Linda Lael Miller

Publisher Annotation: J.P. McCall has known Sara Worth his entire life. She's his best buddy's sister. She played with them as kids and even taught them how to not step on their partner's toes before the big eighth-grade dance. Suddenly, though, J.P. is seeing single mom Sara in an entirely new light. He's never wanted to be tied down before, but he can't deny how drawn he is to the beautiful author who challenges him at every turn. But when someone...

"Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart - a woman he hasn't seen in years - and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...

When her husband, the town marshal, dies suddenly, 25-year-old Dara Rose Nolan, a seamstress with two young daughters to care for, agrees to a marriage of convenience with the town's new marshal, Clay McKettrick.

When he inherits half of a ranch, Sheriff Slade Barlow meets resistance from his half-brother Hutch, especially when Hutch's former flame, Joslyn Kirk, who is working hard to make up for her stepfather's dishonesty, catches his eye.

Meg McKettrick longs for a baby. Perfect father material is gorgeous Brad O'Ballivan, her old flame and the new owner of his family's ranch in Stone Creek. Meg wants to do things the McKettrick way, but Brad wants love, marriage, babies, and a lifetime to share, not a single night of passion and an unexpected pregnancy. A rugged rodeo cowboy who never gives up, it's a battle of wills he intends to win and nothing matters more than claiming Meg's wild...

Holt McKettrick leaves a mail-order bride at the altar in Arizona and rides hard for Texas to help two desperate friends. But he doesn't count on meeting Lorelai Fellows--who just called off her own nuptials and is burning her dress in public.

"The past has a way of catching up with folks in Stone Creek, Arizona. But schoolmarm Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy Rhodes are determined to hide their secrets--and deny their instant attraction. That should be easy, since each suspects the other of living a lie..."--P. [4] of cover.

Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing--and the challenge--she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals--and with...

Believing she will not be as successful as best friends Hadleigh and Melody in finding true love in Bliss County, Wyoming, Bex focuses on her career before unexpectedly falling for an aloof single father who does not believe in romance.

In Primrose Creek, Nevada, a dispute over property lines between Chance Qualtrough and Jace Stratton is exacerbated by the arrival of Hallie St. George, a young woman fleeing the pain of her past to make a new life for herself.