California Legends

A notorious Scottish rake becomes an unwitting stowaway on a ship bound for America, until a spirited young botanist restores his reputation, and he becomes the only one who can save her from a twisted fate.

Mathilda Hardwicke, a rebellious artist rejected by her family and New York society, heads west to Gold Rush California as a mail-order bride. But when fate leaves her at the altar, she's drawn to Sakote--a fierce Konkow warrior whose tribe is threatened by the encroaching white men--in whose arms she discovers a savage new Paradise and a forbidden love more precious than gold.

Half-native Chase Wolf’s plan to take revenge on his grandmother’s killer backfires when he starts to fall in love with the woman he kidnaps, and Claire Parker finds that being stolen by a handsome savage is far more thrilling than anything she’s read in her dime novels. With rescue nipping at their heels, it’s a race against time as their lives, and their hearts, become irreversibly entangled.

A half-native gambler wagers his heart on a spirited Italian harlot who takes his money without delivering the goods, but all is forgiven when the law comes for him with guns blazing and she proves to be his Lady Luck.