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  • Red Dirt Heart 3 by N.R. Walker

    Red Dirt Heart 3 by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Life for Charlie Sutton has never been better, or busier. With Travis now a permanent fixture of Sutton Station, a permanent fixture at Charlie’s side, Charlie’s convinced he couldn’t do anything on his ever-growing to-do list without him...
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    angst  drama  family  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense
  • Brendon by Nicole Edwards

    Brendon by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling indie author Nicole Edwards comes the final scorching installment in her Alluring Indulgence series, erotic romances featuring the Texan Walker brothers and their sizzling-hot love interests. Brendon Walker’s life was altered drastically when his twin brother fell in love...
  • Rough Edge by Lauren Landish

    Rough Edge by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This ain’t no love triangle. This is people not knowing when to let fate do its thing. Brody Tannen has been the boss for way too long, putting everyone’s needs above his own. It’s the way his family farm stood while fate took shot after shot against them. But now he’s got a chance to figure things out for himself...
  • Texas Orchids by Samantha Christy

    Texas Orchids by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I'm a city boy, not a cowboy.I'm way out of my league on a horse ranch in Texas.Falling for the sexy horse vet was never my intention.Especially when I find out she could be dating a killer.Sneaking around with her?Not my brightest idea, but someone's got to protect her.It's just one summer. One casual fling.Until it becomes everything but...
  • Beau by Nicole Edwards

    Beau by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THEIR LOVE IS UNDENIABLE… Happily married for four and a half years, Beau and Ethan Walker are ready for the next phase in their lives. They want what so many people dream of: A baby. THEIR COMMITMENT IS UNWAVERING… Expanding their family with a tiny bundle of joy isn’t as easy for them as it is for the rest of the Walker clan...
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    alpha-mc  angst  family  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense
  • Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Strong Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The fourth, and final novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series fires up the passion in a story about forgiveness and finding your soul mate.Dirk Littlewood had the world at his feet and a life he claimed to love. He was a world-champion bull rider with plenty of women to keep his nights busy and make his inner loneliness nothing but a delusion...
  • Redneck Romeo by Lorelei James

    Redneck Romeo by Lorelei James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The last McKay standing is knocked to his knees… Three years ago, Dalton McKay looked across the altar and saw the woman he knew he’d love for the rest of his life…only it wasn’t his bride. That’s when he took the McKays’ love-’em-and-leave-’em reputation to new heights—fleeing the ceremony and Wyoming...
  • Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stand-alone Wishing Well, Texas romance, complete with HEA—and plenty of heat and heart along the way! I had to keep my distance… Sawyer Briggs could admit that she was all he ever thought about, but the tall, sexy alpha knew that if he truly wanted what was best for her, he would stay away… It's now or never… Delilah Turner was ready to go for who she really wanted! The curvaceous...
  • Raising Kane by Lorelei James

    Raising Kane by Lorelei James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She surrendered the reins. Now he’s raising the stakes. When attorney Ginger Paulson slips head-over-high-heels down a flight of stairs, she has no one to care for her young son…until lethally sexy Kane McKay shows up, determined to prove his cowboy chivalry. Past experience has inoculated her against take-charge men, but even Ginger isn’t immune to Kane’s Built Ford Tough body...
  • Cowgirl Up and Ride by Lorelei James

    Cowgirl Up and Ride by Lorelei James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ridin’ the edge of lust is fun…until someone falls in love. For years, goody-two boots AJ Foster wished her dream man Cord McKay would see her beyond the girl in pigtails. Now that she’s old enough to stake her claim on him, she challenges the cowboy to teach her how to ride—and she doesn’t mean horses...
  • Zane by Nicole Edwards

    Zane by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Vanessa Carmichael will never forget that horrible day for as long as she lives. With Zane fully on the mend from the brutal attack he suffered right in her very own yard, she knows she should be grateful, which she is. She also knows that walking away from Zane might be the only way to keep him safe...
  • Siren in the City by Sophie Oak

    Siren in the City by Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    [Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, BDSM, public exhibition] When the Dom's away...the subs will play! Jack and Sam married Abby. It was supposed to be for forever, but lately Abby wonders where her alpha male has gone. Jack has retreated, and life has become decidedly vanilla. It isn't the true threesome she and Sam wanted...
  • Siren Enslaved by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Siren Enslaved by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new scenes. Julian Lodge has everything a man could want. He’s rich, successful and owns the most exclusive club in Dallas. But something is missing. Finn Taylor has worked his way up in the world from humble beginnings in Willow Fork, Texas. The only thing he still loves in his hometown is Danielle Bay...
  • Siren Beloved by Sophie Oak

