You’ve met the men of Eggnog Ranch… Now it’s time to help them ring in the New Year! These cowboys are just the kind of sexy heroes that make you want to kiss them at midnight. Spend New Year's Eve on the ranch with four unforgettable stories by Elsie James, only available in this collection! ♥ BALL DROP- A second-chance New Year's Eve romance. ♥ THE COUNTDOWN- A single mom New Year's Eve romance. ♥ NEW YEAR, NEW MAN- A marriage of convenience New Year's Eve romance. ♥ A TOAST- A friends to lovers New Year's Eve romance. Midnight Kisses at the Ranch is a collection of four sweet and steamy romances with curvy women and the steamy heroes that fall for them. As always this collection comes with a promise of no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after. Cozy up with this collection and ring in the New Year!

He left his hometown in search of bigger and better without looking back. She knows that small-town life on the ranch is as good as it gets. When successful engineer Xavier loses everything, he heads home for the holidays in search of meaning but what he finds is… Erica. Eggnog and the Engineer is a steamy and sweet, holiday, second chance, instalove story. Erica Eggnog Ranch is home for me. I spend my days managing the guest cottages and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I know there aren’t too many people my age who see things the way I do. Most of them are off chasing big dreams and bigger dollars. I’ll never be rich, but I have more than enough of the things that matter. Especially at Christmas time, this place is all family, friends, and traditions. But when the one who got away gets stranded at the ranch, it feels like a Christmas miracle. Xavier is sexy, smart, and I want to unwrap his present. But can I make him see that life on the ranch has value that can’t be measured by a credit score? Xavier Growing up as the only son of a successful banker came with a lot of pressure. I couldn’t wait to leave town and secure my position with one of the top engineering firms in the nation. My life looks exactly like I designed it to, but it feels shallow in a way I never imagined. A staffing change at work turns everything upside down and I decide to head home for holidays for the first time in a long time. But when I get there, nothing looks quite the same. An unexpected snowfall leaves me stranded with my first love at Eggnog Ranch and she’s the only thing that feels like home. Erica is curvy, thoughtful, and I want to give her a night that’s anything but silent. But can I convince her that I’ll be here long after the lights come off the tree?

All I wanted was one night of sin. That’s why I turned to my brother’s best friend. Gabriella On New Year’s Eve, I stole a kiss from my brother’s best friend. For one wild night, he was mine. Only he never knew it was me, his friend’s sister. Six weeks later, I have to find a way to tell him I was his secret kiss, and that I’m carrying his baby now. Kane The sexy cowgirl was my Cinderella. She disappeared before I could make her mine. Now I’m a cowboy on a mission. I’m determined to find my girl again, and I’m never letting her go. When Gabriella reveals she’s my secret kiss, can I convince my reluctant Cinderella that I’m her Prince Charming? If you love a brother’s best friend baby romance, you’ll love meeting Gabriella and Kane in The Cowboy’s Midnight Kiss. Super sweet with some heat and the perfect amount of small town feels. Snuggle up with this holiday romance from Zoey Grant today! Celebrate the holidays in Lucky River where you’ll watch alpha cowboys claim their soulmates and find their happily ever after.

It's New Year's Eve...and now or never for these two hearts When a woman with no faith in love meets the quintessential nice guy determined to breach her mile-high walls, sparks fly as both fight a decidedly unwelcome but equally unavoidable attraction. Steph Hargrove was a bombshell, a sexy, intrepid woman operating in the business world with guts, brains and daring. She was accustomed to going after whatever she wanted until a man she called friend betrayed her and the company she’d helped build—and nearly killed her in the process. Since that time, she’s been a shadow of the wild, wicked woman who’d carved a swath through her world. Gavin O’Neill is an artisan with wood, a gardener, a restorer of battered homes and a savior of strays. When first he meets the wounded woman who postures as invincible and worldly, the sadness in her eyes draws him even more than her lush figure does. However she insists otherwise, he sees that she needs the kindness and friendship he can give to her while he’s waiting for the woman of his dreams, who will be small and soft and sweet, different in every way from the woman he keeps returning to see. Yet while he’s not interested in the virago and she refuses to be nurtured, a potent attraction keeps them circling each other. And while they’re busy listing the reasons they’re unsuited, something powerful is growing between them. New Year’s Eve is for lovers and new beginnings…will these two stubborn souls take the risk?

Stanton I wasn’t known for my impulse control. Raised as an only child and best friends with my mother, I hadn’t heard the word no often in my life. One night changed that completely. I met a stranger who worked for my family’s company. One kiss and the beautiful man was gone, and I hadn’t stopped until I found him. The real challenge came when he turned me down because of my age, but to me, that didn’t matter. He was my boy, and I’d prove it to him. Beckett After a divorce, I was just trying to learn to live single again. I’d emotionally broken down outside my boss’s home, and a gorgeous young man had kissed me. The shock of that had me running. I hadn’t expected to see him again, but he arrived at my office, and with such confidence, he’d claimed I was his. He couldn’t be serious. Yet the more time I spent with him, the attraction became all-consuming, and the reasons to say no were becoming unimportant. Could I open myself to the possibility or would it be safer to protect myself from another mistake?

