Read Free Western Romance Novels
The wide open spaces are the backdrop for the western romance novel. Whether it is the handsome cowboy trying to catch the attention of the beautiful woman, the challenges of the city-slicker trying to fit into western life or the man or woman looking for wide open spaces, the characters are often not expecting to find romance.
The scene of a western romance novel could take place anywhere from the mid-west or western United States in the 1800s to current times in the outback of Australia. Western romance novels are just one of the many types of free online romance novels on PublicBookshelf.
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Fool's Gold  |
Fool's Gold
After the murder of his cousin by Indians, all Luke Catlin wanted was enough money to get back to Pennsylvania. But a Lipan Apache Indian and a pretty girl had other ideas. They were about to teach him something more about the Apache – something he wasn’t sure he wanted to know. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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Courtship of the Recluse  |
Courtship of the Recluse
Cindy accepts a housekeeping job at a remote west Texas ranch. The stoic and reclusive rancher has offered her access to a horse and 3000 plus acres in her spare time. Eventually, respect and admiration for him spawns a much deeper emotion – one that gets out of control in fuzzy stages that blend into each other. Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Western Romance |
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Inez, A Tale of the Alamo  |
Inez, A Tale of the Alamo
Inez de Garcia is sixteen-year-old Mexican heiress with wealth in lands and beauty. She is also a stubborn girl. Although promised to marry her cousin Manuel Nevarro on her seventeenth birthday, she begs her father to break the engagement. When he won't, Inez takes matters into her own hands. Category: Western Romance |
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Molly McDonald  |
Molly McDonald
Major Daniel McDonald does not hesitate to bring his high-sprited daughter, Molly, to Fort Devere, where he is assigned to protect the new Cimarron trail to Santa Fe. He underestimates the threats from nearby Sioux warriors, however, as well as the attention Molly attracts from his soldiers. Category: Western Romance |
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The Highgrader  |
The Highgrader
Moya dreams of the stars even as a child, creating constellations from imagination and red paper. Real life is not so lovely, but the Irish girl keeps her dreams alive even when she finds herself engaged to the wrong man in a hardscrabble American mining town. Category: Western Romance |
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The Heart of the Desert  |
The Heart of the Desert
Rhoda Tuttle moves to the desert for her health, only to be stung by a scorpion on her first outing. Charley Cartwell, or Kut-le, swoops in to save her, charming and frightening her at the same time. Rhoda wonders how this man of the land will measure up to her current suitor from the city. Category: Western Romance |
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The Forbidden Trail  |
The Forbidden Trail
It takes energy and dedication to make the desert soil bloom. Young Charley, or Charlotte, and her neighbor Roger grow up together as new practices makes lush crops possible even in the desert. Their own relationship is as difficult as desert farming, but with nurturing, anything is possible. Category: Western Romance |
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Daughter of the Dons  |
Daughter of the Dons
Manuel Pesquiera and Richard Gordon both have claims to stake in the gold-crazy hills and valleys of New Mexico. The future of their business ventures lies in land about to be inherited by the lovely young Senorita Valdes. The men find that the only way to win the land is to first win her heart. Category: Western Romance |
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The Heritage of the Desert  |
The Heritage of the Desert
Coming to Utah for healing, New Englander John Hare thinks he has found it with a Mormon family and the beautiful Indian girl Mescal. But when he learns Mescal is promised to one of his rescuers, his loyalties are tested. Can he woo Mescal without alienating the very people who are protecting him? Categories: Western, Western Romance |
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The Long Shadow  |
The Long Shadow
Charming Billy is alone in his meager cabin when the evening wind blows a feminine breeze his way. Flora Bridger takes Billy quite by surprise, appearing on his doorstep with a lame horse, far from her home. His desolate little shack may never be the same again. Category: Western Romance |
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Good Indian  |
Good Indian
How can a man called Good Indian be neither an Indian nor very good? Grant Imsen straddles two worlds in the Idaho ranchlands until he meets Evadna Ramsey, newcomer from New Jersey. Frightened by his wild ways but attracted to his educated mind, Evadna helps Grant define himself in a whole new way. Category: Western Romance |
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The Desert Valley  |
The Desert Valley
The search for gold sends a college professor and his daughter on a quest for fortune in the deserts of the American southwest. Along the way, they meet their share of misfortune, however, as they join with a lonely rancher and get caught up in an age-old feud. Category: Western Romance |
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Ranch at the Wolverine  |
Ranch at the Wolverine
Surviving in the sagebrush West has its tough moments, especially for a young woman set on keeping the family ranch going after her father dies. Nearby, however, is a quiet cowboy trying to start his own ranch. When the two cross paths, their futures are changed forever. Category: Western Romance |
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The Man of the Desert  |
The Man of the Desert
The private car parked in the train station has a small Arizona town buzzing. When the Radcliffe family finally emerges, all eyes are on Hazel Radcliffe, a true beauty who brings all sorts of trouble to town, including an affection for lonely missionary John Brownleigh. Category: Western Romance |
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The Golden Woman  |
The Golden Woman
Violet-eyed Joan Stanmore brings an unusual kind of luck to the men she loves. They become rich overnight just by marrying Joan. Unfortunately, the pairing also leads many to their deaths. Reluctant to believe she is cursed, Joan sets out nonetheless to change the fate of future suitors. Categories: Romantic Suspense, Western Romance |
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The Fighting Shepherdess |
The Fighting Shepherdess
17-year-old Katie Prentice fears she is trapped in a small sheep farming town and must always put up with the disrespectful men who come through. Her fears begin to wane, however, when she meets Hughie Disston. Each will face many challenges on the adventure-filled road to the other. Category: Western Romance |
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Dwellers in the Hills  |
Dwellers in the Hills
Climb into the mountains of West Virginia in the days before settlers changed the landscape forever and discover what love of the land has in common with love of a woman. Also uncover the mystery of oft-told legends that speak of dwarfs inhabiting these hills long before men came along. Categories: Western, Western Romance |
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Burning Daylight |
Burning Daylight
An Alaskan adventurer has come to a sorry state, having been cheated out of his gold bounty by the rush of new prospectors and swindlers. Demoralized, he turns to drinking and goes steadily downhill until he falls in love. The lady loves him, but she has high expectations. Can he meet them? Category: Western Romance |
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Whispering Smith  |
Whispering Smith
The man nicknamed Whispering Smith is a steel-hard railroad detective in the old West. When a friend is fired from the railroad and turns to train-wrecking, he must go after him. The chase gets complicated when Smith meets, and falls for, the wife of his quarry. Category: Western Romance |
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The Valley of the Silent Men  |
The Valley of the Silent Men
Canadian trapper Sergeant Kent turns from hunter to hunted when he is wrongly accused of murder. He flees along the cold Northern rivers with a mysterious girl who laughs at him but hides her own secrets. Together they make their way through the wilds to the Valley of Silent Men. Categories: Romantic Suspense, Western Romance |
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Virginia of Elk Creek Valley  |
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
Virginia is a bright-eyed Wyoming girl of seventeen when friends arrive from New England for adventures in the Western woods. Amidst trail-riding, barn-warming, and bear-chasing, Virginia brings together hometown friends and Eastern visitors, thus connecting her childhood to her impending womanhood. Category: Western Romance |
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A Texas Matchmaker  |
A Texas Matchmaker
Lance Lovelace, a self-proclaimed student of human nature, introduces his nephew to Esther McLeod at a country dance, and they dance all night together. They want to marry, but her family objects and sends Esther away, though not without leaving a trail a young cowboy in love can easily follow. Category: Western Romance |
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Salomy Jane |
Salomy Jane
The Gold Rush is on, and California is full of prospectors of all sorts. One attempts to capture Salomy Jane Clay, but she is saved by a dashing stranger, Jack Dart. Jane may have to return the favor as Dart is in danger of being lynched for a crime he did not commit. Category: Western Romance |
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Lonesome Land |
Lonesome Land
Valeria shuns the hard-working cowboy, Kent, when she first meets him, but doesn't stop watching him. Kent watches Val very closely as she struggles with poverty and a drunken husband. He knows Val is worthy of more than her husband can give. Is he the man to do it? Category: Western Romance |
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The Gringos: A Story of the Old California Days in 1849 |
The Gringos: A Story of the Old California Days in 1849
