Books with author Kathleen Baxter

A stubborn young woman. A rugged wagon master. Will the trail into the Western territory tame their wild hearts? Susan Farr would travel any distance for a chance at a new beginning. After losing her parents and her home in a tragic twist of fate, she’s determined to hitch a ride on the next wagon train to the Oregon coast—even if it means marrying her way in. But when she’s swept off her feet by the handsome wagon master, her marriage of convenience to someone else turns into a conundrum of the heart. Mike Todd keeps his passengers on a tight reign. In his role as wagon master, he’s fended off too many native raiders and kidnappers to allow pretty young maidens to travel alone. But when his code of conduct saddles the alluring Susan to a deadbeat drunk, his own budding feelings may just inspire a change of course…In the uncharted expanses of the American West, can Susan and Mike find their way to a romantic new beginning or will their love get lost in the wild? We’ve Only Just Begun is the first sweet romance in the Oregon Trail Dreamin’ Historical Western series. If you like heartwarming love stories, accurate details, and death-defying twists and turns, then you’ll love Kathleen Ball’s action-packed tale of life on the trail. Buy We’ve Only Just Begun to embark on a perilous journey into the heart today!

THREE BEST-SELLING SWEET CHRISTIAN WESTERN ROMANCEIf you like hard-working cowboys, feisty women, and frontier country settings, then you’ll love Kathleen Ball’s hearth-warming series The Settlers Sweet Western Romance Trilogy. Greg:A naive gold-digger. A world-weary miner. Will a tragic twist of fate become a rich vein of love?California, 1848. Greg Settler’s golden ambitions have hit stony ground. Forced to rely on his neighbor Hugo and Hugo’s feisty daughter for mining help, he’s had about enough of the woman’s condescending attitude. But when his neighbor’s dying words demand Greg take care of his headstrong daughter, he’s not sure his fortunes have improved… Mercy Watkins believed in her father’s dreams. Now burdened with a man who doesn’t know the first thing about mining, her world collapses further when Greg is accused of murder. With the hanging hours away, Mercy’s only solution to save her former neighbor may be marriage. Juan:He’s a Mexican loner. She’s an unwed mom. Can two outcasts turn misfortune into love’s destiny?Oregon, 1830. Sonia Wist’s luck never came through. Now widowed, broke, and a young mom, she’s too ashamed to stay in town. Stumbling into an empty cabin, Sonia’s all out of hope until a horse wrangler finally gives her the break she’s waited for…Juan Settler has always suffered the pain of prejudice. So when the Mexican horse wrangler discovers a pretty woman and her son hiding out, her wounded eyes go straight to his heart. Welcoming her to his family, he wonders if he’s finally found a place to fit in. Scarlett:A snobby bride. A down-to-earth groom. Can they shape their mail-order marriage into long-lasting love?Oregon, 1831. Scarlett Settler knows she’ll never live down being left at the altar. Quietly agreeing to become mail-order bride, she waits to be pampered by servants and chefs. But when she discovers her husband is a lowly blacksmith without a housekeeper in sight, she wonders if her golden dreams have turned to pig iron.Dillon Stahl can’t wait to show off the house he built for his new wife. But when the haughty, opinionated woman belittles his work and their home, he worries he’s in over his head. Straining to look beyond her frustration, he starts to see the true woman he’d like to get to know for a lifetime.

SWEET Historical RomanceLily Lewis was captured by the Sioux two long years ago and all hope of her rescue had faded. Suddenly she finds herself traded to two old trappers and is terrified as to what life will bring her next.Jed Todd has been looking for Lily since the day she was abducted along the Oregon Trail. This time he is the wagon master. Word comes that his trapper friends have found and bought Lily for him. He rides fast and fierce to get to her and is relieved to find her in one piece.The way he felt about her before she'd been stolen wasn't a figment of his imagination. From the moment he saw her again he knew his love was real.Lily isn't well received by the others on the wagon train and realizes that having a relationship with Jed would only hinder him in life. He'd never be accepted in polite society. Once in Oregon she plans to leave for Washington territory to live alone.Attempts on her life and the life of a young girl make Lily realize that she and Jed share a love worth searching for. These are other Historical Western Romance / Mail Order Bride Authors you might enjoy:Etta Foster,Carol ColyerChloe CarleyAurora HansonEvelyn BoyettCassidy HantonAva WintersFlorence LinningtonElliee Atkinson

