Quicksand

Janet Dailey, a New York Times bestselling author, sets this rugged story on an Arizona cattle property, the Alamo Canyon Ranch, which is facing repossession. The Champion sisters are determined to keep their family's bull-breeding business alive, and that means dealing with some of the hardest men on the rodeo scene.

Tess Champion has every reason to distrust Brock Tolman, the rancher who cheated her late father out of land. Still, with foreclosure looming, she has little choice but to accept his offer of a partnership. Brock says he simply wants to cross the Champion bloodline into his own herd, and in return he gives Tess one of his young bulls.

That bull, Quicksand, soon rises to prominence on the rodeo circuit, though Tess finds she has a better eye for animals than for men. Her attraction to Brock keeps pulling at her, even though she is convinced he intends to take the ranch from her family. Then the wealthy businessman's private plane goes down in the wilderness, leaving him stranded with Tess, and the real nature of their relationship begins to come to light. With the family's future at stake, Tess may pay the highest price if she has given her heart to the wrong man.