Book of Cowboys

Saddle up and come along on a Cowboy Christmas with Marshal Matt Dillon and "King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers! During the years now known to old-time radio fans as the Golden Age of Radio, listeners could expect to hear special guests and holiday sketchs on their favorite programs. Even the Western shows and cowboy stars of the day could be counted on to show the holiday spirit, especially at Christmas time.
This Audio Archive presentation showcases two such Christmas episodes from two of radio's most popular Western programs: Gunsmoke and The Roy Rogers Show, both from December 1952.

Welcome to the town of Promise, deep in the heart of Texas!

Promise, a ranching community in the Hill Country, has a mysterious past. Yet it’s the kind of place that represents the strength of small-town and rural America. Because Promise is built on family and friendship. Hard work and endurance. Laughter and, above all, love.

Nell Bishop, widowed mother of two children, is turning her property into a dude ranch. And one of her first guests is Travis Grant, an Easterner known for his books about the West. Her kids adore him - and she has to admit she’s drawn to him, too. But Nell isn’t ready to fall in love again. Or is she?

From USA Today best-selling author Lacy Williams comes a new contemporary cowboy romance perfect for fans of The Big Bang Theory.

She came looking for a place to hide...and found an unlikely hero.

Part-time cowboy and full-time physicist Jake Sutton has enough complications in his life: his younger sister is about to be released from prison, and being a single dad to his five-year-old niece isn't easy, especially for someone who can understand quantum mechanics more easily than the female mind. He doesn't need any additional drama, but when country music artist Stevie Flower rolls up to his doorstep in need of help, he can't say no.

Stevie is sick of paparazzi hounding her and hiding a secret grief that no one in her circles - not her fans, her business manager, or her peers - can understand. She and Jake were friends back when he tutored her in high school physics, so when she needs a place to escape, she runs to him.

Having Stevie underfoot is both a dream and a nightmare for Jake. The disproportionately large crush he had on her in high school rushes back with a vengeance - but someone like Stevie is in another dimension entirely. Can he offer the comfort she seeks without falling in love with her all over again?

Taking a dirt bath off a bull lands Jace Jackson into the hands of beautiful, smart, sexy country singer Jessa Garvey. In pain and loopy on pain meds, he has no clue he's flirting with her, and making a big damn fool of himself. Back in high school she rejected him, and although years have passed, sometimes a cowboy can't forget. When Miss Priss invades his space at Nirvana, he decides to give her a dose of her own medicine and puts her to work mucking stalls. That'll teach her….

Or will it?

Trading her guitar for a shovel, Jessa is out to prove to Jace that she isn't the same person she was as a teenager. As far as she's concerned, he'll forgive her even if it kills her, or lands her hot and willing in bed with the dangerously handsome cowboy.

She's in deep.

Forgiveness is granted, but she isn't prepared for the choices she must make. Has she changed enough? Does the sliver of selfishness remain?

An exciting, thrilling, complete western romance novel.

No Cliffhanger.

Sharon, drowning in the debt of her deceased parents, is coming to the end of her rope. Even the debt consolidation company she was trying to work with was asking for too much each month. With few options left, she is considering going bankrupt. In times like this, she always turned to the one person she could rely on - her muscular, handsome best friend Clint. 

While at lunch, Sharon explains her situation to Clint, but he has a surprise of his own: in order for his grandfather to sign over the ranch to him, the old man demands Clint gets married. What began as a joke turns into the solution to both their problems.

When a friendship quickly transitions into something much more, are they able to fight the urge to stray from their arrangement? Or will they risk it all for something that could be so special?

Warning: Readers should be 18 or over due to mature content and language.

Jenny is a Wild Water Creek girl who is destined for a life in the city. Her Boston suitor, Brendan, is rich, powerful, and handsome; just what her parents envisaged. But then disaster strikes and Jenny finds herself alone and heading back home.

Jenny is young and beautiful. Her parents have spent a fortune educating her so that she can lure a rich husband in Boston. Brendan seems to be the man of her dream, but is there something sinister lurking under his brilliant, beautiful eyes?

Disaster strikes back at Wild Water Creek and Jenny is forced to return home. She finds Jake, a handsome ranch hand running the place and he hints of agreements and secret deals with Jenny's father.

As Jenny learns to labor on the ranch, her heart is torn between a life in the city and life at Wild Water Creek.

And then something happens that confuses her completely.

