Her high school sweetheart is the last person teacher Hailey Deacon expects to encounter back home in Hartley Creek. Since Dan Morrow closed the door on their future, Hailey's determined to make this a temporary stay. She has an ill grandmother to take care of. But when Dan, now a widower, brings his troubled six-year-old daughter to Hailey for help, how can she refuse? Working with both father and daughter, she vows not to fall for him again. But if a determined little girl has her way, Hailey won't be leaving Hartley Creek again anytime soon. Home to Hartley Creek: A family legend brings cousins home.

A Crash Course—In Fatherhood! Deep in the heart of Texas, Ranger Springs is the perfect place to start over. Kate Wooten and her young son aren't the only newcomers in town—Luke Simon has just moved into the ranch next door, along with his menagerie of rescued animals. A former Hollywood animal trainer and stuntman, Luke is ready for some peace and quiet. But instead he's getting the surprise of a lifetime: the eight-year-old daughter he didn't know he had. Determined to turn his house into a home for his little girl, Luke knows he can't do it alone. Kate doesn't want any complications in her life, but this bachelor needs her help to turn him into a good father in just two short weeks. She reluctantly agrees to whip him into shape—now, if only she can resist his charms!

Savanna Starr's new boss, Joe McCann, was a rugged, blue-eyed hunk. But the man didn't know a thing about raising a child, so Savanna decided it was her job to give Joe some daddy lessons. Joe didn't need anybody telling him how to be a good father—especially not Savanna! In fact, he was just about to fire his brazen secretary when she captured his daughter's heart. Joe couldn't deny that he needed some help on the home front. But he'd already learned his lesson about love, and no woman was going to steal his heart again. Not even sassy, sexy Savanna…

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening Steacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican boys’ boarding school where they were sent to be ‘reformed’ and where they were abused by a teacher, and then, later on, rodeos and bathhouses and mall bathrooms. The world Easton describes is one in which desire is complicated, where men – ‘daddies’ – can be loving and they can be abusive, and there isn’t always a clear distinction. Easton explores the essential texts of their sexuality, from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to Neil LaBute, Kip Moore to Lorelei James, and delves into their own encounters as they came of age. These daddy lessons are blunt about the pleasures of disobedience, slippery and difficult, revelling in the funk of memory and desire. "In dangerous times, Daddy Lessons dares to complicate the question of what children desire, including things that they probably shouldn’t, and that adults must not exploit or manipulate. Except they do. Steacy Easton's meditations follow how such desires and disasters secrete an aesthetic and a self, and how something vivacious can spring from that muck, something like this book itself, smutty and shining and garlanded in jonquils." – Carl Wilson, author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste "Steacy writes about the queer pleasure-seeking body in ways both fresh and eminently familiar." – Jordan Tannahill, author of The Listeners "Daddy Lessons is a cocky and tender reclamation of childhood and teenage wanting." – Vivek Shraya, author of I’m Afraid of Men and People Change

Find a fresh start at life and love in these two stories by author Carolyne Aarsen The Rancher’s Return In the wake of family tragedy, Carter Beck wants to sell Rocking K ranch—the only home he’s ever known. His new horse trainer, Emma Minton, sees the ranch as her fresh start. And as Emma’s little boy becomes attached to Carter, he wonders if selling the ranch is really for the best. Could this bond mean a second chance at a family…for all of them? Daddy Lessons The high school sweetheart who broke her heart is the last person teacher Hailey Deacon expects to see during her temporary stay in her hometown. But when widower Dan Morrow brings his troubled six-year-old daughter to Hailey for help, how can she refuse? Hailey vows not to fall for him again. But if a determined little girl has her way, Hailey won’t be leaving Hartley Creek again anytime soon.

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Lessons for Stevie are a compilation of timeless lessons imparted from David Muensterman to his daughter Stevie in this insightful, poignant, and often laugh-out-loud-funny life manual. As Stevie grows from newborn to infant to toddler, the lessons grow and expand with her. Some lessons are lighthearted, some are insightful, and some are practical, but each one conveys skills that are readily transferable from childhood to adulthood. The lessons reflect on life through anecdotes and learned wisdom. They are organized by important themes such as unconditional love, living in the moment, and keeping your inner Eeyore under control.