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Noah by Jennifer Foor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBeing the son of Colton Mitchell isn't what Noah Mitchell wants to be known for. Though he works along side of his father, he feels the strain to go out on his own. Being the next in line to be in control of the family's ranch, he debates on taking his life in a completely different direction. Leaving town to clear his head he meets Shalan, a beautiful singer that longs for a life in the city... -
Jackson's Destiny by C.A. Harms
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShaken to his core, the loss was excruciating… Jackson Sawyer was strong, confident, cocky, and arrogant, but when he loved, he loved hard. The Sawyer family was faced with a tragedy that rocked their foundation. Jackson, however, was hit the hardest. He’s the one who can't seem to rise above the grief. It has overtaken him… Until he finds Bailey Whitmore... -
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago... -
Undeniable by C.A. Harms
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSometimes in life you are forced to do things you may not agree with. Family meant everything to Jude Calvert. He would do whatever it took to keep them safe and provide for them no matter what it took to make that happen. Even if that meant putting his own safety at risk, he had no other choice. Callie Raine has always felt a heavy attraction toward Jude. He was fascinating... -
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Calder Grit by Janet Dailey
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA Romeo and Juliet romance with shades of Legends of the Fall powers the intense drama of this beautifully written and researched saga from a legendary New York Times bestselling author. Return to early twentieth century Montana with this compelling book that pits farmer against cattleman and brother against brother, in a story of America's westward expansion...Categorized as:
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We Redeemed the Rain by Ashley Dill
“Everyone should find someone to share their story with.”Exhausted and burnt-out, singer-songwriter, Bea Thompson, needs a break and some space from her once-promising career as an indie musician. Seeking refuge from the crushing pressures of the industry, she books a last minute stay at a special childhood sanctuary, the birthplace of her most treasured friendship, Meadowbrook Ranch...Categorized as:
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Corrode by Ella Fields
A standalone second chance romance. It didn't matter how young we were. We just knew. Forever was stamped on our hearts, no matter what forces tried to keep us apart. They tried, and they failed. We were happy. We lived, we loved, and we made plans. But as the years went by, we watched helplessly as those plans faded into dusty aspirations. Yet we endured...Categorized as:
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Stay by Willow Aster
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA scorching hot small town, age gap, single father/nanny romance by USA Today bestselling author Willow Aster... -
Tripp by H.J. Bellus
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLacey’s Story... Covering up pain is easy. It’s keeping it tucked away that’s hard. I’ve always needed the cover of tattoos to hide the nasty past that leached its way into me, tainting me beneath my skin. Not the shiny, trendy tats, but the ugly broken kind, meant to keep the world at bay. If they weren’t enough, then my piercings, foul mouth and crazy hair usually did the trick... -
Ryan's Love by C.A. Harms
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsOne of the hardest things I have ever had to do was bury my wife. The second hardest thing would be watching my twelve-year-old daughter fall to her knees as they lowered her mother into the ground to rest. A heart-wrenching vision that will forever be etched in my mind. Claire was my best friend—she had been since we were barely old enough to talk...Categorized as:
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One to Leave by Tia Louise
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSome demons can't be shaken off.Some wounds won't heal. Until a pair of hazel eyes knocks you on your ass, and you realize it's time to stop running. A STAND-ALONE, ONE TO HOLD NOVEL. Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to strong language and elements of erotic romance, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18...Categorized as:
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Even If It Breaks Your Heart by Erin Hahn
A heart-buckling ride of a romance by beloved author Erin Hahn, Even If It Breaks Your Heart is about two teens finding out that sometimes, the hardest part of discovering what you want is getting the courage to pursue it...Categorized as:
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The Shack: Reflections for Every Day of the Year by William Paul Young
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe powerful story found in The Shack written by Wm. Paul Young stole the hearts of millions and rocketed to fame by word-of-mouth, making it a phenomenon in publishing history. Now, THE SHACK: REFLECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR provides an opportunity for you to go back to the shack with Papa, Sarayu, and Jesus... -
