Frank Carlson Library

"Finally on the right side of the law, Aaron Long expected his life to take an upward turn. Instead, he ends up with a bum leg and driving a freight wagon through the wild Rocky Mountains. At least he has the joy of his newfound faith in God. The last thing he expects in the middle of an urgent delivery to Settler's Fort is to discover a woman begging him to take her the opposite direction. She's heavy with child, so he can't leave her, but neither...

"Will this epic journey be their second chance or the final heartbreak? Heidi Wallace came west with secrets. When she accompanied her cartologist cousin to map terrain in the Montana Territory, she never imagined he would die from a snakebite. As she and her maid bury the body in this wild country, the last person she expects to come to their aid is the man she's no longer sure she wants to find. But now that Ben Lane is standing before her...her...

After eleven years spent looking for the girl who stole his heart, Jean-Jacques Baptiste--better known as French to his friends--is tempted to give up. Until the day he spotted the flaxen-haired stranger traveling the wooded path with Blackfoot Indians. He never imagined he'd find his childhood friend masquerading as a man in this Rocky Mountain wilderness, hundreds of miles from the Canadian town where he last saw her. No matter her reasons, he can't...

"Lorelei Collins possesses a soft heart for any animal in need, so when she finds a buffalo calf bawling beside its mother's lifeless body, she can't help but bring it home to raise on the ranch she and her sisters are building in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. Little does she realize that its white coloring is rare and considered sacred by Native Americans, which makes it highly valuable to them and the European trappers alike. A flood of men visit...

"This epic journey is not at all what she expected. Joel Vargas can't believe he's lost his older brother in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains after surviving their harrowing voyage across the Atlantic. And he can't shake the feeling that Adam--his only living relative--is in dire trouble. No matter what the cost, he and his band of friends won't stop until Adam is found. He doesn't have time to content with the two Indian women who seem to be shadowing...

"This epic journey will test his ability to protect his children -- and they're all he has left. Missionary Elise Lane returns with her team to the Rocky Mountain native tribe they serve to discover the entire village -- including the children she's come to love -- has been massacred. A fierce brave standing at the edge of the devastation has taken the only surviving child. Goes Ahead returns home with his son to find his worst fears have come true...

"The mountain wilderness of her family's home in the Canadian Rockies is all Hannah Grant has ever known. Now at the age of twenty-four, she's on a journey to help her father to find the son he gave up for adoption three decades before. This is Hannah's chance to discover the life she's missed out on so far--and hopefully find a husband along the way. But she certainly doesn't plan to fall for the first man she meets. Years in the cavalry provided...

"This epic journey is her last hope to find her lost brother -- the only family she has left. When Lola Carson's father died, his last words spoke of a half-brother she'd never known about. And now, to claim her own inheritance and come to terms with her father's secret life, she must find this mysterious man -- whose last known whereabouts are somewhere west of the wild Rocky Mountains. After hiring family friends to accompany her on the trek, she...