Love wasn’t part of LaRiah's plan when she left Chicago for a fresh start in Texas. She came searching for purpose, for something real—she never expected to find Wyatt. Rugged, brooding, and carrying a past scarred by tragedy, Wyatt isn’t the kind of man people fall for easily. But from the moment their paths cross, the connection between them is undeniable.
Wyatt has spent years running from his demons, haunted by a past he never chose. When LaRiah walks into his life, she sees past the pain, past the whispers of his past sins, to the man he truly is. But when secrets resurface—secrets that could destroy everything—LaRiah must decide if love is worth the risk.
Will the truth tear them apart, or will LaRiah and Wyatt defy the odds and find the future they never knew they needed?
Perfect for fans of emotional small-town romance, second chances, and slow-burn love stories with a touch of suspense. If you love interracial romance, cowboys, protective heroes, and strong heroines, this novel will keep you turning the pages!
A steamy, small-town cowboy romance featuring an alpha rancher, a strong-willed city girl, and an undeniable love worth fighting for…
Edye Dolson never planned on staying in Texas. She came to check on her sister, not fall for a ruggedly handsome cowboy who pushes all her buttons—good and bad. But Luke Stanley isn’t like the men she’s used to. He’s intense, protective, and knows exactly what he wants. And what he wants is her.
Luke knew from the moment he laid eyes on Edye that she was trouble—the kind that tempts a man to risk it all. She’s independent, stubborn, and completely irresistible. The chemistry between them is scorching, but when trust is shattered, Edye runs, leaving Luke desperate to bring her back where she belongs—in his arms and in his bed.
Now, he’ll do whatever it takes to prove that their love is real. But will Edye take a chance on a cowboy, or will she leave behind the only man who’s ever truly seen her?
A sweet friends-to-lovers romance filled with laughter and romance…
Rose Dolson was there for her younger sister’s wedding. She didn’t expect to end up hanging out with an adorable ginger cowboy with the power to change the course of her future. Rose has been chasing stardom without much luck and is at a crossroad in her life. If she gives up her dream, what will she do?
Elijah Clemmons believed he had seen Rose before but couldn’t recall where. Making friends with her seemed the perfect way to jog his memory until he got caught up in the fun of hanging out with her. She isn’t like any woman he’s known before. Rose has a good sense of humor, a sense of adventure, and she doesn’t seem interested in taming Eli at all.
The two forge a friendship based on a connection neither of them expected to find, but things go awry when Rose gets a big part in a movie and returns to California just as things are heating up between them. Will Eli sit back and let the love of his life give up on them, or will he alter the course of their lives for a chance at the happiness they could have together?
She swore she’d never come back to Sunset Springs.
He never stopped waiting.
When aviation mechanic Maribel “Mari” Hernandez is forced to return to the Texas town she fled years ago, the last thing she expects is to be face-to-face with her first—and only—love. Dwight Hayes, the rugged cowboy with storm-blue eyes and a past that drove them apart, is still working the Stanley Ranch... and still igniting every spark she buried long ago.
Sent to inspect a ranch-owned helicopter, Mari plans to do her job and leave quietly. But when secrets from the past surface—about love, betrayal, and the son Dwight never knew he had—their lives are thrown into chaos.
As old flames reignite, Mari must decide whether to guard her heart or risk it all again.
Dwight, determined not to lose her twice, is ready to fight for the family he never knew he needed.
Set against the wild beauty of Texas ranch country, A Cowboy’s Love is a heartwarming and deeply emotional second-chance romance. With unforgettable characters, small-town charm, and just the right touch of steam, Kimberly Smith delivers a story about healing, homecoming, and the power of a love that never quit.
He was her risk.
She became his reward.
Sierra Jackson never believed in true love. Raised on broken promises and hurtful betrayals, she swore off romance as nothing more than a trick of the mind. But when her search for answers about her father leads her to Sunset Springs, Texas, she finds more than family—she finds Cody Hardin.
Cody is everything Sierra told herself she didn’t need. Rugged, charming, and persistent, the rodeo cowboy sees past the walls she’s built. Beneath her sass and guarded heart, he discovers a woman worth waiting for—and he’s determined to prove that real love isn’t just sparks, but a steady flame.
As Sierra battles her deepest fears about love, Cody stands beside her through every storm, patient and tender-hearted. Together, they face family secrets, racism that still lingers in the shadows, and the kind of trials that could tear them apart—or bind them closer forever.
When tragedy strikes and forces everyone in Sunset Springs to confront what truly matters, Sierra must decide: will she run back to the safety of New York, or take the biggest leap of her life and trust her heart to the cowboy who’s already claimed it?
