Trouble in Texas

Lane’s fourth Deep in the Heart of Texas romance (after Catch Me a Cowboy)sizzles with raunchy fun. Brant Cates travels to Miss Hattie’s Henhouse in Bramble, West Texas, to find out why his great-grandfather was shot and killed there in 1892. The brothel’s three elderly remaining residents, Minnie, Baby, and Sunshine, drug and render him unconscious. Spinster librarian Elizabeth Murphy, who’s recently inherited the bordello, is as surprised as Brant to find him, naked, handcuffed to her great-great-grandmother Miss Hattie’s bed. Her frosty attitude toward men quickly melts during their following romantic interlude. Brant’s brother, Beau, buys the property from her and while he works on turning the old brothel into a gentleman’s club, Elizabeth and Brant try to get past their very different personalities. Their dynamic provides the drama to complete this fast-paced novel’s neatly assembled package of sex, humor, and mystery. Agent: Laura Bradford, Bradford Literary Agency. (Dec.)