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  • Give Hope a Chance by S.J. McCoy

    Give Hope a Chance by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the final part of Chance and Hope's trilogy. We left them in a good place at the end of Finding Hope. Now it's time to see how their story concludes. Chance is starting to relax and to believe that he and Hope can have a future together...
  • To Hope by Carolyn Brown

    To Hope by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A previous winner of the Professional Bull Riders' gold belt buckle, Jodie Cahill plans to ride again. But fate intervenes in the form of a broken wrist, and keeps her from winning another buckle. When the CEO of the PBR offers her a three-month tour on the circuit working as a judge and traveling with a combination newspaper/magazine reporter/novelist, she takes the job...
  • Cowboy Seeking a Second Chance by Janice Whiteaker

    Cowboy Seeking a Second Chance by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ten 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...
  • Saxon's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Saxon's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Many believed he didn’t possess a heart. Not true. It was just hidden beneath a layer of protection so deep no one would ever penetrate it. Until her. Aspen. Sweet. Innocent. Beautiful. And not the woman for him. Despite his reputation, Joel Saxon wasn’t in the habit of corrupting innocents. Especially when she had no clue about the dark desires he possessed...
  • 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...
  • The Rancher's Mail-Order Bride: Small Town Contemporary Romance by Mindy Neff

    The Rancher's Mail-Order Bride: Small Town Contemporary Romance by Mindy Neff

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wanted: Women and Babies. Where: Shotgun Ridge, Montana. When: As soon as possible! Wyatt Malone had been ambushed! The little boy staring earnestly at him thought Wyatt was his new dad—and the boy’s pregnant mommy claimed to be his bride-to-be...
  • Finding Hope by S.J. McCoy

    Finding Hope by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His time in Oregon didn’t end the way he’d hoped, and now Chance is back at the ranch. He put himself out there, made an attempt at opening up his heart to happiness, but it didn’t work out. Maybe he’s just not supposed to be happy? That’s what he’s starting to believe—until his Remington brothers convince him he shouldn’t give up Hope just yet...
  • Forever Family by Kirsten Osbourne, River's End Ranch

    Forever Family by Kirsten Osbourne, River's End Ranch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After 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...
  • Ryder Revisited by Pamela M. Kelley

    Ryder Revisited by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chef 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 Real Cowboy Loves Forever by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Loves Forever by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Rowe delivers another winner when a cowboy-turned-bounty hunter has one last chance at the happiness he walked away from long ago. Bounty hunter Maddox Stockton is no hero. He's a renegade from the wrong side of the tracks, and he knows he's no good for anyone…until he meets a single mom who needs him to be the man he can't afford to be...
  • A Real Cowboy Rides a Motorcycle by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Rides a Motorcycle by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe's newest novel, a woman who has forfeited her dreams for a family finds love and hope in the arms of a rebellious cowboy. After inexplicably abandoning a championship bull riding career, Zane Stockton has become a vagabond. He lives on his motorcycle, using the open road to shield himself from the dark shadows which haunt him...
  • Baker's Bob by Kirsten Osbourne

    Baker's Bob by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Miranda White loves her job as a baker at River’s End Ranch. She’s been there a year, and the only fly in the ointment is Bob, the chef for Kelsey’s Kafé, who picks a fight with her every single morning. December on the ranch doesn’t only bring skiers and snowmobilers, it also brings cookies. And at River’s End, cookies mean Miranda. Bob Blakely is clueless about women, and he knows it...
  • Cowboy of Convenience: Moss Creek PD by Janice Whiteaker

    Cowboy of Convenience: Moss Creek PD by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grady’s spent his whole life in Moss Creek, Montana, helping out on his family’s ranch and keeping the town he loves safe. There’s nowhere else he’d rather be.Except for Evelyn Warwick’s bed.The newly arrived New Yorker is a breath of fresh air in his stagnant and stale life— one he seeks out at every opportunity...
  • A Real Cowboy Knows How to Kiss by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Knows How to Kiss by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe returns to Rogue Valley, Wyoming, where a missed opportunity for love a decade ago is given a second chance. It's been four years since Steen Stockton has been able to see the sky without having to look through steel bars. Betrayal got him locked up, and it shut down his heart forever..
  • Falling for Tender Heart by Katie Lane

    Falling for Tender Heart by Katie Lane

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys . . . New York editor Emery Wakefield has come to Bliss, Texas, in search of the fabled final novel in the Tender Heart series—a series that left readers the world over hanging when the author died. But finding a happily-ever-after for her beloved characters and editorial success for herself won’t be easy...
  • No Going Back by Janice Whiteaker

    No Going Back by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Don’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...
  • Wyatt Men of Clifton, Montana Book 4 by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Wyatt Men of Clifton, Montana Book 4 by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wyatt Stone knows how easily a woman can destroy a man’s trust, because he’s been there. So when his attraction for Olivia Roberts brings him to the point of giving in to his desire for her, he knows the safest thing to do is not start something he can’t finish, but Olivia is so irresistible...
  • Pet Peeves by Amelia C. Adams

