The Marine's Road Home - Brenda Harlen His travels are over, but his journey is just beginning. It takes a different kind of courage to open up to love. An explosion ended Jake Kelly's military career. Now his days are spent alone on his ranch, and his nights are spent keeping his PTSD at bay. But the ex-marine's efforts to keep the beautiful local bartender at a distance are thwarted by his canine companion. Every time he turns around, Molly is racing off to the Circle G looking for Skylar Gilmore. Maybe the dog knows that two hearts are better than one? Montana Welcome - Melinda Curtis A bride on the run...and a cowboy to show her the way home. Lily Harrison's wedding day isn't quite what she imagined. Not only does her fiancé not love her, she's just discovered she's a Blackwell - a member of Montana's well-known ranching family. Now Lily's ditched her own wedding for a road trip with handsome cowboy Conner Hannah. But will Lily find her answers in Montana...or lose the cowboy she's already begun falling for?

Veterans' Journeys Home is a vivid portrayal of military life and its aftermath for US troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Highlighting the challenges US veterans face in today's changing military culture, the book depicts the haunting and visceral memories of returning soldiers, conversations with mental health providers, and offers an alternative approach to healing the emotional wounds of war. For anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human costs of recent wars this book is invaluable. It combines a moving narrative with a penetrating analysis of the welfare and post-conflict treatment of veterans.

Home to some of the most powerful nuclear missile systems in the world, Montana played an indispensable role in the war against Communism. Utilizing the Lend-Lease pipeline, Soviet spies ferried stolen nuclear and industrial secrets, loaded in diplomatic pouches, from Great Falls to the Soviet Union. Army nurse Lieutenant Diane Carlson served as "an angel of mercy" at the Pleiku Evacuation Hospital in the Central Highlands in Vietnam. Young Montana smokejumper "Hog" Daniels joined the CIA's secret war in Southeast Asia, becoming the principal advisor to General Vang Pao in his desperate fight against Communists. Captain Ken Robison (U.S. Navy, Ret.), award-winning author and Cold Warrior, reveals tales of Montanans who made their mark on this titanic struggle.

The author shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of the country--Bisbee, Arizona--with a narrative that reflects the history of the area, the beauty of the landscape, and his own life

Betrayed by his wife and filled with self-loathing, he joined the Army on his path to self-destruction Fin McClain left Montana to escape his past. He joined the US Army to fight enemies of his country and his own internal demons in an attempt at redemption or suicide. On a mission in Syria, he fought alongside a woman they called the Angel of Death, a woman as fierce as she was beautiful. Mission complete, he never learned her name or where she was from. Finally coming home to Montana for the first time in years, he’s unsure of his welcome. When he finds an injured woman staggering alongside the road, he’s shocked to discover she’s the woman from Syria. And she has no memory of him or their mission. She woke in the arms of a stranger… They called her Jane Smith. Found on a roadside, bruised, bloody and devoid of all memories, she’s desperate to know her real name, where she’s from or how she ended up in the arms of a man who claims he knows her but not her name. With a feeling of impending doom, she struggles to learn the truth about her existence and why she feels compelled to run. With Fin’s help, Jane recovers from her injuries in time to fight an elusive enemy and discover why she ended up in Fin’s arms and why she finds his damaged soul so compelling.

An account of one woman's life in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century from growing up on the Montana mining frontier to her ascent to young womanhood on a farm in southern California.