Welcome to Nirvana - your wish is a cowboy's command.

Exhausted with carrying around the weight of a damaged past, Cara is ready to take the ultimate step in finding her old self, before she met and married her evil husband. She needs to get away from the small town where rumors are spinning and people know her. When she visits Nirvana Ranch, an R&R, she realizes life isn't as bleak as she thought.

Ben is missing something. He doesn't feel the excitement he once did as a ranch hand at Nirvana, until he meets a guest that turns his world upside down. He has a connection with her that he can't brush off or deny. Getting to know her breaks every rule in his book, but he is willing to take the risk.

Cara didn't expect her life to change the moment sexy and rugged Ben walks in. Parts of her are flaming hot for cowboy, and she has an opportunity to break the rules, something her husband never allowed. Ben triggers her every fantasy and every desire. She's on the ride of her life and it doesn't require a saddle.

What started as a strong urge to take Cara to a new level of passion becomes much, much more for Ben. Cara's touch destroys the boundaries he'd built - exposing a secret of his own, a past of heartache and guilt.

Welcome to Nirvana - your wish is a cowboy's command.

A cowboy can always dream that a woman like Sofie Drake would turn his way, but from the second she came to work at Nirvana Ranch, she's treated Jared like spoiled milk. His reputation as a rebel and a womanizer doesn't weigh in his favor, but he never really cared what people thought of him, until Sofie. Wanting her is enough to make a man go crazy. One night she shows up with a wine bottle and a lonely heart, and Jared is more than willing to help a lady out. What would any other red-blooded man do?

Yet, with the sweet comes the sour.

One night with Sofie leaves Jared hungry for more, but when he learns that she's in love with the boss things might come to a skidding halt. This suddenly becomes a wicked triangle entwined with secrets, surprises, and a sultry love affair.

Krista shows up at Nirvana, not for vacation, but because she wants a divorce. Yet when she sees her husband for the first time in years, the last thing she can think about is dissolution papers and freedom. She wants to saddle her cowboy and take a ride down memory lane with her stud.

Dodge has no intention of signing those papers - at least not at the moment. Krista is as hot as a pot of oil over an open fire and he plans to show her that he has the endurance and the amazing moves as a cowboy as he had when he was a pro football player. No surprise, his wife has a thing for role playing and he's more than happy to make his bedroom into their stage.

When a bombshell guest wants to sink her claws into Dodge's back, Krista makes it clear, "Cowboy is mine"...at least temporarily. She's jealous. Dodge'll take what he can get. He has something up his sleeve that will create a twist in their relationship and put his NFL moves to shame.

Welcome to Nirvana. Your wish is a cowboy's command.

Not getting any younger and wanting to leave her cheating ex-husband in the past, Moon Novak decides she wants a child, even if she must do it alone. Well...as alone as Mother Nature will allow her.

She's lacking a key factor - a man.

Dr. Cam Parker isn't quite ready to jump into the saddle after losing his wife to cancer, but he isn't against getting his feet wet with the stunning, brazen cowgirl ranch hand at Nirvana.

What he didn't expect is to become a perfect cowboy daddy. Or that he would fall for the raven-haired beauty.

Nirvana Ranch is steamier than ever. There's lust between the sheets. Secrets. Conflict. Hot cowboys. And a maniac on the loose who wields a deadly club and has a taste for revenge.

Welcome to Nirvana: your wish is a cowboy's command.

Award-winning photographer Jax Morgan is dumped at the altar. Yet, she isn't the scorned bride missing a groom. She has tall, dark, and handsome on the horizon.

Maverick McCade can't believe who just walked onto Nirvana Ranch in the middle of a blizzard, and on Valentine's Day. He's focused on making this day special, but he's in for an awakening that'll leave him sweltering.

The first book in a new Western mystery series will put the best of the British against the American West. Filled with action, drama, twists, turns, and gunfights, this series will leave you wishing for more.

Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the citizens of London, and there is only one connection between each murder known to the police - a man called Jonathan Smyth. After a particularly grizzly murder, the fickle finger of fate points directly at Smyth, who cannot be located. When the police discover that their prime suspect has seemingly fled to the fledgling United States, they send one of their best men, Charles Abbott, after him.

