Download or read book Breaking Rules at Nightfall Ranch written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to love, nothing’s by the book After a string of failed relationships and broken engagements, Alana Parkman has finally sworn off men. No more tears, no more disappointments. With the help of her support group—and a six-month vow of celibacy—she’s ready to focus on healing her heart. Following the rules is easy enough…until Gray Russell returns to Last Ride, still hotter than the Texas sun itself. Gray’s come home looking for answers. Since learning the truth about his biological mother, the former rodeo champion must find his real father—and he needs Alana’s help to do it. Only now that he’s back, that first flame between them burns brighter than ever. As they dig through his complicated past, will they also find a second chance for a happy future together?

Download or read book A Texas Kind of Cowboy A Texas Kind of Cowboy Breaking Rules at Nightfall Ranch written by Delores Fossen and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re in for the ride of their lives. When single mum Lorelei Parkman discovers the biological father of her adopted daughter could be Dax Buchanan — the Dax Buchanan — she’s shocked. Of all the men in Last Ride, Texas, the bull-riding bad boy doesn’t quite fit the bill of…parent. But as Lorelei learns more about Stellie’s mysterious birth mother, she realises she’ll have to trust the reckless rodeo star…or risk losing her baby forever. Dax is normally up for any kind of challenge. Daddy duty, however, is best left to the pros. Still, being with the little girl, and the gorgeous Lorelei, unlocks something inside — a completeness he’s been chasing his whole life. And now that he has it, he’s sure as hell not letting go… Also includes a bonus novella, Breaking Rules at Nightfall Ranch

Download or read book A Texas Kind of Cowboy written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re in for the ride of their lives When single mom Lorelei Parkman discovers the biological father of her adopted daughter could be Dax Buchanan—the Dax Buchanan—she’s shocked. Of all the men in Last Ride, Texas, the bull-riding bad boy doesn’t quite fit the bill of…parent. But as Lorelei learns more about Stellie’s mysterious birth mother, she realizes she’ll have to trust the reckless rodeo star…or risk losing her baby forever. Dax is normally up for any kind of challenge. Daddy duty, however, is best left to the pros. Still, being with the little girl, and the gorgeous Lorelei, unlocks something inside—a completeness he’s been chasing his whole life. And now that he has it, he’s sure as hell not about to let it go. Bonus novella! While doing research for the Last Ride Society, Alana Parkman runs into cowboy Gray Russell, and while she's still attracted to her former flame, ghosts from the past might interfere with their steamy reunion… Last Ride, Texas Book 1: Spring at Saddle Run Book 2: Christmas at Colts Creek Book 3: Summer at Stallion Ridge Book 4: Mornings at River's End Ranch Book 5: A Texas Kind of Cowboy

Download or read book Always a Maverick written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even a real-life hero needs a little healing sometimes… Air Force test pilot Blue Donnelly has the greatest job in the world…until his F-22 crashes during a demonstration flight, leaving him with a busted body and a ton of guilt. Then horse whisperer Marin Galloway walks into his hospital room, snapping him out of self-pity with a shock of desire and some surprising news: her six-year-old ward thinks Blue is his daddy. Leo isn’t really Blue’s son, much as the little boy wishes it. Still, he needs a father figure, and Blue is willing to help…at least until it’s time to report for duty. The longer Blue spends getting closer and closer to Marin and to Leo on his family’s sprawling Texas ranch, the more he questions his need to return to the sky. But when a secret is revealed, leaving his entire future uncertain, Blue must decide who he is outside the cockpit—and whether his new dream is big enough for two co-pilots. Can't get enough of the Cowboy Brothers in Arms series? Book 1: Heart Like a Cowboy Book 2: Always a Maverick Book 3: Cowboying Up - September 2024

