I'm happy when I'm with him. But I shouldn't get carried away… Antonia, a veterinarian, has to deal with chauvinist cowboy Daniel Sutton when she arrives at his ranch. He becomes apologetic, however, when she saves his sick horse, saying his worry for the animal got the better of him. Antonia is drawn to this sincere man, but memories of her painful past still haunt her. She swore she would never fall in love again…but what if she can’t help it?

The town of Linhart had never seen a sophisticatedbeauty like Sydney Baines, and Russ Klein suspected thatwhatever had brought the long-legged detective all theway to the Texas Hill Country couldn't be good. Andhe was right—years of weaning his mother away from Las Vegas's high rollers would be wasted and hergambling addiction would be back in full swing onceSydney's news about his long-lost inheritance got out. At first the big-city sleuth didn't believe it. The hardershe pushed the stubborn Texan to take the money, theharder he resisted. Could she pass up the finder's fee herfamily desperately needed so the charming backwoodsadventurer could keep his secret? Because it looked as ifbotching her assignment was the only way shecould catch her man….

For temporarily-relocated-from-Dallas hotshot defense attorney Lisa Mendoza, a year working for the public defender's office in tiny Angel Eye, Texas, was just a slight detour off the path she'd mapped out for her life. Then she ran smack-dab into handsome Quinn Sutton--and the map started looking more and more muddy. For despite her misgivings about getting involved with the town sheriff, she found him infuriatingly irresistible.... And what of said Sheriff Quinn? He, too, felt the pull of attraction--and the strings of hesitation. Because once before, he'd known the pain of falling fast for a woman who had made it clear she'd follow her head and not her heart. Only this time, with Lisa, he wondered if his heart might follow, as well....

She hated molasses-paced Moonglow, Texas. She hated her new homespun identity. And she didn’t know whether to strangle or kiss the handsome Hawaiian-shirt-clad handyman who ruined more than he repaired. But for all that “Molly Hansen” missed her old life, making memories with Dan Shackelford didn’t seem so bad.... Sure, his sudden return home had the gossips talking and the women flocking. But Dan seemed interested in her alone...something that both terrified and titillated her. Because she was no dummy, and Dan was no Mr. Fix-It. Was he the enemy she’d gone underground to avoid? Or was he the man who would make it possible to love Moonglow and being Molly—so long as he was part of the package?

From October 1959 until the mid-1970s, Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick collaborated on what they hoped to be a definitive history and analysis of the blues in Texas. Both were prominent scholars and researchers—Oliver had already established an impressive record of publications, and McCormick was building a sprawling collection of primary materials that included field recordings and interviews with blues musicians from all over Texas and the greater South. Despite being eagerly awaited by blues fans, folklorists, historians, and ethnomusicologists who knew about the Oliver-McCormick collaboration, the intended manuscript was never completed. In 1996, Alan Govenar, a respected writer, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker, began a conversation with Oliver about the unfinished book on Texas blues. Subsequently, Oliver invited Govenar to assist him, and when Oliver became ill, Govenar enlisted folklorist and ethnomusicologist Kip Lornell to help him contextualize and document the existing manuscript for publication. The Blues Come to Texas: Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick’s Unfinished Book presents an unparalleled view into the minds and methods of two pioneering blues scholars.

Wonderful. --Booklist on To Tempt a Texan