Curtiss Ann Matlock Books in Order

Stranded in an Oklahoma storm, Katie is rescued by rancher Reno Martin and snowed in with his family. What begins as shelter becomes a brief, intense chance at love that neither of them is ready to lose.

When fire tears through the fields around Coogan, Oklahoma, Amanda Jameson joins the fight and meets moody hero Cole Mattox in the middle of the smoke. After the flames die down, a more personal blaze begins.

Cassie Marlow loves Quentin Hatfield for the very qualities that make him hard to keep: his restless courage, his hunger for adventure, and his devotion to Oklahoma's wild places. Loving an Oklahoma ranger means risking tomorrow for today.

Powerful financier Jason Kenyon has wealth, status, and almost no room left for joy. Then he meets Lauren Howard, but a twenty-year age gap and family complications make this late-in-life chance at love feel dangerously fragile.

Bachelor Wade Wolcott has no interest in a new neighbor, especially not a captivating widow with three lively daughters. But Ellie McGrew and her girls turn his quiet life upside down before he can protect it.

Jillian Aldritt escapes to Cocoa Beach hoping a quiet vacation will calm her stress and her mysterious hives. Instead, a barbecue disaster and a too-attractive stranger shatter her solitude and shake up her carefully managed life.

Waitress Lacey Brant wants to take her children home for Christmas and ask her parents' forgiveness after eleven years away. The ride she gets from a Scrooge-like trucker named Cooper becomes a long highway journey toward family, grace, and love.

When Jack Cashion walks out on Willa, she keeps one last secret and learns to survive on her own. Years later he comes back full of regret, only to find that winning forgiveness will take more than money or charm.

Widowed Rachel returns to Oklahoma with her young son and finds old gossip waiting for her. The bond she long denied with Dallas Cordell still burns, but family loyalty and grief make every step toward love complicated.

When Annalise Pardee inherits the Aces and Eights ranch, the locals call her a gold-digger and expect her to fail. Standing in her way is foreman Yancey Cordell, a hard man to trust and an even harder man to forget.

Quaker Maggie Holland rescues wounded drifter Jake Cordell and brings violence straight to her own door. His dangerous past and her stubborn gentleness make for a tender western romance with real risk underneath it.

Annie Lane falls in love with rancher Matt Breen through letters, then arrives at marriage carrying a secret she could not put on paper. Their hard-won romance must survive shock, pride, and the distance between words and real life.

When Billie Ballinger's car dies outside the tiny West Texas town of Heaven, she ends up under the roof of widowed mayor Linc Snow and his four unruly children. She cannot cook or clean much, but she proves unexpectedly good at mending hearts.

Honorable rancher Jesse Breen thinks he knows exactly how life should be lived until a bold woman in a pink Cadillac blows straight through his defenses. What starts as irritation quickly turns into trouble of the best kind.

Widowed Olivia Pritchett reaches Texas with her two boys only to learn the man she meant to marry has died. Gruff rancher Monroe Locket gives them shelter for Christmas, and the holiday begins changing all their plans.

Cowboy Rory Breen first crosses paths with headstrong Zoe Yarberry while helping her steal a horse. Their spark is instant, but Rory's restless nature and old hurts make love feel as wild as the country around them.

Oren Breen should be settling into an easy season, but he cannot stop thinking about his landlady and next-door neighbor, Lorena Venable. In the last Breen family story, summer heat turns neighborly longing into something harder to ignore.

On a sheep drive west from New Mexico, rugged Cross McCree finds himself drawn to Lilly Blackwell, a widowed Southern woman who seems too delicate for the trail. The journey tests both her strength and his guarded heart.

Molly and Tommy Lee Hayes look like the perfect longtime couple, until Molly finally walks out weeks before their twenty-fifth anniversary. In Valentine, family, gossip, and old love force them to ask what forever is really worth.

Etta Rivers is pregnant, broke, and furious when her unfaithful husband dies and leaves the ranch buried in debt. Then drifter Johnny Bellah walks into the wreckage, and hope begins to stir beside a rangy horse named Little Gus.

After her mother dies, Rainey Valentine hits the road with an old mare, a truck, and more grief than answers. Her wandering through back roads and stray encounters slowly teaches her that home may still be waiting in Valentine.

After twenty years of marriage, Charlene is left with three children, a worn-out Suburban, and a life she never planned to rebuild. In Valentine, heartbreak turns into a hard, hopeful lesson in steering herself home again.

Marilee James is juggling her special-needs son, her abandoned niece, and the local paper when Tate Holloway comes to town. His arrival brings charm, disruption, and the possibility of love just when Marilee has no time for it.

Marilee James is engaged to Tate Holloway, but marriage feels risky when a special-needs son, an abandoned niece, and a painful past all depend on her. Then her ex-husband returns, forcing her to choose her future with clear eyes.

In a Christmas-bright Valentine, thirteen-year-old Corrine worries that her mother's return could wreck the only home she trusts. Around her, Marilee, Tate, and the whole town hope the season might still make room for forgiveness.

Fresh from divorce, Claire Wilder heads to Valentine to learn about the father she never knew and the life she lost. One overnight stay turns into something deeper when the town starts feeling like home.

Emma Cole wants her son's wedding to be perfect, even if that means asking her estranged husband to come home and play happy family. Back in Valentine, old hurts, old love, and a possible second chance refuse to stay buried.

Valentine's centennial should be a joyful party, especially with ninety-two-year-old Winston Valentine on the radio. But Belinda Blaine is hiding a late-in-life pregnancy and an older wound that makes celebration feel more frightening than festive.

Ruby Dee D'Angelo arrives to care for Will Starr's ailing father, and Will decides the beautiful young nurse should leave before she upends everything. Instead, her warmth and grit begin changing a lonely household from the inside out.

Widowed Mary Lunsford has built a quiet life around her mother and three grown daughters. As the nest empties, Jim Pettijohn arrives with warmth, mischief, and a reminder that a second act can be full of color.

Christmas stirs up old hurts and new hopes in Valentine, Oklahoma. As almost-thirteen-year-old Corrine fears her unreliable mother's return, Marilee and Tate brace for a season that could change their family for good.