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It takes a lot to impress a Dalton girl. Family feud or deep, dark secret? Jessamine Dalton is determined to uncover the reason why one branch of the family tree broke off and headed north to Colorado decades ago. Hitting the road to visit their distant relations seems perfect—she’ll get away from her interfering sisters, and making a proper family tree will double as a Christmas gift for the entire Dalton clan, right? Trouble is, Jessamine’s expected back in time for the festivities… and well, Colorado winters are unpredictable. Holidays always depress Jake Strahan. While everybody...

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 ...

It’s hard to resist a bad boy who’s a good man. But that’s exactly what Malou Bullers, M.D. is trying to do. While working as the rodeo doc, she turns a blind eye to the bulging biceps and Wrangler butts that pass by. Except for one cowboy—and he’s worst of all. West Calhoun is a womanizer, plain and simple. The tie-down roper and reality TV star is never seen twice with the same woman. When he’s not busy on his family’s growing ranch or trying to keep the TV cameras on his good side, West has his eyes on that big win. But he’s distracted by the eccentric new-age rodeo ...

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.

Where there’s smoke, Ryan is eager to jump into the flames. Ryan, aka Blaze, is a California smokejumper whose motto is “grab life by the balls and hold on tight.” He refuses to accept defeat, and that’s why he fights the world’s biggest wildfires. He loves his job, and it’s even better with a certain quirky woman making a documentary about their team. Every time she’s around, Blaze has a hard time zipping his jumpsuit. Scarlett is only interested in finishing this documentary for her dissertation. She isn’t into Blaze’s rugged good looks and crooked smile. The two of them...

There’s no hell like a Knight scorned… The Knights have always assumed little sister Lexi needed to be protected. They were wrong. Lexi knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to go after it. And what (or rather who) she wants is the sexy sixth man on her brothers’ special ops team. She knows he loves her, too. Now, they can finally be together. Or, they could if he hadn’t run off on her… Matthew Rock has his life together. Or, at least he did. But that was before he stepped on a mine and blew himself up, losing an arm and any hope he had of laying claim to Lexi all on the same ...

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. ...

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 ...

It takes a lot to impress a Dalton girl. And Gracie Dalton is not impressed at all with the fact she’s got to prove her ability as a cowpoke on one of the best ranches in Texas this summer. After all, she’s got the chops from years of working with her brothers and cousins on their well-known ranch. Now she’s pitted against a cocky man with a rodeo belt buckle for each day of the week—not that she’s noticin’. Hands down, Noble Watkins’s going to win a permanent position on the Blackburn Ranch. No way will he be bested by a woman, let alone one with too much sway in her hips and...

This tormented hero has always been misunderstood…until he meets her. Zach Webb is loyal to the ranch he manages. He’s also accused of wrongdoing and misunderstood. Overcoming the rumors about his role in thefts and crimes against the Gracey family has him determined to stay. Only now he’s sent to protect a neighboring ranch that’s also under attack…and that protection extends to the woman who owns it. Guarding Opal comes easy—but keeping his hands off her is one of the biggest challenges he’s ever faced. Following her father’s death, hardened single mother Opal Vale is ...

A woman in peril. A man willing to ride through the flames for her. He believes she walked away… Bad ass member of the Dark Falcons Motorcycle Club, Diesel, doesn’t think anything could be worse than the sweet and caring angel who tumbled into his life walking out on him—but he’s wrong. Learning she’s embroiled in a dark and criminal game and needs his help threatens to send him over the edge. She never thought it would hurt so much. Loyal to her family to the bitter end, Selena answers a cry to help her sister—then finds her world ripped to shreds. Losing Diesel is the worst ...

Beck Dalton is one of the most arrogant, immature and infuriating men Sabrina has ever met. But he also happens to be the father of her child. Trouble is, he doesn't know it. Over a year ago she made the mistake of giving Beck a second chance - then a third. Mostly because he made her fire burn hotter and brighter than with any other man.

She's stranded. On a mountain. On Valentine's Day. He's the only one who can find her. As usual, the minute Zayden Moon sets foot in his small hometown, trouble comes knocking. Bad memories, a funeral and a failing ranch are just a few of the things he’s facing. Now the townspeople are looking to him to go up the mountain and rescue a woman stranded in a snowstorm. All he can say is she better be worth it. Esme believes a mountain getaway with her boyfriend will mean wedding bells in her future. Instead, she’s abandoned and left to make her own way down the jagged terrain. When a sexy ...

If there's one thing that Damian Vince can do well, it's read women. With his trademark wink and sexy drawl, he's the most wanted cowboy on the Boot Knockers Ranch, a spa where sexually challenged women come to get charmed out of their uptight panties. He's also the ranch's bad boy - he hates to admit he's had his mug shot taken more than once. But now he's on the right path, ranching and fulfilling women's desires.

At 23, Bree Roberts is ready to sow some wild oats. The perfect place to start? The neighboring spread - The Boot Knockers Ranch, where 20 smokin' hot cowboys deliver sexual therapy to women. The problem? The entry fee is more than she's made in a lifetime. Only wanting to explore, she figures her tanned, toned legs will be her ticket to ride. Except Ty keeps kicking her off their land. Then she begins to suspect the reason why. He likes her.

After losing his best friend and CO, Matt, in combat, Brodie Bell didn't think his spirits could sink any lower. He was wrong. One look at his and Matt's storm-flattened hometown nearly levels him. Los Vista needs a leader, and as Brodie takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, he comes up with a plan. Merge the two ranches left standing, pray for a good calving season, and keep his hands too busy to get busy with Matt's sexy little sister.

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 ...

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. Just when he thinks he can't handle any more drama, in walks the one woman who can make him groan—in every possible way. Asher isn’t the kind of guy Kinsey Reynolds can take home to meet Daddy. But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t seem to keep the sexy man ...

Book 2 in the Firehouse 5 series Fire Chief Pearce Johnson has been struggling with his attraction to fellow team member and special ops guy Mitch Morelli. In the sauna, long looks turn into a steamy self-love encounter. Pearce runs home and tells his wife of fifteen years all about it— resulting in a five-alarm blaze between them. Ellie has always suspected her husband craves another relationship with a man. When he brings Mitch into their fantasies, she encourages Pearce to explore this newfound sexual link even as she longs for the big Italian firefighter to visit their bed. But taming...

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 ...