Books by Gina Marie Coon

Books by Gina Marie Coon

Silver Springs Settlers Series

Building Fences, Mending Hearts – book 1

The Right Choice – book 2

Mail Order Bride – book 3

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Silver Springs Contemporary Series

Elizabeth’s Hero – book 1

Cowboy Dad – book 2

Winter Awakening – book 3

His Leading Lady – book 4

Running Out of Time – book 5*

The Cooper Kids – books 6 & 7*
Keeping Promises - book 8

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No Regrets*

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Silver Springs Settlers – books 1-3
Available in print and electronic format. 
Silver Springs Contemporary – books 1-4

Currently available in electronic format.

*Currently available in electronic format.  Print versions coming soon.

Building Fences, Mending Hearts

Silver Springs Settlers Series, Book 1
Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.
 

 Newly widowed, Emma Smith grieves for her young husband.  But after President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act offering free land, she reluctantly agrees to her restless father’s plan to move west.  Along with her sister and young son, the small family joins a wagon train setting out on the Oregon Trail.  The journey is fraught with adversity and heartache, eventually changing the travelers’ destination as well as their lives.  When the group begins to homestead, Emma finds herself alone with four children in the raw, untamed west.  She learns to draw on an inner strength she didn’t know she possessed and renews her faith along the way.  But will Emma be able to come to terms with the death of her husband and embrace a new love in this rough land?

Gruff rancher, Seth Summers, doesn’t feel Montana in the 1860s is a safe place for women and children.  He’s experienced enough personal tragedy to confirm the fact.  But a pretty new neighbor, who works harder than most men, gradually gets under his skin.  Without even knowing it, he begins to long for a feminine presence on his ranch and in his life.  Can he win the heart of the attractive widow?

You’re invited to come along on pioneer adventure filled with danger and excitement, heartache and romance!  Building Fences, Mending Hearts is sure to touch your emotions, leaving you alternately weeping and smiling.

The Right Choice

Silver Springs Settlers Series, Book 2

Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.

Connor Wilson is finally ready to start his own ranch.  He’s worked hard and invested wisely, even traveling across the ocean to secure prime cattle.  Now he’s riding the train toward the next phase of his life.  During the journey, the rugged cowboy takes it upon himself to intervene on behalf of three young brothers.  His good deed done, he never expects to see the boys or their lovely caregiver again.  But best laid plans don’t always go as we hope and the brief encounter is destined to change his life.

The ultimate objective of Hadley House is to place some of New York City’s orphaned and abandoned children in loving homes.  With her eye on achieving that goal, Naomi Holender travels west by train with a group of youngsters.  In the process she will be required to make the most painful sacrifice of her life.  An orphan herself, she personally understands the hardships and difficulties of an imperfect system that often separates families and leaves broken hearts in its wake.  When a scruffy cowboy interferes with her work, she’s forced to defend her convictions and take a hard look at her life.

Mail Order Bride
 

Silver Springs Settlers Series, Book 3
Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.

At the age of twenty-eight, Sarah Marshall is on the shelf.  Long ago, she’d set aside dreams of a husband and children of her own.  Family obligations came first - always.  However, when her impulsive younger sister, Eliza, finds herself in a family way, Sarah is forced to seek marriage to a stranger to protect them both.  How could she know that the dangerous journey to marry one man would land her square in the path of another?  Or that her future husband is not all he appears to be?

Haunted by his war years, veteran Confederate soldier, Tom Cooper, is summoned home after more than a decade away to settle his father’s estate.  He intends to do just that then return to his bachelor life in Montana before winter sets in.  When he comes upon a horrific accident on the return journey, his plans take a temporary detour.  A beautiful, injured woman, her pregnant sister, and a wounded cowboy desperately need his assistance.  Later, a chance meeting leaves him questioning the security of the two women.  Can he protect Sarah and her sister without losing his heart along the way?  Or his life?

Will Sarah and Eliza Marshall find love and a fresh start in the rugged west?  Or will the malicious plans of one man claim their freedom, and perhaps their very lives?

 Elizabeth’s Hero

Silver Springs Contemporary Series, Book 1
 Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.