Sunday Morning by Jewel E. Ann
Her boyfriend’s older brother should be off-limits, but he’s a sinful temptation.Sarah is a preacher’s daughter and a people pleaser. She’s also on the verge of graduating high school and following her dream of singing in Nashville. The only thing standing in her way is that the entire town of Devil’s Head, Missouri, thinks she will marry Matt, the son of the town’s richest rancher... -
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Southern Pleasure by Kaylee Ryan
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThey tell you that a parent’s love is all consuming. I never put much thought into it. Not until the minute I heard her take her first breath. That little girl is my world. I’d do anything to protect her. My ex signed over her rights and her family vowed that my daughter didn’t exist. Now that she’s gone, they want my little girl. They’re trying to say I can’t give her what she needs... -
Scarred by Vanessa Vale, Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe’s inherited billions, but he must leave his home and family to claim it.She’s no longer a captive, yet will she ever be free? Austin Bridger is struggling to keep his seaplane business afloat and help his ailing mother. When his father, who never acknowledged his existence, dies, he leaves his billions to Austin and his two half brothers...Categorized as:
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Finding Stefanie by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEveryone around Stefanie Noble is content, but it seems that her “happily ever after” has passed her by. Then two troubled girls and their older brother, Gideon, show up in town and clearly need help... -
MacKenzie Fire by Elle Casey
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIan MacKenzie's been a cranky pain in the *ss for going on three years now, still bitter over his failed engagement and his life on the ranch. Enter Candice, his sister-in-law Andie's best friend, out for a two-week visit as they await the birth of Ian's first niece... -
When the Meadow Blooms by Ann H. Gabhart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWidow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home... -
What Happens When You Break by G.L. Strong
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMaya Turner has spent most of her life hiding in the background. The only person who ever made her feel seen was Colton Grant, her brother's best friend. That is, until he leaves town after her freshman year of high school.Twelve years later, Maya's engaged and living across the country. Until she needs to return home and face what she ran away from. Who she ran away from... -
Losers Weepers by Nicole Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIf we didn’t know darkness, we couldn’t fully appreciate the light. Garth Black’s more familiar with this concept than most people are. He hadn’t just lived in the dark for the majority of his life—he thrived in it... -
Make Me Dream by Marie Johnston
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStetson Barron has been the center of my world since I was twelve. But with our ten-year age difference and my quirky nature, I didn’t think I was more to him than his little sister’s what color is her hair this month best friend. Until one hot summer night when I climbed him like a water tower at his cousin’s wedding.And then he didn’t talk to me for weeks after...Categorized as:
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Make Your Move by Heather Garvin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI can do that. I can pretend it didn’t happen. But when he’s standing this close to me, I can’t deny I want to kiss him again.Abbie Linley loves her small-town life. Leaving for college may be the next step for her friends, but she’s not ready to walk away from the horses. She’d happily keep her world the same, but everything around her seems to be changing.Starting with her gruff, new farrier...Categorized as:
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Branded as Trouble by Delores Fossen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvery town needs a bad boy, and Wrangler's Creek's has been gone far too long... Getting his high school girlfriend pregnant was just one square in Roman Granger's checkered past, but it changed him forever. When his son's mother skipped town after the birth, Roman decided to do the same, baby Tate in tow, hoping for a fresh start...Categorized as:
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Garden of Madness by Tracy L. Higley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe untold story of King Nebuchadnezzar's daughterFor seven years the Babylonian princess Tiamat has waited for the mad king Nebuchadnezzar to return to his family and to his kingdom. Driven from his throne to live as a beast, he prowls his luxurious Hanging Gardens, secreted away from the world.Since her treaty marriage at a young age, Tia has lived an opulent yet oppressive life in the palace... -
