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  • Cherished Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Cherished Enough by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Morgan Shaw is my soulmate. She has no idea how much I desire her to fill the needs I crave. I've dedicated the last four years to learning everything I could about her. If my desire for her ever came to light before she realized how much she loved me, I would be labeled a stalker.Some might find it a little creepy how I watch her every move. I find it exhilarating...
  • Pretend To Be My Cowboy: A Sweet Small-Town Romance by Sophia Quinn

    Pretend To Be My Cowboy: A Sweet Small-Town Romance by Sophia Quinn

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The only way to keep her safe is to make everyone think she’s his...Inheriting the ranch in Montana after her estranged father’s death is a surprise, but finding out she’s one of seven daughters is the real shock. And now Emma has to track them all down in order to sell? Oh yeah, this short trip to the middle of nowhere just got a whole lot more complicated...
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  • Just One Date by Chris Keniston

    Just One Date by Chris Keniston

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Home for a family wedding, Chase Baron has a plan to avoid his grandfather’s matchmaking—hire an actress to be his date. No strings and no commitments is just the ticket for no complications. When CJ Lawson’s ditzy sister takes a last minute acting role out of town, CJ has to take over her sister’s local job —cozying up to a wealthy and sinfully handsome billionaire...
  • Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend

    Rocky Mountain Desire by Vivian Arend

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he d be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else the chance to drop-kick his heart. Physical pleasure? Hell, yeah, he ll take and give with gusto, but nothing more...
  • Saving Amanda by Elle James

    Saving Amanda by Elle James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Cowboy Stealing My Heart by Jessie Gussman

    Cowboy Stealing My Heart by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five divorces, three boys, one snowstorm and two people who want to be anywhere other than where they are. Only God could use it all to make a beautiful love story.Bellamy Levine is the highest paid actress in Hollywood, but she just inked her name on her fifth divorce settlement and her personal life is in shambles. Again.She vows it’s for the last time...
  • The Cowboy Imports a Bride by Cora Seton

    The Cowboy Imports a Bride by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Rob Matheson's a fighter. Flattening enemies with his fists or with his legendary practical jokes, he's a tough enemy, and a troublesome friend. But Rob doesn't know how much longer he can keep up the act. As his buddies get married one by one, he's left with his lonely life - and the sinking feeling he lost more than his dreams when he traded them for a thick skin...
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    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western  north-america  usa  montana
  • Playing with You by Cheyenne McCray

    Playing with You by Cheyenne McCray

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ricki Sparks knows she can make a mean red velvet cake but can’t believe she’s let herself be talked into a blind date. When she opens the door to see the man she’s been secretly sweet on since the first day he walked into her bakery, she fears her heart will be demolished. At least she knows she’s in for a wild ride...
  • Mother Bucker by Elle Thorpe

    Mother Bucker by Elle Thorpe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Getting pregnant then realising your baby daddy is a cheating, lying, scumbag? That happened.But then Abel James walks into my life. One hot look from the broad-shouldered cowboy and I’m ready for all the sexy fun I won’t be having once I start showing.Only one problem. He’s my father’s best friend and almost twenty years older than me.He’s off limits. I’m completely forbidden...
  • A Real Cowboy Never Says No by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Never Says No by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe delivers a brand new series set in Rogue Valley, Wyoming, home to the Stockton brothers, a clan of fiercely loyal and honorable men, and the women who touch the hearts of these rugged, loner cowboys. The only reason rancher Chase Stockton and his brothers survived their brutal childhood was because they protected each other...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  humor  western  contemporary
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  suspense  contemporary  mystery  western
  • Falling for the Cowboy by Kennedy Fox

    Falling for the Cowboy by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Never trust a man who wears nothing more than a cowboy hat and ripped jeans who asks if you’d like to save a horse and ride a... well, you get the picture. That should’ve been enough for me to walk away. I’ve been warned on several occasions about southern men—with their sexy accents, charming manners, and the ability to easily get any woman in bed—which is something I’ll be avoiding...
  • Jake by Raeann Blake

    Jake by Raeann Blake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Christopher Davis Reardon's wife died young, leaving him with two small boys to raise on his own. Jake and Davis were typical boys, but good kids. Mr. Reardon lived to see them both grow into the kind of men any father would be proud to call his sons. Respect for others, right from wrong, honesty, and the value of family were among the many things he taught his boys...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western  usa  north-america  texas  nevada
  • The Rebel by Lena Hendrix

