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A Heart's Gift by Lena Nelson Dooley
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIs a marriage of convenience the answer?Franklin Vine has worked hard to build the ranch he inherited into one of the most successful in the majestic Colorado mountains. If only he had an heir to one day inherit the legacy he's building. But he was burned once in the worst way, and he doesn't plan to open his heart to another woman... -
Wild Heart's Haven by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRachel never wanted to travel into the wilderness. The westward trail has stolen everything from her. Her home. Her family. Her husband. Now a match made out of necessity has trapped her in a marriage with a man she can’t stand.Owen likes Rachel about as much as his horse likes a burr under its saddle. She’s bossy and stubborn with an independent streak a mile wide. And a baby on the way... -
Cowboy Bites: A Rough Riders Cookbook by Lorelei James, Suzanne M. Johnson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSaddle up and get ready to ride again with the infamous McKay family!New York Times bestselling author Lorelei James has whipped up six brand new Rough Riders short stories featuring fan favorite couples—Cord and AJ, Colby and Channing, Keely and Jack, Colt and India, Carter and Macie, and Boone and Sierra... -
Donovan's Daughter by Lori Wick
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen an angry snowstorm forces Marcail Donovan to seek shelter for the night at the town doctor’s house, the pretty new schoolteacher is thrust into a scandal that threatens her career. The unfortunate but innocent circumstances bring harsh condemnation to Marcail, but the compassionate bachelor doctor offers her a way to remain the town’s teacher...Categorized as:
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Sharpshooter in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMandy McClellen Grey, has become the focus of a feud thanks to her husband, who made this mess and then died. Far from home, Mandy, the best little rifle woman in the west, has resigned herself to a lonely life under siege rather than call for help and endanger her family... -
Husband Tree by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsHit the trail into the Old West, where a tough lady rancher and a seemingly aimless wrangler attempt to avoid the matrimonial noose. When Belle Tanner hires Silas Harden to help her get her cattle to market, the last thing she’s looking for is romance... -
Olivia's Ride by C.A. Harms
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKeeton Pearce hadn’t lived a life full of supportive, loving family… In fact, it was just the opposite. He had been on his own for so long he had no idea what it felt like to belong. He didn’t want to rehash the life he left behind, or even think about it. But the hate from his father followed him, slowly eating away at the life he had begun to build for himself...Categorized as:
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Wrangler in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCan the artist tame the cowgirl without breaking her spirit? Tough Texan tomboy Sally McClellan heads to Montana to visit her pregnant sister Mandy. But when her traveling party is attacked, Sally is left for dead... -
Doctor in Petticoats by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBeth and Alex survive a stage coach accident. Beth realizes the derelict in the stagecoach with her is a doctor and she forces him to help tend the injured. Alex finds he can care for the patients as long as Beth is right beside him... yelling at him. Alex saves Beth's sister’s life, but he only has the courage to treat patients as long as Beth is there... -
Carrick: The McKeegans by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom USA Today Best Selling Author Kathleen Ball Carrick's life takes a drastic turn when he escapes from his exploitative employers after two harrowing years of captivity, only to return home to find his house deserted. As he descends from the mountain, his heart swells with joy upon reuniting with his son, yet it shatters upon learning of his wife's tragic passing during his absence... -
Saving the Mountain Man's Legacy by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, second chances…and a hidden fortune.Sampson Coulter is determined to undo his disastrous mistake that is jeopardizing his family’s future. Now he’s deeply embedded in the corrupt mining empire of the ruthless Mick McPharland, and has earned the trust of Jedidiah, the brutal right-hand man... -
Calico Canyon by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsLet yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutchs of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's—widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons...Categorized as:
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A Real Cowboy Never Walks Away by Stephanie Rowe
