Kathleen Ball

When Vows Are Said Out Of Necessity Can Love Really Grow? Susan Farr loses her parents and her home in one swoop. She takes her horse and rides to Independence Missouri to join a wagon train and start a new life. Mike Todd, the Wagon Master doesn't allow single women to have their own wagons. It causes fights and distractions. Susan solves her problem by marrying Clancy Willis in name only. Unfortunately Clancy's true nature doesn't take long to show and Susan finds herself married to a drunkard. Along the trail, once again, Susan is forced to marry another man in name only and this time it is Mike Todd. As soon as they make it to Oregon they plan to have the marriage annulled but their hearts become hopelessly entangled. Mike Todd has two brothers to raise. They are guides on the wagon train and he decided long ago he'd raise them and forget about having a wife and child of his own. Little does he know that he'd find a forever type of love.Both vow to sacrifice their hearts' desire to give the other happiness. Will they come to realize their lives and love have only just begun?

We've Only Just Begun

In Whispered Love, bestselling author Kathleen Ball takes you to the wild Pacific Northwest, a land bristling with handsome, well-muscled lumberjacks. Foreman Samuel Pearse has only one rule; no women allowed. Until he finds one asleep in his bathtub-Pat Clarke, the company cook. With her secret revealed and her virtue at stake, Pat turns to the only man who can help her...the one man who sets fire to her heart.

Whispered Love

From USA Today Best-Selling Author Kathleen Ball A Sweet Contemporary Western Romance The Veterinarian needs a Nanny. He needs a helping hand. She is a murder suspect. Will love thrive on the ranch or steer clear? Holden O'Leary wants to do what's right for his young brothers. After the vet moves his family to Montana to escape heartache, he swears off romance for good. But when he hires a new nanny with a dark past, his resolution is put to the test... Summer Fitzgerald loved her old boss like a father. After he's shockingly murdered and Summer is named the chief suspect, she's both devastated and completely out of cash. Accepting a temporary nanny job stems the pain. When rumors of Summer's past hit Holden hard, will small-town drama ruin their attraction, or can their growing love find a way to thrive? Summer's Cowboy is a standalone novel in the Sweet Cowboy Seasons Sweet Western romance series. If you like strong heroes, determined women, and adventure on the ranch, then you'll love Kathleen Ball's romantic, feel-good, page-turning novel. Buy Summer's Cowboy to take love's sweet reins today! *** This book was originally published as Summer's Desire. It has been re written to make it sweet. "Love the story line! This inspiring journey brings you in and keeps you intrigued. The characters are dynamic and fun to follow. Great read for all!"-- Reader Review ******** "Sweet story of a young woman who answers an ad for a "nanny" to find out the "children" are older and being raised by a hunky older brother. They all work together to keep their family going. Then a crazy former fiancé shows up for some suspense. Don't miss this clean read from Kathleen Ball."-- Reader Review ******** "I've totally enjoyed this beginning book in this series. Holden and Summer have a really rough beginning with much to overcome to get to their HEA. I hope to read more about them and his brothers and look forward to the next book in the series."--- Reader Review ******** "This book was full of twists and turns and unexpected happenings. Summer answers a job ad for a nanny/housekeeper only to find out the "children" are 4 young men ranging in age from 18-13. Against her better judgment she accepts the job and falls in love with the family, especially the oldest brother who is their guardian. They both have pasts they are trying to get away from, and when danger comes to them they protect each other and eventually find their way " --- Reader Review Join me in a small town in Montana where people all know one another. Good decent neighbors who are willing to help. And a Hero who is determined to solve the mystery to save his girl. These characters will stay with you long after the story is over.

A Sweet Contemporary Western Romance

Summer's Cowboy

Summer Fitzgerald is a person of interest in the robbery and murder of her former boss. With no resources she is forced to take a job as a nanny. To her surprise the job consists of watching four, almost full grown, cowboys and helping their handsome, older brother Holden O'Leary. Veterinarian Holden O'Leary moves his family to a Montana ranch for a fresh start. His time is soon consumed rescuing neglected horses and he needs help with his bothers. Despite wishing otherwise, he soon finds that Summer holds his heart. Will scandals and old secrets keep them from trusting each other or will Summer finally get her desire?

