When he inherits half of a ranch, Sheriff Slade Barlow meets resistance from his half-brother Hutch, especially when Hutch's former flame, Josyln Kirk, who is working hard to make up for her stepfather's dishonesty, catches his eye.

Spend the holidays in Stone Creek where romance is always in season with these two classic stories from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller!
A Stone Creek Christmas
Stone Creek veterinarian Olivia O'Ballivan communicates easily with animals, but men are another story. Especially rugged architect-turned-rancher Tanner Quinn. Olivia's uncanny bond with his daughter...

Tate McKettrick has always felt that leaving his high school sweetheart Libby Remington behind in Blue River, Texas, and marrying a woman he did not love was one of the biggest mistakes of his life, and as he tries to build a life for himself and his twin daughters on the McKettrick ranch, he hopes he can earn back Libby's trust and convince her to give him another chance.

Charlotte Morgan grew up in Mustang Creek, Wyoming, and couldn't wait to escape to the big city. But life in New York isn't as fabulous as she'd like to admit--she's lonely, doing a job she doesn't love and dating too many frogs she meets online. There was one potential prince, though--Jaxon Locke, a veterinarian with definite possibilities--but his move to Idaho to fill in at his dad's vet practice ended things just as they were getting interesting....

"Ten years ago, Hadleigh Stevens was eighteen and this close to saying "I do, " when Tripp Galloway interrupted her walk down the aisle. Now that she's recovered from her youthful mistake and Tripp's interference, Hadleigh and her single friends form a marriage pact. She doesn't expect Tripp to meddle with her new plan to find Mr. Right--or to discover that she's more attracted to him than ever! Divorced and eager to reconnect with his cowboy roots,...

When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen and meets his match in the beautiful county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan.

"When trouble strikes in Haven, Arizona, Ranger Sam O'Ballivan is determined to sort it out. Badge and gun hidden, he arrives posing as the new schoolteacher, and discovers his first task: bringing the ranchers' children under control. So he starts with a call on Maddie Chancelor, the local postmistress and older sister of a boy in need of discipline. But far from the spinster Sam expects, Maddie turns out to be a graceful woman whose prim and proper...

"World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. But his overachieving brothers won't allow this cowboy to brood in peace. They've even hired a nurse to speed his recovery"--p. [4] of cover.

Connor Creed, not really living his dream as a small-town cowboy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado, feels an obligation to carry on the legacy of the uncle who took him in as a kid, but the arrival of his estranged twin brother, who has led a much wilder life, makes Connor question what he is doing, and when he meets Tricia McCall, a beautiful woman marking time in town while trying to sell her late father's campground and drive-

"Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart - a woman he hasn't seen in years - and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...