Jody Hedlund

Hazel Noble loves her job managing the mares at High Country Ranch. As the foaling season begins, she gets to spend even more time with the horses . . . and with her secret crush, Maverick Oakley.

Assistant schoolteacher Clarabelle Oakley has a hard time saying no. When Eric Meyer, widowed father of two of her young students, proposes to her, she botches her effort to tell him no and that she wants to marry for love, not convenience.

In the high country of Colorado, hardships are a given, but love has a way of overcoming all the losses.

In the high country of Colorado, love endures all things, even the solitary way of life in the wilderness.

In the high country of Colorado, danger sometimes causes enemies to work together . . . and fall in love.