Just as well…a woman as fine as Ivey Treadwell didn’t have much use for a big brute like him.
Titles Coming Soon in Dorado, Texas series:
Forged By Fire
Mail-Order Haven
Ione’s Dilemma
Other historical stories with fall holiday settings are:
Silent Signals soon to be released by Prism Book Group as part of “A Christmas Cowboy” series is set in December, 1887 Aspen and includes characters also introduced in The Ring That Binds.
After losing half his cattle herd in the Great Blizzard of 1886, rancher Konrad Windsor needs a way to keep his cattle contained. Tomboy Anora Huxley, age 24, daughter and granddaughter of sheep ranchers, trains the Australian Shepherds and Kelpies that run the family’s herd. What Konrad doesn’t need is for Anora to tell him how to run his operation while in the middle of the mercantile.
At later encounters, the pair learns they have common interests and draw closer. A threat to Anora’s ranch is overheard, and Konrad rides out with a warning, and a crew, to offer protection. Through the tense situation, they share confidences. Although torn about honoring her grandfather’s dislike of cattlemen and listening to her own heart about Konrad’s request to court her, Anora’s heart is swayed by Konrad’s grand gesture at the Christmas Eve church bazaar and is compelled to obey his silent signals.
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Laced by Love, a Montana Sky Kindle Worlds novel, is set in 1886 in Morgan’s Crossing, Montana Territory. The title reached #30 on the top 100 list of western historical titles.
A vaudeville troupe arrives in Morgan’s Crossing late in the traveling season. When an event occurs that shakes up the troupe, seamstress Cinnia decides to say no to older sister Nola who has made the sisters’ decisions since being orphaned a decade earlier. Leather worker Nicolai Andrusha is lying low and using an alias until the patent is approved on his family’s leather tanning formula. But he finds the auburn-haired poetess irresistible. Will Nicolai oppose his family obligation to help the stranded beauty who has caught his eye?
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An Unlikely Marriage, a Montana Sky Kindle Worlds novella, is set in 1886 Sweetwater Springs and Montana Territory.
Vaudeville performer Nola York and horse wrangler Torin Quaid agree to a temporary marriage of convenience. He needs help driving mustangs north to his ranch, and she needs an east-bound train ticket so she can audition for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Expectations go out the window when the couple is beset with wagon problems and worries about impending bad weather. Forced to rely on one other to survive, they draw close. At the end of the drive, will they still have an unlikely marriage?
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The Ring That Binds, released by Prism Book Group, is set in the small mining town of Aspen, Colorado. This title spent seven weeks on the Top 100 western historical list.
1886 –Widow Celina Innes struggles to run her dress shop and pay her late husband’s debts for the sake of her four-year old daughter, Keena. Following his dream for silver was a mistake and Celina has sworn her independence. Co-owner of Toussaint’s General Store, Mikel, wishes to make this proud woman’s life easier. He slips treats to the child hoping to please Celina. When illness strikes Keena, Celina turns to Mikel for help and they work together all night, deepening their friendship. But when the crisis ends, Mikel disappears and Celina learns he wishes to increase his stores. How could she have been so wrong about him? Can a woman sworn to put down roots and a man seeking more riches find happiness?
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Wishes On a Star is included in Sweetwater Springs Christmas, an anthology of short stories by eleven authors set in the 1895 world created in Debra Holland’s popular western historical Montana Sky series
Free-spirit Richelle Quaid is outspoken, confident and a little bit spoiled. She sets tongues wagging with her bloomers and bicycle but also catches the eye of visiting rancher Landon Howard. An incident with her bicycle causes his prize colt to bolt into the cold Montana night. As Richelle and Landon track the animal together, they can’t fight their growing attraction. Will a wish made on a star foretell their future?
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Bewitching Gypsy is included in a Halloween-themed anthology titled Spooktacular Seductions published by Roane Publishing.
Fiona Mikolas is an outcast—branded by her fiery red hair and a purple birth mark—forced to live a solitary life, traveling a circuit of southern states in America and selling healing potions. Until the night of All Hallow’s Eve, when her lonely life is changed by the arrival of two strangers in her camp.
Beaten and robbed, rancher Hagan Fletcher tracks his stolen stallion and stumbles toward a campfire in south Texas. He awakens, suffering from amnesia and is intrigued by the mysterious beauty to look beneath the surface to who she really is.
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