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  • Fireflies and Magnolias by Ava Miles

    Fireflies and Magnolias by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Amelia Ann Hollins might have been raised to be a sweet magnolia, but she’s found her inner fire—the quest for justice. The secrets she carries and a tragedy from her past prompt her to volunteer at a legal clinic in the worst part of town. Here she can serve and protect the one she couldn’t save. Here she will risk everything...
  • Chance Encounter by S.J. McCoy

    Chance Encounter by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chance knew love once—a long time ago. She died when they were eighteen and the best of him died with her. Since then his work on a ranch in Montana has allowed him to keep his distance from people and from happiness. Eighteen years later, he may be ready to start living again—maybe. He’s watched all his friends find love and embark on the next stage of their lives...
  • 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...
  • The Last Second Chance by Lucy Score

    The Last Second Chance by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would it take to get one last chance? Joey Greer is done having her heart broken. Eight years ago, after a horrific car accident, Jackson Pierce—her high school sweetheart—abandoned her. Abandoned his family. Abandoned the town they'd both grown up in, and fled to Hollywood. He never looked back, and she never forgot him. Or forgave him...
  • Cowboy Seeking A Wedding Date by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Cowboy Seeking A Wedding Date by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nora Levitt is at a crossroads.After a messy breakup that left her with no home and no friends, the prospect of taking some time far away to regroup seemed appealing.That was until she saw exactly what awaited her in Moss Creek, Montana.Nothing. Nothing awaited her.The place is just fields and pastures.And cowboys. Lots and lots of cowboys.Which would be great if she was looking for a cowboy...
  • Sirens in Bliss by Sophie Oak

    Sirens in Bliss by Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens after happily ever after? It’s the event of the year. The wedding of Leo and Wolf Meyer to their beautiful sub, Shelley McNamara, has all of Bliss up in arms—and makes everyone think about love and marriage and family. Wolf and Leo have to deal with the sudden reappearance of their father. Rafe Kincaid is handed an opportunity that might take him and his family away from Bliss...
  • Jackson by Cynthia Dees

    Jackson by Cynthia Dees

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Annabelle Winters is sick of the big city. She hates her job, hates her boss, and hates her life. And then she receives a letter informing her she’s inherited a slice of land in Apple Pie Creek, Montana. Jack Sutter has just retired from the army and plans to renovate an old grist mill he recently inherited back home in Apple Pie Creek...
  • Taste of Passion by Brenda Jackson

    Taste of Passion by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SOME LONGINGS Attorney Mackenzie "Mac" Standfield swore off love when her heart was shattered into a million pieces. But there’s one man who has managed to tempt her beyond reason—rodeo star Luke Madaris...
  • Olivia's Ride by C.A. Harms

    Olivia's Ride by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Keeton Pearce hadn’t lived a life full of supportive, loving family… In fact, it was just the opposite. He had been on his own for so long he had no idea what it felt like to belong. He didn’t want to rehash the life he left behind, or even think about it. But the hate from his father followed him, slowly eating away at the life he had begun to build for himself...
  • 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...
  • When We Fall by J.H. Croix

    When We Fall by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A steamy, full-length, standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA from Amazon Bestselling author J.H. Croix! If you like smoking hot romance with alpha men and strong women, you’ll love this series! Sometimes when you stumble and fall, you discover who’s there to catch you. Lacey Adams runs at life full bore...
  • Starting Over in Maple Bay by Brittney Joy

    Starting Over in Maple Bay by Brittney Joy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Maple Bay, a small Midwestern town with heaps of heart—where family dinner is a must, and someone will always leave the light on for you. A new series perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, Jenny Hale, and Elana Johnson.An inheritance from a mother she never knew...
  • 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...
  • Blind Love by Kelly Elliott

    Blind Love by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Harley and I had our whole lives planned out, until her plans changed, and those plans didn’t include me. After years spent trying to get the love of my life out of my head and repair my too-damaged heart, I thought I was finally moving on…but life sure has a funny way of letting you know when those best-laid plans are about to be turned upside down...
  • Love at First Sight by Kelly Elliott

    Love at First Sight by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Love at first sight. That’s what it was when Rip Myers came up to me in kindergarten. From that point on, we were inseparable best friends. When I work up the courage to tell Rip I love him, I am met with rejection. He tells me he treasures our friendship too much. That statement might as well be a knife to my heart. I want to hold out hope that he’ll change his mind...
  • The Apple Tree by Jewel E. Ann

    The Apple Tree by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He's a single dad starting over in a new town. She's a relentless flirt with a penchant for trouble, ten years younger than him, and the babysitter. What could go wrong?Eve has just graduated from high school, but she doesn’t know what’s next aside from working at the local motel, spying on Kyle, her neighbor, and stealing apples from his orchard...
  • Kissing Beau by Melanie Shawn

    Kissing Beau by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Stand-alone Wishing Well, Texas romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way!Beau BriggsExes and weddings don't mix.I'd never been a big fan of weddings...
  • Wicked Needs by L.A. Cotton