The Queen's Handmaid by Tracy L. Higley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the servant halls of Cleopatra’s Egyptian palace to the courts of Herod the Great, Lydia will serve two queens to see prophecy fulfilled. Alexandria, Egypt 39 BC Orphaned at birth, Lydia was raised as a servant in Cleopatra's palace, working hard to please while keeping everyone at arm's length. She's been rejected and left with a broken heart too many times in her short life...Categorized as:
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Box of Hearts by Nikki Ashton
"This gorgeously written story of love has left such a big hole in my heart & a massive footprint on my soul.""Box of Hearts is one of those books that reminds you why you love to read and how an author's words can carry you to another place...Categorized as:
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That Cowboy of Mine by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIs he an enemy?Dillon Young is proud that she inherited her aunt’s ranch. The problem: someone is trying to run her off and is willing to do whatever it takes. Strange, dangerous things keep happening. Dillion suspects her no-good neighbor and fellow wealthy rancher Hank Stephens. Never a man to get his hands dirty, he sends others to get the job done...Categorized as:
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Let it be Me by Barbara Speak
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsArianna Dubray is nothing like the girl she left in Baltimore. Once a Prada shoe wearing, Michael Kors bag carrying, on top of the world seventeen-year-old girl, Arianna knew that her life would never be the same when she got out of the car in middle-of-nowhere Montana. Canyon Michaels is the keeper of his own dark secrets... -
Small Town Big Rumors: The Tequila Rose Duet by Willow Winters
He tasted like tequila and the fake name I gave him was Rose.Four years ago, I decided to get over one man, by getting under another. A single night and nothing more. I found my handsome stranger with a shot glass and charming but devilish smile at the end of the bar. The desire that hit his eyes the second they landed on me ignited a spark inside me, instant and hot... -
The McCarran Collection by Liz Adair
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBridget Olasfson, a beautiful archivist with a painful secret, comes to Utah's brilliant red rock country to catalog the McCarran Collection. She finds herself caught up in a dangerous intrigue involving a lost boy, a drug cartel, and possibly murder...Categorized as:
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Storm: Western Hearts Series by Kate Palmer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA woman rancher struggles to save her ranch, but it’s her heart she’s most in danger of losing. Storm’s ranch is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy after cattle rustlers strike. When her part-time ranch hand dies under suspicious circumstances, two neighboring ranchers step in to help... -
Edge of Honor by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsQuentin Larribee is a surgeon--one of the best. But in the confusion of one of the Civil War's last, desperate skirmishes, the hands devoted to healing bring death to William Breckenridge, an enemy soldier in the act of surrendering. Now the deed haunts Quentin... -
Dare You to Resist the Bull Rider by Lacy Andersen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA little dare never hurt anybody...My sophomore year at Rock Valley High was a total downer. Joining the wrong crowd and nearly getting drowned aren’t exactly things I want to write about on my college admission essays.But my best friend, Hunter, is moving back home from spending a year on his grandpa’s ranch...Categorized as:
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Colorado Cowboy: Includes a bonus novella by Sara Richardson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCome home to Topaz Falls, Colorado where a down-on-her-luck bull rider falls for the cowboy she can't resist in this heart-warming western romance! As a champion barrel racer, Charity Stone has learned to hold her own in the male-dominated rodeo world. There's no cowboy she can't handle...except for one. Officer Dev Jenkins has made it clear he doesn't look at her like one of the guys... -
Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe by Max Lucado
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhat if you could ask God anything? What would you ask? And how would He answer? Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter of the Higher Grounds Café, an old-fashioned coffee shop in dire need of reinvention... -
Cree by H.J. Bellus
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsI'm Milly, and I am tired of taking kicks to the gut. A broken family, an asshole husband and the loss of loved ones have left me crying Uncle, and declaring a serious case of the Fuck-Its! I had my heart broken, stomped on and shattered before I ever started on my journey to find my little piece of happiness... -
The Edge of Town by Dorothy Garlock
Julie Jones is a plainspoken girl working on her father's hardscrabble farm. She's not prepared for the Jazz Age roaring through America, sweeping a flapper named Birdie Stuart and war veteran Evan Johnson into her Missouri town. As the summer heats up, life turns explosive. A wave of terrifying crimes threatens Evan's courtship of Julie, and Birdie's schemes begin to tear her family apart...Categorized as:
