Cowboy Pi

The Hawke Family #4

by Jean Barrett

COWBOY UNDER HER COVERS?

Driving cattle across mountainous Colorado terrain to gain an inheritance she didn't even want was not Samantha Howard's idea of a good time. Especially since someone was dead set against her inheriting her grandfather's ranch. A menacing presence overshadowed the drive, and the murderous threats against her became all too real….

Then Roark Hawke, the lean-hipped, sexy rancher and sometime private investigator hired to protect her, ambled into her life. He was everything Samantha hated in a man–a cowboy with ranching in his blood. Neither one expected the irresistible passion that arose between them, even as the danger mounted. But when separated by a killer's last, desperate act, could Roark save the woman he had come to love?

Genres: Romance

227 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Jean Barrett is the pseudonym of Bob Rogers. Don't ask him how it happened, because he has no idea how he ended up teaching fourth graders for more years than he cares to say. It wasn't supposed to happen that way. He'd known from a tender young age that what he was meant to be was a successful writer. The problem was that the muse in charge of her talent didn't seem to know that. It turned out all right, though. He is sure he learned more from his fourth-graders than he ever taught them, and knowledge is good. It helped him to finally win publication and an award-winning career in the romance world he loves.

In 1979, he published her first novel All These Splendid Sins as Lee Rogers. As Jean Barrett, he is the author of twenty-three contemporary and historical romance novels for Kensington, Berkley, Dorchester and Harlequin-Silhouette. His books have been printed in numerous foreign editions. Those books have appeared on such best seller lists as Waldenbooks, B. Dalton and Bookscan. He was the proud recipient of the national Booksellers' Best Award and twice won the national Write Touch Readers' Award. He also wrote as Jean Thomas.

Rob and her wife Laura live in an English-style cottage overlooking Lake Michigan on Wisconsin's scenic Door Peninsula. When not traveling to research his books, he walks daily, tries to keep her bonsai collection alive and the song birds happy at him feeders. Those chores attended to, he settles down each afternoon at his computer, where he writes the kind of books he loves to read: sometimes historical romance, but mostly romantic suspense.

Reviews

[Jeanne (love2cook) · Rating 4 out of 5]

If Samantha wanted the inheritance from her grandfather, she had to go on a cattle drive with Roark a Private detective hired to protect her. A decent romance story with a mystery within.

[Bonnie Drummond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cowboy PI ( The Hawkes Family #4 ) by Jean Barrett is a story the will leave you wanting more of this series. If you love Cowboys then this is a series for you.

[★¸. • * ° *Jillie* ° *•.¸☆ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would not say this book is part of a series, it does not connect to the other books at all. Good to read as a stand alone book.