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Evan MacKay is grateful to have his four brothers working beside him at Sweet Grass Ranch. Maintaining their ranch lifestyle is his priority, but the bank is breathing down his neck and he worries the ranch can't support their growing family. Secretly, he waits for the other boot to drop.Turns out the other boots are Jimmy Choo black stilettos worn by the new bank loan manager.Jessica Chase doesn't claim to be an expert on ranching, but she's a whiz in finance, particularly in whipping delinquent accounts into shape. As the new kid on the block, she is driven to succeed, and ready to pull the Sweet Grass Ranch account back into solvency. She is also eager to rebuild her life in South Dakota.The city woman in heels knows a lot about money, Evan admits, but nothing about cattle. He tries to advise her about ranch business, but she dismisses his recommendations. While intrigued by the abrupt rancher who tries to educate her about cows, Jessica feels her resolve slipping. She has a job to do, and it doesn't involve kissing the grumpy cowboy.But kiss him, she does.Can Jessica rein in her growing attraction for Evan while remaining committed to her professional goal? Will love triumph over the bottom line?

One more deadly romantic comedy. Meet Mitzi, Molly, and Marla-three sisters, southern-fried born-and-bred, and the ghosts who love them.Marla Newberry has no interest in dating someone local. She much prefers midnight runs to a biker bar in Shreveport.Cooter Haines, drummer for a Grateful Dead tribute band called Skull Bone, owns the biker bar called The Deadhead. He also happens to be the only guy who can curl her toes like a sprung guitar string.And while she enjoys surrendering to his toe-curling on occasion, she's not interested in bringing the long-haired drummer home to daddy--until the night Cooter tells her he loves her, and then comes up missing.That Saturday night, a rival drummer makes a deal with the devil (aka the Skull Bone's manager) and steals the drummer job away from Cooter. Cooter angrily speeds off on his bike and doesn't return. Marla smells a rat.Later, she wakes up to find a ghostly Cooter sitting at the foot of her bed. Dead isn't so great, he tells her, and those rumors about Southern Rock bands jamming in Heaven? He's seen no evidence. Plus, he's pretty sure someone jacked up something on his Harley making him roll the bike. He needs her help to find out who wanted him dead.But is Cooter really dead, or was Marla only dreaming? And days later, where is he?Can she and her sisters solve this final mystery of the men in their lives, and the ghosts(?) who love them?Read less

Another deadly romantic comedy-three sisters, a smattering of ghost, a touch of romance, a boatload of mystery, and a stitch of southern humor.Molly Campbell had everything-a gorgeous Louisiana mansion, a rich husband, and a lucrative career. Had-not has-because her redneck husband dies in a seven-car pileup on the way to a monster truck pull, setting off a chain of events that leaves her penniless and moving into her deceased Gran's home in Carrington, Louisiana.To say lifestyle change is a bitch is an understatement.She misses Don (and admittedly, his money) but doesn't miss his belittling manner.When he comes to her in ghostly spirit and apologizes for every nasty thing he's ever done (too little, too late), and that he lied to her about the bank account (too little, too gone), and tells her she needs to pay off his casino debt to keep the family safe (too overwhelming, too damn much!), and suggests that the truck accident might not have been an accident after all (too creepy, too murdered?), she gives him the cold shoulder.Molly has no desire to listen to her deceased husband's honeymoon phase sweet-talk and probable lies in death. She'd had enough of that while he was living.But Don insists he was murdered, and when things start happening-eerie phone calls, threatening messages, and bullets whizzing past her on Gran's porch-Molly concedes.With her sisters in tow, and aided by a charming, tattooed private investigator, Molly seeks to uncover the truth. The suspense and hilarity that ensues might make you laugh out loud-seriously. Dead serious.

A southern-fried comedy with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters....All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month's mortgage payment. That is the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband's disappearance, she has held things together nicely-until recently. And now, well, she just needs the money.Biting the bullet, she goes for the interview, only to find that the phone sex job isn't real and she's too late-not for the interview, but to save her husband. For there he is, dead on the floor, a bullet to the back of the head. To make matters worse, his ghost is hovering around and chiding her for being late. Not to mention he is horny as hell and trying to cop a feel.Which only begs the question, "Do dead men still want it?"

