Spending two weeks at a dude ranch is a dream-come-true for Karen, 17. She delights being at Credenda Ranch, and the reader will enjoy all the details of her stay. What makes the story intriguing is the legend that surrounds this ranch, the Tale of Echo Valley. Every evening the first week, old Hank unfolds a little more of the legend and its poem. It is about a girl and a horse:Have you ever seen Echo Valley, in the best of its glory? Have you ever listened to its tale, of a great...

Dan thinks he wants to be a rancher; his father wants him to enroll in a university. He has been granted a years stay at his godparents Wyoming ranch to learn what ranching involves. He came to stay with them in early summer. Now he must go thru a winter in the high country, a test even for those from New York state.Receiving a horse of his own -a young pinto that he names Toby- he finds additional complications: Toby may be blind, he needs training, and his ownership is in questio...

This is Karens second summer at Credenda Ranch in the Rocky Mountains. Last year she was a guest for two weeks; this year shes there all summer as a hired hand. She met Craig, the young ranch hand last year, too. Karen thinks she is somewhat prepared for the work there, having studied topics that Hank, the Boss suggested. Shes an advocate of ecology, nature and animals. She soon learns theres a lot more to heavy ranch work, complicated by her encounters with prankster Jeff, another new han...

As the 20th century approached the 1990s, Dad mentioned that if he could live that long he would have lived in each decade of the century. He often commented on the vast changes hed seen as they developed. He marveled at the first cars he saw about 1913. He experienced the progress of plowing, from teams to steam engine to tractors. He lived thru the Great Depression and two World Wars. He reveled in the development of power tools, from hand saw to chain saws, electric drills and such. He ...

"Linda Broday's heroes step right out of her books and into your heart." —JODI THOMAS, New York Times bestselling authorAn honorable cowboy joins forces with an outlaw to save a desperate woman on the run in this exciting historical western romance from queen of the genre, USA Today bestseller Linda Broday.Gravely injured on the trail of a notorious criminal, Texas Ranger Sam Legend boards a train bound for his family ranc...

He's an expert at saving wounded animals—but can he rescue a runaway city girl too?Searching for a safe haven in the Kentucky hills, city girl Bekah Holloway encounters the unexpected—a handsome country boy who offers her help. Drew Kinley gives her a job working with wounded animals, but on the run from an abusive boyfriend, Bekah needs more than employment. She needs a hero.Instinct tells Drew he's the perfect man for the skittish beauty. But he's spent a l...

Suspected of a crime she knows she didn’t commit…All she wants for Christmas is to remember.Blood on her blouse. A gun in her hand. A cartel leader’s dead body in front of her. Widow Asia Stratton can’t remember what happened—just that she’s been framed. The only way to prove her innocence is to work with her ex-sweetheart, Nebraska state trooper Slade Jackson. But can they clear her name before this Christmas turns even deadlier?

“Threaten me, but don’t you dare threaten my sons.”Henry wanted to escape. His money, his heritage, his life. But when a blizzard drove sexy Melissa into his arms he made sure to avoid that trap too. A year later, when she shows up with adorable twin boys, he can’t believe his eyes. They look just like him.Was their night of passion a premeditated snare or a surprise? Yet when shots ring out, Henry’s instincts take over. He’ll stop at nothing to keep Meliss...

When a lonely ranch owner is threatenedA man from her past reappearsAfter several terrifying incidents at her isolated ranch, widow Grace Hall turns to her late husband's best friend, Mitch, for help. When an unknown enemy threatens them both, the tough-as-nails rancher vows to track down the culprit. And as sparks fly between them and Grace is confronted by Mitch's long-hidden feelings, she must risk not only her life, but also her heart…

Pretty Sly is Elisa Ludwig's heart-pounding sequel to Pretty Crooked and the second book in a trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski, Ally Carter, or Sara Shepard.Willa Fox was ordered to stay out of trouble by a juvenile court judge. But that was before her house was ransacked . . . and her mother went missing. Now Willa and her sexy crush, Aidan, must violate her probation and hit the California highway in search of her mom.When Willa and Aidan wind up being the focu...

A thrilling tale of adventure romance and one girl's unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares. Epidemics floods droughts--for sixteen-year-old Lucy the end of the world came and went taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she's rescued from a pack of hunting dogs by a mysterious boy named Aidan she reluctantly realizes she ca...

Louis L’Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles.Tell Sackett was no ladies’ man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time—even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles, Sackett reluctantly agreed. Now he’s on a ...