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Irish Rogue by Lydia Michaels
Opposites attract in this scorching romance from bestselling author, Lydia Michaels, when a small-town bad boy falls hard for the town virgin.Kelly McCullough has always gotten every woman he’s wanted. Of all the McCullough men, his charm and magnetism is unmatched. However, there’s one woman he cannot have. Ashlynn Fisher is saving herself for marriage.Ashlynn is everything Kelly is not...Categorized as:
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The Homeplace by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. “God,” she finally said, “I’ll do my best, and if you’ll help me, that’s all I ask... -
Cut and Run by Amy Elizabeth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRaised in the crime-ridden neighborhood of South Boston, Rebecca Sheehan has learned the hard way that people can't be trusted. So when her unscrupulous boyfriend turns up without a pulse, she knows she needs to get out of Southie. Fast. She seeks refuge in the last place anyone would think to look for her–the picturesque town of Jackson, Wyoming... -
Getting Rowdy by Frankie Love
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIt’s always been the three of us doing the rodeo shows– Danny, his little sister June, and me. Two bull riders and a barrel racer. Three peas in a pod.But now that June is all grown up, I can’t keep thinking about her.I’ve always been the strong and silent type. She is the sparkle at every party.I think about her constantly, dream about a future, and it’s high time she knew it...Categorized as:
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Ménage A Cowboy by Jenny Klaire
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"If you are looking for a cowboy sandwich with lots of action, a bit of suspense, a few family issues and lots of hot, steamy $ex, make sure you read this! Wow!" When Grace offered to work at the animal clinic the summer between college and vet school, she did not expect her very first day to involve a sexy, shirtless cowboy, a misunderstanding of embarrassing proportions, or her arm...Categorized as:
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Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe by Max Lucado
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhat if you could ask God anything? What would you ask? And how would He answer? Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter of the Higher Grounds Café, an old-fashioned coffee shop in dire need of reinvention... -
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One Night with a Cowboy by Cat Johnson
One Sweet Ride… Oh yeah. A single look at the leggy blonde in the stands and Tucker Jenkins is ready to buck all night long. It’s time to forget all about his cheating ex and his usual hands off policy. One Hot Night… Becca Hart is an East Coast professor. Not a buckle bunny... -
A Better Man by Candis Terry
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMeet the Kincade brothers: they’ll do what it takes to protect their legacy—but what happens when love gets in the way? Hockey star Jordan Kincade wasted no time ditching Sunshine Valley and everyone who mattered for a career in the NHL—a truth Jordan confronts when his parents’ deaths bring him home... -
Spurs & Stilettos by Ashley Johnson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings**Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language and sexual content. Who knew two separate events would turn Hope Trahan’s life completely upside down? After losing her sister in a tragic car accident and finding her fiancé cheating on her, Hope thought she’d never be the same again. That was, until her best friend drug her down to the rodeo to help clear her head...Categorized as:
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The Millionaire and the Cowgirl by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA fan-favorite by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, originally published in 1996. Ten years ago, an innocent Samantha Rawlings had surrendered herself to a man whose blue-eyed gaze promised forever. But when the summer sun faded, Kyle Fortune was gone, and Samantha was left to raise their child alone and in secret...Categorized as:
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Hawk's Way: Mac by Joan Johnston
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturn to Texas with this fan-favorite by #1 New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston, previously published in 1997 as The Virgin Groom Mac Macready has it made—women chase after him, men envy him, and he's got his dream job—until the day he loses everything...Categorized as:
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Serenity Falls by Tiffany Aleman, Ashley Poch
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKenleigh Briggs suffered debilitating depression at the age of twelve after losing both parents in a tragic house fire. Her aunt assumed guardianship and forced Kenleigh to learn how to horseback ride. She soon developed a bond with the horses that helped her work out and deal with her depression. Seven years later, young Kenleigh is now a sophomore at the University of Texas, San Antonio...
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