Karley Brenna

Don’t talk to strangers. Unless, of course, they’re wearing boots and a cowboy hat. Then definitely talk to them. My life was perfectly fine. Well, at least up until the night I found out my boyfriend was sleeping with half the damn town. With nowhere to go, I holed up in a motel with whatever I could fit in my car. But not even twenty-four hours after moving into said shit hole, a burly stranger breaks in wearing a skeleton mask. It couldn’t get any worse, right? Wrong. Because now this masked man is demanding I move in with him until he gets what he wants—and the thing about cowboys and ranchers? They never back down from a challenge.

Coming home was supposed to be temporary, but this time, he isn't letting her go. Lettie Bronson thought that running from her problems was the only way to find happiness and avoid risking losing the one person who meant the most to her. But running didn’t solve a single thing, and when she returns to her family’s ranch in Bell Buckle, she has no intent on staying. She’s only there long enough to figure out where to land next. But one road trip later, she’s convinced she doesn’t know what she wants. Bailey Cooper has always given more of himself to the two ranches he works on than his personal life, but one thing he knows for sure: Lettie is the girl he’s going to marry. When she leaves without a goodbye the day after her eighteenth birthday, he’s convinced he’ll never see her again. That is, until she’s falling off a ladder and into his arms. Even after five years, he’s still lost in those baby blues of hers, and falls impossibly harder after a few days alone with her. But coming back to Bell Buckle doesn’t mean she’s here to stay. She left once already, what was stopping her this time?

Hurt people know hurt people. Years ago, Sage McKinley thought settling down in small town Bell Buckle was the only way to protect her daughter. It didn't hurt that she managed to get a job at the local cafe, doing what she loved most: baking. The perfect life she'd built for them was all that mattered—until everything was turned upside down. All his life, Callan Bronson has upheld the expectation of being the caring brother in his large family of seven. If anyone needed a shoulder, he’d lend it. If they needed an ear, he’d listen. When a past ultimatum wrecked his confidence, he accepted that was all he’d ever be—the caretaker. But after his first, and hopefully last, visit to the local coffee shop ends with spilled coffee and broken glass, life proves to him that keeping people an arm's length away doesn’t always work. The two are pulled together when Sage’s daughter finds an unlikely horseback riding mentor in Callan. Can the two of them accept they might be right for each other, or will their pasts lead to them parting ways—or worse?

There's a thin line between love and hate, and the last person I want to cross it with is my best friend's brother.Brandy Rose never opens up to anyone—not fully. She’s content to keep her feelings under lock and key, but when her dad shows up in town years after disappearing, her carefully crafted walls start to crumble.Reed Bronson keeps everyone but his family at arm's length, never offering more than a grunt or broody stare. After his little brother suddenly quits rodeo and moves back to town, Reed is tasked with getting to the bottom of his disquiet. The only problem is his brother wants nothing to do with him.When things start to escalate with her dad, Brandy turns to the one person who understands her past the Reed. But ever since that one night six years ago, they haven’t been able to set aside their feud for anything. Not even for each other.

Even being her boss couldn’t keep him away. After her world is upended, Oakley Rae leaves behind everything she knows to find herself and ends up in small town Bell Buckle. With the clothes on her back and a few dollars to her name, she finds herself working at a feed store where the employees are welcoming, the customers are nice, and the boss is, well, bossy. Lennon Bronson sticks to the routine he knows. Manage the local feed store, help out on his parents’ ranch, and keep to himself. But with growing stress and his distracting new employee, he forgets what lines shouldn’t be crossed and finds himself caring a little too much about Oakley and her safety. What started as a business relationship quickly blooms into something more, but Oakley doesn’t want to ruin her chances at a fresh start by messing things up with her boss. Things aren’t always as they seem, and when someone starts overstepping on Oakley’s privacy, Lennon has to make a decision. Will he keep his feelings quiet, or admit how he feels to keep Oakley close and out of danger?

Emerson Foley knows first hand how unforgiving life can be, but that doesn’t stop her from living hers to the fullest. Well, as “full” as life can get in a small town. When she meets Jett, he’s everything she could’ve hoped for. But the man she fell in love with changes, letting bad habits take over. As their relationship heads south, another man shows up in town, all too willing to let her into his home when she has nowhere else to go. Wesley Barton is running from the reality he doesn’t want to face. Thinking relocation is the only way to keep himself together, he ends up in a stormy seaside town. But even small towns have chaos ensuing behind closed doors, and he finds that out all too quickly when he stops for a drink at the local bar and his eyes land on a jaw-dropping, attention-seeking, small town smokeshow. Emerson doesn't need another man in her life, but despite her efforts to avoid him, Wesley’s at every corner, coming to her rescue more times than she can count. Sometimes, life throws a monkey wrench at you when you least expect it, and what happens next is nothing Emerson could have seen coming.