The Cañon City Chronicles Series

Sweet Historical Western Romance Straight to My Heart – The Cañon City Chronicles – Book 2 The Hutton family is back—two generations of adventurous men and courageous women carving out a life in the Old West. Looks like old enemies can become friends—and more—until Whit Hutton tries to tell Livvy what a woman can and cannot do on a cattle spread. Revised second edition, first published in 2014 as Branding the Wrangler’s Heart. Columbines, cougars, and a controlling cowboy are not what Livvy Hartman expects when she moves to the Bar-HB to care for her widowed grandfather. The infuriating foreman was her childhood nemesis, and now he’s trying to tell her what a woman can and cannot do on a cattle spread. She’ll show him—and she does—until he shows her how much he cares. As foreman of the Bar-HB, Whit Hutton always gets his way—except where his boss’s granddaughter is concerned. Once the victim of his childhood pranks, Livvy has a mind of her own, distracting him from keeping his crew out of the railroad feud over a narrow, mountain right-of-way. Now he’s feuding with his own heart over what to do about the feisty beauty. He can’t keep her from joining the roundup any more than he can keep her out of his thoughts. But when he rescues her from a stalking predator, he realizes what he’d lose if he lost her.

Sweet Historical Western Romance Romancing the Widow – The Cañon City Chronicles – Book 3 The Hutton family is back—two generations of adventurous men and courageous women carving out a life in the Old West. A heart-tugging tale of hope, danger, and love. Revised from 2014 and winner of the 2015 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Inspirational Western Fiction. Young widow Martha Stanton returns to her parents’ parsonage in Cañon City, bereft of love and deprived of hope. As dry and lifeless as the fossils she once collected during the city’s infamous “bone wars,” she resigns herself to a dull existence—until she crosses paths with an old flame and a darkly mysterious stranger. Colorado Ranger Haskell Jacobs is on a mission. And the flame-haired beauty in black who steps off the train isn’t what he’s looking for. Or is she? As drawn as he is to her fiery spirit, Haskell learns that she has connections to the horse thief he’s hunting. Entanglement with a preacher’s daughter is the last thing he needs—and the one thing he can’t avoid.

Sweet Historical Western Romance Loving the Horseman – The Cañon City Chronicles – Book 1 The Hutton family is back—two generations of adventurous men and courageous women carving out their lives in the Old West. Annie Whitaker refuses to wait for some man to come along and make her life better when she can do that herself. And then Caleb Hutton rides into town. Revised second edition, first published in 2014 as The Cowboy Takes a Wife. Copper-haired Annie Whitaker follows her father to mine-supply town Cañon City where they open their mercantile in the wake of the Pikes Peak gold rush. While serving her “potbellied biscuits” to mercantile customers, she falls under the lustful eye of the local hotel and saloon owner but does her best to avoid him. A mysterious cowboy also frequents the store and, like most everyone else, turns out to be much more than she expected. One-time preacher Caleb Hutton has sworn off the pulpit and women, but Annie Whitaker’s warm smile and melt-in-your-mouth biscuits have drawn him up short. His experience with horses lands him a job at the livery until he can find work elsewhere. But an unexpected friendship with the Whitakers develops into more than he bargained for, and he wonders if maybe God led him to Cañon City for reasons he hasn’t yet discovered.

Sweet Historical Western Romance. The Hutton family is back - two generations of adventurous men and courageous women with heart-tugging tales of hope, danger and love as they carve out a life in the Old West. Book 1 - Loving the Horseman Annie Whitaker refuses to wait for some man to come along and make her life better when she can do that herself. And then Caleb Hutton rides into town. Book 2 - Straight to My Heart Looks like old enemies can become friends—and more—until Whit Hutton tries to tell Livvy what a woman can and cannot do on a cattle spread. Book 3 - Romancing the Widow - Will Rogers Gold Medallion winner for inspirational Western fiction After losing her husband and her hope, a young widow returns to her parents’ home in Cañon City, where she meets a dark and disarming Colorado Ranger.