What happens when you throw a grumpy cowboy boss into the same holiday grill master contest as the girl who got away?Brady McGrath can’t believe his rotten luck in getting paired off with his ex-girlfriend for the town’s biggest Christmas charity fundraiser. But those are the rules: Random partner assignments and no swapping. It doesn’t help that she’s also applying for a job at the ranch he runs, which means he’s about to become her boss. Their first attempt at dating was an epic failure, so he’s not about to repeat that mistake. If only if she’d take her sunshiny personality...

A wounded rodeo champion and a lovely horse trainer make a friendship pact to protect each other’s broken hearts from rebound relationships. Their ground rules are simple: Need a plus one at a holiday get-together? Ask each other. Feeling bored or lonely? Call or text each other. Accidentally step beneath the mistletoe? Um… Okay, it’s kind of impossible to make a rule for every situation, so their feelings soon get a little tangled up with each other. But that’s okay, right? Because friends are supposed to care for friends. What they didn’t count on was just how easily two broken ...

A reformed cowboy has a secret crush on the minister’s daughter, though he’s pretty sure his chances of dating her are slim to none after an unexpected visitor drops off a son he didn’t know he had.Learning how to juggle his new responsibilities as a single dad is hard enough, but it becomes a lot harder after the woman of his dreams: Recruits his kid into a holiday play Then arm-twists him into helping her build the stage backdrop And turns out to be really, really great working with children New plan: Focus on hiding just how badly he’s falling for the one woman in town he’s ...

No more workplace romance for her! A rising star at a small-town dinner theater, Hope Isaacson has big plans for the future. Plans that don’t involve dating on the job. She tried that once, and it ended in disaster. But when a good friend and coworker begs her to serve as his plus one at a family holiday celebration, she decides to make an exception. Just this once. After being tragically widowed, Roman Rios has no interest in dating again. So a onetime date with his just-a-friend coworker feels like the perfect way to get his matchmaking sister off his back. One excuse leads to another, ...

Bronc riding champ Ames Carson is at a major crossroads in his career. His brothers are gonna die laughing if they ever find out the hardest part of his decision is this — should he kiss his best friend before leaving town?He wants to. That’s a given. But he’s afraid of ruining a perfectly good friendship, if it turns out she doesn’t feel the same way about him. That’s the tough thing about being best buds with the girl next door. He knows literally everything else about her but THAT. He knows who her first crush was (not him), and the first guy she kissed (also not him), as well ...

Anxious to make it home for Christmas, a rodeo star hits the road in a hurry, only to discover he’s hitched his truck to the wrong trailer!In his defense, it’s the same model and color as his. Plus, it’s dark outside. Not to mention he’s trying to beat a snowstorm out of town. At the next truck stop, he finds himself face-to-face with the trailer's very lovely, very angry (and slightly terrified) rightful owner…and soon finds himself offering to make it up to her by posing as her husband for the remainder of the road trip. Yeah, she has her reasons for begging that kind of favor. ...

A strapped-for-cash waitress who’s taking a break from dating, the single-and-available foreman determined to change her mind, and the late winter storm that leaves them snowbound together at the ranch he runs…Tess Caldwell isn’t sure why she says yes to her best friend’s invitation to join her in a remote mountain town that celebrates Christmas year-round. After her ex-boyfriend leaves both her heart and bank account flat broke, she can’t afford a vacation. And she certainly can’t afford to extend her visit indefinitely when a winter storm shuts down every road leading out of ...

It’s not easy coming up with a birthday surprise for her billionaire best friend. A guy she likes a little more than a bestie should. Or a lot more! But that won’t keep Eloise Cantona from trying to plan the perfect surprise for him. After enjoying a dreamy getaway in Fiji with her family, she’s determined to recreate some of that same magic for her best friend. He seriously works too hard managing his family’s golf resort empire. Don’t CEOs deserve a break, too? Unfortunately, Elon has always been so tight-lipped about his bucket list that she hardly knows where to begin. She ...

He's a billionaire CEO who never got over his first crush, and she's a rising singer hoping for her big break. Can a last-minute singing engagement at his island birthday celebration make both wishes come true? Roman Cantona is promoted to CEO of his family's hotel conglomerate. He always knew this day would come, though he never imagined it would come so quickly or so tragically. Overnight, he becomes a workaholic with no social life. He's operating on coffee fumes by the time he allows a friend to talk him into taking a long overdue weekend off for his birthday. He makes a reservation at ...

A cowboy falls head over heels for a gorgeous single mom who insists she’ll never date again. He’s determined to change her mind in this sweet, friends-to-lovers romance! Cormac makes it clear to his brothers that he’s not interested in being the next one to tie the knot. He’s met everyone in their small Texas town, and none of them are the one. The only woman who’s ever made him feel a spark of anything is Ellie Roberts — an out-of-towner who shows up at a charity rodeo with her six-year-old in the middle of an asthma attack. Cormac is a farmer and crop duster pilot by day and ...