In this sequel to Love Comes Softly, Clark and Marty Davis now preside over a growing family in their little prairie house. But as they reach out to those in their frontier community, they discover that love is not limited by the size of a dwelling.

In "Mistakes Can Kill You," we meet Johnny O'Day, who has had to make his way in a man's world since he was a boy. Half dead from pneumonia, Joe Redlin and his wife took him in. Their natural son, Sam, harbored plenty of resentment toward the kid. But now, Sam's in big trouble, and Johnny may be the only person who can come between him and a pair of gunmen. Twenty-seven, broke, and armed, Ross Haney is "The Rider of Ruby Hills." Ross thinks he might...

Among the highlights of this collection is "Sweet Cactus Wine," in which a widow fends off the attention of an unwanted suitor with a little assistance from a giant saguaro cactus. In "The Cyaniders"--Written especially for this collection--husband and wife geologists team up to discover a killer in a remote mining town. "Forbidden Things" recounts the revelations of a woman who confronts her past in the ruins of a long-abandoned mountain cabin. The...

"Left with little back in Missouri, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half-brother he never knew existed. Danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if his half-brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at the ranch, everyone is at each other's throats and the only one willing to...

"World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. But his overachieving brothers won't allow this cowboy to brood in peace. They've even hired a nurse to speed his recovery. Paige Remington's bossy brand of TLC is driving him crazy. As is her beautiful face,...

"1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down in this conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Montana saga. Through the twists and turns of life and nature, Dianne comes to realize that the hope within Jesus Christ is the only hope that lasts"--Provided by publisher.

Following a suspicious fire at his family's ranch, ladies' man Lucky Tyler, framed by old enemies, must find Devon Haines, the beautiful redhead he had rescued at a seedy bar and his only alibi in proving his innocence.

Meet Casey Stratton, 18, capable of running her family ranch and currently making a living as a bounty hunter; and Damien Rutledge III, a wealthy tenderfoot, traveling from New York to Texas to avenge the death of his father.

"When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died--and left him his saloon--he's not sure what to think. Western saloons are as wild as it gets, full of rowdy ranchers and cocky cowboys, high-stakes gamblers and low-life drifters, hard liquor and easy women. Then there's the occasional outlaw gang. But when Savage travels to Buzzard's Bluff, Texas, to check out his inheritance, he meets the saloon's lovely manager, Rachel...

Given the assignment of escorting Miss Darvi Wingate to the town of Aurora, Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings thinks it will be an easy task until Darvi becomes a pawn in one of the biggest rackets in town, and Dakota must come to her rescue.