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What if the man you’re in love with isn’t the one you plan to marry? Wynonna Calhoun is a barrel racing champion and reality TV star. She’s sick of both of those roles and is ready to settle down like her brothers and work more with her horses. She’s also newly engaged, but everyone’s saying her fiancé isn’t right for her. Even the ranch foreman, Maverick, has put in his two cents on the topic, and he has no right when he avoids her like she’s just rolled in manure. No freakin’ way is Mav letting Wynonna marry an asshole like that. Her daddy would rise from his grave if he ...

Five brides for five brothers. At least that's the deal the Daltons have struck with their boys. Each son must marry in order to inherit a piece of the ranch they love so much. Hank Dalton yearns to run his own spread, but more than that, he longs for a woman to call his own. Paradise Valley is far from civilization, though, and that makes finding the perfect match difficult. Not many women like being two hours from a major supermarket or mall.

Good girls go to Heaven. Bad girls go to Vegas. Especially when they’re alone on Christmas. When Veronica finds herself on her own this holiday, she does what any sassy young female would do—she calls up her bestie and lures her to Vegas with plane tickets. What could be better than hitting the clubs, having a few too many and…finding a cowboy? Cutter would rather trade his boots for one of those feather Vegas showgirl outfits than spend Christmas at his big brother’s house. But after he finds a sexy little filly with a naughty side, he knows he’s hit the jackpot. Except he’s ...

When your boyfriend hands you the gift addressed to his other girlfriend… Well, that’s a doozy of a Christmas downer. Rather than cry or pout, Annabelle’s determined to make a new tradition and what better place than Paradise Valley, Texas on a ranch, where a large family and a happily married college girlfriend are ready to brighten her spirits. Case Dalton’s been living and working on his uncle’s ranch alongside his cousins for two years now. In the typical holiday spirit, chaos breaks out and he’s designated chief hospitality officer, seeing to a curvy gal who has all the ...

He has scars and a dream. She has love and a determination to prove herself. Corporal Wydell Jackson, aka Hard-Ass, is back in his hometown of Los Vista, Texas after serving years on the battlefield. Trouble is, the town is worse than a war zone after a storm ripped through it. Wydell and his platoon buddies are determined to rebuild and bring the people back to town, but how? Since Anya Carter inherited millions and a lush estate from her grandparents, her phone is always ringing with requests to “invest” in people’s dreams. But this time her money manager has found something worth ...

This special operative and a K-9 handler must work in close proximity to stop a bomber. They might kill each other...or wind up in bed. After a string of deaths are linked to a man locked up for another crime, Special Operative Alix Broshears and his team are racing against the clock to stop him before another person dies. Bringing in the gorgeous handler from a local K-9 unit makes sense—unless you ask Broshears’ libido. When it comes to the intelligent woman who thinks on her feet, his control is tested every damn minute. Vivian Valentine is up for the challenge of joining the team on...

I will live by the code of conduct…but rules are meant to be broken. Speed junkie and bodyguard Lars Ivanov steps in to guard a famous race car driver just in time to rescue a beautiful French-American press agent from a bullet too. Guarding Lillian with his body is the easy part, but discovering who is out for her blood is another story. Personally, he thinks someone is just trying to shut the irritating woman up…and who knew that’s as easy as kissing her? Lillian Delphine is only doing her job when she finds herself in the line of fire. Now she’s got a big, grumpy-looking ...

Two hot loggers combining their efforts, and too many secrets that threaten it all. Liam Mattson used to play his wife’s body like a fine violin. Until a logging accident dampened his fine motor skills and rendered his legs—and the most important part of his below-the-waist playground—useless. If only Liam would throw himself into therapy with the same vigor he used to throw her into bed, Ivy is sure he’d fully recover. But lately she’s felt adrift, while he’s stuck in self-pity and pre-occupation with a serious threat to his logging business. When Ward Bose returns from the ...

A biker in trouble. A woman who doesn’t run from it. He’s fighting a losing battle when it comes to her… Logan, aka Patriot, earned his nickname by fighting for the underdog. Only this time he’s the one being crushed under the weight of injustice when his club comes under fire with the law. While he and his brothers fight to find the true criminal, a certain reserved brunette keeps popping up everywhere he goes, making it even more impossible to ignore the things he feels for her. Can she make him see their ages don’t matter? While she focuses on striking out on her own, ...

Lil thought her thong was all she’d lose in this game of poker. The stakes are higher than she thought. On the Boot Knockers Ranch, anything goes, especially the clothes. And definitely if you’re playing poker with the hot Cajun named Bastian. Lil’s spent far too many late nights with the cowboy listening to him call by her despised full name in his Louisiana drawl. So why won’t she just walk away? Running a ranch on three hours’ sleep can’t be worth the teasing or his dark stare that leaves her squirming. Bastian has been in love with Lil since he first clapped eyes on her, but...

