liz talley

Pro bull rider Cal Lincoln is recovering from an injury in a sleepy Texas town and bored out of his mind. Then she walks in – a stunning brunette with sinfully kissable lips. She's definitely not a local.

Maggie Stanton can't let herself get distracted by a broad–shouldered cowboy with a sexy–as–all–hell smile. She needs to fix up the dilapidated ranch she's inherited and sell it fast. If that means hiring a cocky cowboy with burning heat in his eyes, then so be it.

There's no denying the attraction between them, so Maggie and Cal agree to work hard on the ranch during the day and then play hard at night. Five weeks of pleasure to get this crazy desire out of their system and then they'll go back to their lives.

Maggie will go back to the city. Cal will go after his next world championship.

But when a stranger offers to take the ranch off Maggie's hands – she finds herself at a crossroads. Should she sell the ranch and leave Cal in the dust? Or will she follow her heart?

Ten years ago, Howard Donald Long II was run out of Bonnet Creek by vicious lies, his practice, family and life nearly destroyed by the dirty allegations of one family–the Rodrigues. Now, Howard Long III, known as Tripp, is back to clear his father's name, and he's got the money and the muscles to do it.

Then he runs into Mary Belle Prudhomme. She'd been his closest friend as a kid, until they grew up, developed hormones and she rejected him. For Bear Rodrigue. She's still every fantasy he ever had come to life, yet now she seems vulnerable, alone. Tripp reaches out to her, and they find the easy connection they had when they were kids, as well as something more–forgiveness.

But justice and forgiveness are not the same thing. And in the pursuit of redemption, Tripp may lose the tenuous peace he's made with his past…and Mary Belle.