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Marsha Ward
Full Series List in Order
Men of Haught Springs
1 - Blood at Haught Springs (May-2016)Owen Family Saga
0.5 - That Tender Light (Jul-2017)1 - Gone for a Soldier (Sep-2014)
2 - The Man from Shenandoah (Dec-2002)
3 - Spinster's Folly (Nov-2012)
4 - Ride to Raton (Nov-2003)
5 - Trail Of Storms (Mar-2009)
5.5 - The Apple Pie Prize (Dec-2017)
5.6 - Scandalous (Jan-2018)
6 - The Blacksmith's Apprentice (Jul-2023)
Promised Valley
1 - The Zion Trail (Mar-2016)Shenandoah Neighbors
1 - Bloodied Leather (Aug-2017)2 - Mended by Moonlight (Nov-2017)
3 - Broken (Jan-2018)
4 - Ned's Choice (Feb-2018)
5 - Surprising Charity (Sep-2020)
Book List in Order: 27 titles
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The Man from Shenandoah
- Dec-2002
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Book 2 of The Owen Family SagaYoung cavalryman Carl Owen returns from the Civil War to find the family farm destroyed, his favorite brother dead, food scarce, and his fatherdetermined to leave the Shenandoah Valley to build a cattle empire inColora...
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Ride to Raton
- Nov-2003
- / Historical Romance
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Book 4 of The Owen Family SagaFurious and broken by a betrayal that leads to losing his fiancée to his brother, James Owen leaves the family homestead in Colorado Territoryto strike out on his own.Beautiful young Amparo Garcés bargainswith God for ...
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Trail Of Storms
- Mar-2009
- / Historical Romance
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After her sister suffers a brutal attack, Jessie Bingham and her family flee post-Civil War Virginia and endure a perilous trek to New Mexico Territory. When she hears her former sweetheart, James Owen, has taken a wife, Jessie accepts Ned Heizer's m...
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No More Strangers
- Apr-2011
- / General Fiction
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Prose and Poetry of the West from acclaimed Western novelist Marsha Ward. Six short stories, three poems, and an excerpt from a forthcoming novel make up this collection of Western treasures, including the never-before-published "Thumps in the Night....
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Cottonwood Cowboys
- May-2011
- / Historical
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Saturday afternoon working toward evening was a poor time to pull tree clearing duty, especially this Saturday, with the dance all laid out at the school house, and a new schoolmarm to gaze at.In a short story designed to make you chuckle, Western wr...
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Thumps and Losers Two Short Stories
- May-2011
- / General Fiction
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What should a ten-year-old boy buy when he finds a wallet full of cash? A bicycle? A horse? Or something more meaningful? Will business traveler Mel Harris's phone call go unanswered because his wife Murial encountered a bear in their kitchen during ...
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The Usual Game
- May-2011
- / Western
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In writer Marsha Ward's sweet short story, Verl returns to his boarding house after a hard day working construction in the Verde Valley of the new State of Arizona. He's dreaming of going home to Phoenix soon with his wages, home to sweet Betty's arm...
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Spinster's Folly
- Nov-2012
- / Historical
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Book 3: The Owen Family Saga. Winner of the 2013 USA Best Books Award for Western Fiction.Marie Owen yearns for a loving husband, but Colorado Territory is long on rough characters and short on fitting suitors, so a future of spinsterhood seems more ...
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Happy Halloween
- Sep-2014
- / Contemporary Romance
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Mary Beth Larson emerges from the fog of loss in a new location with two young children, determined to start her life again. Glen Hampton and his little kids have already survived their own tragedy. Maybe this Halloween means something besides Trick ...
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Gone for a Soldier
- Sep-2014
- / Historical Romance
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Book 1: The Owen Family Saga. 2014 Whitney Award Finalist-Historical FictionRulon Owen loves two things more than life -- his country and Mary Hilbrands.When Virginia secedes from the Union, Rulon enlists, and finds himself fighting foes both in batt...
