Adam Benson, cowboy, has gotten sober and is considering a
career change. He needs a room to rent and the new lady in
town, who came to nurse her dying mother, has one
available. But the small Oklahoma town has known recent
tragedy... two respected waitresses were killed and law
enforcement is still working on the case. Melanie Brooks
is in a wheelchair, but her upstairs room is all that
concerns Adam.
Melanie comes across as grouchy, but in reality she's
having a hard time adapting to her disability, having been a
professional dancer until a diagnosis of peripheral
neuropathy cancelled her career. Now she's buried her
mother and the local real estate agent keeps asking if the
house is for sale. Without her asking, Adam arrives with
lumber and builds a sturdy ramp over the porch steps.
Melanie resents that he overstepped the boundary, but Adam,
COWBOY WITH A CAUSE, points out that she might need to
leave quickly in an emergency. He tells her that a war
veteran in town also uses a wheelchair and nobody feels
that he is less of a person. Maybe it is time for the
dancer to readjust, but she has no other dream to chase.
Misplaced household items and broken picture glass create a
spooky atmosphere for Melanie, and then silent phone calls
start to occur. Is someone stalking her? Or is her
medication causing her to have mental health issues? Then
a stranger breaks into her bedroom and she narrowly
escapes. Is this the killer, or does someone else have a
motive? Adam feels that she's attractive and starts a
romance, but that doesn't stop Melanie from feeling
vulnerable.
COWBOY WITH A CAUSE is a different take on small town life,
reminding us that major issues arise for people in towns
like Grady Gulch just as much as they do in large cities. Carla
Cassidy has created interesting characters and writes
convincingly about Melanie's dancing past. Adam is a
genuine, helpful guy with his own demons to overcome and no
preconceptions about disability. Read COWBOY FOR A CAUSE for
a romance
with an edge of suspense, from a lady who has written over
a hundred novels.
"I'd apologize for kissing you, but I'm not all that sorry."
Dancer Melanie Brooks had escaped small-town Oklahoma,
giving up the country for Broadway's bright lights. Yet
after her mother's funeral called her back, her own health
issues forced her to stay. Now her tenant, too-hot-for-his-
own-good Adam Benson, is giving her a reason to dance
again. But has a killer set his sights on her, too?
Adam knows a little something about fresh starts. As for
his beautiful neighbor, he doesn't see a wheelchair—he sees
a woman who understands. But as the heat grows between
them, he can't avoid the feeling that more than her big-
city past haunts her—and that danger has been lurking,
waiting to strike….
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