Ellie and the Lawman

Tara Hastings never meant to come to Crystal Creek. She’s fled to the Texas Hill Country hoping to protect herself and her four-year-old son from the fallout of a nasty divorce. Grady McKinney’s home is the open road. Born and raised in Crystal Creek, he thinks he’s escaped it for good. Then an accident maroons him in the last place on earth he wants to stay. Tara’s taken on the task of restoring an isolated ranch house, and she desperately needs help. Grady can do almost anything—except settle down. He also desperately needs a job. Responsible Tara shouldn’t be attracted to footloose Grady, but she is. Worse, her vulnerable son adores him!

Fleshing out the births and deaths of fifteen post-Civil War communities

"Known as one of the most important public research institutions in the world, The University of Texas at Austin is widely celebrated for its collections of unparalleled quality, range, and distinctiveness. The Collections: The University of Texas at Austin offers the first sweeping guide to the university's vast object-based resources. It provides a brief history of each collection, a description of strengths, and highlights ways in which materials are used to further teaching and scholarship. Documenting more than eighty collections housed by some forty administrative units, this volume includes an historical introduction by Lewis Gould that traces the formation of the collections and acknowledges the patrons, university presidents, deans, faculty, scientists, librarians, and curators whose drive and vision we see manifested in these material holdings"--

"Love inspired inspirational romance"--Spine.

Welcome to Promise, a small town in the heart of Texas where the neighbors are friendly and you just might find love. Nell’s Cowboy Nell Bishop, widowed mother of two children, is turning Twin Canyons into a dude ranch. One of her first guests is Travis Grant: a celebrity of sorts, a wannabe cowboy and an Easterner known for his books about the West. Her kids adore him—and she has to admit she’s drawn to him, too. But it’s too soon to be thinking of love and marriage again. Isn’t it? Lone Star Baby When Amy Thornton shows up in town pregnant and alone, she’s looking for some guidance and compassion, so she turns to Reverend Wade McMillan. He might be a minister, but he’s also a man. An unmarried and very attractive one. But is it as a man that he responds to Amy? Or as a man of God? Maybe it’s both. Amy needs the town’s help to get back on her feet. What she wants is the love of a man named Wade…

Love, Marriage…Baby? Plus-size model Jodie Marsh knows she wants these things—in the future. But when she becomes pregnant after a wild weekend with confirmed bachelor Travis Whitaker, she has to get married now to save her professional image as America's Girl Next Door. To her surprise, Travis agrees to marry her, but on one condition—he doesn't want a marriage of convenience. He wants to make their relationship real. So Jodie's got the baby and she's got the man. But will she find the first part of the equation—true love? It looks as if Jodie just may get what she wants—albeit in the wrong order!