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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...
  • Dead of Winter by T.S. Joyce

    Dead of Winter by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Bucking bull shifter, Dead of Winter, is desperately trying to hold onto one of the top three spots in the PBSRC. He’s coming off a shoulder injury though, and he’s looking for something to keep him motivated to put his body through the strain of bucking in rodeos every week...
  • Carter by S.J. McCoy

    Carter by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carter Remington is a stand-up kind of guy. He leads a quiet life, running his landscaping business and working out at the gym. Family is one of his main concerns. He likes to make sure his brothers and his parents are all okay. He used to think he’d have a family of his own to take care of someday. But that dream died the day he found his wife in bed with one of the ranch hands...
  • Beau by S.J. McCoy

    Beau by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Beau Remington has built a good life for himself. He's worked hard to make his real estate company a success. He owns one of the nicest houses in town and comes from one of the most well-respected families in Paradise Valley. It's not that he isn't close to his family, it's just that he's never felt he quite belonged in the same way his brothers do...
  • Perfect Secret by Molly McLain

    Perfect Secret by Molly McLain

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m done with men. Or at least I thought I was until I found Holden standing in my shower, naked, wet, and built like he could break my heart...and my bed...
  • Burn So Good by J.H. Croix

    Burn So Good by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ella Life isn’t fair. I know that lesson well. I said goodbye to Caleb ten years ago. The boy I once loved is all man now.. As a hotshot firefighter, he’s all about saving others. Life ripped us apart, stealing more than I could’ve imagined. Time didn’t heal all of my wounds, and time never let me forget what we once had. Once again, Caleb comes to my rescue...
  • Graham by Katharine E. Hamilton

    Graham by Katharine E. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Receiving a frantic call from her friend Alice, Julia McComas packs her bags and heads to a ranch in Texas where she encounters critters, cows, and a handful of handsome cowboy brothers. Her presence interrupts their daily routine, and one brother in particular makes his annoyance well known: Graham...
  • Texas Forever by Janet Dailey

    Texas Forever by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The one woman he didn’t dare touch …   From the moment Luke Maddox sets eyes on Erin Tyler, he can think of nothing else but laying claim to Rimrock’s reigning beauty. But Erin is his boss’s daughter, and Luke knows Will Tyler has bigger plans for Erin’s future than a rough and tumble ranch hand with a brutal history and a talent for breaking hearts...
  • Trusting Sydney by Helen Hardt

    Trusting Sydney by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sam O’Donovan is bored with his stale life in Montana. When his brother-in-law offers him a great job and a cut of the McCray Ranch in Colorado, he’s ecstatic. This is the change he needs. As for beautiful Sydney Buchanan resurfacing? That’s icing on the cake. Sydney’s back for one reason and one reason only...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Fanning Flames by Cindy Caldwell

    Fanning Flames by Cindy Caldwell

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes when you search for something, you find more than you bargained for. Wildfires threaten River’s End Ranch as Lindsey Montgomery arrives out to find the brother she just found out she has. Family has never meant much to her, her adoption not what she’d hoped for. After years of loneliness, she finds out that she had a twin brother, and they were separated as toddlers...
  • Haylee's Homecoming by Kay P. Dawson

    Haylee's Homecoming by Kay P. Dawson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haylee Evans has never had a real family or a place to call home.  Her whole life, all she wanted to do was work with animals.  After working hard to finally realize that dream, she suddenly finds herself with a thirteen-year-old sister to raise.  They both need a fresh start, so they move to Quinn Valley where her sister can have the life Haylee never did...
  • Summer Serenade by Melissa McClone

    Summer Serenade by Melissa McClone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wanted to be a star—until he crushed her dreams in front of millions. When Ivy Quinn’s father dies, her dream of moving to Nashville gets put on hold, but she isn’t giving up on a music career. At least not until country superstar Nash Bennett delivers a devastating critique of her audition…on national television. Returning home to her supportive family and a stable job makes the most sense...
  • 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...
  • Lucky Lifeguard by Amelia C. Adams

    Lucky Lifeguard by Amelia C. Adams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Joey Peterson works at the River’s End Ranch pool during the summer to earn money for college in the fall. His job as a lifeguard is fun and rewarding, although his real dream is to practice sports medicine. He’ll get there . . . one semester at a time. Chelsea McAllister is an Olympic-hopeful swimmer who damaged her knee on a training run...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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..
  • Coming Home to the Cowboy by Megan Ryder

