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  • Ashes by Chelle Bliss

    Ashes by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dylan Walsh left his small town behind and vowed to never return. But when his brother needs help, Dylan steps back into the memories he tried so hard to forget. He thought there was nothing there for him anymore until a woman he knew as a little girl catches more than Dylan’s eye.Rosie Gallo is known for her kind spirit, good-girl vibes, and her loyalty to the ones she loves...
  • 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...
  • Racing Hearts by Lauren Landish

    Racing Hearts by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A tomboy tames the cocky cowboy next door in Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestselling author Lauren Landish’s forbidden romance. Luke is damn near invisible, or at least that’s how he usually feels. He takes care of things around the ranch before his boss-brother even knows there’s a problem, and no one even notices when he's done...
  • Cowboy Seeking Someone to Love by Janice Whiteaker

    Cowboy Seeking Someone to Love by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Brett Pace is the only one of his brothers without someone at his side.Figures, since he’s the one who wanted it most.Unfortunately, there’s only one woman he can see filling that empty spot.Camille Shepard.But she’s been to hell and back. Suffered in a way no woman should.Making her his will take patience. Understanding.Commitment...
  • Daddy in Cowboy Boots by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy in Cowboy Boots by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Linc liked an uncomplicated life.He didn’t need much. A cold beer after a hard day’s work. A comfy bed. Good food. And a soft, sweet woman. A Little he could coddle, love and discipline.When he met Marisol, he thought he’d finally found her.Hmm . . . remember that uncomplicated life he enjoyed? Turns out that Mari’s life is anything but simple...
  • A Cowboy's Christmas by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    A Cowboy's Christmas by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All she wants for Christmas is a fake fiancé… Just once Hayley Bennett would like to spend the holidays at her parents’ house without feeling as if she’s stepped onto the set of The Bachelorette. Her mom’s been planning her wedding since the day she was born, but thirty years later, Hayley hasn’t come up with a groom...
  • Always Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Always Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The second novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series turns up the emotion with a story about finding true love and healing broken hearts.Grieving the loss of her fiancé two years ago, Kaylee longs for a fresh start...
  • Fated Hearts by Kelly Elliott

    Fated Hearts by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was only meant to be a short trip—up to Chicago for two days and then back to Texas. At least, that was the plan until a massive snowstorm leaves me trapped in Chicago at a local hotel with no definite timeframe of when I can go back home. If that wasn’t a crazy-enough turn of events—I wake up to a beautiful princess standing in my hotel room...
  • Love Profound by Kelly Elliott

    Love Profound by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I write about love, but I’ve never experienced it. Sure, I’ve been with guys that I cared about. Even thought I found ‘the one’. He turned out to be the frog and not the prince.A few Frank Sinatra songs and a wildly handsome cowboy who calls me Darlin’, will have me second guessing everything I ever thought I knew about love...
  • The Cowboy Rescues a Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy Rescues a Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ned Matheson is sharing a house with the woman he loves, but he can’t kiss her, or even touch her. In fact, she can barely look him in the face. He knows he needs to be patient; Fila Sahar has been to hell and back as a captive of the Taliban for over a decade. Now she’s safely back on American soil, but her fears hem her in so tightly, she might as well be a prisoner again...
  • Daddy's Lost Love by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy's Lost Love by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Daisy is a Little fending for herself in a scary world. All her life she’s taken care of everyone else. And she’s completely drained. She needed a change of pace. She never expected that moving forward would bring her straight back to her past. And the boy she’d been forced to leave so many years ago. Only, he’s no longer a boy. He’s hard. Rough. Stern. Dominant. He both arouses and terrifies her...
  • 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...
  • Only a Millionaire by J.S. Scott

    Only a Millionaire by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It has been a year since Brooke escaped to the lovely coastal community of Amesport, Maine, where no one knows her real name or what she’s been through. Now she’s finally heading back home to California. That means saying goodbye to Liam Sullivan, her millionaire blond god of a boss who’s fulfilled every one of Brooke’s fantasies...
  • Romancing the Cowboy (Galentine's Getaway) by Nichole Rose

