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The Chemistry of Christmas: Glover Family Saga & Christian Romance by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe's the black sheep of the family, and she's a chemist who understands formulas, not emotions. Can Preacher and Charlie take their quirks and turn them into a strong relationship this Christmas?Preacher Glover doesn't feel like he fits in the loud, loving Glover Family... -
Cowgirl Fallin' for the Neighbor by Natalie Dean
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe’s the beauty with a smile that won’t quit and a heart of gold. He’s the cranky, prideful rancher who wants help from no one. Trouble is… she won’t take no for an answer.Quirky, six-foot-tall Clara Miller has it all. And although she’s on the bigger side, she’s gorgeous from head to toe... -
Eight Second Ride by Liz Isaacson, Elana Johnson
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sixth book in the #1 bestselling Three Rivers Ranch Romance series, Eight Second Ride takes you beyond the ranch...to the rodeo. Ethan Greene wants no part of the rodeo circuit he left six years ago. Instead, he's spent the last year reinventing himself, trying to become a man he can be proud of... -
Cowboy Seeking a Second Chance by Janice Whiteaker
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTen years ago Boone Pace made a mistake out of selfishness and immaturity.He’s regretted it ever since.Competing as a professional rodeo cowboy was everything he wanted. All that mattered. An opportunity he wouldn’t pass by.But it meant leaving his high-school sweetheart behind.Mae Wells was sweet, and innocent, and quiet... -
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Her Fake-Fiance Cowboy Protector by Natalie Dean
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey had to fake an engagement to protect her. He just wanted to keep her safe. If only it were that simple… The second to youngest of all the Miller brothers, Bradley has always been a bit of the odd one out. Good with numbers, but not especially with people. While his brothers played sports in high school, he got into theater...Categorized as:
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Dreaming of Her Secret Santa's Kiss by Jessie Gussman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBurgundy Gannon went to Hollywood to make it big. That was a bust.Crew Pittman was one of the world’s top underwater welders. Until a freak accident left him permanently unable to work.When Burgundy shows up at Crew’s new home to be a caretaker to the elderly woman who won’t leave, it seems like three unlikely people are trapped unwillingly together... -
Forever Family by Kirsten Osbourne, River's End Ranch
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter thirty-five years of peaceful marriage, Bobbi and Wilber Weston have come to a crossroads. They each want something different, and neither is willing to give in to the other. Bobbi loves her children and grandbabies more than she’d ever imagined, and she doesn’t think asking for a change in the plans she’d made with Wilber many years ago should be a difficult thing... -
Romancing Rachel by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAspiring actress Rachel McIntyre is also a waitress at Kelsey's Kafe at River's End Ranch. She plans to eventually move to L. A. to chase her dream, but money is tight at home, so she is going to wait a few years... -
Ryder Revisited by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChef Bethany Davis needs a job. Ryder Quinn needs a Chef. But she'd never make his short list. Bethany Davis has worked in some of the most exciting restaurants in New York City. She's from Quinn Valley, a small Idaho town and she hasn't been home for more than a few days in years... -
A Cowboy and his Boss by Emmy Eugene
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's his boss. He's had a crush on her for a couple of summers now. Can Toni and Griffin mix business and pleasure while making sure the teens they're in charge of stay in line? Griffin Johnson likes getting away from his brothers and the ranch every summer, going to Camp Clear Creek, where he's a counselor for teenage boys. Finally, some peace. He loves his brothers, don't get him wrong... -
A Cowboy and his Fake Marriage: A Western Cowboy Sweet Romance by Emmy Eugene
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe needs a husband to keep her ranch...can she convince the cowboy next-door to marry her? Darren Dumond has been working at Chestnut Ranch since he sold his place after the death of his first wife. But he starts to see the woman who owns the ranch just north of where he works over the summer, and he thinks his heart can handle a new relationship. His heart was wrong... -
Choices of the Heart by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes life throws us a devastating curveball, but we still end up with a homerun ending anyway... Paige Emerson has had a rough life. No doubt about it. Abandoned at a church as a baby by a drug-addicted teen mom, she was bounced around from place to place her whole life... -
Lucky Number Thirteen by Liz Isaacson, Elana Johnson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA bonus novella in the #1 bestselling Three Rivers Ranch Romance series, featuring Tanner Wolf! Tanner's in Three Rivers, a changed man, to compete in the rodeo. He's glad to be forgiven of the misdeeds he's done, and he looks to his friends in Three Rivers as examples. He's ridden hundreds of bulls over the years, but when he draws Lucky Number Thirteen, the personal stakes for winning go up... -