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNine brothers who stand by each other no matter what, even when all hell breaks loose…which it often does when the Stockton men are around. Country music superstar Travis Stockton used his music to escape the Wyoming town that betrayed him as a youth, but all his money and fame can't chase away the nightmares that still haunt him... -
Love on Target by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill romance hit its mark when true love is the target? Desperate for a fresh start, Rena Burke journeys from Texas to Oregon with only her father’s pistol and a plodding old mule for company. She takes a job working with explosives at a mine, spends her free time emulating her hero Annie Oakley, and secretly longs to be loved... -
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The Widower's Mail-Order Bargain: Inspirational Western Cowboy Romance by Karla Gracey
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter Jonas lost his wife, he swore he would never marry again, but unless he does, he fears his in-laws will never let him have custody of his son, Teddy, again. The only course of action is to find a new bride… so he advertises for one, making it clear that although he can offer her a good home and a stable life, he will never be able to love her. That suits Geraldine just fine...Categorized as:
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Earning the Mountain Man's Trust by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, second chances…and a hidden fortune. Naomi Wyatt has finally given up on the man who once promised to love her for the rest of his life—then disappeared after a business trip, never responding to her letters... -
A Letter to Emily by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturn to Flat River, Nebraska with a brand new series from the creator of The Chapmans and The Flat River Matchmaker.She was the last thing he wanted, but everything he needed.Bass Pickett doesn't want a wife. But unless he or his brothers marry, they could lose the ranch they worked so hard for... -
A Real Cowboy Rides a Motorcycle by Stephanie Rowe
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe's newest novel, a woman who has forfeited her dreams for a family finds love and hope in the arms of a rebellious cowboy. After inexplicably abandoning a championship bull riding career, Zane Stockton has become a vagabond. He lives on his motorcycle, using the open road to shield himself from the dark shadows which haunt him...Categorized as:
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The McCall Trilogy by Marcia Lynn McClure
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsourney through generations of adventure and romance as three Marcia Lynn McClure favorites blend perfectly in The McCall Trilogy! The roundup begins with The Foundling (formerly released as Desert Fire). She opened her eyes and beheld, for the first time, the face of Jackson McCall… Posse up with the next generation of McCall heroes in To Echo the Past... -
Sean Donovan by Lori Wick
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLori Wick's bestselling series The Californians (more than 500,000 copies sold) has a fresh new cover design to delight avid Lori Wick fans and readers just introduced to Lori's beloved fiction. Caught in his first bank robbery, Sean Donovan is sentenced to hang. But Charlotte Cooper, who needs a blacksmith for her livery, has other ideas...Categorized as:
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Shotgun Bride by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsOne ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides... -
Montana Rose by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFire up your love of romance with Montana Rose , where Cassie Griffin, a seemingly spoiled pregnant woman, is widowed one day and wedded the next. Marrying handyman Red Dawson seems the only alternative to Cassie’s being hitched to a brutal rancher...Categorized as:
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To Bluff a Bride by Kate Condie
She’s looking for freedom. When her ex brother-in-law insists she belongs to him, Ellen Moren must escape the town that never felt like home. Determined that another marriage is the only way to convince him to leave her alone, Ellen proposes a fake marriage to the kind bachelor whose family is heading west on the Oregon trail. He’s looking for home... -
Cowboy Bikers MC #3 by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 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... -
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Cowboys and Brides: A Sweet and Clean Historical Western Romance Collection by Cat Cahill, Kate Condie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHappily ever after under the Western sky . . .Enjoy six sweet historical Western romance stories filled with courageous women and men who never fail to save the day. Set against windswept plains and soaring mountain peaks, romance and adventure wait for you in this collection... -
Marshaling Her Heart by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBecky Pruitt has always prided herself on knowing everything that's happening on her successful ranch, which makes her foreman Nate Paxton's admission to her quite a surprise. With the notorious Deadeye Gang on the loose, Nate--a former U.S. Marshal--believes that Becky's ranch might be the best spot for a group of Marshals to use as a base and hideout... -