Summer's Desire (Cowboy Seasons 1)

Cowboy Seasons Series

Callie Daniels' mother has one dying wish. She wants neighboring rancher, Garrett O'Neill, to marry her seventeen year old daughter. It's not supposed to be a conventional marriage.Garrett O'Neill would keep Callie's ranch safe and Callie would go away to college. Four years later, Callie comes home with stars in her eyes and happily ever after in her heart. She plans to make their marriage real until finds the new housekeeper, Sylvie in Garrett's arms. Heartbroken, Callie takes off to her own house, which they closed up four years ago. She stays there with Old Henry, a longtime friend and ranch hand, until her new horse injures her. Garrett forces Callie to move back in to his house. Callie finally gets her heart's desire. Alone in a line shack, they make sweet love for the first time. Unfortunately the love light is gone from Garret's eyes the next morning

Callie's Heart

Mail Order Brides of Texas

From Best-Selling Award- Winning Author Kathleen Ball Book Four of the #1 Best-Selling Series Oregon Dreamin'It's finally time for Smitty to settle down after all of his trips on the Oregon Trail. He has Lynn and a houseful of orphans but he also had a wife, he's always been faithful to. Brenda lied and said she was with child, Smitty's child over ten years ago. It's time to dissolve their marriage.Upon arriving at Brenda's house, he finds Brenda and her mother May dying of tuberculosis and just as ornery as ever. Lynn knows Smitty is married and respects the vows he took.He finally comes home but in his grief he decides to leave Lynn and the kids. Lynn can't stay in a house that doesn't belong to her, so she answers an ad and leaves to become a farmer's wife, taking her children with her. It was the biggest mistake of her life as the farmer is abusive.Smitty rescues them. Both Lynn and Smitty have doubts about their special love for each other. Can Smitty sway Lynn to be his forever or will she choose to travel a different road?

So Many Roads to Choose

When life has shown you death, can you bring yourself to love again?Eli Todd is a tall, handsome Captain of a wagon train bound for Oregon. Life has taught him if he allows people into his heart, he ends up losing them. Amelia Cruthers is a pretty young woman with a limp. She's a hard worker who starts out the trip to Oregon with her parents, until they try to leave her behind. In shock, she watches them cross a river by ferry without her.Thankfully the kind, strong Eli Todd takes her with him. Admiring her spunk and work ethic he gives her a job cooking for the crew. After a fall from his horse, Amelia tends him and he realizes she is sweetness on earth. Her parents demand he marry Amelia since she spent time alone with him, nursing him. Eli figures why not? He won't be home most of the year anyway and Amelia could have a safe place to live on his ranch. What could possibly go wrong?Amelia never thought to be married. She'd been told her hip was too hideous for a man to look upon and that she couldn't have children. Knowing that she could never be a real wife, the love she begins to feel for Eli frightens her.The distance they try to place between them doesn't work leaving them both hurt with longings that could never be fulfilled. But there are secrets and when they realize they'd been lied to; do they take the leap at a lifetime to share?

A Lifetime to Share

Jed Todd has been looking for Lily since the day she was abducted along the Oregon Trail. This time he is the wagon master. Word comes that his trapper friends have found and bought Lily for him. He rides fast and fierce to get to her and is relieved to find her in one piece.The way he felt about her before she'd been stolen wasn't a figment of his imagination. From the moment he saw her again he knew his love was real. Lily isn't well received by the others on the wagon train and realizes that having a relationship with Jed would only hinder him in life. He'd never be accepted in polite society. Once in Oregon she plans to leave for Washington territory to live alone.Attempts on her life and the life of a young girl make Lily realize that she and Jed share a love worth searching for.

