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Tied by Carian Cole
"Holy dark and delicious angst. Carian Cole did not hold back. I dare you not to shed a tear."― L.J. Shen, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of VICIOUS My innocence was stolen when I was abducted at five years old. For eleven years I held on by clinging to childhood fairytales. I waited for a prince to someday save me and carry me off to a happily ever after...Categorized as:
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![Montana Danger by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch]()
Montana Danger by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch
Some mistakes haunt you forever. Harlan Young knows that from personal experience. Walking away from Grace Townsend, even with the best intentions and no other choice, still haunts him to this day. So when he had the chance to return to Montana, and be part of something as special as the Resting Warrior Ranch, he took it...Categorized as:
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![Corruptor's Claim by K. Loraine, Meg Anne]()
Corruptor's Claim by K. Loraine, Meg Anne
I’m in love with my brother’s wife.When River came back, I thought I’d gotten a second chance to make her mine. I had Mama’s ring ready and everything. Until the moment I found out she was already married–to Cross.On paper, it’s a good thing, especially since the head of the Russian Bratva has her in his sights...Categorized as:
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![Deadly Debt by K. Loraine, Meg Anne]()
Deadly Debt by K. Loraine, Meg Anne
I blew my cover for the woman I love. The second River Adams walked into my life, I knew my days undercover were numbered. The FBI gave me one mission: bring down the Cross brothers and their criminal empire. But no one counted on her, and now that she’s been taken, I’ll do anything to get her back. Even if it means working with the men I was ordered to catch... -
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![Dark Horse by Maggie Rawdon]()
Dark Horse by Maggie Rawdon
Grant Stockton is the devil incarnate. The cowboy turned casino-owning crime boss has been the bane of my existence for as long as I can remember—first as my older brother’s best friend, then as my guardian when my brother died at his side, and now as the rival bar owner and landlord running me into the red... -
![Sinner's Secret by K. Loraine, Meg Anne]()
Sinner's Secret by K. Loraine, Meg Anne
I might be a cowboy, but I’m no gentleman.Ten years ago I crossed the line with my younger brother’s best friend. I knew she was in love with me, and I couldn’t resist her. River Adams gave me her innocence on her eighteenth birthday. I broke her in return and made her hate me. I thought walking away from her would be easy, but I never expected to come face to face with everything I gave up...Categorized as:
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![Smoke Bomb by Abbi Glines]()
Smoke Bomb by Abbi Glines
HuckTwo places I never thought I’d a church and my little brother’s funeral.I was the one who was supposed to die first. Not Hayes.He hadn’t chosen my path. I took lives but Hayes had wanted to save souls.Yet here I was drinking from a flask, around people that fucking hated me, unable to take my eyes off the fiancé he’d left behind... -
![Sing for Me by Brittany Ann]()
Sing for Me by Brittany Ann
Mason: I never wanted to go back home. Hallow Ranch was my own personal hell, and I was lucky to escape in one piece. My brother’s betrayal was the last straw, but he doesn’t know the real reason I left. No one does. For the last decade, I’ve focused on one thing: bull riding. I don’t care about anything but my eight seconds. When I’m on a bull, everything goes quiet. Until her...Categorized as:
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![Notorious by Leslie McAdam]()
Notorious by Leslie McAdam
Picking up your favorite adult film star at a bar in Vegas is a bad idea—especially when you wake up the next morning married to him. Ask me how I know.Before I met Velvet the Cowboy, the public knew me as an innocuous guy who was running for office.Now I’ve gone from boring to notorious in twenty-four hours...Categorized as:
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![Justice for Mackenzie by Susan Stoker]()
Justice for Mackenzie by Susan Stoker
Daxton Chambers loved being a part of the oldest and most distinguished law enforcement agency in the state of Texas…the Texas Rangers. But whoever was burying women alive in his city of San Antonio was always two steps ahead of him…and he hated it. Mackenzie Morgan lived what she considered a normal life...Categorized as:
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![Burn by Abbi Glines]()
Burn by Abbi Glines
From the moment she fell out of the tree in his backyard, ruining his eighth birthday party, Genesis Stoll had been Kye Levine’s best friend. The one person he knew would be there no matter what. She was his escape, his sunshine when the darkness in his world got too deep. When he had her to run to, he knew no matter how twisted his life got, she would remind him who he was...Categorized as:
