
Rocky Mountain Angel
Vivian Arend · Six Pack Ranch #4
A fake engagement between old friends in a small Colorado town turns achingly, unexpectedly real.
Description
Allison Parker needs a reason to come home—a believable excuse that won’t reveal the real one. Her mother’s hiding a painful truth, and Allison refuses to let her suffer alone. Pretending to be engaged to an old friend seems like the perfect solution, especially when that friend is Gabe Coleman.Gabe’s got his hands full keeping his family ranch afloat and butting heads with his stubborn father. The last thing he needs is more chaos, but when Allison offers to help in exchange for a fake engagement, he can’t say no. Not to her.What starts as a favor soon turns into something real. Late nights, stolen kisses, and the kind of quiet understanding neither of them expected. But to move forward, they’ll have to let go of the pain that’s been holding them both back.A small-town, friends-to-lovers, fake-fiancé romance with family secrets, slow-burn passion, and a tortured cowboy who finally learns that love isn’t weakness—it’s home.
Six Pack Ranch series
Books like this

Mountain Time
India Reiste
A bull rider with one rule — no girlfriends — meets the one woman worth breaking it for on a Colorado mountain ranch.
9 tropes in common

Bouquets and Buckles
Elliott Rose · Crimson Ridge
Stranded in a snowstorm, she accidentally calls her lifelong crush — her best friend's dad — for help.
7 tropes in common

A Rancher's Heart
Vivian Arend · The Stones of Heart Falls #1
A grumpy widowed rancher hires a nanny who's exactly the kind of trouble he's been avoiding.
4 tropes in common

Sweet Lullaby
Lorraine Heath
A ranchhand marries a pregnant, abandoned woman — and slowly becomes the family neither knew they needed.
6 tropes in common

Lassoing the Virgin Mail-Order Bride
Alexa Riley · Cowboys & Virgins #1
A mail-order bride arrives at a ranch expecting duty — not a beefy cowboy who becomes obsessed with her.
4 tropes in common

Spurs
M.A. Cobb · Black Gulch Ranch #1
A widowed Montana rancher falls for his daughter's best friend — but loving her puts her in danger.
6 tropes in common

Wolf Signs
Vivian Arend · Granite Lake Wolves #1
A deaf survivalist and a soon-to-be alpha wolf find their fated mate bond in a remote Yukon cabin.
3 tropes in common

Untamed
M.J. Hendrix · Redford Ranch #1
A just-released bull rider plots revenge on the mayor — by stealing his daughter's heart.
4 tropes in common

Sweet Escape
Willa Kay · Whispering Oaks Ranch #1
A grieving cowboy returns home and meets a woman he can't have — until she's carrying his baby.
10 tropes in common

When the Duke Was Wicked
Lorraine Heath · Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James #1
A grieving rake helps his childhood friend spot fortune hunters — and falls for her instead.
8 tropes in common

Life After Wife
Amber Kelly · Balsam Ridge #1
A woman fleeing her failed marriage finds a fresh start — and unexpected love — in her Tennessee hometown.
8 tropes in common

Buck Cowboys
Elle Thorpe · Buck Cowboys #1
She offered him everything at 18 and he walked away — now he's back, and he wants his second chance.
9 tropes in common

Among the Willows
June Lark · Thornbrush Ranch #1
She ran from him twelve years ago — now they're back in the same small town, and someone wants her gone.
8 tropes in common

A Love Like the Sun
Riss M. Neilson
Childhood best friends fake-date for a summer — but their real feelings have always been the dangerous part.
9 tropes in common

Cowboy Casual
Holly Renee · The Calloway Ranch #1
She ran from the cowboy next door ten years ago — now she's back, and neither of them can pretend it's casual.
9 tropes in common

A Lady For A Duke
Alexis Hall
A trans woman returns from Waterloo to reclaim herself — and the grieving duke who never stopped needing her.
8 tropes in common

Rivers Between Us
Greta Rose West · Wisper Dreams #1
A woman fleeing danger returns home to the ex-best friend she once broke — now the sheriff sworn to protect her.
8 tropes in common

Soul Searching
Lyla Sage · Sweetwater Peak #1
A ghost-whisperer returns to her small town and rents a room from a brooding stranger — whose house is haunted.
9 tropes in common

Montana Dawn
Caroline Fyffe · McCutcheon Family #1
A lone cowboy delivers a stranger's baby on the trail — and can't bring himself to leave her behind.
9 tropes in common

A Rogue to Remember
Emily Sullivan · League of Scoundrels #1
A spy must escort the childhood sweetheart he abandoned home — only to fall for her all over again.
9 tropes in common







