Is this friendship…or love? Abandoned by her jerk of an ex, wedding planner Amy Jensen is now alone, broke and pregnant. So much for fairy tales. Then strikingly gorgeous cowboy Flynn Gillian practically rides to Amy’s rescue. It can’t be hormones, can it? Because the moment Amy looks into those deep blue eyes, she knows she’s in a whole lot of trouble… Horse trainer Flynn Gillian has always lived his life according to plan—and falling for pregnant Amy is definitely not in that plan. Yet he can’t seem to stay away from her. To keep himself from wanting to kiss her. But can Flynn let himself fall for Amy…knowing that loving her means trading in his free-range cowboy life for a ready-made family?
A family-style Texas Christmas! Lone Star Christmas by Cathy Gillen Thacker Callie McCabe-Grimes has one thing on her holiday wish list: to make this the best Christmas ever for her little boy. Without including Nash Echols, whose team of lumberjack cowboys is creating a racket at the Christmas tree farm next door. But she has no defense against two determined males when her son decides Nash is the present he wants from Santa! A Cowboy Family Christmas by Judy Duarte Rodeo promoter Drew Madison is at the Rocking Chair Ranch to shine a spotlight on the retired cowboys, but the ranch’s temporary cook, Lainie Montoya, is certainly an added attraction. As Drew works alongside Lainie to support the ranch, the avowed bachelor starts thinking about his future in a whole new way. But Drew doesn’t know about Lainie’s past—yet.
Going Home Shouldn't Be This Hard… Cassidy Lambert traded in Montana's big sky country for the big-city lights—forever. Until a potentially devastating equine illness threatens her family's ranch, and Cassidy is needed at home to help. She thinks she knows what she wants from life, but the more she's around sexy veterinarian Dan Farley, the more confused she gets. When Cassidy comes back to the open Western landscape Dan loves, she's nothing but a beautiful burr under his saddle. She stomped on his heart once before, and he's not eager for another go-around. But he just can't keep himself away from those green eyes and sweet curves. It's a good thing she'll soon be gone again. Because he can't trust her—or himself—when she's around!
Never get involved with a patient… Dr. Ava Moore knows the rule, but it’s easier said than done when an injury brings rodeo superstar Carson Gillian into her operating room. He’s gorgeous, kind, and when he agrees to give her horse-crazy nine-year-old daughter riding lessons, Ava’s heart melts completely. Maintaining a professional boundary with Carson isn’t easy, especially when her daughter is constantly pushing them together. Ava can’t deny that he fits perfectly into their little family. However, when Carson enters the National Finals Rodeo despite his injury, Ava has to walk away before her and her daughter’s hearts get broken again…if it’s not already too late.
HEART OF A COWBOY Coming home is hard enough without ranch manager Quinn Solomon making Lacey Duggan feel like an unwanted guest. She's only here until she figures out what to do with her one-third ownership of Crooked Valley. But Quinn's irresistible daughter is giving Lacey ideas about being part of a family. And though they don't even like each other, Lacey's having crazier notions about the widowed single dad. Does Lacey think she can waltz in and turn Quinn's life upside down…only to leave again? The pretty accountant knows nothing about running a ranch, yet she's making the Montana homestead feel like a home. Quinn isn't looking for love again. Until a woman who's all heart and a determined little girl help one lovestruck cowboy see the light.
