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  • Zeke by Kris Michaels

    Zeke by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    A small-town dream. Doctor Ezekiel (Zeke) Johnson’s life was fulfilling. He had a practice that kept him busy, a hometown that, despite its appearances, was far from boring, and a new job working with Guardian. He was missing one thing. A woman to love and a family of his own. A big-city problem. For Stephanie Howard returning home came at a price. One that she was still paying...
  • High Stakes Deception by Christy Barritt

    High Stakes Deception by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Former Texas Ranger and rodeo champion Ainsley Tatum will do whatever is necessary to figure out the truth surrounding her brother’s death in a terrorist bombing fifteen years ago. When her boss at Vanishing Ranch hands her the opportunity to find answers, Ainsley is all in—except for one caveat...
  • Barry by Kris Michaels

    Barry by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 15 ratings
    A final chance. In the peaceful town of Hollister, secrets from days gone never stay hidden. For Barry Marks, memories of a disastrous military mission haunt every waking moment. He came to Hollister as a last hope. His final chance to change the spiraling trajectory of his future.A chance meeting.When Barry Marks literally sweeps Kathy Prentiss off her feet, she’s mesmerized...
  • Declan by Kris Michaels

    Declan by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Life couldn’t get any better.Declan Howard had it made. He owned the town’s only bar, and there was a vast ocean of women to choose from. All right, so perhaps vast was an overstatement. Hollister wasn’t New York City, but he was content. Footloose and fancy-free, he lived in the fast lane and loved it… until recently.Life was incredibly difficult...
  • Lethal Betrayal by Christy Barritt

    Lethal Betrayal by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Holcomb never thought working for a nonprofit would endanger her life. But when she’s abducted by ruthless men, it’s clear someone has an agenda they don’t want exposed. She manages to escape, only to find herself at the mercy of another man. But is he her oasis or a deadly mirage?Former Mexican federal police commander Mateo Garcia wants to leave his painful past behind...
  • Soldier's Secret Baby by Clara Pines

    Soldier's Secret Baby by Clara Pines

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Can a secret miracle give this wounded veteran a second chance at love?Chris Bell’s world was shattered when the woman he loved suddenly left him. Now a serious injury is cutting his military career short, and sending him home to Trinity Falls years before he expected...
  • The Brides of Purple Heart Ranch: Books 1-3 by Shanae Johnson

    The Brides of Purple Heart Ranch: Books 1-3 by Shanae Johnson

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Three SWEET Marriage of Convenience Western Romances in ONE Boxset! If you believe in heroes… If you know that the power of love will heal all wounds… Then you’ll love these light-hearted, clean and wholesome romances of convenient arrangements that unfold into lasting love...
  • Frank by Kris Michaels

    Frank by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A life well-lived.Frank Marshall’s life before he married and had a family is a closely held secret. The past should remain in the past until it doesn’t.A love for the ages.Never in a million years did Frank think he’d find the type of love his parents shared. Until her. Until Amanda King...
  • Andrew by Kris Michaels

    Andrew by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Not all scars are visible.Andrew Hollister knew the wounds that make a person the most vulnerable couldn’t be seen. That last mission punched his ticket home. He’d survived when most of his team hadn’t.The physical damage had mended. The mental injuries hadn’t healed as easily. Hell, they hadn’t healed at all.Once burned, twice shy...
  • Mackenzie's Pleasure by Linda Howard

    Mackenzie's Pleasure by Linda Howard

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 57 ratings
    Mackenzie's PleasureNavy SEAL Zane Mackenzie was a pro. No mission had ever gotten the better of him—until now. Saving the ambassador's gorgeous daughter, Barrie Lovejoy, had been textbook—except for their desperate night of passion. And though his job as a soldier had ended with her freedom, his duties as a husband had only just begun...
  • Lost and Found by April Wilson

    Lost and Found by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Book 2 of the McIntyre Search and Rescue series featuring Maggie and Owen.Welcome back to Bryce, Colorado, a small town in The Rocky Mountains. Maggie's a divorced mom with two teenage sons. Owen is a retired U.S. Marine who suffers from PTSD. She needs him just as much as he needs her. What's it going to take to bring them together? This romantic suspense novel is filled with heart and feels...
  • Montana Freedom by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Montana Freedom by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    Daniel Clark is the leader. The one who ensures everyone makes it out alive.He took that responsibility seriously when he and his team served in the Navy SEALs together, and he takes it seriously now at the Resting Warrior Ranch.When he and his men broke up the Riders—the vicious dogfighting gang who also kept some human captives—they got everyone to safety...
  • Bluegrass Undercover by Kathleen Brooks

