title: Not Your Average Cowboy
author: Wenger, Christine
description: THE DESERT NEDS
  Is Rattlesnake Ranch ready for prime time?
  
  Stop the presses! Miss Hospitality herself, Meredith Bingham Turner, has been spotted bringing her unmistakable decorative flair--and delicious recipes--to Rattlesnake Ranch. Rumor has it she's visiting her best friend, Karen, and helping to spruce up the Porter homestead. But I think there's a reason she might be extending her stay: her best friend's brother, the bona fide cowboy, Bucklin Porter.
  
  Single dad Buck can be as prickly as an Arizona cactus if he thinks that you're messing with his home--or with the daughter he adores. But even he has to admit that ranching's been a hard road recently. Domestic goddess Merry might be the solution to all of Buck's prayers...in more ways than one!