Love blossoms in the unlikeliest places…Tarnation, Texas.Buzz Colt was a liar, cheat, and a scrooge but the one thing he did right was father five sons. Growing up without a father, Baxter Colt learned how to be a man on his own. He’d written Buzz out of his life until he passed and left a few surprises and secrets—and hoops to jump through.Fury wasn’t a strong enough word to describe Baxter’s feelings when he heard the stipulations of his father’s will. Five brothers who are strangers are given the choice to live together for six months and work the Grinning Spurs Ranch or give up everything they’ve worked for—including their homesteads.However, that’s only the beginning. All five must be married before time is up.Since her mother was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s Disease, Abriella Craig was responsible for the family bakery and her little brother. Financially she was strapped and emotionally and physically she was alone, but when a brooding, handsome stranger strolls into town he might be the answer to her prayers.Abriella is as sweet as the cupcakes she creates and would make the perfect wife, but as secrets start to unfold Baxter realizes he wants more than a marriage of convenience. But is he too much like his father to ever find love? The Colt brothers will each take a journey in finding love, brotherhood and forgiveness in the small town of Tarnation, Texas where love blooms in the unlikeliest places.

After a lifetime in rags, Emerson had no idea that riches came with so many strings. As a foster kid in the system, Emerson Duplessis never had two nickels to rub together. He worked harder than anyone else he knew and graduated with a degree in accounting—the safest career he could imagine. But when a round of unexpected layoffs leaves him unable to pay his rent, he resorts to taking temp jobs found for him by friends.At one odd job, serving hors d’oeuvres at a funeral, his friend points out that the dead man in the massive portrait looks exactly like Emerson. The bereaved mother of the deceased turns out to be the grandmother who tried to prevent him from ever being born. Now that her only child has passed, she makes Emerson an offer.She’ll leave her massive estate to him, but only if he shows he can properly run it, marries a high society woman, and has an heir. At one of his grandmother’s horrible parties, Emerson meets the well-educated, pampered daughter of one of his late father’s friends, Elizabeth Moorland.Emerson dislikes her from the start, but he also discovers that she needs money, badly. He agrees to get her the money she needs if she pretends to be his girlfriend to keep his grandmother happy. But Elizabeth Moorland has a secret, and if it comes out, it will ruin both their plans. Can Emerson manage to satisfy the woman who never wanted him in order to secure the life he’s always wanted? Or will he discover that sometimes even gold that glitters isn’t worth the price?

Pain punished her. The bottle numbed her. Guilt kept her trapped. In the dark alley of a pub, the words “Please don’t” take hold of her heart and break the silence she seeks. Thinking herself beyond redemption, she tentatively grabs on to the slim thread of hope that unfolds inside of her. Holding her secrets close, she can’t resist the comforting draw coming from The Skipper. The unconditional friendships it offers, the protective roof it provides, and the spark that its owner ignites in her—melting the frost off her heart, and slowly stripping away her resistance. His life flows from one crisis to the next. Under the pressure of competition crowding him out of his family’s pub and the need to protect his children from the ruins of a bad marriage, he barely breathes. That is until a mane of strawberry-blonde hair and a set of big, pale blue eyes, shake him up. He never expected the shadow of a woman he finds on the floor of his washroom to bring him the air?the balance and the light he’s been missing. **Due to content of a sexually explicit nature, this book is recommended for a mature audience only.**

Off-limits, feisty, and his biggest enemy. Knox Blisswood wasn’t expecting the new teacher in town to be something so good…The first time I meet Madison, she has no idea that I’m the owner of the winery that she just called pretentious, so I play along. The second time, she isn’t impressed by my chivalrous act of kindness while I checked out her a— And the third time is the real winner, because Madison mistakes me for my married brother at a parent-teacher meeting–yep, Madison is my little sister’s new favorite off-limits teacher. Not only that, but we get thrown together thanks to the high school booster club needing help with an event. My new partner in crime is not a fan of me, and quite frankly, every conversation with her is aggravating. Which is why a simple fact confuses me…We can’t seem to stay away from one another.First we argue, then we kiss, and I don’t want it to stop. The more our lives become entwined, the more I realize that she may just be what I didn’t know I was waiting for. But this stubborn woman has to take a chance on us, and although her eyes say yes, her words say no—after all, her job is on the line. The challenge doesn’t deter me, though. Because I’m beginning to feel that Madison and me? We may just be something good…This enemies-to-lovers romance is the third standalone book in the small-town Blisswood Brothers series that follows the brothers as they run their family winery and farm, Olive Owl.