Bitter Creek series
Author
1) The cowboy
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Joan Johnston transports us to rugged present-day Texas--a place of wide-open prairies and unbridled ambitions--where two ranching families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, are locked in a bitter century-old feud. Here, Johnston brings to life a breathtaking love story--between the Blackthornes' oldest son and the Creeds' beautiful daughter--a magnificent novel of passion, vengeance, and star-crossed love. Trace Blackthorne was taught from the cradle...
2) The Texan
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Description
"Owen Blackthorne was a lone wolf, a man who didn't need anyone. Until Bayleigh Creed appeared on his doorstep, demanding his help in locating her missing brother. They headed into the desolate West Texas wilderness together, a Blackthorne and a Creed, mortal enemies obliged to join forces to survive."--Back cover
3) The loner
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The return of Billy Coburn, the man who had once run out on her, turns Summer Blackthorne's world upside down when she discovers that he is the bastard son of her own adopted father, Jackson Blackthorne, and that she is the only one who can help him hold onto his own unwanted son.
4) The price
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Luke Creed has sacrificed everything for his career at the prestigious law firm DeWitt & Blackthorne: a chance to run his family's ranching empire, his marriage, even time with his two daughters. Defending a major client in a wrongful death case, Luke crosses paths with his school sweetheart, Amy Hazeltine Nash, an advocate for the bereaved plaintiff.
5) The rivals
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 5
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Deputy sheriff and single mother Sarah Barndollar is working to solve two cold cases of missing young women, but when a third vanishes, she finds herself caught in the middle of two powerful feuding families and the sexy Drew De Witt.
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A lavish summer wedding is being planned at Bitter Creek ranch. In one month, Clay Blackthorne will wed socialite Jocelyn Montrose. But when she hears stirrings of a corporate takeover by the family's archrival, North Grayhawk, Jocelyn covertly heads to North's ranch to offer a valuable commodity -- herself -- if North will call off his plans. Striking a deal to spend the summer with the steely, seductive North, Jocelyn fails to see that her sacrifice...
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 7
Language
English
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Description
FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a stranger who calls herself Grace Smith, only to discover early the next morning that her real name is Merle Raye Finkel -- and she's a convicted double murderer who broke her parole a year ago and disappeared. Now she's his prime suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S. president. Grace Caldwell is determined to find the killer who framed her for the murder of her father...
8) Shattered
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 8
Description
Experience this gripping saga from New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston's fan-favorite in the Bitter Creek series, Shattered.
Nine years ago Kate Grayhawk Pendelton walked into Wyatt Shaw's life-and out of it the next morning. Now Wyatt's back-and has the power to shatter Kate's future with the man she loves.
By reputation, Wyatt Shaw is a brutal killer who always gets what he wants. And he wants Kate and her twin eight-year-old sons....
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now it's her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of a Chicago orphanage. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: her husband-to-be, Jake Creed, knows nothing about the brothers she's bringing along.
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Series
Language
English
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After three months in a mail-order marriage, Hannah Wentworth McMurtry is a widow -- pregnant, alone, and near death in the Wyoming wilderness. Though she is saved by Flint Creed, a man with a face cut from stone, she still grieves the husband who died on their journey west. Hannah needs a husband, but does she dare marry another stranger? Flint Creed has also lost someone he loved -- when the woman he hoped to marry chose his younger brother instead....
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After she is rescued from an abandoned wagon on the Oregon trail, Hetty Wentworth becomes a mail-order bride for a handsome man in the Montana territory, but just as she is settling in to her new life, her husband's best friend tries to ruin her one chance at happiness.
12)
Unforgettable: a Bitter Creek novel , Bitter Creek series volume 12
Author
13) Sinful
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 13
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After a tragic accident leaves Delta sergeant Connor Flynn a widower, he faces the toughest fight of his life: battling his in-laws for custody of his two young children. To win he'll need a make-believe bride to take care of the kids while he runs his Wyoming ranch. Who better than a woman he already knows and likes--his late wife's best friend? Ruthlessly forced from her home by her powerful father, King Grayhawk, Eve needs somewhere to go ...
14) Shameless
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 14
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Scorned, pregnant, and facing a life without promise, Pippa Grayhawk is stunned when her father announces that they're leaving their home in Australia to take over his estranged father's sprawling Wyoming ranch. Drawn into bitter family rivalries and feeling like an interloper in her new home, Pippa rides out into the wilderness and meets an intriguing stranger and his pet wolf. The wolf doesn't scare her, but she's very much afraid to trust another...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Josie Wentworth, a maid in the house of the Duke of Blackthorne, becomes a wealthy heiress, she vows to teach the duke, whom she has despised for years, a lesson by transforming herself in order to catch his eye, and then breaking his heart.
16) Surrender
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 16
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 18
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Facing the unexpected consequences of a life-altering night of passion with a cowboy she met in a Jackson Hole bar, and with her life committed to protecting endangered species, Victoria Grayhawk does what she believes is the right thing. She hunts down the cowboy, seeking his agreement that their baby should be adopted by a loving family. Montana rancher Ryan Sullivan has no intention of giving away his own flesh and blood, and takes their son to...