Jesse
First sentence
by the time I was seventeen, in junior college, and living on fruit snatched from neighborhood tress and Top Ramen, I no longer thought God was the creaks rising from the wood floor...
Description
First-born son Jesse Cody is proud of his place in the close-knit Cody family. But everything he's worked for is on the line when he falls for Janie Hansen. The alluring former tomboy is the sister of his rival for World Champion Bull Rider...a man who also happens to be the older brother he never knew he had. Janie has loved Jesse all her life. And one romantic week in December at the National Finals Rodeo tells her he returns the feeling--and then some! She couldn't ask for a better Christmas present than being the sexy cowboy's wife. But the long-buried secret threatening to divide the Codys forever could also tear apart their newfound romance. When the dust settles, can Jesse step up and prove he's worthy of the Cody name--and Janie's love--not just for the holidays, but forever?