    Pet Peeves by Amelia C. Adams

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kerry 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...
  • A Cowboy's Christmas List by Vivian Arend

    A Cowboy's Christmas List by Vivian Arend

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This cowboy has made a list—checked it twice—and she’s about to find out exactly how right they are for each other.Cowboy Alex Thorne was a pain in quiet Yvette Wright’s side for years, but when he suddenly left Heart Falls, she missed his smart mouth and sexy smile. Now he’s back with a Christmas gift she can’t resist...
  • Bring on the Night by S.J. McCoy

    Bring on the Night by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's the head of a major country music record label. She's worked hard to get where she is. She demands the best of herself—and of everyone around her.He's the label's biggest star—and the biggest pain in the a** she ever met. It's not that he's one of those arrogant musicians; to be fair, he's not a bad guy. In fact, he's a great guy. It's just that he irritates the life out of her...
  • Montana Pines Winter Romance by Jill Haymaker

    Montana Pines Winter Romance by Jill Haymaker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never let your past define your future. Single mom, HALEY DUNN, is ready for a new start for herself and her four-year-old son, Noah. When she loses not only her job and home, but the man who she thought cared about her, she decides to leave her hometown in Michigan and head to the west coast...
  • 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...
  • Peppermint Proposal by Kirsten Osbourne

    Peppermint Proposal by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When 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...
  • Caleb by Kirsten Osbourne, Amelia C. Adams

    Caleb by Kirsten Osbourne, Amelia C. Adams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Natalie Smythe moves to the small town of Bagley, Texas to follow her dreams and open a candy store, she has no intention to do anything other than work. Socializing is not on her calendar until the store is up and running. It doesn't even cross her mind that the morning she opens, a man will come into the store, she cannot say "no" to...
  • Most Eligible Cowboy by J.S. Cooper

    Most Eligible Cowboy by J.S. Cooper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's a bossy, grumpy cowboy, but that doesn't stop his hotness...Beau Hamilton is the biggest catch in Montana. He’s handsome, funny and rich. As the oldest son and heir to one of the largest ranches in the State, he’s one of the most eligible bachelors around. And he knows it. His brother is marrying my best friend and we’re both in the bridal party. He’s the best man and I’m the maid of honor...
  • Teasing Tammy by Pamela M. Kelley

    Teasing Tammy by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charming 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...
  • Cowboy and the Convict by Janice Whiteaker

    Cowboy and the Convict by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some 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...
  • Second Chance at Sunflower Ranch by Carolyn Brown

    Second Chance at Sunflower Ranch by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From 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...
  • Taming a Texas Bad Boy by Katie Lane

    Taming a Texas Bad Boy by Katie Lane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome 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...
  • Sweet Home Cowboy by Marin Thomas

    Sweet Home Cowboy by Marin Thomas

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Marietta newcomer Elena Puente is coerced into attending a speed dating event at the popular Copper Mountain Chocolate Shop, she’s blindsided by a serious attraction to local cowboy, Wesley Banks. Still recovering from a broken engagement, the first-grade teacher from Las Vegas isn’t looking for romance...
  • The Rancher Takes a Family by Paula Altenburg

    The Rancher Takes a Family by Paula Altenburg

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rugged rancher Jake McGregor wrangles cattle better than kids, but when he's suddenly saddled with three grieving children, he's determined to step up. His sister's kids shouldn't pay for her error in judgment in naming him guardian. Problem is, he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. And the woman who attempts to help with his every fumble is the one woman he wants to steer clear of..
  • Cowboys & Starlight by Jacqueline Winters

    Cowboys & Starlight by Jacqueline Winters

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This cowboy thought he could stay away from his best friend's little sister. This cowboy was wrong.Colten Livingston swore he'd never fall for another city girl. Not after his ex-wife left him, fed up with country living. Now that his mom plans to sell the family home, nothing is stopping him from returning to his dream job at Glacier National Park...
  • Cowboy Seeks Bride by Carolyn Brown

    Cowboy Seeks Bride by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He's tough as nails and ready to ride... Rancher Dewar O'Donnell is just an old-fashioned cowboy at heart, and he can't wait to reenact the historic Chisholm Trail ride with his buddies. The trial-run cattle drive for a reality TV show sounds like a great time - until H.B. McKay pulls up in her slick red sports car. She's way out of her element..
  • Claim & Protect by Rhenna Morgan

    Claim & Protect by Rhenna Morgan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Live hard, f*ck harder and follow only their own rules. Those are the cornerstones the six men of the Haven Brotherhood live and bleed by, refusing to conform to society's expectations, taking what they want and always watching each other's backs. Trevor Raines lives on the edge of legal...
  • Holding Out for Christmas: A Festive Christmas Cowboy Romance Novel by Janet Dailey

    Holding Out for Christmas: A Festive Christmas Cowboy Romance Novel by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey combines the beloved holiday traditions of small-town Branding Iron, Texas, with sparkling romance . . . She’s all he wants for Christmas. Maybe even forever . . . Conner Branch still hasn’t stopped thinking about the sultry singer he spotted on stage during last year’s Cowboy Christmas Ball...
  • Cowboys of Chance Creek Vol 0 - 2 by Cora Seton

