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I thought it would be a good idea to buy a dog. I ended up with an ATV I have no idea how to drive. I’m not sure how this happened, especially since the man I purchased it from, Justin Gabriel, introduced himself by running his remote-controlled monster pickup into my high heeled shoe. I’m serious, studious, and a high school English teacher at Good Grief High. Needless to say, Justin Gabriel is not my type. 

A midnight tryst, an unknown admirer, and a baby that is delivered to church with just a short note. On the day Deacon Hudson was set to be ordained, a bundle shows up at the church with a simple note on it. Deacon Hudson is the father. Take care of her. Deacon knows he’s not the father. The Immaculate Conception was a one time thing. But the baby needs a parent, and he has to decide if he will give up his life dream of being a pastor to take the child, despite the fact that the note is a lie. Can he do it without resenting the child?

Marlowe Glass has always been the girl next door. Responsible and organized, she is raising her orphaned niece while holding down a full time job. Clark Hudson knows the only woman on the planet who isn’t a man-eater is his best friend, Marlowe. She stood with him in high school and has had his back ever since his wife walked out on him to pursue a career in New York City. They’ve been best friends and neighbors forever. When a tree falls on her house, of course he offers to allow her to live with him while her house is being fixed.

Madeline Reese has a successful cooking show and a best-selling line of cookbooks and is considered one of the top celebrity chefs in Hollywood. One small problem: She can’t cook. Loyal Hudson doesn’t want to open his world-class kitchen to the cameras Madeline will bring with her, but the celebrity chef could be the bridge between him and a future with his little girl.

Zane Hudson just got custody of his four young children. The only problem is, he can’t watch his kids and run his farm, too. He needs a permanent housekeeper. He has every intention of hiring someone until... Inez Cromwell is two months behind on her rent and about to lose her house and her children. Getting stuck with handsome Zane Hudson and his four kids in the diner bathroom seems like the type of thing that was just her luck.

Ivory Haines is the daughter of the town’s resident retired prostitute and possibly the town drunk, although her mother wasn’t entirely certain. She resents her position in the town – and especially resents the teasing she’d been subjected to – and has vowed to show everyone that she is just as good as they are. 

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).

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. The problem was Sweet Water’s superstar hockey golden boy was back in town, and he had been named her co-chair. That even wouldn’t be a problem except he didn’t know he was a father - of her daughter.

It was supposed to be simple. Marry the tall Texan. Her children get a father. They save the ranch. A business transaction, nothing more. She definitely wasn’t going to fall in love. After her husband ran off with her little sister, she was no longer susceptible to cowboy charm. Except, the North Dakota girl had never met a Texas cowboy. He married her for the ranch. A former champion bull rider needs a spread to call home, even if it is in North Dakota.

Can people change? Cora Fischer knew they could. Heartbreak, abject poverty, and a mother’s bear instincts to protect her children at all costs could turn a selfish, spoiled girl into a strong, formidable woman. But first loves die hard. They were enemies, never lovers, despite what she told her family and the town. She hated him then, and he hates her now. But she can give him what he wants, and she’s willing to make a deal. Is she strong enough to conquer her foe and not destroy herself? 

He’s the billionaire heir of Sweet Water Ranch. His family is throwing a ball, and he must choose a wife. She’s too poor to attend the ball as a guest. But she can go as the hired help. One magical dance and a case of mistaken identity later, nothing is as it seems. If he backs out, he loses everything. She never had anything to lose to begin with. Other than her soulmate. 

She’s his best friend’s little sister. He’s never noticed her. Not like that. He needs to marry to inherit his money, so he’s hired a woman to be his fake bride. Only he’s too sick to get married. Now he’s confined in his small house with his fake fiancée-to-be and his best friend’s little sister. The ladies don’t seem to get along. And one of them isn’t what he thought. Should he follow the plan, or follow his heart?

Palmer wasn’t planning to get married. But when he got the unexpected letter, he knew he could pay the overdue medical bills and save the ranch. Just one problem. He needed a wife. When Ames came home to North Dakota to spend the summer with her best friend before moving on to her dream job in LA, she thought there were would be work and fun, as always.

He couldn’t face her. She was too beautiful. 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. Until his sister took a vacation and hired an out-of-work supermodel to take her place. He couldn’t show himself to her. Although after dark he could share his love of the stars with her. But the more he hides, the more she wants to see. Can he trust her with his face? Because he’s very close to losing his heart.

Cassidy Kimbell knows Torque didn’t have to lie and serve her time. Because of his sacrifice, she’s spent the last 10 years making some major changes in her life. She’s become a lawyer and a child advocate, always fighting for the underdog. Still, she can’t keep herself from feeling like she owes the man who made it all possible. But he won’t tell her what he wants. 

When Mack’s sister dropped her kids off with his dad in his trailer park, he knew he needed to step up and be an uncle. But he’d told his buddy he’d be in Sweet Water, ND over the holidays, so he takes the children and drives north. Angela Davis had been the sedate, good daddy’s girl all her life, doing whatever her parents wanted, even trying to trap a man into marriage to help them get out of debt.

Roxane Peterson is up for auction. Well, her and her ranch. She knew it would be too much to hope for that the man who bought her would be more interested in her than in the property, and money, that came with her. But she’s been down this road before - a marriage that isn’t perfect. Her only concern now is protecting her son and making sure she keeps her independence. Boone Stryker is disillusioned and restless. Seeing a ranch, and a woman, up for auction challenges his soul and gives him a reason to live again. He risks everything he owns to win the ranch.

Called "The Preacher", Clay Stryker has lived a life as straight as a North Dakota highway. Everyone thinks the pen and notebook he carries around is to jot down poetry or possibly notes on Scripture. They don't know he has a secret romance. Reina Hall has never forgotten the night she was rescued from a child trafficking ring. She definitely hasn't forgotten the man who wouldn't back down, who refused to look the other way, and risked his life to save hers.

After breaking her back in a horrible bike accident, motocross princess Dusty Gibson faces months of physical therapy just to walk normally again. Her handsome physical therapist makes her recovery a little more pleasant. But no relationships for her. She has a championship to win. Roland wants to start his own practice. He can’t bend the rules now. Even if she’s the first woman he’s met who can make him forget his dead fiancée. 

After spending the last 14 years raising his twin sisters, Ben Baxter is ready to start his own diesel repair business. But the big trucking company he works for asks him to move to Pennsylvania and manage their home terminal shop, which is located in his home town. Ben has to turn the offer down - his estranged family thinks he’s married, and he won’t show up without a wife at his side. His sisters, ever resourceful, hatch a plan to get their brother “married”.