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Madison, Maisey, and Annabelle meet for the first time at a beautiful dude ranch in Wyoming. Their only intent is to relax, write, and enjoy some peace and quiet. One simple retreat wasn't supposed to change all of their lives forever. Madison is quiet and her real life is hidden deep in secrecy. She doesn't want anyone to know who she is or the fears and worries that follow her in the big city. In the wide-open country - where she's reminded of home - Randal steps in to show her that cowboys are good at protecting their own.

Junior Morrison walked away from the woman he loved to join the military. Now, he's dedicated to helping victims of human trafficking at a healing ranch. When his boss challenges his team—including Junior—to face their past regrets, Junior might get a second chance with the woman he still can't forget.

Being a preacher in the countryside is not for the faint of heart nor faith. Four inexperienced preachers face a myriad of challenges including those who figure a man of the cloth needs a wife. Can they meet the expectations of "helpful" congregants and be true to their hearts?

Connor wants to hold on to Lacy, but knows he has to let her go if he hopes to ever have her marry him again. After ten years of living as a divorced couple and seeing all of his men get their second chances, Connor is praying for his own. When Lacy says she needs time on her own, his knee-jerk reaction is to ask her to stay. Despite his fear she will never return, he lets her go. Unfortunately, danger follows her when she tries to help a friend leave an abusive relationship. She has a target on her back and Connor is too far away to help her.

Edwyn Brookings has been the foreman at Wayside Ranch almost since the beginning. He's a rule follower to his core. He broke one rule. One time. And it cost him the love of his life. Now, he adheres to the letter of the law, no give or take. He wants to see Nadine again, but knowing what his love cost her, why would she? Nadine Ham left the navy for having a relationship with a superior officer, while he was allowed to keep his job. Life continued to be unfair for Nadine until years later when she is offered the chance to see him again.

She’s on the run from a stalker. He can’t stand city-folk. But when she shows up in his town, he can’t let her face her trouble alone. Annabelle’s stalker breaks into her apartment and leaves a gift. She must flee. But where can she go where no one can find her? Shady, WY and the uncle no one knows about seems the perfect place to lay low. While it seems like the perfect plan, she arrives to find her uncle is on vacation and the handsome rancher next door is her only option.

Daisy Arnsby is the ugly duckling of the large Arnsby family. Destined to be alone. When a handsome schoolmate asks her to sign a promise that she’ll wed him on her 25th birthday, she jumps at the chance. She hopes, but never dares to dream, that he’d come back. Elias Laury fears his towering height excludes him from ever convincing Daisy to return his love, so he tricks her into waiting for him. But when he returns to collect his bride, he finds that she’s not willing to settle for a marriage of convenience.

She believes she has to give herself away for attention. He's a single dad who needs stability. When a blizzard traps them for three days, will opposites attract? Maisey agrees to meet an old hookup in Wyoming. But when he literally leaves her on his brother's doorstep without her luggage or phone, she finds herself trapped with a handsome rodeo cowboy. A surprise has her questioning everything she's done for the past few years. She feels like a fish out of water in the tiny Wyoming town.

Nora Arnsby fights her way into a world dominated by men. When a break-in shatters the sense of home she's created, Nora can’t find her footing. With the intruders growing bolder and her safety at risk, she reaches out to the only person who will listen, even if it means asking a man for help. The stranger across the street is handsome and persistently kind, so different from other men. Mathias Horton refuses to let any woman get close to him. Mathias must resume the life he gave up to save the one who ignites his battered heart, or admit defeat and let her go back to Deadwood.

Madison agrees to a last-minute writers’ retreat. But with her anxiety at an all-time high, she seeks out quiet in the only place she’s sure to find it, the stables at the Dawson Creek Dude Ranch. While grateful for the solace, she can’t afford to rekindle her past with the sweet, handsome cowboy who keeps meeting her there. They are opposites in every way and she’s a fish out of water in his world.

Natalie returns to the Broken Circle O with her dying father. When she sees a chance to hold on to her past, it's the future she finds. Cody wants a solitary life, until a relentlessly kind woman breaks through his bitter, hard shell. John has been the quiet brother his whole life. When he sees the chance to protect an innocent woman, he can't stand aside. Alicia tries to avoid a marriage arrangement with a fiend. Will a quiet cowboy save her, or is her heart now in danger?

George covers his fear of loss by trying to be as much of a man as he can. As a boy, he lost his mother and feels like it’s his fault. He doesn’t want to find a wife, she would be just another woman for him to lose. When he seeks the attention of the new poetry teacher, it’s only to have a good story to tell the other hands. Unfortunately, every time he gets near her, he can’t think of anything but poetry.

At the Spearfish Normal School, Lula Arnsby is ready to begin a whole new chapter. Her life seems over when the one man she couldn't wait to be rid of strides into her class as the new teacher’s assistant. She wants nothing to do with the handsome prankster, but his aim isn’t to torment her anymore. Barton Oleson got what he deserved after tormenting Lula one too many times. He wants to be noticed by the pixie-haired beauty Lula. Without his normal tricks.

It's fall roundup at the Broken Circle O, and a new crop of hands sign on for the job. When Charles is assigned a small, mute man to watch over, he despises the injustice. That is, until he realizes there's more to Will Galliger than meets the eye. Wilhelmina "Will" Galliger will do whatever it takes to earn her own plot of land, including acting like a man.

John Oleson has never courted before, but when he catches a woman being badgered by a strange man, he pretends to be courting her to save her. Tongues wag when everyone hears about the heiress courted by the cowboy, but will he be able to keep up the act until Alicia is safe from a man who only wants her money?

When Natalie arrives in Belle Fourche with her ailing father and three wayward brothers, she’s forced to throw herself upon the mercy of her only remaining family - the Olesons - at the Broken Circle O. While her father rests, Natalie is excited to meet an ornery man with deep, gray eyes, and a missing leg. She’s certain that if he’ll agree to let her father fashion a prosthetic limb for him, the familiar work will help her father recuperate. But getting Cody Hammond to agree to anything proves more difficult than she first imagined.

When the pain of loss is healed, it leaves room for the greatest of these which is love...Three heart-stirring tales where fate brings together strong heroines and even stronger heroes. Don't miss these sweet, western, cowboy romances bringing love from loss.

Eli Oleson killed a man. Never mind that he did it to save the lives of others, it’s eaten his soul to shreds. Nothing matters. When he injures himself breaking a horse, he has little reason to recover, except for the feisty English nurse who keeps pestering him.

Frances Arnsby has only three weeks to learn about romance. That’s all the time she has before the stagecoach whisks her back to Deadwood. Excited about a glowing future as a romance dime novelist, her hopes are dashed when her manuscript fails to connect. She hasn’t lived enough. Her dream will be over before it even starts if she doesn’t add life, love…passion.

Nothing will distract Isla Flores from her Paralympic goals. Her world is work and training, nothing else matters. When her coach and best friend Duncan challenges her to make a 10-item bucket list, she's forced to think about life off the track. The more time she spends with Duncan, the more value she sees in everyday life...and love.