Prairie Fire: A Cowboys of the Flint Hills Novel

Be sure to check out my newest releases, Kissing in Kansas which released September 15th, and Ruby that released August 8th. A complete list of my work can be found here http://wp.me/P4369H-7o Samara Royal feels like life is passing her by. A bookworm who prefers to spend her free-time curled up with a good novel, she doesn't have a lot of opportunities to meet men. Watching her boss, Dr. Lachele, match up happy couple after happy couple only makes matters worse, so she goes to Lachele and puts her love life into the good doctor's hands. Henry Crider has a five year plan, but inheriting his brother's four year old twin daughters throws the plan all out of whack. He needs a nanny, housekeeper and cook all in one, so he approaches Matchrimony about finding him a bride. He can't fall in love for at least five years, so he needs to harden his heart. Surely his bride will be happy to be exempt from bedroom duties. When he sees Samara walking down the aisle toward him, he knows that she is what his heart needs. Will he be able to keep his vow of celibacy? Or will they fall for each other despite his plans?**

Martha Sanders has always been the quietest and least understood of the orphans adopted by Edna Petunia Sanders, and she likes it that way. When she has the opportunity to move to her sister’s ranch and help her out with her growing family, she jumps at it. After all, she’s never planning to marry, so what difference does it make if she’s stuck in the country or spending time in town?When Andrew Ford moves to the McClain ranch, he has no idea he is looking for love. As soon as he spots his boss’s sister-in-law, he knows he has feelings. He’s ready to drop everything to marry the mysterious woman. No matter how many attempts he makes to get her attention, she simply doesn’t seem interested. Will her shyness put him off? Or will he break through her barrier to the Martha inside?

The outlaws were begging for trouble when they challenged the Texas Hell-raisers!Larry and Stretch couldn't stand by and see the honest citizens of Widow's Peak swindled by the unscrupulous Jay Endean. The boss-thief was selling worthless railroad stock, and courting Tess Hapgood—the girl they called Arizona Wild-Cat.With fast guns, hard fists and Lone Star luck, the Texans declared war, exposing the plotters for what they really were, and in so doing the stage was set for a violent showdown. They were two against many, but Larry and Stretch had no quit in them. They were in this fight to win, or die trying!

A WOMAN DIED ... AND A HELL-HOUSE WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND!And for Big Jim Rand, another suspense-filled adventure had begun. His quest for the murderer of his brother brought him straight to Cadiz City, the town where violence smoldered and flared.Sarina Hale's legacy, all that her mother had to bequeath her, was a powderkeg with a naked fuse—the sealed diary of the hard-boiled woman who once operated the town's rowdiest house of entertainment.Many a man coveted that book, fearful that his past sins were recorded between its leather covers. To keep his guilt a secret, one was prepared to kill—and this was the man who would have to face the indomitable Big Jim in mortal combat.Big Jim again—tagged by Benito Espina!

Owen Wister Award-Winning Author TERROR IN A SMALL TOWN... When their wagon breaks down in the desert, Reverend Jon Keyes and his ailing wife Lorna find themselves at the mercy of blistering heat, punishing thirst, and circling buzzards. On the brink of death, they are rescued by Caleb Hobbs and his beguiling daughter Deliverance, who take them to their home in San Melas. It's a strange little town, built to resemble the New England village they left behind. Everyone in the community is convinced that Jon's been sent from heaven--that he's capable of healing their sick and saving their flock. But can he save these God-fearing folk from the gunslinger Moon who descends on the town like a blood-thirsty vulture? Can he explain the robed figures who gather and chant after midnight? And finally, can a good man wage war with evil itself...without losing his life...or his soul? "Crackling with the fury of a desert storm."--True West on The...

When eighteen-year-old Ashleigh Steepleton loses her parents, she has nowhere to turn but to her male cousins, whom she has always looked to as brothers. She goes along with her cousins’ plan to move to California, hoping that life will be better there as her cousins believe it will be. But breaking an axle on their wagon near Creede, Colorado, changes their plans, and they decide to stay and try to earn enough money to finish their journey. When chef Alexander meets Ashleigh, he is immediately drawn to her, feeling deep down inside that she is the woman who is meant to be his bride. Her cousins don’t approve of the match, though, so he has to keep trying to make it work. Being thwarted at every turn, he wants to give up. Will his love survive long enough to convince her cousins they belong together? Or will she move on to California and leave him with a broken heart?

SUMMARY: Camacho's Caballeros, the deadly mercenary force, plans to unveil the traitorous Black Dragon secret society and their scheme to destroy the Draconis Combine's Theodore Kurita--a scheme that could change the course of the entire Inner Sphere. A full-length BattleTech feature film is in development with New Line Cinema.