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A lonely soldier, who's a search and rescue expert. A lovely veterinarian, anxious to prove herself in K9 rescue operations. The amber alert that puts both their hearts and skills on the line.Sergeant Luke Jordan and his squad of K9 handlers have successfully routed out so many enemy combatants that he’s become known throughout his military police unit as Sergeant Fang. When he and his dog, Hellion, travel home to Texas for Christmas, they’re looking forward to two weeks of well-earned and uninterrupted rest. 
They didn’t count on arriving home to the news headline of, Missing Child...

Bronc riding champ Ames Carson is at a major crossroads in his career. His brothers are gonna die laughing if they ever find out the hardest part of his decision is this — should he kiss his best friend before leaving town?He wants to. That’s a given. But he’s afraid of ruining a perfectly good friendship, if it turns out she doesn’t feel the same way about him. That’s the tough thing about being best buds with the girl next door. He knows literally everything else about her but THAT. He knows who her first crush was (not him), and the first guy she kissed (also not him), as well ...

A wounded rodeo champion and a lovely horse trainer make a friendship pact to protect each other’s broken hearts from rebound relationships. Their ground rules are simple: Need a plus one at a holiday get-together? Ask each other. Feeling bored or lonely? Call or text each other. Accidentally step beneath the mistletoe? Um… Okay, it’s kind of impossible to make a rule for every situation, so their feelings soon get a little tangled up with each other. But that’s okay, right? Because friends are supposed to care for friends. What they didn’t count on was just how easily two broken ...

A strapped-for-cash waitress who’s taking a break from dating, the single-and-available foreman determined to change her mind, and the late winter storm that leaves them snowbound together at the ranch he runs…Tess Caldwell isn’t sure why she says yes to her best friend’s invitation to join her in a remote mountain town that celebrates Christmas year-round. After her ex-boyfriend leaves both her heart and bank account flat broke, she can’t afford a vacation. And she certainly can’t afford to extend her visit indefinitely when a winter storm shuts down every road leading out of ...

All she wants for Christmas is one perfect holi-date, not a schedule mix-up with two tall, dark, Texas cowboys — resulting in both showing up as her blind date! Everyone assumes trick rider Christie Hart has it all. The truth is her rapid rise to fame has left her exhausted inside and out. So when a position at a small-town rodeo opens up, she jumps at the chance to slow the pace a little. And go on a few blind dates. Not on the same evening, of course! And one of them is most definitely NOT supposed to be with Wes Wakefield: 1. Her best friend’s stepbrother. 2. Someone she’s been ...

A reformed cowboy has a secret crush on the minister’s daughter, though he’s pretty sure his chances of dating her are slim to none after an unexpected visitor drops off a son he didn’t know he had.Learning how to juggle his new responsibilities as a single dad is hard enough, but it becomes a lot harder after the woman of his dreams: Recruits his kid into a holiday play Then arm-twists him into helping her build the stage backdrop And turns out to be really, really great working with children New plan: Focus on hiding just how badly he’s falling for the one woman in town he’s ...

What happens when you throw a grumpy cowboy boss into the same holiday grill master contest as the girl who got away?Brady McGrath can’t believe his rotten luck in getting paired off with his ex-girlfriend for the town’s biggest Christmas charity fundraiser. But those are the rules: Random partner assignments and no swapping. It doesn’t help that she’s also applying for a job at the ranch he runs, which means he’s about to become her boss. Their first attempt at dating was an epic failure, so he’s not about to repeat that mistake. If only if she’d take her sunshiny personality...

A visit home for the holidays rekindles a childhood crush in this sweet, small-town Christmas romance.Celebrity country western singer Willa Morgan receives a gift from a secret admirer that ultimately leads to a long overdue visit home for Christmas. On her first day back, she encounters Angel Castellano, a cocky blast from her past who's been bragging since they were kids that he’s going to marry her someday. All too soon, her annoying childhood nemesis is wrangling her into serving as the interim entertainment director at his dinner theater, baking her one tastebud-exploding dessert ...

No more workplace romance for her! A rising star at a small-town dinner theater, Hope Isaacson has big plans for the future. Plans that don’t involve dating on the job. She tried that once, and it ended in disaster. But when a good friend and coworker begs her to serve as his plus one at a family holiday celebration, she decides to make an exception. Just this once. After being tragically widowed, Roman Rios has no interest in dating again. So a onetime date with his just-a-friend coworker feels like the perfect way to get his matchmaking sister off his back. One excuse leads to another, ...