Bøger af Jessie Gussman

Can you love someone and hate them at the same time?She led him on, lied about him, then dumped him for his cousin.She was his enemy.He walked.But he loved her still.Can people change?Cora Fischer knew they could. Heartbreak, abject poverty and a mother's bear instincts to protect her children at all costs could turn a selfish, spoiled girl into a strong, formidable woman.But first loves die hard.They were enemies, never lovers, despite what she told her family and the town. She hated him then, and he hates her now.But she can give him what he wants, and she's willing to make a deal. Is she strong enough to conquer her foe and not destroy herself?Or maybe she could write new chapter: old enemies make the best husbands.Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Series:1.The Cowboy's Best Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby3.The Cowboy's Beauty4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid

He's the billionaire heir of Sweet Water Ranch. His family is throwing a ball and he must choose a wife.She's too poor to attend the ball as a guest. But she can go as the hired help.One magical dance and a case of mistaken identity later, and nothing is as it seems. If he backs out, he loses everything.She never had anything to lose to begin with. Other than her soul-mate. Will he choose love over a multi-billion dollar business and the biggest ranch in North Dakota? Can she let him give up everything for her?Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance series:1.The Cowboy's Best Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3.The Cowboy's Beauty 4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Auction Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Up for Auction

Don't read this in bed!Especially if you're lying beside your sleeping spouse.Or while you're eating breakfast.Or at work.Or at the library.Or any other time where silence is golden or you have your mouth full.Hi! I'm Jessie Gussman and I get emails all the time from people who spewed their coffee/half-chewed toast/cereal out all over their e-reader. Or who woke up their spouse while reading my newsletter because they were laughing so hard. Or who save my emails until they get home from work because they don't have the kind of job where howling and rolling on the floor is acceptable conduct.But not every story in this book is laugh-out-loud funny.Some of them will make you cry.Some will make you think.And some of them will make you shake your head and wonder how in the world someone like me has made it through life without being put in a straight jacket and carted away.Not even close. I get paid to write love stories.Lol Life is weird, I agree.I'm a wife, mother and farmer by day, romance novelist by night and in my spare time, I write about my life from prison.Kidding about the prison part. (At the time of this writing, anyway. No one has figured out if there was actually a body in the car that's buried in my dad's back yard - that story's in the book, along with the time I caught myself on fire and my kid was laughing too hard to blow me out, how to charge a 1600 pound, angry mama cow (and why you'd want to), odd Amish courting rituals (involving frogs), and how not to fall out of your husband's Peterbilt as he's driving down the interstate.)There is a lot of faith, family and fun in my fiction books, and WARNING: my real life has a ton of all that, too.But life on the farm is not always fun. Sometimes it's hard and sometimes it hurts and those stories are in here, too.Thanks so much for choosing to spend a little time with me today!Love, Jessie"I wake up each Tuesday looking forward to your emails. They are so uplifting and inspiring not mention hysterical. You uplift and make me snort with laughter at the same time.""I just want you to know how much I love to live through your humorous, well told antics of living on a chicken farm! It is a real look into a life I truly love to hear about. There is no doubt of your writing talent to be sure!" "Thank you for making my day and making me think in turns. I'm just glad I wasn't eating that chicken queso soup that is thawing out in my kitchen while I was reading about your lunch conversation! You had me busting out laughing!...and right after you had me thinking about accepting all the joy and pain in life with grace. Thank you for being you." "You took a break from the newsletter then came back first with Wacko making me laugh for a good fifteen minutes then with a sermon on good books that made me cry with its accuracy!" "Look forward to Tues mornings. So uplifting and amusing.""I've read your newsletter over twice and still bust out laughing when you talk about the conversation you and Watson had in the restaurant."

Previously titled Cowboys Don't Marry the Beauty*He couldn't face her.She was too beautiful.He'd been deformed in a farming accident years ago.He'd managed to build a successful business on his North Dakota ranch, but clients didn't need to see him. His sister handled the face of his company.Until his sister took a vacation and hired an out-of-work supermodel to take her place.He couldn't show himself to her. Although after dark he could share his love of the stars with her.But the more he hides, the more she wants to see.Can he trust her with his face? Because he's very close to losing his heart.Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance series:1.The Cowboy's Best Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby3.The Cowboy's Beauty4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Marriage of Convenience6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Auction Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid

Lindy Coates moves with her teenaged daughter to Blueberry Beach because she was tired of putting her time in and not enjoying her life.With a lonely single dad on one side of her, a crochety old business owner on the other and a young mother with terrible secrets and a son fighting leukemia across the road, it doesn't take Lindy long to discover that learning to enjoy life is less about what she chooses to do for herself and more about what she chooses to do for others.As she sinks into the small town atmosphere, healing her soul, her ex shows up, wanting to reconcile.Can she decide between her bright tomorrow or come to see the values of yesterday's treasures?

