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New Release: File Gumbo

January 27, 2026 By BA Tortuga

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Beau is riding like the two-time champ he is, but nothing is certain in the world of bull riding–not winning, not happiness, maybe not even survival.

Beau LaFitte is a two-time champion bull rider who’s working on his third championship. Sam Bell is his longtime lover and traveling partner, and he’s feeling the sting of having about the worst season he can remember. The two of them are on the road together twenty-four seven, and it’s starting to get to them a little, between Sam’s constant injuries, and the relentless grind of the tour for Beau.

Add in friends on the circuit who need their help and the fact that they have to hide what they mean to each other, and it’s no wonder that Sam and Beau’s relationship starts to fray some from the friction. When things blow up in their faces, Sam leaves the bullriding tour for a while, but the boys find out they’re far more miserable apart than they are together.
Beau and Sam may agree to disagree in order to make peace and help out their friends Jason and Coke, but in the unpredictable world of extreme sports, nothing goes as planned. Can Beau and Sam recover from what just might the last ride of Sam’s life?

Publisher’s Note: This book was previously published. The publisher has changed.

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New Release: And a Smile

December 30, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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It’s Fearless Coke Pharris’ job to save bull riders from two-thousand pound bulls, and he takes his work super seriously. Which is why he’s devastated when one of his favorite riders gets hurt, and he’s determined to help one of his favorite cowboys ride again.

Dillon Walsh is the arena entertainer for the bull riding tour, and he wants to help get his buddy Jason back on his feet. He also wants Coke, who he’s admired from afar for a long time. He hasn’t made a move on Coke for fear of messing up their friendship, but when he finds out Coke might feel the same way, Dillon has to try to win Coke over.

Coke thinks he’s too old for Dillon, too beat up and scarred, but he can’t resist when Dillon finally makes a play for him. Dillon is like a fever dream for Coke, and the two of them have a great time getting to know each other better, at least until the danger of their job threatens to come between them. Will Dillon and Coke be able to help their friend and deal with all the trouble that comes their way?

This is a previously published title. The publisher has changed.

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New Release: Cowboy Needed

December 16, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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Ichabod Miller Johns needs a cowboy.

When his kids inherit their grandfather’s ranch, Ichabod moves them lock, stock, barrel to Western Colorado, leaving the cityscape of Denver behind. Despite this being his deceased husband’s family ranch, he knows he has to take this chance to get his teenager away from the bad stuff he’s involved in and give himself some breathing space to work at his hardcore pottery business. It can’t hurt the other two kids either. Except that he’s now living on a run-down ranch that no cowboy in the area will touch with a ten-foot pole.

When he calls Cowboy Wanted, he ends up with Ellis McIntyre. Ellis has worked some major ranches and has ridden the rodeo, but he has an ulterior motive when he comes to Ichabod’s place. Aside from needing the job, his half-brother Rick has asked him to look into whether or not Ichabod would be willing to sell the ranch, since Rick feels like he should have inherited it from his step-father.

As Ellis gets to know Ichabod and his kids, though, one thing becomes clear to him. This family needs this ranch, and he intends to help them keep it. Can he convince Ichabod he means no harm, and that he has no designs on the ranch for his half-brother? And can Ichabod open up and trust someone else in his life after so much loss?

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New Release: Cowboy for Sale

November 25, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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Talent agent Cole Bates is on a long hiatus after his best friend, a bull riding champion and his top client, dies following a horrific riding accident. Out of the game, he ignores the first call from current champ Bodie Jimenez. He deletes the second voicemail too, as well as some emails, but stubborn, persistent Bodie doesn’t get the hint.

Bodie Jimenez has a plan. He might be the reigning champ, but he wants to retire in one piece. He’s confident he can bring home another big buckle, but he knows that locking in sponsors and networking is the only way off this ride without a career, or life, ending injury.

Everyone has told Bodie that Cole is the best in the business, and he’s a good guy, as well. So Bodie doesn’t give up until Cole agrees to see him ride.

Cole has every intention of turning Bodie down, but the way the cowboy rides reminds him of everything he loves about the sport. It’s Bodie’s smile that has him taking the job, however, along with the offer to share the fancy suite the league gives Bodie at events.

Can they have it both ways, or will the cowboy and the agent have to give up pleasure to take care of business?

Cowboy for Sale is an opposites attract romance featuring a champion bullrider at the top of his game and a grieving talent agent who’s reluctant to get back into it.

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New Release: Blind Ride

November 18, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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Jason Scott is a cowboy who has it all. Until he doesn’t.

He’s at the top of the bull riding game, heading for a championship buckle, living the good life on the road with his buddy Andy Baxter. But one wreck brings about what every rodeo cowboy dreads. A career ending injury.

When the doctor tells Jason he’s blind, he’s ready to give up. He goes to lick his wounds at his momma’s ranch, but his best friend Andy “Bax” Baxter refuses to let him sink instead of swim. Andy has wanted to be more than friends for years, and he’s going to find a way for Jason to get what he’s always wanted.

