I'm still reading, but just had to say that the cover doesn't match up with the story AT ALL. One would think that there'd be someone in charge of making sure the art went with the story, but clearly, whoever that was hadn't read this book. I was a paragraph in when I realized that the main chara...
Small town story set in 1942 during WW2. Cole Ambrose has come back to his home town to be a teacher. Cole can't join the war because he has a a club foot. He has a strained relationship with his Dad. Cole falls in love with a farm girl of German decent. Her family has been the victims of overt r...
I really enjoyed this book. It made for an interesting read about the realities and cruelty of prejudice. I enjoyed the development of Sophie and Cole's romance. It was really sweet to read about their love blossom. If I have to state one thing I did not enjoy about this book it's some of the lan...
I think the author raced to the end and missed a great opportunity. Imagine a young girl giving birth in a shelter filled with twenty or so ranch hands stuck close by while a tornado rages above. She and the baby would have protectors for the rest of their lives. Now about what the author actuall...
I liked the premise of this story very much, but I found the main character hard to empathize with. Sometimes she could be wise and others she would behave like a misguided teenager. This was a story that needed many more layers because all the issues touched upon are complex. For example, post...
Well, I liked it until near the end. First of all, the sex out of nowhere. I just wish I'd been able to tell at the beginning something like that might happen, then I wouldn't have read it! Then, she is molested and keeps on going like literally NOTHING HAPPENED?! Are you kidding? Sorry, but I do...
Leaving her finishing school behind, Mara Shannon McCall comes back to Wyoming, determined to reclaim the ranch that was her father's legacy.
The Third Installment of the Route 66 Series. An overall fast paced and beautifully written novel set place in the early 1900s, including a young woman with hidden secrets named Mary Lee and her baby on the way. After receiving word of her father's death, Mary Lee felt heartbroken enough, but aft...
For the first time in more than a decade, two classic romances by the beloved Dorothy Garlock are back in print, now packaged together in one irresistible volume. Original.
Nona Conrad has been making it through "by the hardest." Each day is a struggle - to go on after her parents' sudden death, to win her rightful inheritance from her untrustworthy half-brother, and to raise her high-spirited younger sister. Hired to manage a fishing camp deep in the Arkansas woods...
As stated in a will, well-bred, cosmopolitan Virginia Hepperly will earn the rights to a Wyoming Territory ranch if she spends five years teaching Native American children in the territory. Discovering that her two little stepsisters are being mistreated by their guardians, Virginia takes them wi...
I couldn't quite give this one star, though it may have deserved it, because it was going ok until I hit a put-down moment, and I just couldn't keep reading. Maybe I'm being hard on it, especially since the moment came pretty early in the book, but sheesh...So, the daughter of a fire and brimesto...
Vanessa is determined to cross the prairies, ford the mighty rivers and climb the Rockies to reach Colorado. But her resolve weakens when a tall, lean stranger as wild as the western wind takes her in his arms. Will surrender to this restless roamer bring her happiness - or will it break her hear...
After the death of her parents, Annie Lash yearned for a man she could give her love to completely. Then a young frontiersman offered her a chance to escape her childhood home. When Annie arrives on the frontier, she discovers hostile Indians, river bandits, and a hidden passion that grows as the...
Lorna Lightbody rides like lightning across the Colorado range that is her birthright and fiercest passion. She knows no man can outrace or outfight her, but when she meets Cooper Parnell, she has no weapons against the yearning that makes her trenble like a tree in a storm.
After the death of their mother Summer Kuykendall and her brother travel to Texas to live under the protection of Sam McLean, a family friend. They arrive to find that Sam has been killed, but his son Slater will honour his father's promise.
Only her defiant pride kept her from begging for his love...Behind her proper schoolmarm ways, sunny blond, Mercy, was the same sassy spitfire she had been as a child. An orphan raised by the Quill family with her foster brother Danny, she had always had a quick temper and often needed the loving...
Born into a wealthy New York City family, Kate Tyler never fit in with high society...and became a nurse to tend to the desperate poor of the Depression. Offered the chance to work in a large California hospital, Kate departs for the West-and is kidnapped right off the cross-country train and hel...
17 years old and terribly alone, Cherish Riley runs into the Kentucky wilderness from the low-down family that dared to sell her. She meets a man named Sloan Carroll, who proposes to her, but he finds that it will take a little more to win her heart.
The oilmen of Rainwater call Jill Jones a little wildcat. She doesn't take guff, and she'll use a broomstick on any roustabout who dares to spit on the porch of her Aunt Justine's hotel. The youngest of the Jones clan of Fertile, Missouri, Jill may find that her bravado is not enough to handle wh...
Penniless, nineteen-year-old Tucker Houston was fiercely independent, determined to find a better life for herself and her blind fellow orphan in the rich new lands of the West. She brazenly told a few fibs to land a job as a schoolteacher and soon found herself in a wagon train of mail-order bri...
Berry Warfield is only 18 when she leaves the wagon train to find her father's claim in Missouri, vowing to let no one stop her from earning her fortune.
From top ranking historical romance writer, Dorothy Garlock, comes the first novel in a new trilogy. This is the romantic saga of a courageous widow who forges the Illinois frontier to make a new life. The author is an expert on the pioneer era, and she uses actual diaries and letters from that t...
In the 1880s, Jane Love comes to Timbertown, Wyoming to escape her heritage and begin a new job and an independent new life. But upon her arrival, she discovers that she and 19 other women were recruited, not to work, but to become wives of lumberjacks. Jane is appalled by the arrangement but agr...
Audiobook.A little melodramatic. The heroine first met her husband when she was kidnapped. After she gave birth to a baby missing part of skull, he wanted a divorce because he blamed his bad genes for what happened. Then he took off to serve during World War II. When he returns, he finds she didn...
