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Amanda Lockwood gets more than she bargained for when she's elected Two-Time's first female sheriff. Trouble begins when she saves suspected killer Jake Barrett from a lynch mob. Common sense says he's guilty, but her heart tells her otherwise. If Jake doesn't convince the pretty sheriff to let him go, he will soon be keeping company with the daisies. But his plan to win her over backfires when he falls head over heels. Now he must choose between freedom and saving the woman he loves.

Texas Ranger Brett Tucker hates to break up a wedding, but the groom - notorious criminal Frank Foster - is a danger to any woman. So he busts into the church, guns blazing...only to find he has the wrong Frank Foster. Bride-to-be Kate Denver is appalled by her fiance's over-the-top reaction and calls off the whole wedding. Guilt-ridden, Brett is desperate to get them back on track - but the more time he spends with Kate, the harder he falls...and the more he wants to convince her that he's her true match in every way.

In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiancé, Meg's dreams of dragging her quarrelsome neighbors into a ceasefire are dashed.

Sarah Prescott has never known a respectable life. Just a hardscrabble childhood and brothers who taught her to shoot first and ask questions later. Justin Wells left Boston in disgrace, heading out alone on the dusty trail to Texas. But when the once-respected clergyman encounters a feisty redhead in handcuffs with a dying US Marshal at her side, their journey takes a dramatic turn. His high-society expectations and Sarah's outlaw habits clash from the start. With a price on her head and recused orphaned baby, Justin and Sarah make the difficult journey toward Rocky Creek.

Disgraced dime novelist Kate Tenney fled the city that banned her latest book for a fresh start at a cattle ranch in the Arizona Territory. She hopes ranching turns out to be as romantic as she portrayed it in her novels. But what awaits her is a much harder life. There is no room for mistakes on a working cattle ranch in 1895, and Kate is ill-prepared for her new life. She quickly learns that dawn comes early...every day. But she is tenacious. Having been abandoned by a string of men, Kate has no intention of ever marrying. But she didn't expect to meet Luke Adams either.

Chase McKnight will do anything to secure his family's ranch - but marriage to a complete stranger? That's a hard pill to swallow. Yet the will is clear: Chase needs a wife by his side if he wants to keep his home, so he meets his veiled lady at the courthouse steps and reluctantly says, "I do." Too bad he married the wrong bride. Stuck in a secret compromise, Emily Fields has one year to learn the ways of the ranch and convince Chase's family they're happily married. But when the lie becomes true, the past catches up to them, and they must save the love they never expected...

Though the tendency in our fast-paced society is to suppress our grief or ignore it all together, Grieving God's Way inspires a different course of action. In this 90-day devotional Margaret Brownley provides the framework for a methodical grieving process that follows God's plan. Grieving God's way requires us to trust that He will lead us through the darkness, heal our pain, take away our weariness, and fill our hearts with hope, peace, and new purpose.

Lucy Fairbanks dreams of working as a photographer at the Rocky Creek newspaper. Her deepest hope is that her father will see her as an artist, the way he thought of her deceased mother, whose paintings still hang on their walls. But disaster follows Lucy on every photo assignment: a mess of petticoats and ribbons, an accidental shooting, even a fire. When Lucy meets David Wolf - a rugged, reclusive man who lives on the outskirts of town - she thinks she can catch the attention of the town with his photograph. She doesn't count on her feelings stirring whenever she's near him.

After their parents died, Jenny felt responsible for seeing that her two younger sisters were well taken-care of. Tipped off by an article naming Rocky Creek the town with the highest number of eligible bachelors, Jenny rolled into this Texas town with a clear objective: find suitable husbands for her two sister and then start fresh somewhere far, far away. Jenny believe that women who fall in love at first sight often wish they'd taken a second look, so she diligently begins to follow all the rules set forth in her handy manual on how to land a husband.