    Romancing the Cowboy (Galentine's Getaway) by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When this older cowboy rescues a hot mess author from a crazy bull, she learns a whole lot more than she anticipated. If growly cowboys, sassy heroines, and laugh-out-loud comedy make your heart pitter-patter, you'll love Cord and Cassia's steamy-sweet story!Spying on a bossy cowboy lands this hot mess romance author in hot water.Cassia MurphyI'm used to getting fan mail from readers...
  • The Cowboy's Hidden Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy's Hidden Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Turners: 1, Coopers: 1 Lance Cooper knows he shouldn’t try to escape his present problems by focusing on the past, but running Chance Creek’s Fourth of July Revolutionary War re-enactment is far easier than sorting out his family’s long-running feud with the Turners. At least it was until Maya Turner joins the historical society and upsets all his plans...
  • Love at Last (A Braden Flirt) (Love in Bloom: The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor) by Melissa Foster

    Love at Last (A Braden Flirt) (Love in Bloom: The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor) by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love at Last is a USA Today BestsellerCowboy Cal Hayden has loved Rachel Gray practically since the first time he set eyes on her. But Cal’s a careful, responsible man who knows better than to start a relationship before he can give it his all. He bided his time while caring for his family through his father’s terminal illness...
  • River's Escape by Leanne Davis

    River's Escape by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She only wants to escape her small-town life... and he simply wants her.Ian is the Rydell brother that no one knows what he is thinking, or next going to do, especially the woman he has quietly loved for years. But now he's ready to implement the plans and dreams he has for the future of the Rydell River Ranch, and himself. Plans which include Kailynn Hayes...
  • Perfect Song by Lauren Runow

    Perfect Song by Lauren Runow

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I came back to Mason Creek when my life was turned upside down, both literally and figuratively. Scared and alone, I packed my belongings and left New York where I’ve made a career as a writer for a national publication to stay with my parents in the town so different than the big apple they might as well be on different planets...
  • Duty or Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Duty or Desire by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens when a man of unshakable conviction ... meets the woman who rocks his world? Pete Higgins is an honorary Westmoreland, a man of his word—of course he’ll put duty to his orphaned niece first. Too bad the temporary nanny is tempting him with every look. Myra Hollister captivates him...
  • Jackson's Destiny by C.A. Harms

    Jackson's Destiny by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shaken to his core, the loss was excruciating… Jackson Sawyer was strong, confident, cocky, and arrogant, but when he loved, he loved hard. The Sawyer family was faced with a tragedy that rocked their foundation. Jackson, however, was hit the hardest. He’s the one who can't seem to rise above the grief. It has overtaken him… Until he finds Bailey Whitmore...
  • Grit by Elizabeth Hunter

    Grit by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s been patient; she’s been busy. Patience is running out. Melissa Oxford is a widow with a ranch, an orange grove, a goat-obsessed ten-year-old, and not enough time. She doesn’t have time to make friends. She doesn’t have time to stop and chat, and she definitely does not have time for a boyfriend. Which is fine, because Cary Nakamura is far from being a boy...
  • The Cowboy Lassos a Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy Lassos a Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jake Matheson loves everything about ranching the Double-Bar-K, except for his father’s controlling nature. It’s bad enough the old man won’t step down and let him run things his own way. Now Holt has demanded that Jake find a wife—in the next thirty days. Jake knows just the woman he wants–Hannah Ashton–but they haven’t even gone on a date, let alone been together long enough for him to propose...
  • McKettrick's Heart by Linda Lael Miller

    McKettrick's Heart by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Keegan McKettrick has learned the hard way that women can't be trusted. The only female in his life these days is the young daughter he sees all too rarely, and his sole passion is for his job overseeing his family's corporation. Until beautiful but mysterious Molly Shields comes to Indian Rock on a mission--and keeping a suspicious eye on her becomes Keegan's full-time hobby…...
  • Cowboy Strong by Stacy Finz

    Cowboy Strong by Stacy Finz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three cousins become cowboys when an unexpected inheritance leaves them with a ranch—and a future as wide open as the California sky . . .   Sawyer Dalton may be an investigative journalist, but he has no interest in the story of the sexy stranger who has invaded his barn’s loft apartment on Dry Creek Ranch. After months on the road, he just wants to settle in...
  • Eight-Second Ride by Anne Jolin

