Emmeline Carter was prepared for danger on the new frontier. But she didn't foresee the tornado that tore their wagon train apart. Now her father is dead, her mother and sister are injured and their twin wards are missing. There's nowhere to turn but the fledgling Kansas settlement of High Plains. Town founder Will Logan steps in to search for the twins and house the Carters…for now. He's not cut out for family life long-term. But Emmeline's got her own ideas, and when this high plains bride chooses her groom, nothing will get in her way!

Sarah knew exactly what she wanted. Tom West would help rescue her daughter, their daughter, from the hands of the Sioux, or die trying. It was, she swore, the least he could do to atone for fourteen years of deceit! Tom West blamed himself. He'd had to let Sarah believe him dead—even though she'd been his only love. But this reunion was born of danger, not desire, as this firebrand of a woman was quick to remind him. Could they bridge the chasm of mistrust yawning between them to save their child—and their love?

"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have

The first scholarly study of ethnicity in Wyoming appeared in 1977 under the title of Peopling the High Plains: Wyoming's European Heritage. The book represents a major development in Wyoming historiography and gave Wyoming a place in immigration history. Its essays vary in style, methodology, and perspective, but the book provided a starting point for further work. More important the settlement of Wyoming is now viewed as part of the continuum of ethnicity on the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West. The monographs include: Country Squires and Laborers, British Immigrants in Wyoming by John C. Paige; Dream and Fulfillment, Germans in Wyoming by Donald Hodgson and Vivien Hills. The Italian Experience in Wyoming by David Kathka; The Basques in Wyoming by David A. Cookson; Mines and Miners, The Eastern Europeans in Wyoming by Earl Stinneford; Faith, Hard Work, and Family, The Story of the Wyoming Hellenes by Dean P. Talagan; Immigration and Assimilation in Wyoming by Gordon Olaf Hendrickson. Author bios. Researchers. Advisory Council. Index. Research Teams: Riverton (Donna Bouletter, Vanessa Dickinson, Ron Diehl, Adele Hessling, Rosemary Williamson); Rock Springs (Ann Burns, Nancy Louise Cranford, Wallace R. Lee, Terry Lee Pawleska, Dennis Dee Roe, Charles H. Tate); Sheridan (Rick Badgett, Randy Fall, Joan Helmerick, Fay Macalister, Charlotte Myers, Jeni Nowak, Elmer Reisch Jr, Carol Ann Stinneford). Torrington (Dorothy Brown, Janice Hodgson, Melodie Houk, Donald Houush, Marcella Newman, Margarie Reid, Geraldine Wood); Cheyenne (Carmen Blackman, Valle Montgomery, Linda Muggenburg, Juanita Paige, Betty Jo Parris, Shirley Sancher, Sally Speight, Linn Stubbs, Kathleen Sullivan, Susan M. Tanner, Peggy Tempte, Martha Thompson, Shirley Wallace, Pamm Wetherbee, William H. Barton, Monty Beach, William J. Collins, Clem Eacker, Lou Gonzales, Scott Haynes, Joe Hubka, John R. Johns, Rich McVeigh, Charles R. Paige, Bud Sills.

Bounty hunter Chance Cahill blows into town like tumbleweed, a rootless drifter with danger written all over him. For this man doesn't care whether he lives or dies. It's what makes him so fearless –– and so deadly. Ellie Jenkins, plain as brown paper, is determined to marry for love. It's only when she comes face–to–face with childhood friend Chance that she realizes what she's been waiting for. But then Ellie sees the empty look behind his eyes, and she knows that to win this cowboy's heart will take a risk so big it may destroy them both....

Outlaws don't become rangers Or even suitable husbands for proper young women like Laurie Bender, the daughter of a Ranger. Big, bad Boon should know this–he once rode with the most notorious outlaw in Texas! To redeem himself, and have a shot at a coveted Texas Ranger's star, he must now rescue this feisty little lady from his former gang. Laurie represents everything a dangerous man like Boon can never have: she's beautiful, honorable… And when they share a stolen kiss, Boon starts dreaming the impossible.

A SEARCH FOR GOLD . . . Jack Snow has learned the hard way the only person he can rely on is himself. With his family fortune gone, he’ll don his best jacket and reel out the charm to bag himself an heiress bride!

HE CAPTURED HER BODY... Being a prisoner of the Sioux Indians has scarred Lucie West inside and out. Just when she’s starting to overcome the demons of her past, Sky Fox, a former captive himself, takes her hostage. Determined to escape, Lucie is equally determined to deny her attraction to the rugged outcast.