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Four lives intertwine in a riveting western novel filled with drama, romance and comedy. Yulin Temple is an alcoholic sheriff who can’t find a bottle big enough to drown ghosts from the past. Reva Delgado is a self-made woman who reinvents herself to hide her past as she moves through life. Ike Fleck, whose gun is faster than Wild Bill Hickok's, steals the $400,000 stagecoach cargo he was hired to guard. His older brother Garrison, a detective for...

Life on the Carson Ranch is never boring. We have secrets to unearth and scores to settle. What I'm about to do is gonna cause us a whole heap of fresh trouble. The Masons are my family's biggest rivals. They play dirty and don't like to lose. I will not let the girl I've loved my whole life marry into their family. Leia Walker is as stubborn as she is pretty. To her, I'm just a friend, but for me, she's the end game. I've waited too long to tell...

THE LONG WAY HOME History stands poised to repeat itself as Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are besieged by walking corpses atop the Burial Mounds. It is here fate offers them a second chance to protect their loved ones and unmask the true instigator of this grisly onslaught. As shocking revelations shake the cultivation world to its very core, the unlikely couple becomes preoccupied with other matters--like an evening of drunken impulse that may push...

"From the author of the best-selling and universally adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series--a stand-alone, big-hearted, and often heartbreaking novel about unrequited love and the unexpected places it takes us. At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at the same time that Thursday's mother finds...

"Wei Wuxian was once one of the most outstanding men of his generation, a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts, knowledge, and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of war led him to seek a new power through demonic cultivation, the world's respect for his skills turned to fear, and his eventual death was celebrated throughout the land. Years later, he awakens in the body of an aggrieved young man who...

Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...absolutely nothing. Because he had no idea that he was my true love. What a jerk. Noelle Lennon has been in love with Brady Breckridge for as long as she can remember. A sad, unrequited love that causes her nothing but trouble as she pines over her brother's best friend. Now the gorgeous, muscled, secretive special ops bane of her existence is back in town, back in her life...and because a few...