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After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously...

"All of her life, Grace Bidwell has longed for a loving husband and children, but now the chances of her dreams coming true are looking slim. Widowed and caring for her elderly father, she struggles to maintain her late husband's ranch, until she places an ad for a hired hand. Robert Frasier arrives in town with three pitiful, bedraggled children who have nothing but the tattered clothes on their backs and a load of hurt, pride, and anger. Believing...

Montana rancher Garret Steele and his ten-year-old daughter, Janie are still dealing with the death of Janie's mother. then Lady Elizabeth Wellington arrives. Beth, Janie's British pen pal, has come to montana to escape her engagement to a brutal man and start a new life. soon, she and Garret are drawn to one another.

Clemetine Kennicutt, escaping her cruel father, elopes with a cowboy from Montana. When she arrives at her new home and meets her new husband's brother, she realizes she is destined to love the brother.

In Montana Territory 1866, a cattle baron's good deed begins a clash of wills--and a growing attraction--with a dance hall girl.

Chase Benteen Calder was bound to wrest a fortune from Montana land. With Lorna at his side, he would breathe life into his dream. Through the treacherous Texas prairie, the perils of the Indian country, and Dodge City, they forged their way to Montana, where they would harvest their fortune.

Johnny Montana and partners have pulled nearly $50,000 in gold out of Redhawk Creek, now all they have to do is get it past Brett Cutter and his gang of cutthroats. Johnny has a plan, but he doesn't count on meetung up with another prospector in desperate need of his help, and he certainly doesn't count on one of his own partners selling him out.

"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season...