USA Today bestselling author Caitlin Crews returns to the Cold River Ranch series with The Last Real Cowboy! In Cold River, sometimes forbidden love is the sweetest of them all... Perennial good girl Amanda Kittredge knows that her longtime crush on Brady Everett was never really supposed to go anywhere. But when Brady comes home during Amanda’s first attempt at independence, well, who better to teach her about rebellion than her older brother’s bad-boy best friend? Brady’s plans did not include being forced to work the family homestead for a year—and yet, here he is. And, to make matters worse, his best friend’s innocent little sister is making a menace of herself in the most grown-up, tempting ways. When Amanda begs Brady to teach her about men, he knows he should refuse. But could Brady’s greatest temptation be his salvation? “Loaded with charming characters [and] wit....will win the heart of any romance fan.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) on A True Cowboy Christmas
"A can't-put-it-down modern Western." —Kirk Siegler, NPR Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—many call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now they find themselves fighting to save their land and livelihood as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer? Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of heartache and broken bones, The Last Cowboys is a powerful testament to the grit and integrity that fuel the American Dream.
Leroy Webb represents the vanishing era of the open-range cowboy. For six decades he has rounded up, roped, chased, wrestled, and cajoled cattle while riding over vast ranchlands and sleeping under the stars in New Mexico and Texas. Besides tackling the daily back-breaking chores of the cowboy, he has tirelessly worked to breed, train, and show horses while keeping up with the rodeo circuit. And despite frequent moves from ranch to ranch, his devotion to family has remained unquestioned. He may not have filled his pockets with the life he chose, but his heart is filled with riches.
The memoir of one of the most decorated members of the DEA. Sellers saw action as a street cop in Texas and finally as an undercover agent hunting the terror cell that killed five Afghan CIA counterparts.
This book details the story of a young man, a fictional character, Clem Barnett, during the late 1940's and 1950's, raised as a boy in the mid-west with dreams and visions, based on romantic books and movies, of being a cowboy in the West. He finds himself venturing far from his home in northeastern Oklahoma to hire-out on two very different ranches; first, one in Montana and later, one in Idaho. There, he learns about ranching, the cattle business, and most importantly, about life. He also learns what the modern, for the time period, cowboy is and how it differs greatly from his romantic vision. He faces many adventures and interacts with a host of colorful characters in search of his dreams. Because the story occurs in the early 1950's, the young man is faced with the horrors of participating in the Korean War, and more importantly, facing the emotional effects thereafter. Unlikely characters assist in his recovery and he gains respect and love for the people of the Basque culture who helped him. The story ends with a simple love story and a realization that dreams can be elusive. In the end, he finds peace and happiness and seems to come close to living the life of the romantic cowboy he envisioned. Others see in him a person who so loves the life of a cowboy and confers upon him the title of the last romantic, real life, American Cowboy.
From USA Today bestselling author Caitlin Crews comes A True Cowboy Christmas, the first in a sensational series debut about a cowboy, a farm girl, and the greatest gift of all. . . Gray Everett has a heart of gold but that doesn’t mean he believes in the magic of Christmas. He’s got plenty else to worry about this holiday season, what with keeping his cattle ranch in the family and out of the hands of hungry real-estate investors looking to make a down-and-dirty deal. That, plus being a parent to his young and motherless daughter, equals a man who will not rest until he achieves his mission. Now, all Gray needs is the help of his lifelong neighbor. . .who happens to have grown into a lovely, spirited woman. For Abby Douglas, the chance to join forces with Gray is nothing less than a Christmas miracle. Much as the down-to-earth farmer’s daughter has tried to deny it, Abby’s been in love with stern, smoking-hot Gray her whole life. So when Gray proposes a marriage of convenience as a way to combine land—and work together toward a common cause—Abby can’t refuse. But how can she convince Gray that sometimes life offers a man a second chance for a reason. . .and that their growing trust and mutual passion may be leading to true and lasting love?
He never intended to marry...but when he meets a single mom-to-be in danger, all his plans change. She'll do whatever it takes to protect her baby, including marry a cowboy she's just met. Sexy, emotional, and heartwarming. ★★★★★ "I want to climb into this book." ~Amanda C (Five-star Amazon Review) Confirmed bachelor Chase is too busy with his ranch for love. When a friend calls in a favor, the solitary rancher must open his home to a sassy, sexy mom-to-be who needs his protection. But he's not prepared for the sizzling attraction that threatens the shield around his heart. Mira is single, pregnant, and on-the-run. When a distractingly handsome cowboy offers her a marriage of convenience, she knows it's a lifeline she has to take to protect her baby. But when she starts to fall for the mysterious cowboy with the traumatic past, she realizes that her heart might also be in danger. Haunted by his past, Chase isn't prepared for his careful plans to be upended by love, but he soon finds himself having to make the impossible choice. If you like sexy cowboys, sassy humor, and heart-melting, emotional romance, you'll adore this contemporary western romance with all the feels! Click to grab this "must-read" series starter today! Contains: Secret baby. Fake fiancée. Marriage-of-convenience. Lots of feels. Slow-burn romance. Humor. A hot cowboy who is an intensely loyal protector. ★ What do readers think? ★ ★★★★★ "Wow! I can't believe how much I loved this book. Who doesn't love a strong sexy cowboy, right? I know I do…A little love goes a long way when it comes to healing one's heart." ~Cindy F (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★"There is nothing sexier than a man in a cowboy hat. Especially if that man is a cowboy through and through. Chase is the kind of man everyone needs in their life. Sexy, strong, kind, generous." ~Charity S. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Tender, loving, and exquisite." ~Cherry L. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "WOW, WOW, WOW...AWESOME READ." ~T.P. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "OH. MY. GOSH! This was the best book I've read in a really, really long time." ~jenny7 (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★"A beautiful, moving love story!"~PLP45 (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Wonderful." ~Cherry L. (Five-Star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "So much yes!!!!! Just so beautiful!" ~Amanda C (Five-star Amazon Review) AUTHOR BIO: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Rowe is a Vivian® Award nominee, and a winner and a five-time nominee for the RITA® award, the highest award in romance fiction. She has more than fifty published novels. ★★★★★ "Stephanie Rowe infuses her characters with a passion that I have rarely seen matched in any romance novelist I have ever come across." ~ Five-star Amazon Review on Darkness Awakened ★★★★★ "What I love about Stephanie's writing is her ability to immerse you in her characters and their world. It is a connection that sticks with you long after the last page." ~Five-star Amazon Review on Burn ★★★★★ "It's a gift to tell a story and convey emotion to the reader that really drives their reading experience. Rowe has that gift in spades." ~Kwolff (Five-star Amazon Review on Burn)
"I've known about Ike Blasingame all my life, knew many of his fellow punchers, white and Indian. Ike was certainly a salty representative of the Texas bronc twister when he came North with that most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador. . . . [He] takes the reader across the treacherous Missouri River as the spring-softened ice goes out under the horses' feet, into the still wild cow towns, through the round-ups, the prairie fires. . . . There is the authentic smell and feel of the Northern cow country of fifty years ago in the story Ike Blasingame tells."-Mari Sandoz"Here is one of the most gripping Western tales since Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy was published in 1903. The telling is considerably like Adams'-warm, human, flavorful. The author, a one-time Matador ranch cowboy, . . . lived his story, and he tells it straight in the language of the cow country without contrivance."-New York Times"Many of the cowboys who have written about their experiences never really looked at any wider segment of the cattle business than was visible between their horses' ears, but Ike Blasingame did. He paints a big picture without omitting details."-New York Herald-Tribune
