Saddled with Trouble

A bestselling author's research trip turn deadly and only an infurating horseback search and rescue deputy can save her.

Sandra Hall traded Manhattan book parties for her grandmother's dusty Mission ranch, hoping to authentically capture the Texas hill country's rare flora in her next mystery novel. Now someone's leaving mangled cactus blossoms and blood-inked warnings on her manuscript pages, and the only person who believes her is the last man she wants help from, the stubborn deputy who seems to bump into her around every corner of town.

Deputy Connor Stilwell has enough trouble tracking lost hikers in the unforgiving borderland terrain without babysitting a city writer who's either hallucinating threats or hiding something. But when footprints appear outside her window that match a boot pattern from his unsolved case file, his professional detachment crumbles.

Has Sandra's research uncovered something worth killing for? Can Connor protect her while fighting his growing attraction to the stubborn novelist? And as the warnings escalate from threats to attempts, will either of them survive long enough to discover who's lurking in the shadows of the ranch?