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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  m-f  contemporary  length-short
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  • 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...
  • 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  m-f  humor  new adult  contemporary  open-door
  • 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...
  • Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Resolution by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Wolfe Emerson is notorious for two things: being an absolute beast in a boxing ring and being a voluntary mute. His story remains unspoken and he prefers to live his life in silence. That is, until, his world is turned upside down when he meets someone who is louder than life...
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  humor  contemporary  single-mother
  • Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Path To Realization by TheFeveredBookaholic

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Asher Pryce hides behind a wall of secrets he's spent most of his life building up. How else is the adopted child whose birth parents run a drug cartel supposed to fit in? He's notorious for his overconfident swagger and total lack of patience for bullshit - a master of masks. The one thing in his life he can't fake? His feelings for his best friend's twin sister...
  • Hushed Torment by Bella Jewel

    Hushed Torment by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From USA Today, and international bestseller, comes the second book in the Iron Fury MC! One accident changed my life. One single second changed everything for me. In one terrifying moment, everything I knew was gone. Music is the only thing that keeps me holding on. When the opportunity arises for me to tour with country music star, Scarlett Belle, I take it. An escape. A chance...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  m-f  new adult  contemporary  bikers  alpha male
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    He was the bad boy I fell for in college. Now he’s a sexy single dad and Charleston’s most successful venture capitalist. Dominant and decisive, Ford Montgomery is used to getting what he wants. And he just set his sights on me... Ford Montgomery was my first everything. First love. First guy I slept with. First heartbreak when he dumped me without explanation...
  • Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Things heat up, and not just the Georgia summertime, when Dane and Laney go head to head over plans for her new duplex. But Laney's got his number, and knows just how to coerce her bossy, domineering man. Spend the summer with the gang and find out...just how many is a crowd? The members of the Evolve Crew are getting older; so is the content. Mature audiences recommended...
  • Bride for the Rancher : Small Town Heroes Book 8 by Cassi Hart

    Bride for the Rancher : Small Town Heroes Book 8 by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    CherryReeling with the sudden knowledge that not only was my adoption twenty years ago illegal, but I’m not even a legal US citizen, I’m desperate for help after an ICE agent threatens me with deportation if I don’t tell her where my suddenly MIA parents are. But they’ve disappeared, leaving me to face the consequences of their actions...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I lost her once, and I'll be damned if I lose her again.MufflerBeretta and I had a relationship many years ago, only, we were the only two who knew about it. Now she's been in an accident and is suffering from amnesia. The doctors tell us her memories will come back with time, but to go along with what she thinks. Only, she thinks it's the time period when we're still together...
  • Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Buried secrets never stay hidden in the South. Emily I fell in love with him when I was fourteen. Under the stars, he told me he loved me, and under the stars we promised to love each other always. But under the stars, he broke my heart by walking away.He left me without a second glance. I was just an afterthought.Now he's back, but this time, I'm not falling for his Southern charm.Maybe...
  • Worth Fighting For by Kirsty Moseley

    Worth Fighting For by Kirsty Moseley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kirsty Moseley brings us the sequel to Fighting to be Free. Sometimes in life you have to walk away . . .Leaving Jamie Cole was the hardest thing Ellie Pearce ever had to do. Somehow, she moved on. She made a new life in a new city with a new man. So when a family tragedy calls Ellie back home, she believes all her old feelings for Jamie-the hunger, the heat, the heartbreak-are safely behind her...
  • Say You Won't Let Go: A Return to Me/Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Corinne Michaels, Andi Arndt

    Say You Won't Let Go: A Return to Me/Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Corinne Michaels, Andi Arndt

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Emily Young had two goals in her life: 1. Make it big in country music. 2. Get the hell out of Bell Buckle.   She was doing it. She was on her way, until Cooper Townsend landed backstage at her show in Dallas.   This gorgeous, rugged, man of few words was one cowboy she couldn't afford to let distract her. But with his slow smile and rough hands, she just couldn't keep away...
  • Grayson by Delores Fossen

    Grayson by Delores Fossen

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sheriff Grayson Ryland wasn't easily shocked. But then his old flame, Eve Warren, returns to Silver Creek for the sole purpose of asking him to impregnate her. And although he's never forgiven Eve for walking away and breaking his heart, her anguish is hard to watch. Before he can reject the most hardheaded - yet still impossibly alluring - woman in Texas, he has to protect her...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  suspense  contemporary  length-short
  • Only Him by Melanie Harlow

    Only Him by Melanie Harlow

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Sometimes your first love deserves a second chance. He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first everything. But I’m not a lovesick teenager anymore, and I’d never let that cocky troublemaker break my heart again. So when he shows up out of the blue asking me to have dinner with him “for old time’s sake,” I say I will...
  • Bones by the Wood by Catherine Johnson

