Raised in a bawdy house, Jonty Rand has posed as a boy all her life to escape the notice of rowdy cowboys. When Jonty's granny's dying wish makes womanizer Cord McBain Jonty's guardian, she despairs of ever revealing her true identity. Worst of all, Cord is determined to change her from a sissy into a rawhide-tough wrangler.
After the Yankees kill her sweetheart and imprison her brother, beautiful Serena boldly faces the future as the wagon trains roll west. Her bitterness leads her to resent the handsome Yankee wagon master. But soon, her heart betrays her will as they unleash their wildest passions.
Proud and arrogant, Hawke Masters had made it clear that although Rue's grandfather's shotgun had forced him to wed her, nothing could raise his passion for a scrawny little backwoods package such as her. But pride goeth before a fall, and Hawke Masters was going to fall hard.
The award-winning author of Kentucky Bride offers a frontier romance simmering with passion and vitality. When Chase Donlin receives a letter from his dying stepsister in Idaho, requesting that he care for her daughter, Chase never dreamt that "little" Raegan was a blooming young woman. How can he act the part of guardian, when every occasion near her sets off a storm of desire in his blood?
Trapping, drinking corn whiskey, and carousing with squaws--that is what Spencer Atkins calls a perfect life. Fresh from the poorhouse, Gretchen Ames has barely escaped bonded servitude. Although they are the unlikliest of couples, Spencer and Gretchen find themselves grudgingly sharing a cabin . . . and fighting a growing attraction.
Determined to keep her orphaned family together, a young woman must also battle to keep her heart intact against a dashing logger who had determined that Fancy will not be alone for long.
Roxy needs a husband and her son needs a father. But how can she consider the attentions of men when she can't forget the pain that Tanner Graylord had put her through when he had left her alone and pregnant. Now Tanner has returned. No longer the poor cowboy, but a rich cattle rancher. Could it be that more has changed than just his financial status?
Fleeing her abusive uncle, young D'lise Alexander trusts no man--until she is rescued by trapper Kane Devlin. There, amid the simple pleasures of cornhusking and barn raisings, she comes to recognize that the deep affection she holds for her savior is true love.
In one passion-filled night in a barn, an innocent beauty becomes lost in the heated caress of the trapper she has long adored. Laura barely clears her head of Fletcher's musky scent when circumstances separate the love birds and threaten to end their winter love.
Stone fell in love with the beautiful stranger, Flame, the moment he laid on eyes on her. But as she had temporarily lost her memory, his plan was to marry her and pray that he could win her heart before she discovered the truth.
City-bred Roxanne Sherwood was unprepared for the harsh Kentucky wilderness, but when she's rescued by a handsome hunter, Roxanne knows she's found a home . . . in Caleb's heart.
Storm returns to Laramie after years of trying to forget Wade. But one look at the handsome cowboy unleashes a torrent of longing that she can't deny--no matter what obstacle stands between them.
Kaitlan appears out of the mountain mist, looking more like an airy sprite than a flesh-and-blood woman, and Matt Ingram is determined to protect her from the careless seduction of his womanizing stepbrother. Reissue.
Amid the majestic peaks of Wyoming's mountains, Kane Roemer falls in love at first sight--with a white stallion that has no equal anywhere in the West. But before Kane can ride the magnificent beast off into the sunset, he'll have to use his considerable charms to gentle Jade Farrow--the one who claims the animal as her own.
Lark Eliot marries a man twice her age in order to attain shelter for her family during the long Colorado winter. Unhappy and resigned to backbreaking work on his ranch, Lark finds one person who makes the days bearable: rugged cowhand Ace Brandon. When her husband hires Ace to father an heir for him, Lark feels she's been wronged. But as she comes to look forward to Ace's touch, she realizes that he is the man of her dreams. Reissue.
Civil War vet Flint Malone reunites with the missing children of his dead brother when they show up on his doorstep. Lauren Hart, raised among outlaws and taught to gamble to make her way in the world, couldn't resist Flint's plea for help. And when she saw how he held his small niece, she knew there was hope of reaching the warm, caring man beneath the cowboy.
Shortly after Trey and Lacey are pronounced husband and wife, Trey is off to a cattle drive--and another woman's bed. Shocked to discover that the groom wants her to be a pawn in a vicious game of revenge, Lacey refuses to obey her vows. Only when Trey proves that he loves and cherishes his bride will Lacey forsake all others and unite with him in wedded bliss. (July)
Discover the magic of an old-fashioned Christmas on the frontier in this collection of stories by authors Madeline Baker, Norah Hess, Robin Lee Hatcher, and Connie Mason. Reissue.