    Siren Beloved by Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, BDSM, spanking, public exhibition, voyeurism] Aidan O'Malley left his fiancee, Lexi Moore, and their best friend, Lucas Cameron, after a night of passion left him shaken to his core. Years later, Aidan is back and he knows what he wants. He wants Lucas and Lexi forever...
  • Silent Chaos by Nikki Ash

    Silent Chaos by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BraxtonOur senior year, I promised my girl forever. Forever, as it turned out, wasn't enough. She told me so in her actions. When she took a match to my life, burning it to ash. I headed to LA with my band—Raging Chaos—like we always planned, while Kaylee went to college, taking my damaged heart with her. This was where our story was supposed to end. Only six years later, our lives collide again...
  • Love, Lies, and Whiskey by Melissa Foster

    Love, Lies, and Whiskey by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Get ready to fall hard for the mysterious Seeley “Doc” Whiskey and the one woman he never thought would walk back into his life, in this sexy and emotional second-chance standalone romance. The Whiskeys: Dark Knights at Redemption Ranch is a small-town, big-family series of standalone romance novels featuring fiercely loyal, insanely sexy bikers who give horses—and people—a second chance...
  • The Cowboy Earns a Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy Earns a Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wedding bells are ringing on the Double-Bar-K and Luke Matheson is determined to make his move on his favorite bridesmaid—sweet, sexy Mia Start. Though she's shared his house for more than two months, she's remained elusive. Luke's ready to cross that divide, and win her love for good...
  • Tied Up, Tied Down by Lorelei James

    Tied Up, Tied Down by Lorelei James

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The strongest bonds are the ones unseen… Businesswoman Skylar Ellison never intended to get tangled up with a sexy Wyoming cowboy—let alone conceive a baby with him in the parking lot of a honky-tonk. When it appears her baby daddy has taken off for greener pastures, Skylar pulls up her bootstraps and carries on alone...
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    alpha-mc  angst  drama  family  industrial-era  steamy  western  adult
  • Siren in Waiting by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Siren in Waiting by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new content. Bethany “Mouse” Hobbes spent her entire life waiting, especially for the love of Bo O’Malley. But for the first time in her life, she is ready to start living, with or without him. She has found her dream, restoring a rustic farmhouse on the outskirts of town...
  • Sheriff's Secret by K. Webster

    Sheriff's Secret by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a steamy and emotional MM romance!When you’re the sheriff of Brigs Ferry Bay, certain things are expected of you.Marry a local girl, settle down, have a few kids. You know, the small-town dream.But I’ve got a secret I’m terrified will get out.I’m gay.Not bi. Not curious. Not confused.Just gay.So, settling for that dream won’t be happening...
  • Rocky Mountain Freedom by Vivian Arend

    Rocky Mountain Freedom by Vivian Arend

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A STAND ALONE story in the bestselling SIX PACK RANCH series by New York Times Bestselling Author Vivian Arend​ ------------- Three hurting hearts. Too many secrets. One chance to conquer their fears. Over the past year, Travis Coleman lost the two people he allowed closest to his heart. Both gave him ultimatums—then left. Hell if he needs that kind of pain again...
  • Facing West by Lucy Lennox

    Facing West by Lucy Lennox

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The first book in a new series by Lucy Lennox! Nico: I left my family and tiny Texas hometown fifteen years ago to escape small-town gossips and to give my mom and sister the chance at a better life...
  • The Outsider Series: The Complete Collection by Lorhainne Eckhart

    The Outsider Series: The Complete Collection by Lorhainne Eckhart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Outsider Series The Complete Omnibus Collection is the ultimate sexy and emotionally charged western romance series. Over 350,000 words of love, passion, and deep family ties. Get it for yourself or for the western romance lover in your life. This collection includes all the books and short stories of the hot and sexy Friessen men and the strong and vulnerable women they love...
  • Bourbon & Bonfires by Andrea Johnston

    Bourbon & Bonfires by Andrea Johnston

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Landon Montgomery has suddenly found himself the lone bachelor in his group of friends. With a new career handed to him and a string of unsuccessful blind dates behind him, Landon is ready to search for love. A chance meeting and immediate attraction have him wondering if things are about to turn around or if he’s stuck in the single life forever...
  • Logan's Loves by Taylor Rylan

    Logan's Loves by Taylor Rylan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life wasn’t easy. It didn’t always turn out how you planned, either. Still, Logan wouldn’t trade his current life for anything. He had a wonderful family, a loving husband he’d do anything for, and they had just become parents to twins. What more could they want? So much had changed in the last two years but Rhett couldn’t be happier...
  • A Rancher's Love by Vivian Arend

