Second Round Cowboy — Rhonda Lee Carver

Sometimes the burn is better the second time around…
Second Chance Series, Book 3

Stryker Mason gets a call that no one wants to get. His sister has been in a bad car accident. She dies and leaves her daughter in Stryker's care. Heartbroken and terrified, he has no clue how to raise a child.
He needs help and the only person he can think of he hasn't seen in six years.

Leslie Bakerfield is independent, carefree and a workaholic, but when the past shows up on her doorstep wearing cowboy hat and worn boots, she takes an unexpected trip down memory lane. Time had passed but the physical chemistry between them hadn't diminished. They'd always shared poetry in bed, he'd been her inspiration and she'd almost married him.

But Leslie had issues. That's why she walked away from him days before their wedding.

Stryker needed a mother for his niece, but when it came to emotions, could he trust Leslie? Would she run again? She was different, but did a person ever really change?

He'd wrangled bulls, lassoed cattle, but was he ready for the biggest fight of his life -- to win back the one woman he'd never stopped loving.