Smyth, an intrepid sleuth, is caught in a new land filled with legends, mysteries and horrors. His goal is to unmask the Ripper when he meets the seemingly harmless British journalist Charles Abbott, but soon finds himself slowly drawn into discovering the secrets behind the screaming tunnel of Arizona. Will Smyth and Abbot survive the lethal legend, unmasking the mystery - or will they die in the fiery bowels of Arizona?

The Cactus Corner singles scene is shrinking. Many were unmarried by choice, others by circumstances, but single women living the 1800s carried the unfortunate label of "spinsters". Once branded, can a spinster find love?

India Cunningham is happily running the ranch her father left her when a man she doesn't remember from her childhood arrives to help her. Can she trust Joshua Dillinger, or is he there to steal her land?

Eighteen-year-old cowboy Cody Strickland lost his parents to an illness that he didn’t understand. Saddened, confused, and alone, he saddled up and rode north, stopping and working awhile, but bounced around from one location to another. He was free to come and go as he pleased. His new boss on the Double Bar X Ranch put his trust in Cody after only a couple of months. He was to go along on a cattle drive from northeast of Cheyenne, Wyoming all the way to Salt Lake City, Utah. 

The worst snows in history hit the Utah Mountains, so Cody had to lay over months before making his long trip back with the $26,000 of cattle money that he had collected. Coming upon a wounded man, he could not leave him to die, alone. Patching him up and taking him home proved to be a bigger chore than anyone would expect. Outlaws and gold-robbing thieves kidnap the rancher’s daughter and that sets Cody on a rescue mission that leads all over northern and western Colorado and southern Wyoming. 

With the very pretty daughter, two packhorses loaded with gold, and angry men on their trail, this little cowboy has to do some fancy shooting. Men should have been killed, but Cody let them live, now he and the girl are riding all out for the ranch. Cody knows how to muddy a trail, just ride in rivers, over mountains, and keep doubling back. Never ride in a straight line too long. 

They make it to the ranch where they think there is safety. Just how wrong can one little cowboy be?

He thought his life was over...

Justin Michaels is not your typical college kid. For one, he's 27 and the other students seem like kids to his jaded eyes. But after suffering a career-ending injury, the former bull rider has to do something to get his life on track.

She's got big plans...

Valri North is only a few credits away from completing her pre-med degree. Her life is consumed by helping care for her big family and trying to keep her grades up. The last thing she needs is a distraction...and the cowboy seated next to her in class is a major one. There's something vulnerable behind the cool exterior he shows the world...

One flat tire, a snowstorm and a disastrous in-class presentation later, and Justin admits he's fallen for the girl. But a failure with his track record is sure to hold her back...isn't he?

Kimberly Carson, the oldest of Bernard Carson's grandchildren, is headed off to Princeton in the fall, much to her family's dismay. Everywhere she turns, one relative or another is trying to convince her to stay a little closer to home, if she leaves at all. But a stolen day with her grandfather will reveal more about Kimberly's family than she ever knew, including the secrets and the love surrounding the woman they have vowed never to speak of - Sarah Carson.

A series of city girls head west to escape their problems...they arrive, full of promise, at a place called Summer Hope.

One Bride for Two Cowboy Brothers

A young woman's father is determined to marry her off to the worst man in town....she manages to escape but walks into a family feud, a mother pretending to be her son, and her future husband wanting nothing to do with her. With seven days till the next train, she has to endure the situation with grace...maybe.

Fire Bride

A young nurse heads west to help her friend give birth. She desires adventure...and to escape a man she must marry to pay off the family debt.

Sister Brides for the Brothers

Two young sisters flee west after a promise of marriage from a pair of undertakers. However, when they arrive, things are not quite as they had first appeared.

The doctor's daughter has a secret wish....

From USA Today best-selling author Lacy Williams comes a story of courage and first love.

About the book:

Cowboy Maxwell White has dreamed of being a doctor for years. But with two years to go on his medical degree and with no money to continue his education, he's back in Bear Creek, Wyoming, working part-time for the local doc. He's drawn to the doctor's beautiful, intelligent daughter, but she doesn't seem to want anything to do with him - and the shyness he's never quite overcome has him tongue-tied.

Hattie Powell can't help noticing her father's new assistant. He treats her like a real person and sees things she'd rather he didn’t - which is dangerous. She's so close to embarking on her dream of becoming a doctor. When Maxwell discovers her secret desire, will he help her or stand in her way?

One family will brave the wilderness of Wyoming to fight for their livelihoods...and for love.

