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  • Cape Corral Keeper by Christy Barritt

    Cape Corral Keeper by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    They agreed to marry. But they never agreed to fall in love.When Cape Corral Fire Chief Dillon McGrath saves a woman wearing a wedding dress from drowning, he knows he’ll have a great story to tell the guys at the station later. He never expected to get personally involved in the woman’s plight to stay alive...
  • How West Was Won by Laylah Roberts

    How West Was Won by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Theirs was a love story like no other. . . Or at least it was in Flick O’Malley’s mind. All she’d ever wanted was a man to love her. A family to adore her. Protect her. And she’d do the same in return. Oh, she knew West Malone wasn’t your typical Prince Charming. He was blunt. He was gruff. Sometimes, he was downright scary...
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  • The Heart of a Hero by Susan May Warren

    The Heart of a Hero by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jake Silver may not be able to put the memories of his time as a sniper and Navy SEAL behind him, but at least he can put his skills to use as a part of the Jones Inc. rescue team. Saving the life of pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Aria Sinclair on Denali helped too...
  • Cowboy's Bride: A Secret Baby, Ranch Western Romance by KC Crowne

    Cowboy's Bride: A Secret Baby, Ranch Western Romance by KC Crowne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I was absolutely riveted, all the way through."   ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Strong probability that you won't want to stop reading until the very last wonderful word."     She doesn't realize it yet...But Juliana will happily wear my ring.I'll prove to her I'm not the enemy she thinks I am.She's a perfect balance of class and beauty.And she's perfect for me...
  • Cocky in a Cowboy Hat by Em Petrova

    Cocky in a Cowboy Hat by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Seagrass Secrets by Christy Barritt

    Seagrass Secrets by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s her best friend. She’s the woman of his dreams.Firefighter Colby Morris needs answers. After discovering a dead body, he then learns his best friend’s address was in the man’s pocket. He’ll do anything to keep Emmy safe—yet he wants to keep his heart safe also. That’s why he’s never told Emmy he’s in love with her...
  • Southern Charm: A Single Daddy Cowboy's Nanny, Secret Baby, Ranch Western Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Southern Charm: A Single Daddy Cowboy's Nanny, Secret Baby, Ranch Western Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From bestselling romance author K.C. Crowne comes the sexy, small town, cowboy romance.A little girl was dropped on my doorstep.And, this wild cowboy became a father overnight.I’ve seen a lot in my life.But nothing prepared me for fatherhood.What's worse is that El is five and she has my stubborn streak.H*ll, a man with my history isn't meant to raise another human.Sam is my only saving grace...
  • Driftwood Danger by Christy Barritt

    Driftwood Danger by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s on one side of the fight to preserve Cape Corral. She’s on the other.Abigail Ferguson wakes up in a strange place with bruises on her face and her hands bound. Someone is trying to teach her family a painful lesson and using Abigail as a pawn. When she’s able to call for help, only one person comes to mind—law enforcement officer Grant Matthews...
  • Ford by Susan May Warren

    Ford by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • Ranger Courage by Lynn Shannon

    Ranger Courage by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The games he plays are deadly... As chief of police for Harrison University, Avery Madison expects to spend her days buried in administrative paperwork--until a murdered woman is discovered on campus. She asks Texas Ranger Weston Donovan for help. The former football star turned lawman is heartbreakingly handsome, but Avery has put romance on the back burner...
  • Cowboy Bikers MC #2 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Cowboy Bikers MC #2 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • Tate by Susan May Warren

    Tate by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Out of the Storm by B.J. Daniels

    Out of the Storm by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She can’t lose him again…One look at his warm brown eyes and Kate Jackson knows she’s found her husband. It’s been twenty years since Daniel was declared dead in a refinery explosion, but Kate never gave up hope, convinced he was somewhere out there, suffering from amnesia. Then, on a trip to Buckhorn, Montana, she sees him—working as a carpenter, scarred, but still her Danny...
  • Cole's Mistake by Laylah Roberts

