The New Cowboy
Rebecca Winters
Harlequin
American Romance, Jan 1 2014, $5.50
ISBN:
9780373755516
A
year ago in Montana, anthropologist Avery Bannock and former SEAL turned Bureau
of Land Management Law Enforcement and Security undercover agent Zane Lawson
met at a family gathering. They rarely
see each other except on Skype when he chats with his sister Sadie (see In A
Cowboy’s Arms) as he works in another part of the state, but remain attracted
to one another.
After
successfully working a drug bust near Glasgow, Zane is reassigned to work in
the Pryor Mountain region from out of his ranch, which is next to her
grandfather’s spread where his beloved lives.
Suffering from a relatively mild form of PTSD, Zane recognizes that
Avery faces similar mental traumas, which prevent her from forging a
relationship with him. Being patient
with her, Zane learns whatever impacted Avery occurred when she attended
Montana State eight years ago. He
persuades her to help him on an investigation into who stole Crow artifacts while
also damaging the site of an excavation near Absarokee that Avery works.
The
third Hitting Rocks Cowboy family affair (see A Cowboy’s Heart) is an absorbing
police procedural romance. The
protagonists are a captivating couple as each suffers from PTSD but extremely
differing degrees and coping measures as she is much more crippled than he is. Although the lead felon is obvious early on
and the leads’ respective families are too upbeat, readers (and the Bannock and
Lawson kin) will welcome The New Cowboy and his beloved anthologist to Hitting
Rocks.
Harriet
Klausner
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