Linda Ford

"Beatrice Doyle came to Montana to escape her father's marriage plans for her--not to lasso herself a cowboy. Yet she can't ignore the sparks that fly between her and Levi Harding while she's at his family's ranch, caring for his injured stepmother. But opening her heart would mean sacrificing her quest for independence ... After being rejected by the girl he hoped to marry, Levi vows never to love again. Nevertheless, he's drawn to big-city girl...

An Honorable Cowboy Determined single mother Willow Reames has one goal: to reunite with her sisters and begin a new life with them and her infant son. But when she's unexpectedly stranded in the Montana wilderness-with her siblings nowhere in sight-she needs to rely on the kindness of Johnny Harding. It's more than honor that compels the half Native American cowboy to help the beautiful widow and her adorable baby. The little family evokes his masculine...

Enjoy two stories of strength and hope in days gone by from Love Inspired Historical. Dakota Child Trapped in a North Dakota blizzard, single mother Vivian Halliday's prayers are answered when she's rescued by Billy Black, a man feared by all the townsfolk. Yet in the home he shares with his ailing mother, the handsome gentle giant warms her baby's bottles and sings sweet lullabies. When the storm abates, will she go back to the village…or stay...

Falling for Her Protector After a stagecoach robbery nearly kills her and the small boy she's traveling with, Emily Smith can't remember who she is or where she's going. Lost and with only wisps of her memory, she must rely on the handsome, dark-eyed sheriff who saved her. Jesse Hill protects his heart as fiercely as he protects the small Montana town of Bella Creek. How did Emily's kindness and beauty get past his armor? But Jesse knows well...

A cowboy’s redemption The Cowboy Tutor With the mortgage due and funds scarce, Madge Morgan can’t afford distractions. Especially not from Judd Kirk, her sister Louisa’s tutor and—according to their mother’s plans—suitor. Madge doesn’t know about Judd’s real reason for coming to Golden Prairie. He’s finally found the man who swindled his mother. Yet if he seeks revenge, he risks losing the woman with faith enough to rekindle his...

The only thing Brand Duggan's outlaw kin ever gave him was an undeserved reputation. Once he's through breaking horses, he'll leave Eden Valley. Staying means risk, and heartache. And he has no business falling for a refined English miss like Sybil Bannerman. The rugged cowboy who rescues her from a stampede is just the kind of man Sybil Bannerman's editor wants her to write about. Yet she has no idea how big a secret Brand Duggan carries, until her...

Wanted: Convenient Wife… When preacher Hugh Arness advertises for a marriage of convenience, the single father's not expecting Annie Marshall to apply. She's too vivacious-and far too pretty. Yet Annie connects with his withdrawn young son, Evan, and he agrees to a trial period-which her grandfather will chaperone-until Christmas. By then he'll have found a candidate who doesn't make him long for more than he feels worthy of… Security and her...

A STRANGER AT HER DOOR What unseen hand guided Kody Douglas's horse to that bleak, windswept South Dakota farmhouse? The "half-breed" cowboy-a man of two worlds, at home in neither-would never know. But when he finds a lovely, vulnerable young woman there, abandoned in the darkest hours of the Depression, he cannot simply ride away and leave her. Charlotte Porter reluctantly follows this hard, embittered yet compelling man to his family's homestead....

Security and a home of her own, that's Sally Morgan's dream. And a new job could offer both. Her employer will marry her if she proves her worth as housekeeper. A sensible, if unromantic, plan. Until a lean, laid-back cowboy moves in next door, and "sensible" moves right out! Linc McCoy and his family left town years ago under a cloud of suspicion. A cowboy with a tarnished name has nothing to offer a woman like Sally. Except for a spark of kinship...

The Cowboy's Surprise Bride by Linda Ford. Traveling to Canada's Northwest Territories is a chance for Linette Edwards to escape a dreaded marriage in England, and she eagerly accepts Eddie Gardiner's written invitation. How could she know that Eddie thinks he's marrying her friend, Margaret? Eddie planned for a well-bred bride, not a ragamuffin stranger with a little boy in her care. He'll shelter them until springtime and no longer. But before the...