When a shocking accident takes the life of her best friend, California realtor Elizabeth Nelson flies to the rescue of the orphaned children, carrying a letter that grants her custody.  Her friend’s brother-in-law, gruff rancher Jack Summers, is already there, organizing the funeral and planning to take the children back to Montana.  With two separate legal claims and a concerned Kansas City social worker looking on, the two strangers desperately search for a way to keep the children together.  Their solution:  Marriage.  Elizabeth is willing to set aside her dull, empty life in the hopes of having a family.  Jack will do whatever it takes to ensure his ranch eventually passes to his brother’s children.  Will they find love in the bargain?

As she settles into her new life, little oddities plague Elizabeth.  She begins to question whether the plane crash that claimed her friend’s life was really an accident.  Jack and Elizabeth discover a mutual attraction but will they recognize the love that’s grown between them before another tragedy strikes?

 Cowboy Dad

 Silver Springs Contemporary Series, Book 2
 Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.

Jilted two weeks before her wedding, Karen Aimes has escaped to Montana to lick her wounds.  She’s expecting rest, fellowship with a good friend, and time with her precocious six year old son, Marc.  What she finds is a scruffy rancher that danger seems to follow and an attraction she’s having a hard time ignoring.  She keeps reminding herself that she neither needs nor wants a man, but it’s tough to ignore her son’s desire for a father.  Can she set aside the baggage from her past and give Marc the one thing he needs the most?

Frank Wilson isn’t looking for a relationship.  He hasn’t felt the jolt in years.  When his friend’s pretty house guest and her energetic son drop into his life, he’s knocked for a loop.  He soon finds himself unable to stay away.  But there’s an arsonist on the loose and the madman seems to be targeting Frank.  Does he dare entertain a serious relationship at a time like this?

 Winter Awakening

Silver Springs Contemporary Series, Book 3
 Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.

Even though his sister had forgiven, Andrea, the woman connected with her recent troubles, Gage Nelson couldn’t.  Nobody is that naive.  But after two days of holiday events, he realizes how badly he’s misjudged her and offers an apology.  Their tenuous new friendship is tested when a blizzard forces them to spend Christmas night together and she goes into labor.  The profound experience of helping to bring baby into the world leaves Gage confused and yearning, forcing him to take stock of his life.  And he begins to understand just how empty it is.

Andrea Sims’ opinion of herself wasn’t any higher than that of her friend’s brother, but for different reasons.  All her life others had chosen her path.  She’s been robbed of her reputation, her dignity, and her innocence.  With the birth of her child comes a spark of hope for a better future, a determination to make something of her life, for herself and her daughter.  So when Gage Nelson offers sanctuary via marriage, she sends him away.  She’s through letting others dictate her future.  She knows that if she’s ever to be worthwhile to anyone else, she needs to be content with herself.

 His Leading Lady

Silver Springs Contemporary Series, Book 4
 Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.

High powered attorney Jen Kramer came to Montana to rest and refocus after suffering a blow to her ego.  While recuperating, she does a bit of self-evaluation and discovers that she’s missed the proverbial boat.  She’s forty, unmarried, and childless with a less than savory career.  But when she volunteers to teach a high school drama class, the experience unearths long buried joy and unrealized talent.  Periodic run-ins with the handsome, single dad of one of her students, as well as his adorable children, further knock her off balance.  As she gets to know Dan and his family, she falls in love with each of them and finds healing from her turbulent past.  Might they be the balm to an otherwise disappointing future, as well?

Dan Edwards is instantly wary of the beautiful drama teacher his daughter idolizes.  She reminds him way too much of his ex-wife.  One flighty woman, more interested in her career than her own family, was plenty.  He doesn’t plan to make that mistake again.  However, Jen Kramer is much more than she appears.  She soon earns his respect and wins the affections of his children, though he’s convinced she couldn’t possibly remain content for long in a small town like Silver Springs.  But if she goes, will any of them recover from the broken hearts she’ll leave behind?

Keeping Promises

Available in electronic format, as well as regular and extra large print format.

     For the past eighteen months, Jordan Gray has raised her deceased sister’s children alone.  She loves and wants what’s best for them.  Unfortunately, her teen-aged nephew doesn’t care.  Caleb is constantly in trouble, and each new infraction is worse than the last.  With nowhere else to turn, she begins to search for the boy’s unknown father, convinced that finding him will be the hard part.  She couldn’t be more wrong.  Her intense reaction to the man is as exhilarating as it is bewildering.  Surely, this former bad boy couldn’t be the one God has chosen for her?

