title: The Last True Cowboy
author: Schramski, Mary
description: IF SHE'D ONLY GIVE HIM HALF A CHANCE...
  
  The last place Beth Morris ever wants to be is back in the saddle again with a rodeo cowboy. A heartbreaking marriage to a bull rider taught her the hard way that home and family comes last for a thrill-seeking man like that. So when ruggedly handsome champion rider Trace Barlow shows up at her ranch as a community-sponsored big brother to her fatherless boy, she is tempted to slam the door in his face. She has no intention of letting this reckless cowboy get anywhere near her impressionable son...or her bruised heart.
  
  ...HE'D FILL HER WHOLE WORLD WITH LOVE
  
  When a speeding violation finds him sentenced to mentoring a troubled eleven-year-old boy, Trace suspects he's in over his head. Rootless for most of his life, his only dream is to become a world-class champion, not a family man. But after spending time with Beth and her son, he wonders if maybe he's been chasing after the wrong dream all his life. And when he sees the longing in her eyes, he knows she returns his feelings--even if she is too scared to admit it. Now he's got to somehow convince this stubbornly independent woman that the only prize he's interested in winning...is her heart.