The Wyoming Legacy series includes these books:

The Homesteader’s Sweetheart

Roping the Wrangler

Return of the Cowboy Doctor

The Wrangler’s Inconvenient Wife

A Cowboy for Christmas

Her Convenient Cowboy

Her Cowboy Deputy

When Texas beauty Dahlia Montgomery and her best friend journey to Idaho for a change of scenery for the summer, the last thing she expects to encounter is Luke McRae, a lean, rugged cowboy intent on sweeping her off her feet and into his bed. Dahlia can't resist his rugged cowboy swagger and his sky blue eyes, even though she knows he can break her heart.

Luke is part owner and manager of the legendary Double-Deuce Ranch in the Idaho mountains. With the ranch, an alcoholic ex-wife, a shrewish mother and three kids to worry about, he has no interest in romance. But that doesn't mean he has given up casual sex with beautiful women.... But is either he or Dahlia prepared for the consequences of a sexy summer romp?

Three fast-paced, full-length sexy western romance novels in one set! Available for a limited time. Including:

The Cowboy Inherits a Bride: When a big city chef and a hometown country boy go toe to toe over an inheritance, the competition gets smoking hot.

The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride: When Ethan Cruz's friends set him up with an e-mail order bride, what's a cowboy to do except play along?

The Cowboy Wins a Bride: Cowboy Jamie Lassiter has wanted his best friend's sister forever, but just when he's ready to make his move, she announces her plans to leave Chance Creek forever. Jamie makes a desperate bet: if he can't convince her to stay, he'll pay for her trip around the world. Can he change her mind in time?

Ethan Cruz should be mending fences on his Montana ranch, but instead he's driving to the Chance Creek, Montana, airport - to pick up the bride he didn't know he had. This latest salvo in his ongoing practical joke battle with his best friend, Rob Matheson, has gone too far, and Ethan plans to send his "bride" right back home, then get busy plotting his revenge. One look at Autumn Leeds changes his mind, however. Perhaps he needs a bride, after all. A breathtakingly beautiful city bride. 

Autumn Leeds needs a story - fast - or she's going to lose her lucrative contract with CityPretty Magazine, so when she sees the crazy video plea for a modern mail-order bride for a cowboy, it sounds like the story of the century. Making a video of her own, she casts herself as the perfect mail-order bride for a rancher, but when she finally reaches Montana, she's surprised to find Ethan's the perfect cowboy husband-to-be. Against her better judgment, her plan to keep her handsome groom at arm's length disintegrates into a night of passion spent in his arms. 

Ethan knows he can't keep playing this game - he has to come clean with Autumn and tell her the truth; about the practical joke and about the state of his ranch. He's about to lose it all because of the debts his mother racked up before his parents' deaths. Now his sister, Claire, wants to sell the ranch and collect what little money they can. He'll be out of a home and a job, and in no shape to support the bride he desperately wants to marry, after all. 

Autumn's in bigger trouble than ever. Not only has she fallen in love with the subject of her expose - she might be carrying his child. If she doesn't write this article and secure her contract for another year, she'll lose everything - her career, her apartment, and more importantly, her family's approval. The only alternative is to stay and marry Ethan. But how can she trust a man she's just met when she knows too well that men always let you down? 

Can a love based on lies last?

Jenna Callahan has a young son and rewarding work on her father's ranch. She's content. But she never expected to see Nate Langley back in town--the first guy she noticed, the one her father sent away all those years ago. And she never thought the attraction they felt would be as strong as ever. 
Jenna's cowboy has some healing of his own to do, though, after two tours of duty in the armed forces. With the help of good friends, strong faith, and a loving family, he hopes to put the horrors of the past behind him--and become the man Jenna deserves. 
With an emphasis on simple acts of love, Jenna's Cowboy gives romance readers what they want most: a love story with a Texas touch.

After traveling around the globe for over a year, Cole Linden is more than ready to return home to Montana, so when his fiancée, Sunshine, suddenly cuts their trip short and books them flights back to Chance Creek, Cole feels like the holidays have come early this year. He hopes she’ll love the present he bought her: a restaurant space downtown. If only he can transform it into the sleek, modern style she likes before Christmas, maybe she’ll finally agree to set a date for their wedding.

