Vanessa Vale | Radish Author (2024)

Vanessa Vale

Vanessa Vale is the USA Today bestselling author of sexy romance novels, including her popular Bridgewater historical romance series and hot contemporary romances. With over one million books sold, Vanessa writes about unapologetic bad boys who don’t just fall in love, they fall hard. Her books are available worldwide in multiple languages in e-book, print, audio and even as an online game. When she’s not writing, Vanessa savors the insanity of raising two boys and figuring out how many meals she can make with a pressure cooker. While she’s not as skilled at social media as her kids, she loves to interact with readers.

Stories by Vanessa Vale

Naughty Mail Order BridesBranded a harlot and shunned, Catherine has little option to avoid the poorhouse. She arrives in a far-off western town as a mail order bride where she quickly discovers the men are unlike any other and the rules for wives are carnal and very thorough. Her husband sets about to train his new bride in his erotic expectations.Historical Romance282.4k Views

Billionaire RanchWelcome to Billionaire Ranch, USA Today bestseller Vanessa Vale’s new cowboy romance series. Where love points you in the right direction when you least expect it.Everyone thinks I’m the disgraced cowboy.That means my cover’s working. The focus of my FBI investigation?North Wainright.One look at her and I’m f$cked.I want her, and not behind bars.The closer I get, the more I learn about the woman I’ve decided is mine.When I find out what happened at Billionaire Ranch, I discover I’m not the only one hiding the truth. North also has secrets and they just might get her killed.How can I save her when she finds out I’m the biggest lie of all?Contemporary Romance8.5k Views

Steele Ranch Series: Book 1Welcome to Steele Ranch, where the men are hot, dominant, and know what they want.For Cord Connolly and Riley Jamison, that’s sexy and sinfully sweet Kady Parks. The Philadelphia school teacher discovers she’s the heir—along with half-sisters she didn’t know existed—to the Steele fortune, including a real-life cattle ranch. Instead of spending her summer break at home, she’s in Barlow, Montana. And the West is as wild as she imagined, for two hot cowboys have decided to lay claim, taking her for one wild ride. And Kady? She’s ready to dig in her spurs and hang on tight.All473 Views4h 10m 53s

Small Town CowboysJane West's life is perfectly average. Perfectly boring. Until Ty Strickland—Grade-A, smoking hot firefighter—moves in down the street. Then things get a little exciting, and not in the good, panty-melting sort of way. Not only does someone want her dead (seriously), she has to wrangle her out-of-control desires where the new neighbor is concerned, and convince her boss at the small town's only adult toy store—who meddles in Jane's love life—to leave the new hose-wielding hottie off her matchmaking radar.But it's not all chaos and pancakes. There's Ty. And his smoking hot body. Smoking hot kisses. He's burning the walls around her heart to nothing but ash. And she just might be falling in love...if she can stay alive long enough.This is the first book in Vanessa Vale's new Small Town Cowboys series, where the men in Montana aren't just hot, they set things on fire.Erotic Romance127.2k Views

Mail Order Menage of Slate SpringsA marriage based on everything but love should be doomed.Celia Lawrence can’t show her face in her conservative, small town. First, she discovered her husband in bed with another man’s wife, and then she witnessed both their murders. While she didn’t pull the trigger, small town gossip is not forgiving and everywhere she goes she is chastised for not being woman enough to keep her straying husband at home. Eager to flee her old life, Celia heads to Colorado as a mail-order bride.As mayor of Slate Springs, Colorado, Luke Tate is expected to set the example. Their small town is hidden away in a remote mountainous region where few women have the courage or desire to tread. As mayor, it falls to him to test out their newly passed law and share a wife with his brother. The truth is, Luke has no interest in a woman of his own, and agrees to a mail-order bride out of duty, not anticipation.His brother, Walker, is jaded and hard after the death of his first wife. For Walker, loving again is out of the question. But a man has needs, and he’ll eagerly take his pleasure from their new bride while expecting Luke to provide the tenderness and caring a woman expects.A marriage based on everything but love should be doomed. But Celia, Luke and Walker discover one thing they have in common: desire. Will that be strong enough to survive the danger that follows Celia from Texas? Will desire be strong enough to teach the three that sometimes you have to risk everything for love?Historical Romance113.9k Views