    The Rebel by Lena Hendrix

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    I was supposed to lay low while my Hollywood drama blew over. Not fall for a man with golden retriever energy who isn’t afraid to take what he wants. I was supposed to lay low while my Hollywood drama blew over. Not fall for a man with golden retriever energy who isn’t afraid to take what he wants...
  • Sweet Prairie Passion by Rosanne Bittner

    Sweet Prairie Passion by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Where the mountains reared up to kiss the sky, where the land stretched out to a vast, distant sea -- that's where Abigail Trent was heading. But the moment the spirited lovely girl set eyes on the handsome Cheyenne brave, she instantly knew that no life was worth living if it wasn't by the side of the Indian scout...
  • Hot Cowboy Nights by Carolyn Brown

    Hot Cowboy Nights by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LET'S GIVE 'EM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT . . . If gossip is the lifeblood of a small town, then Lizzy Logan has been its beating heart. After being dumped by her fiancé for another woman, she could have decided to crawl under a rock. But no, she'd rather really set tongues wagging by "moving on" with one of the hottest cowboys in Texas, who happens to live next door at the Lucky Penny Ranch...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary
  • Shifting Calder Wind by Janet Dailey

    Shifting Calder Wind by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chase Calder has no recollection of who he is, why he came to Fort Worth...or who tried to put a bullet in his head the night that a cowboy named Laredo Smith saved his life. Laredo recognizes him as the owner of Montana’s Triple C Ranch—but according to the local papers, Chase has just been declared dead, the victim of a fiery car crash. The only place Chase can find answers is at the Triple C..
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western
  • Carter by Jennifer Ashley

    Carter by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carter Sullivan, foster brother in the famous Campbell family, never had it easy. He was an abused kid, tortured by dealers, in and out of juvenile detention, until he was sent to the Circle C Ranch to be fostered. Life got better, but when Carter was eighteen, his ex-girlfriend pushed his baby daughter into his arms and took off, never to be seen again...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary  sweet heroine
  • Mason by SJ McCoy

    Mason by SJ McCoy

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mason Remington fell in love with his little brother's best friend, Gina, when she was still in high school. It seemed they'd found their forever early in life. But somehow it all went wrong. Now--ten years later--Gina's back in town. This time he doesn't intend to let her leave...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary
  • The Man from Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller

    The Man from Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 16 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...
  • Dakota Home by Debbie Macomber

    Dakota Home by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This town is coming back to life!   People have started moving to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota—people like Lindsay Snyder, who came as a teacher and stayed, marrying local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's best friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of satisfaction. And the same kind of love...
  • Mistletoe Cowboy by Carolyn Brown

    Mistletoe Cowboy by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    'Tis the season for... A matchmaking grandma on a long-disantance mission Mistletoe temptation in every doorway A sexy cowboy with a killer smile When Gran Presely agrees to sell Creed Riley the Rockin' C Ranch for a song at Christmastime, he can hardly believe his good fortune. There's just one little catch-her tantalizing granddaughter Sage is part of the deal..
  • A Christmas Nanny for the Cowboy by Mia Brody

    A Christmas Nanny for the Cowboy by Mia Brody

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Gruff cowboy seeks nanny for hire. Must love babies, flannel, and kissing under the mistletoe.MicahI didn’t ask Santa for a baby for Christmas. But the precious bundle that was left on my doorstep needs me and I won’t let her down. Problem is I can’t run the Christmas tree ranch and care for a little one.So I ask Santa to send me a nanny for Christmas who can help me with my new daughter...
  • Mystic Cowboy by Sarah M. Anderson

    Mystic Cowboy by Sarah M. Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One good man could drive her all kinds of crazy. Men of the White Sandy , Book 1 Just who does Rebel Runs Fast think he is? Dr. Madeline Mitchell, the new doctor on the White Sandy Lakota Indian Reservation, knows there’s a good answer to that question. Somewhere...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  indigenous-mc  m-f  western  contemporary
  • Colt's Choice by Patrice Michelle

    Colt's Choice by Patrice Michelle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    COLT'S CHOICE is novel length and is the third book in the Bad in Boots series. Elise has never really felt settled, be it in relationships or her career. Regardless of her nomadic ways, one constant has always held true--her love for horses and being outdoors. When she inherits half-ownership to a rodeo ranch, she realizes her path in life has finally been laid...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western  suspense  alpha male
  • The Outlaw by Lily Graison

