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Hidden por conleyswifey
Hidden
conleyswifey
  • LECTURAS 1,260,343
  • Votos 62,019
  • Partes 77
In a desperate attempt to secure a roof over her younger sister's head, nineteen year old Allie Winthrop takes a job that no one else seemed too eager to apply for. The job is a maid position for a well to do family who had made a fortune in both the ranching and railroad industries. Her bosses, Mr. and Mrs. Treadwell, aren't exactly the friendliest of people. Pure snobs truly is what they are, but Allie is used to being looked down on by the wealthy. All she cares about is that the jobs pays well and offers room and board to not only her but her sister, Amelia. The Treadwell's had even agreed to allow Amelia to get schooling from the woman they employed to teach their own children. Life with the Treadwell's is better than the life that Allie and Amelia had known before and Allie feels content and secure until Amelia starts speaking of a man in the attic. Spurred by her sisters stories and by the Treadwell's startling reactions to her questions about the attic, Allie decides to take a look for herself. What she discovers there will change her life forever.
Gray Skies por conleyswifey
Gray Skies
conleyswifey
  • LECTURAS 1,379,673
  • Votos 51,377
  • Partes 36
North Carolina 1851 Deep in the mountains of North Carolina lives a branch of the Cherokee nation that no white man had been able to remove. They could come and go like the wind. They were rumored to be ghosts and called the 'Ghost Tribe' by those that knew of them. They were feared by all who lived in those mountainous lands except for one. Deniah Williams is the one person who does not fear them. And her reason? Gray Skies. He saved her life as children and has been her friend since that day. She knows there is something unique about her friend and his people and yet she asks no questions. She has trust in him and for her that's enough. But when Deniah's father learns of her friendship with a monstrous savage of the ghost tribe he is determined to protect her. And he knows just how to do so. He must find her a suitable husband and move his daughter to the northeast and away from the danger he is sure she faces. But things do not go as planned. When Gray Skies learns of the danger that Deniah faces he knows he must save her. Going against the wishes of his tribe, Gray Skies leaves to rescue the woman who has his heart. A fiery passion ignites between them and a love stronger than any love before ties their souls together. But hatred and revenge threaten to tear them apart. Join Gray Skies and Deniah as they fight for their love, for each other and for peace among their people.
Saving Grace (#1 in the Red Valley Series) por amysturges
Saving Grace (#1 in the Red Valley Series)
amysturges
  • LECTURAS 313,205
  • Votos 14,028
  • Partes 35
Cole Weston had lost everything he'd ever loved and for ten long years he's wandered. First as a tracker then as a bounty hunter until a small town calls to him and he decides it's time to stop running from his past. Grace Jennings and her daughter are hiding from a killer who will stop at nothing to find her. Will Cole be able to listen to his heart and take a chance on love again? Will Grace ever be able to trust another man with the truth?
Braxton's Run: Cattle, Whiskey and Women por conleyswifey
Braxton's Run: Cattle, Whiskey and Women
conleyswifey
  • LECTURAS 1,260,823
  • Votos 32,411
  • Partes 33
Braxton is a wild partier. As the youngest of three sons to the biggest ranch owner in Texas there aren’t very many responsibilities that fall on his shoulders so he spends his time drinking, gambling, brawling and whoring. Important business for a rough and tumble man like him. But what happens when his father falls ill, his oldest brother has to stay and run the ranch, his other brother is busy with business of his own and Braxton is the only one who can lead the cattle on the hundreds of miles of trail to the market? Is he up to the challenge? And what will happen when he finds that the young boy along on the drive is actually a full grown woman determined to prove she is as tough as any man? And not just any woman but Laura Greene, the woman who had always been after his boot heels and in love with him... Trouble his he loves her too and a cattle drive isnt' a safe place. Life has suddenly gotten a lot more complicated!
Give My Love to Rose(1st in Outlaw Series) por conleyswifey
Give My Love to Rose(1st in Outlaw Series)
conleyswifey
  • LECTURAS 954,872
  • Votos 43,515
  • Partes 75
Outlaw and all around bad guy Marston finds a dying man along the railroad tracks. His only plan is to take the mans nearby horse, his gun and whatever money he might have in his pockets but the dying mans words gnaw at him 'Give my love to Rose' the man had said and 'Tell my boy I'm proud of him'. Without knowing why Marston feels the need to honor the dying mans wishes. The mans quest leads him to Harper Louisianna and when he finds Rose she is not what he expected and neither is the boy.... Marston has spent his whole life hurting people and not caring. Willl these people make him want to change and what will Rose say when she learns what kind of man he really is?
Heart of a Cowboy (Heart of Colorado #1) por caffrey1974
Heart of a Cowboy (Heart of Colorado #1)
caffrey1974
  • LECTURAS 550,418
  • Votos 15,556
  • Partes 24
Corinne McAllister didn't realize how unhappy she was in her courtship until Ryne Wilkinson showed up at her home one morning. In an unforeseeable twist of events, they begin a journey into the Heart of Colorado, and one another. But, with Matthew Richards hot on their tail, danger pursues and threatens to divide the love they've just discovered.
Breaking Down Defenses (3rd in Breaking Series) por conleyswifey
Breaking Down Defenses (3rd in Breaking Series)
conleyswifey
  • LECTURAS 265,673
  • Votos 12,763
  • Partes 46
This is the third in my 'Breaking' Series. Thomas Cooper has lived a hard life since leaving the ranch four years ago. The kind of life that changes a man. Circumstances bring him back to the ranch and to the only family he's ever known and the only woman he has ever loved. Too bad life has long since turned him cold and hardened his heart.
Lady in Rags por Spiszy
Lady in Rags
Spiszy
  • LECTURAS 4,770,953
  • Votos 250,138
  • Partes 56
Verity Baker has spent her life cleaning up after her father's mistakes. But one day, he goes too far and sells her, for one night only, to a local lord to pay his debts. What kind of man would buy a woman? What kind of woman would agree to be bought? COMPLETED
The Secret Attachment por littleLo
The Secret Attachment
littleLo
  • LECTURAS 1,571,148
  • Votos 90,852
  • Partes 36
Katy Fairchild is an orphan and knows that no respectable man will marry her. But when a storm throws her into the arms of a mysterious stranger, will she fight society's opinion of her low status to pursue a forbidden romance? ***** At the age of nine, Katy Fairchild was brought to the small village of Wilshire to live with her distant relations, the Banes family. Brought up as a companion to their daughter, Eliza, Katy has lived a life according to her low rank and limited opportunities, and without complaint. But one day when she is nineteen, she gets caught in a dangerous storm with a handsome man who is unlike anyone she's met before. The encounter throws Katy into a world she never knew. For the first time, a better life may be just around the corner, but is she prepared to fight for it? [[word count: 70,000 - 80,000]] Cover designed by Cil Ojumo
The Stowaway por littleLo
The Stowaway
littleLo
  • LECTURAS 1,231,108
  • Votos 74,245
  • Partes 43
Eliza Banes, her ambition for adventure and her penchant for trouble, have often been trying on her poor mama's nerves. All her mother desires is for Eliza to be married and settled, but Eliza has other plans. Seizing an opportunity to stow away on a merchant ship to live out her dreams of seeing the world, Eliza has no idea what she is getting herself into. What she thought would be a harmless adventure sees her experience new challenges, rowdy sailors, evil pirates, and it brings her face to face with the surliest sea captain with a heart of pure gold. Eliza is about to discover the true meaning of, "be careful what you wish for."