Maisey Yates Books in Order (Updated July 24, 2026)

Maisey Yates writes contemporary Western romance, royal and billionaire category romance, romantic women’s fiction, and occasional paranormal romantic comedy.

Her bibliography is extensive, but it becomes manageable once it is divided into three shelves. Copper Ridge, Gold Valley, Four Corners Ranch, Rustler Mountain, and Mustang River are the main Western series. Her royal and billionaire books belong to shorter category-romance sequences. Novels such as Secrets from a Happy Marriage, The Lost and Found Girl, and Happy After All are separate works of contemporary fiction.

Most cowboy books feature a different couple and a complete romantic ending. Even so, publication order is preferable because previous couples, ranch families, businesses, and neighboring communities continue developing.

Choose a Reading Lane

Readers do not need to begin with Maisey Yates’s first published book.

1. For her signature Oregon cowboy romances, start with Shoulda Been a Cowboy and then read Part Time Cowboy.
2. For the longer Gold Valley sequence, begin with Cowboy Christmas Blues or move directly to Smooth-Talking Cowboy.
3. For Four Corners Ranch, start with the prequel novella Her First Christmas Cowboy, followed by The Cowboy She Loves to Hate and Once Upon a Cowboy.
4. For a newer Western series with fewer books, choose Rustler Mountain or Stone Cold Cowboy.
5. For royal romance, begin with A Royal World Apart. For her contemporary women’s fiction, Secrets from a Happy Marriage is a separate starting point.

The Large Western Continuities

Copper Ridge, Gold Valley, and Four Corners Ranch are the most substantial Maisey Yates reading commitments. Each is built around interconnected families and a recurring rural community.

They should be completed as separate series. Similar Oregon settings and occasional thematic connections do not require readers to combine every cowboy book into one master chronology.

Silver Creek Books in Order

Silver Creek predates Copper Ridge and follows ranch families whose romances combine loss, family responsibility, and second chances.

1. Unbuttoned (2013): A novella introduces the Silver Creek world through a tightly contained attraction that disrupts two carefully managed lives.
2. Unexpected (2013): An unexpected pregnancy and an equally unexpected relationship force the opening couple to reconsider what family should look like.
3. Untouched (2014): A guarded woman and a man accustomed to emotional distance discover that remaining untouched is no longer possible.
4. Rekindled (2014): Former lovers receive another opportunity when old desire returns alongside the reasons they separated.
5. Unbroken (2014): Two damaged people confront the difference between appearing strong and allowing another person to help them heal.
6. Unwrapped (2014): A holiday novella uses Christmas proximity to move a hesitant relationship toward an honest decision.
7. Undone (2025): A later return to Silver Creek follows a romance that unsettles long-established defenses and reconnects readers with the ranching community.

The three full-length original novels are Unexpected, Untouched, and Unbroken. The shorter stories add beginnings and seasonal transitions.

Copper Ridge Books in Order

Copper Ridge is set in a small Oregon town shaped by ranches, law enforcement, family businesses, and residents who know one another’s histories.

The first three novels follow the Garrett family. Later books expand the community and eventually shift toward the Donnelly family.

1. Shoulda Been a Cowboy (2015): A wounded former soldier and the woman who has quietly loved him begin the Copper Ridge story through a short second-chance romance.
2. Part Time Cowboy (2015): Former troublemaker Sadie Miller returns home to open a bed-and-breakfast and clashes with deputy Eli Garrett, whose memory of her past is difficult to overcome.
3. Brokedown Cowboy (2015): Widowed rancher Connor Garrett turns to his best friend Liss when grief and a failing ranch leave him unable to keep his life unchanged.
4. Bad News Cowboy (2015): Ranch hand Jack Monaghan falls for Kate Garrett, the younger woman he has tried to regard as off-limits.
5. A Copper Ridge Christmas (2015): A seasonal novella brings another couple together while the town prepares for Christmas and earlier characters return.
6. Hometown Heartbreaker (2016): A notorious hometown man meets a woman unwilling to accept his reputation as the final measure of his character.
7. One Night Charmer (2016): A wealthy rancher and a woman seeking independence begin with physical attraction, then discover that one night cannot contain the consequences.
8. Tough Luck Hero (2016): A jilted bride and the man she least expected to need wake after a reckless night to a marriage neither planned.
9. Last Chance Rebel (2016): A rebellious man returns to face the hometown and woman he left behind, making this his final opportunity to repair the past.
10. Slow Burn Cowboy (2017): Rancher Finn Donnelly struggles to preserve his family land while his friendship with Lane gradually becomes impossible to keep platonic.
11. Down Home Cowboy (2017): Cain Donnelly returns to Copper Ridge as a single father and finds support from a woman whose own history makes trust complicated.
12. Wild Ride Cowboy (2017): Alex Donnelly comes home after military service and grows close to Clara, the woman connected to a promise made before his return.
13. Christmastime Cowboy (2017): Liam Donnelly reunites with Sabrina, whose memories of their earlier relationship make working together during Christmas emotionally dangerous.

