Sapphire Palace Series — Nancy Pirri

Come to the Sapphire Palace in Bozeman, Montana, the fanciest, wildest saloon (and brothel) 19th century America has to offer! In three incredible western tales of life, lost chances, and love, author Nancy Pirri introduces us to the reform sheriff determined to drive out the prostitutes and shut down the Sapphire Palace, a wrongly convicted convict looking for a lost son and a last chance for love, and an almost-prostitute and the judge who has caught her eye, and the avenging criminals who are gunning for him. Can any of them find real love and happiness at the Sapphire Palace? In “Sapphire Dreams,” James Freeman is Bozeman's new Sheriff and has plans to close down every brothel in town, including Kate O'Malley's Sapphire Palace. Katie O'Malley has the fight of her life on her hands -- convincing James Freeman she's running a legitimate establishment -- a saloon, diner, and boarding house. In “Annie's Outlaw,” Cane Smith, recently released from prison, serving years for a crime he didn't commit, comes looking for the son he's fathered, but has never met. Cane, hungering for love and family, arrives in Bozeman to claim his son and finds the boy's mother has died. But the boy had been adopted by successful rancher, Tom Callahan. Tom's daughter, twenty-year-old Annie, can't 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 her -- but can she live with the hard, rough Cane Smith? In “Jane and the Judge,” After Jane Miller's husband dies, she loses her home and farm to pay off her husband's gambling debts. She travels to Boise to find work. Homeless and destitute she's 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 she's 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 she's hired to manage a bed and breakfast, a reputable saloon called The Sapphire Palace. Confirmed bachelor, Jane falls in love with Simon's calm, gentle manner. Simon, finds himself falling in love with sweet but practical Jane but can't marry her, for fear of jeopardizing her life. He's put away plenty of criminals who have been released and some could be gunning for him. He'd like nothing better than to marry her, but can he take the chance? Genre: Romance/ Historical Fiction