Hearts Against the Wind

FOLLOW THE DREAM Old Hank Travis could see a lot of himself in Jeff Harris.

The boy had oil in his blood and lived only for the next big strike. Granted, Jeff insisted that no piece of Texas dirt would ever tie him down. But fresh off four dry holes, he was stuck coaching tennis at his brother's dude ranch while he waited for his luck to turn.

Hank would lay odds that nothing would keep Harris in Crystal Creek for long. Of course, if a certain marriage-minded Miss Beverly Townsend set her cap at him, all bets were off.

A wrecked pickup and a few cracked ribs were hardly enough to anchor a wandering wildcatter. Yet once Jeff hauled Hank's battered Chevy behind the Circle T barn, he found plenty of reasons to linger. Naturally, a former beauty queen with her sights on country-club stability was the last complication he needed. Beverly Townsend was holding out for a dependable doctor, not an unpredictable rogue with grease under his nails. Still, their platonic truce was melting fast in the Texas heat.
Western Romance: Armed with nothing but gut instinct and an old treasure map, Jeff stakes his savings on a forgotten parcel near Alvin, chasing a Gulf Coast gusher that could make or break his career.Small Town Romance: Crystal Creek buzzes with gossip as Beverly visits hospital wards with a trick-performing palomino and a cowboy dummy named Dinky, proving she is far more than a decorative former beauty queen.Opposites Attract: An ambitious young doctor with a silver Corvette thinks he has Beverly all figured out, until Jeff turns a charity box-lunch auction into a fifty-dollar bidding war.Friends to Lovers: What begins as a strictly platonic road trip to the beaches of Galveston and the historic Hotel Galvez quickly tests their resolve to keep things uncomplicated.Also by This Author: Stand By Your Man.