Frank Carlson Library

"Desperate to escape his overbearing father, Patrick McAllen disappears with his bride, heading north to build a new town--discovering strength, honor and true love along the way. After drinking away the grief from his family's death, Clint Truman avoids jail by taking a job in North Texas and settling down with a woman he vows to protect but never love--until her quiet compassion slowly breaks his hardened heart wide open... All Gillian Matheson...

Hank Harris wasn't even looking for a woman when he ended up with a wife. Aggie is exactly who he needs as a business partner - if only she weren't so damn beautiful, spirited - and in his bed ... Rowdy Darnell was born to be wild and Laurel Hayes knows she shouldn't get involved with him - but oh, how he can kiss ... When Anna lane Barkley whispers her dreams to Wynn McCord, the Texas Ranger knows he's found a woman worth fighting for ... If Cozette...

When young Reagan rides into Harmony, Texas, in the back of a pickup truck, she's in search of that elusive quality called "home," and prepared with enough background on the small town's inhabitants and history to pass as one of the founding family's descendants. Grateful for irascible old Jeremiah Truman's unquestioning acceptance, she settles quickly into the rhythm of school and chores, but remains standoffish even when junior rodeo champion Noah...

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes a reader-favorite story of a life, a legacy and a love that has the power to change a community. Originally published in 2005. Everyone assumes that Rosa Lee Altman lived a life without passion. Her once-beautiful home now sits silent and empty, its gardens overgrown and its windows boarded up, surrounded by what passes for progress in Clifton Creek, Texas. And if some of the townsfolk have...

When Pepper Malone, on the run from a mistake that ended her career as a big-city reporter, bursts into his life, Mike McCulloch, the editor of the Bailee Bugle, offers her a job--and a place in his heart.

Allie has always thought that only bad luck came her way. When she inherits the Twisted Creek caf�e, at first she is waiting for the next calamity to occur, but gradually she meets the local people and realizes that she has finally found a safe haven.

Teagen McMurray would ride to hell and back to protect his land. He'd certainly never felt that way about a woman. Not, at least, until Jessie Barton showed up with her three little girls, desperate for a place to stay. Suddenly he found himself proposing marriage, telling himself it was only to protect her and her children.

"The first time Rainey Adams meets Texas Ranger Travis McMurray, she steals a kiss - and then his horse. Now Travis is determined to track down this intriguing woman and bring her back to the Whispering Mountain Ranch as his bride. But his renegade may be too much for even the toughest Ranger to handle."--Amazon.com.

"Yancy Grey is slowly putting his life back together after serving time for petty theft. As he rebuilds an old house, he finally has a sense of stability, but he can't stop thinking of himself as just an ex-con. Until one night, he finds a mysterious dark-haired beauty hiding in his loft. But who is she, and what secret is she protecting? The art gallery Parker Lacey manages is her life -- she has no time for friends, and certainly not lovers....

"Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O'Grady...or that she has her own secret that no one living knows. Young Lucas Reyes has his eye on the prize--college, and the chance to become something more than a ranch hand's son. But one night, one wrong decision, will...