    Bluegrass Undercover by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Cade Davies had too much on his plate to pay attention to newest resident of Keeneston. He was too busy avoiding the Davies Brothers marriage trap set by half the town. But when a curvy redhead lands in Keeneston, the retired Army Ranger finds himself drawn to her. These feelings are only fueled by her apparent indifference and lack of faith in his ability to defend himself...
  • Risky Ambition by Christy Barritt

    Risky Ambition by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Navy fighter pilot Nate Casper, also known as Ghost, splits his time between flying jet-setting celebrities around the world and volunteering to help with rescues at Vanishing Ranch. When movie star Chesney Blake books a trip with him, Ghost sets aside his attraction to her in order to remain professional...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  m-f  contemporary  christian  western
  • Deadly Intent by Christy Barritt

    Deadly Intent by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sarah Chamberlain enjoys a new life far away from her abusive ex-husband, thanks to help from Vanishing Ranch. But when she starts to have unexplained, dangerous episodes and suffer memory lapses, she begins to doubt her reality.She senses her ex has found her. But she doesn’t know if the problem is real or if her mind is playing tricks on her...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  m-f  contemporary  christian  western
  • Fatal Vendetta by Christy Barritt

    Fatal Vendetta by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trapped in a deadly game, Addison Barlow has no choice but to play by her tormentor’s rules.Following a terrifying home invasion, Addison’s life is controlled by fear. As the threats rise, she flees to a friend’s secluded cabin by Lake Tahoe. But when the woman next door disappears, Addie worries she just escaped one bad situation for another...
  • Knox by Susan May Warren

    Knox by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    His voice threaded through her, as if it might be made of rawhide, designed not to break, to weather time and elements, as sturdy as the land he probably worked. Because yes, he wore cowboy like a second skin, the no-nonsense aura of hard work and get ’er done. About KNOX: He's not looking for trouble... Montana rancher Knox Marshall's danger years are behind him...
  • The Heart of a Hero by Susan May Warren

    The Heart of a Hero by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jake Silver may not be able to put the memories of his time as a sniper and Navy SEAL behind him, but at least he can put his skills to use as a part of the Jones Inc. rescue team. Saving the life of pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Aria Sinclair on Denali helped too...
  • Cherished Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Cherished Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Morgan Shaw is my soulmate. She has no idea how much I desire her to fill the needs I crave. I've dedicated the last four years to learning everything I could about her. If my desire for her ever came to light before she realized how much she loved me, I would be labeled a stalker.Some might find it a little creepy how I watch her every move. I find it exhilarating...
  • Tyler by Regan Black

    Tyler by Regan Black

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She's a vigilante on a mission...Autumn Curley has no interest in changing her ways. After escaping her captors, her sole purpose is to destroy the gangs that prey on Native American women and make sure no one else suffers like she did. But she doesn't know the gangs are closing in and about to spring a trap...
  • Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer

    Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Six bodies in a single grave… in the same West Texas country where Dakota left everything behind. Every beat of my heart belongs to you. Thirteen years ago, Dakota Jennings thought he'd found his forever when he fell in love with Shane Carson. But one afternoon shattered their love story, and both Dakota and Shane left Rustler, Texas, with broken hearts...
  • Dotted Lines by Devney Perry

    Dotted Lines by Devney Perry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Clara Saint-James is completing a journey started by an old friend. She’ll return a Cadillac to California, a place she’s avoided for more than a decade. But it’s time for closure and to put old ghosts to rest. And it’s time to find out if the feelings she’s cherished for the boy from her past are just fanciful memories—or if there’s a chance they are real...
  • Cowboy Conspiracy Theory by Em Petrova

    Cowboy Conspiracy Theory by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call her the Ice Queen…but he’s determined to thaw her.Bodyguard Mathias Trace is more comfortable on the back of a horse than guarding people. But when his next job involves brainy woman on a hunt for treasure, he’s as frustrated as he is turned on...
  • Saving Amanda by Elle James

    Saving Amanda by Elle James

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For Ex-Navy SEAL, Carter Manning, nothing worthwhile is easy. Having lost the people he loved, he dedicates his life to the hard stuff to keep from looking back. The future is strictly about the next mission, not settling down or raising a family...
  • Protecting Silver by Deanna L. Rowley

