The Careys of Cowboy Point Series

Five cowboy brothers need wives, now.

Part of Cowboy Point, Montana →
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Zeke Carey has always considered himself a reasonable man. He’s worked the land that’s been in his family since the first Carey settlers found their way into the wilderness of Montana. High Mountain Ranch has been the family’s pride, joy, despair, and duty ever since.

But at least ranching makes sense. His sons are more complicated, because they defy him without the excuse of bad weather.

He has five of them, for his sins. His oldest and the twins with his first wife, God rest her soul, his sainted and still-beloved Alice. The youngest two with Belinda, who is less a solace upon his soul and more a thorn in his side, but the Good Lord knows he loves that woman something crazy.

Zeke reckons that if he could fall in love twice when he’s not likely to be confused for Robert Redford any time soon, his foolish sons should step up and get started on the next generation of Careys. Pronto.

Because a man who settles on this land of theirs is more likely to stay and work it. There’s the whole family history of the Carey family to make that clear as a bell.

And he doesn’t mean to let them think he’s ill one night at a family dinner on a particularly cold winter night… but he doesn’t correct them, either.

After all… the more ill they think he is, the more they might do what he wants and settle down. And Zeke is prepared to put on an act worthy of Redford himself—if he’ll come out of it with grandchildren.

So he does the only thing a father with hard-headed sons can.

He tells them he’s dying. And that his dying wish is all of them married with babies.

So they better get moving.

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Characters in the Careys of Cowboy Point Series

The Cowboy’s Mail Order Bride

  • The Cowboy’s Mail Order Bride
    Harlan Carey

    Background:

    Harlan doesn’t waste his time.

    He cares about the family land and the ranching that Careys have done since the first miners made their way west. Finding himself a wife is a part of that legacy– but he doesn’t have time to date.

    Placing an ad for a solid, dependable woman seems like the way to go. Especially when the woman who turns up is Kendall Darlington.

    And soon enough, the man who lives for his legacy can’t seem to think about anything but her…

    Likes: The land. His family. The Carey legacy.

    Dislikes: Liars. Cheaters. Anyone who isn't as good as a handshake and their word.

    Favorite Country Song: Cowboys Like That, Alyssa Micaela

  • The Cowboy’s Mail Order Bride
    Kendall Darlington

    Background:

    Kendall needs a soft place to land for a little while, so why not answer an old school ad for a mail-order bride sort of deal?

    She’s not expecting the quiet intensity and rock-hard steadiness of Harlan Carey.

    And soon it’s not the future she’s worried about any longer, but her unfortunate past…

    Likes: Staying put. Roots. Good men. Honesty.

    Dislikes: Her family. Con women (see: her family). Lies. Playing games.

    Favorite Country Song: Ladylike, Ingrid Andreas

The Cowboy’s Forbidden Bride

  • The Cowboy’s Forbidden Bride
    Wilder Carey

    Background:

    Wilder Carey has happily avoided the Lisle family all his life, as required in a tiny mountain town where an age-old grudge is treated like a fresh wound on the daily.

    But he’s not prepared for the sight of little Cat… not so little at all. Dressed to kill, in fact, and looking for trouble. The kind of trouble Wilder is only too happy to provide.

    Thing is, Wilder’s not a forever kind of cowboy.

    Too bad Cat’s making him reconsider…

    Likes: Women, whiskey, living down to expectations...

    Dislikes: Morning afters and any other such commitments

    Favorite Country Song: Project, Chase McDaniel

  • The Cowboy’s Forbidden Bride
    Cat Lisle

    Background:

    Cat Lisle is fed up with her same old, same old life in same old, same old Cowboy Point where all people see when they look at her is her family’s long history… and the ongoing feud with the Careys that was boring back in the 1800s.

    What isn’t boring is Wilder Carey.

    Much less the way he kisses her.

