Young Civil War widow Alida Garrison survives a shipwreck off the Texas Gulf coast, but loses her five-year-old son to the sea. Strong hands lift her from the rocky shore, and with time and the gentle care of an old healing woman, she comes through the mist of grief and guilt. Rafe Bishop, an apparently crippled Union soldier, keeps a shop in the village. He is reticent about himself, yet constantly asks probing and often infuriating questions.  On a bluff above the tiny adobe village is a forbidding stone mansion where lanterns burn on stormy nights as if "calling someone home." Martin Cooper, a brooding, die-hard Confederate angry at the South's surrender, lives there with his son, William, a shy, unhappy boy much like Alida's own. She happily agrees to care for him, moving into Cooper's house.  Bishop is self-effacing and gentle. Wealthy Martin Cooper is masterful and sometimes cold. Are these men more or less than they seem? Alida bears a striking resemblance to Cooper's dead wife. Is that why his interest in her grows? Does Rafe Bishop's attention come from sincere emotion, or mere curiosity? Both men have secrets, but do those secrets have anything to do with her?  Before long, Alida senses an undercurrent of violence in this strange place. Whatever else happens, she vows to protect William--not knowing if the wild coastal wind will always bring loss and grief, or if redemption and even love might someday calm the water.

So Wild the Wind

Literature & Fiction

Hobbs, Bonnie

United States

Five Star Publishing

Young rancher Wade Devlin, as boys will, carves his true love Molly Faro's name on a post but never gets further than mollyfar. Young Molly, who has taken the surname Faro for the game she likes to play, loves Wade, but stands with her friend Heeshi, whose true gender is often debated, to make a go of their saloon and pleasure palace while struggling to keep their independence in the changing times of Texas in the 1880s. Through misunderstandings, misadventures and misfortune, including the lies and brutal acts of a dangerous con man who nearly costs Wade his life, Molly and Wade fight to keep their love alive and find a future with room for them both.

Mollyfar

<p>Wounded by her fiance's betrayal. Rachel Logan returns to her father's ranch in Arizona Territory determined to live an independent life without a man. Kol Hawk comes home after ten years in a Yuma Prison for attempting to kill Rachel's father. His obsession to find justice for the deaths of a Pima woman and her daughter is blindsided when he finds the old man crippled and no longer the once arrogant rancher he remembers. Rachel's childhood infatuation with Kol is rekindled and he is drawn to her fierce defense of her father. As they come together to discover the truth behind the murders that changed their lives, can they find solace and an abiding love in each other?</p>

Sweet Justice

Romance

Western & Frontier

The Wild Rose Press, Inc. (Cactus Rose)

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