SWEET Historical RomanceLily Lewis was captured by the Sioux two long years ago and all hope of her rescue had faded. Suddenly she finds herself traded to two old trappers and is terrified as to what life will bring her next.Jed Todd has been looking for Lily since the day she was abducted along the Oregon Trail. This time he is the wagon master. Word comes that his trapper friends have found and bought Lily for him. He rides fast and fierce to get to her and is relieved to find her in one piece. The way he felt about her before she’d been stolen wasn’t a figment of his imagination. From the moment he saw her again he knew his love was real.Lily isn’t well received by the others on the wagon train and realizes that having a relationship with Jed would only hinder him in life. He’d never be accepted in polite society. Once in Oregon she plans to leave for Washington territory to live alone.Attempts on her life and the life of a young girl make Lily realize that she and Jed share a love worth searching for.

A stubborn young woman. A rugged wagon master. Will the trail into the Western territory tame their wild hearts? Susan Farr would travel any distance for a chance at a new beginning. After losing her parents and her home in a tragic twist of fate, she’s determined to hitch a ride on the next wagon train to the Oregon coast—even if it means marrying her way in. But when she’s swept off her feet by the handsome wagon master, her marriage of convenience to someone else turns into a conundrum of the heart. Mike Todd keeps his passengers on a tight reign. In his role as wagon master, he’s fended off too many native raiders and kidnappers to allow pretty young maidens to travel alone. But when his code of conduct saddles the alluring Susan to a deadbeat drunk, his own budding feelings may just inspire a change of course…In the uncharted expanses of the American West, can Susan and Mike find their way to a romantic new beginning or will their love get lost in the wild? We’ve Only Just Begun is the first sweet romance in the Oregon Trail Dreamin’ Historical Western series. If you like heartwarming love stories, accurate details, and death-defying twists and turns, then you’ll love Kathleen Ball’s action-packed tale of life on the trail. Buy We’ve Only Just Begun to embark on a perilous journey into the heart today!

Travel back in time to the beginning of the twentieth century and learn the true story of how the teddy bear came to be. Two teddy bears were created at the same time one in America and one in Germany. Both claim to be the first. After each bear tells his side of the story, it will be up to you to decide: Which was the first teddy bear? This carefully researched and enchantingly illustrated children s storybook allows each of the candidates for First Teddy Bear to tell his tale. The characters, through witty banter and debate, reveal the conflicting accounts behind the 1903 creation of this beloved plaything.

"During Ordinary Time, we tend to approach our faith as if it is...well, ordinary" -From the Introduction In This Little Light of Mine: Living the Beatitudes Kathleen M. Basi shows us how to turn an "ordinary" season into a faithful one. With the Beatitudes and the Ten Commandments, you and your family can enjoy and grow in faith throughout the liturgical year with these fun activities and reflections. With This Little Light of Mine, families can take advantage of: - Learning Bring-Your-Faith-to-Life activities for the entire family. - Learning the Ten Commandments and how to obey them - Living the Beatitudes each and every day When faith becomes a part of our actions, it becomes real, it becomes effective and powerful in the world. That is the goal to which we aspire as Christians, and it is what This Little Light of Mine can help families accomplish every day.

Sibling rivalry run amokJonas Kragen and his twin sister, Jillian, have been going at it since before they were born: launching fierce kick-boxing matches in their mother’s womb, turning walkers into bumper cars, grade school recesses into blood sport, and puberty into pistols at ten paces.Jillian thinks Jonas is Exhibit ‘A’ in the case for man’s evolution from the ape and what brains he has are all in his biceps. Jonas is convinced his sister is a shallow little drama queen with a gift for getting under his skin.Fourteen and still feuding, this dueling duo is in for a rude awakening when they undergo a shocker of a switcharoo and discover they’ve inexplicably changed places! Jonas is suddenly sporting toe rings, and wearing gunky mascara and candy apple red nail polish. Jillian’s got Jonas’s hairy legs, humongous feet, and tidy whities.And Jonas wants them back!With cheerleading tryouts and the big football scrimmage coming up, these traumatized twins must find a way to peacefully coexist long enough to figure out how to reverse the surreal swap before someone discovers they’ve traded spaces.It’s a battle of the sexes, sibling-style, where Freaky Friday is child’s play and “walk a mile in my shoes” takes on a whole new meaning.How do you say “gender gap”?