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Jake McGregor ~ The Grumpy Montana Cowboy Who Inherits a Family

Book: The Rancher Takes a Family
Setting: Grand, Montana
Genre: Contemporary Western Cowboy Romance
Romance tropes: Second Chance • Grumpy Cowboy • Unexpected Guardian • High School Sweethearts • Instant Family

 

Three children who need him for everything. The one woman he needs for himself.

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Jake McGregor is a Montana cattle rancher who understands hard work, responsibility, and the demands of ranch life. But nothing has prepared him for becoming guardian to his late sister's three children.

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Two young boys and a baby girl need him to be their source of security after a devastating loss. Jake is determined to be there for them, even as he struggles with the fear that he isn't emotionally equipped to give them everything they need.

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For a grumpy cowboy accustomed to managing the challenges of a cattle ranch, raising three grieving children is unfamiliar territory.

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Then he reconnects with Lacey Anderson.

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Lacey was the girl Jake loved and lost in high school. Now she's a teacher at his nephews' new school in Grand, Montana, and their renewed connection offers Jake something he desperately needs: a relationship that isn't defined by his responsibilities.

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For the moment, he wants to keep Lacey separate from his family life. It isn't that he doesn't care about the children. Their needs have become the center of his world, and Jake wants one part of his life where he can simply be himself.

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But maintaining that separation may prove more complicated than he expects.

Can a cowboy who's suddenly responsible for an entire family find a way to make room for the woman he loves without losing the one relationship he wants to keep for himself?

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Discover Jake McGregor in The Rancher Takes a Family, a heartfelt second-chance cowboy romance featuring a grumpy Montana rancher, a schoolteacher heroine, three orphaned children, and the complicated business of building a family.

Read Chapter One here

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