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A Savage Grace
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One woman's fight against the demon who would have her body and soul

Eric will spend the remainder of his life in an institute for the criminally insane, convicted of 13 murders including his pregnant wife. But he is not alone. An ancient demon possesses Eric's soul, has spent years twisting the young man's mind to satisfy his own evil whims. Now the demon tires of this body and targets Lenore, a beautiful young woman who believes madness runs in her family. Will Lenore succumb to the horrors of possession? Or does she alone possess the strength to bring an end to the demon's long reign of terror? 
Angel's Gold
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Sold by her family, she welcomes the chance to escape with an outlaw pursued by his own evil twin.


 Angeline has lived with John Prophet for almost 3 years when she comes of age and he decides to force her to begin to perform her wifely duties. Sold to him by her parents who found themselves destitute on the way to California, she has been content in playing the daughter role to Prophet. Now she must get away. Unsuccerssful outlaw Jesse Cole is blown into her life by a tornado while Prophet is in town. Wounded, he tells her he tried to rob the bank down in Topeka, when in reality he has never done more than a few small jobs. Hiding him in the barn, she tends to his wounds./
Arkansas Meals and Memories
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150 authentic Ozark recipes arranged in a two-week menu format. Additional stories of cooking, canning and living in the Ozarks during the Great Depression.

The Boston Mountains are the most rugged peaks in the Ozarks, some reaching as high as 2500 feet. They are named the Bostons because back 150 years or more, the slang term "it's the boston," meant a hard way to go. It fits the rugged wilderness where settlement began in 1828. These hardy people raised their own food, the cooks knew how to fill the table with hearty fare, and the hard working people ate well. This book shares those recipes, collected by the author's mother over an 80 year period. Questions such as: What are lightning jars? Where did the Dutch Oven c
Beyond the Moon
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He came home from hell to an angel. A story of love and healing that you will never forget.

1985 Navy pilot Glen Tanner, MIA for nine years, was found by mercenaries sent to bring back some of the more than 1,200 men left behind in Vietnam when Americans pulled out. He was in a bamboo cage hanging in a tree in Cambodia. Several months after he was returned Stateside, he went home to a dark and haunting existence where memories of severe torture blocked his recovery. Eight months after devastated Katherine Kelly found her husband dead under an overturned tractor she answered the request of her colleague, psychiatrist D.L. Spencer, treating Tanner at the local VA. He hoped she cou
Dream Walker
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He saved her from slavery and she rescued him from the nightmares that tortured him.

Winter Dawn was five years old when she walked the Trail of Tears with her Grandmother, Bone Woman. She has always had the power to be a Dream Walker, and when she is 18 she is sold by her brother. Dreaming of following the white blood of her father, she escapes and is helped to remain free by Daniel Wolfe, a veteran of the Mexican War who is haunted by nightmares of that time. Taking her father's name, Rachel Keye hides out on a wagon train bound for the gold fields of California and when she is discovered Daniel once again helps her, by vouching for her on the train. After she wal
Fly With The Mourning Dove
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The story of a young girl growing up on a homestead in New Mexico after WW I

A Willa finalist 2008 Prologue In this, my ninetieth year, I’ve returned once again to the New Mexico ranch I’ll forever call home. To this day, I get a thrill out of topping the hill between the sagebrush flats and the Tusas River valley. In the early light of dawn, the adobe house waits in the shadows far below, and I hurry to reach it, the car’s tires clattering over the wooden bridge that spans the Tusas river. I park, get out and move through the yard. Over the Sangre de Cristos, the sky is splashed with a brilliant glow that spreads crimson ov
Images In Scarlet
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She lost everything and in her search for a new life found the love of a man who might have killed the woman he loved.


Following the Civil War, Photographer Allison Caine fled Bloody Missouri after losing everyone she loved, and headed west toward Santa Fe. Before she reached Westport where she was to join a wagon train, she drove her what's it wagon up on a man lying across the trail. Jake has roamed the country trying to find the woman pictures in the carte de visite he carries, signed Love, Lenore. After being wounded in the war he was sent to the notorious Andersonville prison in George where he recovered physically, but has no memory of his former life or name.  He often blacks out and awa
Legend of the Rose
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Rose flees her outlaw past as does Sam. To save his daughter, they return to their past deeds.

