Sheriff Boone Taylor has his job, friends, a run-down but decent ranch, two faithful dogs and a good horse. He doesn't want romance. The widowed Montanan has loved and lost enough for a lifetime. But when a city woman buys the spread next door, Boone's peace and quiet is in serious jeopardy. With a marriage and a career painfully behind her, Tara Kendall is determined to start over in Parable. Re-inventing herself and living a girlhood dream is worth...

Travis Morgan isn't interested in returning to Branding Iron, Texas, or the abandoned christmas tree ranch he inherited. He spent the last three years in a prison cell where for a tragic accident, and now he's completely without funds or family. Christmas is the last thing on his mind, but the town's longtime Santa is retiring, and sweetly stubborn Mayor Maggie Delaney determined to find a replacement. As Travis comes to realize Maggie just might...

Unexpected mommy: Single father Chance Adams will do anything to get back his share of the family ranch--even if it means charming his uncle's ornery stepdaughter, schoolteacher Jenny Adams. But he isn't prepared to fall in love. Jenny always dreamed of finding the perfect man, but Chance, with his hellion, if lovable, son and his unbending grudge against her family, doesn't exactly fit the picture. She knows he has a one-track mind--but is it just...

For Cooper Chapman, moving next door to his newlywed sister in Branding Iron, Texas, is the biggest gift he could ask for this Christmas. The divorced single dad knows his troubled teenaged son only needs the healing balm of big skies and family ties.  But soon after settling into their new home, Trevor falls in with some wild friends at his new school, leaving Cooper leaning hard on youth counselor Jess Graver. With grace and wisdom, Jess soothes...

"Somebody's stealing the high-grade ore from the Murietta Mining Company, and it's up to Longarm to get it back" -- Cover verso.

It's the holidays and Sam Fox has gone to the high country to stay with his grandparents. While trying to stop cattle rustlers from stealing a stud bull, an injured Sam is isolated in the mountains during a horriffic bushfire. To survive, he must rely on his courage, ingenuity, and the help of Chainsaw, a mad old rodeo bull! Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

There's a lifetime of tension between the McKenna and Stafford ranching families, and Oakley Stafford has the bullet scar to prove it. Defying the bitter rivalry between their families, Oakley grew up thick as thieves with Duffy McKenna. But now the Staffords and the McKennas are competing to buy a neighboring property. Both need that land desperately-and the reasons are more dangerous than Oakley knows. But there's another unspoken rivalry, too,...

A fresh start is all she wants this Christmas, but maybe a cowboy is all she needs...It's not the holiday season she'd envisioned. But moving back home with her son, Benny, is all single mom Elizabeth Colfax can do after her ex-husband's infidelity left their life in pieces. A fresh start at Four Corners Ranch means Elizabeth's dream career in equine therapy can become a reality, allowing her to share her love of horses with Benny. If only it didn't...

"With their acclaimed novels of the Jensen family, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone have captured the pioneering spirit of America itself. Now a new generation of Jensens prepares to take the reins-and live the dream their ancestors fought for . . . There's nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And there's no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedown-even if it turns into a gun-blazing...