She'll do anything to spite her mother and find her own happiness...even keep her cowboy billionaire boyfriend a secret.
Virginia Winters is Kentucky royalty as the heir of the largest whiskey distillery in the state. She's been managing the company for two decades, but she hasn't been able to figure out how to manage her mother's expectations.
Cayden Chappell has been interested in Ginny for months, and she's definitely interested in him too. They've attended all of her social functions together over the holidays, but everything is so stiff and formal. He's not sure if he's getting the real version of Ginny or the one wearing a mask to keep up appearances.
When her mother tells Cayden horses and whiskey don't mix, and that he needs to end their relationship, he doesn't know how to disobey someone as powerful as Wendy Winters. So he does what Wendy wants; he stays away from Ginny.
She doesn't call him either, baffled as she is by his sudden silence. When they meet up at a gin and gems event at Sweet Rose Whiskey, their explosive feelings for each other come forward again. After a kiss that reminds them both that their previous time together was real, he confesses that her mother asked him to break-up with Ginny.
Furious, Ginny confronts her mother only to learn her mother has an old grudge against the Chappells. If Ginny disobeys her mother and dates Cayden anyway...she'll lose Sweet Rose Whiskey. She'll lose everything she's worked for over the past twenty years. Ginny suddenly has a difficult choice to make: the career and family business she loves? Or the man who makes her feel loved and cherished for the first time in her life?
Can Ginny and Cayden's love truly survive in the shadows? Or will they both end up broken-hearted if the truth comes out?
She'll do anything to secure the funding she needs to take her perfumery to the next level...even date the boy next door.
Except Spur Chappell is no boy.
He's six-feet-two-inches of pure muscle, devilish grins, big hands, and loud laughter.
Oh, and did Olivia Hudson mention his money?
He's got a ton of that too.
As the oldest son in the Chappell family, it's up to Spur to lead his brothers into the next generation of raising and selling championship racehorses. He loves it with his whole heart and soul, but a horse can't keep him warm at night.
So when Olli Hudson, one of his neighbors, asks him to be her arm candy for one night to woo an investor, the worst he thinks can happen is his eyes might get permanently stuck up in his head for how often he rolls them.
He wasn't expecting to be swept off his feet by the five-and-half-foot powerhouse of a woman with a nose that can sniff out the purest scents...and all of his hidden feelings for her.
Will Olli be able to win over the cowboy billionaire? Or will she lose everything--including her heart?
Start this series by Emmy Eugene and meet the Chappell family of cowboys in the beautiful Kentucky Bluegrass region!
She'll do anything to keep her ranch...even marry the cowboy she likes just so she can enter her horse in a race.
Beth Dixon lost her husband almost three years ago. She's up to her eyeballs in debt, and her to-do list around the ranch only gets longer with each passing day.
Trey Chappell has found TJ Dixon in his hay barn several times, and each time, he patiently takes the five-year-old back to his mother, Beth. He likes the pretty brunette next door, but she argues with him every time he offers to help her. They've been suffering from one step forward and then two back for a couple of months now, but when Beth learns about the Sweetheart Classic, she's sure she's got just the horse that could win the race.
The winner gets half a million dollars - but there's a catch.
Only married couples who own the racehorse together can enter the Sweetheart Classic. She can solve this problem, just like she's tackled one obstacle after another since her husband died.
Beth calls Trey and asks him to come help her with the horses, but when he arrives, she proposes the idea of a fake marriage so they can enter her horse in the Classic. And Trey...actually considers it.
His feelings for Beth are real, but if a fake marriage can get him one step closer to a real relationship with Beth, he'd be crazy to say no, right?
Can Beth and Trey survive a fake relationship stuffed full of real feelings? Or will hearts break in this inspirational contemporary western romance?
Can a Christmas crush and their mutual love of rescuing dogs bring them back together?
Russ Johnson has the degree and the experience to run a ranch successfully. Not that it really matters if he doesn't, because this cowboy billionaire's bank account can take a hit. Too bad his heart can't.
When his ex-girlfriend, Janelle Stokes, shows up at Chestnut Ranch with another dog that needs rescuing, they start seeing each other again. She was worried about how her two girls would do with Russ in their lives, so she broke up with him, her lawyerly mind taking the reins from her heart.
But as they work together to expand the dog rescue facilities at the ranch, Russ involves Janelle's kids in such a seamless way that she thinks she might just give him her whole heart for Christmas.
Yay, Russ!
Except her ex-husband is back in Chestnut Springs for the holidays, and everything gets complicated when he says he wants to try to rebuild the family Janelle once had with him and their children.
Oh, boy.
Will Russ's Christmas crush have to stay that way? Or will he and Janelle get their second chance and find a way to build a new brand of family?
She'll do anything to show her ex she's not still hung up on him...even date her best friend.
The only problem is Tamara Lennox has real feelings for Blaine Chappell. Blaine's happy to help Tam out of a tight spot. After all, she's helped him around Bluegrass Ranch more times than he can count.
They've been best friends through thick and thin, ups and downs, and happy times and broken hearts. He never really liked her ex, and he wasn't sorry to see the guy go.
He's also not sorry he's the one pretending to be her boyfriend when Hayes comes back into town. Now he just has to figure out if Tam is really over Hayes, or if he's kidding himself when he dreams of making Tam his for good.
Will Tam get out of her own way so she can be with her best friend? Or will old feelings cause a rift between her and Blaine that can't be bridged?
He wasn't supposed to kiss her. Can Travis and Millie find a way to turn their mistletoe kiss into true love?
Travis Johnson attended the speed-dating event during Chestnut Springs's Octoberfest and got exactly two phone numbers. One woman's already told him there's no spark between them.
Ouch.
The other has a boyfriend.
Double ouch.
But when Travis spots Millie at his brother's wedding, he learns she broke up with that other guy.
Perfect.
Gathering his courage, he asks her to dance, only to have his brother point out they're swaying under the mistletoe. So Travis does the only thing he can—he kisses Millie.
Millie Hepworth plans parties for a living, and Travis is crazy-busy on the ranch with his brother off on his honeymoon. So he does the only thing he can think of to keep Millie close.
He hires her to plan a Christmas party for him and his brothers out at Chestnut Ranch.
No big deal.
He forgot about the part where he works constantly and doesn't have much to say, especially to a successful, sassy woman like Millie. Oh, and the part where his mother has always hosted the Christmas party...
Oops.
This is why cowboys should never kiss under the mistletoe.
Best friends and neighbors shouldn't share a kiss...
Jenna Wright grew up next-door to Chestnut Ranch and the five Johnson brothers. Her older brother was best friends with Seth Johnson, and Jenna may or may not have had a crush on the handsome cowboy in her younger years.
It was a long time ago, she tells herself.
Now that she's divorced and back in town, she definitely has eyes for her best friend.
Will he ever notice her?
Jenna reasons that he's busy with his ranch and his dog rescue operation. They had an Edible Neighborhood project they were working on until funding became a problem, and when Seth learns he's inherited over two billion dollars from his mother's half of a family cosmetic empire, he rushes to tell Jenna they can now fund the Edible Neighborhood. He wasn't supposed to kiss her.
It was an accident, he tells himself.
But Seth's own feelings roar to the surface, and he can't ignore them.
Where did those come from?
Can best friends and next-door neighbors Seth and Jenna navigate their rocky pasts to find a future happily-ever-after together?
