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Crazy Heifer by Lani Lynn Vale
I fell in love with his rope skills. I stayed because somehow he took hold of my heart and made it his. Callum Valentine didn’t mean to eavesdrop. Then again? When a man is calling a woman fat right in front of your table, it’s kind of hard not to intervene. Especially when the town’s most beautiful creature ever is the one being called fat. Desi just wants to be left alone... -
Cowboy Under Siege by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone wants her for her money. But what he wants comes with a bigger price—her heart.Jaren Abel, new bodyguard on the WEST Protection team, will try anything once. Which is how he ends up on the back of a bull, hoping to snag the attention of a stunning rodeo trick rider. Jaren doesn’t do relationships, so one night is all he’s willing to commit to... -
Brave Enough by Kelly Elliott
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHunter Shaw is handsome, charming, and a minor celeb on the collegiate team roping circuit. Not to mention, he looks damn fine in a cowboy hat. So it’s no surprise when he’s ardently pursued to be the star on a new streaming network’s debut program—a reality dating show... -
A Little Father's Day Favor: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Maren Smith
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe can't remember her past.He can't wait to forget his own.When these two shattered hearts come together, they might finally discover their missing pieces in each other... When Derek asks her for a favor, sweet, broken Nikki Palmer is all too eager to help out—until she learns exactly what is expected of her.. -
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Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBook 3 in the Six Pack Ranch series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vivian Arend---------Nothing comes easy. You've gotta work for it.Six Pack Ranch, Book 3Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he'd be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else the chance to drop-kick his heart... -
Daddy Dominic by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak
After a health scare, Gwen is told to slow down and take care of herself.Yeah, that’s an issue since she hasn’t the first clue how to do that. Then an old friend suggests a trip to Wishingbone, Montana.And that’s where she meets him.Dominic.Charming. Gorgeous. Protective.She never expected to find him . . . and now she has no idea how to live without him... -
Always on My Mind by Bella Andre
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsLori “Naughty” Sullivan finally falls in love in ALWAYS ON MY MIND, the new book in Bella Andre’s New York Times and USA Today bestselling series about the Sullivan family. After a tragic loss three years ago, Grayson Tyler left his life in New York City behind and started over in the rolling hills of the California coast...Categorized as:
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Justice Inked by Olivia Jaymes
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSheriff Dare Turner is known for his ever-present scowl and general bad mood. Between a teenage sister who thinks she’s all grown up and a killer on the loose he doesn’t have much to smile about these days. He simply doesn’t have time for fun and games. Rayne Dunn is half free spirit and half workaholic... -
Redeem My Heart by Kat Baxter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShelby silently nursed a crush on Dane all through high school, despite the fact that he was way out of older, handsome, and dating the most popular girl in school. Years later when he returns, wounded, after serving abroad, Shelby accidentally starts a rumor that they’ve been secretly dating...Categorized as:
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Hard Lover by Deborah Garland
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m an exhibitionist. For a reason. And not the one you think.I’m not complaining. Having people watch me at my club is a new kink I’m enjoying.Until I look down in the voyeur pit and see the one person who should never be watching me and my pierced (coughs)…My best friend’s little sister.I should stop and she shouldn’t be touching herself watching me...Categorized as:
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Cowboy Bikers MC #12 by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen eyes meet and make two hearts beat as one, there’s no holding the reins. Lust will take a turn and gallop toward love at full speed, taking on any danger it might face along the way.Nick - I’m the sheriff of this town as well as a member of an MC located at a huge ranch which breeds both longhorns and quarter horses... -
Scorpion by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe didn't ask if I like it rough. It wasn't up to me.I thought I could get away with pissing off a big, tough Marine. I ended up with my face planted in the sheets, my burning bottom raised high, and my hair held tightly in his fist as he took me long and hard and taught me the kind of shameful lesson only a man like Scorpion could teach.She was begging for a taste of my belt... -
Snake by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe crashed into my life, electrifying the man. Then the viper in me decided to make her mine. Damaged marine, survivor, bad boy, angry man. I'd left Missoula to serve my country, returning from the ashes a different man. Bitter, injured and incapable of resuming my life, visions of my ordeal consume my thoughts. After refusing physical therapy, Chasity Garrington decided I was her next mission...Categorized as:
