DEEP IN A TEXAN'S HEART – Sara Orwig
Texas Cattleman's Club: The Missing Mogul, Book 2
Harlequin Desire #2246
ISBN: 978-0-373-73259-3
August 2013
Series Romance

Royal, Texas – Present Day

Three months ago, millionaire Sam Gordon had a torrid one night stand with Lila Hackett, the daughter of a fellow member of the Texas Cattleman's Club. But Lila made it clear her future was in Hollywood as a film set designer, and he hasn't seen her again until she shows up at a party.  Back in town for combination vacation and work, Lila has a cool reaction to Sam's suggestion that they pick up where they left off. While Lila is beautiful and comes from a wealthy family, her independent streak is at odds with Sam's conservative values. Sam persists, not quite understanding why Lila is trying to avoid him, until he realizes that she's pregnant…with his child.

Lila has had enough of controlling and chauvinist men, with her father and Sam at the top of the list. While getting pregnant by Sam wasn't planned, she will keep the baby, though she puts off telling Sam about her pregnancy. But then he figures it out and immediately demands that they marry. She resists because she feels that marriage to him would destroy any chance of her not ending up like her meek mother, being dominated by her spouse. Besides, Lila wants to marry for love, and Sam isn't in love with her.

The town of Royal, Texas is still buzzing over the whereabouts of Alex Santiago, and in DEEP IN A TEXAN'S HEART, the second book in the Texas Cattleman's Club: The Missing Mogul , his disappearance is the hot topic at the party where Sam and Lila met again three months after their night together.  Whenever Sam is around Lila, a zing of desire sizzles between them, and he wants to act upon it. Lila is determined to keep him at arm's length, but wherever she turns, there he is, bent on taking her to dinner, etc. When he discovers she's pregnant, his stunned announcement that they'll marry has her resolving to maintain her independence. Sam is charming and one determined man, and it doesn't take long for Lila to find herself falling for him. But is her chance for a marriage based on love impossible to hope for?

Intermingled with their battle is the building of a children's daycare center in the historic Texas Cattleman's Club. Sam and many of the longtime members are opposed, but Lila and her friends are behind the idea, it's time to move into the 21st century and realize that women no longer should be relegated to tea parties and never raising their voices. Lila's decision to turn down Sam's marriage proposal is her stand against the antiquated rules that babies shouldn't be born outside of marriage. Will Sam accept her decision?

It's a passionate tug of war in DEEP IN A TEXAN'S HEART, and both Lila and Sam are determined to come out the winner. But they'll have to do some compromising before they can have any future together.  Find out how this battle plays out in the engrossing DEEP IN A TEXAN'S HEART.

Patti Fischer