"When Tobin Hale stepped in to stop Garnet Evans' son from railroading her out of her own home, he knew moving in with his favorite Mud Lily could be seen as strange. But nothing prepared him for the arrival of Garnet's fiery, beautiful granddaughter, Jade--or her assumption that he's up to no good ... While Tobin might be the hottest man Jade Evans has ever seen, his physical attributes won't distract her from protecting her grandma from his sweet-talking...

"Celia Lawson knows better than to tangle with sexy bull rider Kyle Gilchrist, who has earned a reputation for his love em and leave em ways. But after a tequila-fueled night, Celia wakes up to discover shes gotten herself hitched--to the one man she never should have married! When Celia insists on an annulment, Kyle isnt ready to let go of his new bride. And when Kyle inherits a sprawling Wyoming ranch, he seizes the opportunity to enlist Celias...

A collection of stories set in Wyoming about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but...

"The A.A. Western Detective Agency takes on a new case in 1894 Wyoming, a land of bandit gangs and rustlers, when a group of scientists come to town in the hopes of rustling up something very different--dinosaur fossils. With Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer on protection duty, Old Red's obsession with Sherlock Holmes is forced to take a back seat. Until a human body is shockingly discovered during an excavation, that is. As the mystery deepens, these...