Books Like Flawless: 15 Cowboy Romances to Read Next (2026)
Books like Flawless are the cowboy romance recs everyone wants right now. Netflix is developing a Chestnut Springs series with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps producing, Prime Video is filming Elsie Silver’s Rose Hill books, and Fever Dream, the first Emerald Lake novel, put another bull rider on the cover in May 2026. If Rhett Eaton and Summer Hamilton sent you looking for more, this list is built around what makes Chestnut Springs work: a cocky cowboy with a PR problem, a buttoned-up woman assigned to keep him in line, a hotel mix-up with one bed, a rowdy ranch family and a small town that knows everyone’s business. The rest of Chestnut Springs, Lyla Sage’s Wyoming ranch, Montana small towns and more, with a heat level on every pick, then the Inferno cowboys from our own shelf.
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What Makes Flawless Work
Rhett Eaton is a champion bull rider near the end of his career who wants one more title. Then a viral outburst threatens his sponsorships, and his agent sends a babysitter for the rest of the season: Summer Hamilton, the agent’s daughter, a law graduate with no interest in rodeos, cowboys or babysitting. He breaks the rules; she wrote the rulebook. Road trips, a hotel that only has one bed and a stay on the Eaton family ranch blur the line, and Rhett decides out loud that he is going to win her. The book’s engine is the reformed-golden-boy cowboy who falls first and falls loudly, the woman with a guarded past who makes him earn it, and a family (Harvey, Cade, Beau, Violet) you immediately want books about. The best readalikes keep the hat, the banter, the forced proximity and a hero who is all swagger until he’s all in.
Books Like Flawless: More Elsie Silver
Heartless by Elsie Silver
Chestnut Springs book two, and for many readers the best one. Cade Eaton is Rhett’s grumpy brother, a single dad on the family ranch, and he needs a nanny. Willa Grant, Summer’s chaotic best friend, takes the job. Grumpy-sunshine at full strength, the banter is the sharpest in the series and there is a hot tub scene people still talk about. Read it right after Flawless.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Reckless by Elsie Silver
If you loved the rodeo half of Flawless, this is the one. Theo Silva is a young bull rider from Rhett’s circuit; Winter Hamilton is Summer’s icy, perfect sister, a surgeon. A one-night stand turns into something much bigger, and the cocky cowboy sets out to thaw the woman everyone else is afraid of. The spice in this one gets the most praise in the series.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Hopeless by Elsie Silver
The Chestnut Springs finale. Beau Eaton, the military brother who flirted with Summer to wind Rhett up, comes home carrying more than he shows, and Bailey Jansen, a bartender from the neighboring family the Eatons love to prank, has a family of her own she needs out of. A fake engagement, an age gap and a heroine figuring out what she wants. Read it last so every Eaton cameo lands.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Fever Dream by Elsie Silver
The 2026 bull rider. Emmett Branch, a rodeo playboy whose family ranch is in trouble, signs on as the eligible bachelor of a reality dating show called Romance Ranch to earn the money to save it. Julia Silva works behind the camera as a location assistant, and she is also the little sister of one of his biggest rivals. Forced proximity on a set where every romance is manufactured except the one nobody is filming. Book one of the new Emerald Lake series, with familiar faces from Reckless.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Open door
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Wild Eyes by Elsie Silver
Rose Hill book two. West Belmont is a devoted single dad of twins and a grumpy horse trainer; Skylar Stone is a pop star running from the spotlight who hides out in his small town. Flip the Flawless setup so the celebrity is the heroine, keep the cowboy, and turn up the heat. Prime Video’s Rose Hill series is adapting this one with Wild Love, with Jake Weary and Sadie Dickerson cast as West and Skylar. Our books like Wild Love list covers the rest of Rose Hill.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Off to the Races by Elsie Silver
Where Elsie Silver started. Gold Rush Ranch book one puts horse trainer Billie Black to work under Vaughn Harding, the ranch manager she bickers with from day one. Boss-and-employee rivals on a racehorse farm, less polished than Chestnut Springs but the same DNA, and Rhett’s sister Violet, a jockey, gets her own book later in the series (A Photo Finish).
