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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
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    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...
  • Cowboy Under Siege by Em Petrova

    Cowboy Under Siege by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone wants her for her money. But what he wants comes with a bigger price—her heart.Jaren Abel, new bodyguard on the WEST Protection team, will try anything once. Which is how he ends up on the back of a bull, hoping to snag the attention of a stunning rodeo trick rider. Jaren doesn’t do relationships, so one night is all he’s willing to commit to...
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  • Her Brand of Justice by B.J. Daniels

    Her Brand of Justice by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Exploring her hidden past May rob her of her future Ansley Brookshire’s search for her birth mother takes her from the gated estate where she grew up to Lonesome, Montana. This is where she meets Buck Crawford. Determined to help, the gorgeous rancher introduces her to Colt Brothers Investigations...
  • 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: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Maggie Shayne

    Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Back from the Dead? Ben Brand is still in mourning for his long lost wife, Penny. It’s been two years since she died in a fiery car wreck leaving her wedding band as the only identifiable thing on her body...
  • Lonestar Secrets by Colleen Coble

    Lonestar Secrets by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Can a secret be kept forever? Five years ago, Shannon Astor left the beautiful high-mountain country of West Texas as a single mother. She was desperate for a fresh start...and a way to keep the secrets of her past buried. It almost worked. Until a chance to make a better life for her daughter leads her right back home. To the very place of the past betrayals...
  • Lonestar Angel by Colleen Coble

    Lonestar Angel by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Eden's hope is rekindled when Clay delivers astounding news: their daughter has been found. Five years ago Eden and Clay Larson's baby was stolen and never found. Eden blamed herself, Clay lost himself in work. Their young and rocky marriage ended. Or so Eden thought. Now Eden's moved to a new town. She's found faith and is trying to rebuild her life...
  • Finding Dandi by Sable Hunter

    Finding Dandi by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LOVE IS PATIENT. LOVE IS KIND. Lucas thinks he has his life mapped out until fate throws a curvy little dancer in his lap. Soon he finds that it will take more than success or status to make him happy – it will take Dandi. LOVE IS NOT RUDE, IT IS NOT SELF-SEEKING, LOVE KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONGS Dandi can’t change her past, but she can keep from hurting Lucas...
  • The Cowboy Rescues a Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy Rescues a Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ned Matheson is sharing a house with the woman he loves, but he can’t kiss her, or even touch her. In fact, she can barely look him in the face. He knows he needs to be patient; Fila Sahar has been to hell and back as a captive of the Taliban for over a decade. Now she’s safely back on American soil, but her fears hem her in so tightly, she might as well be a prisoner again...
  • Royal Atlas by H.J. Bellus

    Royal Atlas by H.J. Bellus

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love struck me at the early age of five. The boy turned into a man, and I fell even deeper. Guy Webb had no idea my fragile heart belonged to him for so many years. He was too busy being my brother’s best friend and a star on the football field. He was my daydream, and consumed every single thought, but he was always one step from my reach. Beartooth Ranch was our home...
  • High Ground by Freya Barker

    High Ground by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Not much has gone according to plan for mechanic, Pippa Freling, recently. With lots of bridges burned behind her, she decides to stick close to her sister and give Montana a try. Things are looking up when she joins a local group of animal activists, buys an auto shop for a steal, and even tries her luck with the opposite sex...
  • Garrett by Linda Lael Miller

    Garrett by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Fast track up the political ladder, fast cars, fast women, that's Garrett McKettrick. Make that was. A scandal has brought him home to Blue River, Texas, a place where a man can slow down, take stock and plan his next move. Which doesn't include staying at the family ranch with his brothers. A city boy, Garrett does not think he has the land in his blood...
  • Justice Inked by Olivia Jaymes

    Justice Inked by Olivia Jaymes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sheriff Dare Turner is known for his ever-present scowl and general bad mood. Between a teenage sister who thinks she’s all grown up and a killer on the loose he doesn’t have much to smile about these days. He simply doesn’t have time for fun and games. Rayne Dunn is half free spirit and half workaholic...
  • High Meadow by Freya Barker

    High Meadow by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An emergency call to pick up an injured stallion on the side of the road sends Alexandra Hart, the new owner of Hart's Horse Rescue, into action. A recent addition to the area, she is not impressed when the animal's taciturn owner shows up. With his less-than-stellar disposition, he’s the kind of man she normally avoids at all costs, unfortunately, he owns the ranch just down the road...
  • High Stakes by Freya Barker

