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Asked to endorse Serena Davis's hand–tooled boots, rodeo star Cal McKinney finds himself drawn to the beautiful designer, but she wants to keep their relationship all business.

Tara Hastings never meant to come to Crystal Creek. She's fled to the Texas Hill Country hoping to protect herself and her four–year–old son from the fallout of a nasty divorce.

Grady McKinney's home is the open road. Born and raised in Crystal Creek, he thinks he's escaped it for good. Then an accident maroons him in the last place on earth he wants to stay.

Tara's taken on the task of restoring an isolated ranch house, and she desperately needs help. Grady can do almost anything except settle down. He also desperately needs a job. Responsible Tara shouldn't be attracted to footloose Grady, but she is. Worse, her vulnerable son adores him!

What if the truth doesn't set you free?

Emerson Roth has one mission protect her family by keeping their secrets. If the decision was left to Emerson, she would stop the lies and live with the consequences, but she has her sister and elderly grandparents to consider.

Eli Garner has one job uncover the truth about the Roth's. And his reputation proves that he just might be able to do that. In the past, when Eli went after a story, nothing stopped him, and he has the scars to show for it. If Emerson thinks she can keep secrets from him, she's dead wrong.

But what happens when Eli realizes that exposing the Roth's means ruining the life of the only woman he's ever cared about?

GUARANTEED PAGE–TURNER

From the bestselling author of See How They Run and Don't Talk to Strangers comes a compelling story of drama and suspense. And a romance you won't forget!

The only rule.
Don't get involved. To Hawkshaw, they're words to live by. He left the Secret Service because he didn't want to take care of anyone but himself. Then an old friend asks him for a favour .

The last case.
A woman and her young son need a place to hide and someone to protect them. A stalker wants her and he'll do anything to have her .

The wrong woman.
Hawkshaw agrees to help, but he's more than a little reluctant. Kate Kanaday's not the woman he wants living in his house. Even worse, she's got him thinking about breaking his only rule .

Marie Lafayette has struggled for most of her life. So when her mother's dying confession reveals an astonishing truth, Marie walks away from her career to find answers at Fairchild Acres where she might be the heiress to the Fairchild family fortune!

But Marie can't bring herself to reveal her true identity. Her? An heiress? And to make matters worse, she's falling for racing world royalty. Andrew Preston is wealthy, handsome and completely wrong for her. Because even as Andrew makes Marie feel like Cinderella, she knows fairy tales don't exist. And men like Andrew don't fall for women like her.

FOURTH OF JULY – TEXAS STYLE!

Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures.

FIREWORKS!

Ken Slattery, foreman at the Double C, knows what he wants. He wants Nora Jones. But Nora already has a man in her life – her eight–year–old son, Rory. Besides, her ex–husband has threatened to kill any man who stakes a claim on her... and he's on his way home to Crystal Creek for the holiday weekend.

Not even wild horses

Nothing could make Michele Nightingale betray the only family she's ever known. So when Adam Duran shows up an uninvited stranger bearing bad news at the Circle T, she wants nothing to do with him. But he insists on speaking with ranch owner Carolyn Trent.

Since Carolyn's away, Mickey has to play host. She's horrified to learn who Adam is and what he wants. But the more she gets to know Adam, the more his story touches her. She finds herself torn between her loyalty to the Trents and the sympathy and undeniable attraction she's beginning to feel toward Adam.

And then there are the horses .