title: Take My Chances
author:  Kaye P. Hallows 
description: Kaye P. Hallows is a recovering CPA who recently decided to try her hand at romance writing. Her debut novel, Once Upon a Temptation, an erotic BDSM fairy tale told in 100-word chapters, eventually led to exploration of the m/m genre. Her short story, Tourniquet was published in the Dreamspinner Press Dr. Feelgood anthology. Take My Chances is Kayes first novella. Kaye lives in Boston, occasionally leaving her keyboard for a round of golf or a tennis match. You can follow her at Goodreads.
zlib_text: A desperate call in the middle of the night reunites a cowboy with the woman he’s never
  forgotten…
  A child’s voice was pleading from the other end of the receiver. He’d been abducted and wanted to come home. Months ago,
  Chance Hastings had watched Charlie and his mother, Lily Kirk, walk away, vowing to forget them. Now one look at Lily’s
  terrified face and he knows that plan had been futile. Promising to bring her child home, Chance goes undercover to infiltrate a
  dangerous group in the Idaho mountains. Once the boy is back in his mother’s arms, Chance makes a new vow—to convince
  Lily they belong on his ranch. Permanently.
  
  “I’m going to get to my truck and take the gun out of the back. Do you want to wait
  inside it?”
  She flashed him a wry smile. “What do you think?”
  “I think you want to come with me, but I also think you’d better consider what’s good for Charlie. He needs his mom.”
  “Point taken,” she conceded. They ran to the truck, and Lily slid inside while Chance took his revolver 