The next 3 weeks were a blur of preparation. Dr. Matias spent hours documenting Laya’s progress, noting her weight gain, the healing of old injuries,…

“NOBODY WANTS ME,” SHE SOBBED — UNTIL A RICH COWBOY STEPPED ONTO THE AUCTION STAGE AND CLAIMED HER On a scorching summer day in 1887,…
“This is not a public access decision,” she said. “Consider it a private professional courtesy.” She unwrapped the volume. A manuscript copy of sections from…

Part 1 The chair had no right to be as solid as it was. My grandmother kept it by the front window of her house…

Three hard knocks struck Clara Whitmore’s cabin door, sharp and sudden, like gunshots in the night. She froze where she stood, 1 hand wrapped…

A FORGOTTEN MAIL-ORDER BRIDE SAVED A WOUNDED COWBOY — NOT KNOWING THE MAN IN HER CABIN OWNED THE LARGEST RANCH IN THE WEST The mountain…
On the floor just inside the threshold lay the fifth letter. Part 4 He did not open the fifth letter for nearly an hour. Instead…

Part 1 The first thing they ask for is your address. At the hospital, when you are bleeding. At the bank, when you are already…
Felix Grub stood in the opening, smaller than I remembered him from the sound of his voice in Copperhead Flats, a narrow-shouldered man in his…

SHE MARRIED A “POOR” MOUNTAIN COWBOY — BUT ON THEIR WEDDING NIGHT, HE TOOK HER TO THE HIDDEN MANSION AND CHANGED EVERYTHING The autumn wind…





