Jessie Gussman has 22 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 26 ratings. The most-rated is Best Friends in the Show Me State.
Best Friends in the Show Me State
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They've always been best friends, but he's never known about her secret fantasy... Marlowe Glass has always been the girl next door. Responsible and organized, she is raising her orphaned niece while holding down a full time job. Clark Hudson knows the only woman on the planet who isn’t a man-eater is his best friend, Marlowe. She stood with him in high school and has had his back ever since his wife walked out on him to pursue a career in New York City. They’ve been best friends and neighbors forever. When a tree falls on her house, of course he offers to allow her to live with him while her house is being fixed. Their personalities and parenting styles don’t mix - she’s super organized with a rigid schedule and he’s very relaxed, but their years of friendship have given them insight into the other’s personality. Maybe these best friends could fall in love, if it weren’t for the kids and the ex and the in-laws, along with the fear that they could ruin the best friendship both of them ever had. Can they risk their lifetime friendship for the chance of a lifetime love? Enjoy all the Cowboy Crossing books: Best Friends in the Show Me State, Book 1 Sold! in the Show Me State, Book 2 A Secret Baby in the Show Me State, Book 3 The Beast Gets His Cowgirl in the Show Me State, Book 4 A Marriage of Convenience in the Show Me State, Book 5 A Fairy Tale in the Show Me State, Book 6
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Best Friend
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One final summer before they’re parted forever. Palmer wasn’t planning to get married. But when he got the unexpected letter, he knew he could pay the overdue medical bills and save the ranch. Just one problem. He needed a wife. When Ames came home to North Dakota to spend the summer with her best friend before moving on to her dream job in LA, she thought there were would be work and fun, as always. She didn’t expect him to say he planned to get married. Why doesn’t she want to help him? Will time run out before Ames and Palmer realize that love could be their answer? Fall in love with Sweet Water, North Dakota. Small town sweet romance that will warm your heart and stir your soul.
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Secret Baby
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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?
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Beauty
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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 Billionaire Cowboy series: Cowboys Don’t Marry Their Best Friend Cowboys Don’t Have a Secret Baby Cowboys Don’t Marry the Beauty Cowboys Don’t Have a Fake Marriage With Their Best Friend’s Sister Cowboys Don't Have a Marriage of Convenience Cowboys Don't Believe in Fairy Tales Cowboys Don't Have a Secret Romance
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Secret Romance
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Called "The Preacher", Clay Stryker has lived a life as straight as a North Dakota highway. Everyone thinks the pen and notebook he carries around is to jot down poetry or possibly notes on Scripture. They don't know he has a secret romance. Reina Hall has never forgotten the night she was rescued from a child trafficking ring. She definitely hasn't forgotten the man who wouldn't back down, who refused to look the other way, and risked his life to save hers. He made a promise to her. And she's riding west to make sure he keeps it.
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister
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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 Billionaire Cowboy series: Cowboys Don’t Marry Their Best Friend Cowboys Don’t Have a Secret Baby Cowboys Don’t Marry the Beauty Cowboys Don’t Have a Fake Marriage with Their Best Friend’s Sister Cowboys Don't Have a Marriage of Convenience Cowboys Don't Believe in Fairy Tales Cowboys Don't Have a Secret Romance
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage
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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.
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas
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Previously titled Cowboys Don't Stand Under the Mistletoe When Mack’s sister dropped her kids off with his dad in his trailer park, he knew he needed to step up and be an uncle. But he’d told his buddy he’d be in Sweet Water, ND over the holidays, so he takes the children and drives north. Angela Davis had been the sedate, good daddy’s girl all her life, doing whatever her parents wanted, even trying to trap a man into marriage to help them get out of debt. Mack knew of her past, and didn’t trust her, but he needed someone to help him with his nieces and she needed someone to help her put on the best Christmas festival Sweet Water had ever seen. Could they trust each other enough to work together? And what about that mistletoe kiss?
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
A Secret Baby in the Show Me State
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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?
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
Sold! in the Show Me State
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The town outcast buys a date with Cowboy Crossing’s own A-List movie star. Ivory Haines is the daughter of the town’s resident retired prostitute and possibly the town drunk, although her mother wasn’t entirely certain. She resents her position in the town – and especially resents the teasing she’d been subjected to – and has vowed to show everyone that she is just as good as they are. She can hardly believe her luck when Chandler Hudson donates a month of his time to the highest bidder at the charity auction to benefit local victims of the recent tornado damage. Chandler wasn’t sure what he’d been expecting when he’d offered a month of his time to charity. Maybe for a young woman to buy him and make him her one-month temporary boyfriend. Possibly his brothers would buy him and work him to death for a month. Worst case would be some elderly lady purchasing him just to decorate her dinner table with his presence for a few weeks. It never occurred to him that Ivory Haines would buy him and drag him out to her run-down, ramshackle, snake-infested bunkhouse for a month of labor on her dirt-poor farm. But as he gets to know her and sees beyond the reputation the town has given her - undeserved - he changes his focus from one of enduring to one of ensnaring. Can they put the past behind them and step into a bright new future...together? Books in the Cowboy Crossing series Best Friends in the Show Me State Sold! in the Show Me State A Secret Baby in the Show Me State
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
Serious Fun
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She doesn’t laugh. He can’t be serious. How will they ever work together? County librarian Harris Winsted can’t believe she lost her leading man. No. What she really can’t believe is that her friends think Harris’ childhood nemesis, Turbo Baxter, might be able to play the part. Even if it is just a small production to raise money for a hospital library, Turbo’s class-clown personality makes him a disastrous choice. However, opening night is three short weeks away. Left with Turbo as her only option, she can only hope he suddenly develops a brain, decorum, and a big boil on his handsome face, because when the guy decides to be charming, he is irresistible. But the attraction stops there. She could never be with a man who professes his hatred of libraries and laughs about never reading a book. Turbo Baxter always knew the harmless pranks he’d pulled over the years might catch up to him, but he never expected his brothers, and their wives, would seek revenge by blackmailing him. But, without another choice, he agrees to their terms: one stuffy librarian’s play in exchange for free repairs to his rig. He’s ready to get back on the road and away from books, libraries, and, most of all, beautiful librarians who are in desperate need of a good laugh. Can two opposites overcome their differences and fall in love? His joking nature masks a dark secret. Will she turn away if he trusts her with the one thing that could make her hate him?
