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 Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3.The Cowboy's Beauty 4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid

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.

*Previously titled Cowboys Don't Buy Their Bride at Auction*Can love bloom between a woman who was forced to sell herself and the man who bought her to get her ranch?Roxane Peterson 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.Trigger Warning: This book contains sensitive content, not graphic, for anyone who has lost a child. It also contains a "fade to black" scene between an unmarried couple, necessary for the plot.Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Series: 1.The Cowboy's Best Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3.The Cowboy's Beauty 4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid

There's a new girl in the small town of River Bend, Montana - a pretty little thing from the city who doesn't know her heifers from her steers. Or her good guys from her f*cked up ex-Marines. Her name is Tia Kinsley and she's nothing like the girls in River Bend. Proud, smart and gorgeous, she's a fish out of water with a habit of getting into sitcom-style scrapes. Not that I have any interest in rescuing her from those scrapes... The last thing I came out here to the middle of nowhere to do is fall in love. Two brutal tours in Iraq left me broken and haunted, unfit for human companionship. Besides, I've got everything I need - my livestock, my property and my faithful dog, Beau. I've got rules, too. No relationships that last longer than a single night, for one. No local girls. No entanglements. Until one hot summer night when I catch a fleeting glimpse of something familiar in Tia's dark eyes. I know that look. I see it every day, staring back at me in the mirror. Hurt. Loss. So it turns out maybe I'm not the only one in pain. Maybe the world doesn't revolve around me. And maybe - just maybe - being with her is like feeling the rain on my face after years in the desert. I'm not fit for any of this and I know it - not fit for love or kindness or the sweet tenderness with which she treats me. For Tia's own good - and even as her breathless little sighs still ring in my ears - I can't let her in. But I can't seem to stay away, either, and the closer we dance to the cliff's edge, the tighter I hold on... Not your usual Bad Boy, this 70k standalone romance is a good old-fashioned love story - with lots of steam, no cliffhangers and a heart-melting HEA guaranteed!