title: The Rancher's Unexpected Family (The Cedar River Cowboys)
author:  Helen Lacey 
description: Helen Lacey grew up reading Black Beauty, Anne of Green Gables and Little House on The Prairie. These childhood classics inspired her to write her first book when she was seven years old, a story about a girl and her horse. She continued to write with the dream of one day being a published author and writing for Harlequin Special Edition isthe realization of that dream. She lovescreatingstories about cowboys and horses and heroine's who get their happily ever after.
zlib_text: TAKE ME HOME
  By Cameron Hart
  
  “I
  CHAPTER 1
  Eli
  have an odd solution for you, Eli.”
  Thus begins my Monday morning. The unexpected call from my uncle
  is the last thing I need on my plate. I returned to the family ranch a few
  months ago to try and bring the old place out of the gutter. My father passed
  away three years ago, leaving everything to my mom. I didn’t know how bad
  things were till I got a call from the bank about a second mortgage my mom
  took out for the ranch. Apparently, she has missed the last three payments
  and the ranch is about to go under.
  Being the oldest son, I stepped up to the plate. I moved from Chicago, where
  a friend and I started our own security company, back home to Montana. At
  30, it’s not exactly what I had planned, but life has a way of happening when
  you least expect it.
  Alright, so my motives weren’t purely altruistic. I might have been looking
  for a bit of an escape after my last relationship. My only relationship, really.
  Beth Harper. We met the first we