Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he d be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else the chance to drop-kick his heart. Physical pleasure? Hell, yeah, he ll take and give with gusto, but nothing more.

Hope Meridan is working long hours to hold on to her new quilt shop, going it alone since her sister/business partner ran off. Sex? Right, like she s got the time. Not that she doesn't have the occasional dirty fantasy about Matt. Fat chance he d dream of knocking boots with her the younger sister of the woman who dumped him. Nope, she ll just have to settle for the F-word.

"Friends" would be far easier if there wasn't something combustible going on between them. And when casual interest starts to grow into something more, their tenuous bond strengthens in the heat of desire. But it may not survive the hurricane-force arrival of the last person either of them ever wanted to see again

Warning: Small-town rivals, men in pursuit and family meddling in good and bad ways. Look for a cowboy who knows how to rope, ride and rein in a hell of a lot more than eight seconds of sheer bliss.

Allison Parker needs a convincing excuse to come home to Rocky Mountain House. A hopelessly romantic reason that won’t let her mother suspect the truth—that Allison has discovered Mom is keeping a terrible secret from the family.

Gabe Coleman is struggling with two of the roughest parts of ranching: dealing with his bull-headed mule of a father, and making enough to pay the bills. When his old friend Allison offers to help him develop his ideas for organic ranching—in trade for pretending to be her fiancé—it sounds like the perfect set-up.

Yet the deception leads them in an unexpected direction, where their shared daily hells are erased by nights of heavenly distraction. It’s not supposed to be real, but once the gates are opened, there’s no denying they’ve found in each other a little bit of Paradise.

To break free of the past and face the future, though, will take more than temporary pleasures. It’ll take putting their hearts on the line.

Product Warnings Tortured hero with a guardian-angel complex, grief-stricken heroine willing to sacrifice everything for family. Break out the tissues, this trip to the ranch is a heartbreaker on the way to the HEA.

Vicki Hansol made different choices than her less-than-reputable mom and sister, yet her fiery temper has left her branded with the same town-bad-girl label. When she desperately needs a change of scenery, her get-out-of-town-free ticket arrives—and requires she face down one of her deepest fears.

Easygoing Joel Coleman has nothing to complain about, but he’s never really done anything to brag about either. The youngest member of the Six Pack Ranch is looking to make some changes in his life that include stepping out from under his twin brother’s shadow.

So when the bold beauty with the smart mouth approaches him with a proposition, Joel is intrigued. Her request for him to soon takes on a whole new meaning. All that passion in his arms, his bed, in the barn…hell, anywhere he can get it?

But tangling the sheets leads to unanticipated complications, and by the time the dust settles, everything family means is going to be challenged.

Transforming their parents' rundown ranch in Catcher Creek, New Mexico, into a tourist destination is the toughest challenge the three Sorentino sisters ever faced. But now one of them has another fight on her hands—to keep from falling for the sexy town sheriff—again…

Rachel Sorentino has spent her whole life protecting her siblings from trouble—only to run headlong into it herself. Her first regret about shooting at the vandals targeting her family is that her aim wasn't better. Her second is that when bullets started flying, it was Sheriff Vaughn Cooper's number she dialed. Vaughn is the mistake she keeps on making, a cowboy lawman who cuts through Rachel's surface bravado to the vulnerability no one else sees. And no matter how inconvenient their attraction—for his career, her tangled case, and their already battered hearts—there's no denying what feels so irresistibly right…

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.

Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win a bet against his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But when the paranoid and secretive Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice. William is forced to join forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. With this extraordinary treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and William’s newfound resilience will be tested in his struggle to protect his cache, which pits him against some of the West’s most notorious characters.

A page-turner that draws on both meticulously researched history and an exuberant imagination, is based on the rivalry between real-life paleontologists Cope and Marsh; in William Johnson readers will find an inspiring hero only Michael Crichton could have imagined. Perfectly paced and brilliantly plotted, this enormously winning adventure is destined to become another Crichton classic.

It’s the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she’d been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate’s buried treasure.

Meanwhile Nate Cannon, a young Texas policeman with a pure heart and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed the lives of men, women, and even children across the frontier. Who—if anyone—will survive when their paths finally cross?

As Lucinda and Nate’s stories converge, guns are drawn, debts are paid, and Kathleen Kent delivers an unforgettable portrait of a woman who will stop at nothing to make a new life for herself.

"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable."

Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf.

"A classic American novel of regeneration through violence," declares Michael Herr. "McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers."

VOLUME THREE OF THE BORDER TRILOGY In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. 'In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession. McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' Scotsman 'This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' Daily Telegraph 'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian

The mining settlement of Seneca 6 is set on a distant planet at the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Sheriff Sam Clayton is murdered in the wasteland, beyond the reach of his two children and the people who respected and admired his firm hand in keeping them safe.

Twenty years later, Jem Clayton is an outlaw, known as the infamous Gentleman Jim; a ruthless bandit who never once allowed a woman he encountered to come to harm.

Back in Seneca 6, an intergalactic PNDA Marshal crash lands with one of the galaxies most despicable criminals and must jail him in the Sheriff’s Office until either help arrives or the Harpe Gang shows up to free him. The gang’s leader, Little Willy Harpe, is carrying a weapon of such alien terror that it will destroy everything in his path if he is not stopped.

Join Jem Clayton, Doctor Royce Henry Halladay, and Marshal Jimmy McParlan, for their first amazing adventure. They are the Guns of Seneca 6.