Copper Ridge Desire Books in Order

Copper Ridge Desire contains shorter, higher-intensity romances connected to the same Oregon community.

1. Take Me, Cowboy (2016): Best friends discover that a makeover and a request for romantic guidance can expose attraction that has been present for years.
2. Hold Me, Cowboy (2016): A holiday encounter between two guarded people develops into an emotional connection neither intended to pursue.
3. Seduce Me, Cowboy (2017): A rebellious rancher becomes involved with a pastor’s daughter, making temptation more personal than either expected.
4. Claim Me, Cowboy (2018): A wealthy rancher advertises for a fake fiancée and finds that the practical arrangement carries very real emotional demands.
5. Want Me, Cowboy (2018): A cowboy and the woman he wants must move beyond desire before family and personal complications make the relationship impossible.
6. Need Me, Cowboy (2019): The final Copper Ridge Desire romance asks whether being needed can become a healthy partnership rather than another form of obligation.

Read these in publication order. Earlier couples and family connections reappear, although each romance reaches its own ending.

Gold Valley Books in Order

Gold Valley is another Oregon ranching community, with stories involving the Dodge, Daniels, Garrett, McCloud, and Wyatt families, plus the residents of Redemption Ranch, Hope Springs, and Echo Pass.

1. Cowboy Christmas Blues (2017): A grieving cowboy and the woman close to his family face a Christmas attraction complicated by loyalty and loss.
2. Smooth-Talking Cowboy (2018): Olivia Logan asks charming cowboy Luke Hollister for help winning back another man, only to discover that her supposed coach wants her himself.
3. Mail Order Cowboy (2018): A modern correspondence arrangement brings a woman and a rancher together before either fully understands what the other needs.
4. Untamed Cowboy (2018): Veterinarian Bennett Dodge learns that a past relationship has consequences that will change his family and his carefully ordered future.
5. Hard Riding Cowboy (2018): A determined cowboy and an equally strong woman collide over control, responsibility, and an attraction neither can easily moderate.
6. Good Time Cowboy (2018): Winery owner Lindy Parker tries to resist cowboy Wyatt Dodge, whose carefree reputation conceals a more serious interest in her.
7. Snowed in with the Cowboy (2018): A winter storm traps two people together long enough for old tension and new attraction to surface.
8. A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas (2018): A lonely woman hiding in Gold Valley meets a rancher whose family and Christmas traditions offer an unexpected place to belong.
9. Unbroken Cowboy (2019): Injured rodeo cowboy Dane Parker returns home and faces the woman who knew him before his career and identity were damaged.
10. Cowboy to the Core (2019): A woman determined to prove herself in a male-dominated ranching world clashes with a cowboy who underestimates her.
11. Lone Wolf Cowboy (2019): A solitary rancher finds his isolation challenged by a woman and child who awaken his protective instincts.
12. Cowboy Christmas Redemption (2019): A man carrying guilt over the past seeks redemption with the woman most affected by his choices.
13. The Bad Boy of Redemption Ranch (2020): A troubled cowboy arrives at Redemption Ranch and meets a woman whose expectations make it difficult to remain the town’s bad boy.
14. The Hero of Hope Springs (2020): A dependable rancher is forced to examine the personal cost of always being the person others rely upon.
15. The Last Christmas Cowboy (2020): A Christmas return gives a cowboy and a woman from his past one final opportunity to change their unfinished story.
16. Solid Gold Cowboy (2021): A cowboy with a reliable public image faces a relationship that exposes the uncertainty beneath it.
17. The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass (2021): A man known for avoiding commitment meets a woman whose life cannot accommodate another temporary romance.
18. Rodeo Christmas at Evergreen Ranch (2021): A rodeo cowboy returns during the holidays and finds that the ranch and relationship he left still have a claim on him.
19. The True Cowboy of Sunset Ridge (2021): A rancher who has built his identity around duty must decide what honesty and commitment require in his own life.

