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Three epic frontier romances. Three unforgettable heroes. Three highly rated novels of courage, devotion, and adventure. This popular boxed set brings together the first three novels of award-winning author Dorothy Wiley’s American Wilderness Series—a sweeping saga of love, danger, and devotion set against the breathtaking backdrop of the 1797 frontier. With a combined 4.6‑star rating, these stories deliver heart‑pounding action, tender romance, and characters readers adore. Included in This Set WILDERNESS TRAIL OF LOVE Dreaming of a better life, Stephen and Jane Wyllie journey ...

ROMANCING THE WILDERNESS: Books 4–6 Three sweeping frontier romances. One unforgettable family legacy. Over 900 pages of danger, devotion, and heart‑stirring love. This bestselling boxed set continues Dorothy Wiley’s award‑winning American Wilderness Series, delivering three powerful stories of courage, healing, and passion on the early American frontier. With a combined 4.7‑star rating, these novels immerse readers in gripping adventure and deeply emotional romance. Included in This Set FRONTIER HIGHLANDER VOW OF LOVE When Artis and Bear meet in the Kentucky wilderness, their ...

Weaving a tapestry of history, romance, and adventure, this epic novel sweeps us into an awe-inspiring, heart-stopping story of love and survival in an emerging America. It is spring 1797. Dreaming of building a better life, Stephen and Jane Wyllie set out across the American frontier in search of a place to call home in a land of savage beauty. With undaunted courage and boundless daring, Stephen, along with his five brothers, bravely plunges toward a wilderness full of terror.

SCOTSMAN’S VALOR - Wilderness Valor Series – Book Two ROMANCE FINALIST in the 2025 American Writing Awards A Scottish baron turned U.S. Marshal. A frontier town stalked by disappearances and slave‑trading. In 1826 Kentucky, justice rides a dark trail—and only valor can light the way. When travelers vanish near Potts Inn and free men are dragged into bondage, U.S. Marshal Lachlan Sinclair is summoned to Boonesborough. Working alongside Sheriff Kent Mangum and Deputy Alexander MacKay, he must expose a conspiracy more sinister than anyone dares imagine. Boonesborough’s future lies ...

In an unlikely place for new beginnings, a cemetery, Edward and Dora meet for the first time. But in that forlorn place, the beauty of love blossoms. Edward is still struggling with guilt over the death of his family more than a year ago - a guilt so great he's unable to even look at his children's gravestones. As their friendship grows, Dora forces Edward to confront the truth - their deaths were not his fault. And Edward gives Dora, a young Boston widow, a chance to seize love and learn the meaning of passion.

WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD winner! Red River Rifles launches Dorothy Wiley’s Wilderness Dawning Series, a saga of survival, honor, and love—inspired by true events—on the dangerous southern edge of the Red River. Samuel Wyllie stakes his claim at Pecan Point, a narrow strip of land where beauty and peril stand shoulder to shoulder. He dreams of building a home and a future, but the frontier demands courage at every turn. Louisa Pate arrives with her young brother Adam, fleeing a cruel father who plans to sell her into a marriage with a wealthy filibuster bent on challenging Spanish ...

Against a harsh frontier, Steve will bear Rebecca’s pain at any cost—until the Alcalde’s cruelty forces him to be the one who needs saving. LAND OF STARS is a vivid historical romance of sacrifice, justice, and the fight to build a home in 1824 Texas. Seized by Mexico from Spain, the Province of Texas becomes the leading edge of the West and an exceedingly dangerous and volatile place. After a catastrophic flood, Steve Wyllie and his family are forced toward the town of Nacogdoches, where land, lawlessness, and ambition collide. Rebecca Tyler endures cruelty and loss under a corrupt ...

Kelly McGuffin - an innocent victim of violence and neglect - is haunted by shame. At age 18, loneliness and danger compel her to leave her remote cabin in the Virginia mountains to travel west with the Wyllie brothers to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Kelly's feelings for her heroic rescuer, Sheriff William Wyllie, remain confused and obscured beneath her worsening veil of fear. Caught in the untamed world of the frontier - both breathtakingly beautiful and shockingly cruel - Kelly is unable to control her uncertain future.

#1 NEW RELEASE IN MEDIEVAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE Born in a war for freedom, their love becomes the flame that refuses to die. A sweeping tale of courage and unbreakable devotion, LETTERS OF FIRE AND SWORD blends Scotland’s heart‑wrenching history with unforgettable fiction. A celebrated author of American frontier romances, Wiley now turns to the medieval Highlands—drawing on her own MacMillan ancestry to bring this story to life. In 1306, Scotland stands on the brink of ruin. Robert the Bruce fights to free his conquered homeland—and to rescue his family, imprisoned by the ruthless ...

