The Cowboy’s Baby by Imani King

One look and I can tell city-girl Tia Kinsley has no business in River Bend, Montana. First, she tries to pet my fearsome prize stallion. Next, she manages to let half my cattle out of the pasture, right onto a busy road.Why? To help a stray calf get back to his momma.Two brutal tours in Iraq filled my heart with darkness. Combat changed me. When I left the Marines I moved to out west to build fences – around my property and my heart. I wrote new rules – no relationships, no complications – and I stuck to them.Until her.She’s a fish out of water, the girl who thinks it’s just fine to wear five-inch heels to a hoe-down. Sure, she looks like sin in those heels – but she’s everything I don’t need.It takes a chance encounter outside a bar on a summer night to see something familiar in her eyes. Hurt. I know that look. I’veeen that pain before, staring back at me in the mirror.

Tia thinks she wants to know the ‘real’ me, but she doesn’t know what that means…