    Wicked Needs by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The edgy, angsty, addictive YA/NA crossover series from L. A. Cotton continues... It’s a fine line between love and hate. Bitch ... Ice Queen ... Frigid. Macey Prince is no stranger to a nickname or two. The words once hurt, now they’re her armor. Being a Prince might be a life sentence she can never escape but Macey isn’t willing for her heart to be collateral again...
  • Simply Mine by Laura Pavlov

    Simply Mine by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    She’s looking for Mr. Right. I can offer her Mr. Right Now.That’s my specialty.He’s my best friend’s older brother.He was also my teenage crush and completely out of reach.But we had our secrets—moments that nobody knew about.I’d tucked them away in a safe place, and that’s where I’d planned to keep them.He’d moved to the city, and I’d moved on...
  • River's Return by Leanne Davis

    River's Return by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shane Rydell is better fit to ride his Harley than any of his family’s horses. He has spent his life trying to find a road that can travel between the family he loves and the open road he is pulled towards. He often leaves River’s End, but eventually, he always comes back as he can’t quite sever the connection to a place he doesn’t want to be from, but which, he always seems destined to return to...
  • What I Like About You by Kait Nolan

    What I Like About You by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Laurel is offered the chance to stay on the farm and dogsit while the happy couple honeymoons, she jumps at the chance to get out her life and into Sebastian's strong arms. He wants to help her make her decision, a choice with haunting echoes of his own past...
  • 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...
  • Christian by Jennifer Foor

    Christian by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This book is a spinoff of the Mitchell Family Series. It can be read as a stand alone. Christian Mitchell has always made her parents proud. She excels in everything she puts her mind to, and because of her intelligence, has warranted herself a top notch education at Kentucky State University. Though an achievement to be proud of, Christian longs for something else...
  • Winning the Cowboy by Kennedy Fox

    Winning the Cowboy by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Working on the ranch and settling down is all Grayson’s ever wanted in life. When he meets the woman who could make that a reality, he learns she hates him with every fiber of her being. He knows she’s being unreasonable since their bickering is the hottest foreplay he’s ever had. Mackenzie Bishop’s an elementary school teacher and can tolerate a lot until it comes to Grayson...
  • Runaround by Jay Crownover

    Runaround by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can two people perpetually moving in opposite directions ever end up in the same place? Or will love just keep giving them the runaround? Webb Bryant is intimately acquainted with every type of trouble there is. Trouble is all he’s ever known and the only constant in his life. Webb’s a man constantly on the move. He’s a drifter. A wanderer...
  • A Cowboy's Kiss by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    A Cowboy's Kiss by Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cowboy to the rescue! When big-hearted Luke Bennett spots a dog stranded on the highway in a snowstorm, he leaps into action. Saving the day is what this sexy cowboy does. Whether it’s a stray animal in peril or a business going down the tubes, Luke’s the guy to call. But it will take all his management skills to rescue Abigail Summers from bankruptcy...
  • Stone Hearts by Amber Kelly

    Stone Hearts by Amber Kelly

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new friends-to-lovers small-town romance from Amber Kelly…When I returned to Poplar Falls six years ago, I’d given up on love.I’d made the mistake of marrying the sexy rebel right out of high school. He’d ended up in jail. I’d ended up pregnant. With a baby on the way, I decided to give up my wild, impulsive ways. All I wanted was a family and to watch my sweet son grow up, happy, and healthy...
  • 1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary by Devney Perry

    1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary by Devney Perry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Devney Perry comes a new story in her Maysen Jar series…Dear Diary,My dad needs a girlfriend, and I’ve already picked her out.Miss Adler would be perfect for him, right? She’s super pretty. She has the best smile and she gives the best hugs. And she’s, like, the most amazing teacher in the world.Dad is my hero, but I can tell he’s lonely...
  • 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...
  • Evers & Afters by J.H. Croix

    Evers & Afters by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A swoon-worthy romance from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!An ex-military pilot and a sunshiney barista take opposites attract to the next level.I’m blaming it on the porcupine who broke into Cammi’s coffee truck. If that didn’t happen, I never would’ve kissed her.I’ve spent years ignoring the spark that flares any time I get close to Cammi. I don’t do romance, and I don’t lose control...
  • Forgotten Angel by Suzie O'Connell

    Forgotten Angel by Suzie O'Connell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shane McGuire and Becky Epperson have a history. They might have had much more, but the murders of two close friends killed their shot at forever before it had a chance to breathe, and Shane did what he hoped he never would. He broke Becky’s heart...
  • Perfect Problem by Cary Hart

    Perfect Problem by Cary Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Colorado Golden Sunrise by Jill Haymaker

    Colorado Golden Sunrise by Jill Haymaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forty-three year old, Kelly Charm, feels her life slipping away in Prairie, Nebraska. A single mom, she longs for a better life for herself and her teenage son, Ethan. Having scoured online job ads for months, she finally finds an ad for a hardware store manager in picturesque Peakview, Colorado and decides to take a chance...
  • Restoring You by Aria Bliss

