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“My brother might have hired you, Mr. McCord, but I run the stables, and I don’t go for all that horse-whispering mumbo-jumbo or your sense of humor.”

Jake cocked his hip and set his hands on his belt buckle. “There’s a saying that you can’t step into the same river twice. Once you step in, you alter it, you affect its flow, you transform the soil and water mixture and you make a mark. It’s a changed river. When I’m finished with Diablo, he won’t be the same horse he was when I got here. I’ll guarantee that, Ms. Colton.”

He leaned in. He couldn’t help it. Alanna was so attractive when she was setting her boundaries. Tangling with her was more dangerous than French-kissing a rattlesnake. He should heed his instinct, but it wasn’t in his nature to back down, even though it was in his best interests.

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The Coltons of Texas:

Finding love and buried family

secrets in the Lone Star State…