When Emma Lavender is called to corporate headquarters at the end of her first week of employment at WestInn Hotels, she is shocked at the proposition offered by the company CEO. So shocked, in fact, she takes him up on his offer. Emma Lavender is your average college graduate-eager to make a go of her first job and pay off those student loans. Fresh out of a relationship going nowhere, she leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, behind and heads for the wild west-Billings, Montana. But in Montana, no one takes her seriously or appreciates her southern belle upbringing, except for one man-CEO of WestInn Enterprises, Gage Parker-and he seriously appreciates what Emma has to offer. Corporate executive by day, rancher by night, Dom all the time-Gage Parker is an Alpha male with an insatiable sexual appetite and a fundamental need to control women sexually. When Emma crosses his line of vision during her work orientation at his hotel, he engineers a meeting and presents Emma with a proposition that literally rocks her southern belle upbringing to the core-and one that Emma learns she is powerless to refuse.

Leaving Noah is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, second chances, and the power of the written word. When a rodeo accident leaves Rock Creek Ranch shorthanded, Connie MacKay travels from South Dakota to Montana to visit her daughter and help with the neighboring ranch's cattle roundup. Raised on a ranch and comfortable in the saddle, she is determined to help. After decades of working ranches throughout the northwest, Noah Parker heads home to Rock Creek to stay-maybe. That all depends on the reception he gets from family. When he arrives, the last person he expects to see there is Connie. Several months earlier at Sarah MacKay's wedding, Noah and Connie shared a clandestine night together. Neither have seen nor spoken to the other since.It's been a little over a year since Connie's husband's death, and no matter how attracted she is to the rough stock cowboy, she can't let herself get swept away by Noah's charm and old-fashioned cowboy ethics. Figuring out the next chapter of her life is her priority-and one she must do alone. Noah has baggage of his own he's not sure he can get past, let alone heap on top of hers. He has known love, and lost love, and doesn't want to live out the rest of his days alone. He loves her, but following Connie to South Dakota is not the answer, so he tries another tack-old fashioned love letters designed to share his story, and perhaps woo her heart.

A reluctant rancher. A lonely librarian. A family in shambles. Can the rancher risk a second chance at love and heal his family at the same time? When John Rankin's wife dies, leaving him with two children to raise, he wonders how he can he take care of a family and run a working cattle ranch, too. Annie's domain was home, hearth, and the kids. Her dying put a hole in his day-to-day existence like nothing he'd ever before experienced-not only in his rancher lifestyle, but also in his heart. As the months roll on, his heart is only one of his problems when eleven-year-old Callie rebels. Missing her mom and unsure how her life is unfolding, Callie pushes back at every turn, and John is unsure how to help her. Then his friend and farm manager, Buck McGinnis, suggests John seek the counsel of a woman for advice dealing with a moody pre-teen female. He wants to introduce John to his friend, Abby Cooper. John is reluctant, but eventually caves to Buck's advice. Suddenly, life becomes more complicated. The Parker Ranches, Inc. series launches with the novella, The Rancher's Second Chance, establishing the historical perspective of the original Parker Ranch, the patriarch of the present-day family, John Rankin, and his second chance at love and healing his family.****The Parker Ranches, Inc. series is a contemporary western romance series written by award-winning and bestselling romance author Maddie James.Linked by strong family relationships, these stories take place in multiple ranch settings in Montana (Rankin's Rock Creek Ranch; The Branded Filly Ranch), South Dakota (Sweet Grass Ranch), Texas and Kentucky (Remington Ranches). The Parker and Rankin families-Montana ranchers for generations-anchor the series and lay the foundation for stories to come. As families grow, forming new ranch partnerships, you'll also meet the MacKay and Remington families, among others.Parker Ranches, Inc. books are romance stories with happily-ever-after endings. Some are sweet, most are steamy, and a few are romantically erotic. These novels and novellas always feature cowboy heroes and the women who love them-often with complicated relationships and external challenges. Welcome to the world of Parker Ranches, Incorporated.

