Frank Carlson Library

Originally published in 1996, The Englishman's Boy is the first in a Guy Vanderhaeghe trilogy that includes the nationally bestselling novel The Last Crossing, with the third book due to be published next year. By far his most successful book in his native Canada, The Englishman's Boy expertly depicts an American West where greed and deception act side by side with honor and strength. In 1920s Hollywood, elusive movie studio owner Damon Ira Chance...

Rancher and mountain climber Josh Conway has never backed down from a challenge. So when a photographer disappears in the wilderness during a blizzard, Josh answers the emergency call and leaps into action. Yet he's soon shocked to find the person in "distress" is doing fine-and she's a gorgeous blond spitfire who's as brave and bold as he is. Sierra Moore will stop at nothing to capture the perfect picture, even if it means braving a snowstorm in...

In The Great Divide, acclaimed author and historian Peter Watson explores the development of humankind between the Old World and the New, and offers a groundbreaking new understanding of human history. By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Agecame to an end, the Bering Strait refilled with water, dividing America from Eurasia. This division continued until...

"Cowgirl Andie Forester let an unexpected kiss turn into something more with cowboy Ryder Johnson. He's her best friend--and the man she's secretly loved forever. But when Andie discovers she's carrying his child, she turns to her newfound faith instead of the friendship now lost to her. Until Ryder comes blaring into Dawson, Oklahoma, proposing marriage-for the right and wrong reasons. Andie longs to say yes. But commitment-shy Ryder will have to...

WELCOME HOME, CHLOE FORTUNE! "You're family," Graham Fortune tells his newly discovered half sister, Chloe Fortune Elliott, and just like that, Chloe has a new job and a new home in Austin. She works well with the troubled teens at Peter's Place, but she's having more difficulty managing a male of the grown-up variety. Ranch hand Chance Howell gets under her skin from the moment they meet. The tall blond army veteran is good with horses and adolescents,...

USA TODAY bestselling author Their goodbye was supposed to be for good. But now this rich rancher is back…and he wants her! For billionaire Texan Noah Grant, joining the military meant sacrifice-breaking up with city girl Camilla Warner was especially tough. Yet coming home to discover she's had his child changes everything-except for the desire still burning between them and the wall of misunderstandings keeping them apart. But Noah's come too...

Their Christmas baby is on the way. And so is an obsessed killer… Dev Wyatt's worst fear has come true. Someone from the Wyatts' dangerous past is stalking his family-and his best friend, Sarah Knight. When she asked Dev to help her have a child, Sarah did not expect her pregnancy would place her in danger, but now Sarah must take shelter on the Wyatt ranch. As she and Dev battle escalating threats, will they survive long enough to become a family?...

Owner of the Triple Cross Ranch, Abigail Fairchild is determined to keep the family business running despite her husband's death. With the help of handsome Boyd Harris, she hopes to master the art of ranching, but soon discovers she'll learn much more than just the lay of the land. As their teacher-student relationship blossoms into something more, Boyd and Abby must choose between their love and their livelihoods. But when the heat of desire that...

On a struggling California ranch, a woman's heart is awakened in the arms of an untamed man in this captivating and sensual historical romance. California, 1872. Julia Larson has devoted her life to helping her aging father manage the family ranch and pick up the pieces of her sister's reckless life. The last thing she's concerned about is her own heart. She can't imagine anyone desiring a selfless spinster like her . . . Raised in the wild, Wolf...

A young mother's troubled past catches up to her-and sets her heart aflame-in this spellbinding western romance set it California's untamed past. Sierra Nevada, 1867. Susannah Walker has fled to Angel's Valley with her three-year-old son, seeking safety and a place to start over-a place where no one knows her name or who she used to be. But she never dreamed the past would come looking for her . . . Bounty hunter Nathan Wolfe was hired to find Susannah...