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The Man Who Loved Cole Flores by K.A. Merikan
You want revenge? Dig two graves. Ten years ago, a vicious gang called the Gotham Boys descended on a homestead in the mountains like a pack of wolves, leaving nothing behind but death and destruction. Ned O’Leary was the only one to survive the ordeal. He lost hope for revenge long ago, but its flame erupts in his heart when the gang is spotted again...Categorized as:
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The Trust We Broke by S. Cole
From USA Today best selling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying second chance romance with extreme 'hands-off-my-ex-wife' vibes romance. Lucy. With my law degree and a life in New York, I convinced myself I'd moved on. But the second I saw Grudge again, all rough edges and rage, I couldn't breathe. He's now a biker forged in fury, and looks at me like I'm responsible... -
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Anti-Hero by Kelly Fox
Spoiler This isn't some sad exploration of my tragic past. I have a list of the people who bought and sold me. And they aren't getting a redemption arc. I was luckier than most. I was rescued by a team of guys who search out people like me, and now I get to work with them. But I'm not the hero of this story. I don't forgive. I don't forget... -
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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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...Categorized as:
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High Frequency by Freya Barker
When 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... -
Right Number, Wrong Man by I.M. Wraith
"Right Number, Wrong Man" is a spicy, hate to love, secret identity dark romcom with a pierced and masked MMC. Colton. Hailey has hated me for as long as I’ve loved her… and I’ve loved her in secret for a very long time. 16 years ago I fell for her at first sight, but a misunderstanding made me the villain in her story. To add insult to injury, she married my good-for-nothing brother... -
Into the Sun: A Sovereign Mountain Novella by Raya Morris Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInto the Sun is the accompanying novella for Jensen, the fourth book in the Sovereign Mountain Series. It follows Jensen and Della years after their marriage and provides a glimpse into their family and future in Montana. This novella must be read after completing Jensen, but is not necessary to reading Jensen and Della's full story. -
Lassoed Hearts by DeathsDoll
She went to the West to marry her childhood sweetheart but finds her life totally turned upside down when she catches the obsessive gaze of a charming, but deadly, outlaw. -
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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Savior Complex by Kelly Fox
Love isn't something I get to wish for. Ten years ago, my nephew was sold to traffickers, and it was my fault. I spent the next decade doggedly searching for him in the most awful places imaginable, unable to stop until I knew he was safe. I finally track him down to Wild Heart Ranch, an equine therapy center in the heart of Texas with a secret mission to help victims of trafficking...Categorized as:
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Bourbon & Lies by Victoria Wilder
In Fiasco, Kentucky, there is one rule: never fall for a Foxx brother. Any woman who did, ended up dead—or so the rumor goes. Townies call it a curse. But I’ve lived it, and I won’t survive it again. I’m not a cop anymore, but I’ve seen enough danger to know that Laney Young, the beautiful stranger who just showed up in my small town, is running from it... -
West Bound by Maggie Rawdon
When I’m stalked and kidnapped from the convent by my father’s enemy, a cowboy hellbent on revenge, everything changes. I’m torn from my cloistered life of simplicity, thrown into the center of a bitter fight, and held at his mercy in a small cabin in the middle of the Colorado wilderness. There could be a silver lining though... -
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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... -
Sweet Beloved by Raya Morris Edwards
Sweet Beloved is the accompanying novella set seventeen years after Deacon. It is an extended epilogue/accompanying novella to Deacon and cannot be read as a standalone. It is related to the Sovereign Mountain Series and must be read after reading Deacon, the third book. -
Ravenous by Thea Lawrence
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsRipley Winter’s demons have haunted her for years, begging her to embrace the darkness that’s always dwelled within her. After spending far too long beneath her abusive boyfriend’s thumb, she’s finally indulged in the unthinkable... -
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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Jensen by Raya Morris Edwards
All Roads Lead to Sovereign Mountain. After a difficult start in Kentucky, Jensen Childress has spent the last twenty years living out his childhood dream of being a cowboy. Single and guarded, he’s evaded his past and the man who ruined his life by keeping his head down in Montana. Until one night, he meets Della, a captivating woman who steals his heart... -
The Endless Fall by Emmerson Hoyt
Willa Dunn is finally getting the hell out of Deadwood—but first she needs to tell her overprotective family that she’s leaving. For years she’s dreamed of escaping the small town that refuses to let her forget the past, but when Ryker Bennett—her childhood bully and brother’s best friend—comes back to East Texas, all her plans go up in smoke...Categorized as:
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Darling Bride by Raya Morris Edwards
Darling Bride is the accompanying novella set after Westin. It is an extended epilogue/accompanying novella to Westin and cannot be read as a standalone. It is part of the Sovereign Mountain Series and must be read after reading Westin, book two in the Sovereign Mountain Series. -
Pushing Limits by Emma Creed
Join these dark, dirty, and corrupt cowboys on the Carson's ranch. Where boundaries are pushed, laws are broken and limits get tested. .. I’m the quiet one,. The one who everyone assumes is dead inside. But they're wrong. If you're dead inside you can’t feel pain…. And pain is what consumes me. I’ve experienced love. I’ve suffered from it. And I’ve lost it... -
Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry
