Counting on a Cowboy
Karen SandlerContemporary romance
Available from Silhouette Books
2003
| Tom Jarret nearly ran over Andrea Larson the first time he
saw her. In that instant, though she couldn't have known it,
she moved right into his heart. She, too, was changed by
that moment when she imagined riding off into the sunset
with the blue-eyed, broad-shouldered cowboy. Never mind that
Andrea had never been on a horse.
Tom's daughter Jessie brought them together when she was thrown out of school and Tom's sister suggested a guest at her bed-and-breakfast might home-school Jessie. Both Andrea and Tom had secrets, and neither quite wanted to get involved. From the moment they met, however, they were involved. Almost like a dance, they welcomed the heat then backed off. Always they worked toward Jessie's recovery from her physical and emotional trauma. From their first heart-thumping eye contact, Tom and Andrea were pulled towards each other. He told himself he was a grown man who didn't have to act upon such urges. She told herself she was a grown woman who didn't need a man, not even a gorgeous cowboy. They told themselves and each other that their only common ground was Jessie. Of course they find a way through and beyond their years of secrecy, their habits of being alone and trusting no one. Of course Jessie is a catalyst for their love. In Counting on a Cowboy, Karen Sandler takes her readers for a ride through Tom's and Andrea's emotions as they learn to trust each other and, even more, to trust love. To choose love.
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Reviewer: Chas Ridley |
