Triple-D Ranch

When there's trouble, he has your back. For Tim Halloran, Army Ranger turned Colorado cowboy, a simple life on a cattle ranch with no strings is his idea of perfection. Maybe he'll have a ranch of his own someday. Meanwhile, ranching lets him forget his haunting wartime experiences as an army sniper, and being the ranch clown is his coping mechanism. Bad jokes and a love 'em and leave 'em lifestyle make his world turn. But meeting Rebecca Morgan soon has his world spinning in another direction. To Tim, she's a mystery. She must have been absent the day she was scheduled to receive her sense of humor, and when she ignores his overtures, Tim is determined to break through her serious exterior. Little does he know, the secrets she's hiding will turn his life upside down. What will he give up to keep her safe-even if it turns out to be Rebecca? Rebecca Morgan abandoned her failed marriage and needs to land a high-paying job to help cover her five-year-old nephew's skyrocketing medical expenses. Her farming background left her without marketable job skills, but she's confident once she completes a culinary school course, she'll find a job as a private chef for the rich and famous circles in the big city-as in New York City. She's accepted into a cooking program, one she's sure will solve her problems. Dismayed when the vocational cooking school is connected to a cattle ranch of all things, but needing her certificate, she's willing to overlook the location. Then she meets Tim Halloran, one of the cowboys. A man is the last thing she's looking for, and an impoverished cowboy is well below the last item on her list. But when her ex comes back into her life, threatening her family, Rebecca will stop at nothing to thwart his plans, even if it means a reluctant partnership with a cowboy-a wisecracking man who seems to be working his way into her heart. Things escalate, and she's faced with a choice. Will she accept her ex's demands for her nephew's sake? Or will she find happiness with a jokester cowhand?

Changing Your Life Won't Make Things EasierBook 4 in Terry Odell's Colorado-based Triple-D Ranch Romantic Suspense series catches up with the cowboys. There's more to ranch life than minding the cattle. Cowhand Frank Wembly loves his work on the Triple-D Ranch. After his stint in the army as a Ranger, he relishes the peaceful life in the Colorado mountains. However, the ranch is in financial straits, and a cattle rustler threatens to destroy what he's grown to love. Meeting Kiera when she's stranded on the ranch has Frank wondering if he should rethink his "no attachments, no strings" lifestyle. But first, he has to call on his army skills to help keep the Triple-D running. Financial advisor Kiera O'Leary thinks her new boss might be guilty of more than sexual harassment, so she takes advantage of her use it or lose it vacation time before she officially quits. She sets off to pursue her dream of being a photographer-until a car-meets-cow incident forces a shift in plans. She refuses to be a guest at the Triple-D ranch and insists on trading her bookkeeping skills for room and board to help get the ranch's finances in order. She's falling for one of the ranch hands, but things are heating up at home. Meanwhile, she finds herself in the middle of a mystery-one with potentially deadly consequences.