Shirl Henke: 44 books

THE HALF-BREED Ross Chisholm is a loner. No one in Virginia City knows where he came from, only that he is a hired gun who works for a British mining company. His sole friend is a bordello madam. He is well educated yet lives among crude miners and prostitutes, shunned by "respectable"...

A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH TWO MEN…   Lucifer is the code name of Sir Blake Hawksworth, Regency England’s most successful spy. Blake’s only failure was accidentally caused by an arrogant French girl. She not only ruined one of his most cunning plots, she humiliated him beyond...

Rigo de Las Casas has plied the brutal trade of mercenary, a sword for hire. He hates his “primitive” blood and despises the white father he mistakenly thinks abandoned him. Then, near death on a French battlefield, he is discovered by Benjamin Torres and learns that he is an heir to the vast...

THE VOW In the shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, fortunes are made and lives lost during the silver boom on the Comstock Lode. In this wild and dangerous era, Rebekah Sinclair, a small town preacher’s daughter, and Rory Madigan, an impoverished Irish immigrant, vow eternal love. In...

A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY… Esteban Santandar, heir to a vast cattle empire in Sonora, had been educated in Europe and spent much of his life in gold rush California. Part Spanish aristocrat, part Yankee businessman, he straddled both worlds uneasily, not fitting in either one. A WOMAN WITHOUT...

AN OUTCAST IN HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY Fox Barlow is known in England as the Shawnee Lord, the name given at Eton to an American with red Indian blood. He wears the mocking title as a badge of honor. Even though he is under the sponsorship of a powerful marquess, Fox will never be accepted by Society....

THE GAMBLER The roguishly handsome Welshman Rhys Davies owned half of Starlight, Colorado, within weeks of riding into town. But there was one "property" he would give all the rest to possess. THE LADY Victoria Lawton, the glacially beautiful daughter of Starlight’s...

Little more than a spoiled boy, Raphael Flamenco leaves New Orleans for the new Republic of Texas to drag his willful Yankee wife back to civilization. She is his “property” and she will damned well get used to her new role as a proper Creole wife. If Texas doesn’t kill a man first, it has...

COLIN McCRORY runs afoul of the ruthless and deadly Tucson Ring that lures him from his Arizona cattle kingdom by kidnapping his innocent young daughter. During his search for her, he meets a beautiful bordello madam in a small Sonora silver town. A powerful attraction hums between them as he asks...

A HIGHBROW SOCIETY DOC   A successful cardiac surgeon from a socially prominent family, Dr. Corrie Waterstone has seen death in the OR, but never as it occurs in front of her horrified eyes on the causeway into Miami. A man runs in front of her car, then leaps off the high bridge....

A haunting melody and a warm fire brought them together Patrick Madigan feels he has been banished from sunny Nevada to the gray world of 1904 London. After his parents intervened in his disastrous relationship with a saloon girl, they insisted he go to live with their old friends the Cantrells....

Mail-order-bride, Billie Jo Mingo, has traveled west with her belligerent pet crow Pecker to meet her husband, a man she assumes is too fat and old to get any local women to marry him. Aristocratic cattle baron, Jason Lee Emory, assumes he has married a gently reared lady to help him raise his orphaned...

A Novella     . The Barbary Coast of San Francisco, 1875   Sammie Goode is knocked unconscious in a farcical dockside brawl and awakens on the China Lucky. The first mate Stub is missing an arm. The ship's dog Luck is missing a leg. Captain Kit...