In a small town in East Texas, three generations of a family--the result of an unmarried union between cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick--leads to decades of deceit, tragedies, and secrets throughout most of the twentieth century.

He was strong, charming and set in his ways. She was shy, unassuming and achingly innocent. Together, next-door neighbors Jordan Powell and Libby Collins were like oil and water. Yet when Jordan made it his personal crusade to help Libby hold on to her beloved homestead, everyone in Jacobsville knew it was just a matter of time before wedding bells chimed for these sparring partners. And if truth be told, the taciturn rancher wouldn't deny the exquisite...

Drew has long loved best friend and well-off Lucy Carr's parents, who act as Drew's surrogates, but Mrs. Carr's death after a fast and terrible cancer is about to turn both girls' lives upside down.

Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.

"Detective Josh Solomon always believed his wife's death was the result of a home invasion. But when he is pulled into a case with striking similarities, it doesn't take long for him to realize the chilling truth--the attack that took his wife's life was far from random."--

The second installment in the Yellow Rose trilogy finds Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings trying to escort the feisty Miss Darvi Wingate safely to the town of Stillwater and on to Aurora, in spite of her knack for attracting trouble.

"Colleen is a master storyteller." —Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author

For most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be . . . and the one place she must return.

With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so

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The first meeting between Slater Rawlings and Liberty Drake could hardly be called ideal. As acting deputy of Shotgun, Texas, Liberty is simply enforcing the town laws. But Slater, a former Texas Ranger with a restless spirit, is surprised to find himself on the wrong side of the law-and even more shocked to realize it's a she who is arresting him! Yet Slater finds himself drawn to the close-knit town, to its strong church family, and especially...

Struggling to connect a seemingly unrelated series of murders as the summer of 1966 approaches, Constable Ned Parker must save his nephew, Cody, who has followed their main suspect across the Rio Grande into Mexico.

One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the 'black waxy' promise of a new territory called Texas. Slavery, westward expansion, abolition, the Civil War, love, marriage, friendship, tragedy and triumph-all the ingredients...