    The Outlaw by Lily Graison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sarah Hartford always dreamed of a grand adventure. She just never expected to find it in the arms of an outlaw.When her father’s bank is robbed, Sarah doesn’t make the gunslingers’ escape easy. Putting her own safety behind those she hopes to protect backfires when she’s kidnapped by one of the escaping men...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western
  • The Fight for Identity by Andrew Grey

    The Fight for Identity by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will Martin’s racist father, Kevin, hates Native Americans and wants to keep them off his property, never mind that part of the ranch land is sacred ground for the Sioux. When they request access for prayer, Kevin refuses—but Will doesn’t share his father’s views. Ever since he first saw Takoda Red Bird during one of the Sioux sacred ceremonies, Will has been fascinated...
  • The Rancher's Nanny by Sam Crescent

    The Rancher's Nanny by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Caleb Pole has sworn off women. After his completely selfish wife, who wanted nothing to do with his ranch or their daughter, divorced him, he truly believes there is no woman out there for him. But his little girl is getting older, and he can’t keep relying on his mother. There’s only one solution … a nanny...
  • To Tame a Wild Cowboy by Lori Wilde

    To Tame a Wild Cowboy by Lori Wilde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What would it take to tame a wild cowboy? One minute, Rhett Lockhart is a love ‘em and leave ‘em bull rider with a slow, sexy smile, a swagger, and not a care in the world. The next, he learns his free-wheeling days are over: a baby has been abandoned in the hospital, and there’s no question: he’s the father...
  • How to Marry a Cowboy by Carolyn Brown

    How to Marry a Cowboy by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rancher Mason Harper’s two little girls want nothing more than a mama of their own. So when a pretty woman appears on his front porch in a tattered wedding dress, while Mason’s looking for a nanny, he can’t help but wonder if it’s fate. Annie Rose Boudreaux is in a downright hellish mess...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary  single-father
  • Her Fated Cowboy by Donna Michaels

    Her Fated Cowboy by Donna Michaels

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    L.A. cop, Jordan Masters Ryan has a problem. Her normal method of meeting a crisis head-on and taking it down won’t work. Not this time. Not when fate is her adversary. Having kept her from the man she thought she’d always marry, the same fickle fate took away the man she eventually did. Thrown back into the path of her first love, she finds hers is not the only heart fate has damaged...
  • Teasing Destiny by Melanie Shawn

    Teasing Destiny by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    One fateful night four years ago, Destiny Rose Porter gave in to her desires and ended up with a shattered heart. A heart that, with time, learned to heal and guard itself. But when Jefferson James Briggs returns to their small hometown of Wishing Well, Texas, memories of that unforgettable night come back with him.... JJ Briggs knew he had started something he couldn't finish four years ago...
  • Big Sky Mountain by Linda Lael Miller

    Big Sky Mountain by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    With his rugged good looks, vast wealth and family name, hell-raiser Hutch Carmody is still the golden boy of Parable, Montana. But he's done some growing up—making peace with his illegitimate half brother and inheriting half of Whisper Creek Ranch, which should have been all his...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western
  • Big Sky Country (The Parable Series) by Linda Lael Miller

    Big Sky Country (The Parable Series) by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The "First Lady of the West," #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller is back with a new series about Parable, Montana-where love awaits. The illegitimate son of a wealthy rancher, Sheriff Slade Barlow grew up in a trailer hitched to the Curly-Burly hair salon his mother runs. He was never acknowledged by his father-until now...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary  historical
  • Unbroken by Jay Crownover

    Unbroken by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men series comes a captivating novella about a rugged rodeo star who will do anything to protect the people he loves. When rodeo star Crew Lawton loses everything in a bad bet, he has no choice but to take a new job to pay off his debts – even if it means becoming the face of an expensive male skincare line...
  • One Night with the Cowboy by Eve Gaddy

    One Night with the Cowboy by Eve Gaddy

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet the Kellys of Whiskey River, Texas, men who have always gone through life, and women, with their father’s legendary charm. Trey Kelly has it all. Eldest son of Boots Kelly, Trey runs the Kelly ranch, and Trey’s heart is with his “babies”, Kelly’s Champs, the World Champion cutting horses he breeds and sells...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary
  • Promise Canyon by Robyn Carr

    Promise Canyon by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    After years spent on ranches around Los Angeles, Clay Tahoma is delighted to be Virgin River's new veterinary assistant. The secluded community's wild beauty tugs at his Navajo roots, and he's been welcomed with open arms by everyone in town—everyone except Lilly Yazhi...
  • Bourbon Breakaway: A Small Town, Brother's Best Friend Romance by Sienna Judd

