Publication Date: April 1, 2007
Allison Masters is depressed. All she ever wanted to do with her life was please her father. As the only child of a wealthy hotel magnate, she’s spent years learning the business and trying to succeed at his side so that she could one day take over at the helm of the massive international corporation. So desperate was she to win his approval that she even became engaged to the man he thought she should marry.
But, after catching her fiancee in bed with her secretary, her life is in a shambles. She raised such a ruckus over the discovery that her father decided she needed some time to cool down. He’s banished her to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to run the family’s exclusive mountain resort for six months.
She hates everything about the famous cowboy community, especially country western singer, Harley “Beau” Beaudine, who has come out of retirement to play nightly shows at their small inn. To Allison’s ultimate dismay, he’s the most handsome, most sexy man she’s ever encountered, but he’s also the most rude, egotistical, obnoxious, and overbearing. And a disgusting womanizer to boot — one who hits on every female he sees.
When he makes a pass at Allison — right in front of her new staff — then adds insult to injury by falling asleep during her first employee meeting, Allison wants to kill him, but Beau has other ideas.
He’s bored with his life, and he thinks a hot, passionate sexual liaison with Allison is just the quick-fix he needs. What he hadn’t counted on, though, was how much he’d grow to like her. Or how much he wouldn’t want her to leave when the time comes for her to return to New York.
As a true “single” man in every sense of the word, he’s terrified by his feelings for her and constantly wishes he could figure out where she can fit into his life. Can he open his heart enough to make a commitment? Will he realize he loves her before it’s too late?
Join Allison as she walks down the rocky road of romance, hoping to end up with everything she’s ever wanted. Can she snag the ultimate ladies’ man? Will she be able to keep him? Will love ever be enough?
CHERYL HOLT is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon “Top 100” bestselling author who has published over sixty novels.
She’s also a lawyer and mom, and at age forty, with two babies at home, she started a new career as a commercial fiction writer. She’d hoped to be a suspense novelist, but couldn’t sell any of her manuscripts, so she ended up taking a detour into romance where she was stunned to discover that she has a knack for writing some of the world’s greatest love stories.
Her books have been released to wide acclaim, and she has won or been nominated for many national awards. She is considered to be one of the masters of the romance genre. For many years, she was hailed as “The Queen of Erotic Romance”, and she’s also revered as “The International Queen of Villains.” She is particularly proud to have been named “Best Storyteller of the Year” by the trade magazine Romantic Times BOOK Reviews.
She lives and writes in Hollywood, California, and she loves to hear from fans.