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The Zion Trail
- Mar-2016
- / Historical
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On a hot summer day, young Elijah Marshall stops plowing to give a drink of water to two strangers and invite them to lunch with his family. His neighborly act sets in motion events that will drastically change his future.The strangers share a new re...
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Blood at Haught Springs
- May-2016
- / Historical
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Wes Haught wants his brother to grow up and tend to his share of the chores at the family's general store. Lonnie Haught dreams of the day he can leave home and use his gun. Both brothers resent the added work their father's recent accident has laid ...
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Faith and the Foreman
- Jul-2016
- / Historical
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Faith and the Foreman first appeared in OLD WEST COLLECTION, volume 7 of the bestselling and RONE Award-winning Timeless Romance Anthology series, and is now available as a standalone novella.New Yorker Faith Bannister's circumstances force her to be...
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Western Stories
- Apr-2017
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Four short stories by acclaimed author Marsha Ward. This collection includes newly edited editions of Cottonwood Cowboys, The Usual Game, War Party, and No More Strangers.Saturday is a poor time for the boss to assign cowboys Slim and Curly the chore...
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That Tender Light
- Jul-2017
- / Historical Romance
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How did the Owen Family Saga begin?With a love story, of course: when Rod and Julia met.God must have conspired with the angels to put Roderick Owen of Shenandoah County, Virginia, and Julia Helm, of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the same place...
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Bloodied Leather
- Aug-2017
- / Historical
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Isabelle Gilbert chafes against the restrictions that Victorian life puts on a young lady.Forced to accept a betrothal to Percival Egmont, an English ex-patriot like her father, she is disturbed by his passion for prize-fighting -- and other pursuits...
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Mended by Moonlight
- Nov-2017
- / Historical Romance
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A grief-stricken young Confederate widow, Ella Ruth Owen only wants to hide at home and wait to die. Her parents need her to make a pretty appearance in Yankee social circles so her father can recover his business interests. They pressure her to aban...
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The Apple Pie Prize
- Dec-2017
- / Historical Romance
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No one in Shenandoah County would say Rod Owen lacked vigor.The evidence is clear, with six young’uns running around the farm and his wife Julia about to call in the midwife again.A pie crust and a small boy with a sack of dead squirrels can be vex...
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Scandalous
- Jan-2018
- / Historical Romance
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Young Julianna Owen didn't think flirting with Parley Morgan at the barn raising would lead him to put his hands where they ought not to be. But worse yet, her sister discovers them and Parley abandons her, running off into the woods.Julianna's stric...
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Ned's Choice
- Feb-2018
- / Historical Romance
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Ned Heizer has just released his betrothed from her promise to marry him. He knows she’s in good hands that are not his own.But if he carries out his intention to backtrack their trail, to ride toward Raton Pass where he last saw the Mormon wagon p...
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Lies & Secrets
- Mar-2018
- / Historical Romance
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Three Historical Short Stories that expand the Owen Family Universe!
Scandalous: An Owen Family StoryYoung Julianna Owen didn't think flirting with Parley Morgan at the barn raising would lead him to put his hands where they ought not to be. ... -
Surprising Charity
- Sep-2020
- / Historical Romance
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August 1867: Civil War widow Charity Bingham has turned her back on the past in Virginia, and now she bakes and oversees the meals in the Albuquerque House Hotel in the town she has adopted. Her daughters are married, and she looks forward to a quiet...
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Roses Are Red
- May-2022
- / Contemporary Romance
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Bill’s second job, at the plant nursery owned by his girl’s father, might be in jeopardy because of an honest mistake. But AJ’s angry accusation might be the mistake, instead. Can Bill figure out what went wrong before AJ calls off ...
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The Blacksmith's Apprentice
- Jul-2023
- / Contemporary Romance
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Clayton Owen plans to raise and train horses for his family's cattle enterprise, but his father never taught him the skills he needs as a farrier. With Pa's attentions focused elsewhere, Clay apprentices himself to a family friend, the blacksmith in ...
