Real West Romances #6

Doc Meredith has a reputation as a gunslinger in Sage City, but his skill with a pistol has cost him the woman he loves—Lorna won't marry a man so quick to violence, no matter how talented a doctor he is. When mysterious strangers drag him out to treat a bullet wound in Lobo Valley, an outlaw stronghold, the good doctor finds himself trapped as a prisoner of the charming but dangerous Lobo, who decides the cure for the Doc's loneliness is romance, and kidnaps Lorna to prove it. Now Jeff must navigate an impossible situation where Lorna believes he's thrown in with the outlaws, while Lobo's childlike devotion to his new friend threatens to unravel everything.

A lonely cowpoke falls head over heels for a radio singer named Louise Valli after hearing her voice on the air, and he's determined to meet her—even if it means leaving the prairie behind. When he finally tracks her down, their connection sparks something real, but her manager Phil sees an opportunity to remake the cowboy into a star, with motives that aren't quite what they seem. In "Six-Gun Serenade," a simple ranch hand discovers that winning the heart of a city girl might require becoming someone he's never imagined he could be.

Mickey Rowan, a smooth-talking dude from back East, finds himself stranded in the Texas desert and reluctantly accepted at Rita Lee's remote ranch—where he discovers that her father's homemade horse liniment works miracles on people too. Sensing a fortune in the formula, Mickey charms his way into the old man's confidence while pretending to love both horses and ranch life, despite despising both; but Rita sees straight through him and demands the truth about his real intentions. As Mickey's web of lies tangles tighter, he'll have to decide what matters more: the money or the girl who's already caught on to his game.

A playboy banker arrives in Texas to learn ranching—and real humility—when his charm hits a wall in the form of Linda Spencer, who sees right through his practiced lines. As Matt Brady discovers that prairie life and prairie women operate on different rules than Manhattan high society, he'll have to decide whether to keep playing the same games or genuinely change. In this tale of a city slicker learning what matters, one woman's honesty might prove to be the only currency that counts.