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  • Desperate Rescue by Christy Barritt

    Desperate Rescue by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The exciting conclusion to the Vanishing Ranch series . . . finally, we get to hear Charlie Soldier's story!
    Categorized as:
    suspense  christian  western  audiobook
  • Home Changes: The Long Road Home by Kris Michaels

    Home Changes: The Long Road Home by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Seth Hansen never thought he'd return to his hometown of Hollister, South Dakota. Still, when his father's mind starts slipping away, he steps into the caretaker role with the same unyielding determination that made him a decorated military dog handler. Allison Sanderson has built her dream one loaf of bread at a time, running the small town’s bakery...
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  • Mackenzie's Heroes: Mackenzie's Pleasure / Mackenzie's Magic by Linda Howard

    Mackenzie's Heroes: Mackenzie's Pleasure / Mackenzie's Magic by Linda Howard

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Mackenzie's Pleasure. Navy SEAL Zane Mackenzie is a pro. No mission has ever gotten the better of him…until now. Saving the ambassador's gorgeous daughter, Barrie Lovejoy, is textbook—except for their desperate night of passion. Though his job as a soldier ends with her freedom, he would sooner die than let the enemy harm the mother of his child. Mackenzie's Magic...
  • A Home For Love: A Hollister Series Crossover by Kris Michaels

    A Home For Love: A Hollister Series Crossover by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Life throws a curve ball. Alex Thompson thought he’d live and die as a Delta Force Special Operator. Unfortunately, fate had different ideas. His career ended during a training exercise while stateside. Discharged and displaced after serving in the Army for twelve years, Alex had no idea where his life was heading. Life calls a time out...
    Categorized as:
    military  suspense  western  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Hunted Hearts by Em Petrova

    Hunted Hearts by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A hunted violinist. A haunted SEAL. Trust is their only shot at survival—desire might be their downfall. Theo Malone doesn’t know how to live a quiet life—not after everything he’s seen as a Navy SEAL. Back home on his family’s Wyoming ranch, he’s restless…until his next mission lands in his lap. Guard a violinist? It sounds simple. Until he meets her...
    Categorized as:
    military  war  mystery  western  audiobook
  • Relentless Hearts by Em Petrova

    Relentless Hearts by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s in more danger than she realizes. And the only man who can keep her safe is the one determined to keep his distance. Willow Malone has spent her life holding the ranch—and her family—together with common sense and pots of coffee. From wrangling her brothers’ security business to running horse therapy for the veterans program, she’s the one everyone counts on...
    Categorized as:
    military  war  western  audiobook
  • Jason's Justice: Brotherhood Protector World by Deanna L. Rowley

    Jason's Justice: Brotherhood Protector World by Deanna L. Rowley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being a high powered lawyer for the government, Jason Black has prosecuted all walks of life. Each new case is a challenge. When the case against several high ranking law enforcement officers comes across his desk, he jumps at the chance to bring them to justice. Ilsa Miller fears for both her and her daughter’s life after learning the truth about her husband...
    Categorized as:
    military  western  length-short
  • 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...
  • Baker Brothers of Copper Creek Box Set: Copper Creek Romances by Natalie Dean

    Baker Brothers of Copper Creek Box Set: Copper Creek Romances by Natalie Dean

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hello readers! Come get to know the Baker family and all six handsome brothers as they experience the ups and downs of falling in love in Copper Creek. This seven-novel sweet romance collection features rugged cowboys, second chances, former high school crushes, and brother’s best friend romances. .
  • His Fifth Kiss: A Hammond Family Farm Novel by Liz Isaacson

    His Fifth Kiss: A Hammond Family Farm Novel by Liz Isaacson

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They once had a few summers together. Now, Michael Hammond is back in town after a devastating injury overseas. He's looking to reset and recover. .. not to fall in love. Of course Mike looks for and hopes Gertrude Whettstein will be on the farm. She was so much of Ivory Peaks and so important to him when they were teens...
  • Searching for Home by Kris Michaels

