Ride with a Cowboy — Helen Smith

Riding to the NorthJack, a lonely cowboy, is heading south looking for work after a long cattle drive, and has to stop in a small town to resupply. In the saloon, he meets a beautiful dancer who also happens to be a whore. He never uses a prostitute, but it's been so long since he has been with a woman, he's been drinking, and there is something special about this one, something about her deep, brown eyes. Will Jack be able to hold back his urges?The Bluest Eyes in TexasFledgling news reporter, Brenae Riley, is willing to work her way from the bottom to get to where she wants to be. With her eye on the news anchor desk, she works tirelessly on the stories no one else in the studio wants to cover. After a particularly rough day on scene that ends in her being humiliated live on camera, Brenae is ready to look elsewhere for a job. Instead of accepting her resignation, the producer sends her on another assignment, this time for a story that carries some importance; at least in Texas. She heads to Mesquite to interview up-and-coming local boy, and favorite to win the bull riding nationals, Roy Myrick.A stroke of bad luck and Roy coming to her rescue later that evening finds her saying yes to a night of dancing. She falls in love with this handsome cowboy two steps at a time. But will a series of threatening emails voicing anger about her dating a white man derail their romance, and possibly their careers?Love The OutlawNoah is trying to start a new life and leave a past of darkness behind him. When he approaches a house looking for a job and instead finds a woman, Emma, being mercilessly beaten by her husband. His first instinct is to rescue her, but in doing so, he kills the husband. He's now an outlaw with a new widow in tow. But Emma does not want to stay in the home where she has known only pain and misery, so decides to leave her home and try to make it back East so she can try to put her life back together. And Noah is the only one who can help her.Forced into a situation that threatens both of their futures, Noah and Emma discover that what they thought the future held for both of them may not be what they actually want.His Lucky CharmDayton is one of the South's wealthiest cowboys. He gained his success from cattle ranching and is a rodeo boy at heart. Ronnie meets Dayton while doing an interview for a feature in the local paper on Dayton and it's love at first sight for him. Ronnie's curves and brown skin definitely catches his attention. Though he tries to impress Ronnie, he comes off as arrogant and leaves a bad impression, which is reflected in the feature Ronnie writes on him.In response, Dayton tracks Ronnie down to ask her on a date so that he might redeem himself in her eyes, and soon Ronnie realizes she is just as attracted to the cowboy as he is to her. Dayton decides to take Ronnie to one of his rodeos, where she acts as his good luck charm. But then a disaster occurs that no one could have foreseen. Will Dayton make it out of the rodeo alive, and will Ronnie? Will the two lovers ever get to express how they feel about each other and try for a chance at happily ever after?