
SHE WAS DETERMINED TO PUT HER PAST BEHIND HER. Her engagement was over, and gorgeous realtor Wilhelmina Silverthorne was determined to live her life her way. She'd stick to the things she knew and trusted—fast cars and haute cuisine—and steer clear of love in any form. Then Kiel Faulkner launched a mind-shattering, bone-melting assault on her senses and sensibilities. Suddenly she wanted him more than anything on earth, knowing that if she succumbed, he'd quickly disappear. He was a renegade, a man who broke all the rules—and won! Did she dare take on his challenge?
Author

Dixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus. Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Bronwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.