Dance With Me

By B.J. Daniels

USA Today bestselling author B.J. Daniels offers three short stories set in her beloved state of Montana.

In Dance With Me, rancher Betty Lou Garrett hears three gunshots and heads out on horseback for the mountains to answer the distress call. But she’s in for a surprise when she discovers who needs her help – Tanner McKnight, the cowboy she turned down at the dance last night.

In Saving Grace, Jake finds his high school crush Grace Cantrell broke-down beside the road. Much to his surprise, Grace reveals that, in high school, she had hoped that he would ask her out. But the timing is all wrong now. Grace is in labor and about to have a baby.

In A Recipe for Love, caterer Jenny Cross finds more than a wonderful old cookbook at a garage sale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B.J. Daniels
• Release date: May 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458048103

B.J. Daniels

New York Times and USA Today bestselling authorB.J. Daniels lives in Montana with her husband, Parker, and two springerspaniels. When not writing, she quilts, boats and always has a book or two to read. Contact her at www.bjdaniels.com, on Facebook at B.J. Daniels or through her reader group the B.J.Daniels' Big Sky Darlings, and on twitter at bjdanielsauthor.

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Table of Contents

Dance With Me

A Recipe for Love

Saving Grace

Dance With Me

By B.J. Daniels

Copyright 2011 B.J. Daniels

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The sun was just brushing the tops of the Castle Mountains as Game Warden Tanner McKnight drove past the Garrett Ranch and headed up Castle Peak Road.

He watched smoke curl up from the ranch chimney and rise steel-gray against the fresh snowfall and he wondered if the lady of the house was up already this cold Sunday morning.

Just the thought of Betty Lou Garrett set his pride to stinging again. He wasn’t in the habit of making a fool of himself, but last night at the dance he’d done just that.

Pressing his boot to the gas pedal, he sent his pickup speeding on by the ranch. The last thing he wanted to do was run into Betty Lou this morning. Some things weren’t a good idea on an empty stomach.

* * * *

Betty Lou didn’t notice Tanner drive by. She had company. She stood with her back to the fireplace, her fingers looped into the pockets of her jeans, as she sized up the man before her.

Buck Cooper was foreman of the Lone Pine Ranch just south of the Garrett’s ranch. Once, the summer she turned 16, he’d worked as a hired hand on the Garrett Ranch. He’d been 19 at the time and had had a full dark beard and wavy brown hair. The day her father, Pete Garrett, had hired him, she’d thought Buck was the handsomest man she’d ever seen.

She’d daydreamed about what it would be like to kiss him. Her kissing experience had been limited to the boy down the road when she was 12. She’d never kissed a real man, especially one with a beard.

One day before summer ended, she and Buck were in the barn. She’d been giving him a hard time, teasing him about something and suddenly he’d grabbed her and kissed her.