    High Stakes by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her sister, Pippa, goes missing, Nella Freling tells her boss she’s taking time off from her job as a research librarian, hops in her sensible van, and heads south of the border to Montana. However, local police don’t seem too concerned about a missing woman living in her motorhome...
  • Lonestar Homecoming by Colleen Coble

    Lonestar Homecoming by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be...and the one place she must return. With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so long ago...
  • Against the Odds by Kat Martin

    Against the Odds by Kat Martin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This case may prove to be too hot to handle. There's silver out there: Sabrina Eckhart is sure of it. And when she finds the hidden mine on that big piece of West Texas desert, all of her financial problems are solved. That is, if she can find it. The man with the skills she needs is private investigator Alex Justice—a former navy fighter pilot and a current pain in the neck...
  • Against the Sun by Kat Martin

    Against the Sun by Kat Martin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin comes another thrilling story in The Raines of Wind Canyon series. It’s not in bodyguard Jake Cantrell’s job description to share his suspicions with his assignments. Beautiful executive Sage Dumont may be in charge, but Jake’s not on her payroll...
  • Cowboy Reckoning by Barb Han

    Cowboy Reckoning by Barb Han

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Intent on proving her brother was murdered a decade ago, Ensley Cartier returns to the one place she vowed to never set foot in again. With the whole town against her, she finds an ally in Levi McGannon. He loves the land and the ranching way of life, but they quickly discover Cattle Cove isn’t the innocent town he once believed and somebody wants Ensley buried along with their secrets...
  • My Favorite Cowboy by Donna Grant

    My Favorite Cowboy by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant rounds up the hottest cowboys in Texas in her latest novel of no-holds-barred passion.Audrey Martinez is a veterinarian who has devoted her whole life to the care and protection of horses―even if doing so leaves her little time for meeting a man...
  • Long, Tall Texans by Diana Palmer

    Long, Tall Texans by Diana Palmer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    ETHAN Arabella Craig was eighteen when Ethan Hardeman first opened her eyes to passion…and then turned around and married another woman. Four years later, tragedy brings Ethan, still just as tall and handsome, but newly divorced and bitter, back into her life. He runs his family's cattle empire with an iron hand, yet he refuses to loosen his grip on the reins holding back his heart...
  • Rafe by Kathy Ivan

    Rafe by Kathy Ivan

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Sheriff Rafe Boudreau catches Tessa Maxwell climbing through the window of a house where she doesn’t belong, the crime rate isn’t the only thing that spikes. Turns out, trouble has followed the small-town schoolteacher to Shiloh Springs, and Rafe and the rest of the Boudreau clan must step in to keep her safe...
  • Brash by Laura Wright

    Brash by Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of the Cavanaugh Brothers novels returns to the Cavanaugh’s Texas Triple C ranch as the brothers confront the painful memories of their childhood and the truth about their sister’s murder… No matter how many fights UFC champion Cole Cavanaugh wins, he can’t rid himself of the guilt of not having saved his twin sister’s life...
  • The Baddest Virgin in Texas by Maggie Shayne

    The Baddest Virgin in Texas by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jessi Brand decided she wanted Lash Monroe. He was the man she'd saved herself for. But this male was going to need some convincing - Lash had vowed never to settle down - but he couldn't get Jessi out of his mind. And he couldn't resist her tempting offer. But when he discovered Jessi was pregnant with his child, everything changed...
  • The Man from Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller

    The Man from Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller presents the Stone Creek story that started it all…When trouble strikes in Haven, Arizona, Ranger Sam O'Ballivan is determined to sort it out. Badge and gun hidden, he arrives posing as the new schoolteacher, and discovers his first task: bringing the ranchers' children under control...
  • Wedding at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

    Wedding at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The highly anticipated continuation of the Cardwell Ranch Collection, read by more than 2 MILLION! Jackson Cardwell won't stop until she is safe. In Montana for his brother's nuptials, Jackson Cardwell isn't looking to be anybody's hero. But the Texas single father knows a beautiful lady in distress when he meets her. Someone's hell-bent on making Allie Taylor think she's losing her mind...
  • Mercy by B.J. Daniels

    Mercy by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The hunt for a killer leads to a battle between justice and desire… For U.S. marshal Rourke Kincaid, there's the law…and then there's his law. When the two don't agree, he always trusts his instincts. A killing spree has gripped the Northwest, showing a strange connection that only he sees, and now the old rules of justice no longer apply...
  • Lucky Shot by B.J. Daniels