Her family is the reason his brother went to prison. Thad Truax is focused on getting the shop he owns with his brothers on the right side of the law and turning a profit, but he's not against the idea of romance. So when he sees a beautiful woman along the river, he doesn't hesitate to strike up a conversation that leads to friendship.Unfortunately, by the time he realizes who she is, he's already falling for her.After the awful incident that split their town and ended up with Thad's brother in prison, Justice Hopkins could never be seen in public with Thad Truax. But there's another, even more explosive reason they can't be together.Still, they can't keep pretending to be strangers during the day while stealing sweet kisses at night under the willow tree. Can they bring their relationship out to their family and friends without it destroying them?

Burgundy Gannon went to Hollywood to make it big. That was a bust.Crew Pittman was one of the world's top underwater welders. Until a freak accident left him permanently unable to work.When Burgundy shows up at Crew's new home to be a caretaker to the elderly woman who won't leave, it seems like three unlikely people are trapped unwillingly together.But late night rides from a secret Santa and an infusion of the Christmas season of love and laughter that's in Mistletoe, Arkansas year round, just might melt their hearts and create beauty out of brokenness. Books in the Cowboy Mountain Christmas Series: Book 1 Dreaming of Her Cowboy's KissBook 2 Dreaming of His Convenient KissBook 3 Dreaming of Her Secret Santa's KissBook 4 Dreaming of His Snowed In KissBook 5 Dreaming of Her Pen Pal's KissBook 6 Dreaming of His Second Chance KissBook 7 Dreaming of Her Ranch Hand's KissBook 8 Dreaming of His Best Friend's KissBook 9 Dreaming of Her High School Sweetheart's KissBook 10 Dreaming of His Enemy's Kis

*Previously titled Cowboys Don't Have a Fake Marriage with Their Best Friend's Sister*She's his best friend's little sister.He's never noticed her. Not like that.He needs to marry to inherit his money, so he's hired a woman to be his fake bride. Only he's too sick to get married.Now he's confined in his small house with his fake fiancée-to-be and his best friend's little sister. The ladies don't seem to get along.And one of them isn't what he thought.Should he follow the plan, or follow his heart?Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance series:1.The Cowboy's Best Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby3.The Cowboy's Beauty4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Marriage of Convenience6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Auction Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid

It was supposed to be simple.Marry the tall Texan. Her children get a father. They save the ranch.A business transaction, nothing more. She definitely wasn't going to fall in love. After her husband ran off with her little sister, she was no longer susceptible to cowboy charm.Except, the North Dakota girl had never met a Texas cowboy.He married her for the ranch.A former champion bull rider needs a spread to call home, even if it is in North Dakota.Even if it comes with four little kids.And a big, black, slobbering dog.Especially if it comes with a woman with enough sweetness and enough toughness to rope his heart and heal it.The cowboy's not afraid of anything...except losing his heart again.

A good deed. A tragic accident. Two people who come together to help each other. Could this be the end of their dreaming alone? When she develops pneumonia, Shasta Bingley can't believe how the town of Sweet Water comes together to take care of her. Especially Nolt Powers, who not only pays her rent, but sits up with her through the worst of her sickness so she's not alone. Although she loves the town of Sweet Water, Shasta has to leave, since her job as a painter can't support her in such a small town. Then an unthinkable accident happens and Nolt needs help. Shasta owes him, and stays to care for him, knowing she has a job waiting for her in New York. When it's time to leave, can she say good-bye to the man she's come to love? Reviewers Say: ★★★★★ "I'm so enjoying this series, the stories and the characters. I love the church ladies and all their matchmaking." - MJ★★★★★ "Hmmm - new way to get a couple together, check! A unique plot intrigues and entertains as it works out the story." - Meri★★★★★ "I love this series and this small town that goes out of it's way to care for each other. Add in a bunch of seniors who meet together to make quilts to give away but also spend a lot of their town planning perfect matches between the single people in Sweet Water." - nanc★★★★★ "I think the books in this series are getting better & better. I have loved the first Sweet Water series enough to reread most of them, and that's kind of a big deal for me. So, there's a high bar when it comes to a new series set in Sweet Water, ND." - WestTexasReader★★★★★ "I can't get enough of Jessie Gussman's books. I love them all." - KarenBooks in the Coming Home to North Dakota Series: Cowboy Walking AwayCowboy Coming HomeCowboy Stealing My HeartCowboy Finding LoveCowboy Dreaming AloneCowboy Rescuing MeCowboy Dancing All Night

