From award-winning author Molly O’Keefe comes a wonderfully written contemporary romance about second chances at life and at love.
Victoria Baker, the penniless widow of a disgraced financier, is ready to stand up, be counted, and make a new life for herself and her beloved son in Texas. She’s taking over Crooked Creek ranch, her birthright, and turning it into something special. All that stands in her way is Eli Turnbull, a rugged, too-handsome cowboy who wants the land just as badly.
If Victoria wants a fight, Eli will give her one. He’s devoted his life to Crooked Creek, and he’s not about to let some pampered city girl—even one as brave and beautiful as Victoria—turn it into some silly spa. But Victoria’s and Eli’s burning anger and frustration only fuel heat of another kind: uncontrollable passion. And soon they each realize that the person standing in their way is the one they can never do without.
Can’t Hurry Love
By mollyokeefe
Wow, the growth and the difference in the characters from the start of this story until the end was simply breathtaking! Victoria and Eli have a million very valid reasons for how they feel and what they do because of those feelings, but what they can’t deny is that, though they should be enemies, are enemies because of their family roots, they have a connection. Not just a physical attraction, but an emotional one. And by seeing the cracks the other, they are able to heal the cracks in themselves. By being there and supporting the other, they are building up and releasing their own inner strength. Out of sync, and in denial for most of the story, when they finally let everything fall into place, they are beautiful with the perfectness of them being together!