Jackie Merritt: 38 books

LONG-LOST FAMILY? For over twenty years, Blythe Benning had kept a secret from her teenage sweetheart, the man she loved-the man who'd fathered her child. Because Blythe had given their baby up for adoption. And she'd never stopped regretting it. Then Brent Morrison stormed back into...

After being caught in a compromising clinch with his boss's granddaughter, ranch foreman Eli Forrester was forced into a shotgun marriage with Melanie Kincaid. Eli had never wanted anyone as much as he did beautiful Melanie. But he'd learned the hard way not to let anyone get too close. Which meant...

A mail-order bride and...her kid brother? The ad said rancher Rand Harding--a real, live cowboy!--wanted a wife. So orphaned city kid Mack Paxton began planning. He'd pen a gushy letter. Enclose a pin-up picture. Forge his big sister's signature. And presto! Mack would have it nailed: a mail-order...

After a rodeo accident, barrel-racing queen Maddie Kincaid was hotter than a fireball and wilder than tumbleweed. She sure didn't take to convalescing as well as she should have. Neither did she want handsome but uptight Dr. Noah Martin acting as her personal physician. No sooner did the oh-so-perfect...

Rumor's beloved animal doctor, Valerie Fairchild, had always taken care of herself. She'd survived cancer and a haunting trauma in her youth-alone. And she didn't need a relationship with the town's fire chief, Reed Kingsley-but somehow she couldn't ignore the flames he set off whenever he was near! Reed...

Zane Fortune wasn't looking for love. But he does need a plan to get his sisters to stop their matchmaking before he loses his mind. Luckily, he meets Gwen Hutton in his own backyard, soaking wet and chasing his dog. Funny, he'd never taken the time to get to know the woman behind Help-Mate, his domestic...

Sexy widower Dallas Fortune may be Texas’s most eligible bachelor but he’s remained quietly on the sidelines, content to work the ranch and run the family empire.When he shows up in the nick of time to pull a curious boy out of harm’s way, he gets a hands-on introduction to young Travis Randall…and...

Maid in Montana LONG, HOT MONTANA NIGHTS Widowed mom Candace Fanon's treacherous body was betraying her deepest convictions! She couldn't stop thinking about sexy stranger Burke Mallory. He seemed to be everything she and her baby needed. Yet, somehow she knew he wasn't telling the truth...

Made in Montana A GOOD COWBOY IS HARD TO FIND…. So Lola Fanon vowed not to be impressed when Duke Sheridan walked into her tiny shop in Rocky Ford, Montana. The tall, lean, jeans-clad rancher might be the "best catch in the county," but Lola had been around-she knew better...

"JENNA, YOU AND I CAN NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT ACQUAINTANCES." Nurse Jenna Elliot knew proud, hardheaded Bram Colton thought she was the town's spoiled golden girl, and that her father would rather die than let her get involved with a Comanche. But that didn't stop her from loving the dark, brooding...

"I knew a woman on the ranch would disrupt my peace-and I sure was right." Jake Banyon had his hands full catching a wild stallion without wrangling with a fiery Carly Paxton. His boss's daughter's unexpected invasion of his hard-earned privacy posed a threat to Jake's loner status. The explosive...

MAN of the Month The BENNING Legacy MR. AUGUST The Montana Man: He'd lived for his son and the land-until she came into his life… His Mystery Woman: She was called Sierra. She was beautiful and vulnerable, and he felt an immediate connection to her. All rancher Clint Barrow...

That Special Woman! A MARRIAGE MADE IN MONTANA? The wedding march was playing, but Serena Fanon wasn't listening. The minute she'd returned home to Big Sky Country, Montana's best-lookin', heart-stoppin', most infuriating man-Travis Holden-was in hot pursuit of her hand in marriage....

Future Bride? Years ago, Cassandra Whitfield became a woman in bad boy Gard Sterling's arms. To Cassie, their shared passion seemed filled with promises-yet the very next day, Gard didn't even know her name! but now, the terms of her father's will brought her back to Montana-to face the last...