With the help of a meddling momma, a persistent bull fighter cowboy protector named Coke, and a host of other friends, Andy hatches a plan to give Jason hope again. Can he give Jason a reason to get back up and ride, and give Jason all the love he has in his heart at the same time?

This is a previously published title. The publisher has changed.

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New Release: Brett and Rowdy

October 2, 2025 By BA Tortuga Leave a Comment

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When cowboy Rowdy Duran comes back to Gomillion, South Carolina, the situation is pretty darn complicated. His daughter is graduating from college, his high school reunion is happening at the same time, and a lot has changed in his life since he was in Gomillion for just over a year of his teenaged life.

Metal artist Brett Kilpatrick never expected to see Rowdy again after he left Gomillion in a cloud of dust all those years ago. And he’s not sure he wants to now. As far as he knows, Rowdy betrayed him and got a girl pregnant, and he didn’t even have the decency to explain.

Now Rowdy is back, blind from a rodeo injury from not long after he left, still as hot as fire, and still making sure Brett knows he has no intention of living anywhere but Northern New Mexico. The old chemistry is still there, and not everything is as it seems, but can Brett put the past aside and go with Rowdy when he leaves this time?

Gomillion High Reunion series is a multi-author collaboration celebrating the 20th reunion of former classmates in a charming small town. From fake dating and long-held rivalries to first loves and second chances, anything can happen when the past and present collide. Don’t miss the reunion – RSVP today!

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New Release: The Cowboy’s Bullfighter

September 16, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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When Cooper Adams gets a call for help from a young rodeo kid he knows like family, he has no choice but to help. He’s a bullfighter, after all, and Benji might be of age, but he has a bunch of siblings who are not, So when the kid is injured, he just takes all of them back to his place in Northern New Mexico, lock stock and barrel. It’s not like they have any other family in the country now that their folks have passed away.

Brooks Whitehead has been working as a horse trainer on a station in Australia, toiling away for a millionaire with tons of money to burn. But when he finally gets the news that his brother and sister-in-law are gone, he heads back to the States to find and help their kids. What he discovers is that Benji doesn’t want his help, and he has to ask Coop if the man is willing to let him stay on and get to know his family again.

The two men work to help heal the kids from their loss, and Benji from his broken pelvis, but they also find they had a lot in common. They’re both cowboys. They both want to do right by those kids, And they have a chemistry that’s undeniable. But when they get separated by work and circumstance, can they come back together while they still have time to do it?

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New Release: Frost and Q

August 19, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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After Quentin is horribly injured in a kidnapping, he heads for the Barn, an exclusive club in the Alaskan wilderness that he and his husband co-own with some good friends, to recover. And to hide from the world.

Also to ask for a divorce. He can’t cope with the way his husband, and the only man who makes him want to be vulnerable, looks at him these days. He can’t bear to see pity in Frost’s eyes.

Smokejumper Frost Kelly wants his husband back. He knows he’ll take Q any way he can get him. He doesn’t care if Q is in a wheelchair, or if he always has to use arm crutches to walk. He just wants them to be okay again. So he take time off work, even though it’s fire season, and goes to the Barn to coax Q into living his life.

The two of them have never lost their fire for each other, but they have to work through a lot of guilt and fear, and then deal with Frost going back to a dangerous job, before they might even see if they can make it work. Will they be able to find a new way forward or will they be stuck in the past?

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New Release: Doing Life

June 17, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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After a devastating explosion rocks their military mission, Lance and Sloan return stateside in rough condition. Lance has been blinded by the blast, and he breaks it off with Sloan, believing Sloan will be better off without him. He heads for small town Texas to recover at the Rockin’ W and learn how to live again.

The thing is, Sloan has no intention of giving up on Lance. So he leaves his job in Santa Fe to go and convince Lance to give him a second chance. Both men have their scars and, while Lance’s are more obvious physically, Sloan has his share to deal with. The men have to process physical therapy, PTSD, and re-entry into civilian life, all while trying to rebuild their relationship.

Can Sloan convince Lance they should be doing life together, or will they lose their chance at being happy together forever?

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New Release: The Wounded Warrior

June 17, 2025 By BA Tortuga

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Luke’s lost everything when it comes to his job and more, but he always has a home with his brother to go back to…

When Navy SEAL Luke Blanchard comes back to Northeast Texas after a devastating injury, he feels like the whole world has gone dark. In a wheelchair and feeling unmoored from his life, Luke has no idea what to do, even as his twin brother Matt is determined to help him heal, even if it takes a butt-kicking.

Rory McConnell is a local prodigy, a real estate lawyer with a plan to buy up land before his sworn enemy gets a hold of it. When the Blanchard ranch goes into the red, he offers to buy out the debt. Luke backs his brother instead, but he doesn’t believe for a minute that Rory is a bad guy like so many locals say he is. No one that sexy and hilarious can be, right?

As Luke claws his way out of depression with a crazy idea to run a therapy ranch, he and Rory start to explore the need growing between them. Will Rory’s need for revenge against the man who damaged him forever come between them, or will it be the force that binds these two men together in a better life than either of them believe in?

This is a second edition of a previously published title. The publisher has changed.

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