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She was family before he ever let himself love her. Now loving her feels like the one thing he’s not allowed to want. Camille Smythe married into the Bailey family once already — and buried her young husband, just like the curse always promised. Now she’s a widow with a wounded heart, trying to build a life in a town that only ever sees her loss. The last thing she needs is to fall for another Bailey. Brice Bailey has loved Camille quietly for years, and hated himself for it, because she belonged to his cousin first. But grief has a way of drawing two lonely people together, and the ...

Protecting her is the job. Falling for her is the thing that could get them both killed. Vance Hart has spent the whole county-land war being the brotherhood's quiet shield — the cousin who guards everyone and lets no one close. Then the threats turn into a kidnapping scheme, and the only person who can bring the whole thing down is Sloane Pierce: a former insider who saw too much and ran. To keep her alive long enough to testify, Vance takes her on the run and into hiding. Two small rooms. One ticking clock. A bodyguard who knows better than to fall for the woman he's sworn to protect ...

She’s the town librarian who knows every secret Bailey ever buried — except the one that’s about to steal her heart. Abby Smythe has spent her whole life on the wrong side of the water, cataloguing a town that’s been at war with itself for a hundred and forty years. She knows better than to look twice at a Bailey — especially Titus Bailey, the green-eyed clan head who owns half of Bailey, Montana and every bit of the trouble in it. But when someone starts quietly buying up the town, the only person who can help Abby uncover the truth is the one man she was raised to hate. The ...

She's pure sunshine. He's a Montana cold front. The forecast? Trouble. Surly, work-obsessed Caden Johnson is pouring his entire fortune into a lodge meant to bring jobs back to a dying county — and he has zero time for noise, fuss, or feelings. Then his investors saddle him with Poppy: an event planner so relentlessly, infuriatingly cheerful she could thaw a January blizzard, and she absolutely will not take the hint and leave. One disaster at a time, she melts his cold edges. But the closer the lodge gets to opening, the harder someone works to burn it all down — and Caden has to ...

Torn between two men, this matchmaker-turned-decorator has to choose between who she should be and who she is to find true love. Tanya Dean runs from Mistletoe, Montana because she’s afraid of love and commitment. Not something a matchmaker wants on her resume. Pursuing her love for decorating, Tanya returns home to take on a job with a new ranch owner in town and finds he’s not just another good-looking cowboy. He’s someone her sister is hiding feelings for. Colt Wilson followed Tanya back from Alaska to see if he could convince her to try out the one thing they both claim to hate ...

These 5 sisters seek love and redemption as they fight the stigma of having an outlaw for a father. Romancing Redemption The daughter of an outlaw, the heir to one of Montana's largest ranches, and a romance that secrets can't undo... Riding for Redemption A rodeo queen who can’t walk, a lovesick cowboy, and their friendship that suddenly becomes more... Resisting Redemption An emotionally broken physical therapist and a man who’s broken in more ways than one, and their pasts which try to drown their chance at happiness… Regretting Redemption She’s the outlaw’s daughter, he’s ...

When wounded cowboy Nate Rourke's heart aches for solace, only the tender embrace of love can mend his shattered spirit. After losing nearly everything he cherishes, Nate is determined to protect what little he has left. But fate has other plans when the spirited Emma Benson enters his life. Again. Battling a life-altering illness, Emma yearns to prove her worth and independence despite the weight of her condition. But when a brush with death leaves her vulnerable, she reluctantly turns to Nate for support. As their hearts intertwine, can these two broken souls learn to trust and lean on ...

A fake marriage to save his family. A real one neither of them saw coming. Archer Bailey is a single father with two sons, a struggling business, and no time for love — he learned young that a Bailey who loves a woman only loses her. Capri Smythe is a soft-hearted server running from a past that nearly broke her, with nowhere left to go and a whole town watching. When a tangle of trouble leaves them both cornered, a marriage of convenience looks like the only way out — a quiet arrangement, a Bailey and a Smythe, purely for show. But there’s nothing convenient about the way Archer’s ...

She's leaving town in one harvest. He's loved her his whole life. The clock just ran out. Bret grew up dirt-poor in Two Rides with exactly one good thing in his corner — his best friend, Maggie. He made his fortune far from home and came back content to love her quietly, safely, from the friend side of the line, where he can never lose her. Then Maggie announces she's leaving Clearwater County for good. The bills, the dying Main Street, the squeeze on every small business — staying just isn't possible anymore. Bret has one harvest season to do the bravest thing he's ever done: risk the ...

They agreed to fake an engagement. Neither expected to fall in love. Especially with each other. Ryan Blackwood doesn’t follow rules. He breaks them—and occasionally blows them up on live podcasts. But when his rebellion threatens the family’s already-shaky public image, he’s forced into the one thing he swore he’d never do: get engaged to a woman he’s never met… for politics, power, and PR. Sophia Hartwell, daughter of a Supreme Court Justice, has lived her life under a microscope. She agrees to the fake engagement for one reason: freedom. It buys her time to finish the novel...

