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  • First Time Train Wreck by T.S. Joyce

    First Time Train Wreck by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    First Time Train Wreck is one of the top bucking bull shifters in the world. He’s in the middle of a busy off-season. With his free time, he’s secretly hunting down the exact reason bull shifters are disappearing. He has no idea what kind of enemy he’s really facing, but he’s okay with that. The bigger the evil, the harder he will make it fall...
  • Red Dirt Heart 4 by N.R. Walker

    Red Dirt Heart 4 by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Moving from a Texas ranch to an Australian Outback station was a life changing decision for Travis Craig. Though it wasn’t really a decision at all. Something in his bones told him to go, though he had no clue as to why. Until he met Sutton Station’s owner, Charlie. Loving Charlie shouldn’t have been easy. The man was stubborn, and riddled with crippling self-doubt...
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    children  drama  humor  industrial-era  steamy  western  adult  angst
  • Rough Country by Lauren Landish

    Rough Country by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Is it really a dream come true if it means losing the one thing you never knew you needed? Willow Parker is excited to move to Podunk, Nowheres-ville. That’s what she’s telling herself, but it’s not working until she meets a dark-eyed, honey-voiced cowboy. That’s when her new small-town life starts looking a lot less temporary...
  • Clean Start by S.M. Shade

    Clean Start by S.M. Shade

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everyone knows the rumors about Violet Circle and the crazy inhabitants, but becoming a resident was my best option. These are the kind of decisions you’re faced with when you have a baby at eighteen, and your knight in shining armor turns out to be a deadbeat dad in saggy boxers...
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    children  humor  steamy  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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...
  • A Hero's Heart: Resolution Ranch by Tessa Layne

    A Hero's Heart: Resolution Ranch by Tessa Layne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The second book in this captivating new series from USA Today Bestselling Author, Tessa Layne. Featuring five stand-alone books with HEA’s and your favorite characters from the Cowboys of the Flint Hills series...
  • Make Her New by T.S. Joyce

    Make Her New by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Everyone has Hunter Kaid all wrong. Even his own brother writes him off as unintelligent, but not all smarts are the same. He just needs one person to understand him and listen to what he’s really saying. All of his life, he’s been searching for that one person who really takes the time to see him, and just when he’s about given up, he stumbles upon Sadey...
  • Cowboy Seeking Nanny by Janice Whiteaker

    Cowboy Seeking Nanny by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As a widowed father trying to build a family empire while juggling dirty diapers and bed times, Brody Pace has full hands.And an empty bed.Losing his high school sweetheart after the birth of their twins left him broken, battered, and lonely. But business doesn’t wait, and neither do toddlers...
  • What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam has always preferred spending his life inside books, only looking up to occasionally growl at customers in his shop. Until the day someone new comes to town. A woman who could keep up with him, someone who sees beyond his guards, who makes him want something decidedly non -fiction for a change. The only problem is, Riley has a secret. One that just might tear them apart...
  • Rise by Nikita Parmenter

    Rise by Nikita Parmenter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As if taking over the Ravens wasn’t going to be complicated enough, Jynx has already taken a job for the leader of the Romanos, and of course, it can’t be straightforward.People from their pasts are popping up from all directions, all posing very different threats and entwining them in ways they could have never imagined...
  • Knocking Boots by Jordan Marie

    Knocking Boots by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve always heard, don’t fall in love with a cowboy. I just didn't listen. I've sworn off men. They’ve never given me much in life, except a bun in the oven and grief. My kids are my life and all that truly matter. Until him. Jansen Reed is a living fantasy straight from the old west. Sexy drawl, tight jeans and that glint in his eyes that make my knees weak...
  • Discovering Harmony by Melanie Shawn

    Discovering Harmony by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Harmony Briggs always knew what she wanted—until she realized she wanted more. The gorgeous Southern beauty knew that only one man would be able to fulfill her wildest dreams and fantasies, but unfortunately, he was just out of reach… Hudson Reed was used to playing by the rules and sticking to reality...
  • Show Me a Marriage of Convenience by Alexa Verde

    Show Me a Marriage of Convenience by Alexa Verde

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An ex-player cowboy with a little son, the boy's shy plus-size aunt, and a reluctant modern marriage of convenience only the boy is excited about… A sweet, clean, wholesome romance with a happily-ever-after!After three near-death experiences in one day-okay, maybe burning dinner and falling from a tree shouldn't count-Kade Clark worries about his son's future if he's not around to protect him...
  • Convincing Cara by Melanie Shawn

    Convincing Cara by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cara McCord had a new lease on life. After hearing the news that she was cancer free, the Texas beauty was ready to move forward and live life to the fullest…starting with losing her virginity. There was only one problem, though—the gorgeous blonde’s heart beat for one cowboy alone, and he was someone she knew she could never have...
  • The Cowboy's Christmas Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy's Christmas Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After traveling around the globe for over a year, Cole Linden is more than ready to return home to Montana, so when his fiancée, Sunshine, suddenly cuts their trip short and books them flights back to Chance Creek, Cole feels like the holidays have come early this year. He hopes she’ll love the present he bought her: a restaurant space downtown...
  • Seeing Red by Bailey Hannah

