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  • Loving You by Kelly Elliott

    Loving You by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In the long-awaited conclusion to the Wanted, Broken and Love Wanted in Texas series, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott brings you a story filled with angst, cowboys and fairytale love. Taylor Atwood and Jase Morris finally found their way to one another. Life couldn't have been more perfect for either one of them as they began to build a future together...
  • A Forever Love by Kelly Elliott

    A Forever Love by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The moment Garrett Mathews sees the woman of his dreams, he vows to fight with everything he has to win Emma Birk’s heart. Garrett will embark on the longest, hardest struggle of his life to make his dreams a reality...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  contemporary  m-f  length-short
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  • Blinding Trust by Jennifer Foor

    Blinding Trust by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Blinding Trust is told by Savanna and Colt. The book starts where book 6 left off. The family is at Conner and Amy’s oldest daughter’s fifth birthday party. Once the family arrives home, Colt is visited by someone from his past, (KRISTA’S BROTHER)who has changed his name to Zeke. He is a recovering addict and the lead singer of a popular rock band. Zeke is only visiting for one reason...
  • Red Dirt Heart Imago by N.R. Walker

    Red Dirt Heart Imago by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When Charlie Sutton’s neighbour Greg is notified by the Queensland government that they intend to run a pipeline through his property, Charlie vows to help him fight it. Then Travis remembers seeing butterflies at the creek near their joining fence line - the same butterflies they couldn’t find in any Australian butterfly book...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-m  contemporary  queer  length-novella
  • Southern Desire by Kaylee Ryan

    Southern Desire by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    I always thought love was black and white. You meet the girl and within the first meeting you’d know if she’s the one. You live happily ever after. My concept was a little off, but it worked for me. I don’t waste my time with women I don’t see a future with. The day I met Whitney, I didn’t get hit with the love bug, nothing spectacular happened, at least not how I expected it to...
  • Loving Her by Jennifer Foor

    Loving Her by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tyler Mitchell has been called many things, but his favorite title will always be "Dad".  Isabella (Izzy) was the reason he changed his ways and learned to be the man that he's become. For eleven years he and Miranda have lived with a lie; the kind that could destroy the bond between him and the child that he's always claimed to be his own...
  • I'll See You in My Dreams by Sable Hunter

    I'll See You in My Dreams by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Zane Saucier is handsome, brilliant, powerful, a practicing cowboy and a successful attorney, but he cannot see. Presley Love is smart, intrepid, and attractive, but she wants not to be seen. Through legal battles, family affairs, and a fight to make it in the world, these two unlikely partners discover a true love greater than any obstacle...
  • I'll Remember You by Sable Hunter

    I'll Remember You by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Aron and Libby McCoy became husband and wife. No woman could desire a more perfect love. But tragedy struck... while diving on their honeymoon, Aron does not come up from beneath the blue waters off the Cayman Islands. A massive rescue mission is launched, but the only clues found were his wedding ring and later a shredded wet suit covered in blood. The McCoy family is devastated...
  • Taming Clint Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    Taming Clint Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In name only? The moment ex-Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learned he was still married, he set the limits for his wife's stay at his luxurious horse ranch. But when she arrived, Clint's boundaries began to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley had thirty days to untangle the legal knot that had bound them together during an undercover assignment years before...
  • Holding You by Kelly Elliott

    Holding You by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Lauren Reynolds wanted only two things in life—to run her father’s horse breeding business and Colt Mathews. Fearing Colt would take her position within the family business, she tried to push him far away from her heart. When life could no longer keep Lauren and Colt apart, their two worlds became one. Every second of every moment, they spent together...
  • Justice for Boone by Susan Stoker

    Justice for Boone by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sheriff’s Deputy Hayden Yates has worked hard to gain the respect and admiration of her fellow law enforcement officers. She’s succeeded so well, in fact, that she’s become just one of the guys. As her friends slowly begin to meet their soul mates, Hayden longs to be seen as a desirable woman, and not the tomboy she’s always been...
  • Sugarplum Dreams (Mistletoe Meadows Christmas romance) book 3 by Jessie Gussman

    Sugarplum Dreams (Mistletoe Meadows Christmas romance) book 3 by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wilson McBride has been working with Judd Landis to make the lives of the residents of Mistletoe Meadows better through their Secret Saint escapades. But there is one woman who needs more than a few little presents and a Christmas tree. She needs a husband...
  • Rough Edge by Lauren Landish