Never challenge a cowboy in the courtroom…

Surveying the proposed site for a high-end golf course should have been a breeze for spunky Landscape Architect Sophie Smith. But when this born-and-bred city girl is suddenly—and quite literally—swept off her feet by a sexy cowboy on horseback, she realizes that the country life has some serious (and seriously steamy!) possibilities. That is, until she finds out exactly who her smokin’-hot wrangler really is.

Cowboy and Tribal lawyer Jake Lodge is desperately trying to block the development. And if that means playing hardball—and being every inch the shark lawyer—so be it. But Sophie is a distraction he didn’t expect. A distraction that makes his blood burn.

Two different worlds. Two opposing sides. And when they finally give into the exquisite temptation, the consequences will shake the foundations of both of their lives…

Фрідріх Герштекер (1816–1872) — популярний німецький письменник пригодницького жанру і відомий мандрівник.

«На дикому Заході» — повість про перших європейських поселенців у штаті Арканзас на американському материку. Невеличкими острівцями розкидалися їхні селища по берегах річок. Фермерам-переселенцям не дає спокою банда грабіжників і вбивць, що діє в околиці. Очолює її місцевий проповідник, що з міною святого «доносить до пастви слово боже», а насправді у вільний від молитов час творить своє чорне діло. Письменник цікаво розповідає, як фермери згуртовуються на свій захист і врешті перемагають злочинців.

Повість Ф. Герштекера перекладено кількома європейськими мовами.

Владислав Івченко (нар. 1976 р.) — український журналіст і письменник, автор кількох повістей та оповідань, неодноразовий лауреат міжнародної премії «Коронація слова». Роман «Одного разу на Дикому Сході» написаний, за визначенням самого автора, у жанрі українського вестерну. Події розгортаються в Україні під час Громадянської війни. За великими скарбами, які заховані у палаці барона фон Шпіла біля села Шпилівка, що під Охтиркою, починається справжнє полювання. Їх хочуть отримати і червоні, й білі. Здається, здобич уже поруч, але раптом виявляється, що палац барона охороняє чудовисько — величезний і могутній Голем, штучна людина, велетень, зроблений за допомогою ворожіння та кабали віденськими рабинами і проданий за великі гроші фон Шпілу. На честь господаря чудовисько називають Шпилем. Він шість метрів заввишки, йому не завдають шкоди кулі і снаряди, не кажучи вже про холодну зброю. Але є в нього слабке місце — він закохується…

Eighteen twisted tales of the wildest West that’s ever been imagined, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pip & Flinx series Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, who some call “Mad Amos”—though not to his face. Atop his unnatural steed, Worthless, Mad Amos is prepared to step into any fray and set things right, albeit in his own unusual way. Now all of his uncanny exploits—including the brand-new story “Stuck”—are collected together for the first time. For this special edition, Alan Dean Foster has also penned original introductions to the series and to each individual adventure. Featuring eight never-before-collected stories, including… GHOST WIND: Nature has a way of making even the strongest folks meek. And with a ghost wind coming over the valley, even Mad Amos Malone is feeling the chill. HOLY JINGLE: Of all the dangers of the Wild West, love might be the most perilous. Because when it goes awry, there’s no telling what might be at stake. A MOUNTAIN MAN AND A CAT WALK INTO A BAR: Mad Amos isn’t quickly moved to action. Still, when it comes to a dog fight, he’s not afraid to bare his teeth. STUCK: The untouched grove of Sequoias is one of the most beautiful, soul-rejuvenating, downright sacred places Amos has ever visited. Until he hears a cry for help….

Человек современного мира, бывший боец специальной разведки, волею судьбы попадает в Америку второй половины 19 века, но как оказывается, прошлое даже для человека подобной профессии оказывается намного беспощаднее и жестче, чем он мог себе представить. Здесь люди проще, наивнее и более набожны, но это не делает из них ангелов. Наоборот. Они видят мир в черно-белом свете, разделяя поступки и людей по принципу "плохой — хороший", а общественное мнение осуждает лишь трусость и предательство. Жизнь и смерть человека часто зависит лишь от обвинения другого человека, часто ничем не подкрепленного. А убил или повесил не того — для этого есть церковь. Замолим грех. А если не повезло тебе…. Опять же церковь пригодиться. Один из современников того времени писал: "условия жизни и нравы людей таковы, что убийство человека на Диком Западе, является неотъемлемой его частью". Если Запад с его шерифами, бандитами и стрелками был одной стороной монеты, то города Востока с продажной полицией, уличными бандами, коррупцией властей были другой ее стороной. В 1868 году преподобный Тэлмедж, известный проповедник, так сказал о Нью-Йорке в своем выступлении в Бруклинской церкви: "Город, став прибежищем для убийц, проституток и аферистов, умирает на наших глазах, корчась в развалинах и вывалявшись в мусорных свалках, помоях и конском навозе". Герою сначала придется испытать на себе все «прелести» жизни Дикого Запада, на" сквозь пропахшего порохом и кровью, затем выживать в трущобах Нью-Йорка, где человеческая жизнь стоила ровно столько, сколько находили у трупа в карманах. Городские улицы цивилизованного Востока на поверку оказываются такими же дикими территориями, как и прерии Запада, а сами города являют собой мир денег, власти и насилия, где идет "война всех против всех". Здесь чтобы выжить, нужно иметь внутреннюю жесткость, хладнокровие и полное безразличие к своей и чужой жизням, здесь — каждый сам за себя. Бывшему бойцу придется приложить немало сил и воли, чтобы выжить на пути, ведущим от бандита — беглеца, за чью голову обещана награда, до человека, ставшего у истоков создания своей торгово-промышленной империи.