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Rob Matheson's a fighter. Flattening enemies with his fists or with his legendary practical jokes, he's a tough enemy, and a troublesome friend. But Rob doesn't know how much longer he can keep up the act. As his buddies get married one by one, he's left with his lonely life - and the sinking feeling he lost more than his dreams when he traded them for a thick skin. Now Rob's father has issued a challenge - he'll give 200 acres of prime Montana ranchland to the first of his four sons to wed.

Orphaned at seven, kicked out by his aunt and uncle at 16, Sergeant Emerson Myers gave up on family until General Augustus Reed chose him as his assistant, becoming as much a father-figure as a commanding officer. But when the general starts sending elite forces men home to marry his estranged daughters, Emerson's torn between relief at not being given such an irrevocable mission and dismay that the man never even considered him for the job.

Noah Turner's losing a war with his heart - and a war with his neighbors. Competing with the Coopers for the Founder's Prize - and Settler's Ridge, the prime ranch land it confers - has pitted him against the woman of his dreams. The one woman he's not supposed to love: Olivia Cooper. Olivia Cooper is losing a war with her common sense. The Turners drove her family from their home once before. Now, they're at it again. She has to focus on winning Settler's Ridge and stay away from handsome Noah. The tempting cowboy isn't for her.

When Navy SEAL sniper Harris "Hawk" Wentworth stumbles on the ad calling for participants in a new sustainable community and TV show, he can't wait to join Base Camp in Chance Creek, Montana, and get started building a new future. After a lifetime of living on the fringes, always on the lookout for danger, he's ready to hang up his rifle and finally relax. And if someone else is willing to find him a bride, he's all for it.

Navy SEAL Jericho Cook is living a lie. In order to save Base Camp, the sustainable community he's building with his friends in Chance Creek, Montana, he must marry in the next 40 days - and try for a family. But after the horrors he's witnessed, Jericho's sworn to never put himself in charge of a child he can't completely protect. At least he's found the perfect wife. Savannah is sexy, smart, talented - and far too busy pursuing a career as a concert pianist to ever want kids.

Jo Reed watched two of her sisters marry the men her father sent to help them on the family ranch, so when Hunter arrives, she's ready for him. She doesn't want a husband; she wants a house of her own where she can call the shots - and if the Navy SEAL wants to stay, he'd better build it to her specifications. More to the point, he'd better stop kissing her.

With the Coopers taking the lead again in the battle for Chance Creek’s Founder’s Prize, Liam Turner is determined to put his family back on top. And if that means kidnapping his secret childhood crush, Tory Cooper, well - a cowboy’s got to do what a cowboy’s got to do.

Lance Cooper knows he shouldn't try to escape his present problems by focusing on the past, but running Chance Creek's Fourth of July Revolutionary War re-enactment is far easier than sorting out his family's long-running feud with the Turners. At least it was until Maya Turner joins the historical society and upsets all his plans.

If Gunnery Sergeant Zane Hall wants to save his family's ranch, he'll need to fix up the buildings, stock the spread with cattle - and find a wife. The first two are easy with the help of his brothers, but getting hitched is proving more difficult. When he meets mountaineer Kenna North through an online ad, she seems like the perfect fit - at least in her e-mails. She wants the same thing he does: a temporary marriage to secure an inheritance.

Wedding bells are ringing on the Double-Bar-K and Luke Matheson is determined to make his move on his favorite bridesmaid - sweet, sexy Mia Start. Though she's shared his house for more than two months, she's remained elusive. Luke's ready to cross that divide, and win her love for good. Mia would give anything to marry Luke, but he won't want her once he knows the truth; she's four months pregnant with another man's child. It's time to find a real home - and a real job - so she can raise her baby alone.

Lieutenant Walker Norton might be cynical, but he isn't a broken man - yet. Raised to understand the looming catastrophe of climate change, promised to a woman he doesn't love, he long ago decided to live a life of service to his country, family, and friends. It's enough - until he meets Avery Lightfoot and realizes he wants so much more.

When Win Lisle walked out on him five months ago, Angus McBride hardened his heart and committed to marrying a stranger to save Base Camp, the sustainable community he came to Montana to build. Now there's just over a month until his wedding, he knows he can never love his backup bride, Leslie, and Win has come back - pregnant with his baby. What's a Navy SEAL to do?

Ten years ago, in the middle of a natural disaster, Navy SEAL Greg Devon lost his heart to a young documentary film director, and when he found out she'd been put in charge of Base Camp, a reality television show, he jumped at the chance to participate. Now, he's in big trouble. If he doesn't marry in 40 days, the sustainable community he's helping to build will be bulldozed. And Renata Ludlow still barely knows he exists.

Anders Olsen has a big problem. When he joined forces with nine other Navy SEALs to build a model sustainable community, he didn't know he'd be filmed - or that the resulting television show would become a nationwide sensation. Now everyone's watching Base Camp, which means everyone's watching him. The show's rules dictate it's his turn to marry. Can he find a bride before someone exposes who he really is?

Ava Ingerson knows what she wants: The beautiful California beach house she just inherited, a career in teaching supplemented with income from her vacation guests, and a life full of friends, fun, and family - right here in Seahaven, California. She’s never moving again, no matter what, so when handsome entrepreneur Samuel Cross arrives to stay at her beach house for two weeks, Ava knows the last thing she should do is act on her attraction to him.

Emma Miller’s fiancé left her days before her meal delivery business went bust. Now she’s broke, homeless and starting out all over again, weighed down with debt that isn’t even hers. So when she learns she and her estranged sister, Ashley, have received an unexpected inheritance, she’s thrilled. Now they can both move to Seahaven, California, and run Brightview, her grandmother’s rambling beachside bed-and-breakfast.

Twice Navy SEAL Curtis Lloyd has been ready to marry. Twice he's been left alone at the altar. So, when a bride crashes her car just outside Base Camp, in the biggest snowstorm this century, Curtis knows he has to get her and her bridesmaid to her wedding even if they have to walk the whole way. His motives aren't entirely selfless: He needs a bride, too, in order to save the sustainable community, he joined when he left the military, and feisty maid of honor Hope Martin is just the kind of woman he's looking for.

When Kai Green joined nine other Navy SEALs to build a sustainable community in Chance Creek, Montana, he never dreamed the day would come when he'd have to marry a woman sight unseen - or lose everything. Now he has to find a way to build a life with a perfect stranger - one who seems perfectly unqualified for happiness at Base Camp - or with him.