It was time to cut loose and live… Sarina Caminetti was a survivor. She survived an abusive marriage, a too smart for her own good daughter (who she loved dearly), even her rock- her brother getting shot and ending up in a wheelchair. It was finally her turn to THRIVE. And she was going to do that in Santa Fe, New Mexico! Until her temperamental little Italian sports car dies outside of Salvation population almost nothing.  Ransom Sheppard had a bad feeling about this. Yeah okay, he needed a ranch cook and one sip of coffee and a bite of her biscuits and he knew she could handle the job but now all the hands were finding reasons to hang out too close to the house for his liking. When his foreman looked like he was gonna make a play for her too, well that tore it! He let them all know she was off limits and the only one getting close to her was him. Even if he didn’t remember the first thing about courting a woman. Even if he can’t think straight when she’s around. Especially when she decides to take on the little girl who hangs around the ranch to stay out of her father’s path.

This deluxe edition comes with the bonus book Lovers: The Shorts. This set of four novellas features side characters that were just too good to let go. There is an age-gap love story that frankly he might be older but he is the definition of man-child. A girl grows up, leaves the ranch and has a love story of her own. A heroine's frienemy comes around. Tish and Gomez- no, not Addams. They sometimes have a holiday attached but not always. They are great for feeling like you are catching up with old friends!