    Searching for Home by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the first installment of the 2022 season of The Long Road Home series. No matter the road we travel, it seems our hearts are always Searching for Home. Join the Binge Read Babes on another trip home.
  • Soldier's Fake Fiancée: Trinity Falls Sweet Romance - Home for Christmas - Book 3 by Clara Pines

    Soldier's Fake Fiancée: Trinity Falls Sweet Romance - Home for Christmas - Book 3 by Clara Pines

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This military mechanic can fix anything, except his own broken heart…. Beau Wilson’s past is littered with mistakes. But he has two things going for him—the know-how that only an Army-trained mechanic can boast, and his fierce, funny, four-year-old daughter Zandy...
  • Texas Homecoming by Maggie Shayne

    Texas Homecoming by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A HEART YEARNS. Luke Brand wishes for what he’s never had–family. Aside from an overprotective mother who died young, he’s never had that–until he drives his rig into Quinn, Texas to meet the family he’s never known. His cousins welcome him with open arms...
  • A Real Cowboy Always Protects by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Always Protects by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Is it really a second chance at love if a hot, charming cowboy proposes marriage only to protect you from being killed by a CIA assassin? Haunted by shadows that will never let him go, CIA agent Logan Stockton walked away from his cowboy past ten years ago...
  • Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas by Cora Seton

    Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Orphaned at seven, kicked out by his aunt and uncle at 16, Sergeant Emerson Myers gave up on family until General Augustus Reed chose him as his assistant, becoming as much a father-figure as a commanding officer...
  • Ford by Susan May Warren

    Ford by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 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...
  • Warrior of Mercia by M.J. Porter

    Warrior of Mercia by M.J. Porter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Icel is a lone wolf no more. .. Oath sworn to Wiglaf, King of Mercia and acknowledged as a member of Ealdorman Ælfstan’s warrior band, Icel. continues to forge his own destiny on the path to becoming the Warrior of Mercia. With King Ecgberht of Wessex defeated and Londonium back under Mercian control, the Wessex invasion of Mercia is over. But the Wessex king was never Mercia’s only enemy...
  • 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...
  • Locked and Loaded: A small town romantic suspense novel by April Wilson

    Locked and Loaded: A small town romantic suspense novel by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Micah Jackson's life is turned upside down when he's called in the middle of the night to tow the car of a young woman who's stranded on the side of the road in his small town of Bryce, Colorado. She has nowhere to go, so of course Micah offers her a safe place to spend the night...
  • Locked and Loaded: A small town romantic suspense novel by April Wilson

    Locked and Loaded: A small town romantic suspense novel by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Micah Jackson's life is turned upside down when a young woman shows up at his auto repair shop in Bryce, Colorado, in the middle of the night in desperate need of repairs on her minivan camper. The more Micah gets to know her, the more he wants to protect her from the mysterious threat looming over her.
    Categorized as:
    military  western
  • Montana Justice by Josie Jade

    Montana Justice by Josie Jade

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She ran to save her life. Now the man she once betrayed is her only hope. Home to both the Resting Warrior Ranch and Pawsitive Connections, Garnet Bend, Montana is a small town full of big heroes. Anyone would want to live there. Anybody but Piper Matthews. She swore she’d never come back after what her father did to the town and what she did to Sheriff Lachlan Calloway...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  military  western  audiobook
  • Cocky in a Cowboy Hat by Em Petrova

    Cocky in a Cowboy Hat by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liberty Baker is one step closer to happiness. After buying the ranch of her dreams to raise horses, she is also settling in to the small town of Crossroads. Everyone has been welcoming…except her neighbor, a hunky bachelor with a piercing, icy blue stare that haunts her more than she cares to admit...
  • 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...
  • Guarding Leah: Brotherhood Protectors World by Desiree Holt

