BOOK 3: FLIGHT OF FANCY CAJUN COWBOYS FAMILY SAGA A CLEAN ENEMIES TO LOVERS ROMANCE KATE & PIKE'S STORY : The last person Pike Broussard wants back in his life is the woman who dumped him to run off with a man who conned him out of his life savings, but Kate Harrison's in dire straits and although he'd rather hop into a snake pit than get involved with her again, Pike finds himself drawn to the desperate blue-eyed beauty and her four-year-old adopted daughter. But when the family see the child they can't help but notice her uncanny resemblance to Pike, but while Kate is deliberating how best to explain the convoluted means by which she came to have Pike's daughter, a dangerous man is on Kate's trail, determined to silence the one person who could send him to prison. ABOUT THE SERIES : The books in the Cajun Cowboys Family Saga are intended to be read in sequence as each book moves forward in time. The books in the series are set in southwest Louisiana's prairie country where Cajun cowboys have been raising cattle since their Acadian ancestors registered the first brands in the 1700s. AUTHOR'S NOTE : The cowboys in the series believe in God, family, country and their horse in that order. They may count only a few people in their lives as real friends, but those who've proven themselves with the passage of time are life-long friends. They protect and love children and women because they view them as gifts from God. LEVEL OF SENSUALITY : If you're looking for steamy romances you'll find instead sexy stories in a non-graphic way. My goal is to create romances that feature courageous, self-assured cowboys with endearing flaws and the gutsy women who capture their hearts, women for whom these unsuspecting cowboys would lay down their lives. CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL ISSUES : In this series cultural and/or spiritual issues are involved. However, my goal is not to convert anyone to anything but to convince readers that the hero and heroine belong together. BACKGROUND INFORMATION : In 1765 my French-Acadian ancestral grandfather, Joseph Beausoleil Broussard, led 240 Acadian exiles—who refused to pledge allegiance to the British crown and convert from Catholic to Protestant—from Nova Scotia to Louisiana. Known as Capitaine Commandant des Acadiens , Joseph Broussard and six members of the party secured a deal with Jean-Antoine-Bernard Dautrieve to settle land grants on Bayou Teche and tend his livestock for part of the profit. The Dautrieve Agreement was signed into law and by the early 1800s the Acadians were major cattle ranchers. Among them was my great-great grandfather, Amand Broussard, who, with his brother Pierre, drove herds of cattle from Bayou Teche to New Orleans, a 150-mile trip that required drovers to make numerous swims and fight swamps, bogs and thick woods, a journey that took two weeks. My Acadian-French grandmother, who lived to be 104, grew up on Bayou Teche in southwest Louisiana, and it is in this area that my Cajun Cowboys series is set.