Teagen McMurray is a strong man hardened by circumstance but morally upright. When Jessie Barton arrives with a letter from her late husband, Teagen{u2019}s bookseller friend Eli, asking him to help her and her daughters, he reluctantly extends them the shelter of his ranch. But matters are not as they seem, and soon Teagen finds himself battling both a rogue group trying to take over the prosperous horse-breeding operation and his own rapidly growing...

Can a blind couple raise four children on a ranch? Author Susan Vreelend met such a family in 1983 and felt compelled to share their lives. What Love Sees is her first novel, published in 1988. Jean Treadway, a young, cultured New England woman whose every material need is supplied by wealthy, overprotective parents "meets" through arranged correspondence Forrest Holly, a dirt-poor Southern California rancher whose spiritual foundation turns despair...

While trying to restore the old family ranch in Stillwater Springs with his estranged brothers, former rodeo star Tyler Creed finds his heart lassoed by Lily Kenyon, a sexy single mother who has loved him since childhood.

Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking -- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The...

When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for expanded weapons testing. Forced off public grazing lands, banned from gathering his cattle on high mountain pastures, and confronted by military police...

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

Jim Traft's uncle invites him to become foreman at his Arizona ranch despite Jim being a tenderfoot easterner. To stop rustlers from stealing his uncle's cattle, Jim attempts to build a drift fence and encounters conflict from all sides as the fence cuts off free range. --

Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking strawberries. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is the heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, jut itching to start a feud.

On the run from her brutal fiancé, Liberty Mayfield must find a way to stop the wedding without risking her father's life and, turning to a reclusive rancher for help, finds her destiny in his arms.

"For Noah Mabry, it?s easier sometimes to relate to the dogs and horses he trains than to other people. Ever since his marriage became a casualty of the war in Afghanistan?torn apart by the PTSD he brought back with him?he prefers to be on his own. At the Bar C Ranch, where he works with a crew of fellow military vets, his gentle patience helps tame even the rowdiest mustang?but he?s about to meet a woman who needs a healing touch he?s not sure he...