Download or read book Twilight at Wild Springs written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family is always worth the fight Lily Parkman has a Texas-size secret. For years, the single mother has managed to keep the true identity of her daughter Hayden’s father under the saddle. But after a mysterious note turns up at Wild Springs Ranch, Lily knows it’s time to come clean…starting with Wild Springs' ruggedly handsome foreman, Jonas Buchanan. Jonas already suspects that his deceased brother is Hayden’s real father. Still, the widowed rancher isn’t prepared for what Lily’s revelation means for their friendship—or their future. They both soon discover that when there’s more to love, there’s more at stake. And when a troublesome figure from the past comes to Last Ride, they must fight like never before…or risk losing their newfound family forever. Bonus novella! When Ruby Parkman's daughter elopes with Brennan Taylor's son, the former high school sweethearts join forces to put a stop to the marriage. But fighting their own rekindled attraction might be tougher than convincing their lovesick teenagers to come home. Last Ride, Texas Book 1: Spring at Saddle Run Book 2: Christmas at Colts Creek Book 3: Summer at Stallion Ridge Book 4: Mornings at River's End Ranch Book 5: A Texas Kind of Cowboy Book 6: Twilight at Wild Springs

Download or read book Tempted at Thoroughbred Lake A Last Ride Texas novella written by Delores Fossen and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life’s too short to wonder what if... Eighteen years ago, Brennan Dayton married the wrong girl. He thought it was the right thing to do after a night of bad decisions resulted in an unexpected pregnancy. Still, he’s never forgotten his high school crush, Ruby Parkman — or forgiven himself for breaking her heart. Ruby has carved out a good life for herself and her daughter, Vivian, despite the sting of her ex–best friend’s betrayal. When Alice hooked up with Brennan all those years ago, Ruby’s heart was shattered six ways from Sunday. Now that he’s divorced, she can’t deny her still-simmering attraction for the Texas rancher. But when their kids decide to get married on a whim, Ruby and Brennan are thrown together once more. And if she’s not careful, she could get burned a second time...

Download or read book Second Chance at Silver Springs A Last Ride Texas novella written by Delores Fossen and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Last Ride, Texas, some romances burn too strong to fade away... Last Ride has some fascinating history, but Rosalie Parkman wasn’t expecting a tombstone research project to uncover an empty grave. It belongs to the crotchety uncle of Deputy Gabriel Buchanan — a piece of Rosalie’s own personal history. She and Gabriel broke up — badly — after high school, but as they’re thrown together to explore the mystery, there’s an undeniable heat still simmering between them. Gabriel left Last Ride believing Rosalie’s wealthy family would never approve of him. Since his return, it’s clear she’s become more independent — and even more desirable. But is there room for him on the new path she’s forging, after the mistakes he made? For a second chance together, this cowboy’s ready to unleash all his powers of persuasion...

Download or read book Spring at Saddle Run written by Delores Fossen and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth about a small-town scandal is about to unleash one wildly unexpected romance... Millie Parkman Dayton is still healing from the fatal car accident that claimed her husband and turned her into the focus of local gossip. But when she’s thrown together with the attractive rancher who shares in her tragic past, new rumors begin to fly in Last Ride, Texas. Single dad Joe McCann is focused on running his ranch and raising his daughter. He has no desire to help Millie unearth his late wife’s past, especially if it means revealing painful secrets. Until his daughter teams up with Millie, and the widower cowboy finds himself agreeing to help them with their project — and opening the door to a deep attraction he thought he’d never find again.

Download or read book Summer at Stallion Ridge written by Delores Fossen and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clear off space on your keeper shelf, Fossen has arrived."—Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author Can two old friends rekindle the spark that brought them together when their pasts are littered with land mines? The chance to be near his young son is the only thing that could entice former SWAT commander Matt Corbin back to his hometown. Matt has only a few happy memories of his tough childhood in Last Ride, Texas, and most of them involve Emory Parkman. Once his teenage crush, she’s now living in a cottage on his late grandfather’s ranch, which seems like a good omen…until Matt learns Emory is looking into his family’s history, a subject he’d prefer remained closed. Emory’s wedding-gown designs are said to bring luck—to everyone but her. Though twice bitten by romance that went sour, she’s tempted to take a chance on the rancher next door. Emory and Matt’s long-ago attempts at love never got a fair chance, but all these years later, their attraction is stronger than ever. Maybe by unearthing some of his ancestors’ long-buried secrets, she can help him finally cast off the past’s shadows and prove to Matt that the third time’s the charm. A Last Ride, Texas Novel Book 1: Spring at Saddle Run Book 2: Christmas at Colts Creek Book 3: Summer at Stallion Ridge Book 4: Mornings at Rivers End Ranch

