Alone with You (2014)

Debbi Rawlins's Made in Montana romance was published by Harlequin in 2014. Lexy Worthington's job depends on getting the rodeo champion Will Tanner from Montana to Houston in time for a photo shoot he wants no part of; he will not fly, so she rides with him in his old trailer, Betsy, short of cash all the way. (Open Library)

Watches

Rolex watch: Lexy's gold Rolex, with diamonds, was her grandmother's gift; she once pawned it and hastily redeemed it (p. 195). Tanner eyes it as proof of family money (p. 82). With her card declined at a motel she offers it as collateral, and when the owner calls it a good knockoff she points out the crown on the clasp (p. 94). At a poker table she lays it on the chips so that Tanner need not stake his world champion gold buckle against his father, J.D.; after the hand it is polished on a plaid shirt hem and handed back (pp. 194 to 196). The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: She pulled off her Rolex. “Here. Take this.” She addressed J.D., pleading with her eyes. “It’s solid gold, real diamonds, worth about forty thousand.” (Debbi Rawlins, Alone with You, scan cataloged as Harlequin, 2014, p. 194; Internet Archive scan OCR)