Waitress and single mother Louise Olson wouldn't have missed church to stay home with her sick daughter if she knew the congregation was going to volunteer her to head up the town's Harvest Festival. Truth be told, she didn't mind, and would have enjoyed it.The problem was Sweet Water's superstar hockey golden boy was back in town, and he had been named her co-chair. That even wouldn't be a problem except he didn't know he was a father - of her daughter.Hockey forward Ty Hanson grew up on a ranch in Sweet Water, North Dakota, but once he left for college he never went home. He wouldn't be there now except for the off-season injury his agent wanted kept secret so it didn't affect his marketability, so he was to hang out in Sweet Water, North Dakota until the season started.His first Sunday back in the church of his childhood, he gets selected as a volunteer to co-chair the Harvest Fest committee with the girl he could never forget.When Ty and Louise are forced to work together, Louise is compelled to tell Ty the secret she's kept from everyone. The attraction between them still burns strong, but Louise was on the verge of getting married and years of neglect and betrayal lie between her and her accidental summer fling.Will Ty pick up his cowboy hat and come back home? Can he convince Louise that he'll stay this time?Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Billionaire Cowboy series:1.The Cowboy's Best Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby3.The Cowboy's Beauty4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Marriage of Convenience6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tales7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Auction Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid

Foster Truax is standing firmly on the right side of the law - he's grown up since his younger, wilder days, and is firmly committed to helping his brothers make the Richmond Rebel's shop the best in Virginia. He's no longer street racing. The past is the past, including the "girl" who rode beside him when he was Richmond's unofficial champion street racer back in high school.Holland Powell has always been a good girl. She ran with the right crowd in school, got her college degree, a fabulous job, the right husband and had two children with that husband, before he walked out, taking her job, her kids and her self-esteem. When she's involved in a car accident and needs a place to recover, she has no choice but to move back in with her mother and face the boy who represented her only walk on the wrong side of anything, and who she could never forget.Foster can't forget Holland's betrayal.The past lies between them, thick and heavy and impossible to overcome, except their attraction is there too, sparking and charging the air in the house they share. Is it possible they could develop a friendship to bridge the gap between trust and passion?

Take a minute to deepen your faith by strolling down a country road with farmer and author Jessie Gussman as she shares her heart and takes a fresh look at beloved scripture passages. Be encouraged in your spirit, challenged in your walk and strengthened in your faith as you look at God's precious Word, read His promises and remember His commands. Each of the thirty-two devotions gives you a thought to ponder as you go about your day. Allow God's Word to change your life, one passage at a time.

Brawley Powers made a mistake he's regretted for almost eleven years. But he didn't realize he had a daughter from that night until a stranger comes to town and puts the pieces together. Brawley sees the truth, but he's not sure if the mother of his daughter even knows who the father is, and whether she does or not, if she'll let him be a part of her life. He starts an anonymous letter writing campaign to soften her heart, just to pave a path to his little girl, but he finds himself falling for the funny and sweet woman behind her emails she sends back. Can they overcome the mistakes of their past and make a beautiful future together?Books in the Coming Home to North Dakota Series: Cowboy Walking AwayCowboy Coming HomeCowboy Stealing My HeartCowboy Finding LoveCowboy Dreaming AloneCowboy Rescuing MeCowboy Dancing All NightCowboy Falling HardCowboy Looking at MeCowboy Wanting EverythingCowboy Whispering My NameCowboy Marrying the Lady

They were high school sweethearts, but money and pride came between them. Can their twin sons trick them into falling in love again?Reid Hudson would be happy on his Missouri farm except he'd always thought he'd be sharing it with his soulmate, Emerson. Instead, he gets six months with each of his boys and splits the holidays. Not the life he'd planned.Emerson Mahoney hadn't expected her family to fall into a fortune. When her new husband flatly refused to use any of their money to ease the financial burden from the birth of their twins, she couldn't believe how hard-headed he was. She'd taken the opportunity to fly to the Swiss Alps and become a temporary member of her father's new business team, never expecting it to last eight years.When one of their boys deliberately misses his flight to stay on the farm with his twin brother in Missouri, Emerson is forced to come back to the states and confront the husband she is still married to and the man she'd never fallen out of love with.When fuel shortages ground all airplanes, she's forced to spend a month on the farm. Can their twins trick them into falling in love again?