    Seeing Red by Bailey Hannah

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All Cassidy Bowman wants is one night of recklessness… and to get back at her ex.Cassidy has strict rules: she doesn’t date locals, she doesn’t sleep with men she isn’t dating, and she doesn’t do anything that might jeopardize her good girl reputation. But after a run-in with her ex-boyfriend—and a few too many drinks—she’s ready to buck those rules and get revenge...
  • For The Heart Of The Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    For The Heart Of The Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Karis Dunway’s instincts are screaming that there is a storm brewing around Two Claws Ranch. With the odds stacking against them, she and the Clan are in a race to save the ranch. A trail ride for a family of tourists could mean a turnaround for her people, but there is a new threat coming out of the woodwork, and they will have to work together to keep the ride on track...
  • A Real Cowboy Always Comes Home by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Always Comes Home by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Caleb Stockton has been missing for more than ten years...and he's about to come home. But his homecoming isn't going to be what anyone expects. Not his brothers.Not him.And definitely not her. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is "contemporary romance at its best" (Bex 'N' Books)...
  • Bear Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Bear Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **The full-length second book in T. S. Joyce’s new Bears Fur Hire series.** Lena Rhodes is a professional runner. Life is a lot easier when she is throwing everything she has into being a nature photographer for an elite outdoor magazine. And now, she is on her biggest assignment yet: Alaskan brown bears...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    drama  humor  industrial-era  steamy  western  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • A Rancher's Heart by Vivian Arend

    A Rancher's Heart by Vivian Arend

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This cowboy has given up on love, but the new nanny might just make him change his mind. The first in a brand-new series from New York Times bestselling author Vivian Arend. Caleb Stone is wearing too many hats and it’s making him crankier than usual. He’s a cowboy, a father, and the head of his large family—and has been since tragedy claimed his parents over ten years ago...
  • Hidden Treasure by Melody Anne

    Hidden Treasure by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The second book in the Lost Anderson series is here, and it comes to you with a kicking and screaming heiress. Brielle Storm inherits a dilapidated ranch in the wilds of Montana and she isn’t happy about her situation in the least...
  • High Ground by Freya Barker

    High Ground by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not much has gone according to plan for mechanic, Pippa Freling, recently. With lots of bridges burned behind her, she decides to stick close to her sister and give Montana a try. Things are looking up when she joins a local group of animal activists, buys an auto shop for a steal, and even tries her luck with the opposite sex...
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    drama  humor  industrial-era  steamy  western  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
  • A Little Easter Escapade by Laylah Roberts

    A Little Easter Escapade by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One Daddy. Two Littles. Incalculable opportunities for Rawhide shenanigans.Numbers make Marcus Cutler's world go round. Literally. As a theoretical physicist, he spends his days trying to make sense of the universe around him.So he knows better than anyone that three people in a relationship is exponentially better than two...
  • Borrowing Bentley by Melanie Shawn

    Borrowing Bentley by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐻𝐸𝐴--𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦!𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐲Maisy Turner and I had been butting heads since we were five years old. That girl knew every one of my buttons and loved to push 'em...
  • Taming Travis by Melanie Shawn

    Taming Travis by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stand-alone Wishing Well romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way! It was finally happening! Mia James was about to lead her first reality show...
  • Cowboy and His Runaway by Kaci Rose

    Cowboy and His Runaway by Kaci Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maybe if she'd known that running for herlife would have changed her life for the better, she would have done itsooner...RileyMy momma always believed in fate, but I didn't believe until I met him. The sexy cowboy who'd found me hiding in his barn. A series of disastrous events led me to...him. He and his family took me in, protected me, and gave me the life I always wanted...
  • Having the Cowboy's Baby by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Having the Cowboy's Baby by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The laugh’s on him…Fun-loving cowboy Beau McLintock is floored when ex-girlfriend Jess Hartmann announces she’s pregnant. He’s the life of the party, not a father figure. He has a joke to fit every occasion. But there’s nothing funny about this.Although Jess feels honor-bound to inform Beau, he’s the last person she’d choose to be her baby-daddy. He’s not cut out to be a family man...
  • 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...
  • Just a Cowboy and His Baby by Carolyn Brown

    Just a Cowboy and His Baby by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She's got her eyes on the prize... Gemma O'Donnell wasn't the first woman to win the ProRodeo buckle for bronc riding, but she was damn well going to be the second. What she didn't count on was her main competition sweeping her off her feet. He'll do whatever it takes to win... Trace Coleman isn't really after a title - he needs the cash prize to buy his dream ranch...
  • Worth the Wait by Jessica Prince

    Worth the Wait by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cloverleaf was Mackenzie Webster's escape. It was the place where she'd dreamed of starting over, of creating a new life for her and her children. She had a carefully thought out plan for what this new life would look like, and nowhere in it was there room for a new relationship. But the one thing Kenzie never counted on was meeting Brett Halstead. Brett's life was all about fun and friends...
    Categorized as:
    children  humor  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Rivers Between Us by Greta Rose West

