Moving to the small Texas town of Saddle Wells intending to open her family BBQ sauce and rub is a huge step for Cynthia "Cyn" Dellinger. Taking back the recipe in her divorce from a husband who made his restaurants famous because of it, Cyn is determined to start over on her own. Always ridiculed and put down by her ex, a man is the very last thing on her mind.
With the help of four women from town, each with their own story, Cyn finds the perfect place and, with their suggestion, hires the hot sexy carpenter, Jesse Orosco. With her mouth-watering at the young man who is eight years her junior, this seems like a very bad idea. Against her better judgment, the highly recommended sexpot is hired and they work together to renovate her dream store. Of course, this only keeps them close and avoiding the scorching fire between them is impossible. Cyn is given erotic sex like never before but with it, she gets the emotion and gentleness as well.
Cyn's special rub, with her special little spice, soon takes everyone by surprise when it spikes the libido and makes everyone "hot". Ready to open Cyn only hits another stumbling block when an ex of Jesse's shows her furious side at being dumped by him and throws a huge curve into the plans. How will Cyn be able to face the town and move on or will she need to pack up and relocate to begin once again.
Spice and heat gets this smoking woman right into the fire--- and not only from her famous BBQ rub! This story is book five in the Naked Cowboy series and certainly another hotty. Complete with a manure woman's fantasy and an OMG hot cowboy, what else could a woman want? I loved the characters in NAKED DESIRE and was definitely kept riveted until I had turned the very last page. Excellent, exciting (and hot) read for a cool afternoon of dreaming! Desiree Holt really knows how to put it out there.
A little hard wood and a little spice is enough to get this fire smoking. Naked Cowboys, Book 5 After a shattering divorce, Cynthia Dellinger is left with almost nothing except her most precious possession—her grandfather’s secret barbecue-spice-rub recipe, which made her ex a fortune. In Saddler’s Wells, she hopes to build a business—and maybe a new life—on the strength of that recipe. But she’s totally unprepared for her sizzling attraction to the artisan carpenter her new friends send her way. Jesse Orosco is ready to roll up his sleeves to renovate Cyn’s storefront, but it’s the self-doubt lurking in her beautiful eyes he wants to tackle first. The five-foot-nothing red-headed dynamo makes his mouth water, and not just because of the tantalizing aromas drifting from the back of her shop. The buzz about the rub’s mysterious ingredient has customers lining up for more, and soon everyone who tries it is making beautiful music in the bedroom—including Cyn and Jesse. But her reluctance to go public with their relationship—and someone in town with a jealous bone to pick—could drive a wedge between Cyn and her smoking-hot cowboy. Warning: Contains a sexy carpenter with calluses in all the right places, a vulnerable woman who’s locked away more than a secret ingredient in her wounded heart, and a town full of matchmakers with an appetite for love.
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