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He's faking injuries just to keep me here. I should be furious. Ty Beckett was a rodeo legend until a bull ended his career and left him with a limp and a chip on his shoulder. Now he's refusing physical therapy, and I've been hired to fix him whether he likes it or not. He's scarred, stubborn, and fights me on every exercise. But his hands shake when I touch him. And when I catch him faking a setback so I won't leave, he doesn't even apologize. He just pulls me closer and says, "I'm not pretending to be hurt. I'm pretending I don't need you." I have two weeks. He's already planning forever...

I came to his ranch to escape my life. He's decided I'm never leaving. Burned out and desperate for peace, I rent a cabin on a Montana cattle ranch. I'm not looking for anything but silence and sleep. I'm definitely not looking for the gruff, silver-templed rancher who keeps showing up at my door with firewood I didn't ask for and that intense look in his eyes. Colton Slade hasn't let anyone close in five years. But when a storm kills my power, he carries me to his house like I weigh nothing and tells me I'm staying. Not asks. Tells. He's grumpy. Possessive. Looks at my curves like I'm the ...

When Freya's car breaks down at 2 AM in the middle of nowhere, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of protective mountain muscle. Ryan Hawthorne is everything she's running from—stable, commanding, and dangerously capable of seeing through her carefully built walls. He's also 38 to her 23, with calloused hands and a voice that makes her shiver every time he calls her sweetheart. "You're safe with me now," he promises when her past threatens to drag her back into darkness. "I protect what's mine." Freya came to Thunder Creek to disappear. She never expected to find sanctuary in ...

When city girl, Brielle’s, car crashes during a Montana blizzard, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of pure masculine mountain man. Dr. Declan Morrison is everything she's not—rugged, confident, and completely at home in the wilderness. He's also 38 to her 26, with gentle hands and an intensity that makes her heart race every time he calls her sweetheart. "You're mine now," he growls against her ear when the storm traps them together in his cozy cabin. "I'm not letting anything happen to you." Brielle came to Montana to scout corporate retreat locations. She never expected to...

She’s baking for the town. He’s burning for her. When Ivy Carter moves to Aspen Grove to save her grandmother’s bakery, the last thing she expects is to set the kitchen—and her life—on fire. One rescue later, she’s in the arms of Fire Captain Cruz Delgado, a gruff, heartbreakingly handsome widower who smells like smoke and safety. Cruz lives for his crew and his work. Feelings are dangerous, and love burns worse than any blaze. But when Ivy starts baking for the firehouse and helping with their charity calendar shoot, the walls he’s built start to melt. She’s shy, sweet, and...

He steals women from danger. He's never wanted to keep one before. Wren Blackwell escaped a trafficking ring three weeks ago and has been living in her car, terrified they'll find her. When horse rancher Flint Everett discovers her starving in the woods, he doesn't ask permission—he takes her. Carries her home. Locks the doors. Refuses to let her leave until she's healed. She's a prisoner again. Except this cage has soft beds, hot meals, and a scarred giant who tends her wounds with devastating gentleness. Flint has been rescuing tr*fficked women for fifteen years—ever since he lost his...

She came for peace and quiet. He gave her heat she never saw coming. Romance author Angeline Winters needs one thing this December—silence. A snow-covered cabin at Morrison Ranch should be the perfect place to finish her overdue novel and escape the noise of her failed relationship. But when a blizzard hits and she nearly freezes trying to find the cabin, her rescuer isn’t a fantasy cowboy—he’s the real thing. Wyatt Morrison doesn’t have time for stranded city girls or Christmas miracles. He’s got cattle to feed, a ranch to run, and an eight-year-old daughter who just asked ...

She’s stranded in his town. He’s about to make sure she never leaves. Travel nurse Stella Rogers just wanted a quiet December assignment in Aspen Grove, not a fender bender with the local sheriff during the worst snowstorm of the season. But when the roads close and she’s stuck at the station for the holidays, her plans—and her heart—start to change. Sheriff Blake Cordero has sworn off complicated women and Christmas chaos alike. But Stella’s warmth, laughter, and curves have him rethinking every rule he’s made for himself. Between late-night wrapping sessions for the town’s...

When the town’s fire chief shows up for an inspection, she doesn’t expect him to reignite an old flame… After a messy divorce, Lila Morgan is back in Cedar Falls, knee-deep in corn silk and tangled extension cords as she helps her brother prepare the family’s haunted maze. The last thing she needs is Sawyer Grant—her brother’s best friend, first crush, and the man she’s spent a decade trying to forget—walking back into her life in full fire chief uniform. Sawyer has three priorities: protect his town, protect his crew, and never touch the one woman he’s wanted for ten ...

He saved my life. Now he won't let me go. ER nurse Sloane Winters is running for her life when she crashes in the mountains, bleeding from a bullet wound. She begs the massive stranger who finds her not to take her to a hospital—they'll kill her there. So ex-Special Forces medic Cade Wolfe does the only thing his training allows: he kidnaps her. She wakes up three days later, stitched up and handcuffed to his bed. Cade knows she's in danger. Hit teams are searching the mountain roads, and she's too weak to run. So he keeps her—changing her bandages, feeding her, protecting her—even ...

