Professional rodeo roper Karlie Upton is done with arrogant testosterone-soaked cowboys and she's done with the rodeo. After breaking up with her abusive bull rider boyfriend, Karlie heads to her old friend's ranch to lick her wounds and hide out. She has to hide out because not only has she left him, she’s taken his meal ticket with her. Sarge, the sixty-pound slack-jawed bulldog didn’t deserve his abuse either, and her ex didn’t deserve the five-thousand dollars he was paid monthly to care for the pup.

Karlie's plans to lie low go to hell fast, however, when the first person she meets in Bowie is the Chief Deputy Gabe Kelly. The handsome deputy not only gives her a lecture he writes her a speeding ticket she definitely couldn't afford. That was all fine, though, until he threatened to impound her dog. Then things got real ugly, and he found out fast why she was called the "Wild Child" of the rodeo circuit.

Karlie usually regretted the impulsive things she did, but this time the regret came faster when her ex shows up at the ranch and mistakenly kidnaps her twin sister. Now, the deputy she left roped on the side of the road is the only one who can save, but will he help her? Or will Gabe Kelly throw her to the wolf who wants to kill her?

**NOTICE** This book has a new cover, but the content has not been changed. All of the books in the Texas Trouble series can be read standalone.