 The Rose of Cimarron's reputation is legendary, but she builds a new life after the battle at Ingalls breaks up the gang. Teaching school in a small Kansas town, she meets Sam Longstreet and his daughter Crissa, who is kidnapped by an old member of Sam's outlaw gang. Rose joins the posse searching for the child, and when they fail to find her, goes with Sam to follow instructions he's received from the kidnapper, an old gang member with revenge on his mind. Thrown together, the two soon form a close attachment. Their love bonds them together as they ride across Kansas
Masque of the Rising Moon

A cult uses its membership steal and sell children. Dal and Jessie go undercover to save the children being held.

If there is a cult operating in the wilderness, it’s possible they are using children to do their dirty work for several have been seen stealing valuable items. A local family reports their daughter missing, and left behind is the curious symbol of a masked rising moon. The cult has gone a step farther in its efforts to procure children. Dal and Jessie go on a dangerous journey to bring the cult leaders down, one that puts their lives in peril. Don’t miss this action packed fourth book in the upcoming Twist of Poe Series Mask of the Rising Moon, due in May, 2017. With Dallas Starr miss
Montana Destiny
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#3 Charlie fights to save her ranch from the greedy land barons, and gunslinger Mitch Fallon changes sides to help her when they fall in love.

 span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.35in;">A gun slung low on his hip, Mitch Fallon returns to Montana after the murder of his beloved Celia by white men who hated her Sioux heritage. He'll work for anyone who'll pay him, and he's come to help greedy land baron Colonel Dunkirk drive out all the small ranchers and grab the land for his own. /span> span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.35in;">Dunkirk doesn't care who gets hurt and Mitch doesn't either, till he runs up against Charlie Houston, the
Montana Dreams
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A brother lost in the war brings together grieving Dessa Fallon and reclusive Ben Poole.

From the upper ring of society, Dessa Fallon heads west when she hears that her brother Mitch, presumed killed in the war, has been seen alive. He may be a notorious gunslinger. Outlaws attack the stage Dessa is on and kidnap her. She escapes and collapses nearly at the doorstep of reclusive Ben Poole, who returned from the war unable to function with people. He lives alone and drive a freight wagon. Dessa's grief over the death of her parents brings the two closer as he tries to help her recover and look for her brother. A mythical journey on the train back to Kansa
Montana Promises
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#1 He came to her pursued by the law and she used him to seek revenge. Love saved them both.


 Abandoned and alone in a soddy on the plains of Nebraska, Tressie Majors vows revenge against her father who left her and her mother alone to chase after his dreams of gold. After her mother dies in childbirth Tressie buries the bodies on a rise and from there spots a rider coming. Reed Bannon is wanted by the law for stealing a horse from a Union soldier and heading west away from the savagery of the war. He has been wounded and Tressie nurses him back to health seeing him as the one who can take her west to find her father. Heartbreak and happiness in the unt
Once There Were Sad Songs
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Two people in search of the life they always dreamed of having, find each other and discover happiness.

It's 1985: Lake Ouachita State Park Mary Elizabeth walked into the lake that morning curious about what it would feel like to drown, leave behind the life she had grown to despise and a husband who controlled her every move. Steven pulled her out reluctantly, knowing he would be pissed if someone saved him when he finally got the courage to take that final step. A Vietnam vet, he  searches for a way out but doesn't have the guts to take one.  
Remembrance
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Their youngest child is killed by a drunken driver. This family's solution to repair their broken home will amaze

The death of her son destroys Rebecca, and when the boy who killed him while driving drunk is released from Juvie she vows to hunt the little bastard down and kill him. Over the course of her journey to accomplish that, she meets his counselor who talks her into meeting the boy. Meanwhile, Lucas sets out to be forgiven by Rebecca after he’s released, but manages to get in trouble with the law. With her marriage in a wreck and her children moving on, Rebecca meets Lucas and sees in him a child destroyed by abuse but struggling to piece his broken life back together. Her solution is nothing sh
Rowena's Hellion
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Something about Blair's haunted eyes captured Rowena's heart. But could she bring peace to him?