    Coming Home to the Cowboy by Megan Ryder

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The town bad boy with hidden pain…Champion bull-rider Chase Summers is everybody’s friend, but his affable personality hides a troubled childhood. The only thing that saved him from isolation was his foster dad and life on Redemption Ranch...
  • What a Bachelor Needs by Kelly Hunter

    What a Bachelor Needs by Kelly Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Your date with ski champ Jett Casey is an either/or deal. He’ll take you off-piste for the ultimate Montana ski adventure or he’ll put his handyman skills at your disposal for a week. Which one would you choose? Single mom Mardie Griffin has a run-down old house in need of fixing and a memory of Jett Casey as her savior in a time of great need...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Borrowing Trouble by Becky McGraw

    Borrowing Trouble by Becky McGraw

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dylan Thomas, a cowboy with a tough childhood, is as settled as the bucking bulls he used to ride for a living. His lifelong mode of operation has been to avoid attachments and only take care of himself, because nobody else was going to. After an almost career-ending injury, he's been stuck at the R & R Ranch teaching snobby rich guys to ride bulls until he can get back to the rodeo...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A Cowboy's Baby by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    A Cowboy's Baby by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ready or not, he’s a daddy… Gage Sawyer has been a rolling stone since he left the family ranch at eighteen. A year and a half ago he had a fling with Emma Green, and never forgot about her. But when he showed up at her door, she shut it in his face. He figured that was that…until she arrived in Eagles Nest with a baby. His baby...
  • Falling for a Cowboy's Smile by Katie Lane

    Falling for a Cowboy's Smile by Katie Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No heart is safe when a charming cowboy comes to town... Dirk Hadley has bamboozled everyone in Bliss, Texas, into believing that he’s an easygoing drifter just passing through town. But Dirk is no drifter. He’s on a mission to discover the truth about his past. And when that past collides with the sweet and beautiful Gracie Arrington, he won’t be able to maintain his charade...
  • Falling Head Over Boots by Katie Lane

    Falling Head Over Boots by Katie Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whatcha got cookin’, good-lookin’? After getting her heart broken, Carly Hanover believes the only person she can trust is herself. She works hard to become an executive chef and dreams of opening her own restaurant. But after being blackballed in the culinary world for losing her temper with a customer, that dream starts to fade . .
  • 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...
  • Bashful Banker by Cindy Caldwell

    Bashful Banker by Cindy Caldwell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Olivia Hamilton loves everything about New York—her local coffee shop, the walk to work, the skyscrapers. As a young, single CPA working on audits, life is exciting—and longing for her Texas cowboy-boot history fades day by day. Fred Wharton, III, has spent his entire life in Riston, Idaho, working in his family’s business—the Bank of Riston...
  • Picture Perfect by Cindy Caldwell

    Picture Perfect by Cindy Caldwell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Opal Hamilton’s newfound home at River’s End Ranch is everything she’d hoped it would be. With her new job at the gallery, she’s thrown herself into what’s most important to her—her family and her photography of the magnificent mountains and wildlife at River’s End Ranch. Her sister is happily married, and her father settled, and her own future is the furthest thing from her mind...
  • One-of-a-Kind Bride by Charlene Sands

    One-of-a-Kind Bride by Charlene Sands

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s a promise she intends to keep at all costsTaylor Preston never breaks a promise, especially to her dying mother about following her dreams to become a successful New York bridal gown designer. But when Taylor unexpectedly loses her high-profile job, she returns early to Last Stand, Texas where she happily spent childhood summers, to help with her cousin’s wedding...
  • The Maverick Cowboy by Kate Pearce

    The Maverick Cowboy by Kate Pearce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The heartbreak of their childhood drove the Morgan brothers far from their family’s California ranch—and one another. But as they face the wounds of the past, each feels the land calling him home . . .   Blue Morgan never thought he’d crave long days on horseback, working the cattle ranch where he grew up...
  • The Second Chance Rancher by Kate Pearce