    Rough Edge by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 31 ratings
    This ain’t no love triangle. This is people not knowing when to let fate do its thing. Brody Tannen has been the boss for way too long, putting everyone’s needs above his own. It’s the way his family farm stood while fate took shot after shot against them. But now he’s got a chance to figure things out for himself...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  humor  new adult  contemporary  open-door  m-f
  • Zane by Brenda Jackson

    Zane by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson—The first of a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands who are impossible to resist: Zane, Canyon and Stern.  No woman walks away from Zane Westmoreland...
  • A SEAL's Vow by Cora Seton

    A SEAL's Vow by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Navy SEAL Clay Pickett needs a wife, fast, or he’ll lose the model sustainable community he and his friends came home to Chance Creek to build. He’s got just the woman for the job in mind: sexy, sensitive Nora Ridgeway. Too bad she’s not interested in rushing to the altar...
  • Knocking Boots by Jordan Marie

    Knocking Boots by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • Cole's Red-Hot Pursuit by Brenda Jackson

    Cole's Red-Hot Pursuit by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    And what the former Texas Ranger wanted now was sultry Patrina Forman. But Patrina was set against falling for a man with a no-strings attitude, and there was no way she'd fall into bed with a lawman!Then a Montana blizzard changed everything. Trapped together for three sinfully delicious nights, Cole soon had Patrina singing a different tune thanks to his brand of red-hot seduction...
  • Faithful Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Faithful Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Hope Ford brings you a steamy cowboy romance about a romance author that doesn’t believe in love until she meets a wounded warrior that teaches her that real all-consuming love can withstand anything.HaileyI’m a romance novelist who no longer believes in love.My agent keeps calling it writer’s block, but I think what I have is more permanent...
  • Unsanctioned by Kaylea Cross

    Unsanctioned by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Star-crossed lovers…Driven by her traumatic past, Nadia Bishop has dedicated her life to helping children orphaned by war around the globe. She won’t let anything stand in her way—not even the sexy former soldier she left back in the U.S...
  • One Steamy Night by Brenda Jackson

    One Steamy Night by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His plan for seduction went perfectly…until he asked her to marry him! Two can play the game of seduction. But after one night together, the rules are about to change… Westmoreland family friend Jaxon Ravnell is in Wyoming for one reason to consummate his fiery attraction to Nadia Novak. But unbeknownst to him, Nadia has her own plan for seduction...
  • Stray: Rowe Brothers Ranch by D.J. Krimmer

    Stray: Rowe Brothers Ranch by D.J. Krimmer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “She has the heart of a saint with the body of a sinner.” Ozzy A friend needed a favor. I needed a safe place and job until I was ready to start over. I found myself on a ranch in Virginia with a stubborn old man for a patient. After what happened to me five years ago, I don’t trust easily, if at all. Women and old men on their deathbeds? Bee’s knees, no problem. Outside of that, my walls are up...
  • The Cost of Forgetting You by Hannah Bird

    The Cost of Forgetting You by Hannah Bird

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Falling in love with a Parker must be genetic. It's the only way Delilah Ridgefield can make sense of the mess that is her life. Some other things that are genetic? The hazel eyes she shares with her mom, the need to care for others that she gets from her dad, and her father's dementia diagnosis, which brings him back into her life after years of radio silence...
  • Stern by Brenda Jackson

    Stern by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson, comes a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands who are impossible to resist: Zane, Canyon and Stern.  Stern Westmoreland never makes mistakes—until he helps his best friend Jovonnie "JoJo" Jones with a makeover…for another man. Now Stern wants JoJo for himself...
  • Devoted Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Devoted Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nathan Shaw has been keeping a secret since high school. It was so tightly intertwined with someone else’s that exposing the darkest facts meant he couldn’t keep the other to himself. He’s had years of holding onto those truths...
  • The Proposal/Solid Soul by Brenda Jackson

    The Proposal/Solid Soul by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings you the story of Jason Westmoreland. With one convenient proposal, he could have a Southern beauty in his bed and her birthright in his hands. If only the lovely lady would say yes….Plus a Brenda Jackson classic—the first in the Steele family series, Solid Soul...
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    cowboys  contemporary  length-short
  • Heaven's Hell by Takerra Allen