He rode the Kansas prairies at night to escape the demons that haunted him. Loving this man damaged by war was a challenge for Rowena. He was supposed to marry her sister Wilda, who ran off with a handsome outlaw. Her love and caring offers Blair a lifeline and helps him recover from what was then called 'soldier's heart,' now known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But the world around him cannot accept that his actions stem from the horrors of war and he is dragged off to prison where Rowena must find and free him.
Special Edition: Montana Series
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Get all three of the Montana Series in this special boxed edition. See books for blurbs.

Montana Promises features Tressie Majors and Reed Bannon in an exciting story of their quest to seek revenge and to clear Reed's name. They head west from the high plains to Virginia City where Tressie's father was headed when he abandoned his family. Montana Dreams features Ben Poole a young man we meet in the earlier book, a veteran returned from the war and living as a recluse while he drives a freight wagon for Reed and Tressie's business. When Dessa Fallon escapes outlaws and collapse at his doorstep Ben learns that he can find love and happiness. Montana Destiny featur
Springdale: The Courage of Shiloh
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The founding of Springdale, Arkansas began in 1840 when Jo Holcombe discovered a crystal clear spring and called it Shiloh. Here he would build the church around which this thriving city would grow.

The Cherokee and Osage had long watered at the spring on the Springfield Plateau of the Ozarks, and when the white man was allowed to settle after the removal in 1828 a few hardy souls homesteaded the area, but it would be ten years before the charismatic Joseph Holcombe christened the place and set about building a city. The coming of the Butterfield stage line, the Frisco Railroad, a through highway and a huge trucking industry guaranteed the settlement a permanent place in history. The book tells the story of those early settlers and their descendants and contains 125 old photograph
Stone Heart's Woman
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A multi-cultural western historical romance between a Cheyenne who hates his white father's world and a white woman abandoned by her fiance.

 span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Abandoned by her fiance in remote Benson, Nebraska, Aiden O'Connor is run out of town by the good women. A blizzard traps her and her wounded captor, a half/white Cheyenne, in a cabin in the wilderness. The golden-haired warrior threatens to gut her, but circumstances mean the two must get along if they are to survive and make their way back to Fort Robinson where his people are being held prisoners./span> p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial"
The Boston Mountains: Lost in the Ozarks
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A story of the lost communities of the Boston Mountains of Arkansas Ozarks

 This is not a book of history, but the story of the people who lived our history. The book contains 137 photos, illustrations and maps and allows the reader to follow the author as she tours four counties of the Bostons in search of the lost communities. She interviews descendants of those who settled there from 1828 on to the present.      
The Fall of Hermitage House

Strangers are not who they seem and Dal and Jessie need some help to uncover the tangle of this puzzle

An escaped lion, an explosion in an abandoned gas station, and a kidnapping of the new owners of Hermitage House kicks off the most puzzling tale of suspense and intrigue yet for Sheriff’s Deputy Dal Starr and reporter Jessie West. As if these situations aren’t enough, escaped villains from the Rising Moon cult, Robert Kimble and Taylor Bainbridge, show up to further confuse the mix. Jess and Dal must learn if there is a connection between them and the distraught man found hiding in the woods with two little girls he claims are his daughters. While Dal searches in one direction to unravel
The Pit and the Penance

#3 in A Twist of Poe romantic suspense series

Jessie acquires a homeless pit bull who steals her heart as she pursues a story that will cut too close to her past. Cherokee lawman Dallas Starr is shoved off a mountain by a mysterious visitor to the small town of Cedarton Arkansas. While Jessie searches for the missing lawman, Nick Snow is introduced into the story line. Is he a retired black ops and what does he have to do with the mysterious goings on and the discovery of a buried foot? Jessie, Dal and Rick finally come together on a mountainside when the rescue of the lawman also uncovers a killer and some secrets Jessie had hoped
The Purloined Skull
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A Twist of Poe Series: Reporter Jesse Stone and CSI Deputy Dal Starr investigate the mystery of the bones dug up by dogs. Who took the skull and why?

