western romance

Dani Baxter has high hopes when she gets off the train in Colorado:  she has come to marry a young widower with three daughters.  When he isn't there to meet the train, she hires someone to take her out to the ranch, only to discover that her betrothed was struck by lightning and is dead, leaving his bounty-hunter brother Beau in charge of the ranch and the girls.  Beau Morgan is a man obsessed

I'm embarrassed to admit that this book has been in my "to be read" pile for 10 years!!  I'm almost through all the books in that pile, so I'll soon be picking up even more new ones than I have in the past. 

A short western romance with a bit of suspense that brings romance to a whole ranch and family

Wonderful Second Chance Inspirational Western Historical Romance with Biblical Reflection on the 23rd Psalm

When Lacy Brown, a hairstylist from Austin, reads an ad in the paper that the town of Mule Hollow needs wives for all their lonely cowboys, she gathers up her friend Sheri and they drive off to start a salon for all the women she is sure will answer the ad.  Intent only on establishing a business and not finding romance herself, Lacy tangles with rancher Clint Matlock, who thinks the whole "mail-order" bride thing will never work.  Soured on women by the departure of his mother, who ran away to join the circus leaving young Clint behind, he is determined never to be taken in by a  pretty face, especially when she's just going to pack up and leave the minute she gets bored in the dusty western town. 

Josephine O'Malley is determined to avenge the death of her husband, who was murdered by someone all of Dodge City knows and trusts.  Stopped by handsome Fletcher Collins, the new town marshal, Jo has to alter her plans.  She is tempted to confide in him until she learns that the man who murdered her husband is his brother-in-law.  Willing to do anything to protect her young son, who is out to discover who killed his father, Jo has to fight her own growing feelings of attraction to the marshal, even as the villain plots to steal the ranch out from under her.