The town of Linhart had never seen a sophisticated
beauty like Sydney Baines, and Russ Klein suspected that
whatever had brought the long-legged detective all the
way to the Texas Hill Country couldn’t be good. And
he was right–years of weaning his mother away from
Las Vegas’s high rollers would be wasted and her
gambling addiction would be back in full swing once
Sydney’s news about his long-lost inheritance got out.

At first the big-city sleuth didn’t believe it. The harder
she pushed the stubborn Texan to take the money, the
harder he resisted. Could she pass up the finder’s fee her
family desperately needed so the charming backwoods
adventurer could keep his secret? Because it looked as if
botching her assignment was the only way she
could catch her man….