Bøger af Peggy Patrick

She dreamed of horses!...Flying like the wind astride their beautiful backs! That was BelleAnne James's escape from years of a violent, abusive childhood. Not once did she speak of her dream for fear of that being ripped from her, too...Until today, when she took her dream and discreetly headed off to fulfill it...two weeks on a real ranch in Wyoming with horses, campfires, nights in a log cabin or in an authentic Indian teepee, meals served from a real chuckwagon. She hoped to leave the remnants of a lifetime of open wounds behind, including her real name, for a few magical days at High Point Dude Ranch.When Mitch Corry's down-to-earth, laid-back love for his cowboy life kept him so busy in the saddle for the Double OO Ranch, we well as run ragged by wagon loads of dudes, his heart got blindsided when his eyes landed on Daisy James, the new dude from Texas. Their irresistible attraction opens up a whole new world for both of them. Mitch believed there was a lot more to Daisy James's nightmare in the middle of the day than just an overload of breakfast. His brain was telling him to get out while he could, but his heart was in too deep to let him walk away...soon convincing him that some things were worth fighting for, even if your opponent turned out to be the devil himself.

Andy Parker loaded up his roping horse and a freshly stomped-on heart, deciding it was the perfect time to experience his biggest dream. He hit the rodeo circuit entering every roping event he could find in the western United States until he mysteriously ended up on a rarely traveled road in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. What awaited him on that mountain was about to change his life...and his broken heart. Summer Rain Logan was widowed, out of food for her two young daughters and out of transportation to travel the twenty wilderness miles to town. When a storm blew their ram-shackled cabin apart and a fire destroyed what was left, they soon discovered...God had a plan! Abigail Luke broke off her year long romance with Andy Parker and left for law school full of ambitious dreams until the unimaginable happened forcing her to return home to the Double OO Ranch. Ranch hand, Clint Berry, soon senses she's hiding secrets and happens to be the one in her path when she can't hold them inside any longer.

A widowed city girl, Laura Parker, never had a desire to leave her world of concrete and tall buildings until her young son, Andy, a cowboy wanna-be needed a happy get-away after the death of his dad. She agreed to head for High Point Dude Ranch near Jackson, Wyoming. Surely she could suck it up and take it for a few days. Jesse Brandon didn't appreciate this self-indulgent little floozy's appearance on his ranch, refusing to believe that she had no idea who he was. He certainly knew who she was! And young Andy Parker was another matter altogether. But when the dust cleared from the secrets of abuse and deceit, their only option was to surrender to the truth.

Toni Barton was Texas raised to ride, rope and horse-whisper. That all ended the day her Uncle John Baxter, renowned wild horse trainer, died and left her penniless. Years later she grabs at a chance to go back to her ranch roots. Judd Luke, owner of the Double 00 in Wyoming and a loner by choice, doesn't take kindly to the little spitfire of a stranger showing up and claiming to be his new ranch hand. She came to train his horses. He hands her a mop and a dish rag. The action never stops as blood boils and nerves dance until a third party steps in and forces a final showdown.

After gaining her freedom from a violently abusive husband, Julie Langston hit the road from Texas and stopped for a surprise visit with her childhood friend, Toni Luke at the Double OO Ranch in Wyoming. Unable to forget or forgive the terror and leave it in her past...a dream and a surprising invitation sent her across the world to a quaint little cliff-side village in Italy. AJ Call had cowboyed for the Double OO for several decades. He'd remained single...waiting on God to bring that special one true love of his life as HE promised HE would, but at fifty-two years old, discouragement was consuming him, especially after meeting Julie and knowing, to the depth of his soul, that she is the ONE. Grandpa Hank Walton meets his own mortality head-on. High Point Dude Ranch and the neighboring Double OO Cattle Ranch are abuzz with the news of a population explosion. The Surrendered series is filled with drama...laughter...joy...and always, God's miraculous Hand reaching into the daily lives of His children...bringing His plans for them to fruition.

Reeny Carr was born and raised in a life of abuse, but grabbed her chance to escape when she spotted a door left open to the room where she had been held captive. She ran...and hid for days in a gully beneath bushes and twigs...until she spotted another door. Donny Brandon watched the dirt smeared blonde girl jerk open the back door of his dually, jump in and hide on the floor board. Days later when he takes her home to High Point Dude Ranch in Wyoming... danger, death, restoration and the literal Glories of Heaven follow them through the dude ranch gate. Surrendered IV is filled with many twists and turns, heartbreak and humor... and an ending that will warm your heart.

Les Kane, Foreman for the Double 00 Ranch in Wyoming, had finally begun to see light at the end of a long dark tunnel of heartache that included his firm rejection of Almighty God. Who needed a God called Father? He'd made it his whole life without a father. Kaitlyn Grace was genuinely sorry for causing pain to her ex-fiance, Les Kane, even though her mission to apologize in person was a homework assignment. After encountering far more than either of them bargained for...injury, sickness, secrets, another fiance, a lost dog and burnt cookies...they finally had to come to terms with the fact that God Almighty had a plan.

He was raised in a wealthy eastcoast family of lawyers, along with his twin sister-but Riley Doss could never find a fit for himself. On a whim, he boarded a bus for Wyoming after seeing a poster advertising, Jackson Hole-Cowboy Country. Why? Good as any place, he figured. But after arriving there, he soon learned that he did not make that decision alone. Private Investigator, Web Vance, was hired to find him, but circumstances sent this P.I.'s reluctant and inexperienced secretary, Carly Jones, to Wyoming to snoop out the Beau Doss who worked on a dude ranch in the area. With Carly and Beau trapped in a snow covered dug-out far into the Wyoming canyons, a romance blooms, lives are at stake and a family secret of mind-boggling proportions comes out of hiding.