    Eight-Second Ride by Anne Jolin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Owen Daniels lives his life eight seconds at a time. The thrill of anticipation that comes with sitting on twelve hundred pounds of untamed power is unparalleled. The adrenaline rush that floods his system when the chute opens is one of life’s most unique and natural highs. Ride eight seconds bareback on a bucking bronco—that’s his life...
  • Texas Rebel by Jean Brashear

    Texas Rebel by Jean Brashear

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times bestseller and USAToday bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear, the fourth book in the popular Texas Heroes: The Gallaghers of Sweetgrass Springs series, the story of the Gallagher heir who disappeared after a tragedy seventeen years ago: Jackson Gallagher's teenage rebellion cost him everything: his home, his family and the girl who could only love him in secret...
  • Keep Me Close by J.H. Croix

    Keep Me Close by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brand new firefighter series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!No last names. No phone numbers. Never see each other again.It was supposed to be simple. One night with no strings. I had just gotten the worst news of my life and wanted to forget everything.The broody firefighter was perfect. Our night together was so hot, I forgot everything but the rules...
  • 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...
  • Colorado Wrangler by Jill Haymaker

    Colorado Wrangler by Jill Haymaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jill Haymaker brings you back to the small mountain town of Peakview, Colorado in this fourth book in her series. Melanie Gentry has found her father and a home for herself and her daughter in Peakview, but can she also find love?Hank Dalton is the head wrangler at Peaktop Guest Ranch. He is a loner by choice...
  • Old-Fashioned by Tiffany Casper

    Old-Fashioned by Tiffany Casper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Birdie Vergano was little, she dreamed of being a princess. Of hearing stories from her little classmates.She dreamed of experiencing things they also did.However, none of them had a mother like she did.And none of them lived next to a woman who turned out to be her guardian angel.Years later, that guardian angel did something, and she forever cemented herself firmly inside Birdie’s heart...
  • Big Bossy Cowboy by Mia Brody

    Big Bossy Cowboy by Mia Brody

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This over the top cowboy is bossy and big…and every inch is just for her. EvieThe persistent cowboy is everywhere I look. He's at my work. He's at my apartment. He's even in my bathtub.He says we're soulmates.He says we're inevitable.I say he's wrong.GreerThe curvy little spitfire is everywhere I go. At her workplace. At her apartment. In her bathtub...
  • Perfect Excuse by A.D. Justice

    Perfect Excuse by A.D. Justice

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Who knew fighting for custody of an African grey parrot would be the perfect excuse to stay married?Ryder King was always the one for me. He stole my heart in second grade, and I never imagined after seven blissful years of marriage, I’d give it back.We made one tiny mistake by spending the night together during our separation period and the judge read all about it in the local gossip column...
  • Lone Star Playboy by Kat Baxter

    Lone Star Playboy by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    HayesSaddle Creek was a great place to grow up, but I got out as soon as I could. I go back to visit my siblings, but there is nothing in the world that could lure me back there for good. Until I meet Rory Reynolds, a delectable, sassy-mouthed bombshell. Now, for the first time in my life, I want to give up my one-and-done ways and settle down, even if it means returning to Saddle Creek for good...
  • Country Thunder by Cheyenne McCray

    Country Thunder by Cheyenne McCray

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Miranda Hawthorne has made a new start in the small town of King Creek, Arizona. She’s a horse therapist who works with children and adults with disabilities and is perfectly fine being single and living a fulfilling life helping others. After what her ex put her through, she doesn’t need a man, thank you very much...
  • The Cowboy's Outlaw Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy's Outlaw Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Coopers: 1, Turners 0. Noah Turner’s losing a war with his heart—and a war with his neighbors. Competing with the Coopers for the Founder’s Prize—and the Ridley property, the prime ranch land it confers—has pitted him against the woman of his dreams. The one woman he’s not supposed to love: Olivia Cooper. Olivia knows loving Noah is all wrong...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Once Upon a Cowboy by Maggie McGinnis

