Susan Leigh Carlton

Susan Leigh Carlton

Susan was born in Rock Hill, SC. She attended Purdue University. She has traveled throughout the US, and has visited 47 states. She began writing in August, 2012 and currently has 185 books on Amazon, most in her name and another pen name. To serve more readers, all of her books are in Kindle Unlimited (KU). Her writings are now primarily in the Western Romance, Time Travel, and Historical Romance genres. She has visited most of the settings in her books. Susan is an avid reader, and a history buff, primarily interested in the Civil War era. She spent a lot of time researching her family history, and is a member of the DAR, the Huguenot Society, and the Barons of the Magna Carta.


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Terminal Velocity: A Wind River Time-Crossed Romance (Wind River Romances)

Terminal Velocity

A Wind River Time-Crossed Romance
by Susan Leigh Carlton

Erin Caldwell trusts procedure, precision, and training to save lives. As a physician assistant assisting an OB-GYN, she knows exactly what to do when everything goes wrong.

Until the day it isn’t enough.

When her parachute fails during a routine jump, Erin executes every...

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The Accident Prone Bride of Wind River: A Mail-Order Bride Historic Western Romantic Comedy (Wind River Romances)

The Accident-Prone Bride of Wind River

A Mail-Order Western Romantic Comedy

Herschel McCormick runs one of the most successful ranches in Wind River, Wyoming Territory. Order, hard work, and discipline keep everything running smoothly—especially since becoming a widower and raising his lively five-year-old daughter alone.

What his household...

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The Wind River Stranger: A Time-Crossed Historical Western Romance (Wind River Romances)

A WIND RIVER STRANGER
A Wind River Novel, Book 2

Jake Carter is one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League Baseball—a man with a blazing fastball, magazine-cover fame, and a life that looks perfect from the outside. But behind the headlines and penthouse parties, Jake knows the man the world sees isn’t the man his mother raised him to be.

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Chapter 1

The Last Straw

Eliza's alarm blared at 5:00 AM, jolting her from a fitful sleep. For a moment, she stared at the water-stained ceiling of her studio apartment, disoriented. The locket she'd found last night lay heavy against her chest, its silver chain tangled around her neck from tossing and turning. Christmas morning. The thought brought no joy, only a hollow ache and the pressing weight of reality.

She silenced the alarm and forced herself to rise from the mattress on the floor. No...

Chapter 1: The Last Straw

Sarah's apartment smelled like failure.

That was the first thought that crossed her mind when she opened the door at 9:47 PM, arms laden with grocery bags containing exactly $23.47 worth of food that would have to last until her next paycheck. The smell wasn't literal—not garbage or mildew or anything she could spray away with the dollar-store air freshener she couldn't afford this week. It was the scent of dreams deferred, of potential curtailed, of a life that had...

The Firefighter Who Rescued Christmas: Chapter 1  Empty

Empty Cupboards

The fluorescent lights of Brennan's Department Store cast everything in a harsh, clinical glow that made Sarah Mitchell's eyes ache. Or maybe that was just the exhaustion. She'd been on her feet for seven hours straight, and her shift didn't end for another three. "Excuse me, miss?"

An elderly woman held up a cashmere scarf, price tag dangling. "Do you have this in navy?" Sarah summoned a smile from somewhere deep, somewhere that still remembered how to pretend everything was...

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