Naked Desire

A little hard wood and a little spice is enough to get this fire smoking.Naked Cowboys, Book 5After a shattering divorce, Cynthia Dellinger is left with almost nothing except hermost precious possession—her grandfather’s secret barbecue-spice-rub recipe, which madeher ex a fortune.In Saddler’s Wells, she hopes to build a business—and maybe a new life—on thestrength of that recipe. But she’s totally unprepared for her sizzling attraction to the artisancarpenter her new friends send her way.Jesse Orosco is ready to roll up his sleeves to renovate Cyn’s storefront, but it’s theself-doubt lurking in her beautiful eyes he wants to tackle first. The five-foot-nothing redheadeddynamo makes his mouth water, and not just because of the tantalizing aromasdrifting from the back of her shop.The buzz about the rub’s mysterious ingredient has customers lining up for more, andsoon everyone who tries it is making beautiful music in the bedroom—including Cyn andJesse. But her reluctance to go public with their relationship—and someone in town with ajealous bone to pick—could drive a wedge between Cyn and her smoking-hot cowboy.Warning: Contains a sexy carpenter with calluses in all the right places, a vulnerablewoman who’s locked away more than a secret ingredient in her wounded heart, and a townfull of matchmakers with an appetite for love.