Dylan Garahan doesn't mind helping out Jolene, the owner of the Lucky Star, but he'll never feel comfortable stripping off all but those too-small underwear and lassoing any birthday girl the owner indicates. Still, the money helps pay the bills, allowing him and his brothers to keep working their ranch as their family has done for more than 150 years. Then a sultry brunette filly wanders in, blindfolded and flanked on each side by her girlfriends. One twirl of the rope and a hot kiss later, he knows he's met the woman of his late-night hard-as-nails dreams.

Veronica 'Ronnie' DelVecchio moved to Pleasure, Texas from New Jersey to leave the pain of her cheating husband and treacherous bestfriend behind. She'd made a good start at her lingerie and oils business, Guilty Pleasures, before some random teenage violence destroyed her livelihood and left her shop in ruins. Thank goodness Pleasure was the kind of small town where she can barter her Italian cooking skills in exchange for enough carpentry know-how to piece her shop back together. If only the hot middle Garahan brother wasn't so distracting. From the moment he kissed her on stage at the Lucky Star she's been fighting the need he kindles. Now he is going to be in her shop every evening working long and hard to help her out. He's made it clear he was interested in hammering more than nails. How long can she fight her needs and his both, to keep her family curse (involving Irishmen and twins) from coming true?

In DYLAN, book two of The Secret Life of Cowboys trilogy Admirand gives her readers what they want; hot, sexy Texan cowboys who know what they want and go after it with both hands, sprinkled with love scenes spicy enough to leave them 'hornier than a three-peckered goat'. Although the main love story comes to a satisfying conclusion, not many of the over-arcing plot questions raised in book one, Tyler, are answered but that makes me look forward to book three, Jesseall the more. Jesse will be published in July, 2012.