When a Mexican senorita takes a blue-eyed gringo as a lover in the Old West, rumors are rampant. She is bold, sending notes roses through her maid, and the whispers grow louder. The passion of the duels fought over this union is equalled only by what passes between the two unlikely lovers. Category: Western Romance |
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The Dude Wrangler |
The Dude Wrangler
The old and the new clash in the halls of The Colonial Inn, where men retired from work in the Old West live beside young women making their own way in the world. It is at The Colonial, with all its history, that Wallie first meets Helene, and generations of family feuds come roaring to life. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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The Man From The Bitter Roots |
The Man From The Bitter Roots
Growing up and joining the Shutin Mining Camp, Bruce Burt learns to be stubborn and powerful. But when his mother dies and his partner is murdered, he faces questions about living a life of adventure or building a civilized society. Perhaps a feminine influence is just what he needs. Category: Western Romance |
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Oh, You Tex! |
Oh, You Tex!
Jack Roberts, or Tex, is a Texas Ranger in the days of the Civil War. Whether his adventures take him into a gunfight with Mexicans or exploits with a certain young lady, he is the picture of the robust, wild, free man of the Old West. Category: Western Romance |
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Mavericks |
Mavericks
Our hero is a rustler, who earns the ire of the early settlers of the Old West with his plundering and pillaging of their settlements. There is one woman who sees something else in this maverick; will his charm be enough to overcome his reputation and win her heart? Category: Western Romance |
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To The Last Man |
To The Last Man
Son of a cattleman, Jean Isabel tests family loyalty by falling in love with the daughter of a sheepherder, Ellen Jorth. The rivalry of generations is reawakened and the lovers are caught in the crossfire in a story that takes a chapter from the real family feuds of the early American West. Category: Western Romance |
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The Man of the Forest  |
The Man of the Forest
Loner Milt Dale seeks solitude in the wild mountains of Arizona, and instead finds himself rescuing two young women from a kidnapping plot. He must lead the timid Helen and her wildhearted sister Bo away from danger, and try not to fall in love along the way. Category: Western Romance |
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A Voice in the Wilderness |
A Voice in the Wilderness
Margaret Earle travels alone to Arizona, where her adventures begin the minute she steps off the train in the darkness of a desert night. Her job as a schoolteacher takes her into the religious life of a small town, where she befriends cowboys and meets the charming Lance, an Easterner like herself. Category: Western Romance |
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O Pioneers!  |
O Pioneers!
The Bergson family struggles to hang on to the family farms in Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. Especially Alexandra, a strong-willed young woman who makes the farms prosper. Now, childhood friend Carl Linstrum showers her with unexpected attention. Does he want her love or her land? Categories: Historical Romance, Western Romance |
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Ben Blair  |
Ben Blair
As a child of only eight, Ben Blair loses his mother to tragedy, and does not know his real father. When he later falls in love, he is determined not to suffer another such loss. To win her, he will have to face deep family secrets and harsh Plains weather to follow his sweetheart to New York. Category: Western Romance |
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The Everlasting Whisper |
The Everlasting Whisper
Nature has the power to transform in this tale of a man struggling against his savage side and a spoiled, beautiful girl learning to trust her own courage and strength. The California wilderness is the source of regeneration for this unlikely pair. Category: Western Romance |
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Beth Norvell  |
Beth Norvell
The clear air of the Colorado mountains cannot stop the complicated and somewhat scandalous love triangles that Beth Norvell finds herself involved in. The lead performer in a traveling play, Beth brings something new to the Western town that attracts all sorts of attention. Category: Western Romance |
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An Apache Princess  |
An Apache Princess
A young Lieutenant is a wanted man. A passionate Apache Princess seeks his admiration, an older maiden lady suspects him of lax morals, and a Scottish girl falls totally in love. Relationships grow complicated amidst Indian scouts, rescue parties, and a French maid with devious motives. Category: Western Romance |
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The Girl from Montana  |
The Girl from Montana
