Cooper Fortune Maloney is the next best brother—and he knows it. But when Alana Searle wins him in a bachelor auction, he doesn’t mind being second choice. The flirty ranch hand has a few tricks up his denim sleeve he’s sure will win her over. The surprise is on Coop however when he learns what lovely Alana is hiding—and what she seeks!
Heatherly Bell was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama but lost her accent by the time she was two. Her grandmother, Mima, kept the both the accent and spirit of the southern woman alive for decades. After leaving Alabama, Heatherly lived with her family in both Puerto Rico and Maryland before being transplanted kicking and screaming to the California Bay Area. She now loves it here, she swears. Except the traffic.