Cowboy Creed by Rhonda Lee Carver
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSeconds chances come in their own time for a cowboy. For Mindy and Creed the flame remains.Newly divorced and empty nester, Mindy Sage, decided that her hometown might be the perfect place to reinvent herself, or at least find the wild and carefree girl she used to be before she moved away. She’s craving small town comfort, but the problem is, in Cooper’s Hawk, everyone knows everyone... -
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No Going Back by Janice Whiteaker
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDon’t fall for the sexy silver fox that just rolled into town.Easier said than done.Especially when he’s your new neighbor.Dianna came to Moss Creek for a fresh start. To learn from the mistakes of her past.But Griffin Fraley is testing her commitment to that task. Somewhere between those baby blue eyes and a set of hands she can imagine doing debaucherous things, her focus starts to shift... -
Pet Peeves by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKerry Holt has a lot of hang-ups about life. She's worked hard to prove herself as a strong, successful black woman in the corporate world, and between her career and caring for her aging mother, her stress levels are through the roof. A trip to River's End Ranch should help relax her ... or so her therapist hopes... -
Fanning Flames by Cindy Caldwell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes when you search for something, you find more than you bargained for. Wildfires threaten River’s End Ranch as Lindsey Montgomery arrives out to find the brother she just found out she has. Family has never meant much to her, her adoption not what she’d hoped for. After years of loneliness, she finds out that she had a twin brother, and they were separated as toddlers... -
Haylee's Homecoming by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaylee Evans has never had a real family or a place to call home. Her whole life, all she wanted to do was work with animals. After working hard to finally realize that dream, she suddenly finds herself with a thirteen-year-old sister to raise. They both need a fresh start, so they move to Quinn Valley where her sister can have the life Haylee never did... -
Catching the Cowboy: A Royal Brothers Novel by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA cowboy who can't get off the ranch to meet anyone, a stylist who hasn't been on a second date in a year, and the relationship that starts when they're stranded in a cabin together... Cowboy Dylan Royal is good at two things: whistling and caring for cattle. When his cows are being attacked by an unknown wild animal, he calls Texas Parks & Wildlife for help... -
Cheering the Cowboy: A Royal Brothers Novel by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA cowboy with anger management issues, the woman whose ranch he "stole," and their chance to get everything they want for Christmas...including each other. Austin Royal loves his life on his new ranch with his brothers. But he doesn't love that Shayleigh Hatch came with the property, nor that he has to take the blame for the fact that he now owns her childhood ranch... -
32 Rowan Blvd by Kelsey Kingsley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGet married.Buy a house.Have a baby.That's every girl's dream, isn't it? Well, maybe not every girl, but for Christy Bush, it was.So, when her boyfriend realized he didn't want any of those things, the obvious answer was to set him free and find a man who did... -
Rugged Rockclimber by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiscover River's End Ranch, a gorgeous "destination ranch and resort" in Riston, Idaho, that is run by the six Weston siblings and their well-meaning, semi-retired parents. Five bestselling Western romance authors have created a world like no other--full of fun outside activities, a huge family in need of love, and side characters you will never forget... -
Flyboy's Fancy by Kirsten Osbourne, River's End Ranch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDebbie White visited River’s End Ranch over Christmas to spend time with her daughter, and she fell in love with the place. When she realizes there’s a job open in her chosen field, she jumps at the chance to move there. As the director of the Kids’ Korral, she has a lot to do to get it ready to open before one of the daughters of the family has her baby... -
Peppermint Proposal by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Joni Kley finished her degree in social work, she didn’t feel like she could immediately quit her job as assistant manager of Kelsey’s Kafé on River’s End Ranch. Now that she is free to look around for something else, she’s not sure where she wants to go. She loves Idaho and the ranch, and can’t imagine living anywhere else, but there aren’t exactly a lot of social work jobs in town... -
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Yukon Yuletide by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis year, Christmas is coming by dog sled! Nine months ago, Mack Holmes' dreams of another Iditarod win--and a legacy which would insure his kennels' success--drowned under a frozen river with half of his team... -
