Westerns with Heart & Grit
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Book 1: The Owen Family Saga
Carl Owen returns from the Civil War to find the family farm destroyed, food scarce, and his father determined to leave the Shenandoah Valley to build a cattle empire in Colorado Territory. Crossing the continent, Carl falls in love with his brother's fiancee, but he might lose everything he holds dear if a murderous villian has his way. Carl battles outlaws, a prairie fire, blizzards, a trackless waterless desert, and his own brother—all for the hand of feisty Ellen Bates.
Book 2: The Owen Family Saga
Thinking he's been treated unjustly by his father, James Owen leaves the family homestead to make a new life for himself. The world of post-Civil War Colorado Territory is fraught with danger and prejudice that increase his bitter loneliness as setbacks threaten to break him. Then James's journey brings him into contact with another wayfayer, beautiful young Amparo Garcés, who has come to Colorado to marry a stranger. Their futures are changed forever when their paths merge in a marriage of convenience. James and Amparo undertake a hazardous horseback trek over Raton Pass, battling personal demons, a challenging language barrier, and winter's raging storms.
Book 3: The Owen Family Saga
The aftermath of the Civil War creates cruel circumstances for the Bingham family. A brutal attack on Jessie's sister, Hannah Fletcher, drives the extended family to flee to the West. They are soon joined by Heppie Bingham's beau George and his brother, Ned, who bring news that the Binghams are being pursued by cronies of Hannah's attacker. Even after they fight off that onslaught, poverty, bad weather, and Hannah's frightful secret plague their journey. Nursing her battered heart when she hears James Owen took a wife, Jessie accepts Ned's offer of marriage. But a stop on the trail holds surprises that launch Jessie into a bewildering tangle of values, emotions, and high adventure.
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