Hoping for Love: Clean Western Romance Collection
(eBook)

A collection of 4 standalone Clean & Wholesome Western romance short stories with guarantee HEA and no cliffhangers. Crime of Love Anyone who's ever heard of Moonshine Mack can tell you straight away she's not a gal to be trifled with. Underneath her tiny stature and lady-like appearance, Mack's a sharpshooting scout who wrangles rustlers and bandits with the best of them. She's no newcomer to the busy town of Copper Creek, and has a well-established reputation for keeping everyone, even the dogs, in line. And when a sudden, inexplicable murder happens right behind Colin Hayes's trade post, he gets a brief glimpse of exactly how tough she gets. With every unanswered question and investigation, Colin finds himself closer and closer to being pinned for the crime he didn't commit. He's desperate to convince Mack of his innocence, desperate for anything to clear his name. But with every moment spent with her, he finds himself falling for the lady sharpshooter. The Range War On the Oklahoma plains in the late nineteenth century, a farmer's daughter has done the unthinkable. She has fallen in love with a Cowboy. At a time when Farmers and Cattle ranchers are constantly squabbling over rights to land and water, Emily Porter and Gideon Elison have managed to set aside their differences and form a strong bond. Emily's father has even come to approve of the match, despite the protests of Ben Johnson, a neighboring farmer who believes Elison to be unworthy of Emily's hand. But, when the Porter's farm is ravaged by a cattle herd, Emily's father is convinced that Gideon is behind it. He withdraws his consent from their courtship. Emily, still desperately in love with Gideon, is determined to prove his innocence. But, she has no evidence and no way to convince her father that someone else was behind the crime. What's more, with a hearing drawing closer, Emily is running out of time. Can she save her fiance from her father's wrath? Can she save her father's farm from sure destruction? Or, will she discover that both have fallen beyond repair. The Runaway Ruth Watson of Connecticut has run away from home. After stealing away from her drunk and abusive father's home with the aid of her kindly town pastor, she finds herself traveling to Texas in order to marry Abel O'Connor. Abel, a farmer in Texas, has been courting Ruth by letter for several months. He has proved himself to be a kind, eloquent young man with a large and happy family of three brothers. Ruth is eager to become his wife, however, there is one problem. She has not told him about her father's problems with drink, nor his abusive tendencies. And, when Ruth's father angrily follows her to Texas, intending to drag her back to Connecticut with him, Ruth is forced to tell Abel the truth about her past. Will Abel be Abel to accept Ruth as she is? Or, will the ghosts of the past prove to be too difficult to overcome? Stealing My Heart There are not many people that dare travel alone in the Wild West, but Bruce Jackson is one of them. With an unquenchable passion to spend his days in the rough desert, he stumbles upon a small town in the middle of nowhere. There, he meets the Red-Haired Thief, Mindy Rowe, a woman that gets by with stealing money from banks in small, remote towns. However, what will happen when she threatens him with a gun to save her from that town's sheriff? Can what starts out as a peculiar adventure, end up being a day that changes both their lives?