Her Smile

Book cover of Her Smile by Carla Kelly with two tipis in grassy field and mountains.

Sometimes people end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thanks to an impulsive request from Elizabeth Ann Everett, the Everett family from Omaha, Nebraska, become tourists on a vacation in newly created Yellowstone National Park. The year is 1877 and the weather is fine. When the Nez Perce, fleeing the U.S. Army,…

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Courting Carrie in Wonderland

Courting Carrie in Wonderland novel by Carla Kelly with romantic portrait against dramatic sky.

Struggling through college and balancing her summer job in Yellowstone Park with the Wylie Camping Company, Carrie McKay simply doesn’t have time to consider romance. Spanish American War Veteran Sergeant Major Ramsay Stiles also isn’t looking for love, busy with his own complicated affairs. But as the magic of Yellowstone starts making its way into…

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Softly Falling

Book cover of Softly Falling by Carla Kelly with woman in winter clothing and snowy cabin.

Lovely Lily Carteret, newly arrived from England, learns that her wayward father has lost his Wyoming Territory cattle ranch in a card game to the intense, hardworking Jack Sinclair, foreman on a nearby ranch. When a series of deadly winter storms sets in, Lily and Jack must work together to save the cattle and stay…

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Daughter of Fortune

Book cover of Daughter of Fortune by Carla Kelly with couple portrait and mountains.

Maria Espinosa should not have survived the 1679 cholera epidemic in Mexico City that killed her parents, already reeling from the loss of their fortune, nor should she have survived an Apache raid on the caravan transporting her to a sister in remote Santa Fe, in the royal colony of New Mexico. Rejected by her…

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Safe Passage

Book cover of Safe Passage by Carla Kelly showing a young woman in a lace dress looking downward.

It’s 1912, the beginning of the Mexican Revolution—and the Mormon colonists must flee to the United States. When his estranged wife is mistakenly left behind, Ammon Hancock goes back to rescue her. But when he finds her, he must coax her to follow him to safety and maybe even love him again. This revolution could…

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Her Hesitant Heart

Book cover of Her Hesitant Heart by Carla Kelly with woman seated near train in background.

Tired and hungry after two days of traveling, Susanna Hopkins is just about at the end of her tether when her train finally arrives in Cheyenne. She’s bound for a new life at Fort Laramie. Then she discovers she doesn’t have enough money to pay for the stagecoach to get there. Luckily for her, the…

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