Summer Texas Bride

Summer Texas Bride
Author: Katie Lane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781721724918

Fireworks are about to light up the Texas sky...Summer Hadley is a woman on a mission! She'll do anything to save her clothing store, including soliciting help from her brother's friend. But sexy, savvy businessman Ryker Evans wants nothing to do with her. So Summer does what any red-blooded Texas gal would do: She takes the bull by the horns. Waylaying Ryker in his motel room after a family wedding seemed like a good idea-and so did the bottle of persuasion, er, Patron. But business will turn into pleasure when things get a little too hot in the Lone Star State.Ryker Evans has been asked to keep his distance from his best friend's sister. And that's just fine and dandy with him. Summer is too assertive, too opinionated . . . and too damned tempting. But all it will take is one heated kiss for his morals to melt like ice cubes in warm sweet tea, and there'll be no running from the intense feelings their night together stirs. Especially when Summer rear-ends him-literally. He's forced to recuperate from the car accident in the town of Bliss, Texas where he'll find himself torn between loyalty to his best friend and loyalty to the woman who could easily rope his heart forever.Trapped together in the sizzling heat of a small town, will Summer and Ryker find a way to save her business and their fragile new relationship? Or will both fizzle-out like midnight on the 4th of July?

Texas Bride

Texas Bride
Author: Joan Johnston
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345527445

HE MAY BE HER ONLY HOPE. SHE MAY BE HIS LAST CHANCE. Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now marriage to a stranger is her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of the Chicago orphanage where they live. With any luck, she can even start a family of her own, once the three of them are settled at Jacob Creed’s Texas ranch. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: Her husband-to-be knows nothing about the brothers she’s bringing along. What if he calls off the deal when he discovers the trick she’s played on him? Jake Creed is hanging on to his Texas ranch by his fingernails. His nemesis, Alexander Blackthorne, is determined to ruin him. Jake will never give up, but he’s in desperate trouble. His wife died six months ago in childbirth, along with their stillborn son, and his two-year-old daughter needs a mother. The advertisement Jake wrote never mentioned his daughter—or the fact that he has no intention of consummating his marriage. He’s determined never to subject another wife to the burden of pregnancy. But Jake doesn’t count on finding his bride so desirable. He doesn’t count on aching with need when she joins him in bed. And he never suspected his bride would have plans of her own to seduce him. The passionate Westerns in Joan Johnston’s Bitter Creek series can be enjoyed together or separately, in any order: TEXAS BRIDE • WYOMING BRIDE • MONTANA BRIDE • SINFUL • SHAMELESS • BLACKTHORNE’S BRIDE • SULLIVAN’S PROMISE

The Prince's Texas Bride

The Prince's Texas Bride
Author: Leanne Banks
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459201973

When Eve Jackson was offered her dream job—stable master for the tiny Mediterranean kingdom of Chantaine —it was an opportunity she couldn't pass up. The horses were as gorgeous as the scenery, but there was one problem: her handsome but infuriating boss, Prince Stefan. Stefan was hell-bent on being a true ruler, unlike the generations of playboys that preceded him. But the feisty, formidable Texan he'd just hired proved quite a distraction. He'd never known a woman as challenging —or as irresistible. But this ordinary commoner was off-limits for Stefan…unless he'd finally met his royal match!

Wrangling a Hot Summer Cowboy

Wrangling a Hot Summer Cowboy
Author: Katie Lane
Publisher: Katie Lane
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Things are heatin’ up in the Lone Star State . . . When a dastardly villain takes the Holidays' family ranch, no one in Wilder, Texas, suspects that sweet-as-apple-pie Belle Holiday is responsible for the villain's vendetta. Belle is the soft-spoken sister, the one who looks to her assertive twin, Liberty, to make all her decisions. Except now Liberty is getting married and has left Belle without a leader . . . and stuck dealing with the man she’s done wrong. Belle had no plans to hurt the teenage boy who arrived at her front door with a wilted bouquet of wildflowers and his heart in his pretty blue eyes. But there’s no way to explain that to the brooding man who’s now set on making her family’s home his own—even if he doesn’t know one end of a steer from the other. Except it turns out that beneath the grumpy greenhorn is still the kind-hearted boy who will help Belle discover her own strength and make her burn brighter than the hot summer sun. Corbin Whitlock has been harboring a grudge against Belle Holiday and her twin sister since high school and the night they pulled "the switch" on him. Now Corbin won't rest until he's made all the Holidays pay. Taking their ranch seems like fitting revenge—not to mention, he’s always wanted a place to call home. But since Corbin knows nothing about ranching, he has to rely on Belle and her family to teach him. And riding lessons from a sexy country gal who knows how to sit a saddle can make a man forget all about horses and start dreaming about another type of riding. Once in the arms of sweet Belle, vengeance will turn to something else—something that makes Corbin realize home isn’t a place on a map. It’s a place in the heart.

