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Bitter Springs, Wyoming — 1888

Kellen Coltrane arrives in Bitter Springs carrying a stranger's Colts—and a story Raine Berry never expected to hear. The widow who owns the Pennyroyal Hotel hired the legendary "Nat Church" to protect her town from the powerful Burdick family. Instead, she's met by a man who claims Church was murdered on the way.

Bitter Springs needs a defender. Jurors from the Burdick trial are turning up dead, the marshal has been killed, and a corrupt new lawman ensures justice won't come from the badge. Reluctantly, Kellen steps into the role he never asked for, determined to honor a dying man's promise.

Raine doesn't trust him—but she can't ignore the safety he brings… or the dangerous pull growing between them. When a marriage of convenience becomes the only way to keep her safe, the lines blur between necessity and desire.

As threats close in, Kellen and Raine must stand together—before the Burdicks' revenge destroys everything, including their fragile new love.

Bitter Springs, Wyoming — 1889

Private detective Cobb Bridger arrives in Bitter Springs with one assignment: find Tru Morrow and keep her in sight until the wealthy Mackey family can confront her. They claim she stole something valuable—though they refuse to say what. Cobb doesn't like the secrecy, but he takes the job.

Tru has started over as the town's schoolteacher, unaware that the polite stranger she bumps into has been hired to track her down. Their early encounters turn unexpectedly warm, and soon Cobb doubts she could be guilty of anything—especially as he learns more about the Mackeys' true motives.

When her accuser, Andrew Mackey, arrives, Cobb tries to protect Tru—only to discover she's far from helpless. But Mackey's obsession quickly turns violent, leaving her drugged and her home in flames. Cobb risks everything to save her, yet the truth that surfaces afterward is even more explosive than the fire itself.

Bitter Springs, Wyoming — 1891

Jane Middlebourne escapes an unkind home in New York by agreeing to a mail-order marriage with Wyoming rancher Morgan Longstreet. But when she arrives in Bitter Springs, Morgan discovers the photograph she sent was swapped by her cousin to undermine her escape. Unsure whether to trust each other, they spend a day deciding their future—and find themselves unexpectedly drawn together.

They marry and return to Morgan's Morning Star ranch, where Jane quickly proves her strength and capability, winning over the ranch hands and easing Morgan's guarded heart. What begins as a practical union deepens into something tender neither expected.

But when Morgan's criminal brothers return, determined to force him into a bank robbery, they use Jane as leverage—threatening the fragile peace she's built and the love quietly growing between them. Now Jane and Morgan must decide not only how far they'll go to protect each other, but whether the bond they're building is strong enough to become the forever they never dared hope for.

New York City newspaperwoman Mary Michael Dennehy is abducted during a train robbery, carried off by one of the gang members, Ethan Stone, who claims she's his estranged wife.

Ethan, an undercover federal marshal, will do anything to protect Mary's true identity. But when the gang is finally brought to justice and Mary bolts, Ethan can't seem to get the feisty reporter out of his dreams.

Overjoyed to be back in New York with the story of a lifetime, Mary comes face-to-face with the gang's cunning leader who has escaped federal custody. Now Mary can only hope that the man who once attempted to save her will try again.

One of Jay Mac Worth's 5 bastard daughters, Mary Renee "Rennie" Dennehy studies engineering in order to impress her railroad mogul father. But Jay Mac's attention comes in the form of Jarret Sullivan, a bounty hunter instructed to abort Rennie's engagement to a trusted employee.

Furious, Rennie drives both men from her heart and life.

Then Jay Mac is involved in a train wreck. Believed dead, dangerous rumors of fraud and foul play swirl through the city, pushing Rennie back toward Jarret.

As the pair strike an uneasy truce and work to save Jay Mac's railroad empire, each discovers the unexpected: more than searing kisses and burning passion lies between them.

Injured and lost, Mary Margaret "Maggie" Dennehy stumbles into a seedy New York City neighborhood. When the New York heiress awakes in her fashionable 5th Avenue residence, she remembers nothing of her experience, save a haunting dream that fills her with longing.

Colorado Rancher Connor Holiday can't forget the passion filled night spent in the fancy New York bordello, or the exquisite lover who so willingly played the innocent. But when that lover turns out to be the bastard daughter of one of the city's richest men, he is forced to choose between what he wants and what he needs.

To save his ranch... to save her dreams... Connor and Maggie strike a bargain where the success of their marriage hinges on breaking their vows.