A Love Worth Searching For

Shannon McMurphy travels to Asherville, Texas as a mail order bride expecting to marry a rancher. Instead, her intended is a saloonkeeper. Her refusal to marry enrages John Hardy and he slices her cheek with a knife so no other man would want her. She runs into the street and no one helps her until blond, blue eyed Cinders rescues her. Sexy, rancher Cinders saves Shannon and offers her a job. To protect her reputation he must marry her. They both agree it's a marriage of convenience. He admires her spunk and willingness to learn everything about surviving the Texas frontier. He waits for her to ask to go home but she never does. They learn a lot about each other through, stolen horses, Indian troubles, a cattle drive and the busybodies of the town. Their attraction for each other grows, but can they learn to trust enough to love? Join me in Asherville, Texas and see how this love story unfolds.

Cinders' Bride

Cora feels indebted to the man, Eddie who saved her and her baby Esther. She travels on the Oregon Trail with him. He intimidates her and has her doing most of the work. He's jealous and she knows not to look in another man's direction.An early snowstorm leaves her in danger of frost bite and when Harrison Walsh carries her off to his wagon to be treated Eddie becomes enraged and drops Cora's trunk off at Harrison's wagon. Harrison Walsh was happily married until three months ago when his wife died. Their dream was to have their own ranch and start a family. Now he's alone and broken hearted. When the rest of the wagon train party learns Cora is not married to Eddie, rumors fly and to save her reputation Harrison is made to marry Cora. To his surprise, Cora is not the meek women she was when riding with Eddie. He finds himself drawn to this woman of strength and falls for the baby. Cora and Harrison both agreed to a marriage of convenience. But when Esther's father shows up alive, Cora has a big decision to make.

A Christian Romance

Cora's Courage

Meg O'Brien hoped never to lay eyes on the one man who broke her heart. To her dismay, Luke Kelly arrives at her ranch a much different and broken man. Can Meg ever forgive his callous treatment of her and help Luke become the man he used to be?

Luke's Fate

Lyssa Layne

D'Ann Lindun

Krista Ames

Melissa Keir

Cheryl Gorman

Cowboy, YoursMake him all yours....From the best-selling authors who brought you Cowboy, Mine... Fall in love again with six sexy cowboys who know how to make a woman smile.Ryelee's Cowboy by Kathleen Ball: Ryelee Snyder is pregnant and alone. Fortunately, she finds a job as a nanny. Rancher Clint Maloney needs help with his daughter but he never bargained on Ryelee Snyder. Secrets, misunderstandings, and cattle rustling put an increasing strain on their relationship. Will they part or will love allow them to turn to each other?In a Cowboy's Arms by Krista Ames: Growing up on a farm with three brothers, Lacey Connelley was not attracted to Cowboys in the slightest. Wannabe cowboy Jordan Cross is the glitch she never expected and he's determined to prove her wrong about him.The Secret Truth at Dare Ranch by Cheryl Gorman:A woman struggling to save her failing ranch, overcome the tragedy of her brother's death and one man's determination to preserve his best friend's memory.Coming Home by Melissa Keir:Fate threw Shevonne and Jackson together in a desperate search for her missing father. Can a blind woman and the womanizer rely on each other to rescue Mr. Wilder or will insecurities and stress cause their blossoming relationship to self-destruct?A Totally Different Life by Lyssa Lane: Queen of Country Music, Miranda Wallen, has been divorced for almost two years with no love in sight. Finn Lindemann loves his job at Happy Trails R&R Ranch. Neither expect the relationship that ensues and both are scared of what it might lead to. Cooper's Redemption by D'Ann Lindun:Elizabeth Adams' mother travels to Colorado to sell her inherited ranch...and vanishes. There is no proof JB Cooper murdered his neighbor, but the people of Salt Lick, Colorado believe him guilty. Can Cooper help find Elizabeth's mother in time? Or will the dark eye of suspicion on Cooper tear them apart?

Cowboy, Yours

SWEET HISTORICAL ROMANCEAfter being jilted at the altar, Scarlett Settler can't show her face in town. She becomes a mail order bride to a blacksmith in Silver Springs Oregon. She only skimmed the letters that she and her intended exchanged and was very disappointed to find he was a blacksmith always covered in soot. Dillon Stahl built a huge house and now he wants to fill it with a wife and children. When his friend Smitty Settler writes to him about his daughter, Scarlett, he's intrigued and proposes. He expected a sweet biddable wife that he can build a life with. Instead he ends up with an opinionated woman who does not know the word compromise.Getting to know Scarlett is near impossible. She refuses to allow anyone into her heart because she knows they won't like her. Everyone always leaves her. Her fear of rejection takes over each of her actions.Can Dillon break through her haughty façade and find the women of his dreams? This is book three of The Settlers Series.

