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Cowboy in My Pocket [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML]

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Michelle Garrison is a romance writer facing her greatest challenge, an editor who thinks her work is stale. Grudgingly, Michelle leaves New York for a western dude ranch sojourn straight out of the worst western romance. Tag Martin is a rancher being forced by his grandmother to marry in order to keep his ranch. At the last minute, the friend he planned to marry in a fake ceremony elopes and arranges for him to marry a complete stranger. When his friend and ranch hand finds a woman wandering along the road, he assumes the woman is the bride-to-be. The woman, however, has no clue as to her identity but agrees to marry Tag to help him. As the newlyweds work the ranch together, feelings begin to grow and flourish despite the lies and misconceptions threatening to tear them apart. The developing relationship between Tag and Michelle is the saving grace of this book. They are likeable despite the trials and tribulations they must suffer.

Cowboy in My Pocket by Kate Douglas may be a spoof, a take-off on all the clichés of contemporary romance novels but it is a darned good read. In fact, it may be the most enjoyable romance I've read in months. I bought the book intending to have a good snicker at the unrealistic themes that are currently mandatory in contemporary romance. I did have a number of laughs at the extremes to which Kate pushed her hero and heroine. However, even knowing that it was a satire, I got involved with Lee (Michelle) and Tag. They are thoroughly believable and appealing characters. Tag is (without being larger than life) the ultimately appealing loner Cowboy hero and Lee is his emotional match. Kate Douglas is immensely talented. Not only is she funny but she can write a sex scene that'll knock your socks off. (If that's what you want it to do.) Cowboy in Your Pocket is a novel which will delight and surprise you. As a bonus, its characters will live in your memory long after the laughs are gone.