Sunshine can’t believe she’s pregnant, but she is, which means it’s high time to get back home. It also means she needs to re-think her career goals. She can’t run a world-class restaurant in tiny Chance Creek—especially not with a baby. So Cole will have to be the breadwinner of the family. Which means he needs a ranch. Luckily she’s found one. Three hundred acres of prime ranch land and a wonderful—if dilapidated—house. With Christmas looming, she’ll need to race to turn it into the comfortable family home they’ll need as soon as they get married.

But when a delayed flight results in the loss of their hotel room, Cole and Sunshine realize they’ll have to couch surf through the holidays. Staying with each of their friends in turn leads to a series of revelations that might undermine their relationship for good. Can Cole and Sunshine make it until Christmas?

Or will this be the holiday that ends it all?

Not much had changed in the twelve years since Wyatt Malone left Roundup, Montana. Except for Paige St. John, his once-loyal childhood friend. As teenagers, they had planned to leave their small town behind together. But a falling-out with his father drove him from Roundup and Paige—and she has not forgiven Wyatt for striking out on his own.

Now Wyatt is back, hoping to reconcile with his family—and with Paige. She's turned into the kind of woman he's always wanted. But she's been burned by handsome cowboys before, including the one that left her to raise her son alone. Can Wyatt convince Paige, and the rest of Roundup, that he's a man she can count on?

Harts of the Rodeo prequel novella.

When Sunshine Patterson loses her Chicago home, job and boyfriend in one day, she needs a backup plan, fast. Luckily her Aunt Cecily has provided her with the perfect combination living and restaurant space to start over. Even though the building is located in small town Chance Creek, Montana, Sunshine is certain it’s only a matter of time before she’s back to take the big city by storm. When she arrives in Chance Creek, however, she gets a surprise. Her restaurant space—and apartment—are occupied by a rival to her inheritance: the incredibly sexy, incredibly wrong for her, Cole Linden.

Cole’s been struggling to save his family’s holdings for far too long. The indoor rifle range he inherited from his father barely pays its rent, but it’s all that’s keeping his other concerns—two apartment houses—afloat. If he was smart, he’d walk away from all of it and start over, but if he does, several dozen of Chance Creek’s inhabitants will find themselves without a home. He thought Cecily meant to leave him the range building in her will. Instead she’s set him up in a four-month-long competition with her big-city niece to see who will win the place. A niece whose knockout looks are making it damn hard for him to concentrate on the job at hand.

Sunshine can’t believe she’ll have to open a vegan restaurant in a rifle-range waiting room, and she can’t believe she’ll have to share her apartment with Cole, either. Cole can’t believe his friends are falling over themselves to help Sunshine succeed—and get a date with her. 

Now the competition is getting hot, but the sparks flying between them are even hotter. Can Cole and Sunshine find a way they both can win?

Twelve years ago, equestrian Olympic hopeful Olivia Canaday and her best friend, Jake Lassen, made a pinky-swear promise to reunite at the Big Marietta Fair on her thirtieth birthday and marry each other if they were both still single. But that was before they grew up and went their separate ways. 

Now, after a disastrous divorce and a career-changing accident, Olivia limps home, minus her mojo, her courage and her faith in love. She retreats to her parents’ ranch, determined to play it safe, but when ex-Army helicopter pilot Jake Lassen arrives to make good on their promise, he reignites passion and hope, two things Olivia had forgotten existed. 

Olivia resolves to keep Jake at arm’s length, even though the memory of his kisses keeps her up at night. She knows better than to let her heart get involved, but Jake is planning for the future. Their future. Can Jake convince her to risk it all one more time and really make this a fair to remember? 

Sage Carrigan never meant to be the other woman. Unfortunately bronc rider Dawson O’Dell  neglected to mention he was married the night he invited her to his bed after they’d both placed first in their rodeo events. When his wife walked in on them Sage was deeply hurt and humiliated.

After an accident in the ring the next day, Sage decides she’s quitting the rodeo--and cowboys—to become a chocolatier in her hometown ranching community, Marietta, Montana. 

She’s doing just fine, but then Dawson shows up —five years later, with a little girl in tow. He’s here for the Copper Mountain Rodeo hoping to win big. But he’s also got plans of settling down with his daughter and buying a house—the very same one that Sage has been dreaming about.

He says he’s here for her and he’s making lots of promises. But can he keep them?

The Carrigans of Circle C series
Book 1: Promise Me, Cowboy
Book 2: Good Together
Book 3: Close To Her Heart
Book 4: Snowbound in Montana
Book 5: A Cowgirl's Christmas
Book 6: A Bramble House Christmas

Meet the Kellys of Whiskey River, Texas, men who have always gone through life, and women, with their father’s legendary charm.

