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When Karna comes to help her brother on his dude ranch, she runs into her childhood archenemy Miller. Only he's gone from being a skinny dork to a handsome and appealing man. Not that she would ever admit it. Her new mission in life is to avoid him at all costs.

After losing her husband in the line of duty, Annie Brooks moves in with her mother in Sweet Water, North Dakota with her two small children to try to put the pieces of her life back together.

Tadgh O’Reilly followed the racehorse he fell in love with across the ocean and to the barren fields of North Dakota. Content to live with his young daughter in his small, caretaker’s cottage as long as he gets to see his beloved Thoroughbred every day, he never dreams that his life is missing something very important.

After losing his country music superstar sister in a plane crash, Jones Dunn brings his niece to Sweet Water so they could stay where no one will recognize or bother them. He doesn't intend to stay in town long, but a marriage proposal from an unlikely source makes him think that maybe his plans should change.

Katie Dettinger didn’t expect to be a single mom. Didn’t expect to have her husband cheat and leave. Didn’t think she’d be alone raising her kids. But she is. And it’s harder than she thought. There’s never enough time, never enough money, and now she’s lost her job and might be losing her house.

After 15 years of her husband never having time for her, Lindy Coats moves with her teenaged daughter to their summer cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan outside the town of Blueberry Beach. With a lonely single dad on one side of her, a crochety old business owner on the other, and a young mother with terrible secrets and a son fighting leukemia across the road, it doesn’t take Lindy long to discover that learning to enjoy life is less about what she chooses to do for herself and more about what she chooses to do for others.

After being fired from her waitressing job and coming face-to-face with her ex, Rose Baldwin lets a little lie escape. She forgot there is no such thing as a “little” lie. Knowing she has to go and confess that she lied, she allows herself to be talked into playing The Piece Maker’s Dating Game and somehow ends up “fake dating” her partner. Derek Fields is a rancher intent on buying his grandparents' farm. His wife left him, and he’s ready to come home and settle down.

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).

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.

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?

Armstrong Brant stepped between Glory Baldwin and a charging cow. He ended up with broken ribs and a farm and family he couldn’t care for through the pain. At the prompting of the Sweet Water Piece Makers Quilting Club, Glory volunteered to watch Armstrong’s four children while he recovers. She owed him, and it made sense. But she never expected to fall for a man with four boys.

When Kate’s small-town bakery is double-booked for the town’s two holiday festivals, she’s caught in a Christmas conundrum. Her only option is to ask her longtime rival, BBQ king, Lucas, for help. Sparks fly as they clash over recipes and decorations, but as they race against the clock to save both events, Kate starts to see a different side of Lucas. Could this conundrum turn enemies into something more this Christmas?

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?

In the friendly town of Sweet Water, North Dakota, Ellen and Travis's friendship flourished, firmly rooted in shared laughter and dreams. As Travis returned to Sweet View Ranch, his purchase of Ellen at auction seemed to shatter the boundaries they had once embraced. Stirred by newfound emotions, Ellen grappled with conflicting feelings when Travis asked her to assist him in finding a wife.

When Matt Landry sees a woman with two little girls and a broken down car, of course he stops to help. When he finds out she needs a job and a place to stay, he hires her because he knows his mother will take her under her wing. What he doesn't expect is to start falling for her himself. Reeling from her divorce and the death of her mother, Jubilee Jones is trying to hold herself together and make a life for her girls. With no other options, she seeks refuge and a fresh start in the nostalgic embrace of Strawberry Sands.

Elias Emerson has worked hard and become a successful businessman. Fellow businesswoman Catherine Hutchison has been with him, helping him, all his adult life, but he’s never really paid attention to her. She's just there. Never noticed how much she did for him behind the scenes. How much she lifted him up and made him better. How much she sacrificed to give him the support and encouragement he needed.

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.

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.

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!