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MINDY I uprooted my life—and my twin boys—for the mountain man who promised me a new beginning. But the second I step into Skyline Bar & Grill in Hope Peak, Montana, Levi Voss stares at me like I’m a total stranger, and my kids declare they hate him on sight. Did I chase a dream that never really existed… or will the flames between us ignite something real? LEVI I had no interest in dating, let alone instant family. Then my sister posed as me on a matchmaking app. Now Mindy Barnes shows up in my bar with two rowdy boys, a moving truck, and a key to my cabin I damn sure never sent. ...

One tree, one set of handcuffs, and a flannel-clad lumberjack… what could possibly go wrong...or is it right? Clementine: I never expected to get caught—literally—by a six-foot-something lumberjack named Vaughn Ridgeway. I was just trying to protect an old-growth pine tree, chaining myself in protest, when he came striding out of the woods with that brooding scowl and an axe slung over his shoulder. He thought I was some clueless hippie causing trouble for his family’s logging business. Sure, I might’ve been wearing tie-dye leggings, but I wasn’t about to be scared off by a ...

A betrayal...a secret baby….an unknown imposter…will Tess survive the wagon train journey to Sunset Hills, Oregon after her life is threatened? And if so, what will she do once she gets there? 1855. Tess Findlay can’t wait to be reunited with her beau who went out west three months ago to mine for gold, saying he’d send for her soon. Even though she hasn’t heard from him, she’s discovered she’s with child and decides to join a wagon train to travel to Oregon to surprise him with the news. When a band of robbers holds up the caravan, Tess is shocked to recognize her beau as one...

A beautiful injured girl. A brutish orc hunter. When they're snowed-in for Christmas, will their forbidden passion be enough to warm cold enemy hearts, or will it prove too hot to handle? RUE: I’m promised to my father’s enemy to pay off his debt. However, I detest Azrael and could never be his bride. I run away into the forest to think, where I fall into a ravine and injure my leg. A giant, green brute of a man finds me. He tells me he tends a reindeer farm and is searching for one of his reindeer who got lost. I’m sure he’s going to kill me. However, instead he takes me to his ...

Did she make a deal with the devil? Or will the forbidden fruit be worth every bite? RAYA: I thought I had finally put my troubled past behind me. Moving from Texas to Orange County, I reinvented myself and quickly became the star bartender at Sweet Cocktails, thanks to my secret recipe for raspberry martinis. But everything changed when an undercover agent revealed my secret ingredient comes from the private land of Maxwell Evans, a reclusive billionaire with dangerous ties to a drug cartel. Now, I'm caught in a web of deception, forced to spy on Maxwell in exchange for keeping my secret ...

"When you're on the naughty list, sometimes you need a mountain man with a very big...cabin." PEPPER: Working as the head elf at North Pole Village was supposed to be festive fun—until I caught my ex embezzling from the charity toy drive. Now I'm on the run in a snowstorm, with evidence stuffed in my pointy hat and nowhere to hide except the cabin of the broodiest mountain man I've ever seen. Pax Forrester is six-foot-four of silent intensity who clearly wants me gone, but the blizzard and my vengeful ex have other plans. I need to lay low until I can expose Nolan's scheme, but hiding out...

Some illusions are worth believing in. SKYE: Taking a summer job as a carnival fortune teller was supposed to be easy research for my psychology thesis on supernatural delusions. Instead, I found Lux Frost—a mysterious House of Mirrors operator whose otherworldly presence makes my carefully constructed skepticism crumble. As my fake psychic readings start coming true and my attraction to him becomes impossible to deny, can I maintain my scientific objectivity when everything I believe about reality begins to shatter? LUX: Trapped for decades in a traveling carnival, my fractured soul is ...

What happens when a rebellious city girl crashes into a mountain man's perfectly isolated world? Everything. SCARLETT: I had exactly two choices: marry the boring, controlling fiancé my conservative parents picked out, or run. So I did what any self-respecting rebellious daughter would do—I signed up for Mountain Mates and bolted. What I didn't expect was landing with a reclusive mountain man who looks like he'd rather wrestle a bear than deal with me. My plan was simple: lose my virginity, become unmarriageable, and finally live on my own terms. But Bodhi is nothing like I imagined. ...

🎄❄️🎄 A virgin library page, a single-dad cowboy, and the wrong kind of toy shop... FLANNERY: I'm a library page who reads stories to preschoolers and secretly works at Lasso & Lace Adult Boutique to pay for library school. When Shepherd Starr—the hot single dad whose son Dash loves my storytime voice—shows up at my secret job thinking it's a children's toy shop, I'm mortified. Now we're snowed in together on December 23rd, surrounded by vibrators, edible underwear, and something called the "Cowboy Collection" that makes me blush through my hand-knitted cardigan. He's looking ...

