[The Brides of Texas Novellas 01] • Idle Hours

When Lia Stephanos' doctors order her to leave New York and the frantic pace of her publishing career behind, she decides to take residence in a lovely dollhouse of a cottage on the edge of a Texas Hill Country lake near her best friend the romance writer. Though she has promised her cardiologist she will not put her ailing heart through any further trauma, soon Lia finds she's falling head over heels for Ben Carson, the man whose bait shop will soon be turned into her newest project: a restaurant called Idle Hours. At Ben's urging, Lia Stephanos takes up fishing to help repair frazzled nerves. Will she soon find her heart drifting into calmer, deeper waters? Can Ben make good on his plans to hit the road or will Lia Stephanos prove too difficult to walk away from?

Note: This novella originally appeared in KENTUCKY KEEPERS. Substantial changes have been made to the story and new material has been added since the book's first printing.