    The Second Chance Rancher by Kate Pearce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It might be the pride of hard work on rugged terrain, the welcoming community, or the memories—but wherever the folks of Morgantown may roam, they have a way of coming back to the ranch . . .   There’s a reason Jackson Lymond left the Air Force, but he’s not telling a soul...
  • Stetson's Storm by Kathleen Ball

    Stetson's Storm by Kathleen Ball

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five years ago, hunky rodeo star Stetson Scott left town, never looking back, convinced he had no reason to stay. He unknowingly left behind more than just a love, so much more. Storm McCrory's heart was ripped out that same day. Now Stetson is back in town. He's shocked to find not just Storm McCrory living in poverty, but his son. The son he never knew. Both shunned by most of the town...
  • Baby-Daddy Cowboy by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Baby-Daddy Cowboy by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s all fun and games until… oh, baby!CJ Andrews loved every second of his brief affair with beautiful and witty Isabel Ricchetti. Under different circumstances, she could have been the one. Too bad her coffee shop is in Seattle, not Apple Grove, Montana.But when a failed condom turns their carefree fling into a serious commitment, CJ’s priorities shift...
  • Cowboy Up 2 by Allison Merritt, Leslie Garcia

    Cowboy Up 2 by Allison Merritt, Leslie Garcia

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Saddle Up with the best-selling authors who brought you Cowboy Up... And fall for Six more Cowboys ready to steal your heart! Good Ride, Cowboy by Allison Merritt Sometimes all you need is one good ride to clear your head. Cowboy in Waiting by Leslie P. Garcia She’d buried a hero. She wasn’t looking for another...
  • One Night with the Bad Boy by Eve Gaddy

    One Night with the Bad Boy by Eve Gaddy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Blues might be new to Whiskey River, Texas, but these illegitimate sons of the legendary Boots Kelly are no strangers to charisma. Xander Blue, IT genius, has always been a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. But when he meets the CFO of Kelly Boots, beautiful single mom, Bailey Richmond, he knows he's down for the count...
  • Montana Hearts: Sweet Talkin' Cowboy by Darlene Panzera

    Montana Hearts: Sweet Talkin' Cowboy by Darlene Panzera

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Darlene Panzera continues her heartwarming Western series with a roughed-up cowboy, the feisty girl next door, and the deal that brings them together If it wasn't for an injury to his leg, Luke Collins would be riding rodeo broncos all day, every day. Until he heals, he's determined to help his family's guest ranch bring in money any way he can...
  • Scotsman's Siren by Merry Farmer, Culpepper Cowboys

    Scotsman's Siren by Merry Farmer, Culpepper Cowboys

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the day she was born, Honor Quinlan was forced to live up to impossible standards. Her twin, Grace, was always more feminine, more obedient, and more appreciated, while she was always reminded of how wicked and willful she was...
  • Contractor's Cookies by Kirsten Osbourne

    Contractor's Cookies by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Felicity Quinlan has always felt like the odd duck. She was raised in a family who didn’t allow her to do much of anything, and her personality has always been suppressed. When she moves to Culpepper, Wyoming, she watches her cousins and sister fall in love one by one, until she is the last Quinlan standing...
  • Bobby Does Dallas by Sable Hunter

    Bobby Does Dallas by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bobby Stewart is a man of many talents. He can ride a bull, catch a football and please a woman - its all in a day's work for one of the most eligible bachelors in the Texas Hill Country. He's wanted by the Dallas Cowboys and half the female population of the Lone Star State. But one stormy night, he meets Cecile Fairchild and she turns his world upside down...
  • Veterinarian's Vixen by Merry Farmer, Culpepper Cowboys

    Veterinarian's Vixen by Merry Farmer, Culpepper Cowboys

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When reporter Nancy Tilson visited Culpepper, Wyoming to do a story on the Quinlan Quads the real scoop was her instant connection with hunky veterinarian, “Doc” O’Donnell. But months have passed, without a single call from Doc...
  • The Cowboy's Accidental Bride by Cindy Roland Anderson

    The Cowboy's Accidental Bride by Cindy Roland Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ruby Harrison is a glass-half-full kind of girl…except when it comes to her own love-life. Having already lost in the game of love, she’s satisfied being a single mother. But when her seven-year-old daughter asks if she can find her a new daddy, Ruby reluctantly ventures back into the dating world with one stipulation: the man can’t be a cowboy...
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