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Vickie McDonough

EPCA/CBA & Amazon Best selling author Vickie McDonough grew up wanting to marry a rancher but instead, she married a computer geek who is scared of horses. She lives out her childhood dream by penning romances set in the Old West. Vickie is an award-winning author of more than 50 books and novellas. Her books have won the Booksellers Best Award, OWFI Best Fiction Book Award, Inspirational Reader's Choice Contest, Texas Gold, and the ACFW Noble Theme contest, and she has been a finalist in ACFW's Carol Awards contest eight times and an Award of Merit winner in the Holt Medallion Contest. Vickie is the author of the Texas Boardinghouse Brides series and is a co-author of Texas Trails: A Morgan Family series. Her Pioneer Promises series features a family that runs a stage stop in 1870s Kansas. Whispers on the Prairie, book 1 in this series, was a Romantic Times Recommended Inspirational Book for July 2013. Vickie's latest series, Land Rush Dreams, is set during the Oklahoma land run days. The first book, Gabriel's Atonement, received 4 1/2 stars from Romantic Times and is a Will Roger's Medallion finalist. The second book, Joline's Redemption, and book 3 Sarah's Surrenders are now available. Vickie has recently stepped into independent publishing with her word search book, USA Word Find. Vickie and her husband live in Oklahoma. They have been married forty-five years and have four grown sons, one daughter-in-law, and a feisty granddaughter. When she's not writing, Vickie enjoys reading, gardening, watching movies, traveling, collecting antiques and doing stained glass projects. To learn more about Vickie's books, visit her website: www.vickiemcdonough.com

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Finally a bride

Finally a bride

Heart of a Cowboy

Heart of a Cowboy

with Susan Page Davis, Miralee Ferrell and Yvonne Lehman

The Runaway Brides Collection

The Runaway Brides Collection

2019

with Darlene Panzera

Gabriel's Atonement

Gabriel's Atonement

2015
The Christmas Brides Collection

The Christmas Brides Collection

2014

with Kristin Billerbeck, Kelly Eileen Hake, Therese Stenzel, Colleen L. Reece, Tamela Hancock Murray and Lauralee Bliss

Stitched with Love Collection

Stitched with Love Collection

2013

with Tracey Victoria Bateman and Tracey Bateman

Stitched with Love Romance Collection: 9 Historical Courtships Begin in the Sewing Parlor

Stitched with Love Romance Collection: 9 Historical Courtships Begin in the Sewing Parlor

2013

with Tracey Victoria Bateman and Janet Spaeth

End of the Trail

End of the Trail

2012
Second Chance Brides

Second Chance Brides

2010
The Anonymous Bride

The Anonymous Bride

2010
Christmas Mail-Order Brides: Four Mail-Order Brides Travel the Transcontinental Railroad in Search of Love

Christmas Mail-Order Brides: Four Mail-Order Brides Travel the Transcontinental Railroad in Search of Love

2010

with Carrie Turansky, Therese Stenzel and Susan Page Davis

A Bride By Christmas

A Bride By Christmas

2008

with Linda Goodnight, Kelly Eileen Hake and Therese Stenzel

The Spinster Brides of Cactus Corner: The Spinster and the Cowboy/The Spinster and the Lawyer/The Spinster and the Doctor/The Spinster and the Tycoon

The Spinster Brides of Cactus Corner: The Spinster and the Cowboy/The Spinster and the Lawyer/The Spinster and the Doctor/The Spinster and the Tycoon

2007

with Frances Devine, Lena Nelson Dooley and Jeri Odell

Lone Star Christmas

Lone Star Christmas

2005

with Pamela Griffin, Cathy Marie Hake and Darlene Franklin

Brides O' the Emerald Isle

Brides O' the Emerald Isle

2005

with Linda Windsor and Tamela Hancock Murray