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How To Rope A Rich Cowboy by Anya Summers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsColt Anderson is burned out. Every part of his daily life has become a tedious chore. He cannot remember the last time he took a day off or, better yet, felt a woman’s willing surrender. And it’s just his luck that on his first day off in ages, he runs into a sexy squatter on his property, never expecting that single interaction would alter the very fabric of his world... -
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A Montana Daddies Christmas by Laylah Roberts
It's Christmas time at Sanctuary Ranch. The Daddies are determined to make it a wonderful Christmas for their Littles. There's a wedding, gifts and even a visit from Santa. Come and join the fun! Please note that this book contains spankings, age play and sexy scenes. If such material offends you, please do not purchase this book... -
Virgin Cowboy by Kat Baxter
Can this runaway mail order bride find forever with the husky cowboy who saves her?JosieWhat kind of woman answers an ad for a mail-order bride and then backs out of the deal?A desperate one. Like me.My dad just died, leaving me alone in the world. I'm penniless and orphaned, trying to find the twin I never knew I had...Categorized as:
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Long, Tall Texans by Diana Palmer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsETHAN Arabella Craig was eighteen when Ethan Hardeman first opened her eyes to passion…and then turned around and married another woman. Four years later, tragedy brings Ethan, still just as tall and handsome, but newly divorced and bitter, back into her life. He runs his family's cattle empire with an iron hand, yet he refuses to loosen his grip on the reins holding back his heart...Categorized as:
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My Favorite Cowboy by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Donna Grant rounds up the hottest cowboys in Texas in her latest novel of no-holds-barred passion.Audrey Martinez is a veterinarian who has devoted her whole life to the care and protection of horses―even if doing so leaves her little time for meeting a man... -
Country Nights by Winter Renshaw
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsSixty country days and nights—that’s all I wanted. I needed to get away from the city, away from the hot mess that had become my life. When I stumbled upon my childhood home on RentBnB.com, I took it as a sign, cleaned out my life savings, and hightailed it to the only place that ever meant something to me, a place I hadn’t seen since a lifetime ago... -
Noah by Delta James
Zara does NOT want a relationship with a dominant man.Noah wants a sweet submissive woman.What they get is the last thing either of them wanted... each other.Zara Hughes had her life all laid out. Find a great story, write it and win awards and accolades. And if the story is dangerous, all the better. Get involved in a relationship with another dominant man? No way. Not happening. Not ever again... -
A Little May The Fourth Mayhem: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Maggie Ryan, Rayanna Jamison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBefore Georgie Mayer blows out the candles on her birthday cake, she only has one wish—and she isn't leaving Rawhide Ranch until she gets exactly what she's always wanted.The only thing better than finally uncovering the secret about where her brother's best friend disappeared to seven years ago, is finding out that he's employed at Rawhide Ranch... -
Mischief Under the Mistletoe by Stephanie Rowe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Christmas romance treat! For the first time ever, a three-book holiday romance bundle from New York Times bestselling author, Stephanie Rowe. Fun, sexy, and heartwarming, these three stories about the magic of Christmas are full of romance, laughter, and the deeply satisfying happily-ever-after that Christmas is all about... -
Redeemed Cowboy by Hope Ford
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Hope Ford brings you a steamy cowboy romance about a frumpy administrative assistant with a secret crush that discovers sometimes even playboy cowboys can change their ways.MiaI’ve always been the ugly duckling. I never expected my Prince Charming to be wearing Wranglers and dusty cowboy boots.Crushing on one of my hot cowboy bosses isn’t smart...Categorized as:
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Her Long Tall Texas Daddy by Maren Smith, Pepper North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a Daddy’s love tempt her to stay in the small town she fled?Calliope Clark escaped from Bandera, Texas and never planned to look back. But, making it as a professional ballerina is tougher than she’d imagined. When her father calls to dump the responsibility for the family farm on her shoulders, Calliope returns home to sell it—quickly... -
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Veronica's Little Valentine's Day by Rogue London
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is not how I expected my best friend’s wedding to go. Kidnapped, driven halfway across the country, and forced to share a room at Rawhide Ranch with the one man I’ve always wanted but never dreamed I could have. Jacob seems determined to be the Daddy I need, and in those moments when I’m over his knee or pinned beneath him in bed, sobbing out his name, I can almost believe he could be...Categorized as:
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Sunshine Sky by Carly Marie
