The awakening.

by Patricia Coughlin

IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN... Use-em-and-lose-em bounty hunter Flynn quickly sized up handy bystander Sara Marie McAllister: a sweet, shy, small-town woman who buried her bountiful curves and slumbering sexuality beneath baggy sweats and a passion for the piano. In short, the spinet-playing spinster was an easy mark for Flynn's impressive repertoire of five-finger exercises... So how did 'that nice McAllister girl' so thoroughly sabotage his cynical serenade? Butting into an ambush, she ended up in his arms. Whoa! Was Sara some she-devil in sheep's clothing...out to outfox the feral Flynn?

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