A midnight tryst, an unknown admirer and a baby that is delivered to church with just a short note.On the day Deacon Hudson was set to be ordained, a bundle shows up at the church with a simple note on it. Deacon Hudson is the father. Take care of her.Deacon knows he's not the father. The Immaculate Conception was a one time thing. But the baby needs a parent, and he has to decide if he will give up his life dream of being a pastor to take the child, despite the fact that the note is a lie. Can he do it without resenting the child?Blair Dixon made an unthinkable decision and sacrifice, driven by the unfathomable love a mother has for her child. She served her time. Now she's back to fix the mess she made.It might not be possible to straighten everything out. It's definitely not possible for her to get everything she wants - the best everything for her daughter and the love of the cowboy she chose to be the father.But small town gossip can be vicious, and unless she comes up with a plan, she could ruin his life a second time.After what she'd done, love was impossible. Or was it?

Tammy FryI thought it would be a good idea to buy a dog...I ended up with an ATV I have no idea how to drive.I'm not sure how this happened, especially since the man I purchased it from, Justin Gabriel, introduced himself by running his remote-controlled monster pickup into my high heeled shoe.I'm serious, studious and a high school English teacher at Good Grief High. Needless to say, Justin Gabriel is not my type.Except I also somehow managed to get myself signed up for a charity run riding the ATV I've purchased but have never started.Mr. Gabriel is going to teach me how to drive. If I can stand him that long.JustinShe's tall, tidy and man, when she gets serious about riding her machine, that woman's a tornado!This country boy is in love.I'm not sure the lady feels the same.Books in the Good Grief, Idaho series:1.Me and the Cute Catastrophe2.Me and the Tidy Tornado3.Me and the Helpful Hurricane4.Me and the Dreamy Doomsday5.Me and the Adorable Armageddon

A man with six small children and a wife who walked out. A woman who lost everything and has no place left to go. With the ink barely dry on his divorce papers, Chris Tooley isn't sure what God has in store for him, but he knows he needs help with his kids. So, on the recommendation of a friend, he hires a nanny. Gretchen Mavis invested everything in her day care business and lost it all when the building burned down and the landlord had no insurance. She's willing to take any job she can get. Even one out in the middle of nowhere that includes six energetic kids, two even more energetic dogs and a herd of milk goats - wait. Maybe she's not that desperate. She's about to walk out of the interview, but there's something in this man's eyes that tells her he's just looking for someone to believe in him. Gretchen knows a good man when she sees one - one just like her dad - but will her faith be enough to convince Chris she's more than a temporary addition to his family? Six kids yearning to be loved, an auction barn, a small herd of dairy goats and a cozy town full of kind-hearted family and friends who have faith that, with enough cake, kisses and Christmas, there's a happily ever after in the chaos. Return to Freedom, Colorado and enjoy the faith, friendships, and forever-afters of the Heroes of Freedom Ridge in this Christian Christmas romance. Faith in the Hero is #13 in the Freedom Ridge series, but each book can be read as a standalone.

Journee Barclay isn't interested in the big, hulky football player the town of Mistletoe wants her to date. She's been writing to a sweet, shy computer geek and she's hoping he'll eventually ask to meet her. But putting the town off is getting to be more difficult every day.Football star Dante Tolzien came to the town of Mistletoe, Arkansas to rest and recover from his recent car accident on the advice of his doctor. While in the hospital, he enjoyed writing to a secret pen pal. While a part of him would love to meet his unknown friend, another part of him is more interested in the real live nurse in front of him.Unfortunately, she seems to be stuck on a man no one has ever met.When Journee and Dante are entered in Mistletoe's own Not-Such-An-Ironman contest together, sparks fly. But can they let go of their pen pals in order to pursue a relationship with each other?

LeahIt took me a while - most of my life, in fact - to decide that my hometown of Good Grief, Idaho is the best place in the world to live. But, I have and I love it...except for one thing.My boss.Okay, so the man is good at his job, we just have a tendency to disagree on how much activity the seniors at our assisted living center want to have. I, personally, think they'd love to go on a whitewater rafting trip.The Boss nixed that idea before my words landed in the space between his ears. He sees my mouth moving and just says "no." (I think he grew up in the olden days and took Nancy Reagan's slogan to heart.)And just for the record my boss is smart (very smart!) and handsome and funny and totally NOT my type. But, we need to convince seniors that retiring in Good Grief, Idaho is a great idea, and I have plans that will make that happen, if I can only get my boss to go along with them.With that in mind, I'm embarking on a new mission remembering that honey catches more flies than vinegar AND honey tends to make an already bad relationship even more awkward when worn topically over two human bodies that happen to be tied together...that one is going down as an experience I'd rather not have shared with my boss.DougWhat can I say? She's a hurricane.Also, I think we might have broken some kind of workplace harassment rules when, after being tied up and slathered with honey, I kissed her. But a man can only take so much. I guess it says something about the kiss when I have to admit, I bought another gallon of honey and borrowed my brother's handcuffs - all (mostly) in the name of saving Good Grief's senior living center.Enjoy a romance that will make you laugh and sigh! Read all the books in Jessie Gussman's Good Grief, Idaho series: Me and the Cute CatastropheMe and the Tidy TornadoMe and the Helpful HurricaneMe and the Adorable ArmageddonMe and the Dreamy DoomsdayReaders say: "This book made me laugh out loud pretty much through out the whole book.""Claire and Trey's story is the most fun I've had in quite awhile! Its witty with great characters. I laughed so hard my husband bought TV ears so he was able watch TV and not hear me while I was reading! This book would make a great Rom-Com movie.""Hilarious situations happen all through the book. What was best? I could actually see it happening, the situations were comedic, but realistic."