Francina Brown came to Sunset Springs, Texas, for a wedding and the holidays—not to fall for a cowboy with a dangerous smile and a habit of saying exactly what she’s trying not to hear.
Travis Garland came home to Texas to rebuild his life, take a job at Stanley Ranch, and finally put distance between himself and the Windgate name—a family legacy rooted in cruelty, entitlement, and violence. Love wasn’t part of the plan.
Then Francina walked into the ranch kitchen.
She’s brilliant, guarded, and heading back to New York. He’s steady, relentless, and determined to prove that sometimes the right man shows up where you least expect him. Travis gives himself six days to make her fall in love—but neither of them expects how fast attraction turns into something deeper… and how dangerous it becomes when old enemies refuse to let the past stay buried.
As Francina becomes entangled in a brutal investigation involving missing and murdered women, the line between professional duty and personal risk disappears. When the Windgate brothers escalate from sabotage to terror, love is no longer just an emotional gamble—it’s a matter of survival.
At Stanley Ranch, love doesn’t arrive quietly. It comes with second chances, old secrets, unexpected family, and healing that changes everything.
As spring turns to summer in Sunset Springs, the people of Stanley Ranch are building more than businesses, homes, and futures - they’re building a family. Luke and Edye Stanley are finally within reach of making their love official in the most important way possible: adopting Nia and Malik, the two children who have already claimed their hearts. But as the paperwork moves forward, the woman who made it possible - Loretta Brooks - begins to fade, and joy becomes tangled with the grief of knowing time is running short.
Around them, life at the ranch refuses to stand still.
Mari and Dwight are finding their way through a long-awaited second chance at love while facing a life-changing surprise neither of them planned. Cody and Sierra are building a new future together in marriage, business, and family, even as old family truths rise to the surface. Wyatt and LaRiah and Brad and Amy are learning the sleepless, sacred joys of new parenthood. Travis and Francina are discovering that love can be steady, patient, and worth the risk. And far from Texas, Rose and Eli must decide what matters more - old dreams or the life they’ve built together.
Through baby showers, homecomings, Easter celebrations, funerals, adoption hearings, and the everyday chaos of ranch life, Stanley Ranch becomes the place where broken people are made whole, lonely hearts are folded into family, and love keeps showing up at exactly the right time.
Brenda Jackson thought she had left Texas, and the ghosts of her past behind for good.
For more than thirty years, she built a quiet life in Miami, raised her daughter, Sierra, and kept the most painful parts of her past locked away. But when family brings Brenda back to Sunset Springs, Texas, she finds more than a growing ranch community waiting for her. She finds Sterling Foxx, the boy she once knew, now the man who never forgot her, and the love she never gave herself permission to claim.
Sterling has loved Brenda since childhood, but time, tragedy, and unspoken grief kept them apart. Now a respected doctor with a full life of his own, Sterling is no longer willing to let fear or silence stand between them. As Brenda settles into life around Stanley Ranch, old memories begin to surface, forcing her to face the heartbreak that shaped her, the secrets she buried, and the future she never imagined could still belong to her.
At Stanley Ranch, Brenda discovers a family that keeps making room for people who need a place to land. Sierra and Cody are building a life rooted in love. The ranch is growing. Children need guidance. A learning center begins to take shape. And with every shared meal, every tender moment, and every kiss from Sterling, Brenda begins to wonder if Texas is no longer the place she ran from, but the home she was always meant to return to.
A Love Returned is an emotional mature romance filled with second chances, small-town Texas charm, cowboy family warmth, generational healing, found family, later-in-life love, and a hero who has waited a lifetime for the woman he never stopped loving.
Gordon Windgate has a name people distrust and a past he refuses to let define him. Talia Monroe has a career-making assignment and a secret reason for coming to Stanley Ranch.
He agrees to give her the interview she wants, but only if she tells the truth too.
As Talia follows Gordon through long ranch days, family dinners, hard memories, and the tight-knit world of Stanley Ranch, she realizes the real story is not scandal. It is redemption. It is belonging. It is a lonely cowboy learning he is worthy of love.
And somewhere along the way, Gordon stops being her subject and becomes the man she cannot imagine leaving.
A heartfelt interracial Western romance filled with heat, healing, chosen family, ranch life, emotional drama, and a hard-earned happily ever after.
He came back for a job.
She became his second chance at forever.