     When FBI Agent Carl Spencer learns that someone is using cyberspace to look for him, he does what he’s trained to do – hunt the hunter.  When the enemy turns out to be a pretty young woman, he’s surprised, but that’s nothing compared to the jolt that rocks his world when she delivers her news – he’s a father.  While Spence builds a relationship with his troubled son, he battles a strong pull toward the boy’s virtuous aunt.  Too bad she’s not his type.  Struggling with a mutual attraction seems challenging enough, until a new danger threatens to destroy them.

 Running Out of Time

Silver Springs Contemporary Series, Book 5
Currently available in electronic format.  Print versions are in the works.

Grace Martin buried her mother six years ago and her step-father six months ago.  She and her young sister are now alone in the world.  After she completes one final task for her step-father, she’s going to show Kim as much of the world as she can.  But she has to hurry.  Kim’s leukemia has returned and they’re running out of time.

Greg Cooper hasn’t seen his father in fifteen years and doesn’t expect to.  He spends his time fighting fires and hanging out with his teen-age son.  His life is pleasant and predictable.  That is until a pretty girl jogs into his fire house to make a shocking delivery.  And his father reaches out from the grave and tries to strangle him! 

The Cooper Kids
Currently available in electronic format.  Print versions are in the works.

Includes the following two titles:

Waiting to be Found

Silver Springs Contemporary Series, Book 6

Former up-and-coming journalist, Jason Green, has hit rock bottom.  His New York Times days are history, and now he’s teaching junior college.  He considers it his duty to make sure his starry-eyed writing students understand the brutal realities of the business – even if he has to humiliate a few in the process.  But, when a blast from his past registers for his course, Jason is compelled to take a long, hard look at the man he has become.

Kim Cooper, freelance writer and cancer survivor, longs to reconnect with the reporter who chronicled her childhood illness a decade earlier.  But she soon discovers that Jason is not the same man he used to be.  His sarcasm annoys her, and his unhappiness breaks her heart.  Luckily, fighting for her life has taught her patience and perseverance.  She refuses to give up on him.  Instead, she slowly chips away at the crusty exterior in search of the noble man she knows is inside.

Can one selfless, young woman help a jaded, cynical man look beyond his past and find hope for the future?  And will she lose her heart in the process?

 

The Long Journey Home

Silver Springs Contemporary Series - book 7

Determined to protect his family, eleven-year-old Logan Hunter executes an escape plan.  He and his siblings run away from their foster homes in Idaho and head for Montana.  Their deceased grandfather’s property is ideal – a secluded cabin, fertile soil for a garden, fresh water nearby.  But, when money and food run out, Logan is forced to seek help from their veterinarian neighbor.  Joe seems nice enough, but can he really be trusted?

Joe Cooper doesn’t understand how his tools could be missing one day then appear the next.  He soon discovers the source of the mystery.  A group of youngsters is squatting on his land.  When Caroline Frost, their lovely social worker, shows up, his concern turns to anger.  The children are in danger of being permanently separated!  Joe and Caroline share a mutual desire to prevent that tragedy from happening.  However, their options are limited, and none come without personal sacrifice.  Are they willing to disrupt their own lives in order to change the future for three orphaned children?

 No Regrets

Currently available in electronic format.  Print versions are in the works.

Olivia is over her youthful infatuation with Mason Blake.  Six years ago, upon his return from a lengthy internship abroad, she quietly picked up the pieces of her shattered heart and moved on.  Since then, Olivia has built a lucrative business and started a notable non-profit housing program.  She hasn’t seen Mason in years, and she’s over him.  So, why did she so easily surrendered to his charms during a recent encounter?  And now, because of one indulgent night spent in the arms of a man she could never have, her life is about to change forever.  A brief phone call erodes all her girlish fantasies.  Could this cold, unfeeling jerk really be the same man she’d imagined herself in love with all those years ago?

At one time, Olivia Hawthorne represented Mason’s vision of home.  Thoughts of her kept him going through grueling hours in a place he didn’t want to be.  But that was a long time ago.  People and circumstances change.  While his notoriety as a neurologist broadened, his personal life spiraled.  With a difficult ex and a son he can’t see often enough, the last thing he needs is another entanglement.  And after one unforgettable night with his old friend, that’s exactly what he’s got.  But how had the lovely, young woman he’d once found so beguiling become the conniving, schemer she seemed to be today?