    Heaven's Hell by Takerra Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Heaven's Hell is the gripping tale of the striking beauty Heaven Jacy, and the hell she endures in the cold cruel world, at her young, tender age. Suffering at the hands of abuse from her father and her older, controlling, boyfriend Khalil, Heaven yearns and dreams of the day of her escape...
  • A Wife for a Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    A Wife for a Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    For weeks, Derringer Westmoreland was haunted by memories of a woman whose face he could not recall. But he wanted--he needed --to share that intense passion again. Now. When he finally traced his mystery woman, he was met with a surprise. His fantastic one-night stand was Lucia Conyers, his sister-in-law's best friend. And Lucia wasn't about to become one of Derringer's women...
  • Hidden Treasure by Melody Anne

    Hidden Treasure by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The second book in the Lost Anderson series is here, and it comes to you with a kicking and screaming heiress. Brielle Storm inherits a dilapidated ranch in the wilds of Montana and she isn’t happy about her situation in the least...
  • Burning Love by Sable Hunter

    Burning Love by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The Hell Yeah! Series continues with Burning Love (Hell Yeah! Sweeter Version Book 6 – Cajun Style) Beau’s passion burns hot for Harley Montoya. When he discovers that the woman who has enflamed his libido is the girl he fell in love with so long ago in a runaway shelter, he is overcome with joy. But Harley - or Nada as he knew her - has been burned by tragedy...
  • The Talk of Coyote Canyon by Brenda Novak

    The Talk of Coyote Canyon by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s not here to make friends. She’s here to make trouble.With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn’t quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon—and that’s just fine with her. She’s only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young...
  • Now You Die by Roxanne St. Claire

    Now You Die by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Former Bullet Catcher and lone wolf investigator Jack Culver is on a mission. Thirty years ago, an innocent woman was convicted of murder. Jack believes he's found the real killer -- but to take down one of the highest legal authorities in the land, he needs access. Serious access...
  • Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    All her life, Grace Ryan was the “fat girl.” Taunted and teased and ignored by her peers, she tried every diet ever invented to no avail. Desperate to change her life as her twenties slipped away, she decided it was time for drastic measures and had lap-band surgery. More than a year later, she's lost 130 pounds and is venturing into the dating world for the first time...
  • Crossing the Line by Kimberly Kincaid

    Crossing the Line by Kimberly Kincaid

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cocky farmer Eli Cross plays twice as hard as he works. When his latest stunt drums up a heap of negative PR for the family farm, he grudgingly agrees to play host to an ambitious New York City photographer. Her feature on Cross Creek could be just the ticket to show the country what the Cross brothers do best…which is more problem than solution for Eli...
  • Savage Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Savage Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Hope Ford brings you a steamy cowboy romance about forbidden love and the lengths a cowboy will go to for the woman he loves.AmandaI might be young and naïve, but I’m not stupid enough to fall in love with my family’s enemy.You know that old story about the Hatfields and McCoys? Well, in our case, we’re the McCoys and they’re the Bryants...
  • Eden's Ridge Series Starters by Kait Nolan

    Eden's Ridge Series Starters by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A collection of 3 full-length novels from USA Today Best Selling and RITA® Award winning author, Kait NolanWelcome to Eden’s Ridge, Tennessee...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  contemporary  military  length-epic
  • Wooing the Widower by Elle E. Kay

    Wooing the Widower by Elle E. Kay

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Horses, Heartstrings, and A Later-in-Life RomanceMargie, a successful Colorado realtor, finds herself looking for a change of scenery and a dash of adventure after her only daughter embarks on a missionary journey, so she heads to Redemption Ranch to fulfill a long-held learning to ride horses...
  • Her Secret Ranger by Donna Michaels

    Her Secret Ranger by Donna Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Kissing the sexy soldier was a dare she couldn’t resist… By-the-book event planner Beth Brannigan’s best friend dared her to kiss a cowboy. She should have said no. Instead, she said please…again and again. If her brother finds out she’s dating—okay, kissing—okay, sleeping with—one of his military buddies, he’ll kill her. Assuming he doesn’t kill his friend first...
  • Wild Temptation by Hope Ford

    Wild Temptation by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Asher Wild is a temptation I can’t resist.He’s my grumpy boss.He didn’t want to hire me,But as a favor to a friend he gave me a chance.Besides proving I’m a good worker,And can make a difference on his peach farm.It seems I can’t stop throwing myself at him.I didn’t think Asher would rock my world...
  • For the Love of a Lush by Selena Laurence

