Sapphire Place Series Author:Nancy Pirri In Sapphire Dreams, James Freeman is Bozemans new Sheriff and has plans to close down every brothel in town, including Kate O'Malley's Sapphire Palace. Katie OMalley has the fight of her life on her handsconvincing James Freeman shes running a legitimate establishmenta saloon, diner, and boarding house. — In Annies Outlaw, Cane Smith, recently re... more »leased from prison, serving years for a crime he didnt commit, comes looking for the son hes fathered, but has never met. Cane, hungering for love and family, arrives in Bozeman to claim his son and finds the boys mother has died. But the boy had been adopted by successful rancher, Tom Callahan. Toms daughter, twenty-year-old Annie, cant give up the eight year old boy she named Mark but Cane has a solution: Miss Annie will have to marry him if she wants to keep Mark in her life. Annie will do anything to keep her little boy with herbut can she live with the hard, rough Cane Smith?
In Jane and the Judge, After Jane Millers husband dies, she loses her home and farm to pay off her husbands gambling debts. She travels to Boise to find work. Homeless and destitute shes able to find only one job in town--as a prostitute in a saloon. Before she lays down for her first customer, the saloon is raided and shes arrested for prostitution. Jane appears before Judge Simon Hopkins who fines her for prostitution and a month in jail. Being an excellent judge of character, Simon believes Jane Miller does not fit his description of a prostitute. After serving her month in jail, Simon drives her to Bozeman where shes hired to manage a bed and breakfast, a reputable saloon called The Sapphire Palace. Confirmed bachelor, Jane falls in love with Simons calm, gentle manner. Simon, finds himself falling in love with sweet but practical Jane but cant marry her, for fear of jeopardizing her life. Hes put away plenty of criminals who have been released and some could be gunning for him.« less