    Bones by the Wood by Catherine Johnson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Steve ‘Dizzy’ Disraeli has been the Sergeant at Arms of the Priests MC, Louisiana for fifteen years; he’s been a member for more than twenty. Now his president has a big task for him, Samuel Carter has asked him to travel to move back to his native Texas to head up a new charter of the Priests MC...
  • Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ***Enjoy all three of the Rock Stars Do It stories in one volume!*** Rock Stars Do It Harder Chase Delany is a rock star. Rock stars are expected to rock hard onstage and party even harder offstage. Chase is living up to those expectations, and then some. He leaves everything he's got onstage, and drowns the ache in his soul at the bottom of a tequila bottle. And then there are the girls..
  • Love Resolution by Michelle Mankin

    Love Resolution by Michelle Mankin

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    To forgive or not to forgive… There’s a storm brewing at Black Cat Records and lead singer Marcus Anthony and guitarist Avery Jones are at the center of it. Brutal Strength is leaving Vancouver and heading out on a big stadium tour with the reprobate rockers from Tempest as their opening act...
  • Surrender to Temptation by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Surrender to Temptation by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A playboy in hidingA woman searching for answersWill he let her in or send her packing? After a tragic accident, Chef Chase Fitzgerald left his life in Los Angeles behind and moved to a ranch in Montana. He's convinced that all he needs to be happy are his horses, a few ranch hands and the Big Sky Country...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  suspense  length-medium
  • Asking for Trouble by Amy Andrews

    Asking for Trouble by Amy Andrews

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After three years in Credence trying to fade into the background, Della Munroe is sick of being invisible. She’s ready to take back control. To live a little. Hell, she’s ready to see what this dating fuss is all about. And if that means she has to download Tinder and date every guy in Colorado, then she’s up for it...
  • Dade by Delores Fossen

    Dade by Delores Fossen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kayla Brennan doesn't want Texas lawman Dade Ryland's protection. For one thing, his family hates her. For another, the attraction between them is too hot to handle - just like Dade. When the bullets begin to fl y, Dade shields her and her baby boy. But the question is, how long before Dade decides she's in on the crime?Kayla's testimony is all Dade should want..
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  suspense  length-short
  • A Hundred Million Reasons by Jessie Evans, Lili Valente

    A Hundred Million Reasons by Jessie Evans, Lili Valente

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If Yasmin North knows one thing for sure, it’s that love sucks. That’s why she’s moving forward with her happily-ever-after solo plan, with the help of a sperm sample from a six-foot-two donor who apparently holds a doctorate in both computer science and social work. Meaning he’s brilliant and kind—talk about superior baby-making DNA...
  • Cowboy with the Spurs: A Curvy Girl Romance: Sweet & Steamy Lunch Hours by S. Cinders

    Cowboy with the Spurs: A Curvy Girl Romance: Sweet & Steamy Lunch Hours by S. Cinders

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Recipe for love: 1 cowboy, 1 super sexy best friend, and 1 steaming pile of horse pucky... I know, shocked the hell out of me too.USA Today bestselling author S. Cinders brings you a super steamy, friends to lovers romance about a curvy girl who has given up on love, and her cowboy best friend who finally sees her for the first time.LiaThere are three things you need to know about me.1...
  • Miss Julia Hits the Road by Ann B. Ross

    Miss Julia Hits the Road by Ann B. Ross

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Miss Julia—that Southern spitfire of a certain age who is never less than charming, even when she’s at her most opinionated—has been praised by Fannie Flagg as “one of the most delightful characters to come along in years...
  • Ten Christmas Brides by Ruth Cardello, Nina Bruhns

    Ten Christmas Brides by Ruth Cardello, Nina Bruhns

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Join ten New York Times, USA Today and National best-selling authors to celebrate the holiday season with a boxed set of stories brimming with emotion, holiday spirit and happy ever afters...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  humor  military  contemporary  christmas
  • Enticing Interlude by Michelle Mankin

    Enticing Interlude by Michelle Mankin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To the talented vocalist Justin Jones, love is merely a game that he plays by his own rules. But to Bridget Dubois, love and heartache are one and the same. Broken too many times before, the delicate beauty keeps her emotions carefully concealed. Bridget has her own set of rigid rules when it comes to men...
  • American Honey by Heidi McLaughlin, Jennifer Foor

    American Honey by Heidi McLaughlin, Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    10 Best Selling Authors take you where the roads are dirt, the tea is sweet and the cowboys are sexy as sin. The Re-education of Savannah McGuire by Heidi McLaughlin: Southern boy reeducates his childhood best friend on life, love and freedom. THE STORM by Jennifer Foor: One woman. One man. An empty hotel. A summer storm. One night they'll never forget...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary
  • Her Forever Cowboy by Debra Clopton

    Her Forever Cowboy by Debra Clopton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mule Hollow, Texas, is chock-full of handsome cowboys ready to say I do. So veterinarian Susan Worth moves in, dreaming of meeting Mr. Right. He's most certainly not the gorgeous rescue worker blazing through town on a motorcycle. Cole Turner is a sixth-generation Mule Hollow rancher, but he's all about roaming Texas to save everyone but himself...
  • The Outlaw by Jennifer Millikin