    A Rancher's Love by Vivian Arend

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Return to Silver Stone, where the legacy of love is ready to bloom again.Ginny Stone wants to be a vital part of her family’s ranching success, but nothing is the same as it was three years ago, and now she’s not sure where she fits in. To add to her troubles, her big brother’s best friend has shown up—the sexy lover Ginny’s been keeping secret for years...
  • Mother Bucker by Elle Thorpe

    Mother Bucker by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Getting pregnant then realising your baby daddy is a cheating, lying, scumbag? That happened.But then Abel James walks into my life. One hot look from the broad-shouldered cowboy and I’m ready for all the sexy fun I won’t be having once I start showing.Only one problem. He’s my father’s best friend and almost twenty years older than me.He’s off limits. I’m completely forbidden...
  • Forget Me Not by Felice Stevens

    Forget Me Not by Felice Stevens

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "He had everything under control, except the way that cowboy made him feel."Texas cowboy Shea Montgomery has plans. Big plans. Still mourning the loss of his beloved father, he’s finally ready to sell the Forget Me Not ranch. He’s dusting off his boots, packing up his cowboy hat, and moving to New York City to make his dreams come true...
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    family  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  north-america  steamy  texas  usa
  • Her Unbridled Cowboy by Donna Michaels

    Her Unbridled Cowboy by Donna Michaels

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Homeless and unemployed thanks to an earthquake, divorced California chef Kerri Masters agrees to head back to her hometown to help plan her sister’s Texas wedding. It must be her weakened state that has her eyeing the neighbor she used to follow around as a child. Her tastes tend towards gentlemen in suits, cultured, and neatly groomed— not a dimple-glaring, giant of a cowboy...
  • Virgin Hearts by Emmy Sanders

    Virgin Hearts by Emmy Sanders

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can an inexperienced cowboy wrangle the adult movie star of his dreams? HawthorneI’ve lived in the same small town my entire life. And I like it, for the most part: being a rancher, taking care of my chickens, and even my meddlesome family. What I don’t like is the limited dating options. I’m gay, and at thirty-six-years-old, I’ve never been with a man...
  • Grinding by Sean Ashcroft

    Grinding by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two childhood best friends. One accidental fake engagement. One Labrador puppy. One week to fall in love.When Harvey runs into his childhood best friend—literally—on the way into Otter Bay for his cousin's wedding, he doesn't plan to end up playing the part of the guy's fiancé...
  • Cruz by Jacki James

    Cruz by Jacki James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This lost boy needs a Daddy to take the reins...Nolan Carter is incredibly successful and wealthy. On paper, it seems he's gotten everything he could want. But he's lost himself along the way.When Nolan retreats to a Texas ranch he bought on a whim, hoping to figure out who he is without the influence of life coaches and socialites, he meets foreman Cruz Coban...
  • The Crush by Kelly Fox

    The Crush by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Augustus Walker, Jr. is a problem. Every queer person I know has had a tragic crush on a straight person at some point in their lives, and for the last year, Walker has been mine.Not that my crush on him is serious—I'm just appreciating a sweet, sexy guy who happens to be a big fat goose egg on the Kinsey scale. Le sigh and all that...
  • Perfect Day by Sally Malcolm

    Perfect Day by Sally Malcolm

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    First love conquers all in Perfect Day, a captivating contemporary male/male retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Love doesn’t burn out just because the timing’s wrong. It grows. It never leaves. When Joshua Newton, prodigal son of one of New Milton’s elite, fell in love with ambitious young actor Finn Callaghan, his world finally made sense...
  • Like the Taste of Summer by Kaje Harper

    Like the Taste of Summer by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack managed to get a scholarship to a small-town college in the middle of the Iowa cornfields, September 1981. It wasn't New York, or California, but he figured it would be better than being home. College would be be a new start in a new place, maybe somewhere he could be himself...
  • Noah's Journey by C.A. Harms

    Noah's Journey by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The years that were taken can never be repaid. The memories stolen can never be returned. But I had to move forward…for him, my son. Noah had spent years wondering what he could have done differently. Wondering what he’d done wrong to make Stacey leave. The heartache from her absence and the what-ifs of their past eventually turned to anger—and then disgust...
  • Only You by Samantha Young

    Only You by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once upon a time, Monroe Sinclair was Brodan Adair’s best friend, but now he’s a stranger and one of Hollywood’s leading men…It took Monroe Sinclair eighteen years to return home to Ardnoch after a fateful night that devastated her friendship with Brodan Adair. She fled her unrequited love for him, as well as her difficult family life, and tried not to look behind her...
  • The One I Left Behind by Piper Rayne

