Cowboy Romance Series by J.R. Biery

TANGLED SPURS Chasing dreams or working to survive, when love enters, hard choices have to be made. Hank West is content as foreman on the Harper Ranch. After the big gunfight, he has to become the manager for the big ranch next door. He quickly finds himself unsure for the first time in years struggling to communicate with the Mexican vaqueros and a pretty woman. Isabelle Lamarck is a trained French chef who cannot cook in restaurants... moreTANGLED SPURS Chasing dreams or working to survive, when love enters, hard choices have to be made. Hank West is content as foreman on the Harper Ranch. After the big gunfight, he has to become the manager for the big ranch next door. He quickly finds himself unsure for the first time in years struggling to communicate with the Mexican vaqueros and a pretty woman. Isabelle Lamarck is a trained French chef who cannot cook in restaurants. Lured by money and the promise to be the exclusive chef for a banker and wife she travels to a small town in Texas. Soon, all the citizens of Star are embroiled in chaos. The banker leaves with his wife to find help for her at a hospital for the insane. Alone at the house, Isabelle decides to use her pastry skills to raise money to return home. When Hank moves in with rules on how he wants things run, she fights her temper and temptation as the man lures her to a fate she has avoided for years. When she sees a chance to run a restaurant and bakery in town, the dream she has always wanted, it means fleeing the man she is attracted to. Then he makes it clear he desires her, but has nothing to offer a woman and would never consider marriage. With her heart full of longing for what could never be, she settles for creating a business and successful life in town away from temptation. Hank wants to avoid the woman but is drawn into spending every minute helping her in one way or another. As their lives and desires become hopelessly tangled, Hank prays they both survive. less

THE GRASS WIDOW A widowed woman, a little boy, and a lonely cowboy, all that is needed is for fate to take a hand. Linsey Coburn finishes her first chores to make time for the garden. Since her husband’s violent death a year ago, every day is a struggle. She lets five-year-old Sammy help, only to keep him close to her. Then she notices their small herd of cattle is missing... moreTHE GRASS WIDOW A widowed woman, a little boy, and a lonely cowboy, all that is needed is for fate to take a hand. Linsey Coburn finishes her first chores to make time for the garden. Since her husband’s violent death a year ago, every day is a struggle. She lets five-year-old Sammy help, only to keep him close to her. Then she notices their small herd of cattle is missing. Cliff McHugh, foreman of the Harper ranch rides home from his friend's where the married Harper men have gathered to celebrate the first birthday of Hank's son. Four of the five men are now married with young children. After the pandemonium of crawling and toddling infants take turns grabbing for his long handlebar mustache, Cliff is ready to shave the blame thing off. A man was lucky to be able to saddle up and ride back to a bunkhouse with nary a female or noisy child in sight. That was Cliff, plumb lucky. Cliff finds and herds some strays back toward the widow’s farm. He scolds her for letting the cattle escape, but when they check, they discover that a tree fell on the fence during the night. He manages to move the tree and shore up the fence but warns it is only a temporary solution. Linsey tells him to mind his own business, if she had the money, she would take care of it. When he finds one steer has a broken leg, she grudgingly accepts his help to dress the beef. Days later, the remaining cows escape again. This time, Cliff returns them and brings three men to repair the fence with wire and fence posts he bought. She is clearly terrified when the men make a crude joke about how the pretty woman can pay them for their trouble. Still, she manages to cook and feed them. When Cliff scolds the men, they remind him what everyone knows about grass widows. “They are all land, but no man.” Staring at the proud, worried woman, Cliff finally understands. He sends the men home without him. less