Returning to his childhood hometown in search of peace and quiet to finish his latest novel, bestselling mystery writer Shae Malone is disturbed by Harriet Whitlock, the girl next door now grown up into a long-legged beauty
Paired up in her cooking class with debonair playboy Taylor McQuaid, Annie Malone is certain that the class will be a disaster, but he sets out to prove her suspicions wrong
When Christine Brighton, a volunteer worker helping him renovate houses for the poor, joins Bear Malone's construction team, Bear is at first skeptical about her intentions, until she shows him her free-spirited nature. Original.