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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If You Want Another Ranch Family to Move Into
Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
The other cowboy series everyone recommends in the same breath. Emmy Ryder’s rodeo career ends with an accident, and she comes home to Rebel Blue Ranch in Meadowlark, Wyoming, where Luke Brooks, her brother’s best friend and the town’s bar-owning bachelor, has been trying very hard not to look at her. Brother’s best friend, a heroine who has to learn to ride again and the same rowdy family warmth as the Eatons. Our full books like Done and Dusted list goes deeper on Sage.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage
Ada Hart, a city interior designer starting over after a short marriage, kisses a cowboy in a Meadowlark bar, then finds out he’s Weston Ryder, the client on the ranch project that could make her career. She wants to keep it professional. He doesn’t. Closest to Flawless in its “she’s working, he’s the job” setup.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage
The Heartless of the Rebel Blue books. Gus Ryder is a grumpy single dad who forgets his daughter Riley after soccer practice, and his family pushes him to get help. Teddy Andersen, Emmy’s best friend, has just lost her job and becomes Riley’s live-in nanny. Gus and Teddy cannot stand each other. Enemies to lovers, a nanny and a cowboy dad, with all three books of Meadowlark history behind it.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Soul Searching by Lyla Sage
The first Sweetwater Peak book takes Sage’s Wyoming small town and adds ghosts. Collins Cartwright comes home broke and jobless, tells her family it’s about a developer circling her parents’ antique shop, and rents the spare room of Brady Cooper, the new guy in town. The ghosts that have kept her company all her life have gone quiet, and the man down the hall has not. A slower, stranger, cozier read for when you want the town more than the rodeo.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Open door
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Taming Him by Kennedy Fox
For readers who liked Rhett best as the charming player. Alex Bishop is the charming Bishop brother, a southern ranch cowboy, and River Lancaster has just found out her boyfriend of six months is married. She runs to Key West for two weeks of no-strings fun, and the cowboy she meets there was supposed to be one of them. A fling that refuses to stay a fling, and the start of the Bishop Brothers series.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Small-Town Romance With the Same Heart
Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry
The Edens book one, and Montana’s answer to Chestnut Springs. Winslow Covington is the new police chief in Quincy, a stickler for rules who has to win over the Eden family that founded the town, which is harder after her one-night stand with their oldest son, Griffin. Then a woman is found dead on Eden land. Small-town romance with a murder in it and a whole Eden family series to follow.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Open door
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Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
No horses, same energy. Naomi Witt flees her own wedding and lands in Knockemout, Virginia, where her estranged twin steals her car and leaves her with an eleven-year-old, Waylay. Knox Morgan, the bearded, lottery-rich town grump who has sworn off entanglements, keeps showing up anyway. Rules-girl heroine, swagger-and-scowl hero, a nosy town and a suspense subplot. Our books like Things We Never Got Over list has more.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
Calla Fletcher, a Toronto city girl, flies to Bangor, Alaska, to reconnect with Wren, the bush pilot father she barely knows, after his cancer diagnosis. Jonah, the gruff pilot who works for him, thinks she won’t last a week. Swap the rodeo for floatplanes and you get the same out-of-her-element heroine and rugged hero, with a much bigger emotional punch.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️ Mild
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Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
Stella is trying to save her struggling Christmas tree farm, so she enters an influencer’s contest and lies on the application that she runs it with her boyfriend. She doesn’t have one. Her best friend Luka Peters, a freckled data analyst, gets drafted. Fake dating, a farm on the line and a small town cheering them on, for the Flawless reader who wants the cozy dial turned up for the holidays.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Open door
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Elsie Silver Reading Order
Chestnut Springs: Flawless (2022), Heartless (2022), Powerless (2023, Jasper and Sloane, best friends to lovers on a road trip), Reckless (2023) and Hopeless (2023). Gold Rush Ranch came first (Off to the Races, A Photo Finish, The Front Runner and A False Start, 2021–2022). Rose Hill runs Wild Love, Wild Eyes, Wild Side and Wild Card (2024–2025). Emerald Lake opened with Fever Dream in 2026, and Midnight Rush is listed for 2027. Every book follows a new couple, so you can start anywhere, but Chestnut Springs in order gets the most out of the Eaton cameos. Our Elsie Silver books in order guide has the full Chestnut Springs and Rose Hill reading order. For more ranch reads, see our best western romance books of 2026.