    Cole's Mistake by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Cole Saxon wasn’t so sure of that. He’d burned so many bridges, he wasn’t sure anything he could do would be enough to make amends. Then fate brings him to Haven. To the brother he’d disowned and to the only two people to ever have a hold on his cold, black heart. Keira and Julian have been through hell...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  western  contemporary  historical  bdsm
  • Stolen Hearts by Kelly Moore

    Stolen Hearts by Kelly Moore

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It was a day like any other on the ranch. Hard work and no play make for a cranky cowboy. Needing a night out on the town left me sneaking into my father’s house like a teenage boy. That was my first mistake of the day. The second was playing hero to a damsel in distress that turned out to be no damsel at all, but a sexy, snarky woman who took me by surprise...
  • The Sheriff's Mail Order Rescue by Amelia Rose

    The Sheriff's Mail Order Rescue by Amelia Rose

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love is perilous – and that’s before you involve bandits and kidnapping.After five years of being the town’s sheriff, Matt Hanson is well and truly settled into his life in Iron Creek.Sure, there are still challenges, like the bandits that are occupying the nearby mountains, but Matt is content with his life in this small town...
  • Cowgirl Heart by Em Petrova

    Cowgirl Heart by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    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...
  • Tough and Tamed by Em Petrova

    Tough and Tamed by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Revenge sex and a healthy dose of a bad boy making all the wrong decisions equals one hell of a wild ride. The horse is optional. Zayden Moon and his brothers are back home for the old man’s funeral, but too bad none of them give a damn what happens to the failing ranch they’ve inherited or all the bad memories that come with it...
  • Chiseled and Cherished by Em Petrova

    Chiseled and Cherished by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re enemies—with benefits. But what happens when their secret is revealed… On the surface, ex-bounty hunter Asher Moon’s got it all together. But as soon as he sets foot on the family ranch, he’s thrown back into his role as his dysfunctional family’s glue, and now he’s got his own ugly past to cover up too...
  • Bethany's Baby by Elaine Manders

    Bethany's Baby by Elaine Manders

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sweet, inspiring historical romance with heart-wrenching twists.Former nanny, Bethany Jamison goes west as a mail-order bride to escape a lecherous employer who threatens to expose her part in a past tragedy...
  • A Sharp Witted Bride for the Troubled Doctor: Historical Western Mail Order Bride Romance by Amelia Rose

    A Sharp Witted Bride for the Troubled Doctor: Historical Western Mail Order Bride Romance by Amelia Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can’t outrun a troubled past, no matter how fierce your love.All Demetri has ever wanted is to protect his deaf sister. It’s why he became a doctor, and it’s why he must get her away from Colorado. Hunted by the Irish mafia, Demetri and Sandy flee to Bear Creek, where they settle into a calm life, free from the troubles of their past… or so they think...
  • Cowboy Bikers MC #3 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Cowboy Bikers MC #3 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Bad in Boots by Em Petrova

    Bad in Boots by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes the second time around is even better than the first...Cort Bellamy’s been avoiding his hometown of Crossroads, Georgia for too long. Who can blame him, when the small town is so thick with memories and everyone recalls that he let the love of his life slip away? However, his father’s summons for help on the family ranch can’t go unanswered much longer—and now he’s offering Cort a share...
  • Ranger Faith by Lynn Shannon

    Ranger Faith by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's a deadly holiday season…Last Christmas, profiler Emilia Sanchez barely escaped the clutches of a serial killer. All she wants is to forget the incident and move on with her life, especially since the murderer is dead. But when she receives a poinsettia along with a threatening message, it triggers Emilia’s worst fears—that she’s not safe after all...
  • Montana Surprise by Caroline Fyffe

    Montana Surprise by Caroline Fyffe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MONTANA SURPRISE- The McCutcheon Family series, Book TwelveY Knot, Montana Territory, July 1888Two months after the historic McCutcheon family reunion, the town of Y Knot is experiencing a sleepy summer lull...
  • At Love's Command by Karen Witemeyer