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Bargain Bride
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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: The Cowboy's Best Friend The Cowboy's Secret Baby The Cowboy's Beauty The Cowboy's Best Friend’s Sister The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage The Cowboy's Fairy Tale The Cowboy's Secret Romance The Cowboy's Bargain Bride The Cowboy's Enemy The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake The Cowboy's Winning Bid
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
The Beast Gets His Cowgirl in the Show Me State
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A celebrity chef who 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 and 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.
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Enemy
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Previously titled Cowboy's Don't Marry Their Enemy 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 a new chapter: Old enemies make the best husbands. Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance series: The Cowboy's Best Friend The Cowboy's Secret Baby The Cowboy's Beauty The Cowboy's Best Friend’s Sister The Cowboy's Convenient Marriage The Cowboy's Fairy Tale The Cowboy's Secret Romance The Cowboy's Bargain Bride The Cowboy's Enemy The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake The Cowboy's Winning Bid
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
The Cowboy's Fairy Tale
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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, nothing is as it seems. If he backs out, he loses everything. She never had anything to lose to begin with. Other than her soulmate. 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?
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
Tough Talk
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An energetic philanthropist and a quiet mechanic are thrown together through a car accident. But the mechanic has a secret and the philanthropist has a fiancé. When the secret is exposed, the philanthropist must make a choice. Will she choose love over money? Kelly Irwin just wants to help children like she used to be - underprivileged, hungry, and with a family so mixed up she wasn’t sure who she really belonged to. None of them wanted the responsibility to raise her. She’s convinced herself that she loves her fiancé and that they’ll make a great team. Tough Baxter is trying to establish his business and keep his side job a secret. After all, most people don’t think that a man who can barely string two sentences together in the presence of a woman would make a very good relationship advice columnist. Then Kelly moves her children’s center next door to his garage and suddenly not only are his plans to expand his shop wrecked, but his secret is in danger of being exposed. After spending time with Tough working and helping kids, Kelly can’t deny the attraction she feels for the soft-spoken mechanic. But she has a fiancé and a life plan that doesn’t include Tough, so she turns to the advice columnist all of America is writing to. Will he tell her to follow her heart or pursue her dream?
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman
What He Wants
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He's the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. She's the pickle fortune heiress. They had an innocent summer fling, then she made a catastrophic mistake, and he paid the price.... Cassidy Kimbell knows Torque didn’t have to lie and serve her time. Because of his sacrifice, she’s spent the last 10 years making some major changes in her life. She’s become a lawyer and a child advocate, always fighting for the underdog. Still, she can’t keep herself from feeling like she owes the man who made it all possible. But he won’t tell her what he wants. After being released from a 10-year prison stint for a crime he didn’t commit, Torque Baxter is eager to get back to working on his passion - diesel motors. Except the out-of-date Popular Mechanics magazines provided by the prison weren’t enough to keep him competitive, and no one wants to hire a convict with a rap sheet, no matter how undeserving it is. Cassidy thinks she owes him and doesn’t realize there’s only one thing he’s ever wanted. What do 10 years of a man’s life cost?
©2018 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman
A Marriage of Convenience in the Show Me State
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Zane Hudson just got custody of his four young children. The only problem is, he can’t watch his kids and run his farm, too. He needs a permanent housekeeper. He has every intention of hiring someone until... Inez Cromwell is two months behind on her rent and about to lose her house and her children. Getting stuck with handsome Zane Hudson and his four kids in the diner bathroom seems like the type of thing that was just her luck. Except she emerges from that bathroom an engaged woman. It’s a marriage of convenience only. Except after a hard day of work on the farm, they can’t help but look into each other’s eyes, the heads of their children between them, the notes of the music they make together fading off into the twilight, and wonder, separately, if the sweet life they’ve made together might be even more beautiful if they fell in love. If you love toe-curling sweet romance, real, dynamic characters, and strong themes of faith and family, you will love Jessie Gussman's Cowboy Crossing series. A Marriage of Convenience in the Show Me State is the fifth book in the series.
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2020 Jessie Gussman
Dreaming of His Pen Pal's Kiss
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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?
©2020 Jessie Gussman (P)2021 Jessie Gussman
Fly Away
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She’s a daredevil. He’s a healer. Therapists can’t date clients anyway. After breaking her back in a horrible bike accident, motocross princess Dusty Gibson faces months of physical therapy just to walk normally again. Her handsome physical therapist makes her recovery a little more pleasant. But no relationships for her. She has a championship to win. Roland wants to start his own practice. He can’t bend the rules now. Even if she’s the first woman he’s met who can make him forget his dead fiancée. He already lost one woman who was addicted to speed. He’s not risking his heart on another. Could love be the ultimate cure?
©2019 Jessie Gussman (P)2019 Jessie Gussman