    Guarding Leah: Brotherhood Protectors World by Desiree Holt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some battles don’t have a winner--only survivors. Wade Fielding turned tragedy into a career--going up against man and nature as a search and rescue specialist with the 10th Mountain Division. He and his team have saved countless lives through the years, yet the scars on his heart remain...
  • Zero Dark Cowboy by Em Petrova

    Zero Dark Cowboy by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A relentless bodyguard seeks justice…but he doesn’t expect to find the perfect woman. New bodyguard on the WEST Protection team Judd Abel draws the short straw that sends him to a snooty tech conference in Boston instead of the MMA fight in Vegas he’s been looking forward to. He’s far from excited until a stunning, smart and sexy woman with secrets galore and legs for miles demands his help...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  western  length-short  audiobook
  • Cruel Expectations by Em Petrova

    Cruel Expectations by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When his best friend’s little sister is too untamed for her own good, how can Hunter resist taking matters into his own hands? Following an op that ended the lives of several Navy SEALs in Hunter’s squadron, he struggles with survivor’s guilt. After a brother-in-arms invites him to a Montana ranch to help protect and serve in another way, Hunter is eager for the change...
  • Some Cowgirls are Worth Protecting by Natalie Dean

    Some Cowgirls are Worth Protecting by Natalie Dean

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hello readers! The next Keagans of Copper Creek story is about Hudson Keagan falling in love with one of the newcomers to town. If you’ve already read Keagans of Copper Creek Book Five, you likely have an idea who it is. Stayed tuned… it won’t be long before the rest of the description is ready...
  • 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...
  • Not Good Enough Hero: Hometown Heroes A-Z by Jo Grafford

    Not Good Enough Hero: Hometown Heroes A-Z by Jo Grafford

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a cowboy in a work release program rescues a bubbly romance author from the back of a runaway horse, she makes it her mission to convince him he’s hero material…. Saint Riley is no saint, and he certainly doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters, but the newest guest at Anderson Ranch is a big believer in stuff like that. In fact, Jana Marlowe can’t stop daydreaming about his bravery...
  • Soldier's Christmas Crush by Clara Pines

    Soldier's Christmas Crush by Clara Pines

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s snowed in with his forbidden crush—his best friend’s little sister…. Single dad Jensen Webb is completely dedicated to his toddler, Henry, and the sweet, simple life they share in small town Trinity Falls. After losing Henry’s mom, the veteran knows how lucky they are to have a big, extended family all around. But he has two regrets...
    Categorized as:
    military  western  christian  length-medium
  • Dark and Dangerous: A romantic suspense novel by April Wilson

    Dark and Dangerous: A romantic suspense novel by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ruth owns a tavern in a small town at the foot of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Jack is a retired assassin who wants to settle down and build a life for himself after completing his last job. But the Russian mafia whose leader he took out has other plans for him. Jack has been on the move for the past six months, always managing to stay one step ahead of the mob...
    Categorized as:
    military  western  mature couple
  • Dark and Dangerous by April Wilson

    Dark and Dangerous by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ruth owns a tavern in a small town at the foot of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Jack is a retired assassin who wants to settle down and build a life for himself after completing his last job. But the Russian mafia whose leader he took out has other plans for him. Jack has been on the move for the past six months, always managing to stay one step ahead of the mob...
  • A SEAL's Devotion by Cora Seton

    A SEAL's Devotion by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He’s got a secret. She’s telling lies. Anders Olsen has a big problem. When he joined forces with nine other Navy SEALs to build a model sustainable community, he didn’t know he’d be filmed—or that the resulting television show would become a nationwide sensation. Now everyone’s watching Base Camp, which means everyone’s watching him. The show’s rules dictate it’s his turn to marry...
  • Tate by Susan May Warren

    Tate by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 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...
  • Guarding Eris by Reina Torres

    Guarding Eris by Reina Torres

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Before his team even heard about the Brotherhood Protectors, Alex “Ridge” Ridgely took a trip to West Yellowstone to revisit the property his grandfather left to him near Yellowstone National Park. That’s where he met Eris Lange and spent a few days with the woman whose memory he couldn’t shake...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  military  western  length-medium
  • 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...
  • High Impact by Freya Barker

