Download or read book SHE S THE SHERIFF written by Anne Marie Duquette and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOME ON THE RANCH The Silver Dollar Ranch, near Tombstone, Arizona Virgil Bodine. Oldest of the Bodine brothers. One-time sheriff of Tombstone and former bodyguard to the stars. He's come home from California, with his reluctant ten-year-old son in tow. Desiree Hartlan is a big-city D.A. who talked herself out of a job—and is looking for a new one. The position of sheriff—an elected position—is open. Desiree decides to run. So does Virgil, figuring he'll win in a landslide. Next thing he knows, he's calling her sheriff. And boss. And…wife?

Download or read book Texas Sheriff s Deadly Mission written by Karen Whiddon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can fear of repeating past mistakes Hinder a sheriff’s search for a serial killer? Rayna Coombs has enough on her plate, juggling single motherhood and working as a sheriff. So she's determined to resist the white-hot desire she feels for Parker Norton. But when Parker enlists Rayna's help to find a missing friend, she can't ignore the sparks flying between them. As passion flares, though, bodies start turning up. Can Rayna and Parker track a lethal killer while guarding their own hearts? From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama.

Download or read book Christmas with the Sheriff written by Victoria James and published by Entangled: Bliss. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the true meaning of Christmas with this beautiful, poignant story about overcoming loss, the strength of family, and finding love again... It’s been five long years since Julia Bailey lost everything. Returning to Shadow Creek is every bit as hard and painful as she expected, but she’s determined to finally face her fear, which also means spending Christmas with her former in-laws. For the first time in forever, Julia begins to feel the twinges of holiday spirit, especially as she spends more time with an old friend, the irresistible town sheriff, and his adorable daughter. Single dad and county Sheriff Chase Donovan was secretly in love with his best friend's wife for years. But after her traumatic loss, he knew Julia needed to go, even though helping her leave was the last thing he wanted to do. Now she's home and he doesn't intend to lose her a second time. Chase is going to prove to Julia just how good they can be together this Christmas...and forever. Each book in the Shadow Creek, Montana series is STANDALONE: * Christmas with the Sheriff * The Baby Bombshell * The Doctor's Redemption * Baby on the Bad Boy’s Doorstep * The Firefighter's Pretend Fiance * A Christmas Miracle for the Doctor

Download or read book The Sheriff The Outlaw written by Kimberley Comeaux and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing much ever happens in the peaceful East Texas town. But Billy Ray's simple, well-ordered life is forever complicated by his first arrest of a thief who turns out to be a young woman disguised as a boy. At her trial, Victoria "Tori" Nelson's tale of desperate orphanhood seems to make people forget that outlaws go to jail. The judge sentences her to stay with the reverend and his wife for three months, to learn from them how to be a lady. During that time, the sheriff is to check up on her daily and, during the last month, to teach the outlaw how to be a how to be a law-abiding citizen! How can a thief learn to act like a lady with a suspicious, overbearing--and handsome--sheriff watching her all the time? And how in the world can the sheriff ever trust this outlaw--who takes his breath away whenever he looks at her? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

Download or read book Sarah and the Sheriff written by Allison Leigh and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hometown hero returns… And for Sarah Clay, that was the bad news—because Max Scalise had rejected her outrightseven years ago. And now Max was back in Weaver, working as a sheriff and everywhereshe turned. His slightest touch still caused her traitorous body to quake, but Sarah knew better.Didn''t she? When it came to Sarah, Max was as much in lovewith her as ever. But he''d returned home to findthat eyes that had once gazed at him with suchtrust now turned away. Still, he was a wiser mannow…a man determined to win back her love. Evenif it meant telling secrets that weren''t his to reveal…

Download or read book Slow Dance with the Sheriff written by Nikki Logan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ex-ballerina Eleanor Patterson is the darling of Manhattan society--until she discovers her pedigree background is a lie. So she heads to sleepy Larkville for answers. Sheriff Jed Jackson never expected to rescue a stunning woman from a herd of cattle, or to be so fascinated by the vulnerability beneath Ellie's tough city veneer. Yet watching her unwind is irresistible, and as he helps her learn to dance again he wants to give both Ellie and himself a new beginning..."--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book The Sheriff s Betrayal written by Linn Keller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Will Keller came into town with an attitude, a shotgun and a great set of legs. Sheriff Will Keller let it be known the Sheriff's word was law, and made it stick. Sheriff Will Keller arrested the Mayor and shot up the saloon within a half hour of arriving in town. Things have been peaceful and quiet as a result. Until now. Murder has been done: not the face to face conflict of loud voices, bared steel, a knife in the gut: no, this is the coward's murder of a little boy, the poisoning of a helpless, handicapped child in his own bed. The Sheriff is not happy about this. There will be justice. The Sheriff will see to it. Personally.