Gold Valley Vineyards Books in Order

Gold Valley Vineyards focuses on wealthy ranch and winery families whose relationships are shaped by inheritance, secret pregnancies, business rivalry, and marriage bargains.

1. Rancher’s Wild Secret (2019): A woman reveals a secret connection to a powerful rancher, disrupting his control of both his family business and personal life.
2. Claiming the Rancher’s Heir (2020): A rancher learns about the child linked to a past relationship and responds with a demand for a permanent family arrangement.
3. The Rancher’s Wager (2020): A high-stakes wager between two determined people turns business and sexual rivalry into an emotional risk.
4. Rancher’s Christmas Storm (2021): A Christmas storm forces former lovers into proximity while an unexpected pregnancy raises the cost of their reunion.

Gold Valley Vineyards is connected by setting to the broader Gold Valley world, but its four-book internal order can be followed separately.

Four Corners Ranch Books in Order

Four Corners Ranch centers on four neighboring ranch families whose land, friendships, rivalries, and romantic histories overlap.

The novellas and half-numbered books are genuine series entries. They are not alternate editions of the numbered novels.

1. Her First Christmas Cowboy (2021): A woman’s first meaningful Christmas connection introduces the Four Corners community through a short holiday romance.
2. The Cowboy She Loves to Hate (2021): Long-running hostility between neighboring ranchers conceals an attraction that becomes harder to dismiss.
3. Once Upon a Cowboy (2022): A fairy-tale expectation meets the realities of ranch life in a pre-series romance involving familiar Four Corners families.
4. Unbridled Cowboy (2022): A single father and a woman seeking a family enter a marriage arrangement that begins the main numbered series.
5. Her Cowboy Prince Charming (2022): A woman discovers that the cowboy who appears to offer rescue has complications no fairy tale prepared her for.
6. Merry Christmas Cowboy (2022): A guarded rancher and a woman building a new life are drawn together during the holidays.
7. Her Wayward Cowboy (2023): A cowboy known for wandering meets the woman capable of making a permanent future more appealing than escape.
8. Cowboy Wild (2023): A woman attempting to control her future becomes involved with a cowboy whose emotional intensity challenges every boundary.
9. The Rough Rider (2023): A hardened cowboy and a woman with her own reasons for caution confront attraction shaped by difficult histories.
10. Wild Night Cowboy (2023): One impulsive night creates consequences that require two familiar people to reassess their relationship.
11. The Holiday Heartbreaker (2023): A man with a reputation for leaving faces a Christmas romance with someone who expects more than temporary affection.
12. The Troublemaker (2023): A woman labeled troublesome meets a cowboy who recognizes the survival instincts behind her reputation.
13. A Summer to Claim Her Cowboy (2023): A summer reunion places former lovers together and gives them limited time to resolve what remains between them.
14. The Rival (2024): Rival ranchers find business competition complicated by attraction and shared family history.
15. The Hometown Legend (2024): A celebrated local figure returns to the people who remember the person behind his public reputation.
16. Hero for the Holidays (2024): A holiday rescue or practical arrangement places a dependable cowboy in the role of romantic hero.
17. The Outsider (2025): A man who has never felt fully accepted by the Four Corners families becomes involved with someone capable of giving him a reason to stay.
18. The Rogue (2025): A cowboy known for independence and rule-breaking faces a relationship that demands consistency.
19. Cowboy, It’s Cold Outside (2025): Winter isolation and holiday expectations create the conditions for another Four Corners romance.