Read Next: Hotter Picks From Fractal Enigma
Elsie Silver opens the bedroom door. Our cowboys take it off the hinges. Every pick below keeps the grumpy rancher, the forced proximity and the small-town family, and writes the heat all the way to the end of the scene.
Save a Horse, Ride the Grump — Isla Wilde
Cade Walker is six-foot-four of silence, solitude and Texas Hill Country stubbornness. Piper went viral for all the wrong reasons and landed on the wrong side of his property line. A storm, an arrangement, one bed and a goat named Dolly later, the man who talks in monosyllables is the one who falls first. Rhett’s swagger, Cade Eaton’s scowl, and a lot more on the page. Free with Kindle Unlimited, also in paperback.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Enemies to Lovers, One Bed, He Falls First, Small Town, Touch Her and Die
Start reading Save a Horse, Ride the Grump →
Hard Frost — Harper West
June is running for her life when her car spins out in a Montana blizzard. Then Silas Stone taps on her window: a scarred, angry giant of a rancher and single dad who looks at her like a nuisance he can’t afford. One snowed-in ranch house, one grump who hasn’t let anyone close in years and a touch-her-and-die streak a mile wide. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
Heat: Scorching 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Single Dad, Forced Proximity, Grumpy/Sunshine, Cowboy/Rancher, Touch Her and Die
Wrong Cabin, Right Daddy — Isla Wilde
Emma Carter is a single mom running on fumes who books a remote mountain cabin for one desperate week of rest, and finds Hank “Bear” Morrison, a six-foot-four bearded woodworker, already living in it. He moved up the mountain to be alone. Snowed in, a four-year-old who adores him and a gruff man who turns out to be very good at taking care of people. For Heartless fans who want the caretaking cowboy energy without the hat.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Single Mom, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Snowed In, Mountain Man, He Falls First
Start reading Wrong Cabin, Right Daddy →
Saddle Up, Make Out — Jace Wilder
The Flawless setup with two cowboys. A bronc rider with a sponsorship problem and a bull rider with a reputation for bad behavior agree to fake a wholesome romance for six months to save their careers: hand-holding, shared trailers, couple selfies, no feelings. Then a brutal injury forces them into close quarters. Rivals to lovers, MM, filthy and funny.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Rivals to Lovers, Fake Dating, Forced Proximity, One Bed, Caretaker Romance, Cowboy/Rodeo
Start reading Saddle Up, Make Out →
FAQ: Books Like Flawless
Do you need to read the Chestnut Springs books in order?
No. Each book follows a new couple with a complete HEA, but reading Flawless, Heartless, Powerless, Reckless and Hopeless in order lets the Eaton family cameos and the running jokes land.
Which Elsie Silver book should I read after Flawless?
Heartless if you want the best of the series next, Reckless if you want more bull riding, and Fever Dream (2026) if you want her newest rodeo hero.
How spicy is Flawless?
Open door and explicit, around a four on our romance spice levels scale, with several on-page scenes after a slow-burn first half. Most of the Fractal Enigma picks above run a full five.
Is Flawless being made into a movie or show?
Yes, in development. Netflix acquired the five Chestnut Springs books in 2025 for a series executive produced by Shawn Levy through 21 Laps, with Hannah Schneider adapting. No cast or premiere date had been announced as of that report. Separately, Prime Video’s Rose Hill series, based on Wild Love and Wild Eyes, is in production.
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