BOOK 2: THE FINAL TURN CAJUN COWBOYS FAMILY SAGA CLEAN ENEMIES TO LOVERS ROMANCE ACE & PIPER'S STORY : When Piper Harrison offers to exercise Henri Broussard's racing quarter horses for free she has one goal in mind—be the jockey to race Rags, the thoroughbred filly under his training. Rags is the filly her father dumped in a claiming race because the homely filly shed doubt on his prime stallion. There's one glitch in Piper's plan though. Henri's grandson, Ace, bought Rags, and he's against any dealings with a Harrison. But while a multi-generational feud between their families raises hackles between the pair, unwanted passions awaken, and before long Ace sees more in Piper than simply a workout rider for his grandfather's horses. In fact, she might just be the jockey to take Rags into her first stakes race, one that would pit Piper on Rags against Piper's father's top thoroughbred filly and Triple Crown hopeful. And already Rags was breaking long-standing track records during her training sessions, which means Piper would be tracking around the country as her jockey, while Ace is a home and family man with cattle to tend with his brothers and that's where he intends to stay. He'd been burned once by a woman with big dreams and it won't happen again. AUTHOR'S NOTE: This story isn't just a story about Ragamuffin beating the boys. This is truly a Seabiscuit story as Rags, the star of the story, is anything but a sleek thoroughbred, which is why Piper's father wanted her off the place as she reflected badly on his prize stallion. But Rags is very much a character in the story and I hope you come to love her as much as I do. ADDITIONAL NOTE : The cowboys 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 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 heroes with endearing flaws and the gutsy women who capture their hearts, women for whom these unsuspecting cowboys would lay down their lives. 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. I invite you to visit my website and read about the books in the series, which are set in southwest Louisiana's prairie country where Cajun cowboys have been raising cattle since their Acadian ancestors registered the first brands back 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.