Title: Rancher’s Dream by B.J. Daniels
Montana Cahills Series Book Six
Publisher: HQN Books
Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Suspense
Length: 384 pages
Summary:
A bride becomes a target in New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels’s latest can’t-miss suspense
Tragedy sent Deidre “Drey” Hunter running from rancher Hawk Cahill and into the arms of a sleek businessman who promised her a new life. But dreams of Manhattan days and cosmopolitan nights shatter when he brings her back to an ultramodern paradise in her hometown of Gilt Edge—and vanishes on their wedding night.
Taunted by seclusion and silence, Drey starts to doubt everything…including her sanity. Only Hawk, the stubborn cowboy from her school days, believes the threats are real and that someone is ready to kill. But is he willing to forgive the past if it means ending her nightmare?
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Excerpt #4
Hawk Cahill had stayed as far away from Gilt Edge and the festivities as he could on Drey’s wedding day. He’d ridden up into the mountains that surrounded the small Montana town so people would quit asking him if he’d heard about Drey marrying some New Yorker.
He’d have had to be living on the moon not to hear about the upcoming wedding.
His family had the good sense not to bring it up in the days preceding the big event. Invitations had gone out. Like that monstrosity he’d built to his ego, Ethan Baxter had made sure that his wedding would go down as the biggest event this town had ever seen.
At least that’s what he was quoted as saying in the article that ran in the local paper about the engagement. Hawk had heard that Drey needed a wheelbarrow just to haul around the huge diamond on her ring finger.
He’d gritted his teeth all day, getting through it the same way he did when he had a root canal at the dentist.
But tonight, as he and his horse started out of the mountains in the dark with only the moon and starlight to guide him, he couldn’t keep his mind off the fact that Drey was married. This was her wedding night—and not the one he’d envisioned for her all those years ago. He could almost laugh about the plan he’d had for their wedding night.
Nothing like Ethan Baxter’s, that was for sure. Hawk wouldn’t have taken Drey in some fancy car to some ugly mansion on the mountainside. Nope, he’d planned to erect a wall tent up by one of his favorite mountain lakes. After the wedding they would have ridden by horseback to find a lantern burning inside the white tent. The only music would be the gentle lapping of the lake at the rocky shore and the sweet sounds of their lovemaking.
With a curse, he spurred his horse, anxious to get back to the ranch and reality. His new reality. And his own fault. He’d never been able to forgive her after what had happened in college. Even now, after all these years, the pain had dulled to only an ache. He’d thought it the worst pain he’d ever experience.
But knowing that Drey would be spending this night with some other man as his wife was almost more pain than he could endure.
“You can stop her from marrying him,” his little sister, Lillie, had pleaded. Drey had told him she was planning to get married. When the announcement had come out in the local newspaper, it left little doubt that it was true.
“I’ve never been able to stop Drey from anything,” he’d told his sister, who still wouldn’t let it go. “This New Yorker can give her a hell of a lot more than I can.”
“Drey doesn’t care about any of that,” Lillie had snapped.
“You sure about that?”
His sister had been furious with him. “What happened between the two of you?” she’d demanded more times than he could remember.
“None of your business.”
She’d squinted at him, determination in her gray gaze so like his own. “I’m betting you’re to blame.”
He’d said nothing, knowing at least part of it was true.
“You’re really going to let your pigheaded stubbornness keep you from the only woman you’ve ever loved? Then you aren’t the man I thought you were.”
He hadn’t bothered to argue. He wasn’t the man his little sister thought he was and it hurt like hell. Especially tonight when he knew that because of his inability to forgive, he’d let the best thing he’d ever had get away.
Author Bio
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author B.J. Daniels was born in Texas but moved with her family to Montana at the age of five. Her first home was a cabin in the Gallatin Canyon and later a lake house on Hebgen Lake outside of West Yellowstone.
Most of her books are set in Montana, a place she loves. She lives now in a unique part of the state with her husband and three Springer Spaniels.
When she isn’t writing, she loves to play tennis, boat, camp, quilt and snowboard. There is nothing she enjoys more than curling up with a good book.
Author Links: Website * Facebook * Twitter * Goodreads
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