Rock Creek Ranch Series

Leaving her job behind and heading home to Montana for a family emergency is worrisome enough, but when Callie Rankin's New York future collides head-on with her Montana past, she is faced with making a life-, and perhaps, love-altering decision.   When Callie Rankin's father falls critically ill, she returns to her Montana home. Leaving New York, her promotion, and a budding relationship behind, she heads back to the ranch, planning to stay only until she knows her father is out of the woods.   But her homecoming is not entirely welcome. Her relationships with her siblings and stepmother are challenging, which makes coming home even more difficult. When the unthinkable happens and her father dies, Callie rapidly unravels. Then ranch hand, Murphy Reynolds—the boy she left behind a decade ago—reaches out to pick up the pieces.   Murphy Reynolds fell in love with Callie heart and soul the last summer they spent together on the ranch. While coaching her when she raced the barrels, traveling to rodeos in the region, he fell hard and fast. He would have married her in a heartbeat to keep her on the ranch with him forever. The problem was, she couldn't get off the ranch fast enough. College was her excuse—she left and never looked back. Or so it seemed to him.   Now, Callie must not only mourn the loss of her father, but face her past and mend fences with her family and Murphy. Her choices will shape her future. But will that future be with Murphy and her family on the ranch, or back in New York, where her promotion and a rocky relationship wait?

A Rock Creek Ranch Short Story   It's the day before Callie Rankin's wedding to Murphy Reynolds, and he, for one, cannot wait to get a ring on Callie's finger. Murphy has loved Callie since she was a teenager. The plans are in place—venue, minister, flowers, photographer, caterer and more. Murphy waited a decade for Callie to come home, and he never really thought she would come around to loving him—but she did. Callie can't believe how everything fell together so quickly. After the horror of her father's accident and his death, and her rush home to be with family, she never expected to fall in love with the cowboy she left behind years earlier. But here they are, getting married tomorrow. And while she and her best friend Kris have seen to every detail, outside circumstances suddenly toss stumbling blocks in their way from every direction. Will Callie and Murphy get past these hurdles and finally get married, after all? Or will they have to post-pone their happily-ever-after?

The last thing Parker Rankin expects the day of his father's funeral is for life to throw him another curveball--especially a red-headed, no-nonsense, curveball like Reba Morris.  Parker expects life on Rock Creek Ranch to change. He is unsure how much his stepmother, Abby, has influenced his father's final wishes. Although Abby has been a part of his life for years, her goals for the ranch differ from his. All Parker wants is to continue his way of life--running the Montana ranch until the day he dies, just like his father. Having recently relocated to Montana, and living in a cabin near Rock Creek Ranch, Rebekah (Reba) Morris decides to do the neighborly thing and help at the Rankin home when everyone gathers after rancher John Rankin's funeral. With her late husband's passing of several months earlier on her mind, she knows how difficult it can be handling the small things, so she hopes the Rankins will be appreciative of her neighborly efforts. What Reba doesn't expect, however, is a glimpse into a cool and aloof--albeit sexy-- Montana rancher's personal life. A glimpse that both intrigues and stops her in her tracks. She came to Montana to heal and to focus on the next phase of her life. The last thing she wants is to fall in love.