✍ Scribed by Charlene Bright
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Annalisa Jamison has spent her life avoiding attention, content to hide behind her books and stay away from the drama that seeps through her small Texas town. A local girl with local ambitions, she works as a part-time librarian while harboring self-esteem issues and a deep–seated mistrust of men, due in large part to the childhood trauma she experienced when her less than loving father abandoned her family. Despite little interest in love, Annalisa does have one secret, one she holds close to her chest.
Luke McMurtry, the town rascal and player, stole her heart long ago…. But he doesn’t know it, and she’ll never tell him. He’s a hard-partying cowboy with a reputation for trouble and she knows enough to stay far away. Yet that all changes when Luke, the eldest of the McMurtry brothers of the Triple M Ranch, spies her at his brother’s wedding. After watching his younger brothers succumb to the allure of love and find themselves in marriage, Luke needs a reprieve–and a respite from 'love.'
As the only woman in town who hasn’t fallen to his charms, the lovely Annalisa seems the perfect target…. Except she is having none of it. The normally demure woman tells him off, and somehow inspires an interest, and a strange craving Luke didn’t know he could feel. Suddenly he doesn’t want Annalisa to just be a one-night-stand, he wants more, much more…but can he get past his own ego to find her heart? Can they overcome the pasts that have haunted them both for way too long and learn to trust each other, or are they simply embarking on a collision course twenty years in the making that will result in a disaster?
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