Love's Second Chance

Shaye learned the hard way that a man professing love is not always what he seems. Concerned, her cousin, Jim, insists she move to Texas near family and where REAL men are to start over in her wedding consultant business and personal life. To that end he has helped her find a business storefront, an apartment she can call home, and introduced her to prospective clients among his business associates and friends. Jim also wants her to learn to ride and date again. Shaye has dodged him on both, her time spent on her business, and man-shy willing only to window shop as long as men, like store mannequins, don't make a move. When Jim pushes her in the direction of his friend, rancher and single dad, Cash Wilcox, who is looking for someone to help plan his daughter's upcoming home wedding, and who can teach Shaye to ride, she believes the rumor Cash likely make a move, given a million women in six Texas counties failed to rope him--not that they haven't tried. Finding him a striking figure on or off a horse as he gives her his attention and time, Shaye understands why he is not the kind of man you want riding off into the sunset. But she doesn't want to be played again, either, and ponders if his interest is genuine, and how to kiss a man storied for not wanting to be roped.
Cash with one look at Shaye's painted fingernails, which probably have never been subjected to mucking out a horse stall, tags her as a city businesswoman like his former wife, who, discontented with ranch life, had abandoned him and at the time their three-year-old daughter. However, watching the sway of Shaye's long hair follow that of her hips, he decides babysitting her for Jim might not be the chore he thought. Blown away by her vision for the wedding, and caring nature, he also finds she is cautious and can take off, like a colt in fright and flight mode. A man who takes chances every day, he wonders if he can breach her defenses if he kisses her, or even if he should.