Winds of Change Series

"Stories of despair, discovery, passion and change in the lives of characters as they work through the turmoil of nature and relationships."

 ~Rain Trueax
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Book 1: Beyond the Broken Road

The heat of the desert isn’t the only thing stirring up Abigail, trapped in a life she didn’t choose, with no way beyond to the freedom she desires.
Working for her father, courted by a man who clearly doesn’t love her, she is monetarily distracted by a rugged looking man in black leading a band of rowdies out of town, outlaw or gunman? When he abruptly stops to look at her, she imagines what he must see. A few days later, the Nogales stage is robbed. When the sheriff claims it is not his job. She takes the risk to go after the stolen mail bag with no idea how much her life is about to change.

Sam Ryker is on a road to hell with no way off.

During a dusty and violent encounter in a side canyon of the Rincon mountains south of Tucson, Sam comes across the woman he had seen in town with a gun, a dead man and a wounded dude. He has a ridiculous idea of carrying her off to the local priest ..marrying her and maybe getting the life of which, he’s only dreamed.
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Book 2: Beckoning Flame

1885 Tucson, Priscilla is fortunate to have a level of independence not afforded to many women of the times. A caring woman, she helps others as much as she can. Wanting a mate of her own isn’t in the cards for her and the one man she’s most attracted to wears a gun—a definite no-no for her life view.

Cord is Deputy Federal Marshal. The badge and gun aren’t all he once wanted in life, but it’s what he does. His life is turned upside down when he receives word that his estranged nine-year-old daughter is coming on the train. How can he manage that given a life where he sleeps in the back of the jail and lives by the gun?


Sparing forces, a mothering sense, growing attraction, jealous suitors, greedy small town politics and harsh realities make this a read far beyond a simple Christmas novella.
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Book 3: Embracing the Dream

Grace fell in love with a man when she was just a teen. She knew she could never have him as he married another. When the marriage ended in divorce, he turned away from life and joined the call of the Rough Riders. Grace went east to college. When she returns, years later, will anything have changed as her dream love had not.

Rafe, one time a deputy to Cord, came to Tucson to bring Grace home to her family. Everything falls apart as Rafe’s ex-wife is murdered, his son kidnapped and Rafe accused. As a Yaqui, life isn’t easy for Rafe in Tucson.
It’s about to get a lot harder.
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Book 4: Rose's Gift

Rose has been widowed for several years from a long-time partner. She doesn’t expect to ever find that kind of love again. She concentrates her work toward her beloved family, who are not of blood but of the warmth of years together. Cooking, maintaining her garden are enough until someone disrupts it all.

Ollie has never married, had children of his own. For him, Sam has been like a son. Now though, Sam has a family. Where does that leave Ollie? He had seen a woman he might’ve seen as a wife but she was already married. Then her husband dies. Ollie has to wait to give her time but not too long lest she find another. Others will want her, that, he knows.
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Book 5: Echo from the Past

1901, a new century and things should be less wild and woolly in Arizona. Very civilized, with only an occasional nightly shootout. Much safer—for some. Not so much for the son of an infamous outlaw family, who was falling in love with the one woman from whom he should have stayed away. Should's weren’t in his vocabulary.
With the life he had led, there were many ways he could end up dead; and he wasn’t about to worry about dreams without real bullets.
He did know that she could prove dangerous to his heart.
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Book 6: Wind of Change

Lily Jacobs came to Tucson at the behest of her sister. She rapidly comes to love the desert light. Rose’s Cottage provides a wellspring of inspiration for Lily’ art. It also helped her avoid a man in Chicago, who was threatening with his constant unwelcome attentions. After years of doing her deceased father’s bidding, Lily is now a woman of means, free to choose her own path. When famous painter, Patrick Jamison arrives in Tucson, Lily is eager to take lessons and improve her work.
She isn’t looking for love.

Slow from birth, Jesse Taggert lives on the desert as he trains horses and works for a large ranch. Jesse knows animals and finds the further he is from people, the better—especially beautiful woman.
He cannot refuse his brother’s request to teach his sister-in-law, Lily, how to ride the horse he has trained?
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Book 7: Willy's Outlaw

English professor, Wilhelmina Butler heads for a log cabin in the Arizona high country to rebuild her soul from the sudden death of her father. In the Mazatzals, Willy hopes to write the great American novel, something she can be proud of, unlike the very successful dime novels she has been publishing under a pseudonym. The lake cabin will give her all she could ever dream and a lot more.

Asked by his worried sister-in-law, Holly, to check on her college friend, Cole Taggert assumes her friend is a naive idiot to head into the wilderness with little idea how to survive its dangers.
Then he sees her swimming in the lake, and Willy’s life isn’t the only one about to get redirected.
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Book 8: Frederica's Hero

Sometimes a simple, “Can I help you Ma’am” changes the way the world turns.

So, it was for fine Bostonian, Frederica Windsor and crusty, Jeremiah Taggert, a total surprise when a spark was struck changing both their worlds.
Frederica’s Hero, a novel of discovery, adventure and romance that blossoms in the later years.

This bridge story starts in 1906 with a catastrophic event that levels all people and opens a track for a whole new set of adventure romances.
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