    Cowboys of Chance Creek Vol 0 - 2 by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three fast-paced, full-length, sexy western romance novels in one set! Available for a limited time only. Including: The Cowboy Inherits a Bride: When a big city chef and a hometown country boy go toe to toe to win an inheritance, the competition gets smoking hot...
  • All Cowboy and Charm by Rhonda Lee Carver

    All Cowboy and Charm by Rhonda Lee Carver

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens at a fertility clinic stays at a fertility clinic...unless there's an accidental switch-a-roo...Successful author Melanie Jane decided after a very public divorce that she would prove to the world, especially her critiques, that she didn’t need a man to make her dreams come true. So, she wrote a best seller and used a fertility clinic to get pregnant...
  • Country Heaven by Ava Miles

    Country Heaven by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When famous-and infamous-country singer Rye Crenshaw saunters into the diner where she cooks, Tory Simmons is certain she's got him pegged. He's a bad boy who indulges himself in all things, women included. But while she couldn't care less about country music or arrogant men, Rye makes her an offer she can't refuse when he asks her to be his private chef on his multi-city concert tour...
  • 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...
  • Gabe by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Gabe by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gabe Stone can’t get Emma Conner out of his mind, even though he knows she’s not the kind of woman to settle for a fling. Having known Emma all her life, he never noticed how grown up she’d become - until now. Emma has been in love with Gabe forever. When he finally shows her the attention she’s always hoped for, she falls even deeper in love with him, and soon discovers she’s pregnant...
  • Benjamin by Amelia C. Adams, Kirsten Osbourne

    Benjamin by Amelia C. Adams, Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Melissa Daniels inherited her grandparents’ pumpkin farm upon their deaths, and she wants nothing more than to keep their legacy alive by providing beautiful pumpkins to the community for Halloween. But when it’s a week before the holiday and her entire crop is ruined, she has no idea what to do. She’s counseled to talk to Benjamin McClain, the man with the green thumb, for his advice...
  • Educating Holden by Melanie Shawn

    Educating Holden by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stand-alone Wishing Well, Texas romance, complete with HEA—and plenty of heat and heart along the way!Holden ReedIn the blink of an eye, my whole world changed. One minute I was riding high at the peak of my career, the next I woke up flat on my back in a hospital bed.Returning to my hometown a broken man had never been part of the plan...
  • Cowboy's Unexpected Family by Leslie North

    Cowboy's Unexpected Family by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Home is where the heart is…Single mom and widow Amy Thorne loves her beautiful town. It’s her job to market her little corner of heaven, and right now, she’s promoting the town’s upcoming rodeo. Everything is perfect—until rodeo star Cal Pierce arrives.Astonishingly, the smoldering cowboy is the spitting image of her late husband...
  • 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...
  • Cowboy Healing by B.A. Tortuga

    Cowboy Healing by B.A. Tortuga

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Patrick Kelly needs some help. His husband passed away a while ago, and now he has a thriving medical practice, two busy kids, and one ranch outside Aspen, Colorado that he's not really sure how to run...
  • Brody by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Brody by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Brody Morgan comes back to Clifton from Butte, it’s because his life is in turmoil. He slept with a married woman, lost his US Marshal job, and is firmly implanted in the crosshairs of a mobster that is out for blood. Not only that, but the woman he’s always loved, Madilyn Young, isn’t too happy with him either, since he left her five years earlier to join the Marshals...
  • Linda Howard Collection by Linda Howard

    Linda Howard Collection by Linda Howard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heartbreaker The ranch she'd inherited was nearly bankrupt, and now Michelle discovered that she was also deeply in debt to John Rafferty, the tough-talking, hard-loving rancher who'd fascinated her since their first meeting years ago. But that fascination also scared her, and never more so than now, when he suggested a bargain that was far more tempting than it should have been...
  • Her Volunteer Cowboy: Tanner by Donna Michaels

    Her Volunteer Cowboy: Tanner by Donna Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cowboy Tanner Hathaway, part time firefighter and National Guardsman, is great at volunteering his time, never his heart, but when his Pocono one-nighter shows up in Texas to help a friend, sparks ignite a flame neither of them expect...
  • Nursing in Northlake by Kirsten Osbourne

    Nursing in Northlake by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nurse Heidi Hart feels life is passing her by. All her close friends from school have married and have children, and she wants what they have. Her job keeps her from dating because she works so many hours, and she’s not interested in the bar scene anyway. When her cousin emails her, excited about how wonderful her marriage is, she asks about the company that matched them...
  • Daniel by Amelia C. Adams, Kirsten Osbourne

    Daniel by Amelia C. Adams, Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Daniel McClain divides his time between the boys' ranch and the local hospital, using his gift to heal injuries and take away pain from his patients. He's well used to how his gift works and what the parameters are, but something's shifting, and he's not sure if that's good or bad. Claire Hudson is looking for a new home...
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