She's the maid of honor. He's the best man. Both are keeping secrets. The long-requested sequel to Maddie James' first published novel, Roses & Rawhide is now available!Readers wanted to know... What happened to Jillie and Mack's relationship at the end of Roses & Rawhide?Why did Jillie go back to Kentucky?Will they get back together?What's their story? While Kim Martin and Thad Winchester find their happily-ever-after in Roses & Rawhide, their best friends, Jillie Abernathy and Mack Montgomery, end their sleeping bag sharing relationship during the rugged, two-week pack trip into the Colorado San Juan mountains. But when Kim and Thad host their wedding at Thad's Colorado ranch a few months later, Mack and Jillie must come face-to-face with reality-and with each other. She's the Maid of Honor. He's the Best Man. Both are harboring secrets-secrets that could break a potential future relationship if they both keep avoiding telling the truth. Can they reveal those secrets to each other? And if so, can they get past the withheld truths to plan a future together?

When Callie McKenna's New York future collides head-on with her Montana past, she is faced with making a life-altering decision.Callie McKenna is going home. Her father has suffered a fall from his horse and she is needed back at the ranch. She temporarily leaves New York and her promotion behind to be with her family in Montana, planning only to stay until her father is well again.What she doesn't expect is to rekindle an old relationship with ranch hand, Murphy Reynolds.Nothing goes according to plan. Callie must face her past, to not only mend some family fences, but to figure out what is happening between her and Murphy. She knows the choices she makes now will shape her future. But will that future be with Murphy and her family on the ranch, or will it be back in New York, where her promotion waits along with that quaint little brownstone she adores?

The last thing Parker Rankin expects the day of his father's funeral is for life to throw him another curveball--especially a red-headed, no-nonsense, curveball like Reba Morris. Parker expects life on Rock Creek Ranch to change. He is unsure how much his stepmother, Abby, has influenced his father's final wishes. Although Abby has been a part of his life for years, her goals for the ranch differ from his. All Parker wants is to continue his way of life--running the Montana ranch until the day he dies, just like his father.Having recently relocated to Montana, and living in a cabin near Rock Creek Ranch, Rebekah (Reba) Morris decides to do the neighborly thing and help at the Rankin home when everyone gathers after rancher John Rankin's funeral. With her late husband's passing of several months earlier on her mind, she knows how difficult it can be handling the small things, so she hopes the Rankins will be appreciative of her neighborly efforts.What Reba doesn't expect, however, is a glimpse into a cool and aloof--albeit sexy-- Montana rancher's personal life. A glimpse that both intrigues and stops her in her tracks. She came to Montana to heal and to focus on the next phase of her life. The last thing she wants is to fall in love.

No one ever kissed her like Ethan. No one. And even after all this time, Brandley remembered his kiss-this kiss-like she'd had one every day since the day he left her.Navy SEAL Ethan MacKay returns to Sweet Grass Ranch to recuperate from an injury suffered on a mission, and eventually help manage the South Dakota family ranch with his identical twin brother, Evan. But he's been gone too long, and he's not the man who left the ranch over a dozen years ago. Not by a long shot. His body broken, and hopefully not his mind, he prays what they say is true-that cowboy runs deep in your blood-because this black sheep cowboy could sure use something familiar to hang his hat on.But being back home at Sweet Grass is almost more of a challenge than heading up a special ops mission in Libya, especially when something familiar turns out to be the major challenge-his ex-wife, Brandley Mendoza.Brandley and Ethan's marriage quickly unraveled when he headed into SEAL training, and by the time of his first deployment, their relationship was fatally severed. Still, she keeps in close contact with the MacKays and considers them family. Hired by Ethan's brother to review the ranch's accounting books after their father's death, Brandley soon discovers Evan has an ulterior motive. Why he thinks she is the person to help Ethan get his head back on straight, she doesn't know, especially when she's dealing with problems of her own-namely, her ex-husband, who is seeking full custody of their daughter.But she risks coming down from her Black Hills safe haven to find out-only to realize that her heart is still vulnerable, and that Ethan isn't the cowboy she fell in love with when they were kids.Can Brandley tease out the cowboy in Ethan's black sheep heart and rediscover the love they once shared? Can she resolve the issues of her own shaky past, to let herself trust again? Or are they both too far gone to even try?