Stargazer Ranch Mystery Romance

"Once you pick up this book, it's incredibly difficult to put it down…"She's a helpless romantic.He's an enigmatic loner.Surviving the treacherous, mountain wilderness might be the least of their problems.French pastry chef, Stella Pereira has come to Stargazer Ranch to spend a year working as the assistant cook, hoping to sort out her troublesome feelings of restlessness and get back to living her perfect, planned life…until she meets Wyatt.Fresh out of prison-accused of a murder he didn't commit-Wyatt Wilson is trying to get his life back on track. The last thing he needs is more trouble, and he never anticipated rescuing a clueless French girl stuck in a storm.Just as things heat up between them, an acquaintance from Wyatt's prison days comes to visit, bringing trouble in the form of stolen diamonds and a gang of hired hitmen. When Wyatt's boss is murdered, Stella is caught up in the battle for survival, as they're forced to run into the mountains in the dead of winter to evade the murderous gangsters.For Wyatt, protecting the woman he's falling in love with might well be the biggest fight of his life…**Each book in the Stargazer Ranch Series can be read as a STANDALONE.While the characters overlap, each book tells a different, separate story with a happy ever after ending.**

"The action was non-stop, and I loved the ending-so romantic!"She's not who she seems.He doesn't know who to trust.They'll need each other to survive.Behind her shy, schoolteacher guise, Penny hides a traumatic past. Her job as the receptionist at Stargazer Ranch has provided sanctuary over the last two years. But when her abusive ex-husband reappears and tries to snatch her off the street, former cowboy Clayton steps in to help.Clayton has a chequered past; he's spent a year in prison for an attempted abduction. So, while Penny is eternally grateful to him for rescuing her, the irony isn't lost on him. Even if he is drawn to this beautiful, courageous woman, and their attraction is undeniable, he's the absolute last person Penny needs as a saviour.Against his better judgement, Clayton offers Penny refuge at his house. But things go from bad to worse when two hired hitmen try to kill them both, because Clayton is to be a witness in an upcoming trial of a notorious mob boss.It seems Penny is the only one who trusts him. But will that trust prove her undoing? Clayton will do anything to protect Penny, but neither of them bargained on the depths their pursuers will go to find them. Who will pay the ultimate sacrifice?**Each book in the Stargazer Ranch Series can be read as a STANDALONE.While the characters overlap, each book tells a different, separate story with a happy ever after ending.**