When Civil War veteran and hero Christian Marshall attempts to aid a mysterious young woman escaping a New York City asylum, he is reminded that good intentions count for nothing and painful memories are best drown in a good bottle of whiskey and the arms of a whore.

Jenny Holland discovers the respite and refuge she needs at Marshall House. To remain in this sanctuary and protect her life-and-death secrets, she must make herself necessary to its master.

But serving at the will and pleasure of such a dark and dangerous man might not be enough, and her attempts to heal his wounds will expose her own.

Logan Marshall is not looking for the girl who betrayed him as a Union spy during the war, but when their paths cross again, he is not about to let her go.

All grown up, Mary Catherine McCleary is now the toast of the New York theater scene as the accomplished actress Katy Dakota. But changing her name does not change her past, and she has never forgotten Logan, her first love and enemy.

Katy knows what Logan intends to claim. His revenge will be as damning as it will be exquisite. She could run, she could disappear, but is being a prisoner of Logan's passion any worse than what she did to him?

Colin Thorne finds his way out of a London workhouse but at the cost of losing his two younger brothers. With an uncertain future ahead of him, Colin makes seafaring his life until the inexorable pull of revenge draws him back to London. The debt owed to him by the Earl of Weybourne will be paid.

Weybourne Park has been Mercedes Leydon's home her entire life. Now serving as the estate's manager and caretaker of her uncle's two children, Mercedes knows the earl's frequent absences are what make Weybourne Park a home.

But the earl's gaming has taken its toll and she and her young cousins are faced with losing everything to a devil-of-a-stranger calling in a debt that can't be paid.

Casting caution aside, Mercedes will make a new bargain with this devil. If it's her soul he wants—or her body—she will give it to him and stake her own claim on his steadfast heart.

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Decker Thorne learned early life lessons on the streets of London, stealing to earn his way. That devil-to-pay existence does not prepare him for someone like Jonna Remington, a fiercely independent woman who is not impressed with his charm or cunning. As owner of Remington Shipping, what Jonna needs is Decker's deft touch at the helm of her finest clipper.

With the Remington fortune riding on Decker's success, Jonna is vulnerable and beholding, and when her daring plan gives rise to new dangers, it is Decker who puts his life on the line to save hers. On board Huntress, the clipper she owns but where he is master, Decker can keep her safe from everyone but himself. As they make the Atlantic crossing from Boston to London, Jonna must decide how safe she wants to be, or if Decker has stolen the one thing she did not know she had to give... her own reckless heart.

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Grey Janeway has lost his way. With no memory connecting him to his past, he is free to start over, and there is no better place to do that than San Francisco. In the city where rebuilding is a matter of course as well as pride, Grey looks to carve out a life that suits a man with no history. He knows there is a fortune to be made in this gold rush town, and he is betting everything on the success of his gaming hall and hotel to make it.

Berkeley Shaw is gifted—or cursed—with the ability to see what others can’t. When Colin and Decker Thorne learn of her peculiar talent, they are desperate enough to hire her to find their youngest brother. Persuaded to leave Boston by the man whose use for her is always a means to an end, Berkeley arrives in San Francisco and finds herself alone for the first time in years.

When her path crosses Grey Janeway's, no second sight is required for her to recognize the end of one journey and the beginning of another. To help him, she must help herself, and the healing, she will learn, begins with her heart.

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A Lady with unusual connections, Elizabeth Penrose is wise, witty, beautiful, and quite determined to remain alone.

Brendan Hampton, Earl of Northam, also known as North, is pursuing a jewel thief with the help of his three boon companions: South, East, and West—The Compass Club.

Then North is accused of being the very thief he is seeking and Lady Elizabeth steps forward with an alibi, one that necessitates a hasty marriage. Their lives thoroughly complicated by secrets, Libby must make a harrowing choice: trust her husband, or lose him forever.

Talented and poised, actress India Parr has claimed the attention of London's most impressive gentlemen, yet prefers isolation when not on stage.

Matthew Forrester, Viscount Southerton, also known as South, is hunting a traitorous murderer with the help of his three boon companions: North, East, and West—The Compass Club.

When the quest leads to the popular Miss India Parr, it's up to South to determine if the extraordinary actress is the puppet or the puppeteer. But India dare not trust South with the truth, so she responds with passion and their complicated lives begin to unravel.

Lady Sophia Colley, daughter of the late Earl of Tremont, faces mercenary relatives demanding she marry the money her funds-poor father failed to leave them.