Wild Mountain Men Series: Book 3When Dr. Samantha Smyth confuses the town’s sexy mechanic for a patient, she gets a lesson she’ll never forget …Being a child genius might have made Sam a doctor by twenty-two, but she’s learned nothing about men. Her world is scalpels and scrubs, not silk and seduction. Sam is used to receiving attention for her brain, not her body, but when Mac and Hardin find out she needs tutoring between the sheets, they volunteer for the job. They’re diligent in their task, ensuring she’s an expert in pleasure … with them. Only them.Mac knows he is nothing the beautiful doctor deserves. He works with his hands. He’s rough around the edges, tattooed and older, but he wants her anyway. So does his best friend, Hardin. They’ve spent years searching for a woman they can claim together. One taste of Sam and it’s not just passion they feel for their woman. It’s protectiveness. Possession.When they discover Sam might be targeted by a murderer on the loose, they won’t let anything take her away. And their protective instinct reaches a new level when Hardin discovers he might just be related to the killer.All277 Views3h 43m 22s

Wild Mountain Men Series: Book 4Eve Miranski has spent weeks trying to find a killer who’s roaming free in Cutthroat. She’s also working hard to protect her battered heart from two alpha cowboys who aren’t making it easy. Yeah, two. After they meet at a holiday party, Shane Nickel and Finch Anderson have made it clear to Eve they’re interested in one thing: her.He might be the son of a movie star, but Shane Nickel is content living out of the spotlight. When he meets the stubborn detective, his protective instincts kick in. He should let her go, find a woman whose work doesn’t require a gun and handcuffs (although he can think of some fun uses for the handcuffs) and not tasked with hunting down a murderer. His heart—and other parts of him—want Eve.As a forest ranger, Finch Anderson spends more time in the wilderness than in town. That suits him just fine, until he meets Eve and everything changes. He wants her, wants everything he never thought he could have, but how can a felon and a feisty detective get along?The men’s doubts won’t matter when new evidence in the Erin Mills case is discovered and the identity of the murderer is revealed. The only thing they’ll have to worry about is keeping Eve alive, because the killer won’t be caught without a fight.All78 Views3h 39m 10s

Wild Mountain Men Series: Book 1If you liked Bridgewater County, you don’t want to miss this hot new series full of wild mountain men!We want Kit Lancaster. We’ve wanted her for years. Both of us. Me and Donovan. It might not be normal for two guys to claim a woman together, but we live in Cutthroat, Montana, and we’ll do what we want.And what we want to do is Kit. What could get in the way?Oh yeah, a little thing called murder. And since I’m the lead detective and Donovan’s the prosecutor, it might not be the smartest thing to bed the prime suspect.As if that would stop us!All128 Views3h 31m 57s

Wild Mountain Men Series: Book 2Hailey Taylor knows ski racing, and it’s paid off, because she’s a champion. The top of her game. Until she wiped out last season and blew out her knee. Her body may have recovered, but her head’s not back in the game. Meeting Lucas Mills doesn’t help, because the instant connection they share is just too good to ski away from. And when Lucas is game for getting his best friend in on their bed sport? Hailey’s ready to play.Lucas is in love with Hailey. He’s all in, from the first moment he sees her. But he knows he’s not perfect, not with his PTSD from being deployed. He wants to make sure she’s got someone watching out for her, besides him. Because the one thing he’s learned between war and the murder of his sister is that bad things can happen.Cy Seaborn’s dad is a piece of sh … work. He walked away from his family when Cy was a kid, forcing his mom to work two jobs to make ends meet, to leave their house and live with his grandparents. He hasn’t heard or seen from him since. Until the man falsely admits to killing Erin Mills—his best friend’s sister. Cy has no idea why his father did it, and neither do the detectives working the case or the reporters who’ve been hounding him. He’s wary. Jaded.All three are scarred. Damaged, outside and in. Lucas wants it all but doesn’t think he’s enough. Cy’s not worthy of a woman like Hailey, tainted by his father’s bad blood. And Hailey? The only commitment she’s known is to her sport, and all that’s gotten her is loneliness and injury. What if they let her fall? Can her heart recover?And most of all … with a murderer roaming Cutthroat, will they survive?All111 Views3h 39m 42s

The Bachelor Auction Series: Book 2I’ve always wanted her. After all these years, that’s never changed.I thought Sarah O’Banyon had been The One. I’d been f-ing wrong.I moved on, made something of myself. Became police chief. Even had a beautiful daughter.When Sarah buys me at the bachelor auction, I’m stunned. It’s been six years. She wants me for something now. When we end up in my bedroom, I know exactly what. Except I get cuffed to my headboard by the sexy mechanic—and left. Getting free isn’t the only thing that’s hard.Turns out she’s learned something about my past. A secret which makes her angry. I’m okay with that. It means she still feels something for me. I’ll change her hate to love.We’re going to pick up the pieces of our first love … and our broken hearts, because there is no other option. It’s Sarah O’Banyon for this cowboy. Always.A single dad gets a second chance at first love in the next Bachelor Auction book. It’s Huck Manning’s turn to reignite the flames of his love life …Contemporary Romance3h 12m 52s