1824 Kentucky. A sheriff forged by grief and duty. A ruthless gang. When terror comes to Boonesborough, only courage and love can stop it. The Kentucky frontier is beautiful, brutal, and unforgiving. When the Harpe Gang brings terror to Boonesborough, Sheriff Kent Mangum must face the darkest corners of his past to protect a family he never expected to love. Beth MacKay is brave, fiercely independent, and determined never to be a sheriff’s widow. When Beth and her sister are terrorized by the worst member of the Harpe Gang, she learns that the valiant sheriff may be the only one who can ...

WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA FINALIST 2022 KINDLE BOOK REVIEW AWARDS SEMI-FINALIST Can sparks of the heart ignite amid the battle that flamed the epic struggle for Texas? In 1824, ten years before the Texas Revolution, the province of Texas belonged to Mexico—but not for long. Texians would soon rebel against the oppression of the Mexican commandant. In a land that grew heroes from those with courageous and daring hearts, this heart-jolting historical romance is the fourth novel in the Wilderness Dawning Series and features Wiley’s popular and well-loved characters, the Wyllies and ...

RONE Award Nominee IND’Tale Crowned Heart for Excellence A torrential storm on the Kentucky frontier brings two wounded hearts together in a powerful tale of love, danger, and second chances. Kentucky, 1806. Gabe McGrath has fought hard to claim his land and build a future on the untamed frontier. But grief and a burning need for justice still shadow his every step. When a violent storm forces him to seek shelter at the home of cattleman Stephen Wyllie, Gabe meets Martha Wyllie—strong, determined, and hiding a secret promise that controls her destiny. Their attraction is immediate and ...

The Revolutionary War left Captain Sam Wyllie battle-hardened. His courageous but cold heart defies danger - and love. He is determined to make a fresh start in the far west, the new state of Kentucky. Newly widowed, Catherine Adams knows she should return to her wealthy father in Boston but fears he will once again force her to marry for prestige and wealth, not love. Drawn to Sam's keen intelligence, harsh masculinity, and rugged warrior facade, she decides the west holds a chance for real love.

LOVE’S GLORY delivers the richly descriptive settings, breathtaking action, and emotional sincerity that readers cherish in Dorothy Wiley’s American Wilderness, Wilderness Hearts, Wilderness Dawning, and Wilderness Valor series. This mesmerizing frontier romance blends danger, devotion, and the enduring power of hope. A Journey of Duty, Loss, and Unexpected Friendship In the fall of 1810, Allison Forbes inherits her late father’s prosperous Virginia plantation. Determined to honor his final wish, she travels to Kentucky to visit her Aunt Catherine Wyllie before deciding the fate of ...

Strathnaver, Scotland, summer 1792. The Highland Clearances abruptly destroy Artis MacKay's idyllic world. Patrick Steller, the Countess of Sutherland's estate manager, murders Artis' family and burns her village. Forced into indentured servitude in the colonies, she becomes a Virginia plantation servant. After seven long years, Artis receives her freedom dues - land in Kentucky. Bear MacKee grew up in the Highlands too, but disease claims his parents on his family's voyage to the colonies.

It's December 1799, and Sam and Catherine are expecting, but their unborn babe is in grave danger, and Catherine might not live through the child's birth. Sam is desperate to find a way to save them both. Sam's courageous heart is sorely tested. He frantically searches for a solution to the impending crisis as their winter in the beautiful Kentucky wilderness grows even more troubled. Heavily armed, cold-blooded men arrive to buy Wyllie Mountain in Sam's home state of New Hampshire. The land is sentimental to Sam, and he refuses to sell.

An American Historical Romance Wilderness Hearts – Book One RONE Award Finalist A sweeping, heart‑stirring romance set in 1800 Philadelphia and the Kentucky frontier. When Daniel Armitage uncovers the truth of his parentage, he leaves behind everything he has ever known. But will the search for his real father cost him the love he longs to claim? Philadelphia trembles under the deadly grip of Yellow Fever. Daniel’s respected family cannot escape the epidemic’s reach, and he loses everyone he loves. With his mother’s final breath comes a shattering confession: the man who raised ...

A heart‑pounding frontier romance where love must truly conquer all. LOVE’S WHISPER, the tenth novel in Dorothy Wiley’s bestselling American frontier sagas, blends danger, beauty, faith, and family against the breathtaking backdrop of the 1811 Kentucky wilderness. A Man Searching for Home. A Woman Finding Her Strength. Liam Roberts has earned the respect of soldiers and cattlemen alike, yet he longs for something he has never truly had—a home of his own. At twenty‑five, weary of bunkhouse life, he’s ready to build a future and a family. Polly Wyllie, the bookish and spirited ...

WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD FINALIST 1824. Captain Sam Wyllie and Bear MacKay, well-loved characters from the author's American Wilderness Series, agree they need one last adventure—a thrilling 800-mile journey through the American frontier to see their brother in the Province of Texas. Knowing that predators of all kinds lurk in the wilderness, their grown sons, Rory and Alexander, insist on going along to protect the older men. Or will their fathers be the ones who protect them from untold dangers? In the frontier town of Nacogdoches, Jessica Harrison is a motherless shopkeeper's ...