First published 2015
Jose Aragon needs a shower, a room, and cold beer after losing his ranch job. The unemployed cowboy looks like border-town trash when he walks into the Chenoweth Hotel in El Paso. Dulcinda Farrar spots him there. The wealthy woman has golden-brown hair and plenty of money. She thinks Jose is local and pays him to collect a package for her. Jose agrees to help, treating it like a game. The package vanishes moments after he picks it up. Now the border's most dangerous criminals want Jose dead. He can handle cattle drives and difficult livestock. Managing one sophisticated blonde woman will test him harder. Dulcinda brings more risk than any job he has worked before.
Genres: romance, adventure, mystery, crime
Vibes: fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Setting: El Paso, Chenoweth Hotel
Period: 20th-century
240 pages · Kindle Edition · The Murder Room