Stepdad Surprise by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Fourth of July, there's all sorts of fireworks at River's End Ranch! A year ago, Jackie Novak looked into the eyes of her infant daughter and made the decision to run. She's spent months hiding at River's End Ranch, hoping and praying her violent ex won't track them down... -
Forever Mason by Heidi McLaughlin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe long-awaited prequel to Forever My Girl is here!Mason Powell. Best friend. Boyfriend. Husband. Father.He’s the young man you know but have never met.He’s the man who chose love over friendship.He’s the man who would do anything for his family and friends.He’s the man who stepped up when someone wasn’t there.He’s the man who has a story to tell.Be there when Mason tells his life story... -
Blacksmith's Beauty by Caroline Lee, River's End Ranch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStart with a hot anvil, add a little bit of aloha, a failure of an anxiety pig, a whole lotta Elvis Presley, and what do you get? Christmas at River's End Ranch! Since moving to River’s End Ranch to take over the blacksmith shop, Elvis “Elf” Redfern has been surrounded on all sides by deliriously happy couples in love. And despite his well-earned reputation as a flirt, he’s beyond jealous... -
Discovering Dani by Cindy Caldwell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Dani Weston must fill in as general manager of her family’s guest ranch in the high country of Idaho, she figures she’ll have plenty of help, and ramping up to Christmas will be a breeze. But the Christmas spirit has other ideas, and help turns out to be something she never expected—an interesting and solitary driver and her twin sister Kelsi and even they family’s banker... -
Missing Melissa by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMelissa Winchester moved across the country, from Boston, MA to Riston, ID to be far away and safe. She's following two dreams, one is owning and running a book store in the Old West town on the ranch. The other is writing her own mystery novels... -
Mistletoe Mistake by Cindy Caldwell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGillian Wharton’s world is rosy—her son, Fred, has found his beloved, their wedding is on track and the bank is running quite smoothly. Maybe grandchildren are in the future, and her world as head of the town’s oldest bank is humming along. Nothing could be better, and as Christmas and the Jingle Bell Jam fundraiser loom, her world is in order... -
Dreaming of You by Barbara Freethy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhoever said opposites attract must have been talking about Kate Marlowe and Barrett Fox. Her life's work was bringing people together, and his was tearing them apart. The pretty wedding consultant and the sexy divorce lawyer should have hated each other on sight, and—well, they did... -
Anchored in Alaska by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeverly Snow lived a charmed life until a car accident when she was eighteen. She lost her father and sister, and her mother became a quadriplegic all in one night. After giving up her own life for twenty years to care for her mother, she’s at loose ends in the midst of her grief with her mother’s passing... -
Teasing Tammy by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharming orthopedics doctor Clark Baker is known for being a big flirt. He loves women, they love him and he's never lacked for dates. But he's ready to settle down now and find a serious relationship, and the one person he sets his sights on, bookstore manager, Tammy Burns, does not take him seriously. She likes him quite a bit. He's easy to like... -
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Show Me Best Friends: Small-Town Single-Father Cowboy Romance by Alexa Verde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA “steel cowboy” with a wounded spirit, an ex-cop who’s never forgotten him, and a baby in need of love… Can these childhood best friends become more? A sweet, clean, wholesome romance with a happily-ever-after!Damaged and scarred after an accident that ended his racing career, Maverick Clark returns to his family ranch to find a new purpose... -
Her Last Secret Sweetheart by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA cowboy guitarist looking to make more money. The woman he's trying to impress. Can Cache capture Karla's heart through...cow cuddling?Cache Bryant loves the dairy cows he brought to Last Chance Ranch, especially when he learns he can make some extra income with them... -
Cowboy and the Convict by Janice Whiteaker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome days life is a little messy.Other days, you get arrested by the small-town cop who loves to lecture you on all the ways you could be doing better.Officer Peters has never been Janie’s biggest fan, but when he picks her up for a warrant she didn’t know she had, he lays into her.And, for the first time in years, she breaks...Categorized as:
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Spying On The Billionaire: A January Cove Romance by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s a split second decision. What if he figures out who she isn’t? Daisy needs to stop a mall project from ruining her town. A billionaire stands in her way. And she isn’t exactly well versed in faking her identity. That is, until she does it. The problem is, he doesn’t like her one bit... -