    Lucky Shot by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's determined to uncover the truth behind a decades-old disappearance—even if it kills him... When hotshot reporter Max Malone gets a rare shot of Buckmaster Hamilton with a blonde woman near Beartooth, Montana, he chases down one of the senator's daughters to verify that the woman is his supposedly long-dead first wife...
  • Honor Bound by B.J. Daniels

    Honor Bound by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Protecting her life will mean betraying her trust  Ainsley Hamilton has always been the responsible one of the family. As the oldest daughter of presidential candidate Buckmaster Hamilton, she's also a potential target. For months she's sensed someone following her...
  • Rescue at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

    Rescue at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The highly anticipated continuation of the   Cardwell Ranch Collection read by more than  2 MILLION! Saving her once was risky. Rescuing her again may be fatal.   When Hayes Cardwell arrived in Big Sky, Montana, for his brother's wedding, the Texas P.I. didn't expect to play hero. But ever since he saved her from a brutal abductor, he can't get McKenzie Sheldon out of his mind and heart...
  • Summer Nights with a Cowboy by Caitlin Crews

    Summer Nights with a Cowboy by Caitlin Crews

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    USA Today bestseller Caitlin Crews returns with Summer Nights with a Cowboy, another emotional romance in her stunning cowboy series Kittredge Ranch….He doesn’t believe in love…Traveling nurse Janie Atwood has come to Cold River to uncover old family secrets and maybe, if she’s lucky, find a new home...
  • Christmas at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

    Christmas at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AT CARDWELL RANCH, THE HOLIDAYS CAN BE BRUTAL… It had been years since Tanner "Tag" Cardwell's boots touched Montana soil. This Christmas he was determined to change that. Until a run-in with local Lily McCabe revealed dark secrets from his past and deep trouble for his future. Cowboys came and went in these parts...
  • The Cowboy's Virgin by Emerson Rose, LM Book Creations

    The Cowboy's Virgin by Emerson Rose, LM Book Creations

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Beau Hill is the one person on this Earth I was raised to loathe. His sparkling blue eyes, dimpled smile, and dusty Stetson may work like Kryptonite on every other girl in these parts, but they don’t work on me. A studious, virginal veterinary scholar like myself would never be caught dead falling for the charms and graces of the town’s most notorious horse-riding, cattle-roping Casanova...
  • Taming Alex by Jill Sanders

    Taming Alex by Jill Sanders

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alexis has always been the wild child. She’s the girl everyone always gossips about behind her back. Now that she's engaged to the town’s bad boy, Travis, she finally thinks she's heading in the right direction. Then life throws a tall, dark, and good man her way and causes her whole world to shake. Grant's back in town...
  • This Calder Sky by Janet Dailey

    This Calder Sky by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The great Calder empire stretched across the Montana plains as far as the eye could see. Everyone knew a Calder's word was law and that one day Chase Calder would carry the family name to new glories. But for handsome, arrogant Chase Calder there was also beautiful Maggie O'Rourke, who came to him in innocence and stirred in him a deep, insistent longing...
  • Against the Storm by Kat Martin

    Against the Storm by Kat Martin

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some women find trouble wherever they go. And some men are their only protection against it. Redheads like Maggie O'Connell are nothing but trouble. But Trace Rawlins, a former army ranger turned private investigator, takes the case anyway. After all, he knows a thing or two about women. Trace can sense that something is wrong--Maggie isn't telling him everything...
  • Promise, Texas: A Bestselling Western Romance by Debbie Macomber

    Promise, Texas: A Bestselling Western Romance by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    www.DebbieMacomber.comLet Debbie Macomber take you into the HEART OF TEXAS In Promise, Texas, people know what really matters—family, friends, community. And they know that love gives meaning to every day of their lives…. Some of the people in Promise are from old ranching families—like the Westons and Pattersons—folks who arrived in the Hill Country more than a century ago...
  • Lonestar Sanctuary by Colleen Coble

    Lonestar Sanctuary by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the quiet safety of the Bluebird Ranch, old promises resurface and unexpected love brings new hope. Though tragedy has wrecked her life, Allie Siders holds on to the hope that her five-year-old daughter, Betsy, will speak again. But with a stalker out for revenge, all Allie can think about now is their safety. She must sever all ties and abandon life as she knows it...
  • Branded by B.J. Daniels

