Nartan Sagebrush's name may mean "to dance" in Arapaho, but he dances in secret. Forced to abandon his Shamanic apprenticeship, he is overwhelmed with homesteader life, and even his spirit guides are at their wit's end. Nartan takes fate into his own hands. Instead of divine intervention, a wife will help with his responsibilities and in assimilating into the Wylder community. Olive Muegge answers Nartan's "wife wanted" advertisement. Wildly independent she has secretly dreamed of a family to call her own. The secret she carries inside makes her an outcast and her wild ways don't fit the quiet wife Nartan thinks he desires. Despite their differences, they are drawn to each other but a mistake may drive them apart. Will Nartan embrace his Shamanic past to save them both or will he choose to rid himself of Olive forever?

Ikshu Sagebrush lives in the shadows of his mystical brother, loudmouth sister-in-law, and the trauma he endured. When a chance meeting with a Christmas angel makes him consider stepping into the light, Ikshu calls to the spirits of his ancestors to help restore his voice. Ava Wylder is no angel, but her wicked ways are the catalyst Ikshu needs to face his inner demons and build a life. She would gladly trade her family’s wish for her to become a lady of a manor house in New York for the natural beauty of Wylder and a simple existence with Ikshu. When their families and community status step between them, she cannot fight for their love alone. Will Ikshu find his voice to make his intentions known, or let true love slip through his fingers?

Picture-perfect Abigail Wylder rushes home to save her family’s reputation, but no one knows her behavior while in England is another scandal she must conceal. Will her secret embarrass her family more than her sister’s new mystical in-laws or her father’s deteriorating mind? Unwed and four months pregnant, it won’t be long before her dresses can no longer hide her shame. Boone Silvers has carried a torch for Abigail Wylder since he was a teenager. When he discovers her baby’s British father has rejected her, he offers to step into the role. He believes he is the luckiest barber in Wyoming with a second chance to have a family after what happened to his first wife. Secrets swirl around the couple until a tragedy shines a light on all their faults. Will Abigail choose happiness with Boone or do the unthinkable just to save face?

Gunman Morgan Dodd is headed to a new life in California, where no one knows his name. Or his reputation. Just one last job to raise money for his fresh start—gunhand for a railroad agent in Wyoming. Easy enough. Until he meets the woman who could change everything. After ending her engagement, Emily Martin longs for independence. She sets out for Wylder, Wyoming, to help her brother with his newspaper. But when she arrives, she finds he’s off investigating a story. Well, then. She’ll simply publish the paper herself until he returns. Emily’s prepared to face challenges, but not the dangerous stranger who ambushes her heart. The same man hired to destroy her livelihood. When a common enemy threatens, Morgan and Emily must find a way to defeat danger and save their budding love. But a gunman’s word is his bond, and a lady’s trust can shatter.

Jeanile Graham had everything she wanted out of life. Surrounded by close friends, a loving family and a promising professional career as a therapist ahead of her, she had everything she needed. Or so she thought. Until that fateful night she first met Ravenell Wylde. That night...everything changed. Confident, attractive and possessing an intelligence to match hers, Ravenell was nothing like the men Jeanile had dated before. After breaking through her well-established defenses, she had to admit that Ravenell seemed to be everything she ever wanted in a man. And the more time she spent with him, the more she discovered how to let go of herself, her fears. And how to give in once again...to his love, to his passion. But when Jeanile happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, their relationship takes a startling turn for the worse. Unable to recover from her newfound pain, Jeanile does the only thing she can. She runs. Runs from the best man she had ever met, into a future that's both frightening and alone. Now, four years later, Jeanile is a mere shell of what she once was. After estranging her friends and avoiding her family, she buries herself in her work, traveling the world as a renowned therapist. Respected on the outside but sadly hollow on the inside, she dreads the week to come as she boards her latest international flight. She was prepared for what lay ahead of her, but her plans are suddenly thrown into a whirlwind as she recognizes one of her fellow passengers. The past and the present collide as she stares into the eyes of the one man who gave her life, only to take it away in a split-second. Ravenell. In the next seven days, Jeanile will learn what it means to be loved, betrayed, and decide whether she has the strength and courage she needs to face her greatest fear: losing the love of a lifetime.

Gunslinger turned playwright Opal Calahan is handy with a pistol and even handier with a pen. She arrives in town dreaming of creating the new Wylder Playhouse. Rugged prospector Heath Rawdon tantalizes as her perfect leading man—but why does he hate theaters? And why does he have a price on his head? Heath is running from his past and wrestling mental demons. Thanks to his visit to the playhouse in the lawless Ballarat goldfields, he lost his mate and his goldmine—and got slammed with the charge of murder. The last thing he needs is a beautiful, charming playwright disturbing his harsh existence. But feisty Opal has secrets and needs his help. Together they banter, dance, face theatrical disaster, and combat danger in a race to rewrite their future and achieve their dreams.

Caleb Holt is the man to see for a good horse. Abuse an animal and he'll teach the lesson that goes with it. When he lands on top of a woman in the midst of a brawl and snags a passionate kiss, he sparks a fire he never expected. But it doesn't take the cowboy long to learn a lesson of his own… sometimes love comes with a price. Seamstress Laurel Adams is embarrassed by Caleb's stolen kiss. Though she is determined to raise her son alone, she wonders at the ease of falling for the handsome horseman. But when the husband who abandoned her returns, there is only one choice to make—the one that breaks her heart into tiny pieces.

When Gertie Jackson lost her husband in the war, she left Richmond searching for a new life. She wanted peace for her tortured soul...and she found it in Wylder. Lane Hutchins rode to Wylder as a favor to an old friend...and to look once more upon the woman who'd stolen his heart years ago. When Gertie's preparations for the big Founder's Day festivities sets off a streak of vandalism, Lane knows he can't leave while she's in danger. But will his efforts to win her heart push her further from him, or will Wylder's magic work to finally bring them together?

Ghostly gunslinger Zachariah is condemned to spend eternity in the room now inhabited by Blossom Cherry, an easygoing yet hot-blooded doxie. Their scrappy relationship endures though he taunts and aggravates her. He also exacts fitting vengeance on those clients who dare, to their eternal regret, mistreat his feisty roommate. The attraction between the young prostitute and the outlaw intensifies to undeniable, unquenchable, unearthly desire until Zak becomes a passionate spectral lover. But Blossom's uneasy past catches up with her by way of a Wanted poster and a bulldog Pinkerton agent. Zach urges her to dig up his ill-gotten hoard and flee an unjust hanging, yet she won't leave him to wander the room—or eternity—alone.