Carsons of Lone Rock Books in Order

The Carsons of Lone Rock books follow a ranching family through rivalries, weddings, unexpected nights, and reunions.

1. Rancher’s Forgotten Rival (2022): A rancher who has lost key memories must depend on the woman he once considered his enemy.
2. Best Man Rancher (2022): A best man and a woman connected to the wedding confront attraction while trying not to disrupt the celebration.
3. One Night Rancher (2023): A single encounter between two familiar people creates consequences neither can dismiss afterward.
4. Rancher’s Snowed-In Reunion (2024): Former lovers are trapped together by winter weather and forced to confront the breakup they never resolved.
5. A Forever Kind of Rancher (2024): The final Carson romance follows a man who must prove he can offer permanence rather than another temporary promise.

Rustler Mountain Books in Order

Rustler Mountain combines Western romance with buried family history, neighboring communities, and people rebuilding after difficult pasts.

1. Rustler Mountain (2025): Rancher Alaina returns to land marked by family history and becomes involved with a man whose presence complicates her efforts to restore what was lost.
2. Outlaw Lake (2025): A woman connected to the mountain community confronts danger, old loyalties, and a romance with someone who lives outside conventional expectations.
3. Lonesome Ridge (2026): Two solitary people meet in a remote landscape where isolation has protected them but also prevented meaningful connection.
4. Christmas Valley (scheduled for 2026): A holiday romance will complete the current Rustler Mountain sequence by bringing another couple together in the neighboring valley.

Christmas Valley is currently scheduled for September 29, 2026.

Bull Riders Books in Order

The Bull Riders trilogy follows three professional rodeo men whose public confidence contrasts with the emotional risks waiting outside the arena.

1. Dallas (2025): Bull rider Dallas confronts a relationship that demands the same courage he displays in competition.
2. Colt (2025): Colt’s rodeo career and private history collide when a woman challenges his assumptions about freedom and commitment.
3. Maverick (2025): Maverick closes the trilogy as the most independent rider faces a romance capable of changing his direction.

These books are connected standalones. Read them in order to follow the friendships and rodeo careers surrounding the central couples.

Mustang River Books in Order

Mustang River is a new three-book cowboy series launched in 2026.

1. Stone Cold Cowboy (2026): A seemingly emotionless cowboy meets a woman who exposes the grief and loyalty beneath his controlled exterior.
2. Last Chance Cowboy (2026): A man facing his final opportunity for love or redemption must decide whether returning to the past can produce a different future.
3. Slow Hands Cowboy (scheduled for 2026): A patient, deliberate cowboy becomes involved in a romance where trust develops more slowly than attraction.

Slow Hands Cowboy is currently scheduled for August 18, 2026.

Royal and International Series

Maisey Yates’s category romances are shorter and more self-contained than her Western sagas. Many participate in publisher-created multi-author worlds, but the sequences below contain only the books written by Yates unless otherwise stated.

Call of Duty Books in Order

1. A Royal World Apart (2012): A sheltered princess falls for the bodyguard assigned to protect her, placing royal duty against personal freedom.
2. At His Majesty’s Request (2012): A king seeks a practical bride but discovers that the woman chosen for duty brings emotional needs he cannot manage politically.
3. Pretender to the Throne (2014): A royal exile returns to claim a kingdom and confront the woman tied to both his past and his responsibilities.
4. His Diamond of Convenience (2015): A marriage arrangement links power, reputation, and desire as two people negotiate the difference between convenience and commitment.

Secret Heirs of Powerful Men Books in Order

1. Heir to a Desert Legacy (2013): A woman arrives in a desert kingdom with a royal heir, forcing a powerful man to acknowledge a family connection he did not expect.
2. Heir to a Dark Inheritance (2013): A concealed child and a difficult legacy bring two former lovers together under circumstances shaped by wealth and obligation.