Trey Kelly has it all. Eldest son of Boots Kelly, Trey runs the Kelly ranch, and Trey’s heart is with his “babies”, Kelly’s Champs, the World Champion cutting horses he breeds and sells. Women love Trey and he loves women, but he’s never met the one he wanted for keeps. Until…

Reclusive Ariana Wright‘s lavender farm sits next door to the Kelly spread. Ariana is a smart, ambitious chemist and after the car accident that left her scarred, the success of her new line of lavender-based beauty products is all Ariana is interested in.

Convincing Ariana to take a chance on love is a task that takes all of Trey’s cowboy determination. But can Ariana let go of the wounds of the past and give herself more than one night with the cowboy? 

The Brothers of Whiskey River series 
Book 1: Texas Heir by Katherine Garbera and Eve Gaddy 
Book 2: Texas Cowboy by Eve Gaddy 
Book 3: Texas Tycoon by Katherine Garbera 
Book 4: Texas Rebel by Eve Gaddy 
Book 5: Texas Lover by Katherine Garbera 
Book 6: Texas Bachelor by Katherine Garbera and Eve Gaddy

Romance, cowboys, rodeo, ranching and wild mustangs...the Presley's men, aka the cowboys of Ransom Creek will win your heart and have you longing for Texas.

Cooper Presley doesn't do drama, but after making a mistake and asking out the queen of drama he's paying the price. Now he's sworn off women, though his brothers don't believe him, and he's just trying to get through his best friends wedding. But then, he meets his new neighbor and she's making his new "no dating policy" hard to abide by. She's special and he knows it, but what's he going to do about it?

Beth Lee is happy to settle into her new property with her baby goats and her dreams of a small, but productive farm. She's been forced to hide from her ex-boyfriend and isn't looking for romance of any kind. Especially with a cowboy who is having ex-girlfriend trouble. But when Cooper rescues her baby goats she can't get the handsome cowboy off her mind.

And when her past catches up to her Cooper Presley, and his brothers, step in to help and she's at risk of falling in love with him despite all the rumors and the jealous ex who refuses to let him go.

The small town of Ransom Creek is buzzing with rumors and a little suspense...and a lot of speculation that Cooper Presley might be the first of those handsome Presley men to fall in love.

This is book 3 of Debra Clopton's new contemporary western romance series introducing the Presley brothers. Meet the Cowboys of Ransom Creek: Cooper, Shane, Vance, Drake and Brice. And in book 1 and 2 meet their best friend Trip and their cousin Carson.

Get ready for the latest of Debra's new clean and wholesome cowboy series. If you've read Debra's WINDSWEPT BAY SERIES, you'll remember the Presley's from book 7 WITH THIS PROMISE, they are the heroine, Lana Presley's gorgeous Texas brothers.

Meet Trip Jensen, best friend of the Presley brothers of Ransom Creek
Rodeo bronc supplier Lori Calhoun has struggled to live up to expectations after her father’s sudden death. When a trailer load of her star broncs disappear, the Knight Agency steps in to investigate.

Foreman of the Calhoun Ranch, Trip Jensen has watched Lori struggle to keep up with the demands of the ranch and the rodeo stock. He’s always admired her and loved her—but he’s kept that to himself. She was the boss’s daughter and is now the boss…off-limits for a cowboy like him. When more stock begins to disappear from the ranch, they must work together to solve the mystery. Unable to know who on the ranch to trust Trip enlist the Presley brothers from the neighboring ranch to back him up.

Lori has always admired Trip but he made it clear years ago that he wasn't interested in her as more than a friend. Now, he sticking close and she’s finding it hard to concentrate on the danger and not the man.

Can love blossom between them before time runs out?
This is book 1 of Debra Clopton's new contemporary western romance series introducing the Presley brothers. Meet the Cowboys of Ransom Creek: Carson (Bride for Hire book 2) and then Cooper #3, Shane #4, Vance #5, Drake #6 and Brice #7. Get ready for the latest of Debra's new clean and wholesome cowboy series.
If you've read Debra's WINDSWEPT BAY SERIES, you'll remember them from book 7 WITH THIS PROMISE, they are the heroine, Lana Presley's gorgeous Texas brothers.

