THE FINAL TURN - BOOK 2: CAJUN COWBOYS FAMILY SAGA ***
ACE AND PIPER'S STORY: When Piper Harrison offers to exercise Henri Broussards racing quarter horses for free she has one goal in mind—be the jockey to race Ragamuffin, the thoroughbred filly under his training. Ragamuffin's the foal Piper breathed life into when the filly was believed to be stillborn, the filly her father dumped in a claiming race because the homely filly shed doubt on his prime stallion. There's one glitch in Piper's plan though. Henri's grandson, Ace, bought the filly and he's against any dealings with a Harrison. But while a multi-generational feud between the families raises hackles between the pair, unwanted passions ignite, and before long Ace sees more in Piper than simply a workout rider for his grandfather's horses. In fact, she might just be the jockey to take Ragamuffin into her first stakes race, one that would pit Piper on Ragamuffin against her father's top thoroughbred.***
AUTHOR'S This story isn't just a story about Ragamuffin beating the boys. This is truly a Seabiscuit story as Ragamuffin, the star of the story, is anything but a sleek thoroughbred, which is why Piper's father wanted her off the place as she reflected badly on his prize stallion. But Ragamuffin is very much a character in the story and I hope you come to love her as much as I did.
***ABOUT THE SERIES: The books in the Cajun Cowboys series are intended to be read in sequence as each book moves forward in time. I invite you to visit my website and read about the follow-up books in the series, which are set in southwest Louisiana's prairie country where Cajun cowboys have been raising cattle since their Acadian ancestors registered the first brands back in the 1700s.***
LEVEL OF SENSUALITY: If you're looking for steamy romances you'll find instead sexy stories in a non-graphic way. My goal is to create romances that feature courageous, self-assured heroes with endearing flaws and the gutsy women who capture their hearts, women for whom these unsuspecting cowboys would lay down their lives.***
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: While tracing my roots I learned that my French-Acadian ancestral grandfather, Joseph Beausoleil Broussard, in 1765 led 240 Acadian exiles, who refused to pledge allegiance to the British crown, from Nova Scotia to Louisiana. Known as Capitaine Commandant des Acadiens, Joseph Broussard and six members of the party secured a deal with cattleman, Jean-Antoine-Bernard Dautrieve, to settle land grants on Bayou Teche and tend his livestock for part of the profit. The Dautrieve Agreement was signed into law, and by the early 1800s the Acadians were major cattle ranchers. Among them was my great-great grandfather, Amand Broussard, who, with his brother Pierre, drove herds of cattle from Bayou Teche to New Orleans, a 150-mile trip that required drovers to make numerous swims and fight swamps, bogs and thick woods, a tough journey that took two weeks. My Acadian-French grandmother, who lived to be 104, grew up on Bayou Teche in southwest Louisiana, and it is in this area that my Cajun Cowboys series is set.
