Trust Me, My Love

Tasmin "Tammy" Harland used to ride showjumpers and she was very good at it. But when her father died in dire financial straits, his horses had to be sold and Tammy fled to France to avoid the scandal, where she got a job working for the powerful and sinister Count Emile de Monterry. Six months later Emile summons her and tells her he as a way for her to get back to England and maybe to the career she'd been forced to give up. He wants her to go home, to get a job working with horses, to get close to Jake Newman, a showjumper on his way to the top. Jake has a horse called Golden Boy that the count wants and he wants Tammy to convince Jake to sell. Tammy turns him down. The slimy count offers her ten percent of the sale, money she dearly needs, but she still refuses. Then the vile count threatens to expose her father as a member of an illegal betting scam. She says dear old dad would never have done anything dishonest. He says nobody will believe her and not wanting her father's memory sullied any further, she goes back to England, where she meets Jake. Jake, tells her right off the bat that he'd never sell Golden Boy, especially not to a man like the count. He also tells her that he is not the marrying kind. However it's not too long before that old devil attraction is working on Tammy and Jake. But what will happen when Jake finds out Tammy's real reason for returning? Will Tammy get back into showjumping? And just what will the dastardly count do when Tammy doesn't deliver as expected? I must say that even though Ms. Heywood wrote this back in 1989, it reads as fresh as anything Harlequin is putting out today. "Trust Me, My Love" is just a super story, one I know you'll like.