Clothing designer Jessica Cole has inherited her aunt and uncle's cattle farm. Perfect! She can sell the farm to finance her company's newest venture, a clothing line for children. Then she learns the condition of her inheritance-she must move to the small Texas town where she was raised and run the farm for six months. Since she knows nothing about managing a farm, she's forced to ask for help from the last man she ever expected to meet up with again, her ex-husband Jason Rawlings. Jason proves to be as ornery as ever. He's in a bind since his housekeeper left town, and needs someone to take her place. He agrees to Jessica's request on one condition: she must become his housekeeper for six months. Imagine, the CEO of a successful business, forced to become her ex-husband's maid! But what choice does she have? She can handle anything for six months, even keeping house for a man she used to love. After all, those old feelings are long dead and buried. ...or are they?
Author
Lori Copeland was born on 12 June 1941. She had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old. Over the next dozen years, her romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Walden Books' Best Seller award. She has been inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. Despite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, she decided to switch focus. Her subsequent books have been in the relatively new subgenre of Christian romance. She has also collaborated with authors Angela Elwell Hunt or Virginia Smith on a series of Christian romance novels. Lori and her husband of over forty years, Lance, live in Springfield, Missouri, surrounded by the beautiful Ozarks. They have three grown sons, three daughter-in-laws, and six wonderful grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. She and her husband are very involved in their church, and active in supporting mission work in Mali, West Africa.
