Landscape architect Nick LeGrande has never experienced a more disastrous trip! When he ends up stranded in a Colorado blizzard, he’s glad to have the company of his little canine buddy, Cedric, whom circumstances forced him to bring along. Then a sexy Good Samaritan rescues them and Nick is introduced to a world he hardly knew existed. He is quickly enthralled.<br><br> Caleb Storm is a loner, a rancher whose Native American blood sets him a bit apart from most of his fellows. When a spring blizzard dumps Nick LeGrande and his tiny dog into Caleb’s life, he and his old stock dog Cheyenne hardly know what to make of their visitors.<br><br>Caleb finds Nick very attractive but doubts such a successful and 28e man could have any interest in him. However, their dogs hit it off from the start and seem to conspire to get their masters together. Can a pair of canine cupids work the necessary magic?

The Maltese Terror

Chey looked up at him as if to say, “Was all of that necessary?” Then, with a sigh, she lay down on the unoccupied part of her bed. She nudged and tugged until the towel was loosened and then proceeded to lick Cedric all over, smoothing his rumpled fur and slurping off the worst of the excess water.


Caleb looked around the disaster area that was his kitchen. With a sigh as deep as Chey’s, he went to get a mop and a bucket. “Maltese Terror,” he muttered. “Terrorist is more like it.”


He hadn’t quite finished the cleanup when a sound drew his attention to the back door. Nick stood there, now dressed in stiff new Levis and a plaid western-cut shirt instead of his city-style chinos and golf shirt. Scanning the scene, he raised his eyebrows.


“What the hell is going on? I got worried when you didn’t answer the phone. Then I figured you were out doing chores and decided I could find my way back here without help.”


Chapter 14