From USA Today Bestselling Author Devney Perry comes a small town, enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance. Winslow Covington believes in life, liberty and the letter of the law. As Quincy, Montana’s new chief of police, she’s determined to prove herself to the community and show them she didn’t earn her position because her grandfather is the mayor...Categorized as:
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Breaking Limits by Emma Creed
Join 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 easy. But the truth would break her...Categorized as:
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Steel & Sin by Ria Wilde
Knox. Working the ranch is the only thing I live for. It's hard work, long days, but it's all I know. I like being alone and being out here in the valleys of the mountains gives me the seclusion I crave. So when a gorgeous stranger takes shelter in one of my barns, I wonder how the hell she got there. But she isn't just anyone... -
Smokin' Hot by Abbi Glines
The mafia south of the Mason Dixon line is ruled by possessive, controlling, dangerous, alphas. Except for one. Saxon Houston has grown up the best friend of the mafia boss’s youngest son. He knew one day he’d have to play a role in the life his father and grandfather are a part of...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... -
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... -
Whispers of Helena by Ashley Warren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHelena. Taking the job at Devil’s Ridge Ranch was supposed to be simple: care for a little boy and keep my head down. But the moment I stepped onto this land, I felt the weight of it, the history, the loss, the tension that clings to the air like an approaching storm. And then there’s Silas Hayes. Every glance from him, every brush of his hand, unravels me in ways I haven’t felt in years...Categorized as:
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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... -
Bourbon & Secrets by Victoria Wilder
In Fiasco, Kentucky, there is one rule: never fall for a Foxx brother. Any woman who did, ended up dead. It wasn’t just a rumor. It was my reality. I buried my wife along with too many secrets surrounding the night she died. Now, I’m a single dad with two priorities above everything else: raising my two girls and making great bourbon...Categorized as:
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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... -
Smoke Bomb by Abbi Glines
Huck. Two 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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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... -
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 Cowboy. A 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... -
Sins of the Orchid by Eva Winners
Fashion heiress. Head of Cosa Nostra. Unlikely best friend. Born into one of the richest families on the East Coast, Amore’s world changes overnight. From a leading fashion house heiress to the daughter of a powerful mobster. Amore Bennetti struggles early on to find her path in an unfamiliar world after witnessing the death of her mother... -
Comanche Moon by Catherine Anderson
Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his control—or his touch...Categorized as:
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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... -
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... -
Sinner & Saint by J.L. Beck
I’ve always been the good girl. The preacher’s daughter. The town’s saint. The one who never strays from the rules. Until one reckless night changes everything. Calder Bishop is the monster I’ve been warned about my entire life. Heir to the most feared family in Black Hollow Creek. Rancher by day, enforcer by night... -
Live for Me by Brittany Ann
This is a dark cowboy romance set at Hallow Ranch, home of the Langston Brothers and their morally grey ranch hands. Beau. I made a promise long ago to protect her. As we grew up, I fell in love with her. I was ready to give her everything, to be anything she wanted. Then, instead of riding off into the sunset together, she left me broken and confused. Six years later, I thought I was over her...Categorized as:
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Cowboy Bikers MC Lawmen: Fisher by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCowboy Bikers MC Lawmen have a keen eye for justice and catching killers, but also for finding the one woman who jolts their heart at first sight. Fisher - My mind is still plagued by the last serial killer case I worked on when a private investigator swings by the ranch, asking for our help. I feel a connection, with the woman, as well as the case. Maybe this time, I will get my revenge... -
Biker's Enemy: Property of Cash by Jamila Jasper
He likes his women dark-skinned, very plus-sized and unable to run away from him. Juliette's best friend Quin suffered a tragedy that forced her to stay confined to her house for years. .. When Quin emerges with her dark secret and 130 lbs of weight gain, she turns to her bestie in Santa Fe for help...Categorized as:
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Chasing Snowfall : An Enemies to Lovers, Small Town Romantic Suspense by Anastasia Wilder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe day Charlotte Adler decided to stop running from her past, she found herself in the sleepy town of Silver Rapids, Wyoming, trading a fancy high-rise in Boston for a small bungalow and a luxury SUV for a horse. As long as she kept a low profile, no one would find her— and no one would get hurt...Categorized as:
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Stay for Me: A Hallow Ranch Novel by Brittany Ann
This is a dark cowboy romance set at Hallow Ranch, home of the Langston Brothers and their morally grey ranch hands. Mags. Peace. After spending a half a lifetime in hell and the other half in a warzone, peace was all I wanted. Over a decade ago, I came to Hallow Ranch after leaving the Marines, thinking that’s what I would find. Peace. Solitude. Maybe even a shred of happiness... -
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... -
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
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... -
Straight Fire by Abbi Glines
Twisted, unhinged, insane—all words used to describe Gage Presley by those closest to him. A pretty boy with a face that misleads you. He’s one of the deadliest members of The Family. Five years ago, his possessiveness and insane jealousy over a girl unleashed his crazy and in the wake of his retaliation he was given the prison or the United States Marines...Categorized as:
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