The Cash-Strapped Cutie/Keepsake Cowboy

"The Cash Strapped Cutie" by Liz Ireland. Natalie Winthrop gave up her fiancé, her job, and her Houston condo when she won the West Texas Mansion in a raffle. However, when she reaches her new home on Heartbreak Ridge, she despairs because the house contains no plumbing, almost no roof, and just about everything else is in ruin. The only good thing is her neighbor, recluse Cal Tucker who bets the city slicker will not last six weeks. As Cal cannot stop helping Natalie, he begins to fall in love with her, but he remembers his ex-wife. He believes his neighbor is a reincarnation of her. Liz Ireland provides a fun Texas romance."Keepsake Cowboy" by Carrie Alexander. Laramie Jones remains the only member of the cowgirl club not married. When she heads to the Rockies to obtain her inheritance, she meets rodeo performer Jake Killian, still recovering from losing a tango with Black Terror, a nasty bull. Jake and Laramie jointly inherited the Lazy J ranch, a rundown spread. As Laramie tries to make a go of the place, she and Jake fall in love, but he insists to himself that, there is no room who can compete with his first love, the rodeo circuit. Carrie Alexander completes her warm "Cowgirl Club" trilogy with a humorous Texas romance.Both novels share in common feisty women trying to do the impossible while fractured men watch and fall in love with them Texas style. This leads to double the laughs from these two distinctive tales.Harriet Klausner