Wrangling the Wandering Rancher: A Sweet Historical Romance by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the high country of Colorado, love endures all things, even the solitary way of life in the wilderness.Maisy Merritt has vowed she’ll never marry a mountain man. Even though she loves the Colorado Rockies and the wild creatures she helps, she hates the way her pa’s mountain-man ways took him away from his family and caused her ma to die of loneliness... -
Cowboy Justice Association Novel Box Set: Books 1 - 3 by Olivia Jaymes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratings*** 3 novel-length books for the price of 2 *** Genre: Contemporary Western Erotic Romance Cowboy Command: One minute Katie is eating lunch with her sister, the next she barely escapes a car bomb meant to kill her. Luckily, Federal agents are going to give her a new identity until she can testify against the man who wants her dead... -
A Match Made in Texas by Karen Witemeyer, Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn the small town of Dry Gulch, Texas, a good-hearted busybody just can't keep herself from surreptitiously trying to match up women in dire straits with men of good character she hopes can help them... -
Secondhand Bride by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsTo win his father's ranch, a hard-living cowboy settles down and takes a wife--another man's wife! The youngest McKettrick brother, Jeb, is the wild one who never could stay out of trouble. And trouble is what he gets when he proposes to Chloe Wakefield... -
A Lawman's Christmas by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman...and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options... -
Cowboy Seasons: Four Book Boxed Set by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSummer's Desire When 26-year-old cowboy Holden O'Leary uprooted his brothers from Texas to Montana, the new vet advertised for a nanny. No woman alive would deny the Doc was as handsome a specimen as the sleek, hard-bodies horses he rescued... -
A SEAL's Chance by Cora Seton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Navy SEAL Ben Warren is sidelined by an injury, he thinks love is off the table until single mother Caitlyn Cross reminds him that a warrior fights for what he wants. Revisit Chance Creek and the Hall brothers, and meet a brand new hero you won't forget... -
Ropes and Revenge by Lili Valente, Jessie Evans
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEight months ago, John Lawson lost his wife and best friend in a tragic accident on his family's ranch. In the time since, he's devoted himself to two things--taking care of his two newly motherless sons and proving that Lily's accident was no accident. Now, he finally has hard evidence that his wife was murdered and he won't rest until he has the killer's blood on his hands... -
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Boundless Fate by Alicia Rae, Jovana Shirley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFate for Love Series, Book 2 Colton Kingston’s livelihood has been reduced to a pile of black ashes by a tragic act of arson. After sending away the woman he has loved since the tender age of five, a hateful dark revenge threatens to overtake his heart. Colton knows pushing her away is the only way he can keep her safe... -
12-ALARM COWBOYS by Cora Seton, Becky McGraw
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAFTER THE FIRE by Cora Seton When a series of fires keeps bringing him to her door, a firefighter must uncover his ex-girlfriend’s secret or risk losing her forever. WHERE THERE'S SMOKE (A Cowboy Way Novella) by Becky McGraw Cowboy Austin McBride follows a herd to a new town, but firefighting is his passion, so he applies at a local station... -
Willing to Wed the Rancher by Jody Hedlund
In the high country of Colorado, falling in love at first sight is not only possible, it’s likely to happen.Assistant schoolteacher Clarabelle Oakley has a hard time saying no. When Eric Meyer, widowed father of two of her young students, proposes to her, she botches her effort to tell him no and that she wants to marry for love, not convenience...Categorized as:
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To Win His Wife by Kate Condie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn attack tore them apart. The Oregon trail will force them back together. Is it possible for him to win his wife back? She doesn’t remember their secret marriage. When an accident in the woods steals her memories, orphan Fenna Jennings finds refuge in the warm embrace of the Bridger family... -
Wishing for the Rancher's Love: A Sweet Historical Romance by Jody Hedlund
In the high country of Colorado, danger sometimes causes enemies to work together . . . and fall in love.As the only one of her siblings who hasn’t married, Clementine Oakley feels left behind. But she does her best to focus on her candy-making business, hoping to someday have a shop of her own instead of a lone counter in Worth’s General Store... -
