Artist Cat Crandall enjoys swanky gallery openings and fine wine; dude ranch wrangler Mack Boyd likes riding bucking horses and shooting beer cans off fence posts. She believes in living up to your full potential; he’s a live-for-the-moment kind of guy who thinks worldly success is overrated. About the only thing they agree on is the need to make Cat’s upcoming watercolor workshops at Boyd Dude Ranch a success.
She’s hardly a cowgirl.
Tired of selling her creative soul to make a living, artist Cat Crandall left a lucrative advertising job in New York to teach watercolor workshops for a company that promotes painting tours in exotic locations. The Boyd Ranch is hardly her dream destination, but if the outing’s a success they’ll send her all over the world to capture the world’s most famous landscapes. If not—well, another artist’s soul will be for sale again.
But once a cowboy…
Mack Boyd was smack dab in the middle of the best bronc-riding season of his career when his mother asked for help with an artist’s retreat at the ranch. Mack might be able to ride a wild stallion to a standstill, but he can’t say no to his family. And he’s not sure he can wrangle a passel of artsy greenhorns on horseback, either.
…always a cowboy.
Cat’s paintings define life’s precious moments, but she’s in a big hurry to get to the future. Her talent and ambition make for an intoxicating combination, and Mack’s amazed at how she can capture his world with a few strokes of her brush—but he’s not ready to change, and she’s not ready to settle down.
But when the ranch is threatened, Mack realizes it’s the bedrock his life is built on, and rodeo suddenly seems like the least important part of his life. And though it was the last place she wanted to go, Cat’s fallen in love with the landscape—and Mack and the land are inseparable in her mind.
Coming Spring, 2012
Sourcebooks Casablanca
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