Stealing Hearts

The heroine has loved Rhett Walker for as long as she can remember. He is ten years older and her brother's best friend, which has never made things easy. A falling-out kept them apart for years.

Then Rhett finds her sleeping in her car. He takes her off to "safety" whether she agrees or not, and he is back in her life.

Rhett's ranch is thirty days from foreclosure, and someone is deliberately sabotaging it. A friend can arrange the loan that might save the land, but only if Rhett is married.

So a marriage of convenience begins as a business deal between two people who each know exactly where the other is most easily hurt.

This is the first book in the Wild at Heart series, an age-gap romance with a single-dad hero and a grumpy cowboy streak. It brings in a household of rowdy brothers and a small town full of secrets. The thirty-day deadline drives the plot.