Holt Sisters Books in Order

1. His Ring Is Not Enough (2013): A rejected bride enters a marriage arrangement with the groom’s brother, making family loyalty and desire impossible to separate.
2. One Night to Risk It All (2014): The second Holt sister takes one impulsive risk with a man whose presence threatens her emotional control.

Princes of Petras Books in Order

1. A Christmas Vow of Seduction (2015): A prince uses marriage and seduction to secure a royal objective during Christmas.
2. The Queen’s New Year Secret (2015): A queen’s hidden pregnancy forces her to reunite with the man connected to a politically dangerous past.

Heirs Before Vows Books in Order

1. The Spaniard’s Pregnant Bride (2016): A pregnancy brings a Spanish billionaire and his former lover into a marriage neither approaches without resentment.
2. The Prince’s Pregnant Mistress (2016): A royal mistress becomes pregnant, making secrecy impossible and succession a personal issue.
3. The Italian’s Pregnant Virgin (2016): An Italian tycoon confronts an unexpected pregnancy and a woman whose innocence complicates his assumptions.

Once Upon a Seduction Books in Order

1. The Prince’s Captive Virgin (2017): A prince holds a woman close for political reasons, then finds control complicated by attraction.
2. The Prince’s Stolen Virgin (2017): A royal abduction or forced proximity arrangement turns hostility into a dangerous romantic bond.
3. The Italian’s Pregnant Prisoner (2017): An Italian billionaire and the woman carrying his child are trapped by mistrust, obligation, and unfinished desire.
4. Crowning His Convenient Princess (2019): A convenient royal marriage creates a queen, but emotional commitment remains harder to negotiate than the crown.

Brides of Innocence Books in Order

1. The Spaniard’s Untouched Bride (2018): A marriage arrangement brings an inexperienced bride into conflict with a powerful Spaniard’s expectations.
2. The Spaniard’s Stolen Bride (2019): A woman is taken from one planned future and drawn into a more dangerous relationship with another man.

Heirs of Liri Books in Order

1. His Majesty’s Forbidden Temptation (2020): A king becomes involved with the woman duty requires him to resist.
2. A Bride for the Lost King (2021): A missing or displaced monarch returns to claim both his identity and a bride linked to his restoration.

Royal Desert Legacy Books in Order

1. Forbidden to the Desert Prince (2022): A prince’s forbidden attraction threatens the rules governing his family and future throne.
2. A Virgin for the Desert King (2023): A desert king enters a relationship with a woman whose innocence and independence challenge his control.

Standalone Novels in Publication Order

These books are not part of Maisey Yates’s principal author-owned numbered series. Some belong loosely to Harlequin themes or multi-author lines, but each can be read for its own central romance.

