Spurs 'n Surrender — Em Petrova

He has scars and a dream. She has love and a determination to prove herself.Corporal Wydell Jackson, aka Hard-Ass, is back in his hometown of Los Vista, Texas after serving years on the battlefield. Trouble is, the town is worse than a war zone after a storm ripped through it. Wydell and his platoon buddies are determined to rebuild and bring the people back to town, but how?Since Anya Carter inherited millions and a lush estate from her grandparents, her phone is always ringing with requests to invest in people's dreams. But this time her money manager has found something worth looking at-a small-town dream. After visiting Los Vista, her heart breaks for the ghost town and the people who'd once loved it.Wydell is happy to take the millionaire debutante's check and use it to rebuild. But she has ideas of a tiny home community for hipsters. As a Texan he believes vacation homes should be bigger and better, just like a woman's curves. Each day he goes into battle against Anya, his control slips while he tries to keep his hands-and every other body part-off her.Anya is determined to see her money spent on her terms, but when she argues with the hunky ex-soldier she wants to pull her hair out. She can't deny he's a complex man. When he isn't drawing up detailed plans for the tiny homes, he's working cattle-and her. Wydell raises more than her ire, and she is softening toward him. After all, building tiny houses together means being trapped in very close quarters.Warning: Things can really heat up-even in small places. But there's nothing small about this cowboy!Other books in the Operation Cowboy Series: KICKIN' UP DUST