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Cowboys Don't Marry the Beauty by Jessie Gussman
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe couldn’t face her. She was too beautiful. He’d been deformed in a farming accident years ago. He’d managed to build a successful business on his North Dakota ranch, but clients didn’t need to see him. His sister handled the face of his company. Until his sister took a vacation and hired an out-of-work supermodel to take her place. He couldn’t show himself to her... -
![Rancher Dragon by Terry Bolryder]()
Rancher Dragon by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSave a horse, ride a rancher dragon...Beck is a big, growly mountain of a man with a monster of a dragon inside him. He keeps to himself, only leaving Dragonclaw Ranch when his inner beast feels unsafe for his friends. But when a brush with death makes Beck give a stranger his dragon's talon coin, he wakes up to a pretty, curvy woman that he now owes a favor... -
![Hidden Truths by Jae]()
Hidden Truths by Jae
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLesbian Fiction: Historical Fiction - Sequel to Backwards to Oregon - Commuter Novel - 19 hours reading - "Luke" Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women... -
![The Lady and the Mountain Call by Misty M. Beller]()
The Lady and the Mountain Call by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance Novel The wild Montana mountains are no place for an aging widow to live alone with dementia. And when Cathleen Donaghue discovers the poor woman’s condition, there’s no way she’ll walk away without helping. After all, she left her comfortable Boston home to help her brothers with their mining town medical practice because she wanted to make a difference...Categorized as:
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![Sweet-Talking Cowboy by Vicki Lewis Thompson]()
Sweet-Talking Cowboy by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s roped in by a runaway bride... When Lucy Patterson shows up at the Buckskin Ranch with no groom, Matt Ramsey’s in a fix. Six years ago she gave him her heart. He sent her away. He was wrong for her then. He’s wrong for her now. But the years have fanned the flames.. -
![Choices by Carolyn Brown]()
Choices by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDouglass Esmeralda Sullivan has just discovered that all men are gutter rats, all except for her six half-Irish, half-Mexican brothers, and sometimes she's not so sure about them. She's sitting in the middle of a dusty road on a hot Texas day, fuming because she's made a horrible mistake concerning Raymond Pierce, a despicable Yankee, one who has led her down the daisy path to destruction... -
![Love's Trial by Melissa Storm]()
Love's Trial by Melissa Storm
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSally Scott has a lot of wishes that life just isn’t willing to grant for her. She longs to write the next great American novel, but nobody is willing to read it. The love of her life just married somebody else, and she’s the outsider in the small, close-knit town of Sweet Grove. At this point, she’s all but given up trying to fit in... -
![True Heart's Desire by Caroline Fyffe]()
True Heart's Desire by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe invites you back to Eden, Colorado, where five sisters have inherited the town—and are winning over men's hearts one by one.Since their father's death summoned Lavinia Brinkman and her four sisters to Eden, Colorado, Lavinia has been content with her new life. Well, almost... -
![The Lady and the Mountain Fire by Misty M. Beller]()
The Lady and the Mountain Fire by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance Novel Claire Sullivan has a soft spot for helping those in need. So when her widowed grandmother becomes blind, Claire is determined to travel to the Montana Territory to care for her. But she never imagined the country would be so wild compared to her North Carolina home. Even the local doctor doesn't seem to have a kind bone in his body... -
![Dillon by Linda Ford]()
Dillon by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsaude’s husband, John, had been injured and she desperately needed some cowboys to work the ranch. She found Dillon down on his luck and gave him, and five other young men, a home and trains them. Seven years later she is set on finding brides for all of the young men. Dillon’s not interested. He was robbed of everything by Slick McCall—someone he trusted...Categorized as:
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![The Inn at Holiday Bay: Turkey in the Trap-Room by Kathi Daley]()
The Inn at Holiday Bay: Turkey in the Trap-Room by Kathi Daley
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again... -
![Dawson Bride by T.S. Joyce]()
Dawson Bride by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWerewolves meet the Wild West in this thrilling final installment of the Wolf Brides trilogy. Lucianna Whitlock has her entire life planned out for her by men determined to use her as a pawn in high society marriage games. But when she balks against the cruel man who has won her hand, he rips her life apart... -
![Danger on the Ranch by Dana Mentink]()
Danger on the Ranch by Dana Mentink
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer child’s life is on the line A Roughwater Ranch Cowboys story After putting his serial killer brother in prison, former US marshal Mitch Whitehorse chooses a solitary country life—until his brother escapes. Now Mitch’s former sister-in-law, Jane Reyes, needs protection…for herself and the toddler she’s kept a secret... -
