Intrigue Under Western Skies Series by Elaine Manders
Intrigue Under Western Skies #1
The Annex Mail-Order Brides: Preque (Intrigue Under Western Skies Book 0)
Elaine Manders
It’s 1881 and the first attempt at coeducation is underway at the Harvard Annex. Wealthy Carianne Barlow shares her house with three friends. They all pursue plans for career and marriage, but one by one, their dreams crumble, and they move west for love and adventure.Adela wants nothing more than find a suitable mate, and her perfect match awaits on the Kansas prairie. When she arrives in the little town of Crabapple, she discovers her mail-order suitor already has a fiancé. What else has he failed to tell her?Ramee is engaged to a textile tycoon who offers her the chance to realize her dream of becoming a dress designer. When he becomes abusive, she escapes by answering an ad for marriage to a California cowboy with a dangerous past.Upon graduation, Prudie expects to help run her father’s business. Then her brother loses the business, and she’s left penniless. She’s never considered marriage, but Erich Stafford’s ad for a mail-order bride opens another path to her goals.
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Intrigue Under Western Skies #1
Pursued (Intrigue Under Western Skies Book 1)
Elaine Manders
An idealistic librarian and a troubled cattle baron fight wickedness in high places in 1884 Nebraska.Carianne Barlow never expected to leave her Philadelphia townhouse and travel to the wild-west, but when she inherits a fortune, conditions are attached. She must carry out her grandmother’s vision of a western culture center anchored by a library to rival those of the east. Such an undertaking requires political support, and no one is more influential than Rhyan Cason, a handsome rancher with the reputation of hardened businessman and rabble rousing lobbyist with a preference for the ladies. Carianne gets on the westbound train with no thought of the treacherous world awaiting her in the little prairie town near Rhyan’s sprawling ranch.When Rhyan asks her to catalog his library, Carianne jumps at the chance without considering the ramifications. She rejects any romantic notions. Rhyan is known to be a heart-breaker, and he is an atheist, which doesn’t set well with her Christian beliefs. But they are thrown together when events take a dangerous turn, and menacing undercurrents run through the town.Then Carianne learns too late Rhyan is pursued by a sinister enemy determined to destroy everything he cares for, including her. As they get closer to exposing the adversary, they realize he—or she—wants them both dead.
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Intrigue Under Western Skies #2
Surrendered (Intrique Under Western Skies Book 2)
Elaine Manders
Having vanquished his political enemies. Rhyan Cason is anxious to get home to beloved Carianne. Then he receives word that an anthrax outbreak threatens his ranch. Even as he ponders how he can afford to take a wife, dark secrets from the distant past shakes his beliefs to the core and convince him he'll never be able to find forgiveness or make Carianne happy.Carianne is stunned when Rhyan breaks their secret engagement. She leaves Sallano, the beautiful ranch house that she loves almost as much as its owner, and returns home to Westerfield. While waiting for her shattered heart to heal, she shifts her attention to building the library she's promised the town.Even though Colt Holliman offers her a courtship, circumstances keep drawing her back to Sallano and Rhyan. Torn between her affection for Colt and love for Rhyan, Carianne realizes almost too late Rhyan's troubles lie deeper than saving the ranch. He fights an evil that threatens more than his love for her - one only God can defeat.
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Intrigue Under Western Skies #3
Revealed (Intrigue Under Western Skies Book 3)
Elaine Manders
When her father dies, Katherine Levinson discovers her parents have kept secrets that render her happy childhood a farce. She and her gravely ill mother face eviction, and she has no choice but to appeal to the brother she’s never seen, the famous cattle baron, Rhyan Cason. Over her gravely ill mother’s objections, they move to Nebraska and the sprawling cattle ranch, Sollano.Instead of the warm welcome Katherine expects, she and her mother are met with whispers and scorn in the little prairie town near Sollano. Gradually, the sins of her parents’ past surface, and Katherine begins to doubt her very identify. With her brother busy with cattle rustlers and her mother too ill to be bothered, Katherine turns to Colt Holliman, a soft-spoken neighboring rancher, for comfort.Tired of waiting for the right woman to come along, Colt has promised to wait for Charley Ryder, an acclaimed female sharp shooter and equestrian acrobat with the Wild West Show, but it’s becoming clear Charley loves the show more than him. As his attraction to Katherine grows, he finds himself spiritually conflicted. How can he break from past commitments and follow his heart?Then unexpected danger strikes, testing Katherine’s and Colt’s faith in God—and each other.
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Intrigue Under Western Skies #4
Escaped (Intrigue Under Western Skies Book 4)
Elaine Manders
Juliette Kendal has vowed to protect her siblings from their abusive step-father after their mother’s death. When she finds him attacking her younger sister, Annie, she accidentally kills him. With no way to prove her innocence she fears her brothers and sister will be taken to an orphanage if she’s arrested.Jake Gresham is known as a fun-loving, careless cowboy, as good at finding trouble as he is roping cattle. So far, he’s managed to avoid God and decent women. But on a scouting trip for his boss, he steps in a bear trap in a South Georgia swamp. Facing certain death changes his outlook, and Juliette, who fights tenaciously to save his life, changes his opinion of women.When Jake asks Juliette to marry him and take her family with him when he returns to his Nebraska ranch, she sees it as an escape. But she can’t marry Jake without confessing to him and God the secret buried in her backyard.
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