Stetsons and Stakeouts
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Publisher Description
Gianni Cesare is the very definition of a spaghetti western. He's an Italian count who owns a big working ranch that he doesn't really have time for because he's also a DEA agent. He's back on his home turf at the ranch to bust up a drug ring which is why, when it comes time to hire a new foreman, he tells his Aunt Jerilyn to hire someone who won't ask a lot of questions.
Bonner Fannin is a rodeo man, not a ranch cowboy, but he has a host of his own problems, including a pregnant sister who has a stalker biker ex, so he hires on as the foreman of Gianni's ranch to protect her. How hard can it be to manage horses and cows, right? He'll do whatever he's got to do to save his family.
The problem for both of them is that they know each other, having had a fiery, more than one night stand at the beach many years back. Their attraction to each other still burns like a brush fire, but that's only going to get in the way when there's a drug pipeline running right through the ranch, a host of bad guys coming after them, and slew of federal agent task force members staying at the ranch. Can Gianni and Bonner get past the secrets they have to keep and find a way to be together after all?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rock-hard bods and lust hotter than a Texas heat wave set the stage in this action-packed romance from Tortuga (Two Cowboys and a Baby). When D.C.-based DEA agent Gianni Cesare hears that a gang is moving drugs through his mother's family's East Texas ranch land, he offers his task force the use of the ranch as their base of a sting operation. He asks his aunt to make sure the foreman she's hiring doesn't know him so he can pose as a wealthy Italian looking to party. She brings in rodeo cowboy Bonner Fannin, unaware that Bonner had a very memorable fling with Gianni six years before. Bonner desperately needs the job and can't complicate matters by getting involved with Gianni, yet the sparks fly the minute they set eyes on each other. Though Gianni and Bonner are soon enjoying plenty of hot sex, their lust is tempered by the imminent threat of a violent confrontation with the drug runners. Gianni's reunions with his close-knit family especially his quirky, queer Auntie Jerilyn, "a bear wearing Est e Lauder" and local friends give the story its humor and heart.
