Books like Distant heart by Tracey Victoria Bateman

Beth Thatcher leaves the comforts of her affluent family life to teach in a harsh western Canadian mining town, where she faces tragedy, language barriers, and love triangles while striving to inspire hope.

A fierce love story set on a Nevada ranch, where proud Diana clashes with ranch owner Holt Mallory while caring for his son, and together they hunt a runaway stallion that threatens the ranch.

A hard‑witted outlaw’s daughter seeks vengeance against a doctor who caused her brother’s death, but as she joins a westward wagon train she finds community, faith, and new family ties that threaten to change her path forever.

In the cozy lead‑up to Christmas, Hank Chandler vows to secure a wife who can care for his sister’s orphaned children. When schoolteacher Janell Whitman offers her help, he sees her as the perfect match—yet she rejects his proposal and insists on finding another bride before the holidays.

A single mother’s troubled son is sent to a Louisiana therapy‑horse ranch, whose owner is her former high‑school sweetheart—who unknowingly is the son’s father—forcing her to confront past love and decide the future of her family.

Brenda Kaye returns to the Peaster family ranch to organize a charity rodeo, rekindling old ties with ex-rodeo star Caleb and uncovering past secrets while fighting to keep the ranch alive.

Gabe Gentry returns to Wolf Creek, Arkansas, seeking redemption. Physician Rachel Stone, who lost him and is now secretly pregnant with his son, must confront trust, forgiveness, and a second chance at love.

Cooper Smith faces a lonely holiday in the Superstition Mountains, but when his former high‑school sweetheart, Elise, returns to her family ranch, he sees a chance for redemption and a second look at love.

Welcome to the Ozarks, the setting of award-winning author Christine Lynxwiler’s latest breath-taking romance, where the lives of a timid dog whisperer and an out-for-revenge reporter collide. Elyse McCord, the biological daughter of a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, turns into a mighty warrior when a dog’s well-being is at stake. Finding herself in the sights of a pistol-wielding maniac whose been mistreating his dog, she’s suddenly swept to safety by Andrew Stone, a widower bent on hunting down his wife’s killers. Is there any future for an outlaw’s daughter and a Texas ranger’s son?

BOUND BY PRINCIPLES ... Wealthy and willful Harriett Foster was a fiery disciple of Amelia Bloomer's -- determined to blaze a feminist trail from the Plains to the Pacific. When the wagon train master would not allow a pair of Boston ladies to travel unescorted, Harriett and her aunt Lucille reluctantly found a hired gun to accompany them. Crossing the continent under Jake Carradine's brusque protection, Harriett was stunned by his appetite for violence ... and stirred by his powerful presence, her feisty independence shaken for the first time. PURSUED BY DEMONS... Jake Carradine was haunted by dreams of a past with too many guns and too much blood. Drinking and womanizing, gambling and gunslinging, were enough to dull the pain -- until he guided Harriet Foster across the wilderness. Jake wasn't sure if it was her indomitable spirit or her electrifying green eyes and sprinkling of freckles that awakened his soul. But what he did know was that his freewheeling days and hell-raising nights were over. Now, if only he could convince the headstrong Harriett that their adventurous trek had truly turned into a Heart's Journey.

When orphaned Fannie Caldwell and her siblings serve a cruel master, she plans to escape by secretly joining a western wagon train. Determined to survive the frontier, Fannie tests her resilience and challenges the rigid rules of her new world.

Raven Mahoney, a TV journalist, reopens a hot senatorial race when former lover Matthew Strong withdraws, sparking a dangerous investigation into his family and her own past.

Stranded on the Kansas prairie with an orphaned niece to raise, desperate Cassidy Sinclair answers an advertisement placed by someone seeking a wife. She's only looking for a means to provide for her niece and Wendell St. John is just looking for a mother for his four children. Both get way more than they bargained for.