Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner (Texas Hill Country Series #3)

Big Lizard Bottoms--where getting hitched is a local industry--is not any place Lindsey Attwood, a play-it-safe paleontologist who's sworn off romance, ever expected to find herself. She's here posing as a horse psychology student to help recover dinosaur tracks stolen from a local guest ranch. After only a day at the ranch, things start spiraling out of control. Her horse-therapy horse hates her, she's been adopted by a huge stray dog with a bad reputation, and there's this local rancher who has her all moonstruck. After years of digging around in the past, Lindsey's wondering if it's finally time to see what the present has to offer. "From the acclaimed author to "Tending Roses" comes a quirky and touching new novel of an ordinary place where something extraordinary lies just down the road a piece... Welcome to Big Lizard Bottoms, home of the famed Lover's Oak, where matrimony is a local industry, where you can get hitched, book a float trip down the river, or both. Not exactly an ideal vacation destination for a play-it-safe paleontologist who has sworn off romance. But Lindsey Attwood isn't on vacation. She's here on a covert mission to help recover dinosaur tracks stolen from a local guest ranch. If she has to pose as as a horse psychology patient and make nice with the local rancher to do it, she can handle that, can't she? Or maybe not. After she spends only a day at the ranch, things are spiraling out of control. Her horse therapy horse hates her, she's been adopted by an enormous stray sheepdog with an outlaw reputation, and the rancher,,,well, that situation is so out of bounds that Lindsey's head is in a whirl and she's feeling all moonstruck. Which, come to think of it, may be exactly what she needs. After years of digging around in the past, Lindsey wonders if it's finally time to see what the present has of offer..."--BOOK JACKET In Big Lizard Bottoms to recover stolen fossilized dinosaur tracks, Lindsey Attwood, a paleontologist who has sworn off romance, poses as a horse psychology student, only to find herself coping with a therapy horse that hates her, a huge stray dog with a bad reputation that has adopted her, and a gorgeous local rancher. Original