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Sherri Shackelford

A Texas Ranger’s quest for vengeance leads him to an unexpected chance at love and family in this sweet and suspenseful historical Western romance.

Kansas, 1870s. When Texas Ranger Jack Elder storms an isolated Kansas homestead, he expects to find a band of outlaws. Instead, the only occupant is a heavily pregnant woman—and she’s just gone into labor. A loner uneasy with emotion, Jack helps deliver widow Elizabeth Cole’s baby girl. Then he can’t get back on the trail fast enough. 

The robber and murderer Jack is after killed one of Jack’s own, and he vows to catch the man. But when he returns to check on Elizabeth and her little one, he discovers that she may hold the key to his unsettled past—and his hoped-for future.

Love Inspired Historical

Prairie Courtships

Winning the Widow's Heart

A lawman with a terrible secret enters a marriage of convenience to protect his niece in this wholesome historical Western romance.

Kansas, 1881. Gentlemen don’t court feisty straight shooters like JoBeth McCoy. But just as she’s resigned to a lifetime alone, a misunderstanding forces the spunky telegraph operator into a marriage of convenience. Wedding the town’s handsome new marshal offers JoBeth a chance at motherhood, caring for the orphaned little girl she’s come to love.

Garrett Cain will lose guardianship of his niece, Cora, if he stays single, but he knows no woman could accept the secrets he’s hidden about his past. The lawman can’t jeopardize Cora’s future by admitting the truth. Yet when unexpected danger in the small town threatens to expose Garrett’s long-buried secret, only a leap of faith can turn a makeshift union into a real family.

The Marshal's Ready-Made Family

A former soldier just wants solitude, but a stranded beauty needs his protection—and his services as a pretend husband . . . 

When Tilly Hargreaves and her three nieces are stranded at his small stagecoach station in an abandoned Nebraska town and threatened by outlaws, Nolan West must protect them. And the only way he can do that is by pretending he’s married to Tilly. But can the former solider, whose only wish is for solitude, stop himself from growing attached to his temporary family? 

Tilly knows the charade is necessary to keep her and the girls safe, but now her heart is in danger. The longer she pretends the stoic station agent is her husband, the more genuine their union feels. Nolan believes he’s better off alone, but Tilly’s certain that if he’d only open his heart to his make-believe family, he’d want to claim them as his for real . . .

A Temporary Family

In this inspirational historical romance, a federal law officer offers a convenient marriage as protection to a woman and the two orphans in her care.

Her Guardian Groom

Paid to accompany two orphaned siblings to their grandfather in Nebraska, Lily Winter is dismayed to discover the old man has gone missing. And when the children’s inheritance makes them a target, buying protection is Lily’s only option. Until a handsome gun-for-hire suggests another solution: marriage.

Undercover US Marshal Jake Elder can’t reveal his true identity without blowing his mission. Nor can he leave the town’s pretty new arrival unguarded. But while uncovering a plot against her charges is difficult and risky, falling for Lily is all too easy. Especially once their marriage in name only gives Jake a glimpse of how wonderful Christmas—and their future as a family—could be.

A Family for the Holidays

In this inspirational historical romance, a cowboy with kids and a woman on the run strike a marriage bargain and discover love on the western prairie.

A Mother for His Children

Single father Shane McCoy has his hands full trying to run a ranch while raising two-year-old twins. His children clearly need a mother’s guiding hand. An encounter with a lovely stranger on a train platform offers an unconventional answer to his predicament when she suggests a marriage of convenience.

Tessa Spencer needs a fresh start far from her con man father’s schemes. His latest scrape has made her the target of a vengeful outlaw. Shane’s isolated ranch provides refuge, and his children easily win Tessa’s affections. But as her checkered past resurfaces, only honesty and trust will make this family Christmas the first of many . . .

The Rancher's Christmas Proposal

A make-believe betrothal just may lead to a genuine lasting love in this inspirational novel of romance on the range . . . 

Rock-solid and reliable, veterinarian and confirmed bachelor Caleb McCoy thought nothing could rattle him—until he discovered he needed to pose as Anna Bishop’s intended groom. After saving her life, his code of honor bid Caleb watch over the innocent beauty. And a pretend engagement is the only way to protect her from further harm. 

Raised by a single mother and suffragist, Anna doesn’t think much of marriage—and she certainly doesn’t plan to try it herself. But playing Caleb’s blushing bride-to-be makes her rethink her independent ways, because their make-believe romance is becoming far too real . . .

The Engagement Bargain

In this inspirational historical romance, a woman on the run from the law finds protection and love on a cattle drive with a handsome cowboy.

Galahad in a Stetson

Cowboy John Elder needs a replacement crew of cattle hands to drive his longhorns to Kansas—he just never figured they’d be wearing petticoats. Traveling with Moira O’Mara and the orphan girls in her care is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Yet despite Moira’s declaration of independence, the feisty beauty evokes John’s every masculine instinct to protect, defend . . . marry?

Moira is grateful for John’s help when he rescues her—and she can’t deny that his calm, in-control manner proves comforting. But she is determined not to let anything get in the way of her plans to search for her long-lost brother at journey’s end. However, can John show her a new future—one perfect for them to share?

Prairie Courtships

Prairie Courtships

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