The Mating Season

City sophisticate and country girl.  Jonni was both.  She’d never given up her love for country living—she was a fashion model in New York.  Her fiancé, Trevor, fitted in with her glamorous city life-style.  Gabe Stockman, however, was decidedly different.  And meeting him again at her parents’ ranch in Kansas, Jonni was suddenly swept with doubt and uncertainty.  It was a difficult choice:  the elegant, well-mannered man she was engaged to, or the earthy, vital ranchman who felt Jonni belonged in the country—and in his arms.

As Gabe pulled Jonni close under an outcropping of the rock, his lips met hers.  Thunder rocked the ground beneath her feet, but Jonni didn’t know the difference between it and the tremors of desire that shuddered through her system.  The lightening paled in comparison to the golden flame his devouring kiss ignited.  Her hand sought the silken smoothness of his slick wet hair.  His hat got in the way of her curling fingers.  Gabe reached up and flicked it away.  Then his hand was back on her spine, arching her into the ever-tightening circle of his arms.  “Gabe, please!”  Jonni gasped.  Trevor had been an expert in the art of love but he’d never turned her bones into putty the way Gabe was doing now…