Cowboy Love #10

Karen Dare rescues a wild, reckless stranger from pursuers on a prairie trail, and the charming drifter—Cliff Masters—decides to stay in Cedar Bluff. As Cliff and Karen fall deeply in love, she discovers a side of him that thrills her with its vitality and freedom, but dark secrets from his past threaten to tear them apart. When the truth surfaces, Cliff's bitterness over an old wound puts everyone around Karen in danger—forcing her to confront whether their love can survive what he refuses to forgive.

When the railroad transforms the frontier town of Cactus, Katie finds herself drawn to Link Calhoun, a mysterious railroad worker—but her envy of Helen's romance with the charming Bill Breyman clouds her judgment and sets her on a dangerous path. As Katie discovers Link's secret identity as a federal agent investigating a payroll robbery, her impulsive decision to share what she's learned threatens to unravel his investigation and reveal the shocking truth about Bill's true intentions.

A young woman running a cattle ranch hires a mysterious drifter named Jim and his loyal dog Rex to help with the roundup, but the foreman Zeb Brown and his crew resent Jim's presence—and Sue's growing feelings for him. As tensions simmer on the Q Z ranch, Jim must navigate Zeb's hostility and prove his true intentions while Sue struggles between her heart and the secrets that surround the stranger who's captured it.

This illustrated feature explores curious customs and superstitions surrounding courtship and marriage across different cultures and eras—from the symbolic corn wreaths of antiquity to colonial American bridal traditions to the peculiar practices of Spain and Labrador. A charming dive into the quirky folklore that shaped how couples were joined in matrimony through the ages.

Tex Kinley arrives in Keko with a burning mission of vengeance—to face down Sheriff Nixon, the man who killed his father sixteen years ago—but his plans collide with an unexpected force when he meets the radiantly beautiful Marsha Nixon. As duty and love pull Tex in opposite directions, he finds himself caught between the life he's sworn to live and the woman who's claimed his heart, with a showdown at Mesa Ridge looming at sunset.