Showdown by Tilly Bagshawe

Bobby Cameron is a cowboyo through and through.  An alpha male of the old school, his classic good looks have made women swoon on the racing circuit from Kentucky to Dubai.  After inheriting Highwood, his father's magnificent but debt-riddent ranch in California's Santa Ynez Valley, Bobby travels wherever he's wanted, breaking horses for their wealthy owners and raising the cash he needs to protect his land.  That's all he cares about--until he meets a young English girl named Milly Lockwood Groves.

The seventeen-year-old daughter of a millionaire Newmarket breeder, Mily has watched her odious brother become a jockey--and pursue a career she knows should be hers.  Forbidden to race because of a childhood accident and her mother's notions about unladylike behavior, Milly is still secretly determined to follow her dreams.  Then Bobby Cameron strids intot her ife, and nothing is ever the same. She accepts his offer to work for a year at Highwood, desperate to make a name for herself in racing...and for Bobby to see her as a woman.   Cauht up in a world where unscrupulous horse owners and billionaire media moguls rub shoulders---and more--with oversexed racing widows and fiercely ambitious jockeys, Milly must discover if she has what it takes to be a winner--on the track, in the bedroom, and ultimately, in the game of love. This book was hard for me to get hooked on.  After I got through the introduction I was pretty much hooked, but I almost stopped the cd and put it away.  I don't usually read books that are set in another country, but thought this one would be ok since it was set in the US and in England, and it turned out to be fine, but not one I would want to keep.

"Love, true love, is all about giving of yourself, without regard to what you may or may not get in return." --Kate McCabe (A Texas Wedding Vow)