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Montana Surprise by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMONTANA SURPRISE- The McCutcheon Family series, Book TwelveY Knot, Montana Territory, July 1888Two months after the historic McCutcheon family reunion, the town of Y Knot is experiencing a sleepy summer lull... -
![Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati]()
Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati
In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore , award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family... -
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![Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner]()
Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this totally unforgettable sixth book in the Savage Destiny series, a relentless wave of frontier progress forces itself into the lives of Zeke and Abbie Monroe, threatening their many years of abiding love and forcing a separation unlike any other they have experienced... -
![Cocky in a Cowboy Hat by Em Petrova]()
Cocky in a Cowboy Hat by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLiberty Baker is one step closer to happiness. After buying the ranch of her dreams to raise horses, she is also settling in to the small town of Crossroads. Everyone has been welcoming…except her neighbor, a hunky bachelor with a piercing, icy blue stare that haunts her more than she cares to admit... -
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![Ruby Jane by Susan May Warren]()
Ruby Jane by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe loved...and lost. Ruby Jane never thought she'd meet the man of her dreams while running from the police in Russia. That he'd steal her heart on a train to Siberia. But loving a former CIA officer comes with a price...a life of danger. A life of high stakes. A life where he simply disappears... He has no memory of the man he was. Mack Jones has no memory of his past.. -
![Grace on the Mountain Trail by Misty M. Beller]()
Grace on the Mountain Trail by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis epic journey is her last hope to find her lost brother—the only family she has left.When Lola Carson’s father died, his last words spoke of a half-brother she’d never known about. And now, to claim her own inheritance and come to terms with her father’s secret life, she must find this mysterious man—whose last known whereabouts are somewhere west of the wild Rocky Mountains... -
![Climb the Highest Mountain by Rosanne Bittner]()
Climb the Highest Mountain by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEver since her gaze locked with Lone Eagle's over a crimson campfire, young Abigail Trent knew her fate lay with the virile Cheyenne scout. She had married him, borne him children, and endured all the hardships of the rugged frontier. But even though so many years had passed, each night found the white squaw melded to her Indian mate, burning with the need to prove their passion again and again... -
![Cowgirl Heart by Em Petrova]()
Cowgirl Heart by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s not easy to impress a Dalton girl… It’s not easy being a Dalton, let alone the last unmarried one of the Texas bunch. Keziah, or Kizzy, is drained by all the family weddings, and her sisters keep trying to rope and tie her to any old cowboy in the county... -
![Cowboy's Bride: A Secret Baby, Ranch Western Romance by KC Crowne]()
Cowboy's Bride: A Secret Baby, Ranch Western Romance by KC Crowne
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I was absolutely riveted, all the way through." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Strong probability that you won't want to stop reading until the very last wonderful word." She doesn't realize it yet...But Juliana will happily wear my ring.I'll prove to her I'm not the enemy she thinks I am.She's a perfect balance of class and beauty.And she's perfect for me... -
![Bad in Boots by Em Petrova]()
Bad in Boots by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes the second time around is even better than the first...Cort Bellamy’s been avoiding his hometown of Crossroads, Georgia for too long. Who can blame him, when the small town is so thick with memories and everyone recalls that he let the love of his life slip away? However, his father’s summons for help on the family ranch can’t go unanswered much longer—and now he’s offering Cort a share... -
![Seagrass Secrets by Christy Barritt]()
Seagrass Secrets by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s her best friend. She’s the woman of his dreams.Firefighter Colby Morris needs answers. After discovering a dead body, he then learns his best friend’s address was in the man’s pocket. He’ll do anything to keep Emmy safe—yet he wants to keep his heart safe also. That’s why he’s never told Emmy he’s in love with her... -
![Driftwood Danger by Christy Barritt]()
Driftwood Danger by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s on one side of the fight to preserve Cape Corral. She’s on the other.Abigail Ferguson wakes up in a strange place with bruises on her face and her hands bound. Someone is trying to teach her family a painful lesson and using Abigail as a pawn. When she’s able to call for help, only one person comes to mind—law enforcement officer Grant Matthews... -
![Ride The Free Wind by Rosanne Bittner]()