June Maddox has dreamed of Caleb Price since she was old enough to notice men. He’s older, gruffer, and completely off-limits. But when she comes to his farm to help with the harvest, Caleb notices her in a way he never has before. One look turns into one touch. One touch turns into one filthy night that ruins her innocence. June swore she was just helping with the crops. But Caleb’s not letting her walk away untouched—or unmarried.

Evie Porter didn’t mean to trespass on Silas Reed’s land—she was just trying to find a missing teen. But when she stumbles into his cabin at dusk, she finds more than a recluse woodsman. She finds a man who looks at her like prey. Silas doesn’t like people in his forest. But Evie is different—she’s soft, stubborn, and sunshine in human form. And when danger follows her into the woods, Silas has no choice but to take her into his protection. She thinks he’s a wild man. But by morning, she’ll realize he’s her man.

Four rugged men. One untamed mountain town. And four women who never meant to fall for the wild. From lost hikers and desperate single moms to long-held crushes and curious outsiders, four women arrive in Wild River thinking they can pass through untouched. They’re wrong. Because the mountain men who live here don’t do casual, and once they decide a woman belongs with them, they don’t let go. These are the kind of heroes who keep watch through the night, step in without being asked, and protect what’s theirs. Gruff, possessive, and deeply grounded, they fall hard and love harder. ...

I'm being hunted. But the most dangerous predator just claimed me as his. Investigative journalist Piper Thornton went undercover to expose an illegal hunting ring—and walked straight into a trap. Now she's running through the mountains with killers on her trail, and the man tracking her through his rifle scope isn't who she thinks. Boone Savage stopped guiding trophy hunters years ago, sickened by the cruelty. Now he hunts the hunters—tracking poachers across his private reserve, documenting their crimes. When he realizes the blonde running through his forest is prey, not predator, ...

Four snowy nights. Four rugged men. One mountain town where Christmas heat burns brighter than the firelight. From storm-stranded strangers and snowed-in rescues to small-town traditions and unexpected second chances, four women arrive in Aspen Grove just as the holidays are about to change everything forever. These are the kind of heroes who shovel your driveway before dawn, pull you close when the cold sets in, and make forever feel inevitable—gruff on the outside, fiercely loyal underneath, and all-in when it counts. And when forced proximity, crackling chemistry, and Christmas magic ...

She’s stranded with a broken heart. He’s the man who knows how to fix both. When Faith Novak’s car dies on the snowy road to Aspen Grove, it feels like the final insult. Her Christmas wedding is off, her ex ran off with her cousin, and all she has left is a gown in the backseat and tears freezing on her cheeks. Then Diesel Kane shows up—a tattooed, grease-stained mechanic with a bad-boy grin and a soft spot he’d die before admitting. With every hotel booked for the holidays, he offers her his apartment above the garage “just for the night.” But one night turns into laughter, ...

When my BMW skids up a gravel mountain road, I don’t expect to end the day stranded in a storm and falling hard for the man I came to destroy. As a high-powered environmental lawyer, I’m used to wielding cease-and-desist orders like weapons. This trip to Colorado was supposed to be quick and bloodless: serve papers to Cruz Construction, shut them down, and catch my flight back to the city. Then I meet Dane Cruz. Six-foot-four of raw muscle, golden skin, and work-roughened hands that know how to build more than just homes. He’s supposed to be the villain in my legal brief, but he sees ...

Four rugged mountain men. Four curvy heroines who steal their hearts. One small town where love is as wild and untamed as the land itself. In Thunder Creek, danger and desire walk hand in hand. Whether it’s a midnight rescue on a deserted road, a tense standoff in the backcountry, a run-in with the local sheriff, or an unexpected night in a fire lookout tower, these protective alpha men will risk everything to keep their women safe. Each standalone romance is packed with instalove heat, age gap allure, and heroes who know exactly what they want—and won’t rest until they make it theirs...

When a storm strands her in the wrong man’s cabin, she doesn’t expect it to feel exactly right… Environmental scientist Dr. Grace Vance came to the Montana wetlands to do a job: evaluate complaints, file her report, and leave. Falling for a rugged cranberry farmer with storm-dark eyes was never in the plan. But from the moment Callum Ward steps out of his weathered shed - broad-shouldered, flannel-clad, and sinfully confident - Grace feels something she can’t explain. Something dangerous. Something inevitable. Callum has lived alone on his bog for eight years, content to let the ...

He's supposed to be dead. Instead, he's keeping me captive in paradise. Wildlife biologist Gemma Pierce discovers billionaire tech CEO Thorne Ashford bleeding in the wilderness—except the world thinks he died eighteen months ago. When she saves his life, he makes her an offer she's too broke to refuse: stay the winter in his hidden bunker, and he'll pay her more than her failed research grant. Thorne can't let her leave. Not when assassins are still hunting him. Not when she's the first real thing in his world of lies. Not when her curves and awkward brilliance have become his obsession. ...