Avalon Books

When she was young, Retta King, a pilot and airplane owner, made a promise to never get involved with any of the migratory song birds who flew into Nashville to chase the elusive neon rainbow of stardom. Then she met Denison Adams, a tall, hadsome...

Fancy Lynn Sawyer says that before she’ll even think about the M word, a man has to say the three magic words, but “I love you” isn’t enough. He has to promise her a forever thing. She intends to find her forever thing in Florida,...

Angels would have trouble getting along with Micah Burnet, and Tempest Lavalle’s halo is twisted plumb out of shape by the time she gets to the plantation where her two married sisters are living. Micah was the handsomest of the three outlaws who escorted her and her sisters...

The Irish are hardheaded, so Elspeth Hamilton doesn’t like them. The Mexicans are hotheaded so likewise, she doesn’t think much of them either. Since Rebels burned her family home, killing both her parents in the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania fire, it stands to reason she surely doesn’t...

Molly Baker, a first-rate reporter, and Carson Rhodes, an excellent photojournalist are two of the most talented students in their graduating class. So, who else would their professor pick but these two young, adventurous graduate students to go on a journalism excursion? But newly engaged...

Augusta “Gussie” Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and...

Adelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton’s new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it’s cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead. Her...

Douglass Esmeralda Sullivan has just discovered that all men are gutter rats, all except for her six half-Irish, half-Mexican brothers, and sometimes she’s not so sure about them. She’s sitting in the middle of a dusty road on a hot Texas day, fuming because she’s...

Bridget O’Shea had sworn she’d never fall in love again. She had a hotel, The Black Swan, to operate alone, since her sisters—Catherine and Alice—had both married the previous year. And then there was Ella, her lovely baby daughter. The hotel and Ella took up...

Emma Maureen Cummins is fleeing from an overbearing father and the prospect of a loveless marriage in Atlanta, Georgia. She’s intrigued by stories of the Oklahoma land rush the previous year, 1889, and buys a train ticket to Oklahoma. After all, that’s where the excitement...