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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... -
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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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![High Frequency by Freya Barker]()
High Frequency by Freya Barker
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the rug is pulled from under Detective Sloane Eckhart, she leaves the Billings PD and returns to Libby, Montana.Eight years ago she left with her pride and the promise of a future, but her heart was broken. On her return, there is no pride left, no prospects to speak of, but at least her heart is safely secured in the back seat... -
![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... -
![Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy]()
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west... -
![Come Sundown by Nora Roberts]()
Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
Librarian’s note: An alternate cover for this Kindle ASIN can be found here. A saga of love, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession…The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers... -
![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... -
![Breaking Limits by Emma Creed]()
Breaking Limits by Emma Creed
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJoin these dark, dirty, and corrupt cowboys on the Carson’s ranch.Where boundaries are pushed, laws are broken and limits get tested…I’ve loved Leia Walker for as long as I can remember.There was a time when I had her,She was mine.But unearthed secrets left me with no choice but to let her go.Staying away from her ain’t easyBut the truth would break her...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...Categorized as:
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![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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![Fallen Foe by L.J. Shen]()
Fallen Foe by L.J. Shen
Arsène Corbin does not intend to marry for love. His fiancée has always been a means to an end, a woman he wants to conquer. But when she dies suddenly in an accident, Arsène’s grand plan unravels.Still reeling from his fiancée’s death, he meets Winnifred Ashcroft, a struggling actress who lands a coveted role in a play at his theater…and knows things about his late fiancée no one else does...Categorized as:
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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... -
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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... -
![Auctioned to the Cowboys by Stephanie Brother]()
Auctioned to the Cowboys by Stephanie Brother
When I’m auctioned to clear my father’s debts, the three rugged cowboys who bid on me want more than just a wife.Life in my abusive father’s clutches has left me tired of fighting to survive. Escaping was always my plan until he found a final way to destroy selling me to three brooding strangers whose remote ranch promises to be another kind of hell... -
![Montana Mystery by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch]()
Montana Mystery by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch
Some nightmares you don’t wake up from.Noah Scott spent two months in an enemy prison camp but made it out alive—unlike most of his SEAL team. He’s one of the lucky ones but doesn’t always feel that way with his scarred body and daily fight against PTSD.Working with the animals at the Resting Warrior Ranch helps... -
![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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![Looking for a Cowboy by Donna Grant]()
Looking for a Cowboy by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA cowboy finds love in the most unlikely place in New York Times bestseller Donna Grant's newest Heart of Texas novel, Looking for a CowboyA beautiful stranger has come to Clearview, asking questions that are nobody’s business. Cooper Owens also wasn’t born yesterday. He knows that this out-of-towner is hiding a dark secret of her own... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![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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![Hollow Out the Dark by James Wade]()
Hollow Out the Dark by James Wade
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAward-winning author James Wade blends atmospheric prose with soul-stirring themes in Hollow Out the Dark, a gothic adventure set against a Depression-era landscape where a whiskey war threatens to decimate a small Texas town.A veteran of the Great War, Jesse Cole is grateful for the quiet life he now leads... -
![Bounty by Piper Stone]()
Bounty by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsShe came to collect a bounty. She got my belt instead.I went undercover to take down a mob boss and ended up betrayed, framed, and on the run. Harper Rollins tried to bring me in, but instead of collecting a bounty she earned herself a hard spanking and then an even rougher lesson that left her cute bottom sore in a very different way.She's not one to give up on a paycheck, but that's fine by me... -
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![Broken Road by Addison Kline]()
Broken Road by Addison Kline
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is often said that time heals all wounds. The words are spoken like a promise... A vow. These words are said to people who have been beaten down to their lowest state. To the poor souls who have nothing left to lose. Whispered into the ear of a grieving daughter, told with a shrug to a man who has nothing left to live for. These are dangerous people. The down-trodden. The grieving... -
![Please, Sir by Daisy Jane]()
Please, Sir by Daisy Jane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsMy flesh bends to his every whimEverything I have is his to useFleeing to Bluebell is my chance at a clean break. With a new teaching job and gig as the JV cheer coach, I'm excited to start over but more importantly, moving puts distance between my toxic, gaslighting parents and abusive ex... -
![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... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![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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![Booted by Pam Godwin]()
Booted by Pam Godwin
The night I’m released from prison, she’s in my bed.It’s been eight years since I touched a woman, and the Native American beauty is half-dressed, beaten, bruised, and devastatingly exquisite.We’re toxic together, but we want the same things. Blood. Vengeance.Violent relief in a warm body.Beneath her touch, I’m alive.Against her skin, I’m redeemed.Buried inside her, I forget the past...
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