Rita Hestand: 77 books

When the local town drunk, Clooney witnesses a murder committed on Boot Hill on Halloween night, will anyone pay any attention to his story? Sheriff Joe Grubbs, though skeptical, investigates and finds the new grave. But Clooney knows who the murderer is and Joe doesn't want to believe it....

Millie Powell quit medical college just weeks before graduation. With a plan to save her family farm, Millie stow away on a wagon train to get to Nebraska Territory, so she could marry Matt Hudson. Marrying Matt would secure her family farm. That is until she met Joe Modoc, a half-breed Indian scout...

Another mildly steamy sweet romance. Sandy McKay put her schooling as a vet on hold as her father's will has her back at the ranch for a year. When she meets Mike Tobin, a photographer, she is smitten and they date. But before it can go anywhere his brother returns home from the service a hero. Caught...

Quirt Noble, a scout for Ft. Davis is left temporarily in charge of the fort when it's commander is sent north to join forces with the Union Army when civil war breaks out. Not only is the Comanche and Kiowa raiding the settlements near the fort, but now Washington has sent thirty women to Fort Davis...

This is a Christmas Short Story for teens. Emily Morgan ran her families' Holiday Shop to help her mother. Her father was retired military and had come home with PTSD. However, Emily loved running the shop. It got her in the Christmas mood, and she knew her customers' names and habits. She also had...

True love can strike like a bolt of lightning at any time. . . Jake Travers has reluctantly studied law all his life. And as the local sheriff, he has no time for romantic entanglements—between helping his seriously ill father and his brother on their West Texas Ranch, his life is chaotic enough. When...

Sammie Jo Travers was faced with too many things at once. Her grandfather's death, her father's illness, her cousin moving away, and last of all, her parents would have to sell the ranch in order to meet medical bills. It was a sad awakening for Sammie Jo who had loved working on the ranch, and had...

When Emma Smith's cousin died, Emma was thrown into instant motherhood as Kate left her baby to her in a will. Not knowing her legal rights to the child, Emma fled with Sammie Jo to West Texas Deke Travers, her new boss hadn't given her much of a chance to tell him the truth, or that she had...

Clint Travers and Abby Martin were best friends, all their lives, until one night he ruined it by taking an unfair advantage. So Abby left. Nearly four years later, Abby comes home with a surprise that changes Clint's life forever! He took one look, and knew it was his son! Even though Clint loved...

Four contemporary books about the Travers Brothers and their father living on the 4Bar None Ranch. Come visit Deke and Emma in Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He needs a cook and housekeeper, she needs a job and a place to hide out. Courting Abby concerns best friends that go too far one night and soon...

The McKay's Series consists of four sisters, The McKay's. First book is Raining in my Heart. Julie McKay must go home for her father's funeral. Going home meant facing the last ten years of her life. Julie had been hiding a secret for ten long years from her father and the father of her child. Could...

Bonnie McDaniel had spent the last four years trying to keep her brothers and sister alive. She'd managed somehow to feed, cloth and keep a shelter over their heads. But now, she was lost. There was no money left. She owed a mortgage she couldn't pay. There' wouldn't be enough money for food, and...

Three books of the Amory's in one boxset. Book One: Chayton Amory kidnaps Kasie Moore the day before her wedding, as a favor to her father. But Chayton and Kasie have a lot of catching up to do since she ran out on their wedding eight years ago. Book Two: Sam Malone's father dies and he finds out...

Daniel Connor was assigned to protect a potential witness and daughter of a Senator from a drug lord who would soon be in custody and eventually stand trial for it. They thought the girl was romantically involved with the drug dealer. However as it turns out, Gabby Winslow was a teacher and the only...