When Kayla Grey travels from Boston to Montana, the last thing she expects is to find her life in danger from a sudden, treacherous blizzard. And after she's rescued, she certainly doesn't expect to share heated, fireside kisses with the handsome, blue-eyed cowboy who saved her life. But then she discovers her hero is the very person she's flown so far to findhe's the brother of the man who'd proposed marriage mere weeks before dying in a tragic accident.
Montana rancher Cal Bartlett devoted his life to his younger brother, Liam. Ten years older, he'd raised the kid, giving him everything his heart desired, including the top-notch education that helped Liam win his job as a foreign correspondent for a major newspapera job that got him killed two long, bleak years ago.
But now Kaylathe woman his brother loved, a woman Cal shouldn't desirehas come to ask a favor. She's heard the whisper of a rumor that Liam is aliveheld in a secret prison, deep in the jungles of the tiny nation of San Salustiano. Kayla's determined to travel to the dangerous, war-torn island with Cal, on the pretense of a romantic vacation, but in truth to search for clues. Together, they'll risk their lives on the slim hope that Liam might still be alive.
It's an impossibly risky and dangerous journeyand the dead last thing either Cal or Kayla expects is to fall in love along the way....
Set in 1998 in Asylum, Montana, San Salustiano, and Boston, Massachusetts, Forbidden is a full length novel of 50K words or 212 pages. It's the first in Brockmann's two-book Bartlett Brothers series.
Forbidden was originally published in 1997 by Bantam Loveswept.