Reese Remington left Stanley Ranch years ago with shame in his heart and regret riding beside him. One cruel sentence spoken during another man’s grief cost him everything. Now he’s back in Sunset Springs, Texas, hoping to earn a place at Hardin-Stanley Breeding and prove he is no longer the careless cowboy he used to be.
Dr. Paige Bennett knows what it means to survive without roots. A brilliant large-animal veterinarian, she has built a career on skill, discipline, and independence. But Stanley Ranch is different. It is family, laughter, babies, horses, hard work, and the kind of belonging Paige has secretly wanted all her life.
Then she meets Reese. Their chemistry is undeniable. Their connection is tender. Their love could be everything neither of them thought they deserved.
A steamy, emotional interracial cowboy romance about redemption, found family, ranch life, forgiveness, and finding home in the arms of the one person who sees you clearly.
Grant Keller has finally found something he never expected at Stanley Ranch: stability.
As ranch foreman and devoted single father to sixteen-year-old Joseph and eleven-year-old Emma, Grant has spent years making sure his children never again experience the uncertainty their mother left behind. He works hard, keeps his family close, and trusts what he can control.
Then Simone Bell arrives.
Smart, confident, beautiful, and entirely too observant, Simone is the new teacher for the ranch’s teenagers. She has no intention of disrupting Grant’s carefully ordered life, but she quickly sees what he would rather ignore. Joseph has spent too much of his childhood helping hold the family together. Emma’s fear of being left affects everything from school to relationships. And Grant’s fierce need to protect them may be keeping all three Kellers trapped in wounds they survived years ago.
Grant doesn’t appreciate Simone’s interference.
He appreciates his attraction to her even less.
Their arguments turn into stolen kisses. Their resistance gives way to scorching passion. And before Grant realizes what is happening, Simone has become more than the woman he wants. She has become someone his children trust, someone the ranch family embraces, and someone Grant can imagine loving for the rest of his life.
But when the past suddenly returns asking for another chance with his children, Grant must face the fear that has ruled him for years.
Because loving Simone means accepting something no promise can prevent: people grow, lives change, and sometimes the people you love have to leave.
The real question is whether you’ve built a love strong enough for them to come home.
The Cowboy’s Lesson is a passionate interracial cowboy romance featuring a protective single father, a strong Black heroine, a close-knit Texas ranch family, emotional healing, teenagers finding their own paths, plenty of family chaos, steamy chemistry, and a deeply satisfying happily ever after.
Tessa Monroe has spent years protecting her daughter, her peace, and the life she rebuilt with her own two hands. As a skilled farrier and single mother, she knows better than to trust a charming cowboy with a pretty smile and easy promises.
Cole Samuels has always been good at being liked, but Tessa and her sharp-eyed daughter, Ayana, need more than charm. If he wants a place in their lives, he’ll have to prove he can be steady, honest, and worthy of the home they’re building at Stanley Ranch.
When Tessa’s manipulative ex threatens her new beginning, Cole must learn that love is not about rescue. It is about showing up, standing firm, and staying when life gets hard.
The Cowboy’s Worth is an emotional contemporary western romance featuring a strong single mother, a protective cowboy, a smart teenage daughter, found family, custody conflict, slow-burn healing, and a heartfelt happily-ever-after.
COMING SOON
She inherited a ranch everyone expects her to lose. He lost the ranch he dreamed of owning.
When inexperienced ranch owner Alice Merritt hires seasoned Black cowboy Dane Whitlock as her foreman, professional tension quickly becomes undeniable passion. Together they must prove that being underestimated doesn’t mean being incapable, and discover that the greatest legacy may be the one they build together.
A steamy interracial cowboy romance with forced proximity, workplace attraction, Texas ranch life, emotional healing, and a satisfying HEA.
The cowboys grew older. The children grew up. The family kept growing. And now Stanley Ranch is ready for its next generation.
At the dedication of the Elise and Earl Community Garden, the families of Stanley Ranch gather to honor two people whose love, food, wisdom, and quiet acts of kindness helped turn a working ranch into a home.
As familiar characters share memories of Earl and Elise, decades of love stories come full circle. Marriages have endured. Children have grown. Second chances became families. People who once arrived as outsiders now understand that Stanley Ranch chose them too.
Then Luke Stanley makes an announcement that will change the ranch forever.
It is time for Nia Stanley to take over the day-to-day operation of Stanley Ranch, while Malik carries Elise’s traditions into the next generation.
Warm, emotional, funny, and deeply nostalgic, Forever Sunset Springs is a celebration of found family, enduring love, cowboy families, legacy, second chances, and what happens after happily ever after.
A homecoming for readers who have loved the Cowboys of Sunset Springs from the beginning.