Five divorces, three boys, one snowstorm and two people who want to be anywhere other than where they are. Only God could use it all to make a beautiful love story. Bellamy Levine is the highest paid actress in Hollywood, but she just inked her name on her fifth divorce settlement and her personal life is in shambles. Again. She vows it's for the last time. That's why she's rented the entire vacation spot in rural North Dakota and intends to spend the holidays alone, figuring out what she's going to do with her life. Calhaun Powers was blindsided when an old classmate rolls into Sweet Water claiming the oldest of her three boys is his. He knows for a fact the kid isn't his son, but he finds himself watching all three kids while he renovates vacation houses for his neighbor. God seems to be testing him in a strange way when he ends up snowed in with Hollywood's biggest movie star - five times divorced - and three boys who aren't his, but who need a dad...and a mom. Can two people who come from completely different worlds find common ground and build a family together? Listen to the talented voice actor, Jay Dyess, perform this book, and many of Jessie's other books, for FREE on the SaywithJay YouTube channel here: https: //youtu.be/ybEIo1LPHJE Reviewers Say: ★★★★★ "Jessie Gussman knows how to spin a story." - Avid Reader★★★★★ "I absolutely love Jessie Gussman 's books. She always writes heartwarming stories that make me think." - MJ★★★★★ "Jessie has written another remarkable story about being a movie star, being married and divorced 5 times. waiting for God to bring the right person into your life to love, caring for 3 children who are not your own, but whom you love unconditionally, and of course, falling in love." - Carol★★★★★ "What an unlikely pair they were! I loved the way the author brought them together through the shenanigans of the quilters club, the needs of the boys, the goodness of the man, and the heartfelt need for connection and family that Calhoun, Bellamy, and the boys all found were met in one another. Such a pleasure to read!" - VVV★★★★★ "OMG! This book turned my heart to mush." - SheilaBooks in the Coming Home to North Dakota Series: Cowboy Walking AwayCowboy Coming HomeCowboy Stealing My HeartCowboy Finding LoveCowboy Dreaming AloneCowboy Rescuing MeCowboy Dancing All Night

A celebrity chef that can't cook. A scarred cowboy who hates cameras. And the little girl who could bring them both together.Madeline Reese has a successful cooking show, a best-selling line of cookbooks and is considered one of the top celebrity chefs in Hollywood. One small problem - she can't cook.Loyal Hudson doesn't want to open his world-class kitchen to the cameras Madeline will bring with her, but the celebrity chef could be the bridge between him and a future with his little girl. Madeline can't cook and could use his help. He can't reach his little girl and could use hers. Can they overcome the vast differences between them and work together for the benefit of each other?A loose Beauty and the Beast retelling, The Beast Gets His Cowgirl in the Show Me State will have you in stitches and possibly shedding a tear or two.

*Previously titled Cowboys Don't Buy Their Bride at Auction*Can love bloom between a woman who was forced to sell herself and the man who bought her to get her ranch?Roxane Peterson is up for auction. Well, her and her ranch. She knew it would be too much to hope for that the man who bought her would be more interested in her than in the property, and money, that came with her. But she's been down this road before - a marriage that isn't perfect. Her only concern now is protecting her son and making sure she keeps her independence.Boone Stryker is disillusioned and restless. Seeing a ranch, and a woman, up for auction challenges his soul and gives him a reason to live again. He risks everything he owns to win the ranch. But in order to win the lady's heart, he could lose so much more.Trigger Warning: This book contains sensitive content, not graphic, for anyone who has lost a child. It also contains a "fade to black" scene between an unmarried couple, necessary for the plot.Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Series: 1.The Cowboy's Best Friend2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby 3.The Cowboy's Beauty 4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister5. The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance8. The Cowboy's Bargain Bride9. The Cowboy's Enemy10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid