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Sweet Water Ranch
Series · 12
books · 2019-2021

Books in series

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The Cowboy's Second Chance

2021

He's a billionaire that's supposed to be dead. She's the woman who chose his best friend over him. They've forged a strong online friendship over two decades as she's raised her eight kids alone, and he kept the promise he made to her husband. She doesn't know who he really is - the entire town of Sweet Water attended his memorial service. When they finally meet, will the friendship they've forged be strong enough to weather the deception and the explosive secrets he's hiding?
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#1

The Cowboy's Best Friend

2019

One final summer Before they’re parted forever. Palmer wasn’t planning to get married. But when he got the unexpected letter, he knew he could pay the overdue medical bills and save the ranch. Just one problem. He needed a wife. When Ames came home to North Dakota to spend the summer with her best friend before moving on to her dream job in LA, she thought there were would be work and fun, as always. She didn’t expect him to say he planned to get married. Why doesn’t she want to help him? Will time run out before Ames and Palmer realize that love could be their answer? Fall in love with Sweet Water, North Dakota. Small town, sweet romance that will warm your heart and stir your soul.
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#2

The Cowboy's Secret Baby

2019

Waitress and single mother Louise Olson wouldn’t have missed church to stay home with her sick daughter if she knew the congregation was going to volunteer her to head up the town’s Harvest Festival. Truth be told, she didn’t mind, and would have enjoyed it. The problem was Sweet Water’s superstar hockey golden boy was back in town, and he had been named her co-chair. That even wouldn’t be a problem except he didn’t know he was a father – of her daughter. Hockey forward Ty Hanson grew up on a ranch in Sweet Water, North Dakota, but once he left for college he never went home. He wouldn’t be there now except for the off-season injury his agent wanted kept secret so it didn’t affect his marketability, so he was to hang out in Sweet Water, North Dakota until the season started. His first Sunday back in the church of his childhood, he gets selected as a volunteer to co-chair the Harvest Fest committee with the girl he could never forget. When Ty and Louise are forced to work together, Louise is compelled to tell Ty the secret she’s kept from everyone. The attraction between them still burns strong, but Louise was on the verge of getting married and years of neglect and betrayal lie between her and her accidental summer fling. Will Ty pick up his cowboy hat and come back home? Can he convince Louise that he’ll stay this time?
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#3

The Cowboy's Beauty

2019

He couldn’t face her. She was too beautiful. He’d been deformed in a farming accident years ago. He’d managed to build a successful business on his North Dakota ranch, but clients didn’t need to see him. His sister handled the face of his company. Until his sister took a vacation and hired an out-of-work supermodel to take her place. He couldn’t show himself to her. Although after dark he could share his love of the stars with her. But the more he hides, the more she wants to see. Can he trust her with his face? Because he’s very close to losing his heart.
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#4

The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister

2019

\Previously titled Cowboys Don't Have a Fake Marriage with Their Best Friend's Sister\ She’s his best friend’s little sister. He’s never noticed her. Not like that. He needs to marry to inherit his money, so he’s hired a woman to be his fake bride. Only he’s too sick to get married. Now he’s confined in his small house with his fake fiancée-to-be and his best friend’s little sister. The ladies don’t seem to get along. And one of them isn’t what he thought. Should he follow the plan, or follow his heart?
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#5

The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage

2019

It was supposed to be simple. Marry the tall Texan. Her children get a father. They save the ranch. A business transaction, nothing more. She definitely wasn’t going to fall in love. After her husband ran off with her little sister, she was no longer susceptible to cowboy charm. Except, the North Dakota girl had never met a Texas cowboy. He married her for the ranch. A former champion bull rider needs a spread to call home, even if it is in North Dakota. Even if it comes with four little kids. And a big, black, slobbering dog. Especially if it comes with a woman with enough sweetness and enough toughness to rope his heart and heal it. The cowboy’s not afraid of anything…except losing his heart again. Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Billionaire Cowboy series: 1. Cowboys Don’t Marry Their Best Friend 2. Cowboys Don’t Have a Secret Baby 3. Cowboys Don’t Marry the Beauty 4. Cowboys Don’t Have a Fake Marriage With Their Best Friend’s Sister 5. Cowboys Don't Have a Marriage of Convenience 6. Cowboys Don't Believe in Fairy Tales 7. Cowboys Don't Have a Secret Romance
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The Cowboy's Fairy Tale

2019

\Previously titled Cowboy's Don't Believe in Fairy Tales\ He’s the billionaire heir of Sweet Water Ranch. His family is throwing a ball and he must choose a wife. She’s too poor to attend the ball as a guest. But she can go as the hired help. One magical dance and a case of mistaken identity later, and nothing is as it seems. If he backs out, he loses everything. She never had anything to lose to begin with. Other than her soul-mate. Will he choose love over a multi-billion dollar business and the biggest ranch in North Dakota? Can she let him give up everything for her? Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance series: 1. The Cowboy's Best Friend 2. The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3. The Cowboy's Beauty 4. The Cowboy's Best Friend’s Sister 5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage 6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale 7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance 8. The Cowboy's Auction Bride 9. The Cowboy's Enemy 10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas 11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake 12. The Cowboy's Up for Auction
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The Cowboy's Secret Romance

2019

\Previously titled Cowboys Don't Have a Secret Romance\ Called The Preacher, Clay Stryker has lived a life as straight as a North Dakota highway. Everyone thinks the pen and notebook he carries around is to jot down poetry or possibly notes on Scripture. They don't know he has a secret...romance. Reina Hall has never forgotten the night she was rescued from a child trafficking ring. She definitely hasn't forgotten the man who wouldn't back down, refused to look the other way and risked his life to save hers. He made a promise to her. And she's riding west to make sure he keeps it. Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Series: 1. The Cowboy's Best Friend 2. The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3. The Cowboy's Beauty 4. The Cowboy's Best Friend’s Sister 5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage 6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale 7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance 8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride 9. The Cowboy's Enemy 10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas 11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake 12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid
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The Cowboy's Bargain Bride

2019

Can love bloom between a woman who was forced to sell herself and the man who bought her to get her ranch? Roxane Rosthchild is up for auction. Well, her and her ranch. She knew it would be too much to hope for that the man who bought her would be more interested in her than in the property, and money, that came with her. But she’s been down this road before – a marriage that isn’t perfect. Her only concern now is protecting her son and making sure she keeps her independence. Boone Stryker is disillusioned and restless. Seeing a ranch, and a woman, up for auction challenges his soul and gives him a reason to live again. He risks everything he owns to win the ranch. But in order to win the lady’s heart, he could lose so much more.
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The Cowboy's Enemy

2019

\Previously titled Cowboy's Don't Marry Their Enemy\ Can you love someone and hate them at the same time? She led him on, lied about him, then dumped him for his cousin. She was his enemy. He walked. But he loved her still. Can people change? Cora Fischer knew they could. Heartbreak, abject poverty and a mother’s bear instincts to protect her children at all costs could turn a selfish, spoiled girl into a strong, formidable woman. But first loves die hard. They were enemies, never lovers, despite what she told her family and the town. She hated him then, and he hates her now. But she can give him what he wants, and she’s willing to make a deal. Is she strong enough to conquer her foe and not destroy herself? Or maybe she could write new chapter: old enemies make the best husbands. Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Series: 1. The Cowboy's Best Friend 2. The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3. The Cowboy's Beauty 4. The Cowboy's Best Friend’s Sister 5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage 6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale 7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance 8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride 9. The Cowboy's Enemy 10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas 11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake 12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid
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The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas

2019

\Previously titled Cowboys Don't Stand Under the Mistletoe\ When Mack’s sister dropped her kids off with his dad in his trailer park, he knew he needed to step up and be an uncle. But he’d told his buddy he’d be in Sweet Water, ND over the holidays, so he takes the children and drives north. Angela Davis had been the sedate good daddy’s girl all her life, doing whatever her parents wanted, even trying to trap a man into marriage to help them get out of debt. Mack knew of her past, and didn’t trust her, but he needed someone to help him with his nieces and she needed someone to help her put on the best Christmas festival Sweet Water had ever seen. Could they trust each other enough to work together? And what about that mistletoe kiss? Books in the Sweet Water Ranch series: 1. The Cowboy's Best Friend 2. The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3. The Cowboy's Beauty 4. The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister 5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage 6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale 7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance 8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride 9. The Cowboy's Enemy 10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas 11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake
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The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake

2020

Rancher Cordell Stryker just wants to settle down on his ranch, and he’s convinced the twin sister of his best friend to tie the knot with him. But as the wedding day approaches, he finds himself drawn more to her sister. That just can’t be, because she’s his best friend. Librarian Rosaleen “Rosie” Bloom is addicted to reading romance novels and living vicariously through them, rather than pursuing the man she loves in real life. Rosie had been content to read about romance, letting life pass her by, but could she rewrite her own love story? Books in the Sweet Water Ranch series: 1. The Cowboy's Best Friend 2. The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3. The Cowboy's Beauty 4. The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister 5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage 6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale 7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance 8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride 9. The Cowboy's Enemy 10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas 11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake

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