19th century Texas was alive with lovers and scoundrels, drifters and dreamers. It was a land brimming with wild, glorious passionsāpassions New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas tenderly evokes in this novel in the McLain series.
Fleeing trouble in Pittsburgh, young Kara OāRiley has no choice but to travel as far West as her meager funds will take her. And when she hires on as bookkeeper for a sprawling Texas ranch, she quickly decides that her new employer, Jonathan Catlin, is the coldest, strangest man sheās ever known. Heās told her he has exactly one year to make the ranch a successābut she has a feeling thereās an awful lot more heās not telling her. For one thing, thereās something odd about Catlin Ranch. For another, she has glimpsed a hint of tenderness in Jonathanās gorgeous, haunted eyesāand suddenly her lonely, aching heart is filled with fire...
19th century Texas was alive with lovers and scoundrels, drifters and dreamers. It was a land brimming with wild, glorious passionsāpassions New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas tenderly evokes in this novel in the McLain series.
Fleeing trouble in Pittsburgh, young Kara OāRiley has no choice but to travel as far West as her meager funds will take her. And when she hires on as bookkeeper for a sprawling Texas ranch, she quickly decides that her new employer, Jonathan Catlin, is the coldest, strangest man sheās ever known. Heās told her he has exactly one year to make the ranch a successābut she has a feeling thereās an awful lot more heās not telling her. For one thing, thereās something odd about Catlin Ranch. For another, she has glimpsed a hint of tenderness in Jonathanās gorgeous, haunted eyesāand suddenly her lonely, aching heart is filled with fire...