Stephen A Bly

Develyn heads west to find an innocence and a life she had experienced on a vacation when she was ten. There, Develyn finds not only her past, but her present and future as well. She discovers all of this in a paint mare, a quirky new girlfriend, three men who help her get her life in focus . . . and among the people of a dirt road town in cental Wyoming.

Before the gunmen could return with reinforcements, some of Brannon's friends and neighbors descended on the ranch. They all hunkered down to defend the ranch from the fifty hired guns and a cannon Casa Verde sent to take back the property. Now Brannon found himself fighting for the only thing left in his life worth holding onto: his ranch, the burial place of his wife and son.

Pepper Paige is sick and tired of her life. Sick of the fighting and emptiness that surround her as a dance-hall girl - and tired of fearing Jordan Beckett, a violent patron who has turned his attentions on her. Pepper gets her chance to escape when a woman injured in a stagecoach wreck dies in her room. Before she dies, the stranger - a refined, educated Christian - informs Pepper that she was on her way west to marry a rancher she knew only through...

A woman faces life-changing events on a trip from Boston to California after the Civil War.

Captain Porter has devised a fantastic scheme to liberate Baja California, supposedly for the Confederacy. Meanwhile Stuart gets reacquainted with the widow Victoria Pacifica and discovers they have much in common. Will she succeed in getting Brannon to lay to rest the ghost of his dead wife where others have failed?