Explore the healing power of love and putting down roots in this classic Montana Creeds novel from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller! Rough-and-tumble rodeo cowboy Brody Creed likes life on the move. Until a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him “home” for the first time in years. Suddenly Brody is in Creed territory—at thirty-three, he’s a restless bad boy among family with deep ties to the land and each other. And a secret past haunts him as he tries to make plans for his future. Carolyn Simmons is looking for Mr. Right in Lonesome Bend and hoping for a family of her own. Then she falls for gorgeous Brody Creed, the opposite of everything she wants. Until lassoing his wild heart becomes everything both of them need. Previously published. Read the entire fan-favorite Montana Creeds series: Book 1: Montana Creeds: Logan Book 2: A Creed in Stone Creek Book 3: Creed’s Honor Book 4: The Creed Legacy Book 5: Montana Creeds: Dylan Book 6: Montana Creeds: Tyler Book 7: A Creed Country Christmas

Conner Creed knows exactly who he is: a hard-working rancher carrying on his uncle’s legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Maybe a small-town cowboy’s life isn’t his dream, but he owes the man who took him in as a kid. Until the identical twin brother he’s been estranged from for years re-enters his life.

For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment. Jefferson’s expansive vision—including his insistence that political freedom and free thought would be at risk if we did not keep government out of the church and church out of government—enjoyed a near consensus of support at the Supreme Court and among historians, until Justice William Rehnquist called reliance on Jefferson "demonstrably incorrect." Since then, Rehnquist’s call has been taken up by a bevy of jurists and academics anxious to encourage renewed government involvement with religion. In Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed, the historian and lawyer John Ragosta offers a vigorous defense of Jefferson’s advocacy for a strict separation of church and state. Beginning with a close look at Jefferson’s own religious evolution, Ragosta shows that deep religious beliefs were at the heart of Jefferson’s views on religious freedom. Basing his analysis on that Jeffersonian vision, Ragosta redefines our understanding of how and why the First Amendment was adopted. He shows how the amendment’s focus on maintaining the authority of states to regulate religious freedom demonstrates that a very strict restriction on federal action was intended. Ultimately revealing that the great sage demanded a firm separation of church and state but never sought a wholly secular public square, Ragosta provides a new perspective on Jefferson, the First Amendment, and religious liberty within the United States.

Join big city lawyer turned reluctant rancher Steven Creed as he puts down roots and finds love in the process in this classic Montana Creeds novel from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller! When attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, this bachelor trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counsel—beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan. It'll take one grieving little boy, a sweet, adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man's heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he's truly found home. Previously published. Read the entire fan-favorite Montana Creeds series: Book 1: Montana Creeds: Logan Book 2: A Creed in Stone Creek Book 3: Creed’s Honor Book 4: The Creed Legacy Book 5: Montana Creeds: Dylan Book 6: Montana Creeds: Tyler Book 7: A Creed Country Christmas

Rough-and-tumble rodeo cowboy Brody Creed likes life on the move. Until a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him "home" for the first time in years.

He survived his past, but this reformed outlaw is falling for a woman hiding secrets of her own… Don’t miss this beloved classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller. Where does an outlaw go when he’s ready to turn straight? For Wyatt Yarbro, reformed rustler and train robber, Stone Creek is his place of redemption. Setting his sights on winning over the lovely Sarah Tamlin provides even more motivation to clean up his act as soon as possible. Men like him don’t usually get women like Sarah, but he’s determined to beat the odds. What he doesn’t know, though, is that Sarah keeps a dark secret behind her prim and proper facade, even as she starts falling for the charming, sexy Wyatt. When a vengeful enemy prepares to unleash havoc on their peaceful town, Wyatt and Sarah will discover that they can’t hide from the past. To win the fight, they must believe in something they never trusted before—the hope of tomorrow. Originally published in 2008