    At Love's Command by Karen Witemeyer

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Haunted by the horrors of war, ex-cavalry officer Matthew Hanger leads a band of mercenaries known as Hanger's Horsemen who have become legends in 1890s Texas. They defend the innocent and obtain justice for the oppressed. But when a rustler's bullet leaves one of them at death's door, they're the ones in need of saving. Dr...
  • The Rook by Steven James

    The Rook by Steven James

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An arsonist has struck a top-secret research facility at a key US naval base. But it's not just a random terrorist attack. These people were after something specific. When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate, he is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue and deception...
  • If I Can Dream by Sable Hunter

    If I Can Dream by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The moment Tennessee McCoy lays eyes on Molly Reyes sitting astride a horse in the desert sun, love hits him like a bolt of lightning from out of the blue. She is his soulmate, his other half. They speak the same language, they want the same things. Their attraction is complete, the passion they share nearly consumes them. Knowing she is meant to be his, Ten can’t wait to make her his bride...
  • Runaround by Jay Crownover

    Runaround by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Can two people perpetually moving in opposite directions ever end up in the same place? Or will love just keep giving them the runaround? Webb Bryant is intimately acquainted with every type of trouble there is. Trouble is all he’s ever known and the only constant in his life. Webb’s a man constantly on the move. He’s a drifter. A wanderer...
  • A Real Cowboy Always Protects by Stephanie Rowe

    A Real Cowboy Always Protects by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  western  historical
  • Sphinx Security: Complete 5-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Sphinx Security: Complete 5-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “There’s beauty in this world, Remington,” the social worker told him once. “You just have to figure out where to find it.”He’d finally found it. It was inside this woman. And it was perfect.—RemingtonPart 1The boys from Golden Sphinx Ranch are trying to have a quiet breakfast in the local diner when one of them sees a man attempting to pull a woman out of her car by her hair...
  • Echo Canyon Brides Box Set: Books 10 - 11: Historical Cowboy Western Mail Order Bride Bundle by Linda Bridey

    Echo Canyon Brides Box Set: Books 10 - 11: Historical Cowboy Western Mail Order Bride Bundle by Linda Bridey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Immerse yourself in the spellbinding Echo Canyon Brides series that critics describe as “a wonderful blend of hope, passion, romance, mystery, suspense and humor.” Book 10: Montana Miracle. How will Sofia Carter choose between two handsome men? Ranch foreman, Travis Desmond and army captain, Zeb Rawlins compete for her affections...
  • A Match for a Reluctant Bride by Tess Thompson

    A Match for a Reluctant Bride by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An ugly duckling and a charming scoundrel have nothing in common. But fate has a different plan. Faith Devastated after both my fiancée and best friend betrayed me, I traveled to a distant isle in the Pacific Northwest, clinging to a job as an artist's assistant to escape my broken heart. Little did I know that I would find something else entirely when I met Briggs Tutheridge...
  • Armed & Marvelous by Pam Crooks

    Armed & Marvelous by Pam Crooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A terrible tragedy sends her home to heal. Will his unexpected love convince her to stay? After a devastating loss, wild game hunter Rexanna Brennan returns home to her family's ranch to heal. She never expects to learn her crazy aunt has left her a pink pistol with an even crazier legend...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  western  historical
  • The Hope of Azure Springs by Rachel Fordham

    The Hope of Azure Springs by Rachel Fordham

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seven years ago, orphaned and alone, Em finally arrived at a new home in Iowa after riding the orphan train. But secrets from her past haunt her, and her new life in the Western wilderness is a rough one. When her guardian is shot and killed, Em, now nineteen, finally has the chance to search for her long-lost sister, but she won't be able to do it alone...
  • 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...
  • Lonestar Secrets by Colleen Coble

    Lonestar Secrets by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 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...
  • The Heart's Charge by Karen Witemeyer

    The Heart's Charge by Karen Witemeyer

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    Members of Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he'd nearly married a decade ago...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  historical  christian  western  innocent
  • His Cowboy Heart by Jennifer Ryan

