Candace Schuler, The Cowboy Way

Candace Schuler, The Cowboy Way - In Texas rancher Jo Beth Jenson has two rules when it comes to sex. Never participate near home and even more importantly, never with a cowboy. She still feels the hurt when the man everyone, including her, thought would marry her came home with a bride that was not Jo Beth. Still, at the wedding of her friend Roxanne (see GOOD TIME GIRL) Jo Beth met champion bull rider Clay Madison and deep inside her brain knows she would love to have the rodeo star, but never ever a cowboy remains her mantra.

Recovering from an injury and having not forgotten the maid of honor at the nuptials of his pal Tom six months ago and seeing that vision skinny dipping, Clay tries to persuade Jo Beth into sharing his bed. Though attracted to Clay, Jo Beth says no to the cowboy. He refuses to accept her stereotype and begins a campaign to win her over, but soon wants more than a healing fling as Clay has fallen in love with Jo Beth; she feels the same way but distrusts cowboys with her heart.

THE COWBOY WAY takes secondary characters from a good time hot Blaze and brings them together in an amusing, torrid tale of their own. The storyline is humorous as the cowboy tries to convince the anti-cowboy to join him in heated fun. The lead couple makes the ranch romance work as they prove support cast can star in their own adventure. Candace Shuler provides a jocular, contemporary gender war that fans will appreciate.

Harlequin Blaze, Apr 2005, $4.75, 248 pp.

ISBN: 037379181X

Harriet Klausner