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You don't become the NFL's defensive player of the year without playing the game rough and dirty, and while I won't deny my past, I'm determined to change that narrative. But as they say, it's darkest before the dawn—and that's precisely when she steps into my storm.

All four steamy contemporary cowboy romances in Hope Ford's Whiskey Valley series are collected together in one omnibus. The series includes Protector Cowboy, Redeemed Cowboy, Faithful Cowboy, and Savage Cowboy.

Chloe Jones is trying to put the scandal of leaving her Super Bowl legend fiancé at the altar behind her. There is no better way to escape than to turn her island honeymoon into a much-needed vacation with her girls. What she isn't expecting is to meet a hot stranger. Don't they say to get over someone you need to get under someone else? Chloe's ready for a fresh start. Shame her vengeful ex is making it difficult for her. That is until she lands the job of her dreams. She isn't expecting to come face to face with the hot stranger from her island escape—her new boss.

I trust no one. I thrive with control and I've learned to be ruthless and coldhearted. A love life? I'm not interested. But I still have desires. That's where Dahlia came in; my treasure. She had never been a submissive before and I was eager to train her. When I saw her on stage at the auction, dressed in gold, I knew I had to have her. She's mine for an entire month. I own her. But one lie changed everything.

She needs a fresh start. Out of options, the curvy woman applies to an interstellar mail-order bride agency. She’s sent to a rough planet on the edge of the galaxy knowing very little about the mysterious, horned alien warrior to whom she’s promised. Quickly she discovers the marriage contract is not to one but two dominating, muscular warriors. Even more surprising is the undeniable pull she feels toward her “husbands.”

I’m a survivor. I finally got myself and my son away from my abusive ex, and I’m standing on my own two feet. The very last thing I want is another arrogant, controlling man. I don’t care how sexy the grumpy hot cowboy is. When I first meet King, I try to thank him for the ranching camp scholarship my son was awarded, but before I can get the words out, he offers me a roll in the hay. Even though I’m a little tempted, I walk away and pull my son from the camp. We do not have room in our lives for a man like that.

My job is my life. It’s the only thing I live for, and it’s the only thing that keeps me sane. With my work, there is no time for a personal life, except for the occasional fling and one-night stands, which is the way I like it. I have rules: no commitment and no strings. My life is complicated, and it’s something I’m not willing to share with anyone. I save lives for a living, and that has to be my number one priority. Then Grace Harper walked into my life, and my whole world started to crumble. She was beautiful, smart, and exactly what I didn’t need.

The first rule of office romance is don't do it - especially if your dream is to hold the anchor spot on the nightly news and your boss is trying to get you fired. But one look at Cade Hill, the sexy new sports director, and uptight reporter Rebecca Fieldstone is daydreaming about other things. Sex in his office...Sex in the on-set kitchen...Sex in the supply closet.... She can't stop thinking about the former NFL quarterback and how perfect he'd look between her sheets - except he's an arrogant jerk with a huge...ego.

A disgruntled pro quarterback with something to prove. A brokenhearted pediatrician who's lost her way. An unlikely romance that blossoms out of a chance meeting, a blind date, and one big fat secret. Jett and Adrienne are the world's least likely couple to succeed. She's just suffered through the most heartbreaking night of her life. He's still reeling from the most humiliating game of his. Their attraction for each other is palpable, yet they have absolutely nothing in common.

Earth Government turned soldiers into cyborgs to terraform Mars. After a decade of hard, lonely work they are little more than the machines as which they are treated—until the arrival of female settlers awakens feelings they have almost forgotten....

I'm spending my college holiday break tutoring the guy I've had a crush on since freshman year. That is until the hottest football player at our university shows up instead. Freak needs to pass a class in order to graduate and heard I was the best. So we make the wildest holiday arrangement ever. If he helps me land the guy of my dreams by Christmas, I'll make sure he aces his final by the end of the semester. Every moment we spend plotting my target's seduction is hilarious. Until I realize that I'm actually the one who's being seduced.

I unexpectedly lost my job and am in debt up to my eyeballs. Until my best friend - a.k.a. my lucky charm - Rush gets me my dream job working for the NFL. We're best friends so this will be fun and easy. At least that's what I thought until I actually started the job and one of his teammates asks me out on a date. Then Rush starts acting strange.

I can have any woman I want. Except for Kaya. The only thing I've ever wanted is to play ball in the NFL, but my future is imploding right before my eyes after I unwittingly dump America's sweetheart for the world to see. Now, I'm the most hated man in sports. Desperate to get my name off of the social media gossip grinder, I return to my hometown to attend my best friend's wedding, hoping to find some respite. But the moment I see her again, my breath catches in my throat.

She thought this was a game. She thought she could walk away. She thought wrong. I've lived a cold, unforgiving life. I've seen things, I've done things, that would break a man. If they didn't kill him first. With my past behind me, I have nothing. No way to atone for my sins and nothing to lift me from the depths of despair I've come from. And no one to give me the control that I so desperately desire.

Shattered. Broken beyond repair. I’m the shell of the woman I used to be. The deeper I fall from reality, the worse things get. Only there’s one person who refuses to let me derail. Romero Pierce. Calloused. Sinister. Lethal. He’s my father's second in command, and so goddamn handsome it’s disgusting. Assigned the duty of being my babysitter, aka personal bodyguard, he thinks he can protect me, but I don’t want his protection. What I want is security, safety, freedom. Everything changes when I choose to leave and find myself in the very town where my father grew up.

Football star and Internet sensation Gavin "Anaconda" Adams is the biggest celebrity our little town has ever seen. But I had no idea who he was when I accidentally walked in on him naked. I was shocked, seeing all of him, a cocky grin on his face. I didn't know what to do. So I ran. No matter what I do, I can't get that image out of my head. To make matters worse, Gavin wants a date with me.

When a new case sends her to investigate a local motorcycle club, covering as the president's new flavor of the week, the lines between professional and personal quickly start to blur. Although the Arrow's Edge MC stays mostly on the right side of the law since Ouray took the gavel, the appearance of the feds at their gate can still rattle his cage. When a string of robberies points squarely in Ouray's direction, he's forced to cooperate and put the blonde, prim and proper half-pint on the back of his bike.

I knew she'd ruin me. But I wanted her anyway. I was born into wealth and my name comes with a reputation. One I've upheld and leveraged for power. Now everyone owes me and I plan to keep it that way. Until she's offered to me. My sweetheart. Only for a single month to repay a debt. Her tempting curves call to me and beg me to risk it all. I shouldn't take her, I shouldn't even consider his offer. Women like her bring men to their knees.

Sawyer Beckett does everything full throttle - he's fiercely loyal to his friends, always the life of the party, and impossible for the parade of women in and out of his bedroom to forget. Surrounded by true love and happily ever afters, Sawyer's not sure if he's enhancing the what-ifs in his head or if the goddess onstage that night really is worth the search and nagging in his chest. At the most inopportune moment possible, Emmett Young comes "skipping" back into his life...and for the first time, Sawyer is the one left wanting more.

Delta Operative Heath “Woof” Davis has spent years living on the edge. Protecting a State Department official is just another assignment, until he discovers that Eleanor Bonham is Nori Duncan, the one that got away. He can protect her from enemy forces in the Republic of Kazarus, but can he defend his heart from the woman who used to be his everything.