The Medicine Box: Wyoming MacPhersons by Mischelle Creager
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHOW LONG CAN SHE BATTLE A MAN WHO REFUSES HER LOVE?DEATH HAS BRUTALLY TAKEN EVERY WOMAN FROM HIM.WHICH WILL WIN—LOVE OR DEATH?Katy Sullivan must protect her younger sisters at all cost. They’ve escaped the brutal hand of their step-uncle and took his greatest treasure. Fearing death if found, they travel west in a wagon train but are abandoned along with a sick preacher and his sisters... -
Doctor's Snowflake Bride by Lacy Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMinnie Bannister’s mail-order bride journey takes an unexpected twist when she encounters a charming stranger instead of her intended husband.Bound by his doctor’s oath to help those in need, Jed Dawson cannot ignore the plight of the beautiful Minnie stranded during a raging blizzard. Minnie is the missing link that will help him bond with his preteen son, who is still mourning his late mother...Categorized as:
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Gingham Mountain by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAll aboard for a delightful, suspense-filled romance, where a Texan is torn between his attraction to a meddlesome schoolmarm and the charms of a designing dressmaker. When Hannah Cartwright meets Grant, she's determined to keep him from committing her orphans to hard labor on his ranch... -
Scattered Petals by Amanda Cabot
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLonging for adventure, Priscilla Morton leaves Boston in 1856 and heads for the Texas Hill Country, never dreaming that the adventure she seeks could have heartbreaking consequences. Although attracted to her, ranch foreman Zachary Webster knows Priscilla deserves a cultured East Coast gentleman, not a cowboy who's haunted by memories of his mistakes... -
The Bridegroom by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsUndercover agent Gideon Yarbro is renowned for stopping outlaws almost before they commit a crime. But now he must stop a wedding --- despite the bride's resistance. Lydia Fairmont will lose everything if she doesn't honor her betrothal to a heartless banker. Unless she marries someone else instead ... whether it's a love match or not...Categorized as:
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Texas Rain by A.F. Seward
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsJodi Thomas delivers a tender tale of the Old West, a handsome Texas Ranger, and a mysterious woman fleeing a terrible fate. The first in the powerful new Whispering Mountain trilogy...Honest, straightforward, and ruggedly handsome, Travis McMurray is also more than a little bit busted, the result of an ambush during his service as a Texas Ranger... -
Mail-Order Bride Mommy by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPast pain. Future hope.Matt Shannon lost his fiancé to a tragic accident. He does not want anything more to do with love and marriage. But he is now guardian to four-year-old Lindy. Desperate for a woman to mother the little girl, he arranges for a mail-order bride. The agreement is for convenience only, but Gwen’s kindness and good nature threaten his barred heart...Categorized as:
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Fire and Ice by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSaddle up for mysteries and laughs with the Wilde sisters! Bailey Wilde is the oldest sister--and the one who takes care of everyone else in her family. But after her sisters marry and move away, her little homestead becomes bleak and lonely, especially during the long winter months. In a moment of weakness, Bailey agrees to a wild plan concocted by her neighbor, Gage Coulter...Categorized as:
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Ella's Embrace by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratings*A Sweet, Clean Western Romance* Ella has always been determined and headstrong, vowing only to marry for love. At her age, it seems like her chances of that happening have slipped away. When she is left the title to half of a neighboring farm, she sees the opportunity to have her independence, and not become a burden to her family... -
Waiting for the Rancher by Jody Hedlund
Hazel Noble loves her job managing the mares at High Country Ranch. As the foaling season begins, she gets to spend even more time with the horses . . . and with her secret crush, Maverick Oakley, the owner of High Country Ranch and her brother Sterling’s best friend. When Maverick unwittingly ruins Sterling’s wedding, he goes from best friend to worst enemy...Categorized as:
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Bride of Second Chances by Ruth Ann Nordin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJeremy Graham made a promise to Rebecca that he would never love another woman. After her death, her sister, Jane Syas, is about to be forced into marrying a man she can’t tolerate. Out of a sense of duty to help Rebecca’s younger sister, Jeremy steps in to give her his name and home...Categorized as:
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