The movie on late night TV was about a little girl who had been injured and they found that by working with a horse she got better. Since I had gone to bed much earlier because our own horses want to get fed in the morning, my husband Paul suggested I look for it online.
I found the DVD on our library’s website. But I also saw a book with a similar name. Its cover showed a running horse.
So I ordered that too. It came. But the cover had changed. It now had a seductive bare chested guy leaning back on his motorcycle. Yes, a romance novel.
You did what!
When Paul picked up my stuff at the library he saw the cover of that book and canceled it. He knew I didn’t read that kind of book.
Well, you know, we’ve been married 50 years. But I couldn't believe he did that!
It’s just that we usually like the same kind of books.
When first married, we would have fun (and not spend any money), by going to the library to take out books. We both loved the Perry Mason and Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Over the years we went on to the Shell Scott spy stories. Then we got hooked on Louis L’Amourwesterns.
But romance novels were not part of the program!
Romance novel tempts!
Recently I had been studying some heavy topics (like how the internet is affecting your brain) and I thought a romance novel with a cowboy theme would be a nice break!
I reordered the book.
Yes, there was a bare chested guy on a motorcycle in the story. But he only appeared at the beginning of the book because he was rounding up cattle riding a motorcycle, not a horse. And he probably didn’t look like the dirty, sweaty, scratched and bruised-up cowboy you might find on a real round-up!
Oh yes, the first third or so of the book was all about “skin” and desire. But they didn’t do much beyond the desiring part. Although I might have missed that as I was glancing through it.
But then I found there actually was a plot!
And a "break" for me.
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