New York Times–bestselling author: Colorado winters are rugged and cold, but there's nothing like a cowboy's warm kiss to ignite the spirit of the season . . .

Originally published in the collection Christmas with My Cowboy

Meadow Dawson needs Santa to deliver a solution to her management of the enormous Colorado ranch she's inherited. YouTube videos just aren't going to cut it. Too bad she's not...

CAN HE GET PAST BETRAYAL?

Allison Hathoway's life was about healing. And she was good at it. Or had been good at it until the tragedy in South America. Now she couldn't even fix herself. She didn't know how to go on, didn't know what to do, or who to be.

She had that in common with Gene Nelson. After the rancher found out the truth about his father, he'd realized his whole life was a lie. He'd gone a little wild,

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There's something about those Wyoming men... New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer returns to the Cowboy State with a brand-new tale of desire and deception Cultivating his vast Wyoming ranch is all security expert J. C. Calhoun wants. His land is the only thing the betrayed rancher can trust in after discovering his fiancee was pregnant by another man. But all J.C. holds dear becomes compromised when a lost little girl leads him to Colie...

"Long, tall ... and blind? Abby Clark was sick of being treated like a child. Sure, she may have been just a girl when she came to live with Calhoun Ballenger and his brother, but she had long since grown up and it was time Calhoun realized it. So she devised a plan to prove her independence--and capture his attention. But Abby's scheme backfired. She was far from the worldly women Calhoun usually spent time with, and his protective streak only seemed...

"Cort Grier is no ordinary rancher. Despite his vast wealth, he still works the land with his own bare hands, unlike his troublesome new neighbor, Ophelia Dresden. Fiery, beautiful Ophelia infuriates and entrances Cort, awakening feelings he'd thought long buried. But he knows falling for a city girl can lead only to heartbreak. Bestselling author Ophelia hardly expects to meet a man like the ones in her novels. But roguishly handsome Cort is an alpha...

Jason and Gracie have been inseparably good friends until a moment of sudden passion pulls them asunder, and Gracie comes to realize that Jason will never see her as anything more than a younger step-sibling. It takes Gracie being kidnapped, Jason saving her, an interferring other woman and Jason almost dying before the two lovers conquer their fears of intimacy and admit their total love for each other.

Wolf Patterson and Sara Brandon are arch enemies from ages ago, but mischievous fate has brought the tall rancher with the pale blue eyes together with the dark-haired beauty-on nearby Wyoming and Texas ranches. At first, sparks fly, but despite Wolf's misguided notions about the spirited Sara and her indignance over the assorted injustices he has thrown her way, a truce-of sorts forms. Suddenly Sara notices Wolf's face, while not conventionally handsome,...

"The winter soldier : Everyone in Jacobsville, Texas, steered clear of taciturn Cy Parks--everyone but the spirited Lisa Monroe, who electrified the formidable loner with her tantalizing kisses. Their fiery passion escalated when the soldier returned from the line of duty--and claimed Lisa as his bride, to shield her from a revenge-seeking desperado."--Dust jacket flap. "Cattleman's pride : He was strong, seductive and set in his ways. She was shy,...

Presents two full-length stories in one volume - Snow Kisses and Darling Enemy - in which Abby Shane comes home to Montana and faces her memories of an affair with rancher Cade McLauren and city girl Teddi Whitehall butts heads with an ornery rancher at every turn while spending the summer in Canada.

Sassy Peale is desperate to help her family, but her small salary doesn't go far. Then she meets cowboy John Callister, not realizing he's a millionaire from one of Montana's most powerful families. When Sassy learns the truth, John must convince her that he's the man she first thought.