Bell Buckle

Coming home was supposed to be temporary, but this time, he wasn'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 doesn'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?

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 the small town of 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?

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?