    His Cowboy Heart by Jennifer Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bound by honor and by love… That’s a Montana Man Ford Kendrick has often dreamed of the day that Jamie Keller would come home to Montana. After high school, she needed to leave—and he, duty-bound to rescue his family’s ranch, pushed her to go. The Army made Jamie a hero, but Ford still sees the gorgeous, loving woman who lit up his whole world...
  • A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White

    A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Zivon Marin was one of Russia's top cryptographers, until the October Revolution tore apart his world. Forced to flee after speaking out against Lenin and separated from his brother along the way, he arrives in England driven by a growing anger and determined to offer his services to the Brits...
  • Redemption Trail (Yakima Henry) by Peter Brandvold

    Redemption Trail (Yakima Henry) by Peter Brandvold

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lifelong loner Yakima Henry unexpectedly befriends Paul Cahill, an old prospector with roots in a once-wealthy Eastern family. When Cahill is mortally wounded by men stalking his and Yakima’s trail, Cahill asks Yakima to travel to northern Dakota Territory and deliver a letter and a belt stuffed with money to his estranged son...
  • Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore

    Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma’s childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry—or Asku, as Alma knew him—was the most promising student at the “savage-taming” boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil...
  • Her Renegade Rancher by Jennifer Ryan

    Her Renegade Rancher by Jennifer Ryan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With their hearts' desires on the line, nothing can stop the Montana Men No one knows better than Colt Kendrick that life can change in an instant. He lives without regrets except for one: not making the gorgeous woman he sees every time he walks into the local diner his.   Luna Hill is haunted by the heart-stopping kiss she and Colt never should have shared. Their timing has always been off...
  • JAMESON by Frankie Love

    JAMESON by Frankie Love

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve been on Whiskey Mountain for years, refusing to live off my family’s fortune. I can take care of myself like a real ass man by flying sea planes, delivering illegal cargo, and keeping my profile low. Then Jemma knocks on my door. And my world changes. Everyone thinks she’s dead. But by the way she moves … Hell, she is very much alive...
  • Rumors by H.J. Bellus

    Rumors by H.J. Bellus

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Our shadows are always there. They entertain us when we’re little, just like best friends. As we grow older, they grow with us. Even through the darkness they stay, never leaving our side. They watch. They listen. They know all our secrets. Endure our pain. Their silence remains while only rumors drift in the wind. Soon our shadows turn from friend to foe...
  • Ambush before Sunrise by B.J. Daniels

    Ambush before Sunrise by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    suspense  western  contemporary  historical
  • The Way of Love by Tracie Peterson

    The Way of Love by Tracie Peterson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations on reservations...
  • Montana Westward Brides Box Set: Books 1-4: Mail Order Bride Historical Western Romance by Amelia Rose

    Montana Westward Brides Box Set: Books 1-4: Mail Order Bride Historical Western Romance by Amelia Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it possible to outrun your destiny? Can true love triumph in the face of danger? These four brides are determined to find out.Lucy Magee fears she may be cursed with bad luck forever. Desperate for her marriage to Dr. Sam Slater to finally bring her the good fortune she longs for, Lucy’s fears are confirmed when a tragic death clouds her journey to meet him...
  • Love's Mountain Quest by Misty M. Beller

    Love's Mountain Quest by Misty M. Beller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Young widow Joanna Watson is struggling to make a new home for her five-year-old son, Samuel, in the little mountain town of Settler's Fort. When she returns home from work to find Samuel and the woman watching him missing, with no lawman in town, she enlists a man she prays has enough experience in this rugged country to help...
  • A Bullet For Justice (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler

    A Bullet For Justice (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sheriff Eddie Pittman believes in honor, justice, and the law. Tom Savage believes in murder, theft, and bullets. For years, Tom and his men have evaded capture. But they’ve also stayed out of Eddie’s way. Until now. A chance meeting between him and Eddie’s sister leaves Tom smitten, and Eddie fighting to protect his family and his town. Eddie won’t rest until Tom’s dead or behind bars...
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