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![Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch]()
Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch
Sometimes the worst wounds can’t be seen.Lucas Everett knows that firsthand. It's why he and his former Navy SEAL brothers created the Resting Warrior Ranch.They aren’t doctors, but they can offer the healing freedom of their Montana range. And they specialize in training service and emotional support animals to help sooth even the worst emotional scars.Usually, soldiers show up at their door... -
![Love Me Today by A.L. Jackson]()
Love Me Today by A.L. Jackson
A jaded single dad. A woman returning to her small-town roots. Neither was prepared for their paths to collide… I should have known I was in trouble when I backed my old, beat-up truck into the shiny Range Rover. The driver looked like a gorgeous fallen angel – one who’d been booted right out of paradise for being a giant prick. Good thing I’ll never have to see him again... -
![Honey Bee Hearts by Kendra Moreno]()
Honey Bee Hearts by Kendra Moreno
Fable has never quite fit in anywhere she goes. She’s always been quirky, a special brand of weird only her best friend understands. After a tragic accident changes her life, she’s not sure how to move forward. When she receives an email with the chance of a lifetime, she seizes the opportunity, if only to escape the darkness...Categorized as:
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![Blood Sports by Daniel May, Augustus Roth]()
Blood Sports by Daniel May, Augustus Roth
There are deadly games... and then there are blood sports.In Hanged Men territory, there are two rules: you don’t steal horses, and you don’t disturb their leader in his cozy retirement.Someone broke the rules.Jove Alms, an infamous kingpin who passed his crime empire onto his sons, is called home by signs of a traitor in his old territory...Categorized as:
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![Crimson River by Devney Perry]()
Crimson River by Devney Perry
Lyla Eden has spent the last few years watching her siblings fall in love. Meanwhile, she’s married to her job. It’s on her hundredth consecutive workday that her sister stages an intervention, kicking Lyla out of her own coffee shop. With nothing else to do, Lyla sets out on her favorite hiking trail.It’s there that she spots a man washing blood from his hands in a stream... -
![Bull Rush by Maggie Rawdon]()
Bull Rush by Maggie Rawdon
Still married.Those words change everything.Now my should-be ex-husband, Ramsey Stockton, the former pro football star turned felon and hero who left this town—and me—behind years ago, is at my door offering me a deal with the devil.If I let him stay and play his wife again for ninety days, he’ll give me a quiet divorce and his family ranch—the one my inn is on...Categorized as:
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![Barbed Wire Hearts by Kendra Moreno]()
Barbed Wire Hearts by Kendra Moreno
Kate has always been a city girl. The city is all she knows, and she’s fine with that until an ex-boyfriend knocks on her door and destroys all her carefully made plans. Now, she has no choice but to run and get as far away from the city as possible. Head west. Move fast. She doesn’t stop until she finds herself in the mountains of Wyoming... -
![The Renegade by Silvia Violet]()
The Renegade by Silvia Violet
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI followed my gut and defied orders.I'd do it again even though I was left with a stain on my record and no where to go until an old friend pulled me back into the world of organized crime.Now I spend my days doing two things I love, raising horses and protecting people. Just like before, my life is filled with danger, bad men, and their badder enemies.I didn't think I had time for anything else... -
![The Alias by Lena Hendrix]()
The Alias by Lena Hendrix
The moment I kissed my wife, I knew I was in trouble.A stoic, dangerous man with ties to the Mafia has no business keeping a gorgeous ray of sunshine like her, but she was scared and I was desperate.On the run, we land at a secluded ranch designed to protect federal witnesses... -
![Backstroke by L.B. Martin]()
Backstroke by L.B. Martin
The boys of Frampton University’s swim team are renowned for their prestige and excellence. Their dominance and ruthless competitiveness invoke fear in any who cross them. Their leader, Remington Frampton, is the enigmatic heir to the university’s legacy and my own, personal nightmare.FallonMy plan was simple. Attend classes, study hard then graduate, leaving this town behind...Categorized as:
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![Another Dawn by Sandra Brown]()
Another Dawn by Sandra Brown
Betrayal had ruined Banner Coleman's wedding day and on her wedding night she was a jilted bride. Now old seeds of greed and desire are harvesting a scandal --- and Banner's affair with an old family friend could shatter a friendship and a family...Categorized as:
