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Protecting Annie

(Burrton Springs Brides)

by Jodie Wolfe

After twenty years living along the trail as a deputy U.S. Marshal, Joshua Walker takes a job as sheriff in Burrton Springs, Kansas so he can be closer to his sister. Only problem is, she no longer requires his protecting.

After the death of her father, Annie McPherson needs a change. She accepts a position as schoolmarm hoping her past won’t catch up with her. Life is good, except for the pesky lawman who creates confrontations at every turn and continually questions her ability to adjust to life in the west.

When the irritating schoolteacher’s past and present collide, dragging Josh into the turmoil, he has to decide who he’s willing to defend.

The Six Loves of Jack Brown

by Danny Mac

Six women reveal their relationship with Jack. They describe his life of joining a company at age seventeen and working his way up to sales where he finds his calling. Meeting and falling in love with the boss’s daughter, Sarah, they marry. Jack sees the market changing and wants to change with it and so they buy the company from her father. They struggle for many years and it pays off into a successful enterprise. They have one child and raise Katherine to adulthood. After Kathrine’s senior year of high school, Sarah dies from cancer. This leaves Jack aimless and depressed as he gave up control of the company to be with his wife in the end. The next ten years he dates four women who help him cope with life as he searches for God to join his wife again. In the end, he finds God and loses his life. As the women disclose Jack’s life, they uncover their own life with and without Jack.