A feel-good romance for fans of Robyn Carr, Leeanna Morgan, and Debra Clopton. Hailey Waters steps off a bus with no memory of why she came to Forgotten or what she’s running from. And maybe it doesn't matter. She’s determined to make a new life in this small town where strangers are friendly and helpful—especially veterinarian Dylan Morgan. But Dylan keeps prying for answers she doesn’t have. He’s a hero, always saving animals and people, and maybe she doesn’t need one of those right now. He’s more likely to break her heart than to solve the riddle of her past. Dylan has returned to the small town he never should have left. He’s tired of women with secrets, the kind of women who always leave. When he finds Hailey in his friend’s barn, his training makes him uniquely qualified to be what she needs most—if he can keep the way he’s beginning to feel about her out of it. Because more and more he’s sure her secrets will tear him apart. But he can’t walk away or let her go. So maybe it’s time to take matters—and love—into his own hands. Welcome to the small town of Forgotten, where people are more concerned about who you are now than what you might have left behind. Each of the novels in this series are stand-alone books, and you can read them in any order. However, characters are like one big extended family and often appear in many of the books, so by reading all of them, you can catch up with what your favorite characters are doing now. Editorial Review "It's easy to root for Hailey as she struggles to find her place . . . This clean romance has just the right amount of mystery to keep you turning the pages. It also brings in other attention-grabbing elements: a beloved dog about to give birth (and later, her adorable puppies), a B&B owner with secrets of her own, veterinarian house calls, characters you'd like as your own neighbors, and a charming, small-town festival. The ending is completely satisfying with exactly the right blend of sweet and passion to thrill lovers of wholesome romance." -Catia Shattuck, Senior Reviewer My Book Ratings What readers are saying about Rachel Branton “Once I started reading I couldn’t put it down . . . I can’t wait for the next book in this series because Rachel is a great writer.” “Excellent read! Truthful and honest, written to inspire and entertain!” “Clean romance with mature topics.” “What can I say she writes great stories . . . and now Lily’s House which reminds of Robyn Carr’s series, wholesome but still dealing in real life situations and challenges. Rachel’s characters just grab you and you want to stay in their world to see what happens next.”

Don't Invite Him In That's what they told you to do when you met a vampire. But Jessica Adams was powerless to resist him. His voice enveloped her like a lover's embrace, his eyes pierced her very soul. She told herself it was just a dream. A nightmare she'd had every midnight since she started filming Midnight Kiss. Maybe it was the accidents on the set. Or because Matthew Griffon's writing was so seductive, his vampire so real. From the moment she met the reclusive Griffon, Jessica was powerfully drawn to him. His ebony eyes, the way he hid from the public light, the dark secrets he concealed…they all seemed oddly familiar. Just who was this Matthew Griffon—creator of a character, or her midnight lover in the flesh?

The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories that ignore issues other than love and marriage. Pamela Regis argues that such critical studies fail to take into consideration the personal choice of readers, offer any true definition of the romance novel, or discuss the nature and scope of the genre. Presenting the counterclaim that the romance novel does not enslave women but, on the contrary, is about celebrating freedom and joy, Regis offers a definition that provides critics with an expanded vocabulary for discussing a genre that is both classic and contemporary, sexy and entertaining. Taking the stance that the popular romance novel is a work of literature with a brilliant pedigree, Regis asserts that it is also a very old, stable form. She traces the literary history of the romance novel from canonical works such as Richardson's Pamela through Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Brontë's Jane Eyre, and E. M. Hull's The Sheik, and then turns to more contemporary works such as the novels of Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, Janet Dailey, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Nora Roberts.

Filled with Christmas cheer, and the magic that can only be found in Jackson Hole, Wyoming under the shadow of the Tetons, Anita Hughes's Christmas at the Ranch is a love story that is sure to enchant, and warm your heart like a cup of hot apple cider. It’s days before Christmas and Samantha Morgan is in her Brooklyn apartment when her editor, Charlie, shows up. Her publisher Arthur Wentworth is throwing a Christmas party and wants Samantha to be the guest of honor. Samantha tries to come up with an excuse to miss it. She writes a series of books featuring a female James Bond-type heroine named Sloane Parker and Charlie is the only person who knows that Samantha is the opposite of Sloane, though the marketing team has built up an entire social media presence for her claiming that she is just as adventurous. In reality, Samantha rarely leaves her neighborhood and does her research online. She is afraid of almost everything and is only happy when she’s sitting in her apartment and writing. Samantha reluctantly agrees to go. But instead of taking her to Arthur’s house in Connecticut, the driver goes to the airport. On the phone, Charlie admits that the party is at Arthur’s new ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. For a person who hates even walking around the block when it snows, this is her worst nightmare. But when a handsome stranger sits next to her on the plane, things begin to look up. She feels comfortable enough to spill all her secrets to him, including all of her fears and the truth about her fake Instagram account. However, when she shows up at the house, it turns out that this man, Drew, is Arthur’s son. Now Samantha is worried that Drew will tell his father about her lies. Over the course of Christmas week, Samantha grows closer to Drew. But when his fiancée, Beatrix (who recently gave him an ultimatum about settling down), shows up, things get more complicated. As Samantha’s fears of bison and giant icicles subside, and her feelings for Drew grow deeper, new fears develop... Will she leave this Christmas adventure broken-hearted? Or will true love prevail?