Wrangling a Texas Firecracker

Wrangling a Texas Firecracker
Author: Katie Lane
Publisher: Katie Lane
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2024-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fireworks are about to light up the Texas skies! Liberty Lou Holiday is the overachieving Holiday sister. Whatever goals she sets, she meets: star athlete, homecoming queen, CEO of a successful event planning business. Which is why her entire family is pinning their hopes on Liberty to save the Holiday Ranch from foreclosure. How hard can it be given that the owner of the company doing the foreclosing once had a major crush on Liberty? She’ll have him wrapped around her little pinkie in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. Or so she thinks until she meets the villain sent to take her family’s home. Liberty is not expecting a sexy ex-rodeo cowboy with soulful brown eyes and a charming smile that can sweep a Texas gal off her boots. Nor is she expecting his smooth-talkin’ ways and devilish dares to have those boots wrapped around his hot body in the time it takes to say “Come here, darlin’.” Jesse James Cates might look like a laidback rodeo cowboy, but his tough childhood has made him a savvy businessman who doesn’t take no for an answer. He’s quite content making loads of money and traveling the world as a carefree bachelor . . . until one hot spring night when he runs into Liberty Holiday. The moment he sets eyes on the ebony-haired beauty, he realizes what his life has been missing. Unfortunately, it’s hard to woo a woman into your bed when your half-brother and business partner is foreclosing on her family’s ranch. Now, Jesse has a choice. Tell the truth and lose Libby forever or tell a little white lie and hold onto his feisty firecracker. What harm can come from a little white lie?

Twice a Texas Bride

Twice a Texas Bride
Author: Linda Broday
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1492602868

"Linda Broday's books always take me back to a west that feels true. Her love stories run deep with emotion. A delightful read." -Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Promise Me Texas Callie leaned into him, borrowing his strength. "I'm so tired of being scared, Rand." "Running away won't change that. Trust me with your secrets. There's no reason to hold back any longer." She knew he was right. It was time to come clean. "Start with your name," he said. Left with emotional scars from his time in an orphanage, Rand Sinclair has vowed never to marry. But when he discovers Callie Quinn and a small orphan boy hiding on his ranch, he can't help but open his home to the desperate runaways. Callie has been betrayed by every man she's ever known. While she's grateful for Rand's incredible kindness, she knows it's only a matter of time before he shows his true colors. But she needs this safe haven-maybe the outlaw on her trail won't find them here. Yet as Rand slowly uncovers her secret fears, they each come to realize that the only way to keep her safe is for Rand to risk everything to offer her the protection of his name...and his heart. Bachelors of Battle Creek: Texas Mail Order Bride Twice a Texas Bride Forever His Texas Bride

Wrangling a Texas Sweetheart

Wrangling a Texas Sweetheart
Author: Katie Lane
Publisher: Katie Lane
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2024-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Watch out, Wilder, Texas! Sweetie's back in town! Sweetheart Mae Holiday is the oldest of the six Holiday sisters—the one who carries the burden of continuing the family's ranching tradition. Except Sweetie doesn't want to be a rancher. She wants to be the next Dolly Parton. And she's going to achieve her dream come hell or high water...or the inability to sing her songs in front of a crowd. When her daddy suffers a heart attack, she heads home to Wilder. Before she even reaches the edge of town, she's pulled over by a sexy-but-grumpy sheriff who makes it clear she's not welcome. Since before she headed off to Nashville she broke his cousin's heart, she understands why Sheriff Decker Carson has a bone to pick. But no one tells Sweetie what she can and can't do. When she finds out her mama and daddy are losing the ranch, Sweetie decides to put her country music dreams on hold and stay to help save her beloved home—even if she has to take on a stubborn Texas lawman whose sizzling kisses make her start to wonder if she’s been following the wrong dream all along. Decker Carson has had a thing for Sweetie since first seeing her strut around the Holiday Ranch with her golden ponytail swinging and her eyes sparkling like a dew-drenched meadow. But he flat refuses to let his feelings show. Everyone in Wilder knows Sweetie has always been Jace’s girl. Jace is not only Decker’s cousin, but also the one who helped him get through the loss of both his parents. Decker is not about to break the no-kissing-cousin’s-girlfriends rule—even if Sweetie and Jace have been broken up for years. Unfortunately, when a scintillating rumor spreads through town and every cowboy in the county starts showing up on the Holiday’s front porch with flowers and marriage proposals, it’s Decker’s job as sheriff to untangle the mess. Which means spending a lot more time with the one woman he can’t resist . . . and the one girl he wants to make his own.

