Dirty Cowboy Books in Order
Part ofElle Thorpe Books in OrderExplore the Dirty Cowboy world by Elle Thorpe in order, with cowboy romance lists, plot summaries, reading order notes, and advice on the best place to start.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
8 books
Mother Bucker
by Elle Thorpe
2023
Pregnant and freshly dumped, the heroine plans to finish one last working holiday on an Australian cattle station before settling into single mum life. Sharing a tiny space with Abel, her dad’s best friend and a much older cowboy, makes resisting their forbidden, slow burn attraction almost impossible.
Can't Bucking Wait
by Elle Thorpe
2022
Back home for her sister’s wedding, a burned out city doctor finds the only spare bed on her family’s bull riding ranch is in cowboy Preston Innes’s cabin, turning awkward history and forbidden attraction into a steamy, off limits second chance.
Buck You!
by Elle Thorpe
2021
Once destined for the pro bull riding tour, Summer Hunt is sidelined by injury and a pushy fiancé. When family friend Dom returns to work at her father’s school, he is determined to prove her dreams and their simmering attraction are still worth fighting for.
Talk Dirty, Cowboy
by Elle Thorpe
2020
Widowed bull rider Bowen Barclay is failing in the arena and fumbling single dad life. A late night webcam mishap introduces him to exhausted single mum Paisley, and their flirty online chats soon spill into real life, where old wounds and public pressure collide.
Sexy Dirty Cowboy
by Elle Thorpe
2020
Ex motorcycle club enforcer Rem ‘Viper’ James is arrested in front of a packed rodeo and offered a deal, testify against his old crew or die in prison. Detective Whitney is assigned to guard him in a tiny town as his fake wife, where danger and temptation quickly turn real.
Ride Dirty, Cowboy
by Elle Thorpe
2020
Addie is shattered after a car crash that killed the man she loved and blew up her life. Covering the bull riding tour as a gossip columnist throws her back together with Kai, her boyfriend’s icy best friend, where guilt, grief, and slow burn desire collide.
Buck Cowboys
by Elle Thorpe
2020
Hallie once ruined her friendship with Nate Mathews by offering him her virginity and getting rejected. Years later, she runs Hunt’s Bull Riding School, and when Nate limps home from the tour full of regrets, he wants more than just their easy old friendship back.
25 Reasons to Hate Christmas and Cowboys
by Elle Thorpe
2019
Isabel has a disaster story for every Christmas of her twenty five years and zero interest in snowy Wyoming. Local cowboy Johnny sees her grinchy attitude as a challenge, determined to rewrite her holiday list with small town cheer, sizzling chemistry, and one last reason to stay.
Series background & context
The Dirty Cowboy world follows bull riders, single parents, and small town cowboys whose lives revolve around a family run riding school and the pro rodeo circuit. Each book stands alone, but shared families and friendships mean the stories weave together into one long, satisfying tangle.
In Talk Dirty, Cowboy a widowed bull rider, Bowen, is barely holding on to his career while raising his young son. A late night webcam mishap introduces him to Paisley, a struggling single mum who sings off key in her tiny house, unaware that a handsome stranger is listening. What starts as an embarrassing meet cute turns into long distance flirting, filthy chat, and a second chance at love for two exhausted parents.
Ride Dirty, Cowboy shifts to Addie, a woman grieving a horrific accident that changed everything, including her relationship. She takes a job covering the bull riding tour as a gossip columnist, where she has to share cramped spaces and unresolved history with icy rider Kai, her boyfriend’s former best friend. The book leans into survivors’ guilt, slow burn attraction, and life on the road.
In Sexy Dirty Cowboy Rem, an ex motorcycle club member turned rodeo star, cuts a deal with law enforcement to avoid being dragged back to prison. Detective Whitney is assigned to guard him, forcing the two into a fake marriage and small town hideout that quickly turns into very real tension when danger follows them. Holiday spin off 25 Reasons to Hate Christmas and Cowboys brings an Australian grinch to snowy Wyoming, where a relentlessly cheerful cowboy sets out to fix every disaster on her long list of terrible Christmases.
Companion books in the Buck Cowboys line expand the same world. At Hunt’s Bull Riding School, best friends and would be champions get second chances at love and riding careers. Hallie and Nate move from rejection to slow, sweet friends to lovers in Buck Cowboys. In Buck You! injured rider Summer battles fear and a pushy fiancé while old friend Dom tries to prove she still belongs in the arena and in his arms. Can't Bucking Wait and Mother Bucker add forbidden crushes, age gaps, found family, and trips between American ranches and outback stations.
Together these stories mix the adrenaline of eight seconds on the back of a bull with quiet domestic moments, kids’ birthday parties, and long talks on front porches. The tone stays contemporary and heartfelt, with plenty of humor and heat, and a strong theme of people getting another chance to choose the life and love they really want.
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