He transitioned home from the Marines expecting to start a job at the local fire station, join the reserves, help his grandfather with his tree farm, build his own house on their extensive property—and find a wife. Now his grandfather is gone, his inheritance is in trouble, someone else has his job—and he’s facing the holidays alone.

Kerri Olsen’s dream is about to become a nightmare.

Nine months ago, Kerri’s grandmother passed away unexpectedly, leaving her a home and business she loves—and a houseful of “collections” which have gotten entirely out of hand. Now her mother has given her an ultimatum: clean out Grandma Bess’s house and hand over the cash value of her share of the inheritance—by Christmas. Kerri always dreamed of meeting a man and raising a family here. Will she really have to sell her home to pay what she owes her mother?

Ryan has known Kerri all his life, but when he meets her again the day before Thanksgiving, he realizes she represents everything he’s always loved about this town—and everything he’s always wanted in a woman.

Kerri never dreamed Ryan would look at her the way he’s looking at her now. But they’re both facing a tough decision. Can they find a way to stay together in this place they call home? Or is leaving Chance Creek their only option?

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Ten years ago, desperate to save his father’s life, Carter Elliott pulled the plug on Elliott Ridge, the failing company town owned by his family for generations. After a decade with the Navy SEALs, he’s back to resurrect it so he can bring his father home. He’s ready to start a family of his own, too, but first he’ll need a wife. The minute Carter meets Amanda Stakewell, he knows she’s everything he’s been looking for, so he offers to sell her his house for a dollar—and to renovate it for her, too.

She’s searching for a place to call home…

Three months ago, Amanda allowed her father back into her life, but when she discovers he’s swapped one of his forgeries for a masterpiece, she steals the original from him, determined to return it. Too late, she learns a far more deadly criminal is after the painting. Now she’s on the run and a small, abandoned logging town sounds like the perfect place to hide. She’s willing to trade a dollar for a temporary roof over her head. And if a handsome Navy SEAL wants her to help him renovate it, she can go along with that, too. She’s not going to fall in love with him, though. She’s learned her lesson when it comes to men.

Now Carter is doing his best to show Amanda how good life on the Ridge with him could be and she’s finding it hard to resist his vision of the future.

But when Amanda goes missing, Carter finds himself in a race against time to find her before he loses everything he loves—all over again.

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Twelve years ago, Lincoln Elliott made a rash decision that wiped out his family’s business—and turned Elliott Ridge into a ghost town. Now he’s back from serving with the US Special Forces, and he’s ready—with the help of his four brothers—to bring the Ridge back to life. They’ve got the family lumber company up and running again, but a town needs people—specifically women. So when Lincoln meets Charlotte Holmes at the Chance Creek airport, he’s desperate to get her to settle down—not just because he’s trying to build up their community, but because he wants to know if the instant attraction between them can turn into something more. He offers to sell her his house for a dollar—and help renovate it, too. He’ll work night and day if that’s what it takes to earn Charlotte’s love. If only she’d tell him what she’s so afraid of.

Charlotte Holmes thought she’d won the jackpot when wealthy racehorse owner, Ivan Gasperyn, paid her way through veterinary school, but her dream position working at his stables soon turned into a nightmare. She’s finally escaped from Ivan’s iron control, so when Lincoln offers her a home in the remote ghost town he’s bringing back to life, she says yes. Life on Elliott Ridge turns out to be everything she always wanted and Lincoln is the kind of man she’s always wanted to meet. Can she let her guard down long enough to fall in love with him?

Lincoln knows he’s found the woman he wants to spend his life with, but when a stranger shows up looking for a stolen horse, it’s clear that Charlotte is in trouble.

Can Lincoln save her in time?

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Millionaire Carl Whitfield has set his sights on small-town chef Camila Torres, but she won’t have him until he can prove he means to settle in Chance Creek for good. He’s spent the last three years searching for the perfect ranch. She’s spent the last three years keeping him at arm’s length. Now Carl will do anything to secure a spread, including siding with the Coopers in their ages-old feud with the Turners, a move that could make his dreams come true—or destroy them for good.

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Noah Turner’s losing a war with his heart—and a war with his neighbors. Competing with the Coopers for the Founder’s Prize—and the Ridley property, the prime ranch land it confers—has pitted him against the woman of his dreams. The one woman he’s not supposed to love: Olivia Cooper.

Olivia knows loving Noah is all wrong. His family has been nothing but trouble for the Coopers. Now a drought has struck Chance Creek, and without the water rights they’ll gain from the Ridley property, her family is bound to lose their ranch.