Honest Horseman by Cindy Caldwell
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive bestselling Western romance authors have created a world like no other - full of fun outside activities, a huge family in need of love, and side characters you will never forget. A world where our characters learn, laugh, and love... -
Her Rival Cowboy: Contemporary Western Novel by Natalie Dean
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe thinks he’s just the arrogant, rich cowboy from the rival ranch down the road. He’s out to prove her wrong… Born smack-dab in the middle of his more successful siblings, Benji Miller finds himself wondering where his place is on his family’s wealthy ranch. It’s hard to stand out when he has five brothers that just so happen to include the Leader, the Veteran, the Genius, and the Playboy... -
Impressing Her Billionaire Cowboy Boss by April Murdock
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChad Bolton is the heir to his father’s ranch. The son his mother is counting on. The one who has to do it all. But he’s a rancher at heart. A cowboy. Spending his days in a corporate office isn’t for him. In fact, the thought that most every day from now on will be spent indoors is depressing.Annie Shipley has worked hard for her credentials... -
Second Chance at Sunflower Ranch by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Queen of Cowboy: regrets and old heartbreaks are unearthed in this sweeping love story as hometown sweethearts get a second chance at love—and being a family.Retired combat medic Jesse Ryan hasn’t been home much since he enlisted twenty years ago. Now he’s headed back to Texas to help take care of his aging foster parents and run Sunflower ranch... -
The Cowboy's Fake Marriage: A Clean Fake Relationship Romance Book One by Bree Livingston
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA designer who’s lost her job, a cowboy with a crumbling home, and a business arrangement that’s mutually beneficial. When Grace Maddox breaks down in Willow Valley, Texas, she finds herself suddenly jobless and staying at a rundown bed and breakfast. The only benefit, besides the handsome and rugged cowboy who owns it, is the gorgeous old house that's begging to be restored... -
Taming a Texas Bad Boy by Katie Lane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to Bad Boy Ranch . . . where bad is, oh, so good. Six men return to the boys' ranch they spent one summer at as troubled teens. They're all searching for different things: peace, family, forgiveness, redemption, hope, and faith. It will take the love of strong Texas women to heal these wounded hearts and make these bad, bad boys realize they're good, good men... -
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Taking Chances by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife can change on a dime. Piper Williams is poor. She's always been poor. Like seriously - dirt poor from a small town. But when one of her regular customers at The Greasy Spoon diner gives her the gift of a lifetime, her life changes overnight. But as with all gifts, there are potential obstacles and hers is named Cameron... -
Wrangled by Lilith by Remi Carrington
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy plan is to start over without a man. But car woes and a cowboy are making it difficult.LilithI don’t need a man. And I definitely don’t need his money. After spending twenty-five years as a trophy wife, I’m single again and on my own. Well, not completely alone. I have my cat.My fresh start isn’t going well... -
The Heart by Kate Stewart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack For the last ten years, I've roamed the globe, captivated by the world around me. I've seen the seven wonders and admired sunsets from every continent. I'd lived and loved and that was enough for me. It would have to be. I was content, satisfied with my collection of experiences . . . until a phone call led me down a road less traveled... -
River's End Ranch Boxed Set 1-4 by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFour books from the incredibly popular River's End Ranch series of sweet contemporary western romances. This box set includes Pamela Kelley's Veterinarian's Vacation, Charming Chef, Cute Cowboy and Merry Manager. Discover River's End Ranch, a gorgeous "destination" ranch and resort in Riston, Idaho, that is run by the six Weston siblings and their well-meaning, semi-retired parents... -
Love is by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAmanda Creole Hawk has been in a terrible automobile accident which has left her sightless for six weeks. After she goes through five caretakers in as many days, her father hires a Mr. Parker to take care of her and tells her that he will be the last. The sparks fly between Creole and Mr. Parker from the first minute they're in each other's company... -
His Sixth Sweetheart by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's had a crush on him for decades. He's finally in a place where he feels ready to date the boss's daughter. Can Cord and Jane take their relationship to the next level without getting burned?Jane Hammond has grown and matured a lot over the years. So much so that she's now working in the accounting department at the massive family company in downtown Denver...
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