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The Sterling Ranch's season opening isn't going so smoothly. With the ranch's lodge full of guests and a Montana blizzard threatening, Will Sterling needs help - and he needs it fast. So when his childhood friend Poppy Carmichael agrees to lend a hand, he's grateful for a second chance... and more enticed by the woman she's become than he cares to admit. For Poppy, it was supposed to be a retreat full of horse rides and hoedowns - with a side of showing...

"Returning home to his Montana family ranch, journalist Sam Calhoun volunteers to run the local Christmas festival. But as a snowstorm drives him closer to Joy Grainge, the single mom helping him with the project, the last thing he expects is for her children to decide he should be their new dad. Can Sam earn Joy's trust in time to make all their Christmas wishes come true?"--Back cover.

"Dewey 'Mac' Mackenzie is no ordinary chuckwagon cook. He's a marked man on the run who works cattle drives to stay one step ahead of his enemies. If these hired killers catch up to him, he'll be slinging guns instead of hash--with a side order of revenge that's best served cold... A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets...

Jack Sanders built his career as an army intelligence operative on his uncanny ability to anticipate what the enemy will do next--but he never anticipated the trouble he's landed in. Removed from duty, his future on the line, he'll have to accept a truly unusual mission to redeem himself. His orders are clear: head to Montana, marry General Reed's daughter, and secure the family's ranch once and for all from the drug cartel trying to get a toe hold...

Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity. As a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the...

Rachel Matthews isn't one to rely on others to take care of her. Destitute and alone, she still wants to make her own way and her own money--even if she's forced into the life of a dance hall girl. Horrified by her circumstances, Rachel's brother sends a friend--the widely admired cattle baron John McIntyre--to rescue her, then sets off to earn enough money to buy back the family ranch. But when months pass without her brother's return, Rachel isn't...

Widow Grace Bidwell cares for her elderly father while trying to maintain her late husband's farm, until she hires Robert Frasier to help and is drawn toward him and his three pitiful children.

Back home in Montana, freed spirit Jodie McCauley plans to stay at her late father's ranch for just two months. Then she will sell the Rocking M and head off on her next adventure. But first she will have to take her beloved horses from wild to sellable. That means asking the boy she once loved for help. Finn Hicks is now a deputy sheriff and a horse trainer. Working so closely with Jodie, his feelings are suddenly resurfacing. But Finn remembers...