The Copper Mountain Rodeo has returned to Marietta and cowboy reputations aren’t the only thing at stake…

Marietta Kindergarten teacher, Kate Canaday, is doing perfectly well without the ex-love of her life mucking up her intention to stay gloriously uncommitted. So what if she’s become—according to her sisters—a serial dater? If pro-bullrider Finn Scott's untimely defection six years ago taught her anything, it was that men come with an expiration date. And she’s more than happy to oblige them.

Trouble is, the sexier-than-ever Finn, now a devoted single father, has just moved to Marietta with his adorable five-year-old twins. He’s in an unexpected custody battle with his ex and too proud to ask Kate for help in making his crazy life look stable. But Kate sees helping him as a way of sealing off the hurt from her past once and for all. If they can just keep their hands off each other. After all…expiration date, right?

Not if Finn has anything to say about it...

A second chance at love… 
Bull Rider Jesse West is on top of the world and fighting for the title of a lifetime at the bull riding finals in Las Vegas—until he crashes into Tara Kent in the stands at the rodeo arena. He seizes the opportunity to confront the girl who broke his heart by disappearing out of his life.
Tara Kent just ended a six year relationship with a man wouldn’t commit and is trying to revive her design career with a big job in Vegas. At the rodeo she’s stunned to discover that the top ranked rider is a high school classmate she once shared a magical kiss with before her life crashed down around her. She doesn’t want him to know her life is a disaster. Worse yet, she’s alarmed to discover that the chemistry between them is stronger than ever.
Tara’s heart is fragile from fresh heartbreak and the last thing she wants is to put it on the line for a reckless cowboy. But Jesse wants Tara in his bed—he’s waited ten years—and he’ll stop at nothing to claim his prize.

EXCERPT:
Her eyes widened as he slid his arm around her waist. She sucked in a breath and tried to stay calm. Just dance with him, be nice, then wish him good night. She could do this. 
She tried to remind herself that this was her old friend Jesse, the sweet boy an inch shorter than her who she used to reminisce about blistering Austin summer days with when they were both freezing their butts off in a New England winter.
It didn’t work.
This Jesse was a whole different animal. His once skinny body was now ripped with muscle, no doubt gained from jumping on and off horses and bulls and heaving big saddles around. Formerly shy, he now oozed quiet confidence that disarmed her. 
His other arm circled her and he held her close and swayed gently in time to the music. His subtle masculine scent crept over her senses and she blinked, trying to halt the effect it had on her. She could feel her pulse rate accelerate and her breathing grow shallow. Her skin grew hotter by the second and she could barely stay upright on her feet because her knees were getting weak…
“Are you okay?” He pulled her a little closer. 
Her breasts weren’t quite touching his chest yet—they weren’t that big—but any minute now her nipples were going to brush up against the crisp fabric of his shirt and—“I am feeling a little light headed.” 
“Don’t worry. I’ll catch you if you pass out.” His slow smile crept across his mouth—a wide, sensual mouth with perfectly shaped lips that she didn’t remember at all—and further unraveled her.

Explore the Hearts of the West series: 

A Cowboy's Heart: The One that Got Away 
His Fearless Heart: The Bull Rider's Baby Surprise 
His Untamed Heart: The Cowboy's Christmas Reunion 
and a Box Set with all three stories

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Ned Matheson knows Fila Sahar has been to hell and back after being held captive by the Taliban for over a decade. She's lost her parents, her home and ten years of her life. Now she's safely back on American soil, but her fears have her so hemmed in, she might as well be a prisoner again. Ned knows he can't date her, let alone marry her, until she's regained her courage. He's confident he's found the perfect solution--he'll give her a restaurant she can call her own.

Fila cares for Ned more than she can say, and she's grateful for the home he's given her on his family's ranch, but before she can give her heart to any man, she has to find the courage to reenter society. When Ned surprises her with his perfect solution--the restaurant he's leased and renovated in her name--she doesn't know how to tell him she can't imagine being brave enough to ever run it. So when Ned's father sends him out of town to check on the family's remote hunting cabin, she's grateful for the delay.

Ned knows his father wants to split him and Fila up, so there's no way he'll leave town without taking her along. But when they reach the cabin, a savage twist of fate will turn the tables on both of them. Ned will learn what it's like to be helpless. Fila will have to find the courage she lost years ago.

Can they survive the weekend? Or will this trip be their last?

