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Cuddle up with a cowboy and enjoy these great heartwarming and inspirational stories of love and laughter under the wide North Dakota sky.

This box set contains books seven to nine in Jessie Gussman's Sweet Water Ranch series: The Cowboy's Secret Romance, The Cowboy's Bargain Bride, and The Cowboy's Enemy.

A simple cowboy in love with a surgeon. A decade of unrequited love. A hopeless, one-sided romance. Except sometimes, if you’re patient, God writes your love story. She’s losing her house. He never had one. A marriage would give them a house to share, but could they learn to love each other and make their house into a home? Everyone thinks Poppy Kyle is naturally happy and positive. But it took a major tragedy in her life for her to overcome her natural negative tendencies and develop a happiness attitude. She will not allow the surly West Barclay to steal her joy.

This box set contains books four to six in Jessie Gussman's Sweet Water Ranch series: The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister, The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage, and The Cowboy's Fairy Tale.

It was supposed to be simple. Marry the tall Texan. Her children get a father. They save the ranch. A business transaction, nothing more. She definitely wasn’t going to fall in love. After her husband ran off with her little sister, she was no longer susceptible to cowboy charm. Except, the North Dakota girl had never met a Texas cowboy. He married her for the ranch. A former champion bull rider needs a spread to call home, even if it is in North Dakota.

his set includes the first four books in Jessie Gussman's well-loved Cowboy Crossing series. Filled to the brim with faith, family and sweet romance, these stories will keep you listening until late in the night! 

This is a box set of books one to three in Jessie Gussman's Sweet Water Ranch series: The Cowboy's Best Friend, The Cowboy's Secret Baby, and The Cowboy's Beauty.

They were high school sweethearts, but money and pride came between them. Can their twin sons trick them into falling in love again? Reid Hudson would be happy on his Missouri farm except he’d always thought he’d be sharing it with his soul mate, Emerson. Instead, he gets six months with each of his boys and splits the holidays. Not the life he’d planned.

Tyler’s last year of residency is all work and no play, just the way he likes it. His life would be smooth sailing into his medical career if he could improve his bedside manner. He agrees to a blind date but only to practice communication skills. Then, he’s speechless when he sees who is across the table.

Palmer wasn’t planning to get married. But when he got the unexpected letter, he knew he could pay the overdue medical bills and save the ranch. Just one problem. He needed a wife. When Ames came home to North Dakota to spend the summer with her best friend before moving on to her dream job in LA, she thought there were would be work and fun, as always.

When Mack’s sister dropped her kids off with his dad in his trailer park, he knew he needed to step up and be an uncle. But he’d told his buddy he’d be in Sweet Water, ND over the holidays, so he takes the children and drives north. Angela Davis had been the sedate, good daddy’s girl all her life, doing whatever her parents wanted, even trying to trap a man into marriage to help them get out of debt.

Braxton Emmerson was born and bred in the heartland. He loves his farm and his family, but he was willing to give it all up for the woman who stole his heart. But, she didn’t want to give up her career and insisted on keeping their romance a secret. But then, her business partner double-crossed her, and she ended up with a prison sentence for tax evasion. Now, she’s out and she’s much wiser. Family is more important than her career. Unfortunately, she’d hurt Braxton deeply, and the only reason he’s coming to see her is to give their daughter a Christmas with her mom.

Zane Hudson just got custody of his four young children. The only problem is, he can’t watch his kids and run his farm, too. He needs a permanent housekeeper. He has every intention of hiring someone until... Inez Cromwell is two months behind on her rent and about to lose her house and her children. Getting stuck with handsome Zane Hudson and his four kids in the diner bathroom seems like the type of thing that was just her luck.

He couldn’t face her. She was too beautiful. He’d been deformed in a farming accident years ago. He’d managed to build a successful business on his North Dakota ranch, but clients didn’t need to see him. His sister handled the face of his company. Until his sister took a vacation and hired an out-of-work supermodel to take her place. He couldn’t show himself to her. Although after dark he could share his love of the stars with her. But the more he hides, the more she wants to see. Can he trust her with his face? Because he’s very close to losing his heart.

Shawn Barclay didn’t plan to stay in Iowa long. He’d only left his family and the close-knit community of Mistletoe, Arkansas as a favor to his parents. They’d asked him to help the daughter of a friend who was in an accident. After arriving in Iowa, it doesn’t take long before Shawn invests in saving more than the woman’s farm. When he sees how the town avoids her, he decides to save her reputation as well.

Waitress and single mother Louise Olson wouldn’t have missed church to stay home with her sick daughter if she knew the congregation was going to volunteer her to head up the town’s Harvest Festival. Truth be told, she didn’t mind and would have enjoyed it. The problem was Sweet Water’s superstar hockey golden boy was back in town, and he had been named her co-chair. That even wouldn’t be a problem except he didn’t know he was a father - of her daughter.

Are you sick and tired of making a promise or decision to yourself that could potentially change your life, but struggle to follow through? Are you tired of having a complete lack of self-restraint and get easily distracted and side-tracked by temptations? Have you tried everything under the sun to improve your willpower and self-discipline but nothing seems to work out for you, or you simply run out of willpower before you can see results?

Marlowe Glass has always been the girl next door. Responsible and organized, she is raising her orphaned niece while holding down a full time job. Clark Hudson knows the only woman on the planet who isn’t a man-eater is his best friend, Marlowe. She stood with him in high school and has had his back ever since his wife walked out on him to pursue a career in New York City. They’ve been best friends and neighbors forever. When a tree falls on her house, of course he offers to allow her to live with him while her house is being fixed.

She’s his best friend’s little sister. He’s never noticed her. Not like that. He needs to marry to inherit his money, so he’s hired a woman to be his fake bride. Only he’s too sick to get married. Now he’s confined in his small house with his fake fiancée-to-be and his best friend’s little sister. The ladies don’t seem to get along. And one of them isn’t what he thought. Should he follow the plan, or follow his heart?

Burgundy Gannon went to Hollywood to make it big. That was a bust. Crew Pittman was one of the world’s top underwater welders. Until a freak accident left him permanently unable to work. When Burgundy shows up at Crew’s new home to be a caretaker to the elderly woman who won’t leave, it seems like three unlikely people are trapped unwillingly together. But late-night rides from a Secret Santa and an infusion of the Christmas season of love and laughter that’s in Mistletoe, Arkansas year-round just might melt their hearts and create beauty out of brokenness.