How to Train the Grumpy Cowboy

With two degrees, a half-finished dissertation, and a bank balance sliding toward nothing, Delilah Kersey overhears a man offering room and board to anyone who can work with his dogs.

She has never trained a dog and chooses not to say so, betting on the Kersey Method she absorbed beside the father who invented it and never had the chance to practice.

Joseph "Zero" Renshaw carries a callsign built on zero excuses and zero room for failure, but that standard still could not bring his best friend home—the man his sister married.

A run-down ranch, a sister who will not leave her bed, and four rescue dogs that reject every rule have left his nephew afraid of them.

Surviving a war did not prepare him to be beaten by a Labrador, much less to tolerate a smart-mouthed art historian who argues with him, laughs at him, and makes the house feel like a home.

Four dogs and one grumpy cowboy stand between Delilah and the job she is not qualified to take, and the animals may not be the hard part.