    Branded by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Responding to a 911 call, Whitehorse Deputy Halley Robinson is stunned to find herself face-to-face with her teenage crush, Colton Chisholm. The schoolboy who had teased her is now a strong and sexy man—and he's on a mission to solve a case! But if he plans on unmasking a killer, he's going to need her help...
  • Atonement by B.J. Daniels

    Atonement by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Just how far are people willing to go to keep their secrets? Protecting the citizens of Beartooth, Montana, is never an easy job. One year later, Sheriff Dillon Lawson still feels guilty that he couldn't save his twin brother, Ethan. But the biggest test of his bravery comes when Tessa Winters arrives, claiming to be pregnant…with Ethan's baby...
  • Redemption by B.J. Daniels

    Redemption by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The hunt for justice…and love…begins Jack French has had two long years of prison- ranch labor to focus on starting over, cleaning up his act and making things right. When he comes home to close-knit Beartooth, Montana, he's bent on leveling the score with the men who set him up. The one thing he doesn't factor into his plans is beautiful Kate LaFond...
  • Cowgirl Crazy by Becky McGraw

    Cowgirl Crazy by Becky McGraw

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cowboys are a different breed... They work hard, play hard and love harder. It's all about the ride, until the right woman makes them fall. Twyla Taylor is one frustrated cowgirl. She's not winning at barrel racing or in love. She's spent ten years nursing a crush on her brother's best friend, Ryan Easter, who thinks of her as no more than his little sister...
  • Captive Cowboy by Lindsey Brookes

    Captive Cowboy by Lindsey Brookes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All work and no play just like his father had done leaves Brandon Barnes, the 'Ogre of Lone Tree', on the outside looking in when it comes to those around him. A man whose trust has been broken, leaving his heart guarded. Megan McKinney, determined to put her painful past behind her, ends up stranded in Lone Tree, Montana...
  • Into Dust by B.J. Daniels

    Into Dust by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Montana Hamiltons by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels A Texas cowboy comes to her rescue but who is he really? As the daughter of a presidential candidate, and an identical twin, Cassidy Hamilton left the Montana family ranch to escape the notoriety and live her own life. But when someone tries to abduct her off a Houston sidewalk, Cassidy longs for the cavalry...
  • Cowboy, Cross My Heart by Donna Grant

    Cowboy, Cross My Heart by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant takes you deep inside the Texas rodeo scene, where danger and desire ride side by side. . . Naomi Pierce isn't the type to let a cowboy sweep her off feet. It's not her first rodeo, after all...
  • Merry Christmas Cowboy by Maisey Yates

    Merry Christmas Cowboy by Maisey Yates

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the snow falls on Four Corners Ranch, all this untamed cowboy wants for Christmas is the family he’s never had…Cowboy Wolf Garrett is delighted his brother is happily married—really, he is. But time can never heal Wolf’s own wounds, so being surrounded by such marital joy is a bit…much. A trip to his extended family’s ranch in Copper Ridge seems the ideal change of scenery...
  • The Makings of a Good Man by Lietha Wards

    The Makings of a Good Man by Lietha Wards

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beth Winters had a secret. Something that she couldn't share with anyone, but when they moved to a small town in Montana, it was in jeopardy of being known, especially when her father forced her to take a job with a local cattleman. Marshal Davis had the way of finding the truth in anything, and his attraction to Beth made him more determined to get to the bottom of things...
  • Montana Sunset by Lietha Wards

    Montana Sunset by Lietha Wards

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meagan was running from her mother and stepfather, trying to stay invisible, but when she ended up working as a groom on a cattle ranch, she caught the attention of Adam Wightman. Although she was deeply attracted to him, she just couldn't get involved for secrets of her own. Adam came from a long line of cowboys...
  • Wild Horses by B.J. Daniels

    Wild Horses by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It took only one impusive moment on an empty two-lane highway to cost her everything. A man's responsible for his own prosperity—especially if he's Cooper Burnett, the most determined cowboy in the West. No one knows what he sacrificed to claim a piece of Beartooth, Montana, for himself and his beautiful fiancée, Livie...
  • Lone Rider by B.J. Daniels

    Lone Rider by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When danger claims her, rescue comes from the one man she least expects... A cowgirl at heart, Bo Hamilton does her best thinking in wide-open spaces. So when money goes missing from the family foundation she runs—meaning one of her trusted, ragtag employees is a thief—Bo rides into the Crazy Mountains to figure things out...
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