The Courting of Alta Belle
Odyssey West Quartet Book One
by Rose Walker
In the 1880s, Alta Belle, daughter of a New York merchant, is disappointed in love.
Not yet twenty and against her parents’ wishes, she accepts a job as a schoolmarm in Black Butte, a small coal mining town in the territory of New Mexico.
Traveling there by train and stagecoach, she meets an exciting rancher that may just make her forget about her previous romantic woes, but they arrive in Black Butte too late. School has started without her.
Her job is gone, and soon her handsome new friend absconds with her reputation. Abandoned, Alta must make her way in a strange town where folks – especially the men – consider her a fallen woman.
Born to the trade, Alta finds a job in the Mercantile and is pressed by her landlady to become a part of the community.
Alta soon finds that she may just be able to build a new life after all, but can she ever forget about the rancher with the blue-green eyes and the true courtship she desires?
Order The Courting of Alta Belle from your favorite retailer
Appreciating Cora
Odyssey West Quartet Book Two
by Rose Walker
Cora Bailey, Alta Belle’s middle-aged supervisor from Carlton & Hodges, moves West to help her run the Mercantile.
Hoping to get a better job, she had not expected to find love.
But now the wrong man is courting her and the right man thinks it would be wrong to cut in.
Order Appreciating Cora from your favorite retailer
Educating Ellen
Odyssey West Quartet Book Three
by Rose Walker
Alta Belle’s ward, Ellen O’Conner, is attending the brand new University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
A schoolgirl crush on the new doctor in Black Butte keeps her from seeing that her best friend and companion, Joaquim really loves her.
Will she choose the romance and excitement of a life in medicine? Or real life with Joaquim, surrounded by his huge and loving Hispanic family?
Order Educating Ellen from your favorite retailer
Fencing Phillip In
Odyssey West Quartet Book Four
by Rose Walker
Phillip, the youngest Whitaker son, is in need of a wife, and Aunt Isobel is more than happy to help him find one in Black Butte.
He prefers Appaloosa fillies until he meets his Aunt’s boarder, Lulu, but will he come to realize that a second boarder, Susan, is learning how to be his perfect partner?
Order Fencing Phillip In from your favorite retailer
Tuxtails Publishing, LLC is a member of the Amazon Affiliates Program. Products purchased via affiliate links result in a small commission for the publisher at no cost to the customer.