The million-copy bestselling author of Wind of Promise and Annie Lash continues her breathtaking Wabash River Trilogy with this second exciting novel set in Arkansas in 1819. Amy Deverell joins Rain Tallman as he blazes new trails across the American frontier--and across her heart.
Julie Jones is a plainspoken girl working on her father's hardscrabble farm. She's not prepared for the Jazz Age roaring through America, sweeping a flapper named Birdie Stuart and war veteran Evan Johnson into her Missouri town. As the summer heats up, life turns explosive. A wave of terrifying ...
Adrianna Moore has just had a double shock: the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a repulsive social climber, tells her that to regain her inheritance, she must marry him A WEEK FROM SUNDAY. Adrianna takes off, driving desperately ...
Katy knows that she, her sister and her niece are the only people left in this desolate Montana ghost town. Then a stranger rides into the empty main street, bringing a scheme to bring the town back to life, and some personal plans for Katy.
Annabel Lee Donovan may be a bootlegger's daughter, but she is also a lady. The slim, dark-haired young woman desperately wants her father to leave "the business" and settle down in one place. Instead, their latest move, done in the middle of the night with the help of henchmen Boone and Spinner,...
In Depression-era America, U.S. Route 66 beckoned to those who yearned for a better life. Now beloved author Dorothy Garlock celebrates the dreamers who rode westward on... HOPE'S HIGHWAY Margie Kinnard is thrilled when the father she barely knows agrees to take her to California. For years, she'...
Addie Hyde spent four years waiting to see if the high-spirited husband she had married in haste would come back after the South lost the war. Yet Kirby Hyde was never among the Confederates in rags and tatters straggling through Arkansas. Addie always had spunk, but now she also had a young son...
Willa Hammer has nothing left after narrowly escaping the lynch mob that unjustly hanged her foster father except her dog, her faith, and the protection of a secretive family. She joins their wagon train heading West, never realizing she is traveling to the wilds of Bighorn Mountain, where a rund...
Rosalee Spurlock challenges the dangers of the Colorado mountains with her courage, her rifle and her heart. Then one starless night, Logan Horn comes to her cabin door, handsome and powerful, his eyes blazing with desire from the first moment they meet. Rosalee has finally found a man to walk be...
Out of print for nine years, a classic western romance by the bestselling author of Homeplace and Ribbon in the Sky has been brought back by popular demand. The Macklin ranch seemed to be a refuge for Johanna and her ravaged younger sister--until the cruel rancher forces Johanna to marry hisson ....
A sizzling novel of love and revenge on the wild frontier. In an Idaho logging camp, Dory bears a child by the handsome son of a rival mill owner--but the child's father dies before they can be married. Then rugged Benton rides into her life, a man who ignites both gunfire between the feuding fam...
Very interesting read. I liked the authentic voice in this book. I was drawn in to the depression era and felt this was what Oklahoma was really like at the time. I normally hate a book when an unhappy married man gets involved with a tender heart like Henry Ann. Yet here, it didn't seemed not so...
Eight years have passed since their passionate young love went wrong. Now Nelda returns to her Iowa farmland home, only to rediscover her teenage love who was, for a few brief months, her husband. But is their love reawakening?
Now in paperback--the bestselling author's first title in a new series set on Route 66, the Depression era's famed road to the Golden West. This first novel takes place in Oklahoma in the hot summer of 1932, where the love of two people is tested at every turn.
Being a news editor myself i thoroughly enjoyed the historical information endorsed in the novel about the various printing and publishing techniques. The idea of special edition was very innovative. As for the characters, it was easy for me to imagine them because the author has given a detailed...
When nurse April Asbury arrives in Fertile, Missouri, she's looking forward to life in this picturesque town. But while Fertile might seem as pristine as April's starched white uniforms, it's anything but. Soon the spunky blonde is fighting her attraction to Joe Jones, who has "heartbreaker" writ...
“What's the matter with you? You didn't pay one bit of attention to me when I said I wanted to go home,” Gloria said, her voice hard with irritation. “Yes, I did. I heard you loud and clear.” They bounced onto a graveled drive and he parked the truck beside a frame building with beer signs nailed...
The early-morning sun shone brightly. He had a touch of headache and his stomach felt queasy, undoubtedly due to all the alcohol he’d drunk the day before, but he refused to let it keep him from the task at hand. While downing scotch, he’d formulated a plan: he would learn the identity of the str...
Wade turned off down a lane to the Prestons’, then to the Fosters’ so Jesse could tell them about the inoculations coming up in two weeks. “The vaccine is being furnished by the Public Health Department,” she explained. “By vaccinating everyone the world’s health organizat...
She glanced in the rearview mirror at the big, blue car following her. It should have been comforting to know Dan was there behind her; instead she felt as if she were on a roller coaster and couldn’t get off. He had packed the car, closed the cottage, and taken the key to the owner. He had even ...
Grabbing it with both hands, she pointed it at the man.“Stay away from me.”“Mother of Christ! Who the hell are you?”“You know who I am, you . . . you bounder, shyster, crook!” she sputtered. “I’m not signing, no matter what you do. Break my fingers, twist my arm, do what you will! I’ll not sign m...
He’d been in dangerous, difficult situations more times than he cared to remember, moments that required quick thinking and a cool, collected head, but this was too much. Sure, Ross had complained during the long drive about his stomach bothering him, but whatever this was, it was much more than ...
Though the last time she’d gone there had been a disaster—watching in disbelief as Kent struck Hank; ending her relationship with the young lawyer—Gwen knew that she couldn’t avoid it forever. Running away, even for a little while longer, wouldn’t help anyone. Besides, Kent had surely headed back...