    Once Upon a Cowboy by Maggie McGinnis

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this sexy Whisper Creek romance for readers of Kristan Higgins, Susan Mallery, and Molly O’Keefe, a red-hot cowboy uses some Montana magic to give a reclusive beauty her happily ever after. Yoga instructor Jessalyn Alcott radiates peace, calm, and serenity—on the outside. Inside, she still feels like the broken, desperate girl from the trailer park...
  • Perfect Escape by Cary Hart

    Perfect Escape by Cary Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When looking for a place to nurse my broken heart, Mason Creek is the picture-perfect escape...I almost made the biggest mistake of my life walking down the aisle. Thankfully, I caught the groom with his pants around his ankles and my bridesmaid around his waist before I said, “I do.”My best friends kidnap me and take me away to a cabin in the middle of nowhere Montana...
  • Counting on the Cowboy by Karen Foley

    Counting on the Cowboy by Karen Foley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It will take all he has to keep her safeLuke Claiborne is back in Last Stand, Texas, after a combat injury ends his career as a military K9 handler. Without his working dog by his side, he’s lost his purpose – until he meets a sexy wildlife rehabber who seems determined to save every animal in town...
  • A Cowboy in the Streets by Elizabeth Bright

    A Cowboy in the Streets by Elizabeth Bright

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today best selling author Elizabeth Bright comes a new grumpy/sunshine, single dad, steamy romance set in wild and beautiful Colorado.Working as the head trainer at Lodestar Ranch is my chance to prove I have what it takes as a woman in a man's world. The only problem? My boss is the world’s grumpiest cowboy… and I can’t keep my eyes off him...
  • Her Renegade Rancher by Jennifer Ryan

    Her Renegade Rancher by Jennifer Ryan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With their hearts' desires on the line, nothing can stop the Montana Men No one knows better than Colt Kendrick that life can change in an instant. He lives without regrets except for one: not making the gorgeous woman he sees every time he walks into the local diner his.   Luna Hill is haunted by the heart-stopping kiss she and Colt never should have shared. Their timing has always been off...
  • A Simple Life by Melanie Moreland

    A Simple Life by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From NYT bestselling author Melanie Moreland comes a feuding to lovers standalone romance -John Elliott is a busy man. He runs his farm and his business, keeping to himself, with no time for anything else in his life.Quinn Harper is a single mother, looking for a fresh start.The small town she picked seemed perfect—until her first run-in with John...
  • Her Lucky Cowboy by Jennifer Ryan

    Her Lucky Cowboy by Jennifer Ryan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything's bigger in Big Sky country, including the hearts of the Montana Men... Champion rodeo rider Dane Bowden is eight seconds from winning under the Vegas lights, one last hurrah before reluctantly returning to his family's Montana ranch. But his bull has other plans. When Dane wakes up, he's sure he's died and gone to heaven . .
  • 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...
  • The Baddest Virgin in Texas by Maggie Shayne

    The Baddest Virgin in Texas by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jessi Brand decided she wanted Lash Monroe. He was the man she'd saved herself for. But this male was going to need some convincing - Lash had vowed never to settle down - but he couldn't get Jessi out of his mind. And he couldn't resist her tempting offer. But when he discovered Jessi was pregnant with his child, everything changed...
  • 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...
  • The Rancher's Rose: Ranchers Only Series by Elle Christensen

    The Rancher's Rose: Ranchers Only Series by Elle Christensen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When forbidden sparks ignite, they’ll have to choose whether to burn or snuff out the fire. Rose Locke has loved Garrison Keeler since she was fourteen-years-old. He drove her crazy, treating her like his annoying baby sister, but she was convinced that one day when she was all grown up, everything would change...
  • One Hot Texas Summer by Nicole Flockton

    One Hot Texas Summer by Nicole Flockton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s been fooled before by sweet words and hot kisses Kelly Turner loves being a florist, and being asked to take the lead on the new site for the town’s festival is an honor. If only she didn’t have to work closely with the town player, Tate Prentice. After being burned once by a serial cheater, her inconvenient attraction toward Tate needs to be nipped in the bud...
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