    Restoring You by Aria Bliss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I planned for everything.Everything except him .This unspoken attraction between us is turning my already shattered world upside down.♥♥♥It’s been two years, and I can’t move past my loss. I guess that’s what happens when I’m left alone after a tragic accident takes everything that matters to me. Now I’m stuck with the one label I never wanted in life—Widow.I need so much more than a distraction...
  • His Tainted Ways by Jessica Mills

    His Tainted Ways by Jessica Mills

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I shouldn’t have lied about being engaged.But it got my mom off my case for a while. Now to find someone to go with me to my baby sister’s wedding.Lucky for me, a brooding cowboy from the bar will work just fine.Especially since he’s everything a girl might want by her side or in her bed.Crazily enough, when you fake it until you make it, sometimes you actually make it...
  • Rocky Mountain Vignettes by Vivian Arend

    Rocky Mountain Vignettes by Vivian Arend

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After the stories are done, their stories go on. One of the great parts of writing a long, family saga is that I get to revisit characters who have already hit their happily-ever-after. Over the past couple years I’ve written short vignettes revisiting characters from the SIX PACK RANCH series...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • River Road by Leanne Davis

    River Road by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AJ Reed grew up in foster care until he ran away in his teens and started earning his way through the rodeo circuit, until injury made him quit. Left adrift with no real skills, he wandered through almost as many towns and jobs as he did women...
  • Blazing Hot Nights by Katie Mettner

    Blazing Hot Nights by Katie Mettner

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Texas cowboy Blaze McAwley has made a lot of mistakes in life. His biggest one is alive and living on the neighboring ranch. He can't say she's well, and that's his fault too.Heaven Lane is in trouble. Dogged by an injury caused by Blaze McAwley's bison, she can barely keep her ranch above water. Her plan to use Blaze to save her ranch is the most fitting revenge of all...
  • Buck Cowboys by Elle Thorpe

    Buck Cowboys by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hallie knows how to lose your best friend in one easy step.Offer him your virginity, then watch him reject you.But that was four years ago, and now she knows better. Working at Hunt’s Bull Riding School, there’s no shortage of hot young cowboys to keep her entertained. There’s no need to think about Nate Mathews, especially since he’s off on the pro bull riding tour. Out of sight, out of mind...
  • A Girl Like Lilac by Victoria L. James

    A Girl Like Lilac by Victoria L. James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The first time Toby Hunter got arrested for defending Lilac Clarke’s honour, he was only fifteen years old, but he’d loved her from behind his black-rimmed glasses for as long as he could remember...
  • Nome-o Seeks Juliet by Katy Regnery

    Nome-o Seeks Juliet by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a lonely vet(eran) and an ambitious vet(erinarian) work together to win the Qimmiq 200, sparks will fly… Montana-born veterinary student, Juliet Sanderson, is disappointed when her project on the treatment and care of sled dogs falls through due to the illness of a local musher...
  • Twice Shy by Suzie O'Connell

    Twice Shy by Suzie O'Connell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It has been nearly five years since Aaron Hammond's wife died in his arms and left him to raise their young daughter alone. Besieged by guilt and grief over her death, he has nearly given up hope of ever finding happiness again… until photographer Skye Hathaway shows up in Northstar. She isn't looking for love, however...
  • Prairie Passion by Tessa Layne

    Prairie Passion by Tessa Layne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She is SO not his type…They might have shared a fiery kiss at his brother’s wedding, but Brodie Sinclaire wants nothing to do with chef Jamey O’Neill and her sexy, all too sassy mouth. Except he desperately needs her to run the kitchen at his new hunting lodge.He’s a pain in her…...
  • Cruz by Jacki James

    Cruz by Jacki James

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

    Noah's Journey by C.A. Harms

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

    Seducing the Cowboy by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After leaving his hometown seven years ago, Payton hasn’t returned. One heartbreak was enough to turn him off relationships forever. As soon as he arrived at the Circle B Ranch, they treated him like family—something he’s never had—and he met the one woman he shouldn’t want. He’s put her in the friend zone, but after agreeing to her proposition, he can’t hold back anymore...
  • Tempting the Cowboy by Kennedy Fox

    Tempting the Cowboy by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kane Bishop’s content with living and working on the ranch, but something is missing—a family of his own. After his twin brother married the woman he once loved, Kane has moved on and is now focusing on new things. When his best friend’s little sister re-enters his life, the attraction is undeniable, but the timing is all wrong...
  • Navarro by Kelly Fox

    Navarro by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My late wife made a bet with me: if I marry her brother, I have to take his last name. “That's the rule. You marry two Navarros, you become one of us.” Renée always did have a sense of humor—even as she was dying—but I’ll never love anyone the way I loved her. Falling for my brother-in-law? Psh. Desi’s almost twenty years younger than me and far too pretty. Besides, my son would never forgive me...
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