Frank Carlson Library

"Carla Reece had never met anyone more infuriating in her life. The blond giant who swaggered up to her door had no right to take over half her ranch-no matter how stupid her brother had been gambling it away in a high-stakes poker game. Her new foreman claimed to be some foreign royalty who promised to leave in a year. Still, a year was way too long to spend with a man who made her madder than a wet hen and weak in the knees all at the same time....

Monty Randolph has always bristled under his eldest brother's tight rein. He's his own man, and he's determined to prove it - and himself - whatever the cost. Getting out of Texas has always been the plan, and now he's got the perfect excuse: driving herd to Wyoming where he can put down new stakes. It's dangerous, brutal, back-breaking work, but he's more than ready for the challenge. There's just one problem. Iris Richmond has been a thorn in...

Colorado Territory, 1872: It was about as rough-and-ready as the West could get, a place and time almost as dangerous as the men who left civilization behind, driven by a desire for land, gold ... a new life. Boulder Gap: It was a false-fronted, one-street town where the only way a fellow could find a decent woman was to send away for her. Tanzy: When she first caught sight of the man she'd come west to marry, her was galloping after a gang of bandits,...