Previously published in BEACH BLANKET BAD BOYS Handle with Care
Experience has taught Gayle Hayes one thing: men are jerks. And after forgetting that one lesson again and again, Gayle has decided to come back to her small-town Montana roots and reset her curlers, so to speak. The last person she expects to run into is her former high school sweetheart. With his steely grip and steady gaze, rodeo bad boy Tristan McCullough isn't quite the boy she left behind. What hasn't changed is the spark still zinging between themand with a little luck, a little timing, and exactly the right touch, it just might light up the rest of their lives together . . .