The last thing rugged cowboy Dylan Quade wants is to be saddled with a wife to take care of. But when he meets long-legged beauty Rachel Sutter, the bachelor begins to see that there's more to life than ranch duties. Original.
Hidden away in the hills of Kentucky, young Marna must conceal her beauty to escape unwanted advances—that is, until she meets Matt Barton, whose surly good looks gradually win her heart.
When Willow Ames leaves El Paso to meet her new employer, she hadn't expected him to be the arrogant cowboy who had propositioned her just the night before. Running from a forced marriage, Willow has no choice but to accept the job, though she makes it clear she's not there to play house. Still, as Willow works alongside her new boss, sharing the hardships of ranch life, Willow realizes that if he asked her to marry "him", she'd run again--straight into his arms.
He was the last person Blaze Adlington wanted to see when her covered wagon pulled into Fort Bridger. The beautiful orphan was desperately trying to make a new life for herself in the wilds of Wyoming. But now she was face-to-face with the man who'd hunted down her father's outlaw band, and the hard look in his gray eyes told her he would never let her forget her sordid past.
Discover the old-fashioned joys of a frontier Christmas with "Lovin Devlin" by Madelin Baker, "The Fourth Gift" by Elizabeth Chadwick, "Christmas Surprise" by Norah Hess, and "Christmas Star" by Connie Mason.
w OMEN in the OLD TESTAMENT Jwenty Psychological Portraits BY NORAH LOFTS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY New york i949 Dear, dead women, with such hair, too Browning foreword There was once, in the journalistic world, a slogan which ran Women are always news and even now, in the nineteen-forties it does not seem to be quite outworn. The very existence of the series to which this book belongs, Women in . . . pre-supposes that there is something automatically in teresting, almost automatically romantic, in merely belonging to the female sex, and that when any woman engages in any spe cific activity outside strictly functional ones, more people are in terested in the process and in the result than they would be if the same process were followed, the same result achieved, by a man. The only valid reason that I can see for this focussing of interest upon the female is that in any assembly attention is always directed if only for a moment towards the latest arrival and Woman arrived late upon the outer, public scene, just as she ar rived late if we believe the story of the Creation upon the ac tual planet. Men have done and thought and achieved things un til doing and thinking and achieving have become commonplace then some woman does, thinks, achieves, and interest immediately revives. It is not entirely flattering to Woman a little reminiscent of Dr. Johnsons comment upon the performing dog. How ever, that cannot be helped and the author of Women in the Old Testament together with those of Women in Art and Women in Crime and all the other exploiters of this curious interest in the female, must be grateful that the general, if un acknowledged, opinion of women is so low that the words Woman SweepsChimney would make an arresting headline even in these days of paper shortage. So here is a book, written by a woman, about a group of people who have nothing in common save their sex and the fact that their names or their stories happen to be included in what is one ix x foreword of the most magnificent pieces of history in the whole of litera tureif not the most magnificent. There are twenty of them and they differ from one another far more sharply than would the next twenty women you would meet in the busiest London street different as they would be, could you know their stories They range from simple nomadic desert women to palace-bred princesses here are women of sound good practical sense and mystics prudes and harlots women who have attained immor tality because some man once looked upon them with love, and women who by their own actions influenced the history and thought of their times. I have never, during the long time in which I have been writ ing this book, been blind to the fact a rather terrible fact that, compared with the Old Testament, dynamite is a harmless sub stance, lightly to be handled. More blood has been shed, more venom exuded, over this one volume than over any other book in the world. The Old Testament founded Salt Lake City the Old Testament justified the Puritans and the Covenanters. With a single simple sentence, Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, it set a monstrous machinery in motion, both in Europe and America. I am inclined to think that no one is entirely responsible for his or her attitude towards the Old Testament. It is one of the fundamentals like sex or money to which we are conditioned in our childhood and subsequently are bound to accepteither as Holy Writ, a bogey outgrown, or an interesting, curious piece of literature. For those in whose childhood it loomed large, something remains until the end, even it be only a faint, yearning nostalgia for the time when we did believe that the earth was created and populated with every living thing in the space of six days, and that cheeky children were in danger of being im mediately devoured by bears...
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