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![Sing You Home by Ava Hunter]()
Sing You Home by Ava Hunter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIt's been nine months since country superstar Luke Kincaid lost his wife in a tragic plane crash. Unable to cope with the pain of losing her, Luke is damn close to giving it all up—the music, his band, even his life. Until he learns his wife is alive. He rushes to bring her home, only to find himself heartbroken as the woman he loves has no memory of him or their life together... -
![The Wallace Girl by Eliot Scott, Ginger Scott]()
The Wallace Girl by Eliot Scott, Ginger Scott
** 99 cents special release price - limited time only! This book will go into KU upon release. ** A feud that spans generations. A love doomed from its very beginning. I fell in love with Alex Sinclair when we were kids. Our love was innocent and it was real. It was also dangerous... -
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![Roughneck by Piper Stone]()
Roughneck by Piper Stone
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA Dark RomanceHe's rough, he's dirty, and he's not going to be gentle.When I took a job on an oil rig to escape my scheming stepfather's efforts to set me up with one of his business cronies, I knew I'd be working with rugged men...Categorized as:
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![Milk & Cookie by Elena Dawne]()
Milk & Cookie by Elena Dawne
They call her… The Baby-maker,I call her MINE.This book is a ridiculously sweet and smutty romp with a serious and MASSIVE mountain man and the small, curvy, free spirited, young woman of his dreams.For fans of the Milk & Honeymoon group incident — this is Vince’s story...Categorized as:
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![Lily by Patricia Gaffney]()
Lily by Patricia Gaffney
The Maid She arrived at Darkstone Manor without friends or fortune, welcomed only by the hiss of the sea in the midnight hush. Lily Trehearne had been born a lady, but now she resigned herself to a life of backbreaking drudgery, inescapable poverty . . . and unquestioning obedience to the lord of the manor... -
![His Reluctant Cowboy by A.M. Arthur]()
His Reluctant Cowboy by A.M. Arthur
From acclaimed author A.M. Arthur comes a tender, sexy new novel in the Woods Ranch series.He thought his cowboy days were behind him. But life—and love—had other plans. Michael Pearce left the small-town life of Weston and cattle ranching for the hustle of Austin, and never looked back—until his father suffers a stroke and requires in-home care... -
![Bound to the Jerk by Amaryllis Lanza]()
Bound to the Jerk by Amaryllis Lanza
I’m Katrina Sanchez and I have to marry Mark Finley, the bully who made my life miserable in high school. I hate everything about Mark – his icy blue eyes, his sneering smile, his bulked-up tattooed body, his insufferable grumpiness and bossy attitude. But my dad is in real trouble and if I don’t marry Mark, Dad will lose everything... -
![The Harder They Ride by Coralee June]()
The Harder They Ride by Coralee June
He turned me into a woman of extremes, living a life of intense passion and fierce emotions in the rugged landscape of West Texas. When I cried, I drowned. When I loved, I burned. Declan Wilder, a man with a deadly past and a killer smile, made me feel alive like never before... -
![Redneck Rebellion (Redneck) by Jordan Silver]()
Redneck Rebellion (Redneck) by Jordan Silver
This is the edited version of the book that was originally titled Redneck which was banned and republished as T-Bone, which was banned. This is a work of fiction, and yes it's hot, proceed at your own discretion. T-Bone Riley is a man of few words. Raised pretty much off the grid his whole life, he tends to see things a little different... -
![Caught by a Cowboy by Lilah Raine]()
Caught by a Cowboy by Lilah Raine
I’ve always lived a simple life,The ranch and my horse are all I’ve ever needed.My world was quiet and solitude.It suited me just fine.Until I met her…Maddison Mackenzie ended up in Clearwater Creek by chance.She’s beautiful, she’s chaotic,And she’s everything I never knew I wanted.Now I just have to convince her to stay...Categorized as:
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![T-Bone (Redneck) by Jordan Silver]()
T-Bone (Redneck) by Jordan Silver
Rated: 3.37 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsPreviously published as REDNECK.T-Bone Riley is a man of few words. Raised pretty much off the grid his whole life, he tends to see things a little different. Now that he's all alone after the death of his dad, he's thinking it may be time to find him some company... -
![Big Sky by Kitty Thomas]()
Big Sky by Kitty Thomas
"I've broken horses. I have never-ending patience with women."I'd lost my job and was about to be homeless when a sinfully attractive man offered me a job on his ranch that felt too good to be true.I turned him down, but he wouldn't take no for an answer.Now I'm his captive, a domestic servant on his beautiful ranch in the middle of nowhere--for my own good, supposedly... -
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