![Evening Star by Carolyn Brown]()
Evening Star by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAddison Carter was hired by Magnolia Oil to work as their company doctor in Healdton, Oklahoma. In 1917, oil companies didn't hire women to work for them, so that alone was quite a miracle... -
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![Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. Turner by Kit Morgan]()
Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. Turner by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMail-Order Bride Ink! Mischief, Marriage and Mayhem, these brides have something to write about! Mrs. Pettigrew, of the Pettigrew Mail-Order Bride Agency sees to that! She likes to hear from all her brides and loves a happy ending. But to ensure her brides get one, she does things to help love along. Sometimes, however, those things don’t always go as planned… Dear Mrs... -
![A Time to Bloom by Lauraine Snelling]()
A Time to Bloom by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill their dreams fall apart when confronted with all that is stacked against them?Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive...Categorized as:
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![Drawing Mr. Darcy: Sketching His Character by Melanie Rachel]()
Drawing Mr. Darcy: Sketching His Character by Melanie Rachel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Thomas Bennet's childless aunt and uncle ask that one of his five daughters come to stay with them, he knows just which girl to send. Bright, energetic, and endlessly inquisitive, his little Lizzy is poised to become the apple of her father’s eye and the target of her mother’s fears. Neither will promote family harmony... -
![The Cowboy's Son by Rhonda Lee Carver]()
The Cowboy's Son by Rhonda Lee Carver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe stipulations of his father's will might dictate his actions, but nothing can control his heart... For years, Lexi Lock has done the right thing, even referred to by her friends as a hopeless romantic. She believes in soul mates, passion and saving herself for the man of her dreams. And then sexy in Wranglers smiles at her and she has a new appreciation for tough and dirty... -
![The Stable Master's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Stable Master's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings★★★ The second book in a brand new series from the author that brought you THE CHAPMANS and the best-selling THE BLIZZARD BRIDES series. ★★★A woman needing a home; a man needing a mother for his children and a marriage of convenience that is nothing like they imagined.Hannah Woods has lost everything... -
![Roping the Wrangler by Lacy Williams]()
Roping the Wrangler by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTeacher Seeks a Husband Schoolmarm Sarah Hansen longs for a family of her own. But horse trainer Oscar White is the last man she'd consider. Still, she can't help noticing the care he shows three motherless girls and the gentle way he helps Sarah overcome her fear of horses. Too bossy by half—that's the Sarah that Oscar remembers from their teenage years... -
![Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North]()
Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJune, 1852.A preacher’s daughter with a secret. An outlaw running from the gallows. A love story spanning oceans and deserts and years. When Abby Proctor is kidnapped from a train in the middle of the desert halfway to her new life in California, she makes a promise to herself—she will escape... -
![The Lady and the Mountain Promise by Misty M. Beller]()
The Lady and the Mountain Promise by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLilly Arendale has fought the anger of prejudice all her life. Her Guatemalan mother and wealthy English father were very much in love and gave her the best of upbringings, but their family was never accepted in either country... -
![Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer]()
Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLOVE IN A STRANGER'S EYES...ELLYIn town, they called her "Crazy Widow Dinsmore." But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule--she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way... -
![The Lady and the Mountain Doctor by Misty M. Beller]()
The Lady and the Mountain Doctor by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMiriam Bryant has always dreamed of leaving the never-ending work of her family's remote mountain ranch to travel abroad as a genteel lady. She's thrilled when the opportunity finally arises, until a gruesome hunting accident forces her to stay for weeks in the local mining town... -
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![Tempest by Beverly Jenkins]()
Tempest by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins comes a new novel in a mesmerizing series set in the Old West, where an arranged marriage becomes a grand passion . . . What kind of mail-order bride greets her intended with a bullet instead of a kiss? One like Regan Carmichael—an independent spirit equally at home in denims and dresses. Shooting Dr... -
![Secondhand Bride by Linda Lael Miller]()
Secondhand Bride by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTo win his father's ranch, a hard-living cowboy settles down and takes a wife--another man's wife! The youngest McKettrick brother, Jeb, is the wild one who never could stay out of trouble. And trouble is what he gets when he proposes to Chloe Wakefield... -
