“I know I’m gruff with them most of the time…”

Gabe cleared his throat. “And they are all kinds of noisy, but...I have to say... Well, the little pink things have grown on me.”

Once he had spoken the first words, it seemed as if Gabe must spit them all out before he came to his senses. “They steal my time, they invade my study, they run down my hallways, and yet I went crazy thinking about Debbie being hurt. And still, I know the minute she can, Debbie will be right back out on that swing fixing to break the other arm.” He looked up at Avery as though she were a puzzle to solve. “How do you do it?”

Explain parenthood to a bachelor cowboy? She could gather every word in Texas and still not have enough. “You just...do.”

Gabe was trying so hard not to care.

He was failing at it, and in a way that stole her heart no matter what she deemed best for her or the girls.

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Lone Star Cowboy League: Boys Ranch
Bighearted ranchers in small-town Texas

The Rancher’s Texas Match by Brenda Minton
October 2016

The Ranger’s Texas Proposal by Jessica Keller
November 2016

The Nanny’s Texas Christmas by Lee Tobin McClain
December 2016

The Cowboy’s Texas Family by Margaret Daley
January 2017

The Doctor’s Texas Baby by Deb Kastner
February 2017

The Rancher’s Texas Twins by Allie Pleiter
March 2017