The Blackwoods built an empire. But it started with a lie. Twenty-five years ago, Bill Blackwood made an unthinkable choice—one that saved his family’s billion-dollar ranching dynasty… and destroyed his best friend’s life. Now, with a pregnant wife, five young sons, and an empire on the brink of collapse, Bill is presented with a dangerous opportunity: exploit a devastating secret about his neighbor’s land, or lose everything the Blackwoods have built for generations. But Maggie Blackwood didn’t marry a man who cheats his way to power. And when she learns the truth, their ...

He never noticed the quiet florist next door — until the whole town suddenly did. Roz Smythe has loved Killian Bailey her whole life, silently, from behind the counter of her little flower shop — close enough to be his friend, never close enough to be more. She’s the one he talks to, leans on, never once looks at twice. And she’s made her peace with it. Almost. Killian Bailey doesn’t know what’s changed. All he knows is that the girl he’s counted on for years has started to take his breath away — and half the county has noticed her at the same time. Now the one woman who was...

Marry me to save your land. We'll deal with our hearts later. Tessa Marsh is about to lose the family ranch — and her failing patch of ground happens to be the one parcel standing between Clearwater County and the outside money trying to carve it up. There's exactly one way to lock it safe: marry into the Johnsons. Marry Xander. It's supposed to be a deal. A signature. A handshake with vows attached. Xander Johnson agrees because the county needs it. Tessa agrees because she's out of options. Neither of them counts on the slow, dangerous warmth of a shared roof, a shared name, and a ...

He could run a whiskey empire. He could not, for the life of him, braid his daughter's hair. Two years a widower, billionaire distiller Gavin Holt is drowning — burning the toast, missing the school bus, raising a heartbroken five-year-old with two clumsy hands and a wall around his heart so no one can ever leave a hole that size again. So he hires Nora Bell to run the house. Nothing more. His little girl loves Nora before Gavin will let himself. And just as those careful walls begin to crack, the fight over Clearwater County turns personal — and someone comes after the one thing a ...

Money can solve all her problems, but it can't mend a broken heart. Stryder Flint returns to Two Rides, Montana and he's out to win back more than his reputation. He wants Melody Steel. Growing up, they'd been inseparable but a last miute choice had stolen his heart and made him rich beyond measure. Too bad he could never buy what he truly wanted... Flint and Steel made fire and she was done getting burned. With more debt than she can comprehend after her dad died, Melody doesn't need her poverty rubbed in her face or that Stryder found happiness and money without her. All she'd ever done ...

She needed protection. He offered marriage. Neither expected to fall in love. Dr. Emma Sullivan’s life is in ruins. Accused of medical negligence and targeted by powerful enemies, her once-promising career is crumbling under the weight of a scandal she didn’t cause—and may not survive. With the media circling like vultures, she needs shelter, fast. Enter Blake Blackwood: quiet cowboy, billionaire heir, and the Blackwood family’s protector. His solution? A no-strings, legally binding marriage to shield her from the storm. The arrangement is simple. No emotion. No expectations. Just ...

This Christmas, if Brock and Lily want to fix up the best matches, they have to pretend to be married to each other… or lose the town’s largest money-making event of the year. ‘Tis the season and the Mistletoe Matchmakers are working in full force to find the perfect match before Santa slips down the chimney. Ready to give Brock Wilson a piece of her mind in no uncertain terms, Lily Dean storms into the Wilson Matchmaking Offices and walks in on a woman proposing to Brock Wilson. Stammering in embarrassment at her intrusion, Lily attempts to escape, but Brock grabs her and claims her ...

He's never gotten mud on his shoes. She's never trusted a man in pressed jeans. Polished city billionaire Shane has closed a hundred deals without breaking a sweat — and never met a problem his checkbook couldn't fix. Then the brotherhood drops him in Two Rides, where he can't tell cattle from concrete, and the only soul willing to teach him is Hannah Johnson: the soft-hearted homebody holding her grieving family together, with no patience whatsoever for a slick outsider. The city shark and the country girl are all wrong for each other. Which is exactly why neither of them can look away. ...

Never trust a Twoshy. He really should have listened to his own rule. Cattle-running Jacob Johnson is the fiercest guard of Johnson land in the county — and there is one family he'll hate to his grave: the Twoshys, after what Dustin did to his brother. So when a Twoshy turns up on Johnson ground in the dead of calving season, Jacob's hand goes straight for trouble. Then Della Twoshy hands him proof her own brother is quietly selling Clearwater County to outside money — and risks everything she has to do it. Falling for the enemy could cost them both their families. But a hundred-year ...

She fell for a broke ranch hand. She had no idea he could buy the whole valley. Ethan Johnson is tired of women who love the Johnson money before they ever meet the man — so he hires on as a plain hand, hammering fence and mucking stalls, and lets the whole county think he's nobody at all. Just once, he wants to be wanted for himself. Then Quinn rolls into Clearwater — a sharp-eyed land-rights paralegal digging into the quiet deals swallowing the county — and falls hard for the cowboy who never mentions he's a fortune in faded denim. The problem? The inheritance Ethan's been hiding is...