Worth The Trouble — Becky McGraw

Horse trainer Roxanne Baker's daddy had warned her about smooth-talking city boys at sixteen. She'd always heeded that advice--until the day she met urban firefighter Ethan Cassidy at a wedding. It didn't take long for him to talk her out of her chaps in the barn, even knowing the next day he'd be gone.

When Ethan unexpectedly shows up at the ranch again, Rockie almost doesn't recognize him. Gone is the charismatic, confident man she rolled in the hay with and in his place is a sullen, bitter and cynical shell of his former self. She finds out he has reason to be surly. Ethan has suffered a traumatic injury in a fluke firefighting accident, his career is over and he may spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

All he wants to do is hide in his room and drink his life away, but Rockie refuses to let that happen. Whether Ethan likes it or not, she is going to help him recover. After researching methods to help him, she lands on the perfect solution -- equine therapy. But she knows it has to be his idea to gain his cooperation, so she teases him with the possibility of joining an equine search and rescue team, if he learns to ride.

Day by day Ethan gains more mobility and balance, and Rockie's respect and affection. But he has a long way to go when the ESR team is suddenly activated and she has to leave to help find a kid missing in Palo Duro Canyon. Even though she thinks he's not ready, Ethan insists he is and on going with her.

At base camp, Ethan runs into some of his former co-workers and seems like his old self when they head into the canyon. But hinky things start to happen on the ride and Rockie can't help but think someone in that canyon may not want them to make it out alive.

**NOTICE** The cover on this book has been changed, but the content and story have not. All of the books in the Texas Trouble series can be read standalone.