![Years by LaVyrle Spencer]()
Years by LaVyrle Spencer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLINNEAEager to begin her first teaching position, lovely Linnea Brandonberg stepped off the train looking as grown up as her eighteen years would allow. The golden fields and fragrant wheat of Alamo, North Dakota, were as new and different as the Westgaard family with whom she would live... -
![The Last Chance Cowboy by Jody Hedlund]()
The Last Chance Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a midwife, Catherine Remington is successful in bringing new life into the world, but she's failed one too many times in finding true love. When she's accused of a murder she didn't commit, she's forced to flee and decides to run away to Colorado to honor a patient's dying wish to deliver a newborn infant to his father.The repentant prodigal Dylan McQuaid is finally back in Fairplay... -
![Do Not Forsake Me by Rosanne Bittner]()
Do Not Forsake Me by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExperience the epic, sweeping story of Jake and Miranda Harkner from Bittner's beloved Outlaw Hearts, called by New York Times bestseller Heather Graham "a wonderful, absorbing read, with characters to capture the heart and the imagination". Fate brought them together. His past may tear them apart. Miranda Hayes' life was changed the day she faced down infamous gunslinger Jake Harkner.. -
![The Maverick: A Small Town Single-Parent Romance by Jennifer Millikin]()
The Maverick: A Small Town Single-Parent Romance by Jennifer Millikin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom bestselling author Jennifer Millikin comes a heart-warming story about a single-father trying to start over, and the woman he falls for along the way. I know you’ve heard about me. The middle Hayden brother, the one whose wife ran off. I’m not the short-tempered new owner of the Hayden Cattle Company, like my big brother... -
![The Farmer's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Farmer's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman needing a home; a man needing a helpmate and a marriage of convenience that meets both of their needs. Forced from her home, Elizabet Garrett needs to find a husband, and fast. What she doesn’t anticipate is meeting a man who is nothing like she expects, but just might be the answer to her prayers... -
![The Ranch by Michael Robert]()
The Ranch by Michael Robert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Erotic Gay Romance Josh West left the family ranch at eighteen, swearing to never return to Cody, Wyoming again. After the untimely death of his parents ten years later, he leaves the mess of his soon-to-be-ex behind in Seattle and returns to the ranch as the now fourth-generation owner to handle the sale of the land... -
![The Cowboy's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Cowboy's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe much anticipated fourth story in the Flat River Matchmaker Series, which began in The Farmer's Wife.June Clark's reputation was in tatters. Her marriage was a fraud. She lost everything, including her pride, in a fire started by her grifter husband. And to make matters worse, she'd never be a mother...Categorized as:
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![The Drifter's Bride by Christine Sterling]()
The Drifter's Bride by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman escaping society's expectations of marriage; a man with nothing to offer, a match that threatens to tear two families apart. Addison Aland came west to escape the pressure of an arranged marriage. Her family is convinced that once she experiences dirty cowboys, cow patties, and the lack of retail establishments she will hightail it back home to be a high-society wife...Categorized as:
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![Country by Khloe Summers]()
Country by Khloe Summers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan this older mountain biker find love with his bounties ex?CountryI don't date. I have a busy job and a daughter to think about. But when I meet the ex wife of the man I'm hunting, I can't keep my mind off her. She's strong, determined, curvy, and sweet as hell. That, and she needs my protection.I shouldn't mix work with pleasure. Yet here I am, desperate to touch her and make everything right... -
![Red Snow Bride by T.S. Joyce]()
Red Snow Bride by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWerewolves meet the Wild West in this exciting second installment of the Wolf Brides trilogy. Lorelei McGregor has tumbled from the top tier of Turn of the Century Boston society. Determined not to sully her family’s name further, she answers an ad in the newspaper for a mail order bride... -
![Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell]()
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 22 ratings"Eyes" is a story of family conflicts set in Colorado in 1885. Unmarried at 28, Anne Wells is a disgrace to her rigidly conventional family. Cord Bennett is the black sheep of the Bennett clan. When these two misfits are found alone together, violence explodes... -
![Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. Comfort by Kit Morgan]()
Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. Comfort by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDear Mrs. Pettigrew, My name is Major Comfort and I am writing to you to clear up a matter of great importance. It seems a grave mistake has been made. A woman by the name of Lucretia Lynch arrived in town claiming to be my mail-order bride. The trouble is, I didn’t send for one! My guess is my father is behind this... -
![Return of the Cowboy Doctor by Lacy Williams]()
Return of the Cowboy Doctor by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Cowboy's Reluctant Sweetheart Two years shy of his medical degree, cowboy Maxwell White is out of money. So, he's back in Bear Creek, Wyoming, working part-time for the local physician. Though he is immediately drawn to the doctor's lovely, whip-smart daughter, she seems to be irritated by Maxwell's very existence...Categorized as:
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![Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson]()
Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAnnie Trimble lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie holds in her heart. Alex Montgomery is horrified to learn his wild younger brother forced himself on a helpless "idiot girl... -
![A Lady of True Distinction by Grace Burrowes]()
A Lady of True Distinction by Grace Burrowes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHawthorne Dorning either finds a way to turn his family’s vast botanical resources into a successful commercial venture, or the estate the Dornings have called home for centuries could be broken up. He loves the land and he’s never shied away from hard work, but he knows nothing about creating perfumes or fragrances... -
![Captain Jones's Temptation by Audrey Harrison]()
Captain Jones's Temptation by Audrey Harrison
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe has it all – or so it seems. She is hiding from her past. They both have to protect a child.Can they overcome their mutual dislike to battle the common enemy? Will their secrets destroy their carefully crafted lives?Captain Samuel Jones is handsome, charming – when he wants to be – and one of the highly coveted King's Messengers...Categorized as:
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![Sourdough Creek by Caroline Fyffe]()
Sourdough Creek by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCassie Angel is used to taking care of herself. With a spirit of adventure, and a need to stay safe, she departs a dying Nevada town for the golden opportunities that await in California--along with a new life. When charming Sam Ridgeway shows up, claiming to know her uncle, and offers her protection in her travels, she has no idea there is an ulterior motive involved... -
![Morning Glory by Carolyn Brown]()
Morning Glory by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClara Anderson has her routine, and she likes it that way. But oil has brought change to Healdton, Oklahoma, and she doesn't like it one bit. She might not have the means to stop history in the making, but that doesn't mean she has to rent rooms in her boarding house to oil well riff-raff... -
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![Artek by Honey Phillips]()
Artek by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWorn down by war and conflict, Commander Artek and his brothers - the soldiers under his command - have chosen to start a new life on a backwater planet. As hard work and peaceful surroundings start to heal old wounds, he realizes that something - or rather someone - is missing from his new life... -
![High Country Bride by Linda Lael Miller]()
High Country Bride by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides...Categorized as:
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![Claw Marks & Card Games by Maz Maddox]()
Claw Marks & Card Games by Maz Maddox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCooper Woodlock is a man who can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Between his gambling debt and being a widowed father, he can never seem to get Lady Luck back on his side. Desperate for a winning hand, Cooper starts hitting saloons and tempting fate in order to keep the bloodthirsty Spades at bay... -
![Wyoming Wild by Sarah M. Eden]()
Wyoming Wild by Sarah M. Eden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHearts collide when a sheriff’s daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father. Wyoming Territory, 1876 US Marshal John “Hawk” Hawking is one of the most respected lawmen in the West, so when a telegram arrives from the small town of Sand Creek warning him of a death threat against him, he immediately begins an investigation... -
![Bran by Kit Morgan]()
Bran by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClear Creek was a quaint little place, one most men took one look at, and decided to settle. There was only one problem. There were no women. In fact, the town was so small, when women looked at it, they laughed then whipped their horses into a frenzy to get as far from it as possible. This of course, left a mighty big hole in the hearts of the men who lived there... -
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Chase by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when three more English ladies are shipped off halfway across the world as mail order brides? EVERYTHING! Three sisters, Lena, Fina and Apple go from an even more posh lifestyle than their cousins before them, and arrive in Clear Creek, a nothing of a town full of quirky characters, crazy live-stock, and bumbling villains! Escorted by their strict and very proper distant cousin,...
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