When Kate and the marshals are ordered to capture the Savage gang, she has no idea how fitting the name Savage is. These outlaws are more ruthless than any they've encountered before. Led by Grampa Savage, this gang is both smart and dangerous. And when Kate's husband, Man, is kidnapped, the case turns personal. Determined to stop these murderous outlaws, Kate and the marshals head into Canada hot on their trail. Little do the marshals know the snow-covered Columbia Mountains will be stained with their own blood before this mission is completed.

“An over-the-top romp through 1870s America . . . compulsively readable.” —Oprah.com Jean Zimmerman’s spectacular follow-up to The Orphanmaster has it all: Gilded Age romance, robber baron excess, detective story suspense, and a compelling female protagonist whom readers will fall in love with. In 1875, the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple on a tour of the American West, seek out a sideshow attraction called “Savage Girl.” Her handlers avow that the wild, seemingly mute Bronwyn has been raised by wolves. Presented with the perfect blank slate to explore the power of civilized nurture, the Delegates take her back east to be introduced into high society. Cleaned up, Bronwyn is blazingly smart and darkly beautiful; as she takes steps toward her grand debut, a series of suitors find her irresistible—and begin to turn up murdered.

When his brother’s baby mama shows up asking for help, this reformed bad boy can’t say no. Down-on-her-luck Delilah is struggling to make ends meet so she can provide for her infant daughter. It’s just one disaster after another, living hand-to-mouth. And then someone breaks into her apartment on top of it all? Not for the first time, she wonders if she should try to contact her ex. Mountain lion shifter Ben knows he’s been the villain in other peoples’ stories. He doesn’t deserve forgiveness and he sure as hell doesn’t deserve love. But Delilah’s bright personality shines into his heart and he finds himself wanting nothing more than to claim her as his mate and call her baby his own. With a dangerous rogue wolf stalking his new family, Ben is ready to risk everything to become not the villain, but the hero. USA Today bestselling author Liza Street brings the steam and suspense in the Cougar Pride series! If you love sexy shifters and strong women thrown together with mystery and suspense, get your copy today! Additional keywords: shapeshifter romance, shifter romance, paranormal romance series, big cat shifters, mountain lion, cougars, Montana, mountains, secret baby, werewolves, bad boy romance, bad alpha dads

The early 19th-century trappers who traipse through the Rockies in search of beaver pelts are called mountain men--all but one, whose unique tale is told here by her daughter, Bathsheba Hex, in 1901. In 1819, Kentucky-born Bet Hex ventures up the Missouri River with a fur-trading expedition. Captured first by Arapahos and then by Pawnees, she is rescued by a French voyageur. After his death, she sets out alone to make her home in the wilderness. The Blackfeet call her "White Woman Who Never Dies" and she lives up to that name, surviving wildfires, harsh winters, and the dangers of both animal and human predators. In the Bitterroot Mountains she befriends a Salish man, raises a little girl, and deals with Blackfeet raiders and Black Robe missionaries. While she would rather swim with the beavers than kill them and rather love a man than fight him, Bet Hex does what she must to survive as the one and only mountain woman.

Reproduction of the original: Female Warriors by Ellen C. Clayton

I have married a mountain woman, he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from the heroic ages, -- a primitive woman, grand and vast of spirit, capable of true and steadfast wifehood. No sophistry about her; no knowledge even that there is sophistry. Heavens! man, do you remember the rondeaux and triolets I used to write to those pretty creatures back East.

Excerpt from A Mountain Woman Most of the tales in this little book have been printed before. "A Mountain Woman" appeared in Harper's Weekly, as did "The Three Johns" and "A Resuscitation." "Jim Lancy's Waterloo was printed in the Cosmopolitan "A Michigan Man" in Lippincott's, and "Up the Gulch" in Two Tales. The courtesy of these periodicals in permitting the stories to be republished is cordially acknowledged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.