It’s Turners vs. Coopers—and all is fair in love and war.

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Lance Cooper knows he shouldn’t try to escape his present problems by focusing on the past, but running Chance Creek’s Fourth of July Revolutionary War re-enactment is far easier than sorting out his family’s long-running feud with the Turners. At least it was until Maya Turner joins the historical society and upsets all his plans.

Maya Turner loves history, but Chance Creek’s re-enactments are boring—and far too predictable. Everyone knows who won the Revolutionary War, after all. Why shouldn’t they inject some drama—and sexy intrigue—into the annual event?

It’s bad enough Maya’s ideas are catching on with the rest of the re-enactment committee. It’s worse Lance’s heart is betraying him, too. How can he fall for her knowing how her family destroyed his?

But the past has its own secrets—and learning them can change everything…

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With the Coopers taking the lead again in the battle for Chance Creek’s Founder’s Prize, Liam Turner is determined to put his family back on top. And if that means kidnapping his secret childhood crush, Tory Cooper, well, a cowboy’s got to do what a cowboy’s got to do.

Tory set herself one rule when she returned to Chance Creek: don’t get involved—with her own family or anyone else. As soon as she’s finished with law school, she’s leaving again, and she won’t be back. But her family won’t get the message, and Liam Turner is a problem on a whole different level. Handsome, smart and determined, he won’t shake easily.

And she’s not sure she wants him to.

Now the summer’s heating up, and so is the trouble for both their families. Soon they won’t be fighting each other; they’ll be fighting for their lives.

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The Coopers and Turners are tied in the battle for Chance Creek’s Founder’s Prize, both families desperate to own the ranch that will be awarded to the winner. But Steel Cooper also needs to right the wrongs his father committed before he died in prison—and convince Stella Turner to marry him, despite a hundred years of animosity between their families. He’s willing to give it his best shot, but when disaster strikes Chance Creek, his best shot might not be enough to save anyone, let alone the woman he loves.

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Navy SEAL Brian Lake is out of luck. Going rogue on his last mission landed him on a fast track out of the Navy—years too soon to have saved up enough money to buy the ranch he’s always wanted. Without a career—or the cash to start over—Brian’s options are few, until Army general Augustus Reed steps in with an intriguing new mission—a permanent one.

Ignored by her absentee father, duped by the thief he appointed to oversee her family’s ranch, Cass Reed is done with men for good. From now on she’s determined to run Two Willows herself, so when her father sends a Navy SEAL to fix up her house, she vows to run him off her land as soon as possible. But Brian’s just as determined to stay, and he’s in a far different league than the men she’s met before.

Brian’s ready to do anything that will earn him a share of a prosperous ranch—even take a chance on marrying the General’s daughter. And he soon realizes it won’t be a hardship to marry Cass. She’s everything he’s ever dreamed of in a woman—and Two Willows is everything he wanted in a ranch.

But he’s not the only one who wants Two Willows—and Cass.

Will falling in love be the most dangerous mission of all?

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Sadie Reed is done with love. Her poor choices nearly got her sisters killed when she fell for a man entrenched in the drug trade. She’s ready to leave Chance Creek—just as soon as her sister Cass returns from her honeymoon. So when the handsome airman shows up at Two Willows, with orders from her father to help Sadie build a legacy project, she gives Connor one month to get it done.

Connor never thought he’d fall for Sadie, but when he learns she means to leave, he knows far more than his mission is at stake. Can he convince her to stay?

Or will love remain out of his reach for good?

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Jo Reed watched two of her sisters marry the men her father sent to help them on the family ranch, so when Hunter arrives, she’s ready for him. She doesn’t want a husband; she wants a house of her own where she can call the shots—and if the Navy SEAL wants to stay, he’d better build it to her specifications. More to the point, he’d better stop kissing her.

Hunter knows he’s not supposed to build Jo a house—he’s supposed to marry her. But first he’s got to earn her trust—and stop treating her like a new recruit. The longer he’s around the headstrong woman, the more he wants to be around her. Despite her best intentions, Jo’s falling for the Navy SEAL, but she’s already been unlucky in love twice. Will the third time around be the charm?

Or the last straw?

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Lena Reed doesn’t find it funny at all that three times her father has sent a man to help with her ranch, and three times one of her sisters has married him. She’s not falling for that trick. She was born to run the cattle operation at Two Willows, and no man is going to take that away from her. So when Logan arrives, she’ll do whatever she can to keep him at arm’s length. Only problem is the marine refuses to stay there. Bit by bit, he’s wearing down her resistance to him. But will giving into her feelings mean giving up her dreams?

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