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIt was only one night of no strings attached fun.Being shy and awkward, my fantasies always stay in my head, until I meet Hunter. No last names, phone numbers, or promises of tomorrow, just one night together. Imagine my surprise when he shows up at my parents’ house—with a kid—and changes the course of my life.Never have I felt a connection with a man like I do with Dalton... -
Mac by Delta James
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe got away once ...He'll make sure this time she is thoroughly reclaimed.When US Marshal Ethan McDaniel is sent to Arizona on a fugitive retrieval assignment, he is confronted by his former love, Willa Reynolds.Sparks fly when Willa becomes a material witness and must submit to Mac’s authority as her protector... -
The Rogue by Silvia Violet
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRogue can charm the pants off anyone, but can he catch a man who might as well be a ghost?Eight seconds on a bull was never as scary as falling for a man who might disappear any second. I might have left the rodeo to work my brother’s ranch, but I never lost my taste for danger… and I’ve never met anyone more dangerous than Special Agent Ghost... -
Finding Gavin by C.A. Harms
Gavin was a broken hearted cowboy from Savannah... The one she fell for even though he tried to warn her away. Maria’s entire life had been one rejection after another, always going after things that were just out of reach. Gavin was no exception. She wanted him, so desperately... But life had a way of making things unattainable, at least for her anyway... -
Tate by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThere are barely enough hours for divorced dad Tate McKettrick to run the Silver Spur ranch, do the suit-and-tie thing for his business and run herd on his beloved six-year-old twin daughters. But time stands still at the sight of Libby Remington. When they were high school sweethearts, the wealthy McKettrick couldn't convince Libby he loved her. But now they're both back in Blue River, Texas...Categorized as:
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Obsessed Cowboy (Whiskey Run: Cowboys Love Curves) by Hope Ford
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’s the preacher’s daughter and she’s off limits.I’m an over-the-top, obsessed cowboy.I can lasso wild horses, loose cows and the orneriest of bulls...but I can’t seem to catch the curvy Janie Bradshaw.She’s too young and she’s way too good for the likes of this ol’ cowboy, but I can’t stop thinking about her. She has more curves than some men would know what to do with. But not me...Categorized as:
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Craved By The Cowboy (Roping Her Curves) by Hope Ford
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI hate to lose and losing her is not an option.I’m a first place bull-riding legend and I’m about to take my last ride. Late nights, anything-goes-women, and broken bones has taken its toll and I’m wanting something more.I’m ready to retire, fix up my neglected ranch and then find a woman to cuddle next to me each night.But plans get hit by the horns when my last ride doesn’t go as expected...Categorized as:
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Hawk by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe's a big, angry former Marine, and I'm going to be sore when he's done with me.Hawk Travers is not a man to be trifled with. I learned that lesson in the hardest way possible, first with a painful, humiliating public spanking and then much more shamefully in private.She came looking for trouble. She got a taste of my belt instead... -
Heart Of Stone by Diana Palmer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHe would rescue the innocent beauty in distress...Boone Sinclair is a hard-headed, hard-hearted businessman and rancher. He has it all - except for Keely Welsh. The lovely beauty had always beguiled him...yet he was too experienced for her innocent charm. But when Keely's life is endangered by forces beyond her control, he has to protect her...Categorized as:
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Wild Ride by Leslie North
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWild horses couldn’t tear these hearts apart…Trevor Wild will do anything to save his beloved Wildhorse Ranch… Including starting up a trendy glamping side business—something as alien to him as a day out the saddle.Luckily, smart and sassy Sabrina Hearthstone is an expert. Trevor’s hired her to live on the ranch while she sets up a glamping experience on his land...Categorized as:
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Tobias by C.M. Steele
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGrumpy, angry, a curmudgeon…Who uses the word ‘curmudgeon’ anymore?Those are the words used to describe my new boss and some other less than flattering words. The new boss who doesn’t even know I’ve been hired to invade his private sanctum and run the show. I’m the new cook for Tobias Reynolds, a Montana Cowboy with a surly attitude... -
For Fillies and Monsters: A Gothic Cowboy Romance by Landyn Hill
“Loving a monster is madness; it is no easy task, and not as simple as just loving them. Loving a monster is to be consumed by them—pliant enough to weather the storm, and strong enough to fight back.”StetsonI am good at being alone—the best really...Categorized as:
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Big Rig by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the Marines they called me Big Rig. She'll just call me sir.Alexis Harding is used to telling men exactly what she thinks, but she's never had a roughneck like me as a boss before. On my rig, I make the rules and sassy little girls get stripped bare, bent over my desk, and taught their place, first with my belt and then in a much more shameful way... -
