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.

Cowboys are a different breed... They work hard, play hard and love harder. It's all about the ride until the right woman makes them fall.

Sheriff Brock Cooper's life is in shambles. His son is gravely ill with a mystery ailment, the medical bills are piling up, and he is working two jobs, on top of working his ranch, trying to make ends meet. Brock is holding on with both hands, but doesn't know how long his endurance, or his son, will last without help.

Melanie Fox swore she'd never return to her hometown whose only claim to fame was it was situated in the same Georgia county where the movie Deliverance was filmed. But when Dr. Fox hears from the town's new sheriff that her crazy mother's antics have put her in the hospital, she has to go.

The only comfort she has is knowing her return won't be in inch-thick glasses with extra fluff. This time, Melanie will return as a confident, competent physician, so she would be immune to the taunts of the bullies and busybodies in her hometown.

When Melanie meets the new sheriff, though, time disappears along with her confidence. She is once again that nerd-girl and he is the boy who crushed her sixteen-year-old heart. But Brock Cooper is no longer the happy-go-lucky jock she fell in love with. He's a tortured man, with a sick son. Can she put aside the old wounds he inflicted to help him save his son?