Ride The Free Wind by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAbandoning everything she had ever known, Abigail Trent left her family and chose her fate--to ride with Zeke Monroe, half-Cheyenne scout, into the unexplored west. Together they faced peril, until Zeke found his mother's people and became Lone Eagle, turning his back on the white man's world. To stay with him, Abigail must become Cheyenne too--even if it means death and warfare... -
![Freedom in the Mountain Wind by Misty M. Beller]()
Freedom in the Mountain Wind by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe last epic journey before her life changes forever. Susanna Wilkins will do anything to make her father’s final dream come true, including trek along the path Lewis and Clark explored into the untamed wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Every mile is more crucial now that lung cancer is stealing Pa’s last days faster than she can come to terms with losing him... -
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![Redemption Trail (Yakima Henry) by Peter Brandvold]()
Redemption Trail (Yakima Henry) by Peter Brandvold
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLifelong loner Yakima Henry unexpectedly befriends Paul Cahill, an old prospector with roots in a once-wealthy Eastern family. When Cahill is mortally wounded by men stalking his and Yakima’s trail, Cahill asks Yakima to travel to northern Dakota Territory and deliver a letter and a belt stuffed with money to his estranged son... -
![River Of Love by Rosanne Bittner]()
River Of Love by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbigail Monroe had been pierced by an arrow as a young girl...and pierced even more deeply by the love of a half-breed Cheyenne brave named Lone Eagle. But now Abigail and Lone Eagle could lose everything--and each other. Trouble was coming across the Plains to challenge them and test their love. No longer could they hide in a paradise of their own making... -
![Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner]()
Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWarriors and dreamers, pathfinders and rebels, the Monroes are a family divided between their Indian heritage and their white blood. At their head is the indomitable Abigail Trent Monroe, whose love for Cheyenne warrior Lone Eagle became a legend. Now, as the clan gathers for a long-awaited reunion on their sprawling Colorado ranch, old hatreds and new passions explode .. -
![Cowboy Surprise by Em Petrova]()
Cowboy Surprise by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFamily ties run deep in the heart of Texas. Who knew that having the Dalton looks—dark hair and blue eyes—would deem Justus as a trustworthy person? That’s exactly what happens when a friend of the family turns up on the Daltons’ ranch and thrusts a baby at him to watch because nobody else is home. After she leaves, he realizes he doesn’t even know her name—or how to care for an infant... -
![6-Pack Rancher by Em Petrova]()
6-Pack Rancher by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s all glitz and glam, he’s rugged and broody. But when their worlds collide… there’s no dialing down the heat. Actor Bellarose Abbott finds herself completely out of her element the minute her private jet touches down in rural Washington State. The big hats and boots speak volumes that she isn’t in Hollywood anymore... -
![The Pastor’s Doubtful Bride: Historical Western Bride Romance by Amelia Rose]()
The Pastor’s Doubtful Bride: Historical Western Bride Romance by Amelia Rose
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMagic can happen when two paths cross by chance. But does love have the power to heal the traumas of the past? It is 1894, and with his troubled past behind him, Pastor Barthelme Munster has been traveling from chapel to chapel in Montana, living by his promise to God and spreading the word... -
![One Southern Cowboy by Jennifer Youngblood]()
One Southern Cowboy by Jennifer Youngblood
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes you have to forget all that you know … to learn how to love again.The player in the family, Jaxson goes through girlfriends faster than a hot knife through butter. A near fatal accident with a familiar face might be the very thing to give this cowboy a fresh take on love and loyalty.Jaxson locked his heart a long time ago and has no intention of opening it back up for anyone... -
![Stolen Hearts by Kelly Moore]()
Stolen Hearts by Kelly Moore
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIt was a day like any other on the ranch. Hard work and no play make for a cranky cowboy. Needing a night out on the town left me sneaking into my father’s house like a teenage boy. That was my first mistake of the day. The second was playing hero to a damsel in distress that turned out to be no damsel at all, but a sexy, snarky woman who took me by surprise... -
![Chiseled and Cherished by Em Petrova]()
Chiseled and Cherished by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey’re enemies—with benefits. But what happens when their secret is revealed… On the surface, ex-bounty hunter Asher Moon’s got it all together. But as soon as he sets foot on the family ranch, he’s thrown back into his role as his dysfunctional family’s glue, and now he’s got his own ugly past to cover up too... -
![A Sharp Witted Bride for the Troubled Doctor: Historical Western Mail Order Bride Romance by Amelia Rose]()
