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College botany professor Madison Garrett knows she’ll be the one to win the no-sex bet she’s made with her three friends, absolutely no contest. She’s been celibate for ages and she’s spending the summer in Costa Rica searching for rare orchids. But she hasn’t planned on the sexy science nerd who’s joined her research group. When she notices that beneath his pocket protector lurks seriously rock-hard abs, all bets are off. Cowboy Jake Strickland is on a mission to save his surrogate father’s ranch and qualms aside, if he must pretend to be a flower geek to achieve his goal, then that’s what he’ll do. But now, he’s falling for gorgeous Madison and can’t help wondering what she’ll do when she learns he’s there to steal the precious orchid she's working to preserve.
Author
Lori Wilde can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write. She sold her first book in 1994 to Silhouette Romance but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out to Harlequin Duets and now, to Blaze. Lori is an adventuresome soul who loves to travel. She’s taken flying lessons, completed two marathons, rode in a hot-air balloon, performed with a professional jazz band, traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone. She lives in her native Texas, with her own real-life hero, Bill.
