Description:
Setting: Contemporary Warfield, Wisconsin
Sensuality Rating: 9 He's a man whose roots reach as solidly into the earth as the alfalfa he grows on his family's 150-year-old dairy farm. She's an author and photographer of documentary books, a job that keeps her constantly on the move, a more pleasant extension of her childhood spent shuttling from foster home to foster home. Rik Magnusson and Annie Beckett couldn't have less in common when Annie descends on Rik's Black Hollow Farm in pursuit of a mystery--the disappearance of a young infantry army officer during the little-known Black Hawk War of 1832--that is the subject of her new book. Rik and Annie are not prepared for the heated attraction between them, but shared sunrises and steamy nights go a long way toward healing old hurts (Annie's painful orphan status and Rik's betrayal by his former wife and separation from his beloved daughter). These "chance met strangers" find what they never knew they were looking for in each other, as Annie discovers her home in Rik's warm embrace and Rik captures another chance at love. Michelle Jerott, author of Absolute Trouble, creates a heartwarming love story readers can't put down, even if it means staying up All Night Long. --Alison Trinkle
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