Cowboy Heaven

Two-year widow Angela McClure, 42 and sex starved, picks up much younger cowboy hitchhiker Troy Whitmore on a lonely Wyoming highway in Brooks’s paper-thin erotic series launch. After their initial implausible sexual experience, Angela hires Troy as a temporary ranch hand, taking the place of Dusty, whose broken leg is mending. Angela keeps her sexual relationship with Troy a secret from her overprotective father and the stern foreman, but the new tension in the bunkhouse arouses Dusty’s love for Angela. Readers will enjoy the light-hearted banter between Angela and her two cowboy lovers, but the scenes of passion fall flat. A mystery plot involving the accidents around the ranch, which might not actually be accidents, adds suspense on which to hang the soft-porn encounters. A comical and sexy climax will leave readers struggling to suspend disbelief. [em]Agent: Melissa Jeglinski, Knight Agency. (Mar.) [/em]