    For the Love of a Lush by Selena Laurence

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Six months ago, Walsh Clark was the drummer of America’s hottest rock sensation, Lush. Now he’s living at the Double A Ranch in north Texas, home to cows, cowboys, and lushes—like him. He’s survived alcoholism, rehab, and the breakup of his band. But the one thing Walsh might not survive is the return of his ex fiancée Tammy DiLorenzo...
  • Can't Bucking Wait by Elle Thorpe

    Can't Bucking Wait by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve wanted to be a big city doctor my entire life. I studied hard. Got into Harvard. Then moved across the other side of the country, leaving my family’s small-town ranch and bull riding school behind. I’ve hated every moment since. My older sister’s wedding is the perfect excuse for an extended trip back home...
  • Scarred by Drew Elyse

    Scarred by Drew Elyse

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    TRAUMA HAS A WAY OF LEAVING ITS MARK. It took years to do it, but I can finally look in a mirror and see more than just the scars. If only that were true for the rest of the world. The whispers, the stares, the pity, they’re familiar now. Except his eyes don’t linger, his demeanor never changes. Maybe that’s why I trust him and take the leap to move in with a virtual stranger...
  • Practically Perfect by Jennifer Youngblood

    Practically Perfect by Jennifer Youngblood

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Paradise isn’t quite what she thought. But is her unexpected attraction to an unruly, hunky cowboy really the best thing for this divorcée?Penelope Primrose has worked tirelessly to create her picket-fence bliss. After dreaming of a beautiful home and an idyllic small-town lifestyle, the would-be Southern belle perfected impeccable grooming and manners to land her childhood sweetheart...
  • Scorch by Abbi Glines

    Scorch by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A world of racing horses, wealth, power, and organized crime was what Garrett Hughes had been born to lead. He thrived as the boss of the southern mafia. Women had come and gone in his life, but he had never needed any of them. Once he was given his heirs, he no longer cared about marriage. He had one family, The Family. He didn’t need anything more...
  • Bossy Alpha Protector by Ava Nichols

    Bossy Alpha Protector by Ava Nichols

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My plan was to marry the kind of man I write about in my sweet romance novels, not lose my v-card to the ultimate bad boy… my brother’s best friend…Women always line up to be with Travis Ray—a handsome, arrogant, alpha, playboy, rodeo star, and billionaire cattle rancher.I can’t stand Travis, but my brother convinces me to work as his assistant while I get my writing career off the ground...
  • The Keeper by Aimee Nicole Walker

    The Keeper by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sabotaged brakes didn’t kill Rueben Sanchez, but waiting for his assailants’ trial to start just might. A potential witness for the prosecution can’t explore his lusty feelings for the hunky sheriff who saved him, but that doesn’t stop his imagination from running wild...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  queer  contemporary  m-m  length-medium
  • Cinderella.Com: A Modern Day Cinderella Story by River Laurent

    Cinderella.Com: A Modern Day Cinderella Story by River Laurent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Once upon a... Hot cowboy Loan sharks are circling, I’ve got my dad’s hospital bills to pay, and my landlord is about to kick me out onto the street. It’s all doom and gloom until my best friend, Jesse, tells me that she’s found me a job impersonating the famous hotel heiress, Tamara Honeywell. I get to live on a ranch in Montana for a month and take care of all my money worries...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  new adult  contemporary
  • Racing Hearts by Lauren Landish

    Racing Hearts by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A tomboy tames the cocky cowboy next door in Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestselling author Lauren Landish’s forbidden romance. Luke is damn near invisible, or at least that’s how he usually feels. He takes care of things around the ranch before his boss-brother even knows there’s a problem, and no one even notices when he's done...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  humor  new adult  contemporary
  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

    The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past...
  • Tycoon Takedown by Ruth Cardello

    Tycoon Takedown by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Melanie Hanna has finally worked up the courage to travel to New York and tell an old flame that he’s the father of her young son. She’s done hiding and apologizing for her one impulsive night. When her best friend asks her brother to watch over Melanie, her emotional trip takes an unexpected and sizzling detour...
  • Tall, Dark and Fearless by Suzanne Brockmann

    Tall, Dark and Fearless by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling Author SUZANNE BROCKMANN returns with two more classic tales of tall, dark and dangerous men who face the msot daring adventure of all -- FALLING IN LOVEFRISCO'S KIDBeing a Navy SEAL is more than a career to Alan Frisco Francisco--it is his whole world. So when a bullet wound threatens his future in the Navy, he is determined to achieve a full recovery..
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