    The One I Left Behind by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s the classic story—boy goes off into the world to fulfill his dreams and leaves the girl behind.Not every boy returns home, and I wish Ben Noughton wouldn’t have come back to our small ranching town at all after he retired from playing professional football.I figure it’s a quick layover for him. He always wanted out of this town and off his family’s ranch...
  • Northern Twilight by Samantha Young

    Northern Twilight by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s the girl he left behind. He’s the boy she tried to forget. But after seven years apart, one passionately reckless night will tie them together forever …As teenagers, Callie Ironside and Lewis Adair were inseparable. So much so, Lewis still can’t work out where it all went horribly wrong, or why he’s spent the last seven years in London away from the love of his life...
  • Down Low by Parker St. John

    Down Low by Parker St. John

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    His broken bones could finally mend their broken bond…Bull riding was the only thing that calmed the thrill-seeking, self-destructive beast inside of Calvin Craig. It allowed him to escape a small-minded town and the pain of his troubled youth, fleeing to bright lights and big city fame without looking back.One trip on the horns of the wrong bull changed everything...
  • Nobody's Prince Charming by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Nobody's Prince Charming by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fire and ice. Oil and water. Vodka and decisions. That’s what Darren McCoy and Wren Davison are: two opposites that shouldn’t mix well. Dare believes in fairy tales, true love, and happily ever after. Wren believes in fast cars, freedom, and no-strings sex. What can these two men possibly have in common? A magnetic pull strong enough to obliterate logic and reason...
  • Game On by Riley Hart, Devon McCormack

    Game On by Riley Hart, Devon McCormack

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    CARTER Relationships--who needs 'em? As a personal-assistant-extraordinaire to one of the top PR firms in Los Angeles, I've dedicated most of my life to errand-running and people-pleasing. But when it comes to men, as much as I love to please them in the bedroom, I'm way too busy to give more than that. Fortunately, as far as my options go..
  • Prairie Heat by Tessa Layne

    Prairie Heat by Tessa Layne

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Rancher's SonCowboy Blake Sinclaire is determined not to repeat the sins of his father. That means choosing to love no one and save the settling down for his younger brothers. But one woman has thrown a wrench in those plans – Maddie Hansen, the sexy scientist who also happens to be the daughter of his family’s greatest enemy...
  • Rattlesnake by Kim Fielding

    Rattlesnake by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A drifter since his teens, Jimmy Dorsett has no home and no hope. What he does have is a duffel bag, a lot of stories, and a junker car. Then one cold desert night he picks up a hitchhiker and ends up with something more: a letter from a dying man to the son he hasn’t seen in years...
  • Always Mine by Sloane Kennedy

    Always Mine by Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I had one reason for never going back to the small town I once called home, but I never guessed it would be the same one that made me want to stay… Brooks I grew up in the small town of Eden, Wyoming, but never really felt like I fit in. Until I met the one boy who changed all that. When we were kids, Xavier Price understood horses, but somehow, he got me too...
  • Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend

    Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he d be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else the chance to drop-kick his heart. Physical pleasure? Hell, yeah, he ll take and give with gusto, but nothing more...
  • Depth of Field by Riley Hart

    Depth of Field by Riley Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Shane Wallace has made a decent life for himself in Last Chance. He built his own home on his mom’s property to take care of her, owns an automotive repair shop, and when he wants to get laid, Portland isn’t too far away. Not too shabby for the boy who spent his childhood getting bullied and feeling alone. Shane’s content to leave his past behind him..
  • Sweet-Loving Cowboy by Stacey Kennedy

    Sweet-Loving Cowboy by Stacey Kennedy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy comes the next riveting and sexy addition to the Kinky Spurs series, Sweet-Loving Cowboy.Harper McKinney finished culinary school with big dreams. Right now, she’s a bartender at Kinky Spurs. While she’s content with her life, her brother is determined that she make a name for herself, because he wants her far away from what he deems a trashy bar...
  • Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Real bad boys can grow up to be real good men. Paige Ryan has lost everything important in her life. Her parents, her lover, her horse, her life on the rodeo tour. Lost about her future, she moves to Whispering Springs, Texas to be near her step-brother...
  • Harder They Fall by J.D. Light

    Harder They Fall by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When his dad makes it obvious he isn't going to kick the good-for-nothing thief and liar of a son and Branson's brother to the curb, Branson decides he can't sit and watch his father shower undeserved praise on a man who will undoubtedly just steal from him again and leave him swinging in the breeze...
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