Alone in the Montana mountains, Elizabeth hides from the man who has threatened her life. She rides East, seeking shelter with grandparents she has never met. Her journey takes many twists and turns, and she always remembers the kind man who rides with her for part of her journey. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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The Gentleman from Indiana |
The Gentleman from Indiana
A fresh young face in the newspaper business, John Harkless believes in printing the truth. His policy is dangerous in a town terrorized by bandits who attack the journalist and leave him for dead. It is up to his girlfriend Helen to run the paper and find out what really happened to John. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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The Lighted Match |
The Lighted Match
Traveling in disguise, a beautiful princess travels through the United States and finds herself falling in love with an American man. Though bound to another across the water, she struggles to free herself to be with her true love in America. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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Riders of the Purple Sage  |
Riders of the Purple Sage
Jane Withersteen, Mormon-born Utah native, goes against her church when she befriends a young Gentile rider, Venters. He is trailing the mysterious Masked Rider through the Old West. Both Venters and a notorious gunman named Lassiter bring adventure, intrigue, and romance to the Withersteen ranch. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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The Daughter of the Chieftain |
The Daughter of the Chieftain
A band of Iroquois warriors hold hostage Linna, the young daughter of Delaware Chieftain, Omas. Omas is never far behind as the bandits run with the girl. The kidnappers may be fierce, but Omas, the young Ben Ripley, and Linna herself are clever. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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The Daughter of a Magnate |
The Daughter of a Magnate
An accomplished railroad engineer woos a beautiful heiress to a railroad fortune in this Western romance. The would-be lovers must survive freezing gales, blocked train tracks and driving blizzards in their quest to be together. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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Desert Gold |
Desert Gold
Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard Gale sees the possibilities of passion and gold when he finds himself trying to save a beautiful Spanish heiress from a Mexican bandit. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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The Covered Wagon |
The Covered Wagon
Jesse Wingate leads a caravan of covered wagons from Kansas City to Oregon, encountering all the challenges that met real-life travelers on the Oregon Trail. A big challenge is Will Banion, who will fight Jesse for the affections of his daughter and leadership of the caravan. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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The Claim Jumpers |
The Claim Jumpers
The life of a miner in the Black Hills of South Dakota is not an easy one, and the new mine manager in Spanish Gulch has his work cut out for him. The adventures of a scheming bunch of treasure hunters meets up with a possible romance, if only the true identity of one Bill Fay would be revealed. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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The Call of the Canyon  |
The Call of the Canyon
Braving the elements, wilderness, and outlaws, Carley Burch leaves the glamorous life in New York to join her fiance, Glenn Kilbourne, in Arizona. Glenn needs the open country to help him recover from shellshock suffered in WWI. To keep him, Carley will need to adapt to the rigorous Western life, which includes fending off another woman who has her eye on Glenn in this romantic adventure story. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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The Border Legion  |
The Border Legion
Only the love of the young Miss Joan Randle can melt the cold heart of Jack Kells, ruthless leader of a gang of desperados terrorizing the American borderlands. Although she starts out as his captive, something truly good in Joan makes Kells change his ways. That change of heart could cost him his life, or make him a hero, in the wild world of the West. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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Cabin Fever  |
Cabin Fever
Bud Moore enters into a partnership with a prospector in the Western wilderness and looks forward to a life of adventure and fortune. Little does he know how much soul-searching will go on in the cabin they share, especially when a child enters their lives and changes their destinies. Categories: Romance, Western Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Brand Blotters  |
Brand Blotters
Accused of murder, a young man is pursued across the Arizona deserts, but finds refuge at the Bar Double G ranch at the invitation of the owner's daughter, Melissy. Melissy knows his secrets but vows to keep them in this romantic adventure of the Old West. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense, Western Romance |
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