1. Mistake, a Prince and a Pregnancy (2010): A mistaken encounter with a prince leads to pregnancy and an unavoidable royal reckoning.
2. His Virgin Acquisition (2010): A powerful businessman treats marriage as an acquisition until his inexperienced bride demands emotional recognition.
3. An Accidental Birthright (2011): An unexpected child or inheritance reveals a birthright that changes the heroine’s relationship with a powerful man.
4. The Highest Price to Pay (2011): A ruthless billionaire discovers that winning a woman may require a price greater than money.
5. The Argentine’s Price (2011): An Argentine tycoon uses wealth and leverage in a relationship complicated by old hurt.
6. The Petrov Proposal (2012): A Russian billionaire proposes a practical arrangement that becomes emotionally difficult to control.
7. Girl on a Diamond Pedestal (2012): A famous woman treated as an untouchable symbol meets a man determined to uncover the person beneath the image.
8. Game of Vows (2012): Marriage becomes a strategic contest between two people whose attraction undermines every rule.
9. Her Little White Lie (2012): A small deception about a relationship grows into a public arrangement with genuine emotional consequences.
10. The Couple Who Fooled the World (2013): Two rivals pretend to be a glamorous couple for business reasons and discover that the performance is changing them.
11. Forged in the Desert Heat (2013): A desert ruler and a woman from an opposing world confront attraction amid political danger.
12. Crazy, Stupid Sex (2014): A woman seeking greater control of her romantic life begins an experiment that becomes more emotionally serious than expected.
13. Bound to Me (2014): A powerful physical bond draws two people together despite the rules and fears keeping them apart.
14. Breaking All Her Rules (2014): A disciplined woman abandons her usual boundaries with a man who makes restraint increasingly difficult.
15. To Defy a Sheikh (2014): A woman challenges a sheikh’s authority, turning political resistance into personal attraction.
16. Bound to the Warrior King (2015): A warrior ruler enters a marriage or alliance that forces him to balance power with emotional trust.
17. Carides’s Forgotten Wife (2016): Amnesia gives an estranged married couple a dangerous opportunity to reconstruct their relationship.
18. Secrets from a Happy Marriage (2020): Three women connected to a coastal family confront the hidden disappointments beneath apparently successful lives.
19. Crowned for My Royal Baby (2020): A pregnancy brings a woman back into the life of a royal father who must choose between duty and intimacy.
20. A Nurse, a Surgeon, a Christmas Engagement (2020): Medical colleagues enter a festive engagement arrangement that becomes more personal than professional.
21. Confessions from the Quilting Circle (2021): Three sisters return to their Oregon hometown after loss, where quilts and family history reveal long-kept secrets.
22. What the Cowboy Wants for Christmas (2021): A cowboy’s holiday wish centers on a woman whose past with him makes reconciliation uncertain.
23. The Lost and Found Girl (2022): Four women in a small town reconsider identity, family, and belonging when the history of a once-lost girl resurfaces.
24. The Secret That Shocked Cinderella (2022): A woman treated as socially invisible reveals a secret that forces a powerful man to reconsider their relationship.
25. Other People’s Weddings (2024): A woman who helps create weddings for others confronts grief, family complications, and questions about her own future.
26. Rancher’s Return (2024): A rancher comes home and faces the relationship and responsibilities left unresolved in his absence.
27. Pregnant Enemy, Christmas Bride (2024): Business or family enemies are pushed toward a Christmas marriage after an unexpected pregnancy.
28. Happy After All (2025): A woman whose expected future has collapsed begins rebuilding through family, self-discovery, and an unexpected new relationship.
29. Cruel Summer (2025): A summer reunion or return exposes an old betrayal and forces the central characters to confront how the past shaped them.
30. First Witches Club (2026): Three women discover supernatural abilities and form a new circle while navigating friendship, reinvention, and romantic complications.

Novellas and Shorter Works

1. The Prince and the PA (2013): A prince’s relationship with his personal assistant crosses professional boundaries in a compact royal romance.
2. Imagine Me and You (2025): A shorter contemporary romance follows two people considering whether an imagined future together can become real.

Series novellas such as Shoulda Been a Cowboy, A Copper Ridge Christmas, Cowboy Christmas Blues, and the Four Corners prequels should remain in their listed series positions.

Multi-Author Series Contributions

Maisey Yates has also written books inside publisher-created worlds. These can be read alone for the central couple, but reading the entire multi-author series may provide additional family or corporate context.

