Love Drunk Cowboy

March 7, 2011
In the first of the Spikes & Spurs romance series, Brown (the Honky Tonk romances) sets up immediate physical attraction between stiletto-wearing career-minded Austin Lanier, who's come to tiny Terral, Okla., to scatter her grandma's ashes, and Rye O'Donnell, a neighboring cattle rancher who supplies bulls for the rodeo circuit. Taking a two-week leave from her oil executive job in Tulsa so she can settle the estate, Austin learns she's inherited Granny's watermelon farm and winery, and she falls right into country ways: wearing overalls, planting seeds, and snacking on rattlesnake. Austin and Rye get along brilliantly from the start; the only real conflict comes from Austin's struggle to choose between high-powered city life and the charming rodeos, country songs, quirky senior citizens, and billowing dust of Terral.

March 15, 2011
Austin Lanier has come to little Terral, Oklahoma, to scatter her grandmothers ashes and put the family watermelon farm on the market, but something about the place grabs her. It could be the alluring next-door neighbor, Rye ODonnell. A once-bitten, twice-shy cowboy, Rye wants nothing more in life than his ranch and to ride in the rodeo. But when he meets Granny Laniers granddaughter, sparks fly, even though shes a city business woman, and he is a country man. If only his hormones would figure that out. Rye makes it no secret that he wants to buy the farm if Austin wants to sell, but what he wants most is for her to stay. What starts out as a simple decision to continue on her path becomes a difficult one as Austin begins to find farm life appealing, a turn of mind her mother finds appalling. Brown revitalizes the western romance with this fresh, funny, and sexy tale filled with likable, down-to-earth characters.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)