"He's everything she doesn't need. The quiet horse whisperer whose touch still ignites her dreams--and is everything wealthy Lauren Prescott is not. She can think of a million reasons why she should never ever fall into Sky Fletcher's sure embrace again. Until she clashes head-on with the dangerous complications of her privileged life and needs his protection like air to breathe... She's more than he can resist. The heiress Sky can't get out of his...

"The little town of Branding Iron, Texas, opens the Christmas season with the Cowboy Christmas Ball, but Sheriff Ben Marsden volunteers to work security so his deputies can attend with dates and families. But this year will be different because a pretty and mysterious redhead has come to town and put Christmas-- and loving--on his mind"--

They meet at their father's funeral, two beautiful women who could almost be twins. Abbie Lawson is the gently bred daughter, raised in the lap of luxury. Rachel Farr is the love child of Dean Lawson and a fiery artist. Rachel's life has been modest and lonely--until now. For the father's death will set off a fierce competition between the sisters, and the stakes are nothing less than all that is Texas at its most magnificent--its oil fields, its...

"Facing foreclosure on her California home, widowed Kylie Wayne is grateful to accept her aging aunt Muriel's offer to come back to small-town Branding Iron, Texas, and help out on the ranch. But when an early storm rolls in, Kylie's dream of a perfect Christmas for her kids is blown away with the unexpected snow. Comfort and joy seem unlikely, unless a certain long, tall Texan with a bad boy's charm can rope some holiday cheer..."--jkt.

Ski instructor Annie Bennett must spend the holidays helping her parents with their big Colorado ranch, but rugged surveyor Marshall Stone becomes a potent distraction. Annie Bennett reluctantly returns to her parents' Colorado ranch to recover after a skiing accident in Aspen. When Marshall Stone, a handsome and mysterious stranger, appears on the Bennetts' land and claims to be surveying the backcountry, Annie and her father are deeply suspicious...

"When Blake Dollarhide's half-brother takes advantage of the daughter of a homesteading family, Blake steps in as Hanna Anderson's bridegroom to restore her honor and give her unborn child his name. When the war between the factions rages anew, everyone wonders if Blake will stand by the close-knit community he serves, or the wife he took in name only ... A marriage of love is more than Hanna ever dreamed of. But even as she longs to trust the bond...

After recovering from a brutal attack, Chase Calder arrives at the Triple C Ranch to find out who wants him dead and places his trust in his daughter-in-law Jessy Calder, swearing her to secrecy about his true identity, while Jessy tries to deny her growing attraction to a mysterious stranger.