1. The Inherited Bride (2011): A woman becomes part of a desert marriage arrangement in the Kings of the Desert continuity.
2. Marriage Made on Paper (2011): A business-focused paper marriage opens the 21st Century Bosses sequence.
3. Princess Behind the Shadows (2012): A hidden royal woman steps into public life during the wider Santina Crown story.
4. The Life She Left Behind (2012): A woman connected to the Santina world confronts the consequences of abandoning her former identity.
5. One Night in Paradise (2012): A tropical encounter becomes a life-changing romance in the One Night In collection.
6. A Royal Without Mercy (2012): A harsh desert ruler confronts a woman capable of challenging his authority.
7. A Hunger for the Forbidden (2013): Forbidden attraction threatens the rules surrounding Sicily’s Corretti family.
8. His Pregnant Princess (2013): A royal pregnancy forces a couple to address both political and emotional consequences.
9. Sheikh’s Desert Duty (2014): A sheikh’s obligation within the Chatsfield world becomes complicated by personal desire.
10. Avenge Me (2014): A man seeking revenge becomes involved with a woman tied to the powerful Fifth Avenue scandal.
11. Take Me (2014): A shorter Fifth Avenue story follows attraction developing amid wealth and public secrets.
12. Finally His Bride (2015): A Montana wedding story gives long-standing attraction a final opportunity to become permanent.
13. Married for Amari’s Heir (2015): A powerful man demands marriage after learning that his legacy is at stake.
14. The Greek’s Nine-Month Redemption (2016): A pregnancy offers a Greek tycoon a possible path toward repairing earlier wrongdoing.
15. The Queen’s Baby Scandal (2019): A royal pregnancy creates public scandal and forces a private relationship into view.
16. The Billionaire’s Intern (2015): An intern enters a serialized relationship with a wealthy, powerful man, originally released in four parts.
17. Strip You Bare (2016): A romance within the Deacons of Bourbon Street world combines club loyalty, danger, and physical attraction.
18. The Last Di Sione Claims His Prize (2017): The final Di Sione heir pursues a family object and finds a woman more important than the prize.
19. The Rancher’s Baby (2017): A child and questions of identity open the Texas Cattleman’s Club impostor storyline.
20. His Forbidden Pregnant Princess (2019): A forbidden royal relationship becomes impossible to conceal after pregnancy.
21. Crowned for His Christmas Baby (2021): A Christmas pregnancy requires a prince to confront both fatherhood and the woman he left.
22. The Italian’s Pregnant Enemy (2024): An Italian tycoon discovers that the woman carrying his child is also connected to a bitter rivalry.
23. Bound and Branded (2025): A ranch-centered romance explores power, boundaries, and a relationship shaped by control and consent.
24. Charming the Cowboy (2025): A cowboy in the Wild Rose Point world meets a woman capable of seeing beyond his practiced charm.

These contributions do not need to be inserted into Copper Ridge, Gold Valley, or Four Corners Ranch.

Collections and Omnibus Editions

Maisey Yates’s books frequently appear in two-in-one editions, seasonal anthologies, Harlequin box sets, and family collections.

A combined edition does not add another story position. It republishes books already listed individually.

Examples include:

1. Snowed in at Copper Ridge: A collection of existing Copper Ridge holiday stories rather than a separate numbered novel.
2. Summer with My Cowboy (2026): A multi-author Western collection containing previously identified romance material.
3. Copper Ridge: Chase & Sam (2026): An omnibus associated with Copper Ridge Desire characters, not a new seventh book.
4. Best Man Rancher / Want Me, Cowboy: A two-in-one edition containing one Lone Rock novel and one Copper Ridge Desire novel.
5. Rancher’s Christmas Storm / Seduce Me, Cowboy: A double edition joining books from two different series.

Check the contents before purchasing any collection, especially when two familiar titles appear beneath a new cover.

Publication Order or Chronological Order?

Publication order is the most reliable method within every Maisey Yates series.

The novellas are already placed where they best preserve character introductions. Moving them according to isolated backstory events offers little benefit and may reveal couples before their full novels.

No single chronology combines Silver Creek, Copper Ridge, Gold Valley, Four Corners Ranch, Rustler Mountain, and Mustang River. Treat each community as its own reading track.

Recommended Maisey Yates Reading Order

Readers who want the central Western bibliography without moving into royal romances can use this route:

First: Silver Creek

1. Unbuttoned
2. Unexpected
3. Untouched
4. Rekindled
5. Unbroken
6. Unwrapped
7. Undone

Second: Copper Ridge

Read Shoulda Been a Cowboy, then continue through Christmastime Cowboy. Add Copper Ridge Desire in its own six-book order afterward.

Third: Gold Valley

Begin with Cowboy Christmas Blues, continue through The True Cowboy of Sunset Ridge, then read the four Gold Valley Vineyards books.

Fourth: Four Corners Ranch

Begin with the three pre-series stories, then continue from Unbridled Cowboy through Cowboy, It’s Cold Outside.

Fifth: The Newer Western Series

Read Carsons of Lone Rock, Rustler Mountain, Bull Riders, and Mustang River as separate groups.

This route preserves each town and family arc. It is not necessary to alternate books according to their exact release dates.