West Texas Bride

West Texas Bride
Author: Madeline Baker
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146035415X

She'd come to Texas for a little R and R, but after meeting her sexy riding instructor, sophisticated Carly Kirkwood began experiencing sleepless nights filled with vivid dreams. For Zane Roan Eagle was like no man she'd ever met, and his chiseled Lakota features made Carly wild with anticipation every time he was in her presence. Before long, their days were filled with lingering looks and their nights with yearning. And although Carly always believed she belonged in Los Angeles, the thought of leaving Zane created an ache deep in her heart. Could this die-hard city girl conceive a future as a West Texas bride?

Wrangling a Lucky Cowboy

Wrangling a Lucky Cowboy
Author: Katie Lane
Publisher: Katie Lane
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2024-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Cowboy, Cowboy, wherefore art thou Cowboy? A fake marriage between the daughter and son of two archenemies. What could possibly go wrong? Cloe Holiday is practical enough to realize she isn't as pretty and talented as her five sisters and she's content standing in their shadows and cheering them on. Her dreams are small--help children overcome the speech impediments she had to deal with as a child, get an engagement ring from her longtime boyfriend, and have her wedding in the big red barn on her family's Texas ranch. But even small dreams can blow up in your face. Instead of a ring, she gets the boot. And now her family is about to lose everything. Not just their ranch, but also their home and the beloved barn . . . unless Cloe is willing to enter into a wild scheme with the son of her father's archenemy. Rome Remington has always tried to be the responsible, obedient son. After his mama ran off, he helped his father make the Remington Ranch one of the most profitable ranches in Texas. But now he has an opportunity to buy the neighboring ranch and the idea of getting out from under his controlling father's thumb is too good to resist. There's only one problem. The ranch is owned by the Holidays’ ornery grandma who refuses to sell to just anyone—the man must be willing to pay off the family debt and convince one of her granddaughters to marry him. After his first disastrous marriage, Rome swore he'd never get married again . . . but what if this marriage is merely a business transaction? Now all he has to do is convince a Holiday sister. And what better sister than the practical Plain Jane? But as it turns out, there’s nothing plain about Cloe Holiday. Her inner strength, kind heart, and breathtaking kisses will soon have Rome scaling any garden wall to get to his cowgirl Juliet.

Wrangling a Texas Hometown Hero

Wrangling a Texas Hometown Hero
Author: Katie Lane
Publisher: Katie Lane
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2024-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Lord, help the mister who comes between Texas sisters . . . The Holiday Secret Sisterhood has a strict rule: never poach on another sister’s boyfriend, past or present. Hallie Holiday has no intentions of ever breaking that rule. After watching her big sisters become love-struck fools, men don’t even make the top five of Hallie’s wish list . . . until one night when Jace Carson slips onto the barstool next to her with his sexy lopsided smile and devilish smoky-gray eyes. Suddenly, spending the night in the muscled arms of a hot hometown hero becomes more than a wish. It becomes a steamy reality. Before Hallie can finish shoving that night into her bad-bad-sister vault and throwing away the key, Jace waltzes back into town. Soon Hallie will realize there’s no way to keep a secret from a sister . . . or from your own heart. Jace Carson plans to never step foot in Wilder, Texas, again. After an injury ends his professional football career, he has no desire to witness the townsfolk’s disappointment. Or watch his cousin live happily ever after with the woman Jace had planned to marry. But desire is a funny thing. It can change at the drop of a hat. Or the drop of a pair of lace panties. Getting involved with his ex-girlfriend’s little sister is just plain stupid, especially when Hallie is a tough cowgirl who pulls no punches—literally or figuratively. But there’s something about the way she looks at him that makes him feel like less of a failure. Like he could lasso the big ol’ harvest moon . . . and make a feisty Texas girl’s dreams come true.