Wanted by Jane Henry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey call me Vigilante because I make my own laws.Because I get retribution when there’s none to be had.Because my name is Jace Mercy... but I show none.Stood up at the altar, I ran from everything familiar... and straight into trouble.Now I’m the lone witness to a backwoods execution.A wanted woman with a price on my head.I’m trapped in a cabin with the one man who can save me... -
Meant to Be by Maggie McGinnis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt twenty-eight, Shelby Quinn’s already a has-been. Scooped off a country stage at sixteen and remolded into glittery pop princess Tara Gibson, she toured the country for a decade, playing to sold-out stadiums while slowly losing her soul. Now her sales are waning, and when her beloved father dies in a fiery plane crash, she finally comes apart at the seams... -
Bucked by Shaw Hart, Cameron Hart
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI have a secret.I’m Kentucky Derby royalty and I am absolutely terrified of horses.It started after I was bucked off as a teen. I was injured and when I left the hospital and went back home to my dad’s ranch, I refused to go anywhere near the barns or animals.Now that his health is deteriorating though, I know that it’s time for me to face my fears so that I can take over for him...Categorized as:
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Curves for the Older Cowboy by Clara King
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's a gruff cowboy who thinks he's better off alone…Until he finds a curvy young beauty hiding in his barn.As the oldest Ryder sibling, I'm used to relying on myself. Being free and single is the way I like things, and after watching two of my brothers fall head over heels for their wives, I'm even more certain that marriage isn't for me. I never want to rely on somebody that much... -
Here With You by D.C. Kile
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSerena McKinney always gets what she wants. When Serena arrives in Thundersville to help plan her best friend Olivia’s wedding, she sets her sights on Bennett, the quiet, single dad working on Olivia’s farm. She needs a distraction from her real life, and he’s just the man to give it to her. Bennett has always kept to himself, and isn’t quite sure how to handle Serena’s attention... -
Novalie's Little New Year: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Honey Meyer
Win the bet, lose the guy.That's the problem Novalie Marchand finds herself facing when the man who broke her heart in high school turns up at Rawhide Ranch.Only, Lincoln Donall isn’t the bad boy rebel she remembers. Linc is all grown up, and he's all Daddy.And he's on a mission to find a bride to take back to his remote Alaskan island. So he enlists Nova's help to find him the perfect Little...Categorized as:
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Hard Ride by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhere he comes from, bad girls get ridden hard and put away wet.When I snuck into Montana Cobalt's house, I was looking for help learning to ride like him, but what I got was his belt across my bare backside. Then with tears still running down my cheeks and arousal dripping onto my thighs, the big brute taught me a much more shameful lesson... -
Stone Cold Cowboy by Jennifer Ryan
With their hearts' desires on the line, nothing can stop the Montana Men Sadie Higgins has a bad habit of bailing her brother out of trouble. But when he rustles a herd of cattle from the tough, honorable Kendrick brothers, it's Sadie who's in for it. Because the cowboy tracking them down is big, silent, and forbidding as hell... -
Rough and Dirty by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThey're rough, they're dirty, and they're going to give me exactly what I need.Wrecking my cheating ex's truck with a bat might have made me feel better... if the one I went after had actually belonged to him, instead of to the burly roughneck currently taking off his belt... -
Taming His Cowgirl by Delta James
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen her father's will leaves control of the family ranch to Ryder Malone, the very same man who once broke her heart, Sierra Morgan is more than a little upset. The last time she saw Ryder she shot his hat right off his head, earning herself a long, hard spanking on her bare bottom that left her sore yet helplessly, infuriatingly aroused, and she had hoped to never see him again...Categorized as:
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Montana Sunset by Lietha Wards
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMeagan was running from her mother and stepfather, trying to stay invisible, but when she ended up working as a groom on a cattle ranch, she caught the attention of Adam Wightman. Although she was deeply attracted to him, she just couldn't get involved for secrets of her own. Adam came from a long line of cowboys...Categorized as:
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The Ranch Contract by Dinah McLeod
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Lora Harrison's agent arranges a vacation for her on a working ranch, she decides that a getaway couldn't hurt, but the beautiful, feisty young actress has no idea what is in store for her. Upon her arrival, Lora is shocked to discover that the old-fashioned cowboy who runs the place will not hesitate to take down her panties for a sound spanking whenever he feels it necessary...
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