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The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options and none that suit her. She won't give up her two young daughters; she won't join the fallen women of the Bitter Gulch Saloon; and she doesn't want to condemn herself to another loveless marriage. Whatever Dara Rose decides,...

"Fast track up the political ladder, fast cars, fast women--that's Garrett McKettrick. Make that was. A scandal has brought him home to Blue River, Texas, a place where a man can slow down, take stock and plan his next move. Which doesn't include staying at the family ranch with his brothers. A city boy, Garrett doesn't think he has the land in his blood. But Blue River has other attractions, like his former high school nemesis, Julie Remington. Now...

Lizzie McKettrick is coming home for Christmas. The schoolteacher has a surprise in store for her family; a special young man, Whitley Carson. He might seem a little too interested in the McKettrick money, but Lizzie's certain Whitley cares for her deep down. But when her homebound train is halted by a massive avalanche, injuring and stranding its passengers, Lizzie and handsome Dr. Morgan Shane take charge. Even as a bond grows between the strangers,...

The only female in Keegan McKettrick's life these days is the young daughter he sees all too rarely, and his sole passion is for his job overseeing his family's corporation. Until beautiful but mysterious Molly Shields comes to Indian Rock on a mission--and keeping a suspicious eye on her becomes Keegan's full-time hobby. Molly doesn't know why she's attracted to a man who's determined to dig up dirt on her, even if he is gorgeous. But cynical Keegan...

Meg McKettrick longs for a baby -- husband optional. Perfect father material is gorgeous Brad O'Ballivan, old flame and new owner of his family's ranch in Stone Creek.

One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides. Kade McKettrick's got five mail-order brides-to-be camped out at the local hotel, all more than...

The youngest McKettrick brother Jeb is the wild one who could never stay out of trouble. And trouble is what he gets into when he proposes to Chloe Wakefield. No sooner had he and the pretty schoolteacher tied the knot than Jeb discovers she's already married. After a major dustup with Chloe in a Tombstone barroom, an irate Jeb hightails it back to the Triple M Ranch, certain that his chances of winning the spread in a marriage race with his brothers...

State secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin but now he wonders is it her secrets that fascinate him ... or Holly herself? The five days of Christmas: Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this Christmas, but he may just have a change of heart when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow.

Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, an Arizona territory rancher announces a competition: the first to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit his ranch.

When rodeo star Austin McKettrick's career is ended by an angry bull, he comes home to the Silver Spur ranch to recover from his injuries, and his brothers hire nurse Paige Remington to help speed his healing.