Texas is one of the series readers ask me about most, and it's not hard to see why: it opens with one of my favorite high-concept hooks — a cowboy and a millionaire oilman blackmailed into marrying for a year — and then spends nine books unpacking what happens when a fake arrangement turns into a real family.
Where it begins
The premise is simple and brutal: love, family, and a generation of hurt, with a guaranteed happy ever after by the time the dust settles. From that first marriage-of-convenience setup, the series widens out across nine books, following the wider circle of family and ranch hands who all eventually get their own shot at love.
Texas is also the longest small-town series I write
Outside of hockey, Texas is my longest-running series at nine books — long enough that it spun off its own follow-up. Legacy picks up the Texas world's emotional thread: broken men come to Legacy Ranch searching for a way to rebuild, finding redemption and second-chance love of their own. If you finish Texas and want more of that world, Legacy is exactly where to go next.
Part of the small-town cluster
Texas sits alongside Montana, Whisper Ridge Wyoming, Ellery, Stanford Creek, and Oxford Knights in the small-town corner of my catalog — ranches, rivalries, and towns where everyone eventually finds their way home. See how they all connect on the MM Romance Reading Order page.
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