BOOK 5: SLY AS A FOX CAJUN COWBOYS FAMILY SAGA A CLEAN CONTEMPORARY ENEMIES TO LOVERS ROMANCE WYNN & MARY'S STORY : Building her protein bar business is Mary Broussard's primary goal, so when the opportunity of a lifetime occurs nothing will stand in her way… except the exasperating man who just leased the warehouse she was about to lease, the same guy who broke her heart in high school when he pursued her with the goal of winning a bet. Wynn Harrison is willing to sub-lease part of the warehouse to Mary. More than willing. He knows he messed up years before but this time around the gutsy Cajun woman's reprisal is to toy with him the way a cat toys with a mouse. But in the process, Mary learns that not only is Wynn a changed man, but there's a most bizarre hidden side to him even his family know nothing about. But he's also a troubled man. That all his joking is his means of coming to terms with the fact that his father has never accepted him for who he is, and those issues are driving him to do physical things to the extreme, like scaling mountains in faraway lands and climbing trees to the farthest heights. A man driven by wanderlust. If not for his unfulfilled searching for something he may never find she'd marry him in an instant. But that wanderlust is still calling. NOTE : Bandit, the Border collie on the cover of the book, is very much a character in the story. He also captures the heart of a man who had no concept of the joy a canine companion could bring to his unsettled life, thanks to a woman who gradually becomes the focus of his solitary world. 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 heroes with endearing flaws and the gutsy women who capture their hearts, women for whom these unsuspecting men would lay down their lives. ABOUT THE SERIES : The heroes in this 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 true with the passage of time are life-long friends. They protect and love children and women because they view them as gifts from God. The books in the series are intended to be read in sequence as each book moves forward in time. The stories 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. 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.