[The Brides of Texas Novellas 01] • Plain Trouble

“A Ranger in possession of a good salary and a desk job is surely going to start thinking about a wife, don’t you think? And what better place than Bitter Springs, Texas to find one?”

If only the handsome Texas Ranger in Bess Jones' kitchen wasn't the same ill-bred youth who taunted her with the playground verse, "Bessie Mae, plain as day" all through her growing up years. The way this man on a mission looks at her now almost gives Bess hope that he might have changed his mind about her, although she's pretty sure he's just passing through Bitter Springs on his way to bringing yet another criminal to justice. Besides, she was a twenty-seven-year-old spinster, and nothing ever happened in Bitter Springs, Texas.

Texas Ranger Josef Mueller is looking to catch a murdering bank robber before someone else dies. The last place he figured to be looking was in the town where he grew up. The town he hasn't set foot in for the last ten years. What began as a simple investigation has now moved dangerously close to home. Now if he could just figure out how the Jones girl he teased in his youth has somehow tangled him up in a romance he never saw coming.

Romance, a Texas Ranger, and a feisty Texas gal a man can't forget. Who says nothing ever happens in Bitter Springs, Texas?