Download or read book Christmas at Colts Creek written by Delores Fossen and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected inheritance rekindles a red-hot romance just in time for Christmas… Janessa Parkman spent one long-ago summer in Last Ride, Texas, trying to bond with her estranged father, Abe. Turns out that was plenty of time to fall hard—and crash badly—for Brody Harrell, who managed Abe’s ranch. Everyone believed Brody would inherit Colts Creek one day, but now, fifteen years on, Abe’s will reveals the shocking truth—Janessa gets everything, and she must agree to stay in town for three months…through Christmas. Brody’s attraction to Janessa burns hotter than ever. Though he refuses Janessa’s offer to give him the ranch, refusing her is impossible. Misunderstanding drove them apart once before, and secrets and betrayals run through both families. But what starts as a temporary Christmas fling might turn into a love strong enough to last every holiday season yet to come. Don’t miss Mornings at River's End Ranch, the next book in Delores Fossen’s Last Ride, Texas series! A Last Ride, Texas Novel Book 1: Spring at Saddle Run Book 2: Christmas at Colts Creek Book 3: Summer at Stallion Ridge Book 4: Mornings at Rivers End Ranch

Download or read book Corralled in Texas written by Delores Fossen and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She left town—but he never left her heart With her career in flux, Callie Pearce is back in her hometown for her aunt’s wedding—and face-to-face with the man who once crushed her heart. Ace Brandon is using her aunt’s kitchen to prep for a cooking competition, and he’s every bit as mouthwatering as the pies he’s baking. But Callie intends to resist a second slice of heartbreak—even if a snowstorm traps them together. Seeing Callie again is a gut-punch reminder that there’s only one prize Ace ever cared about. Back then, he loved her too much to keep her stuck in Lone Star Ridge. She needed to test her wings. Now, if he gets his way, they’ll soon be sharing more than snowbound kisses. They’ll be sharing forever. All Callie has to do is say yes…

Download or read book Brokeback Mountain written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working a sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer." "Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Train Dreams written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life. It tells the story of Robert Grainer, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.

Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.

Download or read book Finding Lady Enderly written by Joanna Davidson Politano and published by Revell. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raina Bretton is a rag woman in London's east end when a handsome stranger appears in a dank alley and offers her a glittering smile and a chance for adventure. Rothburne Abbey has a unique position for her, one that will take her away from her hardscrabble life and give her a chance to be a lady. Things she could only dream of might be coming true. But some dreams turn out to be nightmares. Though Raina has traded squalor for silk and satin, something about the abbey is deeply unsettling. As she wrestles with her true identity, the ruin, decay, and secrets she finds at the heart of the old mansion tear at her confidence and threaten to reveal her for who she really is. Only one man stands between her and the danger that lurks within--and only if he decides to keep her biggest secret hidden.

Download or read book Malibu Rising written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . . ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Time, Marie Claire, PopSugar, Parade, Teen Vogue, Self, She Reads • “Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach, starring four sexy, surfing siblings and their deadbeat, famous-crooner dad.”—People Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever. Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there. And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come rising to the surface. Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.

Download or read book Barkskins written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Magnificent.” (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See) From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain” comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, marvelously dramatic novel about the destruction of the world’s forests. In the late seventeenth century, two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in Canada, then known as New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a seigneur, for three years in exchange for land, they become woodcutters—barkskins. Sel suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman, and their descendants live trapped between two hostile cultures. Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China and New Zealand under stunningly brutal conditions—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence and cultural annihilation. Again and again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face-to-face with possible ecological collapse. Proulx’s inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid—in their greed, lust, vengefulness or their compassion and hope—that we follow them with fierce attention. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable and compelling American writers, and Barkskins is her greatest novel, a superb marriage of history and imagination.