    And Cat starts to think that maybe she doesn’t have to stray too far from home to have the biggest adventure of her life after all…

    Likes: Wide open spaces, the dream of new places, cities she's never seen

    Dislikes: The fact that no one in Cowboy Point sees her as a grown woman, just the little Lisle girl... Or maybe they're just afraid of her brothers

    Favorite Country Song: Wide Open Spaces, the Chicks

The Cowboy’s Secret Babies

  • The Cowboy’s Secret Babies
    Ryder Carey

    Background:

    Ryder had no intention of coming home to Cowboy Point.

    Not that it wasn’t a nice place to grow up, but he loves the rodeo. He loves arenas, the rank bulls, the crowds.

    But with his father’s health on the decline and his own body a whole lot older than when he started at eighteen, he decides to give home a try. Maybe settle down like his older brothers. Maybe figure out the rest of his life.

    Before he can do that, though, he knows he owes the hometown girl he spent one unfogettable night with three years ago an apology. Not for the night,  but the morning after.

    He doesn’t expect pretty Rosie Stark to have the exact same incendiary effect she had on him then.

    And he really didn’t expect to see her with twin boys who are the spitting image of Ryder and his twin brother at the same age.

    Suddenly, settling down is looking a lot more explosive than he expected…

    Likes: Whiskey, women, and seven great seconds on a mean-tempered bull.

    Dislikes: Settling down. Not that he's tried it.

    Favorite Country Song: Just for the Record, Ruston Kelly

  • The Cowboy’s Secret Babies
    Rosie Stark

    Background:

    Rosie Stark had big plans for her life.

    She wasn’t expecting one night in Austin to change everything, but once she has her twin boys, it’s hard to remember that she ever had plans that weren’t all about them.

    Rosie might not have planned to be a single mother–and she’s always known that there was likely to be a reckoning with Riley Carey, should he ever come back home to Cowboy Point from the rodeo–but it’s amazing how time flies by when there are two lives in her hands.

    She never meant to not tell him. And once he knows, she’s sure that they can be practical about the whole thing… can’t they?

    Because reigniting the wild passion that started all this is definitely not on her agenda…

    Likes: The life she's built, her family, her levelheadedness.

    Dislikes: Being the subject of town gossip--oh well.

    Favorite Country Song: The Time I've Wasted, Lori McKenna

The Cowboy’s Best Friend

  • The Cowboy’s Best Friend
    Boone Carey

    Background:

    Boone has been in love with Sierra Tate since he first laid eyes on her at age 15.

    This love has survived being relegated to “best friend” status almost immediately. It has weathered her long-term relationship with someone who didn’t deserve her, much less to marry her. It’s held up in all the years since.

    If what he can have of Sierra is friendship, Boone figures he’s still coming out ahead.

    Until that one night when she finally looks at him and sees him…

    And now he has one, single goal: to show her that they’ve been meant for each other all along.

    Likes: His brothers (but he doesn't need them to know that), ranch life, his new dairy and farm, and pretty much all things Sierra Tate

    Dislikes: Anything that makes the people he love sad

    Favorite Country Song: Top Shelf, Sam Donald

  • The Cowboy’s Best Friend
    Sierra Tate

    Background:

    Sierra has been best friends with Boone Carey since she was 15 years old.

    He’s been her support system ever since. She can’t imagine what she would do without him. And now that her not-so-great marriage is over, Sierra is only too happy to run to Boone’s and hunker down. She can live in the apartment above his barn and help him run the artisan dairy she and he dreamed up. She can make a whole new life for herself.

    Sweet, kind Boone is her angel.

    Until one night, she finally sees the truth about the man Boone has always been–

    And once she kisses him, she’s afraid that she might find out she’s been in love with him all along..

    Likes: Her bestie, their big dreams, the life she wants to build in Cowboy Point

    Dislikes: The life she's been living, tied up in other people's expectations...

    Favorite Country Song: Feel Like This, Ingrid Andress

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