A Sharp Witted Bride for the Troubled Doctor: Historical Western Mail Order Bride Romance by Amelia Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou can’t outrun a troubled past, no matter how fierce your love.All Demetri has ever wanted is to protect his deaf sister. It’s why he became a doctor, and it’s why he must get her away from Colorado. Hunted by the Irish mafia, Demetri and Sandy flee to Bear Creek, where they settle into a calm life, free from the troubles of their past… or so they think... -
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![Cowboy Bikers MC #3 by Esther E. Schmidt]()
Cowboy Bikers MC #3 by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen eyes meet and make two hearts beat as one, there’s no holding the reins. Lust will take a turn and gallop toward love at full speed, taking on any danger it might face along the way... -
![The Heart of a Cowboy by Jody Hedlund]()
The Heart of a Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrilliant scientist Linnea Newberry is on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling the Santa Fe Trail with her grandfather, Dr. Powell, on a botanical expedition to Colorado Territory. She longs to be taken seriously by the other team members, but at every calamity she faces, her grandfather threatens to send her home... -
![Burning Desire by Scarlett Avery]()
Burning Desire by Scarlett Avery
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here. Two Strapping Alpha Billionaires. One Girl Looking For A Fresh Start. A Heck of A Wild Ride. ***POV from all 3 main characters.*** Allison may have left her ex-boyfriend behind in New York, but it seems that toxic relationship is still haunting her today... -
![The Dance Hall Wife by Cici Cordelia]()
The Dance Hall Wife by Cici Cordelia
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCAT . . .Cat Purdue has come a long way from the days when her father used her as partial payment for a gambling debt to a ruthless man. Reacquiring the saloon Father had lost, and turning it into a successful restaurant, is only the beginning of her drive for success.FRANK . . -
![The Substitute Wife by Cici Cordelia]()
The Substitute Wife by Cici Cordelia
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHARRISON . . .Once his fortune in silver mining is secured, Harrison Carter finally sends back home for his fiancée. It's been four years since he's seen Jenny.But it's Retta Pierce, Jenny's sister, who arrives by stagecoach with young daughter Adeline in tow...Categorized as:
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![Woman of Sunlight by Mary Connealy]()
Woman of Sunlight by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren may finally be ready to leave. Raised to fear the world, Ilsa and her sisters never planned on coming down, but when the Warden family arrived in need, they had to help. And it may cost them everything. Having made his fortune, Mitch Warden returned home and found the family homestead abandoned... -
![Tough and Tamed by Em Petrova]()
Tough and Tamed by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRevenge sex and a healthy dose of a bad boy making all the wrong decisions equals one hell of a wild ride. The horse is optional. Zayden Moon and his brothers are back home for the old man’s funeral, but too bad none of them give a damn what happens to the failing ranch they’ve inherited or all the bad memories that come with it... -
![Savage Embers by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Embers by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter setting his eyes on Maggie, a scarlet-haired beauty, Falcon Hawk, a mighty Arapaho chieftain, is determined to protect her from her fiercest enemy. Original... -
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Savage Love by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMonster bones. They were the stuff of Indian legend, which warned that they must not be disturbed. But lovely, golden-haired Dayanara and her father were on a mission for the Smithsonian Institute to track down the mysterious bones and uncover them, despite the danger... -
![Reckless Love by Madeline Baker]()
Reckless Love by Madeline Baker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTWO MEN CLAIMED HER ... ONLY ONE COULD TAME HER RECKLESS HEART JOSHUA BERDEEN was the cavalry soldier who had traveled the country in search of the lovely Hannah Kincaid. Josh offered her a life of ease in New York City, and all the finer things. TWO HAWKS FLYING was the Cheyenne warrior who had branded her body with his searing desire... -
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![Savage Thunder by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Thunder by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Cassie Edwards introduces her 50th romance with Dorchester Publishing, with this historical sage of a passion between Moon Song and Swift Thunder divided by their tribes's mutual hate, but who come together in a forbidden love that could overcome even the fiercest blood feud... -
![Thunder on the Plains by Rosanne Bittner]()
Thunder on the Plains by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE SOUND OF TWO HEARTS BEATING, JOINED BY A LOVE MADE STRONGER BY STRUGGLE, CAN BE AS LOUD AS ... THUNDER ON THE PLAINS Lovely young heiress Sunny Landers was utterly devoted to her father's great dream --- a transcontinental railroad that would run from Chicago across the Great Plains to the Pacific... -
![Savage Secrets by Cassie Edwards]()
