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Single mother Molly Orton has a new job, but she has had a crush on her new boss, Zeke Dawson, since middle school in Bear Ridge, Wyoming. When Molly learns that Zeke wants to meet Molly's best friend, Danica Dunbar, Molly decides to take matters into her own hands.

When gambler Adam Hagen takes wagers on the fate of notorious outlaw Ben Washington, who's in his custody, Sheriff Buck Trammel of Laramie and his deputy must place a high-stakes game of their own as a bunch of cutthroats team up to make some easy money.

Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

"Maisey Clark's Christmas wish of being adopted never came true. Now a struggling single mom, she's not likely to mistake sexy US marshal Rex Dawson for Kriss Kringle. So what if he found her childhood letter to Santa and wants to give her and her daughter the best holiday ever? He's just passing through, and love is for suckers. If only his kisses didn't feel like the miracle she always hoped for..." --

With the disappearance of a young man and his old friend Vicky Holden accused of murder, Father John O'Malley must prove his hunch that both events are connected to a dangerous sect leader known as Orlando--who has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion.

Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing - and the challenge - she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals - and...

A killer blizzard has hit Buffalo, Wyoming, where Dr. Patrick Flint is trapped inside the hospital with his family, trying to save the life of a prominent citizen. An injured drifter shows up at the door, and Patrick takes him in. When the power and communications go out that night, people start dying, and the drifter is nowhere to be found. Patrick is caught between his duty to his patient, his loyalty to his family, and his fear for all their lives....

Bear Ridge, Wyoming real estate agent Danica Dunbar decides to combine selling property with dating services, but when she can't stop thinking about her first bachelor candidate, police detective Ford Dawson, Danica begins to think maybe she's found her match.

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden -- especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way -- is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind Joe's state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile...

"Three years ago, Dalton McKay looked across the altar and saw the woman he knew he'd love for the rest of his life ... only it wasn't the bride. That's when he took the McKays' love-'em-and-leave-'em reputation to new heights -- fleeing the ceremony and Wyoming. Now a family issue has brought Dalton back to Sundance, giving him a chance to prove to everyone -- especially the woman he thought he lost -- that he's a changed man."--Page [4] of cover....