BLAIR BEDFORD has a way with horses and rope. One is public knowledge, the other is a well-kept secret. Rodeo is his livelihood, shibari is his guilty pleasure. One he's waiting to share with the right woman.

When he comes across a stranded traveler, it's country hospitality to stop and help her. It's lust when he's having MILF fantasies about her. Lucinda is a single mother. And she's older. But, damn, she's hot.

Single mum LUCINDA BELLAMY has left the city behind for a temporary tree-change. She's survived quite well without a man in her life, thanks. The one she married up and left when she got pregnant, so now her business and her daughter fill her time and her heart.

So, she shouldn't be ogling their rescuer's body – especially as he's at least a decade younger. She thought that part of her had been doused by the demands of motherhood and work. Or is that just her excuse because she no longer trusts men?

Part of her wants to respond to their sizzling chemistry. The other part doubts she even remembers how.
It only takes their first sizzling kiss to prove her doubts are unfounded.