LEAD ME HOME – Vicki Lewis Thompson
Sons of Chance , Book 8
Harlequin Blaze #693
ISBN: 978-0-373-79697-7
July 2012
Series Romance

Last Chance Ranch, Wyoming – Present Day

Matthew Tredway is renowned as a successful “horse whisperer” and is hired by the Last Chance Ranch to train—and tame—the infamously wild Houdini, a horse they want to use for stud service. Matthew is warned even before he arrives that the ranch has a temporary cook whose idea of food is decidedly foreign to these down home cowboys. She's serving up food the cowboys cannot pronounce. A cowboy's idea of French cooking is fries and not snails. Ready to set the cook straight, he's stunned into silence when he meets the cook, Aurelia Smith. Matthew is hooked by the luscious cook and hopes helping her to plan meals will allow him the chance to get to know Aurelia very well.

On leave from her job as a banker, Aurelia is enjoying creating and cooking meals while her aunt is off on her honeymoon. She's not really aware that the cowboys aren't happy with her results until Matthew apprises her. She thought they could use a little cuisine expansion in their meals. When Matthew walks into her kitchen, she can barely put together two words as an instant attraction sizzles between them. Will Matthew's lessons in cooking for cowboys extend into sessions between the sheets? Both are well aware their time together is short, so they are ready to make the most of the situation.

Instant attraction hits Aurelia and Matthew in LEAD ME HOME. Aurelia has never set foot outside Nebraska, so coming to Wyoming is a big step for her. As soon as her aunt returns, she's heading home. Matthew has been all over the world and prefers his nomadic lifestyle and freedom. A brief fling is all they can offer each other, with no plans or promises to extend it. But as the time to end things draws closer, the harder it becomes to say goodbye.

Before readers can settle into LEAD ME HOME, Aurelia and Matthew are making some sexy plans to get together. The sex scenes are sizzling hot (hey, it is a Vicki Lewis Thompson Blaze and she sure knows how to crank up the heat), and each time together gets better and better for them. Is there any way that Matthew can convince Aurelia to spread her wings outside of Nebraska and follow him on the road? Aurelia is convinced her and Matthew's lives are too different to make things works. This couple have a lot to work out before they can even begin to see their happily-ever-after on the horizon.

A no strings affair turns into something more in LEAD ME HOME. Vicki Lewis Thompson delivers a fun, sexy romance featuring a cowboy and the woman who brings him to his knees.

Patti Fischer