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Paige Palmer jerked her rental car to a stop on the Texas interstate and cut the engine. Her stomach grumbled. She’d skipped breakfast. The line in the Dallas airport coffee kiosk had been too long that morning and she hadn’t wanted to miss her connecting flight. As it was, Paige was supposed to have arrived in Three Springs yesterday. But bad weather in Chicago, then mechanical plane trouble in Dallas had delayed her overnight.

Now she faced another delay. And it wasn’t airport related.

She scrambled out of her car and strode toward a cowboy seated on a stunning white horse with brown spots in the middle of the road. The cowboy, his beautiful horse and his herd of massive brown cows crossing the interstate were in her way. Literally. They blocked traffic in both directions.

Traffic was a stretch. Paige’s rental car was the only vehicle visible for miles on either side of the road.

Her stomach rumbled again. A hunger headache pulsed behind her temples. Careful to approach in the horse’s line of sight, Paige paused within easy conversation distance. No shouting required. “What are you doing?”

The cowboy nudged his hat up his forehead and regarded her. His half grin etched a dimple into his cheek. “I’m working.”

Paige worked on reining in her frustration. Hunger was never her best look. She wanted to get to her cousin’s house. She wanted to eat fried eggs, slather two thick slices of toast in butter and pretend she was in town for a two-week vacation with her family, not a forced administrative leave from her veterinarian job.

Paige put her hands on her hips and eyed the long line of cows waiting to cross. “Will this take long?”

“Well, that depends on your definition of long.” The cowboy settled into his saddle as if he was settling into a lazy morning of his own.

“There’s more than one definition?” And of course, more than one dimple. His full grin revealed the pair and fully captured Paige’s attention. As if she’d never seen perfectly carved dimples on a man before. Now she knew exactly what devil-may-care—one of her grandmother’s favorite terms—looked like. Her grandma Opal would’ve warned her about him.

The warning wasn’t necessary. Paige was in Texas to figure out how to get her job and life back on track in Chicago. She wasn’t there to get distracted by handsome cowboys and their horses, no matter how beautiful and well-mannered.

Excerpted from Trusting the Rancher with Christmas by Cari Lynn Webb, Copyright © 2021 by Cari Lynn Webb. Published by Harlequin Heartwarming.

New town…

New set of problems

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