't be so thrilled, but it's a whole blissful hour with him! However, when she arrives, he's not there. And no smoke is coming from the parsonage chimney! On a cold day like today, there certainly should be a fire warming the place. At the parsonage, she finds him burning with fever. When Doc arrives, he says...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Callahan doesn't know what to get her husband for Christmas! And then she stumbles over his shoddy boots in the half-light of morning. New boots would be the perfect gift! But she doesn't have enough money. Nor does she know the right size. Undaunted, she takes Kin Davis's advice and decides to use her cache of apples to make pies to sell in Dixie's Boardinghouse. Reagan is so busy tracking down the town's latest petty thief that he likely...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kin Davis itches to leave Wyldhaven and experience life in the big city of Seattle. He only has one concern. Without Parson Clay's taming influence, will he degenerate into an abusive drunk like his pa was? The question haunts him. But there's no escaping his departure. Word has gone out and his tickets are purchased. He only has to make it through the shindig Zoe organized for the townsfolk to offer their farewells. If anybody else was putting it...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jacinda Holloway is so excited to get to the train station to take delivery of the Appaloosa colt that she's purchased for Zane's Christmas present. He admired the dam and sire while they were on their wedding tour, and she knows he's going to be thrilled. But when she arrives at the station, she's horrified to learn there has been an avalanche! The train can't get through. Kin Davis encourages her not to give up. But Jacinda fears that all her plans...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Liora Rodante has Christmas perfectly planned. She's already bought Joe an intricately embossed saddle to replace his worn out one. It cost her a year's worth of saved egg and cream money, but she knows Joe will appreciate the comfortable ride during his long hours on the job. Then Ruby, a former prostitute Liora has been ministering to, runs away, taking the saddle with her. Liora is devastated, but she wants to keep the law out of it so Joe won't...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Liora Fontaine wants nothing more than to help mistreated women escape from brothel owner, John Hunt. She understands the desperation and manipulation that force many women into his employ. But when she rescues a young girl, she is shocked by Hunt's ruthless reprisal. Now as she cowers in her cabin, hiding from Hunt's men, who are determined to kill her, she can't help but think how much this day is a picture of her whole life. Ashes. Nothing but...