 At the scene of the crime, Jessie Stone and new deputy Dal Starr lock horns. Immediately attracted to one another, they battle over her involvement in the investigation. They finally decide to work together as Dal uses his special powers to contact the spirits of those involved in the violent crime. Though Jessie says that's crap, she can't help being attracted to the handsome Cherokee lawman. Suspects include someone on the city council and a man who lives in a cave. When Jessie begins to receive threatening notes she sets out to find the one who is sending them and p
The Tell-Tale Stone
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Intriguing romance and thrilling mystery

The body had been buried in a shallow grave then dug up, probably by coyotes, and scattered out like a feast for other smaller animals. Crows then fed on the face. Looked like they'd already removed the eyeballs and a couple of them had worked on the tongue until the gaggle of humans arrived. Several of the black birds perched on tree limbs, others circled above, cawing in anger, their wings slapping at the wind. Dallas Starr and Jessie West work to solve a pair of grisly murders while searching for stolen diamonds and pursuing their favorite pastime... finding love in all the unusual places.
Tyra's Gambler
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A western romance, 3rd in the Victoria Series set in Victoria Kansas

Tyra yearns to be like Calamity Jane and enforce the law in the rough and tumble town of Hays, Kansas, so when she is in a saloon and a gambler is beating up on the bouncer, she shoots him in the leg. Little does she realize that this is the man she will want to spend the rest of her life with. Though she has agreed to marry a lawyer/rancher she is unhappy with him and leaves while they are driving a herd of cattle to his ranch in Victoria, Texas and hooks up with the gambler Zachariah whose brother is scheduled to be hanged. Together they break him loose, but when he is killed by a family en
Wandering In The Shadows of Time: An Ozarks Odyssey
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A view of the Ozarks seen through the eyes of those who lived the hardships told by the author who returned to her home after years of wandering elsewhere.

...in April of 1972 I returned to the Ozarks for good. I recall a hint of promise in the brightness of the spring day that caused me to wonder about my growing intangible feelings. Too long I'd been away, and one of the first things I did was drive to my ancestral home, the place of my birth. No matter that the log home was long ago shoved over a bluff to make way for yet another lake to store more water for city folk living farther south. The place remained a symbol that reminded me that I was still a part of this land. On that lovely day thirty years ago I drove south fom my new hom
Wilda's Outlaw
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Victorians arrive from England to settle Victoria, Kansas. Three women will seek new lives in this three-part series

 Wilda is to marry Lord Blair Prescott. In return he will care for her sister and cousin, all orphans. But when she arrives, she finds Prescott not to her liking at all. She talks outlaw Calder Raines into kidnapping her so Lord Prescott won't send her sister and cousin back to England. She soon learns she's gone from the frying pan into the fire. Rob banks? She's is reluctant to do so.Calder, who is an outlaw because "it runs in the family," isn't sure what to do with her now that he has kidnapped her. Their adventures are humorous, frightening and romantic.
Wolf Song
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A Cheyenne shapeshifter is sent to help Olivia free the spirit of her ill sister. Olivia joins an organization to support the gray wolf restoration at Yellowstone.

 When Olivia Dahl volunteers to work with TenderCare, an organization that supports the restoration of the gray wolf to Yellowstone Park, she becomes the target of a mysterious wolf killer.  p class="MsoNormal">o:p>/o:p> p class="MsoNormal">o:p> /o:p>Wolf Shadow, a Cheyenne Shape-Shifter, appears to help her free Lara’s spirit. Is he a figment of her imagination or a real being who can walk as a man and run as a wolf? Her involvement with the gray wolf restoration program for Yellowstone National Park brings danger to her doorstep, along with a man calle

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