Free from the author @
Kobo (may be price-matched elsewhere, but I think this is a former Smashwords freebie that is playing pricing catch-up):
Butterfly Garden by Annette Blair, a "sensual Amish historical romance". Blair is a former Penguin author and you can still get another freebie Amish novella and some of her backlist 1st-in-series titles via her
Smashwords author page, if you haven't picked them up already.
Amishwoman Sara Lapp, all but shunned for studying with the English doctor to become a midwife, is shocked that, after months of waiting, her first call to tend a birth comes from self-appointed outcast Mad Adam Zuckerman. For his wife’s sake, Sara boldly tells Adam that he is killing Abby with so many babies so close, but Abby is already dead.
Adam did not call Sara to tend the birth, but to give her his children. Though Sara knows Abby’s girls belong with their father, how can she leave them with a man who seems not to care for them? As much as she loves and wants the girls, she decides that she will only take them long enough to teach Adam to love them.
As a child Adam heard the words, “I do this because I love you,” with his father’s every abuse. Adam is afraid to love his children, afraid that in doing so, he will hurt them. Without Abby to protect them, Adam must find someone else, and he can think of only one woman strong and brave enough, Spinster Sara Lapp.
ETA: also free from the author @
Kobo (may be price-matched elsewhere):
Circle 8: Caleb by "Emma Lang", a pseudonym of Beth Williamson, who is a Samhain author from whom we've received previous official publisher promo freebies. This is the 1st in a series of western historical romances (may be on the spicy side, as the author's bio-blurb mentions some kind of award for erotic romance writing).
Caleb Graham has spent the last four years in too many dangerous situations to count. As a Texas Ranger, he knows no fear, or at least he never shows it. When he’s sent to force a blacksmith off government seized property, he runs face to face into the woman who will change his life.
Aurora Foster grew up on the very land the obnoxious Ranger is trying to throw her off of. Her parents and her husband died for it and there is no chance she would leave without a fight. A lady blacksmith might be an anomaly but she has the strength of the steel she forges and the courage to fight for what she believes is right.
When Aurora is inadvertently injured by Caleb, he seeks medical help from a neighboring ranch. The sprawling hacienda is full of the finer things in life and the one person Caleb never expected to see again… his youngest brother Benjamin. Forced to flee from a man who has kept the boy captive, the trio become traveling companions in a deadly game where no one wins.