    Protecting Silver by Deanna L. Rowley

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Douglas "Patch" Atwal was an adrenaline junkie, from working as a medic in the Marines, to being a trauma surgeon in the emergency room. He thrived on the action. If he didn't his past would start to haunt him, and after having dreams of himself as a little boy, he began to question his entire existence...
  • Issued to the Bride: One Navy SEAL by Cora Seton

    Issued to the Bride: One Navy SEAL by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Marry—or else. Navy SEAL Brian Lake is out of luck. Going rogue on his last mission landed him on a fast track out of the Navy—years too soon to have saved up enough money to buy the ranch he’s always wanted. Without a career—or the cash to start over—Brian’s options are few, until Army general Augustus Reed steps in with an intriguing new mission—a permanent one...
  • Ford by Susan May Warren

    Ford by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy Seal Ford Marshall isn’t the kind to stand by and let a woman get hurt—especially when it involves his twin sister, RJ. So, when she is named an assassin and goes missing in Russia, he doesn’t care what it takes—he’s going to find her and bring her home...
  • Dylan's Redemption by Jennifer Ryan

    Dylan's Redemption by Jennifer Ryan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    There's a new sheriff in Fallbrook … Meet Dylan McBride. Jessie Thompson had one hell of a week. Dylan McBride, the boy she loved, skipped town without a word. Then her drunk of a father tried to kill her, and she fled Fallbrook, vowing never to return. Eight years later, her father is dead, and Jessie reluctantly goes home—only to come face-to-face with the man who shattered her heart...
  • Southern Sunshine by Natasha Madison

    Southern Sunshine by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Reed I never wanted to be a cowboy, living in a small town was suffocating.The military was my out.I saw every place I ever wanted and everything that nightmares are made of. Until I almost lost my life and then I ended up back home.HazelFinding out that I was pregnant the night before I left for college changed everything.I left that small town and vowed to never return...
  • Shattered Dreams by Natasha Madison

    Shattered Dreams by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Montgavin Township will never be the same when one night changes the lives of six people. The course of their lives and the trajectory of the town sets them on a collision course for disaster.CharlieIt was supposed to be a regular day out.Three couples celebrating the last days of summer.When tragedy struck.I thought I was going to marry her.Instead, I was burying her...
  • Justice for Laine by Susan Stoker

    Justice for Laine by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Reluctantly taking her best friend’s place at a photo shoot, realtor Laine Parker expects to assist the photographer for the day…not drool over the volunteer model, Westin King. The Texas Ranger and real-life cowboy is hot-on-hot sexy, from the tips of his boots to the top of his Stetson...
  • Just a Cowboy's Best Friend by Jessie Gussman

    Just a Cowboy's Best Friend by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Teagan Lepley is asked to cat-sit by a kindly lady in town, she wasn't expecting the neighbor to be so "friendly." So she asks her best friend to hang out with her so she can honestly say she's busy. What she wasn't expecting was the entire town to think that there is - finally - something more going on between her and her best friend...
  • Cowboy Seeking Nanny by Janice Whiteaker

    Cowboy Seeking Nanny by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    As a widowed father trying to build a family empire while juggling dirty diapers and bed times, Brody Pace has full hands.And an empty bed.Losing his high school sweetheart after the birth of their twins left him broken, battered, and lonely. But business doesn’t wait, and neither do toddlers...
  • The Brawl by Willa Nash, Devney Perry

    The Brawl by Willa Nash, Devney Perry

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    A small town, single parent romance from Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Devney Perry. On Ronan Thatcher’s first week in Montana, he spots the most beautiful woman in the world. Love at first sight? Nah. He doesn’t believe in love. But he wouldn’t mind a date or two with the local beauty. Ronan is the type of man who gets what he wants, and he wants Larke Hale...
  • Ranger Courage by Lynn Shannon

    Ranger Courage by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The games he plays are deadly... As chief of police for Harrison University, Avery Madison expects to spend her days buried in administrative paperwork--until a murdered woman is discovered on campus. She asks Texas Ranger Weston Donovan for help. The former football star turned lawman is heartbreakingly handsome, but Avery has put romance on the back burner...
  • Stranded with a Bossy Rancher by Hope Ford

    Stranded with a Bossy Rancher by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He’s my boss.He’s completely off limits.Plus, I’m pregnant with another man’s baby.All good reasons why Elliott and I are a bad idea.But he doesn’t care.He pursues me like he has to have me.He’s relentless.And I feel my resolve crumbling.I give in for one night.Thinking it will get him out of my system.But all it does is make me want him more.I can’t do this though.He deserves more...
  • Shattered Valor by Elaine Levine

