Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Cleo Arlington dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving, and can ride, rope, and wrangle a horse as well as any man. In 1916, however, those talents aren't what most young women aspire to. But Cleo isn't most women. Twenty-nine years old and single, Cleo loves life on her father's Idaho ranch. Still, she hopes someday to marry and have children. Enter Sherwood Statham, an English aristocrat whose father has sentenced him to a year of work...

Odessa has adapted well to life on her Colorado ranch, but nothing has prepared her for the devasatation that the winter of 1886 brings. In Paris, Moira discovers she has been robbed by her manager and has fewer options than she imagined. Meanwhile, Dominic, working the boxing rings of South America, loses the wrong fight and is shanghaied by a frustrated sea captain.

Justice heads to a wild Colorado boomtown to uncover his forgotten life and track down the powerful crime boss Ruble Cochran. But in Leadville, nothing is simple. Every answer leads to new questions, and Justice faces Cochran's gang, including the mysterious killer known only as The Dragon. Can Justice take down a crime syndicate, uncover his past, and find a way to marry Nora Eckert?

"Lorelei Collins possesses a soft heart for any animal in need, so when she finds a buffalo calf bawling beside its mother's lifeless body, she can't help but bring it home to raise on the ranch she and her sisters are building in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. Little does she realize that its white coloring is rare and considered sacred by Native Americans, which makes it highly valuable to them and the European trappers alike. A flood of men visit...

Alexia is determined to manage her father's horse ranch after he dies but despite her best efforts everything goes wrong. Justin Phillips arrives in Last Chance with his young son looking for a job. Can Alex trust him, and more importantly, can she learn to depend on God?

"Experience has taught Laurel to be suspicious of the men who pass through Morrison Station. She's been running the lucrative operation that connects Colorado's small frontier town of Falls Hollow with the stagecoach line since she inherited it from her father, and she's not about to let some wandering cowboy take over the reins. But newcomer McCall Landry isn't just any gunslinger. He seems to genuinely care for Laurel, and with his rugged good looks...

On our ranch the rule is, the cattle come first! The cattle are fed before we eat and are bedded down before we go to bed. They are our number one priority. This is something I learned when becoming a cattle rancher. It is not all work though. Have you ever been to a cow patty toss, slept in a barn, pulled a calf from its mother, been excited because your new television lets you watch the cows at night, or been on a pregnant cow chase? Do you truly...

Cathy Bissette flees to the North Carolina shore, where a brash, young writer threatens to unsettle her feelings, and Jan Warren attempts to resist her neighbor, Derek Bannon, as he plots to take over her small, struggling ranch.