The Cajun Cowboy

Charmaine LeDeux runs two beauty salons on the Louisiana bayou, and a loan shark is after her money. Then Raoul Lanier turns up with news she did not expect: the divorce she believed was final never went through, so they are still married.

They have also inherited his father's run-down cattle ranch, and they own it jointly. Raoul offers her a proper divorce this time if she sells him her half. Charmaine sees a better use for the place. A ranch far from town makes a good hideout for a woman who needs to lie low.

Raoul does not want her living under his roof, yet Charmaine has always been stubborn. She takes over the house, adds her own touches to every room, and wins over his three ranch hands. When her belly-dancing great-aunt and the rest of the LeDeux family arrive for Thanksgiving dinner, he accepts that he has lost the argument.

The old attraction between these two exes, still legally husband and wife, has not gone away, and the tone is comic. Raoul now has two jobs: keeping Charmaine safe from the Dixie mafia men searching for her, and persuading her that he deserves a second chance.