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An off-duty firefighter’s feelings for his fake date spark into something more during a rescue operation in this sweet romance with pulse-pounding suspense! Ransom Keller can’t stand the thought of attending his twenty-year high school reunion as a single guy. Folks tend to expect a little more action in the romance department from a former star linebacker. But a decade in the Special Forces followed by a career in fire rescue operations hasn’t left much time for dating. So he does the unthinkable and hires an actress to pose as his bride for the weekend. Serena Chandler is supposed ...

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, ...

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 cowboy falls head over heels for a gorgeous single mom who insists she’ll never date again. He’s determined to change her mind in this sweet, friends-to-lovers romance! Cormac makes it clear to his brothers that he’s not interested in being the next one to tie the knot. He’s met everyone in their small Texas town, and none of them are the one. The only woman who’s ever made him feel a spark of anything is Ellie Roberts — an out-of-towner who shows up at a charity rodeo with her six-year-old in the middle of an asthma attack. Cormac is a farmer and crop duster pilot by day and ...

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 city gal inherits a rambling old farmhouse in a small country town and moves there to recover from a bad breakup. She ends up next door to a hunky police officer, who makes her want to reconsider her self-imposed No Rebound Relationships Rule. Lincoln Hudson has been recruited to run the K9 unit in Heart Lake, Texas. He feels like the luckiest guy on the planet to discover his neighbor is the rising DIY blogging sensation, The Perfect Fix. She’s talented, entertaining, and hot! Unfortunately, she makes it clear she’s a self-made, self-sufficient woman who doesn’t need a man in her ...

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 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 ...

He's a billionaire CEO who never got over his first crush, and she's a rising singer hoping for her big break. Can a last-minute singing engagement at his island birthday celebration make both wishes come true? Roman Cantona is promoted to CEO of his family's hotel conglomerate. He always knew this day would come, though he never imagined it would come so quickly or so tragically. Overnight, he becomes a workaholic with no social life. He's operating on coffee fumes by the time he allows a friend to talk him into taking a long overdue weekend off for his birthday. He makes a reservation at ...

A cowboy secretly falls in love with his brother’s girlfriend in this opposites-attract romance, then blames himself when they break up. Beldon Cassidy and his brothers have always had each other’s backs. Any woman who dates and dumps one of them is off limits to the rest of them. Permanently. Unfortunately, he’s been secretly crushing on his oldest brother’s ex-girlfriend for years. Though she’s single again, she’ll never be available to him because of The Rule. He’s going to have to find a way to turn off his feelings for her before it becomes a problem. After accidentally ...

A cowboy realizes he’s irrefutably in love with the girl who got away, and now she’s back in town. Devlin Cassidy spent the last eight years beating himself up for popping the question too soon. They were way too young back then to be talking about marriage. Unfortunately, she seems dead set on pairing off with his next younger brother this time around. Has she forgotten the Cassidy brothers’ rule against dating each other’s exes? Julia Benson wants to make a name for herself on the rodeo circuit before getting married. Leaving behind her high school sweetheart to make it happen, ...

A Texas Ranger who’s secretly married, the award-winning chef who calls it quits and leaves him, and the search and rescue program that puts their hearts back on a collision course… It’s not easy being a Texas Ranger; Seven Colburn is living proof of that. He can tell anyone who wants to listen about the long hours, constant danger, mediocre pay, and number of marriages that don’t survive his choice of careers, including his own. When an anonymous donor pays his tuition at the prestigious Texas Hotline Training Center, he jumps at the opportunity to bury his heartache in a new ...

The boy next door who’s secretly in love with his best friend and the blizzard that forces them to face what their hearts truly want for Christmas… Garek Borden turns down a big career opportunity to become his best friend’s business partner. He’s ready to take their relationship to the next level, and he’s hoping the holidays will sprinkle a little extra magic on his plans to ask her on a first date. Reese Summerville (a confirmed bachelorette) jumps on an invitation to film the next season of her survivalist show in her rural hometown. Though she’s thrilled when Garek agrees ...

It’s not easy coming up with a birthday surprise for her billionaire best friend. A guy she likes a little more than a bestie should. Or a lot more! But that won’t keep Eloise Cantona from trying to plan the perfect surprise for him. After enjoying a dreamy getaway in Fiji with her family, she’s determined to recreate some of that same magic for her best friend. He seriously works too hard managing his family’s golf resort empire. Don’t CEOs deserve a break, too? Unfortunately, Elon has always been so tight-lipped about his bucket list that she hardly knows where to begin. She ...

An ex-bodybuilder is recovering from a broken heart and throws himself wholeheartedly into search and rescue operations, never imagining it'll come with a second chance at love. After a bad breakup, former bodybuilding champion Jett Channing decides to go on a girlfriend diet. So when his normal responsibilities as a forest ranger are interrupted to rescue a stranded hiker, he jumps at the chance to work off his wounded pride by doing something so meaningful and worthwhile. Gwyneth Moore can’t believe her T.V. celebrity boyfriend of three years is dumping her for an anemic-looking ...

It’s not easy coming up with a birthday surprise for the billionaire she’s crushing on, especially a guy who’s been keeping such a mind-blowing secret from everyone! Thea Ferrell decides it’s now or never to try to land a date with the hunky executive vice president of her dreams. He’s super-wonderful, super-gorgeous, and super-rich (not required, but a great side perk), which makes him the first man to live up to every single line item on her wishlist. Her only fear is that he’s too good to be true. In her experience, the good guys are usually already taken, so why is this one ...

When a mistaken identity leads to an accidental attraction... Whoever said two wrongs can't make a right must not have been in love! Anxious to put a recent bad break-up behind him, Police Detective Noah Zeller jumps at the chance to sharpen his search and rescue skills at the world-class Texas Hotline Training Center. The only downside is that the missing heiress case he’s currently working will have to go on the back burner for a few weeks. Or so he thought. Until a sassy-mouthed maid provides a clue that busts his case wide open. Farrah Carmichael is ecstatic to land a coveted ...

A cowboy private investigator who doesn’t want to spend another Christmas alone. A single mom in a pack of trouble, trying to lie low for the holidays. The snowstorm that blows in a few sizzling possibilities. Following a chance encounter, East Whitlock hasn’t been able to get a certain sassy redhead out of his mind. Though the feisty single mom insists she can take care of herself and her small son, he can’t stand the thought of anyone so sweet and lovely being alone for Christmas — in a friend’s warehouse, no less. Every instinct in him is shouting that she’s in trouble, and ...

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 second helping of feel-good, small-town family fiction that's perfect for Hallmark fans! Binge read your way through sweet and swoony best friends romance, second chance romance, mistaken identity romance, and secret crush romance in the final installment of the Cowboy Confessions Series. Mr. Right But She Doesn’t Know It A cowboy falls head over heels for a gorgeous single mom who insists she’ll never date again, but he's determined to change her mind in this sweet, friends-to-lovers romance! Mr. Right Again for Her When a cowboy realizes his first love is THE ONE after it’s too ...