"Funny, complicated, and irresistible. Sometimes a cowboy isn't perfect but you got to love him anyway."—JODI THOMAS, New York Times bestselling author for Caught Up in a Cowboy This cowboy is falling hard Mason James is the responsible one who stayed behind to run the ranch while his brother, Rock, took off to play professional hockey. Women have used him before to get to his brother—and Mason intends never to get burned again. But after he meets quirky Tessa Kane at his brother's wedding, Mason discovers he's ready to take a chance on love. Tessa Kane is a reporter on the verge of losing a job she desperately needs—unless she's clever enough to snag a story on the famous Rockford James. But when she falls for her subject's brother, she's caught between a rock and a hard-muscled cowboy. What will happen when Mason finds out who she really is? Cowboys of Creedence Series: Caught Up in a Cowboy (Book 1) You Had Me at Cowboy (Book 2) It Started With a Cowboy (Book 3) What People Are Saying About Caught Up in a Cowboy: "Chemistry so electric it flies off the page."—RT Book Reviews for Caught Up in a Cowboy, 4 stars "Full of exquisite heat and passion...wonderful."—Harlequin Junkie "An appealing story of love rediscovered...enjoy this tender tale."—Publishers Weekly
Two billionaire brothers determined to marry off their grandsons...one's doing it from the grave using his last will and testament. Book 1: Her Billionaire Cowboy's Fake Marriage A billionaire cowboy in need of a wife, a waitress in need of a miracle and the offer she can’t refuse. The last thing cowboy Wade McCoy expects when his beloved billionaire granddaddy dies is for him to require Wade to marry in order to save the vast McCoy Ranch that they both loved and built together. But that is exactly his granddaddy’s requirement: Wade has to marry within three months, stay married for at least three months or he loses it all, for him and his brothers. He doesn’t like it, but his granddaddy didn't raise him to walk away from anything and there has never been a challenge he couldn't win... Allie Jordon is desperate. A chance meeting with a lonely-looking cowboy at the truck stop she’s working at could change her life… if she says yes to an absolutely off-the-wall proposal he’s offering her it could be the miracle she’s been praying for. Book 2: Her Billionaire Cowboy's Wedding Fiasco To save his Texas vineyard, billionaire Todd McCoy has to marry within three months and stay married for three months or he loses it all. Ginny Rossi loves the small vineyard and the boutique wine business she and her parents have built. Then her parents decide to retire and sell the vineyard. She has less than four months to find the money to buy them out before they sell her out. She needs a miracle. The last thing she expects is her best friend’s new brother-in-law, who grates on her every nerve, to show up with a proposal she can’t refuse…one that will be beneficial to both of them. Book 3: Her Billionaire Cowboy's Trouble in Paradise Billionaire resort tycoon, Morgan McCoy must marry if he wants to keep ownership of the resort division of McCoy Enterprises and he isn’t happy. He heads to Hawaii to figure out if he will find a temporary wife or walk away from everything he’s worked so hard to build. Amber has had a secret crush on her boss since taking the job, now he needs help in Kauai with a resort acquisition but he doesn’t even know she exists. Maybe this is her chance to at least get a little closer to him. She isn’t expecting him to ask her to marry him—but it’s an offer she can’t refuse. After all, she owes him for saving her life. But will she lose her heart when their contract ends?
Daring to love Charlotte Bennett has one purpose in life—helping children in need. When Maverick Gillian arrives at her office, declaring he’s not the father of a little girl in foster care, Charlotte doesn’t know whether to believe him. Yet he takes little Olivia home. The handsome, kindhearted rancher is just the type of man Charlotte could fall for, if she were interested in a relationship. Maverick owes it to his childhood best friend to look after her orphaned daughter. He’s also drawn to Charlotte. She’s devoted to her social work career, but she deserves more. Maverick wants to show Charlotte she’s worthy of love, but will she let him?
The most famous rodeo champion of all time tells his amazing true story -- and opens a fascinating window into the world of the professional cowboy. Ty Murray was born to be a rodeo star -- in fact, his first words were "I'm a bull rider." Before he was even out of diapers, he was climbing atop his mother's Singer sewing machine case, which just so happened to be the perfect mechanical bull for a 13-month-old. Before long, Ty was winning peewee events by the hatful, and his special talent was obvious...obvious even to a man called Larry Mahan. At the time the greatest living rodeo legend, six-time champion Mahan invited a teenaged Ty Murray to spend a summer on his ranch learning not just rodeoing but also some life lessons. Those lessons prepared Ty for a career that eventually surpassed even Mahan's own -- Ty's seven All-Around Championships. In King of the Cowboys, Ty Murray invites us into the daredevil world of rodeo and the life of the cowboy. Along the way, he details a life spent constantly on the road, heading to the next event; the tragic death of his friend and fellow rodeo star Lane Frost; and the years of debilitating injuries that led some to say Ty Murray was finished. He wasn't. In fact, Ty Murray has brought the world of rodeo into the twenty-first century, through his unparalleled achievements in the ring, through advancing the case for the sport as a television color-commentator, and through the Professional Bull Riders, an organization he helped to build. In the end, though, Ty Murray is first and foremost a cowboy, and now that he's retired from competition, he takes this chance to reflect on his remarkable life and career. In King of the Cowboys, Ty Murray opens up his world as never before.
The concept of 'modernity' is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In the 1880s, consumers, the media, zoos, circuses and taxidermists, and (unknowingly) Jumbo himself, transformed the elephant from an orphan of the global ivory trade and zoo captive into a distracting international celebrity. Citizens on two continents imaged Jumbo as a sentient individual and pet, but were aghast when he died in an industrial accident and his remains were absorbed by the taxidermic and animal rendering industries reserved for anonymous animals. The case of Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism.