Latest Maisey Yates Books

As of July 24, 2026, the latest published Maisey Yates novel is Last Chance Cowboy, Mustang River book two, released July 14, 2026.

The next confirmed releases are:

1. Slow Hands Cowboy (August 18, 2026): Mustang River book three continues the new Western series.
2. Christmas Valley (September 29, 2026): Rustler Mountain book four adds a holiday romance to that community.
3. The Rancher’s One and Only (September 2026): The first Three Brothers Ranch Romance begins a separate ranch-family sequence.

Forthcoming dates can change. These books should remain in their stated series positions even if the schedule moves.

Frequently Asked Questions

What was Maisey Yates’s first book?

Mistake, a Prince and a Pregnancy was her first published novel, released in 2010.

It is a standalone category romance and is not required before any of her cowboy series.

What Maisey Yates book should I read first?

Start with Shoulda Been a Cowboy for Copper Ridge.

Start with Cowboy Christmas Blues for Gold Valley, Her First Christmas Cowboy for Four Corners Ranch, or Rustler Mountain for a shorter and more recent series.

Are Maisey Yates’s cowboy books standalones?

They are interconnected standalones.

Each book normally follows a new couple, but relatives, former leads, ranches, and community developments continue. Publication order provides the smoothest experience.

Are Copper Ridge and Gold Valley the same series?

No.

They are separate Oregon communities with their own numbering. Readers can begin with either one without completing the other.

Where do the Copper Ridge Desire books fit?

They share the Copper Ridge setting but form their own six-book sequence.

Read them after the main Copper Ridge novels for the simplest arrangement, or place them by publication date when following every crossover appearance.

Should I read Cowboy Christmas Blues before Smooth-Talking Cowboy?

It is optional but recommended.

Cowboy Christmas Blues is a prequel novella that introduces Gold Valley before the first full-length novel.

Is Solid Gold Cowboy a numbered Gold Valley book?

It is connected to the series but is not consistently assigned a standard number in every catalog.

Read it after The Last Christmas Cowboy and before The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass.

Do the Four Corners Ranch prequels matter?

They are useful but not essential.

Her First Christmas Cowboy, The Cowboy She Loves to Hate, and Once Upon a Cowboy establish couples and families before Unbridled Cowboy begins the numbered sequence.

Is Four Corners Ranch complete?

The currently listed sequence ends with Cowboy, It’s Cold Outside, book twelve.

No thirteenth numbered Four Corners Ranch novel was reliably confirmed for this update.

What comes after Lonesome Ridge?

Christmas Valley is Rustler Mountain book four.

It is scheduled for September 29, 2026.

What comes after Stone Cold Cowboy?

Last Chance Cowboy is Mustang River book two.

It is followed by Slow Hands Cowboy, scheduled for August 18, 2026.

Is First Witches Club part of a series?

No numbered sequel was confirmed as of July 24, 2026.

Treat it as a separate paranormal romantic comedy unless a later announcement establishes a series.

Are Maisey Yates’s women’s fiction novels connected?

Secrets from a Happy Marriage, Confessions from the Quilting Circle, The Lost and Found Girl, Other People’s Weddings, and Happy After All are best treated as separate novels.

They share themes of family, female friendship, grief, identity, and reinvention, not a continuous cast.

Do I need to read the Harlequin multi-author series?

No.

Maisey Yates’s contribution usually contains a complete central romance. Reading the surrounding books may add background about a royal family, corporation, or shared scandal, but it is not required for her author-owned series.

Final Reading Recommendation

Begin with Shoulda Been a Cowboy and Part Time Cowboy for the clearest introduction to Maisey Yates’s Western romances. Continue through Copper Ridge in order before moving to Copper Ridge Desire.

Readers seeking a longer second series should begin Gold Valley with Cowboy Christmas Blues and Smooth-Talking Cowboy. Four Corners Ranch is the best later-series entry point, while Rustler Mountain and Stone Cold Cowboy offer shorter current routes.

Keep royal romances, publisher-created multi-author series, and contemporary women’s fiction on separate shelves. They do not need to be inserted into the cowboy chronology.