Bayou is Pamela Jekel's masterpiece of the deep Southern delta country, hailed as "Best Historic Fiction" by Library Journal, a New York Times bestseller, and a Waldenbooks bestseller. From the Cajun swamp cabins to the great river plantations of the Mississippi and the glittering night spots of Jazz Age New Orleans, Bayou sweeps readers into the mysterious and fascinating Louisiana delta and into the hearts and lives of four indomitable women: Olivia,...

In 1875 Savannah, Rachel Fleming Barlow Newman McCandless is known to her neighbors as the Black Widow. Only twenty-one year old, she has been widowed three times, most recently by the death of Phillip McCandless whose last words to her-incoherent ramblings about an illegal arms shipment-have left her terrified as well as grief-stricken. Phillip's long-estranged brother Captain Daniel Slade, convinced that the "Black Widow" has struck again, pretends...

During a trip back East, Preacher learns that even the civilized Midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble, especially when a gang of bully boys decides to pick a fight. Now a wealthy landowner lies dead and there's a reward on Preacher's head.

By 1884, a new type of fencing called barbed wire-or, as ranchers deemed it, devil wire-is making more enemies than good neighbors in the American West. Jim Hartford, a failed farmer from Tennessee, is looking for a new beginning in Miles City, Montana. What he finds is a territorial disagreement that erupts in bloodshed. A local cattle baron has hired a renegade group of fence-cutters who turn out to be a band of grudge-holding murderers…and now...

Addy wants nothing more than to leave her small Illinois home for the gold-rich hills of Colorado, where a teaching job awaits. But her plans are thwarted when a band of outlaws rob the very bank in which she is withdrawing her savings, taking her hostage in the process. Rogue and ruthless, her captives sweep her off to the country with evil intent, but one man stands in the way. Ex-Confederate soldier Parker Cole doesn't understand his own fierce...

The message was written in blood: Bring me the head of Smoke Jensen! A hard term in Yuma Prison gave Ralph Tinsdale and his gunhawk sidekicks time to nurse a deep hatred for Smoke Jensen, and a bloody escape gives them the chance to get even.

Only his thirst for blood equals his lust for wealth and power. In his vicious seizure of the coveted land around Taos, high among the Rocky Mountains in the New Mexico Territory, plenty of innocent blood will be spilled. Robber Baron Clifton Satterlee's plan is twofold and simple: to wrest the timber-thick hills from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own labor force.

After years on the run, Sundance, a vicious, vengeful gunfighter, brings together a fearsome gang of cutthroats and sets out for the Sugarloaf, with the intention of seeking revenge on mountain man Smoke Jensen.

New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels is back with a beautiful, bittersweet tale of two lonely people who find heart-healing love, only to be torn from each other's arms. For everyone who loved Dear Emily, here is another poignant Fern Michaels novels to savor--a story of love, grief, passion, renewal--and incredible second chances. A brilliant career and loving friends weren't enough to heal Dr. Sara Killian's aching heart. For brief,...

In the second novel of her magnificent trilogy of medieval Scotland, which began with Highland Destiny, Howell returns to the fifteenth century and the embattled Highlands with this spellbinding saga of a Scottish mercenary fated to rescue a spirited young beauty accused of murder.