Savage Secrets by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhile scouring Wyoming for her outlaw brother in the wake of the Civil War, beautiful Rebecca Veach is taken captive by the Cheyenne and meets their strong yet sensitive chief, Blazing Eagle. Original... -
![Ropes and Revenge by Lili Valente, Jessie Evans]()
Ropes and Revenge by Lili Valente, Jessie Evans
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEight months ago, John Lawson lost his wife and best friend in a tragic accident on his family's ranch. In the time since, he's devoted himself to two things--taking care of his two newly motherless sons and proving that Lily's accident was no accident. Now, he finally has hard evidence that his wife was murdered and he won't rest until he has the killer's blood on his hands... -
![Boundless Fate by Alicia Rae, Jovana Shirley]()
Boundless Fate by Alicia Rae, Jovana Shirley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFate for Love Series, Book 2 Colton Kingston’s livelihood has been reduced to a pile of black ashes by a tragic act of arson. After sending away the woman he has loved since the tender age of five, a hateful dark revenge threatens to overtake his heart. Colton knows pushing her away is the only way he can keep her safe... -
![Rogue by Sable Hunter]()
Rogue by Sable Hunter
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA loner by choice and a renegade by nature. Rogue is living up to his name. He’s lived life on his own terms, doing everything from team-roping in college, Texas Hold ‘em champion to founding his own company, Lone Wolf Oil. Everything he’s accomplished has been in spite of Dusty Walker, a man who sired four sons by four women – none of them his wife...Categorized as:
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![Comanche Sunset by Rosanne Bittner]()
Comanche Sunset by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mail order bride—and her heart—get ambushed in this moving historical western romance from the bestselling author of Sweet Mountain Magic. Mail order bride Jennifer Andrews heads to Texas ready for adventure. But when her stagecoach is attacked, the auburn-haired beauty wishes she had never left St. Louis... -
![Song of the Wolf by Rosanne Bittner]()
Song of the Wolf by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBorn to be a Holy Woman among the Cheyenne, Medicine Wolf’s life as a young child is saved by a pack of wolves that keeps her from freezing to death. From then on, wolves are her guiding spirit and her protector. As she grows into womanhood, Medicine Wolf is forced to live among whites for one year, in an effort to learn the way of the white man... -
![The Way of Love by Tracie Peterson]()
The Way of Love by Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations on reservations... -
![Bethany's Baby by Elaine Manders]()
Bethany's Baby by Elaine Manders
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSweet, inspiring historical romance with heart-wrenching twists.Former nanny, Bethany Jamison goes west as a mail-order bride to escape a lecherous employer who threatens to expose her part in a past tragedy... -
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![Her Secret Song by Mary Connealy]()
Her Secret Song by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices... -
![A Model of Devotion by Mary Connealy]()
A Model of Devotion by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father's dynasty. Now with the company safe after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can focus on her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and never marry... -
![Denying the Devil by Calle J. Brookes]()
Denying the Devil by Calle J. Brookes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPersephone Tyler was the last holdout. Just because her sisters had gone nuts over the rugged, good-looking, perfect cowboy Masterson brothers didn’t mean Perci was going to meekly fall in line—especially not with the last Masterson brother. Dr. Nate Masterson had been the biggest thorn in her side since Perci first started working at the tiny Masterson County Hospital... -
![Cowboy Flirtation by Em Petrova]()
Cowboy Flirtation by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFamily ties run deep in the heart of Texas. Is there room in Paradise Valley for three more Daltons? Ford Dalton’s luck seems to have run out. The job he loved on the rodeo circuit left him with a back injury, and he was replaced. That’s about the time his fiancée broke things off, leaving him wondering about the next step in his life... -
![Cowboy Temptation by Em Petrova]()
Cowboy Temptation by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLilah Sherman was a geeky teen who loved sci-fi—and Easton Dalton. He even kissed her at a Halloween party, but she found out later it was a bet. Now he’s back and working alongside her brother as a hand on his uncle’s ranch in Paradise Valley and whoooeee, is he smokin’ hot... -
![Double Action Deputy by B.J. Daniels]()
Double Action Deputy by B.J. Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels at Cardwell Ranch for nonstop suspense in Big Sky country.A relentless marshal. A rogue detective. A bargain they may not live long enough to regret.When Montana deputy marshal Brick Savage asks homicide detective Maureen Mortensen to help him find the person who destroyed her family, she quickly accepts his offer...
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