The odds have caught up with ex-bullrider Jake Landers, who was badly injured last year. Cowboys, bullfighters, and clowns on a given rodeo circuit are often close—cheering each other on, helping one another, seeing each other most weekends throughout the season. Jake not only faces the loss of his career and the only life he’s known, but will now lose touch with the people who have become his second family. Buying a faltering rodeo company is his ticket back into the life he loves. The one person who can help him succeed is the woman he stood up at the altar ten years before, and now they’ll have to work together for the next six months. If she’ll agree...and if dark secrets from the past don’t tear them apart once more. Author’s note: this book was originally published as Rodeo! for Harlequin Superroomance, but has now been fully revised and edited, and it is now a sweet romance/light romantic suspense for those who enjoy a warm, emotional romance without graphic love scenes. This version is in keeping with the three sweet Harlequin Heartwarming novels I've done. I hope you will enjoy it—and that you will let me know what you think in reviews, or by email (roxannerustandbooks@yahoo.com) Thanks so much!

A Minneapolis gang avenged police officer Kate Rawlins' testimony against a member with an ambush that killed an innocent teen friend and wounded Kate. Wracked with guilt,she promises a scholarship will be started in honor of the dead teen. Kate just inherited half of her estranged grandfather's ranch. She hopes this will pay the bill for the scholarship, but she must live there for six months to claim her half. Seth Hayward inherits half the ranch, too. He loathes Kate for ignoring her grandfather, who had wanted to see her before he died. Kate only remembers being tossed off the ranch as a child along with her mother, and that her grandfather ignored them ever since. Is it possible for this city cop and the rugged rancher to ever see eye to eye...and to share the ranch house for the net six months? This newly revised and updated edition is now a sweet romance, without the original sexual scenes and occasional graphic language. Those who enjoy inspirational fiction and sweeter romances will prefer this version to the original.