    Bourbon Breakaway: A Small Town, Brother's Best Friend Romance by Sienna Judd

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My best friend’s sister is off-limits for more reasons than one.Chasing NHL hockey stardom, I left a lot of good things behind in my small town. Jolie was one of them.As my best buddy’s younger sister, she’s off-limits for me. And that’s without the promise I made her years ago to always be her friend.It was an easy promise to make then, but now, thirteen years later, it’s a hell of a lot harder...
  • Calder Storm by Janet Dailey

    Calder Storm by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey journeys to the Lone Star state and the Cee Bar Ranch, where the Calders face a new threat to their land and way of life. In order to protect his family, Quint Echohawk is prepared to take a stand against a ruthless cattle baron who is more determined than anyone knows and more dangerous than the Calders could possibly imagine..
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary
  • Comanche Woman by Joan Johnston

    Comanche Woman by Joan Johnston

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The son of a white father and a Comanche mother, Long Quiet has long loved Bayleigh Stewart, the daughter of the wealthiest cotton planter in Texas, and has searched for years for the beauty, abducted by marauders, until he rescues her from her captors...
  • Cowboy Bikers MC #1 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Cowboy Bikers MC #1 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When eyes meet and make two hearts beat as one, there’s no holding the reins. Lust will take a turn and gallop toward love at full speed, taking on any danger it might face along the way. Weston - I’m the president of an MC located at a huge ranch which breeds both longhorns and quarter horses. I’m not just a biker, a cowboy or a rancher, but I am a man of many trades and talents...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western  historical  bikers
  • Promises Reveal by Sarah McCarty

    Promises Reveal by Sarah McCarty

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    He's a man who survives by his wits and lives by his own code. Along the way, he's left a trail of broken hearts, broken bones, and quite a few broken laws. But when he gives his heart to the right woman, it comes with a promise he'll never, ever break... Dedicated artist Evie Washington doesn't fancy herself the marrying kind...
  • Caden's Vow by Sarah McCarty

    Caden's Vow by Sarah McCarty

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    His past has haunted him for a lifetime...but one woman could be his salvation Gunslinger Caden Miller's compadres are becoming a bit too domesticated for his liking. So he's off to Kansas territory to carve out a living and a space of his own--alone, just the way he likes it...
  • My Kind of Trouble by Becky McGraw

    My Kind of Trouble by Becky McGraw

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cassie Bellamy thought she'd left Bowie, Texas and Luke Matthews behind for good. She'd been gone for ten years and in that time had built a successful real estate business, had a new fiancé, and had all but forgotten about the Texas bad boy who'd sent her running to Phoenix in the first place. She wouldn't be going back now, but her daddy needed her at the Double B...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  western  suspense
  • Unforgiven by Jay Crownover

    Unforgiven by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men series comes an irresistible and suspenseful romance between a tough Texas Ranger and his first love—a woman in danger who insists she doesn't need his protection.Hill Gamble is a model lawman: cool and collected, with a confident swagger to boot...
  • Winter's Camp by Jodi Thomas

    Winter's Camp by Jodi Thomas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas has captivated readers around the world with her sweeping, heartfelt family sagas...
  • Always a Cowboy by Linda Lael Miller

    Always a Cowboy by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He's the middle of the three Carson brothers and is as stubborn as they come—and he won't thank a beautiful stranger for getting in his way! Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  western  contemporary
  • The Rancher's Second Chance by Victoria James

    The Rancher's Second Chance by Victoria James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Widowed rancher Cole Forrester is all about running his family's ranch and guarding his heart. The last thing he's looking for is love, but when his little sister can't make it home to handle some of her wedding details, he's forced to entertain the event planner, Melanie Simms. Melanie is everything he's not even remotely interested in: she's high-society, complicated, and high maintenance...
  • One Texas Night by Jodi Thomas

    One Texas Night by Jodi Thomas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas lassos the heart of Texas with these four spellbinding stories, available together for the first time, where love shows up unexpectedly… Hank Harris wasn’t even looking for a woman when he ended up with a wife...
  • The Cowboy's Triplets by Tina Leonard

    The Cowboy's Triplets by Tina Leonard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Callahan Cowboys are bachelors for life! That is, until Pete Callahan's wily aunt delivers her ultimatum. The first Callahan to marry and have children--the more kids the better--wins the family ranch. Like his five brothers, Pete never considered himself the marrying kind...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary  secret child  humor  western
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