A hot summer fling rocked his world…and changed hers forever. Shayne isn’t sowing his wild oats—being a Boot Knocker is his life. He loves helping the women who come to The Boot Knockers Ranch, and the Montana mountains fulfill his passion for the outdoors. But there’s an opening in Texas and they want him to make the move. Then a sexy little temptress from his past shows up and leaves him spinning like a twister on the plains. Jolie thought the memories of that scorching hot cowboy were just a passing storm cloud in her sunny life. Then she saw those two little lines on a stick. ...

Something tells her she is not in Hollywood anymore… Actress Bellarose Abbott is out of her element. The moment her jet touched down in rural Washington State, she was in another world. The big hats and boots were one thing, but now she’s expected to ride a horse for this role? Crazy! And if all that wasn’t bad enough, the grumpy cowboy hired to teach her is as sexy as he is exasperating. This is going to be one long shoot… Kingsley Yates has one goal—and working on a TV series is not it. But if he wants to realize his dream of establishing a thoroughbred horse bloodline on his ...

Her confidence is shattered…until she falls into the strong arms of her past—and his best friend’s rough hands. As a model, Sloane is objectified and treated badly by men—even her baby daddy. He might be good at sending money, but he still gave up when things got tough. Now that her daughter is older, Sloane is ready for some adult time. What better way, than a week at The Boot Knockers Ranch in Alaska, being pampered…and pleasured…by hunky cowboys? It might even take her mind off the man she can’t seem to forget. When Shaw’s career as an NHL hockey player ends—and his ...

Fantasy fulfillment is their job. And they’re willing to work especially hard for her… When lawyer Sylvee got married, she thought it’d be forever. It wasn’t. Now, she’s on her own, without the baby she’d always dreamed of. Visiting her two oldest friends in Alaska seems like the perfect escape from her problems, but she didn’t expect the trip to be so…hot. Piers and his best friend (and long-time lover) Ash have a few reasons for calling Sylvee. The fact that they’ve been pining for her their whole lives is only one of them. They know she can help unravel the legal ...

Family ties run deep in the heart of Texas. Who knew that having the Dalton looks—dark hair and blue eyes—would deem Justus as a trustworthy person? That’s exactly what happens when a friend of the family turns up on the Dalton Ranch and thrusts a baby at him to watch because nobody else is home. After she leaves, he realizes he doesn’t even know her name—or how to care for an infant. Tuesday is one of the most sought-out hairstylists in three counties, and she’s got problems. Not only is she raising her irresponsible teen sister’s baby as her own but she is shorthanded in the...

Happily ever after endings don’t just happen. You have to make them happen… Aria has been an observer in her own life for far too long. She fell into acting, stumbled into a relationship, and ended up with a fiancé she doesn’t want. Well, she’s done being passive. And while escaping, runaway-bride style, wasn’t exactly her plan, she’ll make it work. Finding a new romance is the last thing she needs. Until she meets a grumpy, sexy cowboy who makes her re-think everything… Wheeler is not passive by nature. But being laid up with a broken foot is forcing him to realize he ...

It’s not easy to impress a Dalton girl… It’s not easy being a Dalton, let alone the last unmarried one of the Texas bunch. Keziah, or Kizzy, is drained by all the family weddings, and her sisters keep trying to rope and tie her to any old cowboy in the county. To ensure this doesn’t happen, she takes off for the big city and a job as assistant to none other than the smart, savvy and sexy KC Cohen, the mortgage company billionaire who sees her as something more than a cowgirl. Knox Channing Cohen has achieved his goal—to build his own billion-dollar business from the ground up and ...

Family ties run deep in the heart of Texas. Is there room in Paradise Valley for three more Daltons? Ford Dalton’s luck seems to have run out. The job he loved on the rodeo circuit left him with a back injury, and he was replaced. That’s about the time his fiancée broke things off, leaving him wondering about the next step in his life. When a frantic call for help comes from his family to come fight a wildfire in Paradise Valley, he and his brothers jump in the truck and head out. After all, what’s family for? When the crisis fades, Ford is left feeling let down—until his uncle ...

Opposites don’t only attract—they combust… Retired pilot Michael Modeen is happy to be part of the WEST Protection security team. Usually, anyway. But his current mission has him grounded—and working with a snarky and very sexy woman who happens to be his boss’s little sister. She’s totally off limits. And knowing that doesn’t make it any easier to keep his mind—or his hands—off her. Corrine Wynton would rather be raising barrel-racing horses than overseeing security on an archaeological dig. But here she is, fighting fossil hunters and her irritating, overprotective ...

A ranch on the auction block. Two bidders. Only one can win. Liberty Baker’s dream to raise horses and settle in the small town of Crossroads all comes down to an auction bid. Within heartbeats, her dreams crash and burn as Mr. Bulging Pockets steps in and swipes the ranch out from under her. The fact he’s a hunky bachelor—with an icy blue stare so direct she feels it in places no woman ever should—only makes things worse when he proposes that she should become his ranch hand. She has an idea of the kind of hand he needs, and washing his dishes and picking up his dirty socks isn’t...