Garden City, Kansas, 1889. Café owner Lydia Carré has run out of patience with her long-time beau, Sheriff Dylan Brodie. Wistful glances and half-uttered phrases no longer satisfy her. A long-anticipated execution and an unexpected wedding conspire to bring the protracted relationship out of the shadows. But integrating their professional and personal lives, while navigating the town's growing social unrest, is far from their most pressing problem, because the train robbers that have been stalking them are finally prepared to strike. When the robbers spring their trap, will Lydia, Dylan or any of their friends survive? This steamy BBW romance includes graphic sex scenes. While this novel can be read as a standalone, the author recommends reading books 1-3 first.

All four Love On The High Plains romance novels by Simone Beaudelaire, now available in one volume! High Plains Holiday: Kansas, 1888. A small Western town receives an early Christmas present: a young, handsome new pastor. To church organist Kristina Heitschmidt, Reverend Cody Williams is nothing but trouble, especially as his first move is trying to take control of the music away from her. But when a sudden blizzard traps them together in the church overnight, they realize that the explosive feelings between them are really symptoms of an overwhelming passion that just might lead to the love of a lifetime. High Plains Promise: Kansas, 1889. Unlucky in love, sisters Allison and Rebecca Spencer have resigned themselves to a spinster lifestyle. Love, however, is not done with the sisters, and a second chance awaits each of them, in the most unexpected place. But danger also stalks Allison and Becky in the form of a band of robbers, threatening deadly vengeance on the town. When promises fail and danger looms, can love save the sisters from harm? High Plains Heartbreak: Kansas, 1884. Bounty hunter Jesse West is on the run from his own heartbreak - until a final request of a dying friend brings him into contact with Adeline McCoy; a stoic mountain girl who awakens his long-dormant desire. Jesse has no intention of forming a relationship, not even with the flame-haired beauty, but no matter how much the tries to stick to the plan, something tells him this girl will not be so easy to forget. Can the two make their way safely through the wilderness in spite of the danger - and their own insatiable desire? High Plains Passion: Kansas, 1889. Café owner Lydia Carré has run out of patience with her long-time beau, Sheriff Dylan Brodie. Wistful glances and half-uttered phrases no longer satisfy her. But when an unexpected wedding takes place, will their relationship be drawn out of the shadows? This steamy western romance collection contains explicit sex scenes.

National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.

Garden City, Kansas, 1888. A small Western town receives an early Christmas present: a new pastor for the church. He is young, handsome, and single. To church organist Kristina Heitschmidt, Reverend Cody Williams is nothing but trouble, especially as his first move is trying to take control of the music away from her. But Kristina is not about to give up her life's work. With Christmas fast approaching, it appears the two are at a stalemate - until a sudden blizzard traps them together in the church overnight. Forced at last to deal with each other, they realize that the explosive feelings between them are really symptoms of an overwhelming passion that just might lead to the love of a lifetime. This western romance includes explicit sex scenes.

When Jim Stiles moved west from Kentucky in the 1970s to make Moab, Utah, his home, that corner of the rural West had already endured decades of obscurity, a uranium boom and then a bust, and was facing an identity crisis. What kind of economy would prevent Moab from becoming yet another ghost town? For more than two decades, environmentalists in southeast Utah have had a simple answer to this question: replace extractive industries--mining, timber, and cattle--with an economy catering to "green" tourists with hotels, restaurants, and bars. They feel that if these lands can be spared further degradation by huge industries, the West could begin to thrive on something cleaner and more lucrative. But Stiles sees a downside to this seemingly idyllic vision. Bringing insight based on decades of residence in Moab, he makes a provocative and compelling argument that the economy most environmentalists hail as the solution to the woes of the rural West is in fact creating an unprecedented impact of its own. In recent years, Moab and other rural towns across the West have seen a massive influx of urbanites fleeing crowded cities in search of a simpler life. Yet Stiles also observes that these transplants are often unwilling to accept the isolation and lack of services that characterize genuine rural life. Believing themselves to be liberal, sensitive, enlightened environmentalists, they nevertheless bring with them exactly the type of lifestyle and ecological impact that they sought to leave behind and, in the process, create a community that no longer serves the native inhabitants. With a blend of travelogue, local color, and geography, Stiles engages readers with folksy humor while defending the lifestyle of the "pre-cappuccino rural Westerners" and exposing the paradox that underlies the professed good intentions of liberal newcomers.

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals." In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory—and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Plains with its wildlife intact dazzled Americans and Europeans alike, prompting numerous literary tributes. American Serengeti takes its place alongside these celebratory works, showing us the grazers and predators of the plains against the vast opalescent distances, the blue mountains shimmering on the horizon, the great rippling tracts of yellowed grasslands. Far from the empty "flyover country" of recent times, this landscape is alive with a complex ecology at least 20,000 years old—a continental patrimony whose wonders may not be entirely lost, as recent efforts hold out hope of partial restoration of these historic species. Written by an author who has done breakthrough work on the histories of several of these animals—including bison, wild horses, and coyotes—American Serengeti is as rigorous in its research as it is intimate in its sense of wonder—the most deeply informed, closely observed view we have of the Great Plains' wild heritage.

Bounty hunter Jesse West is on the run from his own heartbreak. That is, until a final request of a dying friend brings Jesse into contact with Adeline McCoy; a stoic mountain girl who awakens his long-dormant desire. Jesse has no intention of forming a relationship, not even with the flame-haired beauty. But though he tries to convince himself to stick to the plan—to escort Addie safely across the Colorado mountains to her aunt—something tells him this girl will not be so easy to forget. Can the couple make their way safely through the wilderness in spite of the danger... and their own insatiable desire? This steamy western romance contains explicit sex scenes.