One explosive night, two sworn enemies, and a Vegas marriage that could change everything... HARLOW: I came to the Jade Petal Hotel & Casino with a razor-sharp plan—inspect the place, prove Easton Hardwick was cutting corners, and walk away victorious. He was the same arrogant magnate who tried to smooth-talk his way past my regulations once before. This time, I wouldn’t let his magnetic charm or that sinful smile rattle my composure. But a few top-shelf drinks, a dare that went too far, and we stumbled into a Vegas chapel with “I do” on our lips. My strict professionalism vanished ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like arson this Christmas season… The Cat Café is buzzing with excitement this holiday season as they prepare for the Holiday Fur Ball & Silent Auction. As Tinsley and her crew put the finishing touches on the treats and decorations, she can’t help but daydream about the new animal shelter she hopes to build with the money from the auction. The excitement soon fizzles, however, when a fire breaks out at the café with the fur babies inside. Thankfully, they’re rescued by firefighters and all safe and sound. But everyone at the Cat Café is shocked when ...

There’s a bad egg in town…can Lily and her friends find out who’s trying to ruin Easter? Lily is a new baker at Paws-N-Pastries, and she has her eye on Jellybean, the newest cat to be welcomed to the refuge there. Like Jellybean, Lily doesn’t have a family to love, and she really wants a companion. While she’s thinking about bringing the kitty home with her, Lily decides to take part in some local events to learn more about the people in town and who they are. She volunteers to work at the local Easter Egg Hunt at the high school and gets to know Evan Rogers, a single dad with ...

In a world of high-seas adventure, forbidden love, and hidden treasure, one determined woman and one pirate captain will risk everything for a chance at both riches and romance. Wendy Darling never imagined her ordinary life would be upended by a pirate's vendetta, but when her family's dark past resurfaces alongside a coveted treasure map, her fate is sealed. Desperate to clear her father's tarnished name, Wendy is thrust into a perilous world of piracy, where she must embrace danger and deception to find the legendary treasure. Her daring mission soon leads to her capture by the notorious...

🎁 The only thing hotter than his delivery this Christmas…is getting snowed in with him. TINSLEY: Walking in on my boyfriend and the neighbor was supposed to ruin Christmas. Instead, it landed me alone in a remote Montana cabin with too much wine and way too many bad thoughts. My best friend swore she had a “special delivery” on the way—so when a gorgeous cowboy knocks on my door in the middle of a blizzard, I assume she’s sent me a stripper. I mean…what else could “special delivery” mean on Christmas Eve? Except he’s not dancing. He’s not leaving. And I might just be ...

How many pumpkin patches does it take to fall in love? SAM: I've planned a hundred perfect weddings, but this Halloween event for reality TV royalty might kill me. The Evergreen Inn is gorgeous, the bride is a nightmare, and the inn's new head chef? He's arrogant, temperamental, and refuses to follow my timeline. When the locals convince him to drag me to every pumpkin patch and haunted house in town, I want to hate it. I want to hate him. But August Ramsey has a way of making me forget my schedules. And when he looks at me like I'm more delicious than his food... I'm in trouble. GUS: ...

The one thing you can’t buy is love… Cord: I lost a gambling wager, and now I have a debt to pay to my business rival. I can either fork over the intellectual rights to the new app I just created that's predicted to earn millions, or I can return to my hometown in the Texas desert and convince the one who got away to fall in love with me again. The only thing is, I don’t do love. In fact, I’ve been accused of being heartless. But now I find myself packing up and heading back to my roots and the one person I swore never to see again, the one I gave my heart to years ago and who ...

Some stories can't be written—they can only be lived. BRYNN I came to Montana to find the passion I've only ever written about. Manhattan's suffocating walls and my publisher's cutting criticism have pushed me to the edge. They say my love scenes lack authenticity, that I know nothing about real desire. A sudden mountain storm, a slick road, and one catastrophic skid later, I'm stranded in a ditch, freezing and terrified. Just when I'm certain I'll become another cautionary tale, he appears—a mountain of a man with eyes that have seen things no one should ever have to see. MACK I didn't...

🍂🦃🍂 𝑨 𝒗𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒘𝒃𝒐𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑... 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘: I'm a vegetarian public defender who accidentally committed grand theft turkey. Now I'm fake dating my ex's older brother—the one who caught me red-handed trying to stuff his prize breeding tom into my Prius at 2 AM. Heath McGraw is six-foot-three of surly cowboy who's making me pretend to be his ...

Riley Ghost hunting rule #1: Don't screw the haunts. But here I am, lost in Whistling Pines with dead batteries, a useless compass, and a shadow man who can literally pass through my clothes. My podcast needs this episode, even if I have to camp in this creepy forest for a week. The locals warned me about the entity that stalks trespassers, but failed to mention he's got magical hands that can touch me in places—and ways—that should be physically impossible. Now we're being hunted by very human killers, and my sexy shadow is the only thing keeping me alive. If we survive, this will ...

The only game he’s playing this Christmas is getting her out of those stockings... EVE: Hiding in Promise Ridge after my broken engagement, I stumble into the local bar's Stocking Pull tradition—tiny stockings filled with dares. First night? Kiss a stranger under the mistletoe. That stranger? The impossibly sexy bar owner with bedroom eyes and a talent for making me forget why I swore off men. Each night brings a new stocking, a new dare, and new ways Deacon makes me melt faster than snow on the tavern’s roof. Who knew Christmas could be this hot? DEACON: When the gorgeous newcomer ...