Download or read book The Widows written by Jess Montgomery and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Widows kept me on the edge of my seat. Montgomery is a masterful storyteller.” —Lee Martin, author of Pulitzer Prize-Finalist The Bright Forever Inspired by the true story of Ohio’s first female sheriff, Jess Montgomery’s powerful, lyrical debut is the story of two women who take on murder and corruption at the heart of their community. Kinship, Ohio, 1924: When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel, the town’s widely respected sheriff, has been killed while transporting a prisoner in an apparent accident, she vows to seek the truth about his death. Hours after his funeral, a stranger appears at her door. Marvena Whitcomb, a coal miner’s widow, is unaware that Daniel has died and begs to speak with him about her missing daughter. From miles away but worlds apart, Lily’s and Marvena’s lives collide as they realize that Daniel was perhaps not the man that either of them believed him to be. *BONUS CONTENT: This edition of The Widows includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guide "The Widows is a gripping, beautifully written novel about two women avenging the murder of the man they both loved."—Hallie Ephron, New York Times bestselling author of You'll Never Know, Dear "Jess Montgomery's gorgeous writing can be just as dark and terrifying as a subterranean cave when the candle is snuffed out, but her prose can just as easily lead you to the surface for a gasp of air and a glimpse of blinding, beautiful sunlight. This is a powerful novel: a tale of loss, greed, and violence, and the story of two powerful women who refuse to stand down."—Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ballad, A Land More Kind than Home, and This Dark Road to Mercy "[A] flinty, heartfelt mystery that sings of hawks and history, of coal mines and the urgent fight for social justice."—Julia Keller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bone on Bone

Download or read book The Sheriff s Journal written by Linn Keller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wore high heels and a .45 automatic, a tailored suit dress with a badge engraved SHERIFF pinned under the lapel. She had an explosive temper and a glare that could split rocks, and she had light eyes, pale eyes, the color of a glacier's heart -- just like her ancestor, her Great-Great-Grandfather, the second Sheriff of Firelands County, Colorado. When her husband found the Old Sheriff's personal journal in a hidden compartment of their roll top desk, Sheriff Willamina found a door through which she could step, a door that led to another world, another time. Follow the Sheriff from the Northern Ohio farm country through the war that tore the young nation apart, through dirty little coal mining towns and corrupt Kansas villages, aboard steam boat and a plow horse, until a final confrontation with a corrupt official shows Sheriff Willamina Keller that she is cut of the same violent, uncompromising cloth as her pioneering ancestor."

Download or read book The Sheriff s Legacy written by Linn Keller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-09-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firelands County, Colorado, just hired a new Sheriff. Firelands County, Colorado, knew their new Sheriff was a Marine, a Gulf War veteran, and was recently graduated from college; they sent their chief deputy to pick up Sheriff Will Keller from the airport. Firelands County, Colorado, did not know their Sheriff would arrive in a tailored, dark-blue suit dress, and high heels. In the Sheriff's first half-hour in-county,she uses a shotgun to stop a barfight, slams a drunk face-first into the painted plasterboard, arrests the Mayor and tells the Board of County Commissioners which of them is an adulterer, with whom and how many times; which of them is a gambler, how much he has lost at the tracks, and at which track; she lets them know in no uncertain terms exactly where they can get off, and proceeds to run her department as she pleases. The Sheriff is here to do a job, and she doesn't fight fair. And she doesn't -- whether it's drug traffickers, a crooked prosecutor, a fiancee or getting justice, Sheriff Willamina Keller gets what she wants. Peacefully, or otherwise. She doesn't care which.

Download or read book The Sheriff and the Cowgirl written by Debra Holt and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a tenacious sheriff takes on a determined cowgirl and her champion bull? It’s never easy to make it in a man’s world, and cowgirl Tori Tremayne has chased the same dream most of her life—producing a champion bucking bull on the pro rodeo circuit. With her prize bull Maximus, she’s so close to winning top prize in the finals this year she can taste it. She can’t afford any distractions, especially not the tall, dark and swoony sheriff she’s admired all her life. Sheriff Gray Dalton has been in love with Tori since they were kids. He doesn’t want to change Tori or derail her goals, but he does want to combine their dreams—build a life and family with her while she continues to pursue her career and passion. Gray knows he has to shake Tori up so that he can step out of the friend zone she’s so determined to keep him in. Can Gray prove to Tori that with him she can have it all—career, love and a family?