    Rivers Between Us by Greta Rose West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A woman finds safety in the one man she hurt the most. Sheriff of Teton County, Carey Michaels, puts everyone else's needs before his own—always—but when his ex-best friend shows up in his life again, with a ten-year-old daughter and a mountain of problems in tow, he has to decide if he can handle his heart being broken. Again...
  • The Cowboy's Second Chance at Love by Jenna Jacob

    The Cowboy's Second Chance at Love by Jenna Jacob

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She finds her high-school flame to scratch an itch…and loses her heart.Jade Hollis is having the crappiest day of her life. Laid off from her job? Check. Discovered her boyfriend is a lying, cheating snake? Check that, too. But she’s not wasting time on pity parties. Nope, she’s lighting a match to this dumpster fire and leaving town...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • One to Keep by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    One to Keep by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new content. Stefan Talbot likes order and control. He approaches his life with the same meticulous precision that he uses to put paint on his canvas. Nothing good comes from chaos, and that is why he has refused to allow himself to get close to Jennifer Waters. They are like fire and ice. Though she is younger, her talent as an artist is unquestionable...
  • 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...
  • Perfect Chance by Molly McLain

    Perfect Chance by Molly McLain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kaden McMurray & Carly Walsh are coming to Mason Creek!We shared a single night together. No last names, no strings, no promises. Two months later, chance brings us together again. But this time around, things aren’t nearly as simple. In fact, they’re downright complicated...
  • Montana Wild by Vanessa Vale

    Montana Wild by Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Violet Miller is a teacher savoring her summer break until she's been called in as emergency reinforcements—of the dating kind. She volunteers to help an old flame by pretending to be his girlfriend. In Alaska. At a family reunion. Since the guy is a handsome, lumberjack-sized doctor she's never quite forgotten, faking a relationship won't be hard work—while wishing for more...
    Categorized as:
    humor  industrial-era  steamy  western  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Small-Town Sweetheart by Toni Aleo

    Small-Town Sweetheart by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Delaney Abbot has never wanted to live anywhere other than Spring Grove, Kentucky. She loves the town, the people, and the whiskey made right down the road at McElroy’s Distillery. If only she could find a man in her beloved small town worthy of all that love she has to give. The first thing Reed McElroy did when he finished high school was get the heck out of Spring Grove, Kentucky...
    Categorized as:
    drama  humor  industrial-era  western  adult  angst  book  contemporary
  • Texas Tango: A Texas Montgomery Maverick Book  Fake Marriage Novel by Cynthia D'Alba

    Texas Tango: A Texas Montgomery Maverick Book Fake Marriage Novel by Cynthia D'Alba

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sex in a faux marriage can make things oh so real. Dr. Caroline Graham is happy with her nomadic lifestyle fulfilling short-term medical contracts. No emotional commitments, no disappointments. She's always the one to walk away, never the one left behind...
  • Romancing the Mountain Man (Galentine's Getaway) by Kat Baxter

    Romancing the Mountain Man (Galentine's Getaway) by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Grumpy Meets Sunshine/Curvy Girl RomancePaigeThere was really no way for me to know that the helpful woman from the sheriff’s office who gave me a camping permit was sending me to camp on her brother’s land in a misguided attempt at matchmaking. Or that he’d be so annoyed when he found me setting up my tent...
  • Connor by Chris Keniston

    Connor by Chris Keniston

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Farraday Country, set in cattle-ranching west Texas, with all the friends, family and fun that fans have come to expect from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Chris Keniston. Having a special way with horses since childhood, Connor Farraday has always wanted to establish his own stable...
  • 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...
  • Cowboy Up by Stacy Finz

    Cowboy Up by Stacy Finz

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Stacy Finz delivers a fantastic tale of cowboys, cattle rustling and the power of love and family in the California gold country.” —Kate Pearce, New York Times bestselling authorCash, Jace, and Sawyer: Three cousins sharing an inheritance of five hundred acres of prime California ranch land—and a whole lot of surprises . . . Cash Dalton is no rancher...
  • How To Rope A Wild Cowboy by Anya Summers

    How To Rope A Wild Cowboy by Anya Summers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emmett Benson makes no apologies for his bachelor status. He revels in a woman’s surrender but does not want the responsibility of claiming a submissive for his own, because no one is worth the price of his freedom. He appreciates his friends, loves his horse, and fancies wrangling cattle every day over interacting with people...
  • The Rebel by Lena Hendrix

    The Rebel by Lena Hendrix

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was supposed to lay low while my Hollywood drama blew over. Not fall for a man with golden retriever energy who isn’t afraid to take what he wants. I was supposed to lay low while my Hollywood drama blew over. Not fall for a man with golden retriever energy who isn’t afraid to take what he wants...
  • 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...
  • Wishing Hearts by Emmy Sanders

    Wishing Hearts by Emmy Sanders

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A shameless flirt. A single dad. And an unexpected chance at love. HarrisonWhen I left Plum Valley ten years ago, I never thought I’d return. But a call about animals in crisis brings me back to the town that inadvertently broke my heart.What I don’t expect? Sam. The animal control officer looks every bit a cowboy wet dream, and for whatever reason, he’s latched on to me like a dog with a bone...
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