Finished the Chestnut Springs series and suddenly have a cowboy-shaped hole in your TBR?
You're not alone.
There's something particularly addictive about Elsie Silver's combination of small-town life, close-knit ranch families, protective heroes, banter, chemistry, and cowboys who inevitably discover they're much more emotionally invested than they planned to be.
Fortunately, Chestnut Springs isn't the only place to find them.
If you're looking for more cowboy romance books filled with ranches, rugged heroes, family drama, slow burns, second chances, and plenty of romantic tension, these seven books should be next on your list.
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1. Montana Reckoning by L.C. Reagan
Perfect for readers who love: Montana ranches, interconnected families, second chances, slow burns, protective heroes, and small-town romance
If the Eaton family is one of your favorite things about Chestnut Springs, meet the Starks.
Ellis Stark has always carried the weight of his family's Montana ranch on his shoulders.
He's responsible. Dependable. Stubborn. Fiercely loyal to the people he loves.
And then Hannah Whitmore returns to Three Pines.
She isn't simply another woman passing through town. Hannah and Ellis have history—the complicated kind neither of them has entirely managed to leave behind.
Her return forces Ellis to confront a relationship he thought he'd buried while navigating the family responsibilities and ranch that have defined most of his adult life.
Montana Reckoning is the first book in the five-book Stark Brothers of Montana series, with each book following another member of the Stark family. That means you'll keep returning to the ranch, the town, and the characters you meet along the way.
Read it if: Your favorite part of an Elsie Silver series is falling for one cowboy and accidentally becoming emotionally invested in his entire family.
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2. Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
Perfect for readers who love: brother's best friend, cowboy romance, family ranches, small towns, and protective heroes
Emmy Ryder built a life around barrel racing.
But after an accident leaves her struggling with something she can't simply push through, she returns to her hometown of Meadowlark, Wyoming—and to the family ranch she once left behind.
Unfortunately, coming home also puts her back in the path of Luke Brooks.
Luke is her older brother's best friend, a notorious flirt, and very much someone Emmy shouldn't be thinking about.
Which works about as well as you'd expect.
Done and Dusted has many of the ingredients Chestnut Springs readers tend to devour: a family ranch, sibling dynamics, a tight-knit community, a cowboy with a reputation, and two people with enough history to make falling for each other considerably more complicated.
Read it if: You loved the combination of family, ranch life, teasing banter, and forbidden-ish attraction in Chestnut Springs.
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3. Alive and Wells by Bailey Hannah
Perfect for readers who love: protective cowboys, forced proximity, ranch settings, healing heroines, and emotional romance
Cecily needs somewhere safe to land.
She finds it at Wells Ranch.
There she meets Austin Wells, a rancher who isn't exactly looking for complications but quickly becomes much more invested in Cecily's well-being than either of them anticipated.
The ranch setting gives Alive and Wells plenty of classic cowboy-romance atmosphere, but the emotional heart of the story is Cecily rebuilding her life and Austin becoming a steady presence within it.
Austin delivers particularly well for readers whose favorite cowboy heroes aren't just rugged—they're competent, protective, and quietly paying attention.
This one deals with heavier subject matter than some of the books on this list, so it's worth checking the content warnings before reading.
Read it if: Protective cowboy is one of your favorite phrases in the English language.
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4. Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry
Perfect for readers who love: Montana ranches, family sagas, romantic suspense, protective heroes, and interconnected small-town series
Winslow Covington is the new chief of police in Quincy, Montana.
Griffin Eden isn't particularly impressed.
His family has deep roots in the area, and Griffin isn't convinced the newcomer understands the town—or the people in it—as well as she thinks she does.
Then Winslow begins investigating a death others are willing to dismiss.
As the mystery deepens, so does the relationship between her and Griffin.
Indigo Ridge brings a little more suspense into the small-town romance formula, but the Eden family is what makes it particularly appealing for readers who love interconnected ranch-family series.
It's also the beginning of Devney Perry's Edens series, so once you've met the family, there are plenty more romances waiting.
Read it if: You want the ranch-family appeal of Chestnut Springs with a Montana setting and a side of romantic suspense.
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5. Chasing the Wild by Elliott Rose
Perfect for readers who love: age gaps, forbidden romance, rugged cowboys, ranch settings, high spice, and protective heroes
If you're looking for the steamier end of cowboy romance, Elliott Rose belongs on your TBR.
Chasing the Wild takes readers to a remote ranch and pairs all that rugged Western atmosphere with an age-gap romance and plenty of forbidden tension.
The hero, Weston, is older, experienced, and exactly the kind of capable rancher who makes the cowboy-romance formula work so well. The attraction between him and the heroine is also decidedly inconvenient—which, naturally, makes resisting it go exceptionally well.
This one turns up the heat compared with some of the slower, more family-focused romances on this list, while still delivering the ranch setting and protective cowboy energy Elsie Silver readers tend to love.
Read it if: You want your next cowboy romance rugged, forbidden, age-gap, and very spicy.
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6. Dust Storm by Maggie C. Gates
Perfect for readers who love: single dads, ranchers, opposites attract, forced proximity, and cowboys with complicated lives
Christian Griffith is a rancher, a single father, and a man with more than enough responsibility already on his plate.
Cassandra Parker is not exactly an obvious fit for his world.
She's polished, career-focused, and considerably more accustomed to city life than ranch life.
When their worlds collide, the contrast between them creates exactly the kind of tension that makes opposites-attract romance so much fun.
But beneath the cowboy setting and chemistry is a story about family, responsibility, and discovering that the person who doesn't fit into the life you planned might fit surprisingly well into the life you actually want.
Read it if: Cade Eaton was your Chestnut Springs weakness and you would like another rancher/single-dad situation immediately.
7. Holding the Reins by Paisley Hope
Perfect for readers who love: brother's best friend, returning home, cowboy families, small-town romance, and lots of chemistry
CeCe Ashby returns home to Kentucky after ending a relationship and finds herself back in the orbit of the people—and the life—she once knew.
That includes Nash Carter.
Nash is a retired professional hockey player, her brothers' best friend, and someone who has been part of her world for years.
He may not technically be the cowboy in this equation, but Holding the Reins is firmly rooted in horse country, family ties, and the kind of close-knit small-town world that makes cowboy romance so addictive.
CeCe is trying to figure out what she wants from the next version of her life while her relationship with Nash complicates things considerably.
It's also the beginning of the Silver Pines Ranch series, giving you another interconnected family world to binge when you're finished.
Read it if: You want ranch-country atmosphere, brother's-best-friend tension, family dynamics, and another series to immediately disappear into.
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Happy reading!