Download or read book The Sheriff s Nine Month Surprise written by Brenda Harlen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shotgun wedding… or a Match Made in Haven? By-the-book attorney Katelyn Gilmore has her entire life mapped out. But a spontaneous weekend of passion with Reid Davidson upends that well-ordered universe. She’s going to have a baby! And what’s more, her hunky fling’s now the new sheriff in town…literally. Reid’s taking his dad-to-be duties seriously and won’t rest until Katelyn has a ring on her finger. Sure, the baby’s the most important thing, but what about true love? “Brenda Harlen writes sweet, sexy, feel-good stories you want to read about people you want to know.” —Virginia Kantra, New York Times bestselling author of the Dare Island novels

Download or read book In the Sheriff s Protection written by Lauri Robinson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sweet, heartwarming romance between a sheriff and an outlaw’s wife.” —RT Book Reviews The sheriff of Oak Grove, Kansas, Tom Baniff might be hunting Clara Wilson’s criminal husband, but that doesn’t mean he won’t help protect Clara and her young son from the outlaw’s deadly threats. When he invites Clara to his hometown, Tom is determined to keep her safe. But with her so close, can he resist the allure of the only woman he’s ever wanted? “Delightful, charming.” —RT Book Reviews on Winning the Mail-Order Bride “Enjoyable and endearing . . . [A] classic western adventure with strong characters, authentic setting and quick pace.” —RT Book Reviews on Unwrapping the Rancher’s Secret

Download or read book The Sheriff s Doorstep Baby written by Teresa Carpenter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By day Nate Connor fights crime—by night he fights the haunting memories of his army days. Until his brooding is interrupted by a beauty sleeping on his couch! Michelle Ross wants to sell her late father's house and expel the last reminder of her past. But first she has to persuade sexy tenant Nate to move out…. Then Nate's adorable baby cousin is left on his doorstep. Nate and Michelle might never have known what family is, but this baby needs one—so they'll need to learn fast!

Download or read book The Sheriff s Sweet Surrender written by Nancy Warren and published by Ambleside Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the last man she could have, and the only one she wanted. Welcome to Hidden Falls, Oregon where the big, crazy Chance family are finding love one by one. Sheriff James Chance is a burned out Seattle cop who’s come home to Hidden Falls where he loves his quiet life as a sheriff — quiet except for a determined divorcee who’s stalking him, and the shy baker who’s trying to avoid him. Kimberly Parker left home and the shame of her past to start fresh in Hidden Falls. Little did she know that the town sheriff was the man she’d fallen for at a wedding and been avoiding ever since. Now she’s working in his sister’s bakery and she sees him everyday. Can she keep her secrets and her heart safe from the sexy sheriff?

Download or read book The Sheriff and the Innocent Housekeeper written by Lynda Chance and published by Lynda Chance. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Becky Hamilton is orphaned at the tender age of fourteen, she comes to live with her aunt in Waco and begins work cooking and cleaning for the town’s brooding young sheriff. Mesmerized immediately with his raw masculinity and sinewy strength, her fascination turns to love as the years pass and his honest integrity is revealed. Jake Cooper manages to ignore his pretty, little orphaned housekeeper for three long years. But when she begins a subtle metamorphosis from girl to woman, he can’t control his consuming need for her any longer. It has been his job to protect the town all these years, but who will protect her from him?

Download or read book A Sheriff in Nevada written by JT Hume and published by Two Moore Books. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has the same mission as the NYPD and LAPD: protect the public, investigate crimes, and arrest lawbreakers. The difference is Sheriff Maggie Doane has six deputized officers to patrol hundreds of square miles of remote Nevada mountains and deserts. After dodging a close attempt on her own life, finding the bad guy takes all her willpower and attention, despite the distraction of a sick father and intrusions of old boyfriends. When one of the richest men in the state snaps his fingers, how will she respond? These and other challenges await in "A Sheriff in Nevada." "Sheriff Maggie Doane is a workaholic, and the fact that she has to keep an eye on her willfully incompetent team of deputies doesn't help matters. Her best deputy is her partner, a dog named Max. The department is underfunded and understaffed, and promising new hire Cheryl "Charlie" Stone arrives just in time to help solve a brutal murder. Set away from the bright lights of Las Vegas and in the fictional rural area of Jefferson County, this story has some surprising twists and characters you'll want to keep following." Susie D., Line Editor, Red Adept Editing "A well-paced mystery led by an immensely likable heroine." Virge B., Proofreader, Red Adept Editing