Books like The rancher takes a bride by Brenda Minton

After a whirlwind romance, a soldier marries a pregnant waitress in Las Vegas, only to return wounded to Oklahoma where he must confront his shattered promise and learn the true meaning of courage for his family.

Alisa Merrick, a tough Texas politician, reconnects with former army ranger and rancher Matt Rafferty after his return from service, navigating past love and new challenges in a West‑scented romance.

Kincaid, a proud rancher who cannot shoulder his troubles alone, rushes to marry a stranger to keep his daughter. Angelique Sumner, new ranch‑wife, hides in the Red Arrow Ranch while finding unexpected passion for her hard, embittered husband.

In Texas’s Martin's Crossing, rancher Jake Martin meets Breezy Hernandez, a restless woman who has just gained joint custody of her late brother’s twin daughters. Together they challenge hard‑wired skepticism, opening hearts and forging a new family by Christmas.

When wild mustangs endanger lives, rancher Cade Baldwin rushes to help. He’s surprised to find the young forest ranger who saved him, Lyn Warner, a widowed mother devoted to her injured daughter. Their shared faith may forge an unbreakable bond.

Four Texas sisters in a 19th‑century frontier setting navigate love, faith, and adventure as they seek Christmas joy and new beginnings.

Cal Blake's ranch, the Rocking Bar S near Glory, Alberta, is doing pretty well, and Cal's pretty content with his life... but he's been thinking maybe it's time he got married. Then, one fine September day, he meets Nina O'Shea O'Sullivan on the road to Glory. She seems to be attracted to him, and he's sure attracted to her. They begin exchanging letters... and the following spring, their long-distance romance leads to marriage. The rancher brings his new bride home to Glory, but there's something he doesn't know about Nina, something her letters didn't tell him. She's not EXACTLY who he thinks she is! That summer, when she leaves, there's another thing she doesn't tell him: she's pregnant. MEN OF GLORY: A cowboy town in cowboy country. This is a place a woman could love. These are MEN a woman could love!

A Christmas story of love, loss, and the unexpected in Texas.

A white Texas rancher and an Iroquois woman forge a forbidden love under the harsh justice of the frontier.

Joanna had found that being the daughter of a world-famous celebrity can bring its problems; and when things got too much for her she decided to get away for a while. So she took a job as summer help on a Canadian ranch, without letting anyone, even her fiancé, know where she was. She was rather disconcerted to find herself the only woman on a primitive ranch, miles from anywhere, with one overbearing rancher, the three obstreperous children he had taken into his care, twenty cow-hands, and several thousand cattle. If anyone ever needed a wife, she thought, it was Rafe Holford -- though she pitied any girl who might try to cope with such a man! All the same, when a young woman appeared on the scene who was clearly ideal for the position, Joanna found that it was not pity, but a much more surprising feeling that was aroused in her!

After the mysterious death of his wife, a reclusive rancher in Wyoming faces murder accusations and the help of a determined bodyguard, who must protect him and his daughter while uncovering the truth.

After prison, former gunslinger Hunter Mitchell seeks to claim the child he recently learns he fathered, but his reformed nature clashes with Annabeth Silks, the fierce aunt who will not let him win.

John Cutter’s dream of a dude ranch faces funding doubts until businesswoman Dana Brooks decides to invest and make it real. Their growing love is tested when a hidden secret threatens everything.

Who is she? While looking for a missing child in Sagebrush, Texas, K-9 detective Lee Calloway and his border-collie partner find someone else. A mystery woman running for her life, scared and injured. But she has no idea who she is—or why someone is after her. Lee's unit suspects "Heidi" is a criminal who knows more than she's saying, yet his gut instinct says she's innocent. Lee vows to protect her until her memory returns, but now someone is desperate to ensure that never happens.

A single dad meets a divorced woman at Christmas for a proposal under the mistletoe.

Seamstress Vonnie Taylor’s life turns upside down when her ex‑husband, Texas rancher Adam Baldwin, has his marriage annulled and now needs a wedding dress for his new fiancée. Facing the ultimate indignity, Vonnie must work the fabric of their past and discover whether love is worth the wait.

Retired Army sniper Finn O'Donnell opens a ranch in Burnt Boot, Texas, hoping for a quiet Christmas. His plans shift when an old friend, Callie Brewster, arrives seeking protection for her nephew Martin.