Granted, standing in the middle of a deserted road with an axe in each hand probably wasn't the best way to get a car to stop for me. But stop, she did. Well, sort of. Okay, so she was just avoiding a rollover into the same ditch I'd broken down in when she braked long enough for me to hop in her truck bed.

Still, it's fate.

Not just because I need a ride asap to join the other smokejumpers in my crew already gearing up at the airstrip to fight a massive forest fire heading toward my family ranch, but more so because this is going to be a helluva story we'll be telling our grandkids one day.

Just as soon as I can get the skittish thing to trust that I'm nothing like whatever it is she's been running from.

The HIS TO CLAIM Series

Vol 1 (Bks 1-3): Montana Bachelors

- Book 1: Every Last Doubt (Adler & Sage)
- Book 2: Every Last Touch (Walker & Ashley)
- Book 3: Every Last Look (Barrett & Quinn)

Vol 2 (Bks 4-6): Montana Bachelorettes

- Book 4: Every Last Secret (Sutton & Maddy)
- Book 5: Every Last Reason (Emerson & Delia)
- Book 6: Every Last Call (Gamble & Siobhan)

Previously published as Barrett Cole (c) 2017, completely rewritten in first person POV and revised throughout with newly added content, a different extended ending, and a touch more steam (note that this hero is really gentle with his skittish heroine, so the book does start a little tamer than my usual stuff — but it picks up, as it is a Christa Wick book, after all *grin*).