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When Smith Long strides into his new hometown, he doesn't expect to get bowled over by a woman chasing her cow whom she claims has fallen in love with a pig. Doesn't every small town have that one crazy person?

Priscilla Clyborne knows what it’s like to have her dreams come crashing down around her. That’s why, when country music superstar Cooper Cordray comes to the Clybourne dude ranch after suffering the worst dream-busting experience possible, Priscilla feels like she understands the pain and heartache the way few people can. Maybe she even understands that while some of the issues are Cooper’s fault, he deserves a second chance.

Escape to Blueberry Beach in this charming collection of sweet, heartwarming romances!

In Mistletoe Meadows, a small-town doctor with a shattered reputation and a single-dad sheriff with trust issues discover that sometimes the best healing happens when you least expect it... Dr. Hannah Reynolds never planned to return to Mistletoe Meadows. After a devastating medical mistake shattered her big-city career, her hometown seems like the last refuge for her broken confidence. Taking over the town's only medical practice should be simple—until she comes face-to-face with her high school crush, Sheriff Ben Tucker, who doesn't even remember who she is.

Palmer wouldn't trade his family's land for the world. But the only way to save the ranch from financial disaster and claim his billion-dollar inheritance is to find himself a wife. His happily-ever-after would be complete if he could just hitch his wagon to the woman who sees him only as her best friend.

Shawn Barclay didn’t plan to stay in Iowa long. He’d only left his family and the close-knit community of Mistletoe, Arkansas, as a favor to his parents. They’d asked him to help the daughter of a friend who was in an accident. After arriving in Iowa, it doesn’t take long before Shawn invests in saving more than the woman’s farm. When he sees how the town avoids her, he decides to save her reputation as well.

Waitress and single mother Louise Olson wouldn’t have missed church to stay home with her sick daughter if she knew the congregation was going to volunteer her to head up the town’s Harvest Festival. Truth be told, she didn’t mind, and would have enjoyed it.

I live in Idaho. (Yes, potatoes. *eye roll* Can we talk about something else?) And I love it here. Small town values galore and it’s right where I want to raise my girls after my jerk ex traded me in for a “younger, newer model” (his words, not mine).

They've been best friends forever. He even moved with her family to North Dakota so they could be together. But his mother wants him to come home. There's a girl she wants him to meet. The last things he needs or wants is a woman in his life. So, of course, he asks his best friend to come along and help. He didn't expect to get caught kissing her, and he really didn't expect the next words that came out of his mouth—"Mom, we're engaged." Will Stonewall and Johanna ever be friends again? Or will this one misstep ruin everything they've had together?

He's never set a toe off the straight and narrow. She doesn't know where the straight and narrow even is. But she'd like to find it. Her life is a wreck, and she couldn't possibly say yes to Tobias's request. Except a billion dollars will make a girl do a lot of things she hadn't planned on. Even fall in love. Can these two opposites build a life and create a home for their new family?

When a preacher turned car salesman asks for her hand in a marriage of convenience, Ada Clyborne finds herself saying yes. Maybe because she’s in her mid-thirties with no prospective husband in sight, or maybe because there’s something about the man that strikes deep in the heart of her. Regardless, she always wanted a beautiful marriage like her parents and did not expect to be saying “I do” to a loveless lifetime union.

This set includes the first four books in Jessie Gussman's well-loved Cowboy Crossing series. Filled to the brim with faith, family and sweet romance, these stories will keep you reading until late in the night!

After her husband died, leaving her with six kids to raise on her own, Piper Hughes struggles to hold everything together on a hairdresser's small wage. She has no hope of expanding her two bedroom ranch house, and doesn't want to rely on the charity of the town either. She definitely doesn't want some strange man coming in, being too kind, stealing her kids' hearts, and turning her world upside down. He'll be leaving when he's done. After all, what man would want a woman with six kids?

Braxton Emmerson was born and bred in the heartland. He loves his farm and his family, but he was willing to give it all up for the woman who stole his heart. But she didn’t want to give up her career and insisted on keeping their romance a secret. But then her business partner doubled crossed her, and she ended up with a prison sentence for tax evasion. Now she’s out and she’s much wiser.

Anitra Pollard has lived in Blueberry Beach all her life, an idyllic small, lakeside town where regular people go to escape real life. Unfortunately, Anitra’s real life couldn’t get much worse. Her husband left not long before her oldest son was diagnosed with leukemia. Worse, the head doctor on the team assigned to her son looks very much like the man she had a short, but very sweet, summer fling with…and the father of the child she carries. Her life couldn’t get any harder or messier, but she will let nothing get in the way of getting the very best care for her son.

He’d been deformed in a farming accident years ago. He’d managed to build a successful business on his North Dakota ranch, but clients didn’t need to see him. His sister handled the face of his company.

Single mom Peyton Sinclair came to the town of Sweet Water to raise her son away from the influence of her ex-husband’s mother. She’s happy with her bookstore and bake shop and is not interested in doing anything but making a living and raising her son. Bryce Shaker had been baseball’s highest paid athlete at one point in his career.

Vera Miller, a talented garden designer, comes to Raspberry Ridge with a heavy heart, planning a garden in memory of her son. Dominic, her estranged husband, joins her to help. Working together, they reminisce about their youth spent by Lake Michigan's shores.

I was pretty happy with my life until the hot shot, all-state baller from my teen years moved back in next door. (I babysat him, yes, but I never changed his diapers. Just wanted to be clear about that.) Guess who’s now the assistant b-ball coach? Logic would say me–especially since I coached my entire first year holding the playbook upside down (it turned out to be an old football playbook from the ‘80s, so it’s not like it mattered which way I held it) but the accurate answer is Trey Haywood, my all-star neighbor.

When Lavender met billionaire hunk Thaddaeus Hart five years ago, she thought he was a jerk who needed a major attitude adjustment. She would be absolutely fine to never see him again. She’s perfectly happy working in Sweet Water at her family’s auction barn and taking care of an elderly lady who’s keeping her daughter’s two small children. She never even thinks of Thad anymore. Hardly ever.