    Shattered Valor by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Every step leads her deeper into danger... Eden Miller has her life arranged exactly as she wants it--until a reunion with her high school BFFs places her in the middle of a turf war with a ruthless prison gang, their terrorist allies, and the hunters tracking them...
  • Ruby Jane by Susan May Warren

    Ruby Jane by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She 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..
  • Cowboy Accidentally Hitched for Christmas by Jo Grafford

    Cowboy Accidentally Hitched for Christmas by Jo Grafford

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Anxious to make it home for Christmas, a rodeo star hits the road in a hurry, only to discover he’s hitched his truck to the wrong trailer! In his defense, it’s the same model and color as his. Plus, it’s dark outside. Not to mention he’s trying to beat a snowstorm out of town...
  • Texas Orchids by Samantha Christy

    Texas Orchids by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm a city boy, not a cowboy.I'm way out of my league on a horse ranch in Texas.Falling for the sexy horse vet was never my intention.Especially when I find out she could be dating a killer.Sneaking around with her?Not my brightest idea, but someone's got to protect her.It's just one summer. One casual fling.Until it becomes everything but...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  m-f  contemporary  western  cowboys  office
  • A Real Cowboy Always Comes Home by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Always Comes Home by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Caleb Stockton has been missing for more than ten years...and he's about to come home. But his homecoming isn't going to be what anyone expects. Not his brothers.Not him.And definitely not her. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is "contemporary romance at its best" (Bex 'N' Books)...
  • Tate by Susan May Warren

    Tate by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What will it cost this bodyguard to save the woman he loves? Bodyguard, Tate Marshall, has always been the family troublemaker. Maybe it's his impulsive propensity to get into the middle of problems that don't belong to him. But once in, he can't stop himself from trying to solve them and that includes his recent dilemma...
  • Sphinx Security: Complete 5-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Sphinx Security: Complete 5-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “There’s beauty in this world, Remington,” the social worker told him once. “You just have to figure out where to find it.”He’d finally found it. It was inside this woman. And it was perfect.—RemingtonPart 1The boys from Golden Sphinx Ranch are trying to have a quiet breakfast in the local diner when one of them sees a man attempting to pull a woman out of her car by her hair...
  • Saving Chelsea by Elle James

    Saving Chelsea by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She prefers the four-legged wolves over the two-legged kindChelsea Youngblood’s first love is her only true love. Wolves. Raised on a wildlife rescue ranch, she grew up with wolves as her siblings. It was only natural she would become a wolf biologist and work with the wolves of Yellowstone National Park...
    Categorized as:
    military  suspense  western  mystery  contemporary
  • High Density by Freya Barker

    High Density by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Are you ready for the next group of High Mountain Trackers?This specialized, mounted, search & rescue team in the wilds of northern Montana has expanded into the next generation of experienced mountain men. Ex-military, former law enforcement, and homegrown, highly trained trackers who assist law enforcement in the rescue or recovery of missing individuals and the hunting down of criminals...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  m-f  western  contemporary
  • Running After a Heartbreaker by Jami Albright

    Running After a Heartbreaker by Jami Albright

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    “This is a bad idea.” “The worst.” He placed his hands under her butt and lifted. “Should I stop?” “I’ll murder you if you do.” Hailey Odom’s life is out of tune. The bar she owns with her father is a Texas-sized money pit that she has four months to save. Her mean as a snake ex-husband is breaking their daughter’s heart daily...
  • Stay With Me by Brooke Montgomery

    Stay With Me by Brooke Montgomery

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    A best friend’s brother stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a girl who falls pregnant by the wrong man and the cowboy who takes her in… I've crushed on my best friend's brother for years.He's a six-foot-three, dark-haired cowboy who works on his family's ranch and sends butterflies to my stomach anytime he looks at me...
  • On the Wild Side by Kristen Proby

    On the Wild Side by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes On the Wild Side, a sizzling single mom, cowboy, small town romance in the beloved Wilds of Montana Series!Brady Wild has focused on one thing this entire adult life: riding bulls. A three-time world champion, Brady’s body has taken a beating over the years and he knows he’s nearing the end of his impressive career...
  • Out of the Storm by B.J. Daniels

    Out of the Storm by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She can’t lose him again…One look at his warm brown eyes and Kate Jackson knows she’s found her husband. It’s been twenty years since Daniel was declared dead in a refinery explosion, but Kate never gave up hope, convinced he was somewhere out there, suffering from amnesia. Then, on a trip to Buckhorn, Montana, she sees him—working as a carpenter, scarred, but still her Danny...
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