    High Impact by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 4 in the Mountain Trackers series. Full Description to follow. From brothers in arms - to teammates on horseback. Meet the men of High Mountain Trackers, a specialized, mounted, search & rescue team in the wilds of northern Montana...
  • A SEAL's Consent by Cora Seton

    A SEAL's Consent by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Navy SEAL Jericho Cook is living a lie. In order to save Base Camp, the sustainable community he’s building with his friends in Chance Creek, Montana, he must marry in the next forty days—and try for a family. But after the horrors he’s witnessed, Jericho's sworn to never put himself in charge of a child he can’t completely protect. At least he’s found the perfect wife...
    Categorized as:
    military  western  contemporary  length-short
  • The Masterson County Collection: Masterson County Books 1 Thru 4 by Calle J. Brookes

    The Masterson County Collection: Masterson County Books 1 Thru 4 by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SOMETIMES SMALL TOWNS HAVE SECRETS. Masterson, Wyoming is no exception. When the Masterson brothers meet the redheaded Tyler sisters, anything can happen. But can the brothers stop the threats coming for them all? In Seeking the Sheriff, Sheriff Joel Masterson shows up on Phoebe Tyler's doorstep with her drunken younger brother in tow. Joel takes one look at Phoebe and falls hard and fast...
  • Colorado Free Rein by Elle James

    Colorado Free Rein by Elle James

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Devin Layne, Former Green Beret from 10th Special Forces Group, returns home after a disastrous mission. Feeling less of a man due to injuries, he struggles to navigate civilian life, avoiding his former fiancée, convinced she deserves better. Horse trainer and champion barrel racer, Mallory Watts, is heartbroken when the love of her life returns from deployment but wants nothing to do with her...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  military  western  audiobook
  • The Lone Cowboy by Maggie Shayne

    The Lone Cowboy by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Originally Titled: That Mysterious Texas Brand Man and Texas Guardian. Marcus doesn’t celebrate Christmas anymore. Not since the holiday massacre of his entire family left him an orphaned child, traumatized and alone...
  • The Airman's E-Mail Order Bride by Cora Seton

    The Airman's E-Mail Order Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Tormented by the knowledge that his father died thinking the worst of him, Colt Hall never meant to come home to Chance Creek. But with his brothers banding together to rebuild the family’s old ranch, he’s finding it hard to stay away. In accordance with the conditions for them to inherit the spread, Colt must soon marry...
  • The Soldier's Daughter by AnneMarie Brear

    The Soldier's Daughter by AnneMarie Brear

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    'Mesmerising from beginning to end. ' Lizzie Lane. Yorkshire 1860. With the heat of their beloved India far behind them, Evie Davenport and her widowed British Army officer father, are starting a new life in England. But Evie is struggling. With her dearest mother gone, Yorkshire with its cold, damp countryside and strict societal rules makes Evie feel suffocated and alone...
  • 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...
  • Imperfect Justice by Olivia Jaymes

    Imperfect Justice by Olivia Jaymes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Born into a prominent ranching family and brought up in a disciplined household, Sheriff Jared Monroe has high standards of how to live his life and he doesn’t hesitate to hold the people around him to the same accountability. Misty Foster is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Her mother slept her way through the men in town and everyone thinks Misty has followed in her mother’s footsteps...
  • 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  contemporary  christian  western  m-f  audiobook
  • 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...
  • Colorado K-9 Rescue by Kathleen Donnelly

    Colorado K-9 Rescue by Kathleen Donnelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A kidnapper’s twisted game is on. And a trusty K-9 won’t let him succeed. Years after being abducted, Mckenna Parker’s worst nightmare has come true—her kidnapper is out on parole. And he’s after her again. Now an FBI victim specialist, she and her crisis canine, Mocha, have been assigned to a case with FBI agent Evan Knox. Together they must find two local girls who disappeared...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  western  audiobook
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