Gabriel Whitney, Marquess Eastlyn (East to his friends), is tasked by the Crown with opening new trade with China. Calling upon his three boon companions: South, North, and West—The Compass Club—for aid, two things stand in East's way: The Society of Bishops, a group of men who were East's boyhood tormenters, and false rumors of his engagement to Lady Sophia Colley.

When East arrives at Lady Sophia's doorstep to dispel the rumor, the last thing he expects is to be entranced by a woman who's lived beneath his notice. East proposes on the spot. Sophie turns him down flat. The desire between them may be impossible to deny, but deny it she must to protect East from a past intrigue that is about to place them both in very present danger.

Headmistress Ria Ashby is desperate to locate a young female student missing from her care.

Evan Marchman, the new Duke of Westphal, would happily return to his former bastard status for one more dangerous assignment with his childhood boon companions North, South and East—The Compass Club.

Then Evan—"West" to his friends—encounters Ria in her frantic search and uncovers truths about the academy's board of governors that were never meant to be known.

As West and Ria dig deeper, they find more than an inner sanctum ruled by sensuality and seduction. They discover each other. But it will take an act of courage more profound than taking on West's old enemies to admit it..

Vowing to reclaim his Charleston plantation following the War Between the States, Rand Hamilton turns to the only means remaining: the lost treasure that has cursed his family for centuries.

But to finance the expedition, he must agree to the terms of his wealthy London benefactor: allow the Duke's bluestocking goddaughter to accompany him.

Wary of Claire Bancroft, Rand welcomes the haunted woman aboard his clipper ship, unaware she naively holds the key to the impossible riddle that will lead him to the glorious treasure—and a passion neither of them can deny.

Following the War Between the States, reclaiming her family's Carolina plantation from her ruthless stepfather is Bria Hamilton's only desire. And if hiring a dangerously attractive Northerner as a means-to-an-end will see her plan through, it's a risk she'll take.

But Luke Kincaid is not as he seems, and has but one reason for accepting Bria's offer: revenge. He cannot afford the laughter that sweetens their moments, or the passion he longs to teach her, or the love he never meant to feel.

And neither can Bria.

Vowing to reclaim his Charleston plantation following the War Between the States, Rand Hamilton turns to the only means remaining: the lost treasure that has cursed his family for centuries.

But to finance the expedition, he must agree to the terms of his wealthy London benefactor: allow the Duke's bluestocking goddaughter to accompany him.

Wary of Claire Bancroft, Rand welcomes the haunted woman aboard his clipper ship, unaware she naively holds the key to the impossible riddle that will lead him to the glorious treasure—and a passion neither of them can deny.

1775 London, England and the Colony of Virginia

Ashley Lynne never expected kindness from her guardian, the Duke of Linfield. But being betrothed by him to a much older man she hardly knew was unthinkable. Worse was the cost of her resistance—awakening from a drugged sleep in the bedchamber of a dark-haired, steel-eyed stranger.

In England on business, Captain Salem McClellan assumed the lovely young woman curled up in his bed was only an evening's entertainment supplied by the Duke. But Ashley's terrified protests were proof enough of her innocence—and a powerful inspiration to rescue her.

From the gloomy docks of London to the lush green hills of Virginia, Salem and Ashley embark on a journey that exposes scandalous family secrets, and plunges them into the American Revolution where they fight for freedom, and the promise of each other...forever.

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1781 London, England and the Colonies of Virginia and New York

When the alluring green-eyed Rae McClellan agreed to be a courier for the Colonies, she never dreamed that on her very first mission she'd coldly kill one man—hotly love another—and land on the private schooner of a British sympathizer.

Jericho Smith never lacks for a willing woman, but when his gaze locks with Rae's, he knows no other will satisfy him this night. He's also mistaken his contact for a wench, igniting a mutual passion that's about to prove costly for them both.

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1787 England, Virginia and Philadelphia

After quickly wedding the mortally wounded Noah McClellan, Jessa Winter intends to flee England as his widow along with her infant child. But she didn't anticipate Noah's will to live or his determination to make her deliver on all their marriage vows.

As they sail for America, Noah has every intention of getting his due from the cunning female who's played him for a fool. But his growing tenderness for this beautiful woman he now calls wife, and the tiny child she cradles, has him torn between claiming what's his and winning her heart.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: For fans of Jo Goodman we bring you one of her earliest books freshly edited by Jo Goodman herself for today's readers. Enjoy!