Big and Bright
Hudson, Jan
The Handsome Desperado...

Holt Berringer was bigger than life, with sin-black eyes, movie-star teeth--and a white Stetson that proved this Texas Ranger was definitely one of the good guys! When Cory Bright dashed into the store for a Moon Pie, she ran smack into the middle of a holdup... and right into the arms of a long, tall lawman who didn't want to let her go! Holt adored the spitfire who refused to hide from threats on her life, but he was determined to cherish and protect her until she began to like it... and he was just the man to teach her how. Cory shivered at the promise of wildness beneath the calm, thrilled when the tall, brawny man with a silver star and a taste for chocolate-covered strawberries loved her tender and tough, but she feared Holt was too much like her macho brothers who'd always tried to run her life. Holt knew how to be patient, but once Cory proved to herself she could make it on her own, would she be brave enough to choose what she truly wanted?