Mischelle Creager
Her scar was a sign of survival. His badge was his means to take vengeance.
Five years ago, a brutal attack left Esther O'Brien an orphan and a mother. To support her son, she is willing to do anything—almost. The degrading arrangement her uncle tries to force upon her leads to a new position, only with this one, there's a man living across the hall—a disturbing man she must deal with every day, a man with a star
...She didn't trust any man. He didn't trust himself.
The death of Sarah Greer's husband granted her two things—freedom from his abuse and his large estate. In hopes of freeing her younger brother from their controlling grandfather, the pair travels to the new mining town of Central City, only Sarah finds herself caught up in scheme that forces her to marry again.
The last thing widower Mac MacPherson wants is a
...They were bound by love. And separated by honor.
Nia MacPherson has loved Adam Hollister since she was fifteen years old. Adam wanted to do the honorable thing and wait for her to grow up before they married. Months before their special day, he is called to Chicago.
Through a series of misfortunes, Nia marries Adam's partner, whom she believes is mortally injured, to save the children she loves as her own. Only
...She refuses to lose another husband to violence.
He's not sure he can protect those he loves.
After Lucy Townsend lost her beloved husband in the war, she and her children moved to Ainsley where she now owns a cluster house and rents out apartments to war widows and their children. For over a year, Lucy has been friends with Kerr MacPherson. Even though she has deepening feelings for him, she refuses
...She needs protection from the man hunting her.
He needs to banish his distrust of women.
War widow Salina Meier Moffett Dunham doesn't trust men. Shamefully treated by her father and husband, she is on the run with her children to escape a forced marriage or worse—death. In Ainsley, Kansas, she shortens her name to Lena Meier to hide from the man pursuing her. She finds a position as a clerk in
...She lost her father, her home, her trust.
He lost his hopes, his joy, his peace.
After her father dies in the war, Audrey Grant loses everything, including her fiancé. Penniless, she leaves her home town and becomes a school teacher in Ainsley, Kansas, to support herself and her mother. Once the fighting ends and soldiers come home, she finds the newly-returned smithy to be a remarkable man,
...She cherished their love until he abandoned her.
He built a home for her only to learn she had betrayed him.
Five years before at sixteen and dirt poor, Ella Cooper gave her heart to the neighbor's son. When her pa took the family to another state, the young man who held her heart promised to come for her. Only he never did—no matter how many letters she sent begging him to rescue her from the
...