Naked Desire (Naked Cowboys)

A little hard wood and a little spice is enough to get this fire smoking.

Naked Cowboys, Book 5

After a shattering divorce, Cynthia Dellinger is left with almost nothing except her most precious possession€"her grandfather€s secret barbecue-spice-rub recipe, which made her ex a fortune.

In Saddler€s Wells, she hopes to build a business€"and maybe a new life€"on the strength of that recipe. But she€s totally unprepared for her sizzling attraction to the artisan carpenter her new friends send her way.

Jesse Orosco is ready to roll up his sleeves to renovate Cyn€s storefront, but it€s the self-doubt lurking in her beautiful eyes he wants to tackle first. The five-foot-nothing red-headed dynamo makes his mouth water, and not just because of the tantalizing aromas drifting from the back of her shop.

The buzz about the rub€s mysterious ingredient has customers lining up for more, and soon everyone who tries it is making beautiful music in the bedroom€"including Cyn and Jesse. But her reluctance to go public with their relationship€"and someone in town with a jealous bone to pick€"could drive a wedge between Cyn and her smoking-hot cowboy.

Warning: Contains a sexy carpenter with calluses in all the right places, a vulnerable woman who€s locked away more than a secret ingredient in her wounded heart, and a town full of matchmakers with an appetite for love.