Wedding bells are ringing on the Double-Bar-K and Luke Matheson is determined to make his move on his favourite bridesmaid--sweet, sexy Mia Start. Though she's shared his house for more than two months, she's remained elusive. Luke's ready to cross that divide, and win her love for good.

Mia would give anything to marry Luke, but he won't want her once he knows the truth; she's four months pregnant with another man's child. It's time to find a real home--and a real job--so she can raise her baby alone.

When a nosy neighbour explodes Mia's pregnancy at his brother's wedding, Luke sees his chance to finally get what he wants. He lays claim to the baby--and to Mia--but their happily -ever-after lasts barely a day. When Luke's pride clashes with Mia's need for independence, Mia calls their brand new engagement off.

Can Luke convince her to change her mind? Or will these wedding bells sound the death knell of their relationship?

He's the middle of the three Carson brothers and is as stubborn as they come—and he won't thank a beautiful stranger for getting in his way! 

Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing—and the challenge—she stirs in him. 

Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals—and with ranchers. The Carson matriarch invites her to stay with the family, which guarantees frequent encounters with Drake, her ruggedly handsome and decidedly unwelcoming son. Luce and Drake are at odds from the very beginning, especially when it comes to the rogue stallion who's stealing the ranch mares. But when Drake believes Luce is in danger, that changes everything—for both of them.

ake Matheson can't get Hannah Ashton out of his mind, and he can't wait to take over the reins at his family's ranch, either. Too bad Hannah is about to leave town and his father, Holt, has no intention of retiring. In fact, he's issued an ultimatum--convince Hannah to wed in thirty days, or forget about ever running the ranch. Jake would do just about anything to keep her in Chance Creek--anything but mess with their birth control. 

Hannah has never been able to control herself around Jake, so when fate throws her together with him, she makes the most of it. Why not have a short-lived fling before she leaves town to go to veterinary school? But when their birth control fails it seems all too convenient a way to keep her in town when she's determined to leave. 

Will the truth bring them together? Or tear them apart for good?

All Jamie Lassiter wants is to marry his best friend's sister and settle down for the rest of his life in Chance Creek. He's saved his money, bought into the Cruz Guest Ranch and he's ready for that wedding, but Claire Cruz is nowhere to be found. 

Claire's too busy leaving Montana behind to care about cowboys or their wedding plans. She's got plans of her own - a trip around the world. She'll go as soon as she buys her tickets and she doesn't care if she ever sees Chance Creek again. 

Desperate to change Claire's mind, Jamie proposes a bet: give him six weeks to convince her to marry him. If he can't, he'll pay for her round-the-world tickets himself. 

Claire can wait six weeks if it means free tickets and a chance to get a little revenge on a man who once broke her heart. She's got only one stipulation: Jamie can't touch or flirt with her - or any other woman - while the bet is on. 

Now Jamie's on the run from a bevy of cowboy-groupie ranch guests, and Claire's learning she cares about the ranch - and Jamie - more than she dreamed possible. 

Maybe it's time to lose that bet. 

As long as Jamie loses it first.

Alex Casali cut ties with his roots long ago. Now he's a Texas cowboy. But even a Stetson can't disguise the Italian fire in his eyes.

Hired to run a quilting course at the A Bar A ranch, Allie is appalled when a brooding cowboy accuses her of trespassing. Manners make a man, and strong single mom Allie wants nothing to do with arrogant Mr. Casali.

But when her little daughter utters her first words in a year to Alex, Allie begins to wonder whether there's more behind his smoldering gray eyes than she first thought.

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Faith Aldridge wants answers. Bramble, Texas is the only place she can find them . . . as well as Hope, the identical twin sister she never knew she had. But the townsfolk reckon that shy city-girl Faith is really her long-lost sister Hope, back in Bramble at last. And they're fixin' to do whatever it takes to heat things up between her and Hope's long-time flame, Slate Calhoun. If that means rustling her car, spreading rumors like wildfire, and reining in some explosive secrets, well, there's no way like the Lone Star way . . .
But Slate's no fool. The woman in his truck may look like Hope, yet the way she feels in his arms is altogether new. He's determined to keep this twin in his bed and out of his heart. Trouble is, the real Hope is headed home, and she's got her own designs on Slate. If Faith wants to avoid heartbreak, she'll have to show a certain ruggedly handsome cowboy that this crazy-impossible love is worth fighting for.