Coming Home to North Dakota

After being fired from her waitressing job and coming face-to-face with her ex, Rose Baldwin lets a little lie escape.She forgot there is no such thing as a "little" lie.Knowing she has to go and confess that she lied, she allows herself to be talked into playing The Piece Maker's Dating Game and somehow ends up "fake-dating" her partner.Derek Fields is a rancher intent on buying his grandparents farm. His wife left him and he's ready to come home and settle down.But he needs a caregiver and the one that seems to have fallen into his lap is his Dating Game partner and also the woman he's agreed to "fake-date."Only neither one of them are good liars and their straw house could never survive the wild North Dakota wind…or could it?Do they have the character and faith to face their problems and build a solid foundation together? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

Five divorces, three boys, one snowstorm and two people who want to be anywhere other than where they are. Only God could use it all to make a beautiful love story.Bellamy Levine is the highest paid actress in Hollywood, but she just inked her name on her fifth divorce settlement and her personal life is in shambles. Again.She vows it's for the last time.That's why she's rented the entire vacation spot in rural North Dakota and intends to spend the holidays alone, figuring out what she's going to do with her life.Calhaun Powers was blindsided when an old classmate rolls into Sweet Water claiming the oldest of her three boys is his. He knows for a fact the kid isn't his son, but he finds himself watching all three kids while he renovates vacation houses for his neighbor.God seems to be testing him in a strange way when he ends up snowed in with Hollywood's biggest movie star – five times divorced – and three boys who aren't his, but who need a dad…and a mom.Can two people who come from completely different worlds find common ground and build a family together? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

Serious and quiet, Silas hardly seems like the kind of man who would be out drag racing in the wee hours of the night.Unwilling heir of her family's multimillion dollar ranching operation, Gladys Lefrak is a daredevil who vows to never settle down. And she loves drag racing – with Silas beside her.But her twenty-fifth birthday is fast approaching and the conditions of her inheritance state that she must be married by that date.Her parents have paraded a line of perfectly acceptable, Ivy League educated – and boring – candidates before her, and even a cowboy or two – with degrees. But her heart longs for the steady hand, deep character and calm confidence of the mechanic who has shown her a good time and kept her safe and always gives her something deep to think about.Maybe he's right and it's time for her to grow up.Especially when her best friend from college dies and makes her last request a plea for Gladys to take her child.Gladys can't turn the request down, but she's not about to drive off into the night without the one person who has never steered her wrong.Can she convince her cowboy dreams are better when they're shared? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

A good deed. A tragic accident. Two people who come together to help each other. Could this be the end of their dreaming alone?When she develops pneumonia, Shasta Bingley can't believe how the town of Sweet Water comes together to take care of her. Especially Nolt Powers, who not only pays her rent, but sits up with her through the worst of her sickness so she's not alone.Although she loves the town of Sweet Water, Shasta has to leave, since her job as a painter can't support her in such a small town.Then an unthinkable accident happens and Nolt needs help.Shasta owes him, and stays to care for him, knowing she has a job waiting for her in New York.When it's time to leave, can she say good-bye to the man she's come to love?Here's what reviewer's are saying about Cowboy Dreaming Alone:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I'm so enjoying this series, the stories and the characters. I love the church ladies and all their matchmaking." - MJ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Hmmm - new way to get a couple together, check! A unique plot intrigues and entertains as it works out the story." - Meri⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I love this series and this small town that goes out of it's way to care for each other." - nanc⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I think the books in this series are getting better & better." - WestTexasReader⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I can't get enough of Jessie Gussman's books. I love them all." - Karen About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

Could the matchmakers be wrong?Sadie Powers has crushed on her brother's best friend for years, but when the Piece Makers, Sweet Water's own quilting and matchmaking group, ask her to help them match him up with the new single mom in town, she just wants the man she's loved for years to be happy, even if that's with someone else.When rancher and livestock auction owner, Colman Baldwin is asked to giving riding lessons to the son of the new single mom in town, he doesn't hesitate to make time in his schedule to help out. That's what small towns are for. He doesn't realize he's being set up. Maybe that's why he's falling for the wrong woman.Soon, everyone in Sweet Water has a finger in the pie and everyone is holding their breath to see if the Piece Makers will have another successful match, of if a dark horse will ride in and steal the potential groom away. About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

A former major league baseball player, bitter and angry, and a quiet single mom, tired and poor.Single mom Peyton Sinclair came to the town of Sweet Water to raise her son away from the influence of her ex-husband's mother. She's happy with her bookstore and bake shop and is not interested in doing anything but making a living and raising her son.Bryce Shaker had been baseball's highest paid athlete at one point in his career. But his career had gone downhill after a brutal accident left him scarred and bitter. He retired to the old, run-down mansion north of Sweet Water and just wants to be left along – after he gets the six thousand books in the old, crumbling library catalogued.Sweet Water's matchmakers soon have Peyton at Bryce's mansion, working on his books, but she barely sees Bryce – until a ghost from his past forces him to ask for her help.On the surface they have nothing in common, but could a friendship forged between this unlikely pair grow into something more? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.