Scarlett

Twenty-year-old Ryelee Snyder is pregnant and alone. Fortunately, she finds a job as a nanny to precocious four-year-old Rheenie Maloney. Life is perfect except for Horse Trainer, Clint Maloney. Ryelee feels his disapproval and is in constant fear of being fired. Clint Maloney needs help with his daughter but he never bargained on Ryelee Snyder. The tall, gangly, girl is a menace. Clint spends too much of his time rescuing her from her latest mishap. Upon finding out about her pregnancy, Clint's feelings begin to change. He no longer views her as a nuisance but as a passionate woman with a generous heart. Secrets, misunderstandings, and cattle rustling put an increasing strain on their relationship, until they finally turn from each other. Just as they seem to find their way back, Ryelee's part in the cattle rustling is unveiled. Ryelee fights unyieldingly to win the love of a lifetime.

Ryelee's Cowboy

Handsome Cowboy Tramp Hart left his home and friends over a year ago. He's finally back to make amends and take his place on the ranch. That is until he walks into the house he designed and finds a woman living there. He needs a plan to get her out so he can move in. Mail Order Bride Ilene Duffy traveled from New York City to Asherville, Texas only to find out her marriage contract was no longer valid. Rancher Cinders and his wife Shannon offer her an empty house on their land. Ilene has no intentions of getting married. Join me in Asherville, Texas and watch Tramp's antics as he tries one thing after another to get Ilene out of his house. Tramp had finally met his match.

Tramp's Bride

This book can be found in Kindle Unlimited as part of the Cowboy Ever After Set http://amzn.to/2xYQzczLee Ann Simpson left the Big M Ranch for the bright lights of San Antonio but now she's back disillusioned by the underhanded tactics of her boss. Handsome Rancher Gunther Marlboro washed his hands of Lee Ann the day she left him behind but now she's back looking defeated by the world. Can Gunther show Lee Ann how to trust again and most importantly how to love again?

I'm Forever Yours

When 26-year-old cowboy Holden O'Leary uprooted his brothers from Texas to Montana, the new vet advertised for a nanny. No woman alive would deny the Doc was as handsome a specimen as the sleek, hard-bodies horses he rescued. And that included Summer Fitzgerald, the voluptuous, honey-haired young woman who applied for the job, and was stunned to find her three arges ranged from 12 to 18 - charming, immature, irresponsible, and capable of winning a piece of her shattered heart. With his stubble, his six-pack and his tousled hair, she thought Holden was sexy as hell. But she'd sworn off men after being implicated by her former boyfriend in a hideous murder that had badly wounded her - and her reputation. He had sworn off women because his lousy judgment had endangered his family. The fact was: he found Summer totally irresistible, and more vulnerable than vicious -- despite the warnings: "She's real good with that innocent act, but don't let her fool you.... She'll end up behind bars soon enough. ".... Would the past catch up with both of them? Who killed the bar owner - and why? What was the real reason Holden had moved? How would the Doc and the nanny deal with their passionate attraction, crippling rumors of savage scandals, and shocking, long buried secrets? Will brother be pitted against brother? When does true love exact a price too great to pay? And - when is a life-threatening risk worth taking? Saddle up for one of today's most tempestuous romances - laced with a dazzling double mystery, and surrounded by more hunky cowboys than you can wave a lasso at....

Summer's Desire

Can sexy cowboy Stamos Walker trust a beautiful woman accused of murder? He wants to try when Joy Courtland, a convict, ends up on his ranch. Stamos' work release program for nonviolent male prisoners has made him wary. He's heard every possible story of innocence but Joy is different. Or is she? His discovery of a plot to kill her if she returns to prison leaves Stamos no choice. He does the only thing he can think of to keep Joy safe -- he marries her. Will she betray his trust or was the murder of her stepmother not what it appeared to be?

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