    The Outlaw by Jennifer Millikin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s a thin line between being a hero and a villain, and I’m well aware I walk right down the middle of it. My reputation precedes me, even when I’m making a bad choice for the right reason. This is how I wind up in the back of a police car late one night. My infamous last name keeps my record clean, with a single caveat: community service at a ranch recently purchased by Jo Shelton...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary
  • Destined to Change by Lisa M. Harley

    Destined to Change by Lisa M. Harley

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Destiny…it’s really an interesting thought isn’t it…destiny. Loralei Harper’s destiny was determined before her birth. It was very simple. She was expected to graduate from high school, marry Declan Sharp, and have two kids. She would stay at home with them, while her husband worked on the family farm. But the funny thing about destiny is…it can change in the blink of an eye...
  • Puppy Kisses by Lucy Gilmore

    Puppy Kisses by Lucy Gilmore

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    These adorable service puppiesare matchmakers in the making... Dawn Vasquez never takes life too seriously. But when she rescues a golden retriever named Gigi, Dawn begins to imagine what it'd be like to settle down and let someone rely on her for a change...
  • Rescue Breathing by Zoe Norman

    Rescue Breathing by Zoe Norman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Manhattan Psychologist Olivia Burke receives an invitation to present her research on trauma in servicemen in Seattle, she is determined to turn the business trip into the start of healing her own traumatized heart. FDNY Firefighter Owen Maxwell is an unapologetic playboy who spends his days saving lives and his nights breaking hearts...
  • Troublemaker by Jo Raven

    Troublemaker by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hailey moves to a new city, leaving her past behind and starting a new life. All she wants is to forget about her cheating ex and be happy. The last thing she expects is to fall for a local bad boy with an even worse reputation, no matter how handsome he is and how he can't stop undressing her with his eyes...TROUBLEMAKER is the prequel to my novel CAVEMAN, but it is also a standalone short story...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  m-f  contemporary
  • The Bull Rider's Twins by Tina Leonard

    The Bull Rider's Twins by Tina Leonard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Not The Marrying Kind? Finding Daria Cameron warming his bed is a sight Judah Callahan will never forget. How can a red-blooded cowboy say no? Especially when Judah’s desired Darla from afar for years. Only now she’s having his babies…and planning on tying the knot with another man. Over his dead body! All Darla wanted was one night of passion with the wildly sexy Callahan she secretly loves...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Now And Forever by Diana Palmer

    Now And Forever by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Charismatic Phoenix mayor Bryan Moreland had already won the devotion of his constituents and was well on his way to getting reporter Carla Maxwell's vote . . . until she found out that the hunky leader wasn't all he claimed to be...
  • Bad Boys with Red Roses by Janelle Denison, Tina Donahue

    Bad Boys with Red Roses by Janelle Denison, Tina Donahue

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet the bad boys women love to love--the ones who break everybody's rules and live by their own. But sooner or later, every bad boy meets his match in that special woman who makes him believe. . .and behave. Still Mr. & Mrs...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  m-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • The Pirate\The Adventurer\The Cowboy by Jayne Ann Krentz

    The Pirate\The Adventurer\The Cowboy by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    3 friends and 3 separate love stories...
  • Whisky On My Mind by Karlene Blakemore-Mowle

    Whisky On My Mind by Karlene Blakemore-Mowle

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life for Whisky McKenna is no longer hanging in limbo. She’s now part owner of her father’s Bar and Grill and back in college finishing her degree. With Sawyer Riley; all six feet of brooding denim and leather at her side, life should be getting easier…but loving Sawyer was never going to be an easy choice; not when he came with a motorcycle club as a third wheel in their relationship...
  • First Ink by Laura Wright

    First Ink by Laura Wright

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Rush Women in his bed, celebs and rockers in his chair and a killer bank account at his disposal, life is pretty freaking swell. Then she walks back into it again. With her mismatched eyes, perfect pink mouth and a laugh that still haunts him, she gave him nothing but marvelous misery. Now she wants his hands on her again. Not for pleasure, but for pain. For Ink...
  • Bad Boys Next Exit by Shannon McKenna, Donna Kauffman

    Bad Boys Next Exit by Shannon McKenna, Donna Kauffman

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For fans who like their romances so hot they're explosive comes this anthology that will take readers off the main road with sexy bad boys who can steer any woman towards sheer temptation...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  m-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • One Night with the Tycoon by Katherine Garbera

    One Night with the Tycoon by Katherine Garbera

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Meet the Kellys of Whiskey River, Texas, men who have always gone through life, and women, with their father’s legendary charm. Wyatt Kelly, CEO of Kelly Boots, is rumored to do everything with his cowboy boots on, including seducing women into memorable one-night stands...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  length-novella
  • Watch Me Walk Away by Jill Prand

    Watch Me Walk Away by Jill Prand

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At the age of seventeen, Lisa was broken when Bobby left. He was suppose to be her first. First Love. First Time. First Everything. No word for six long years. She moved away from the painful reminders sacrificing her relationship with her best friend Brad. She struggled to rebuild her life...
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