Occasion – Brokenstraw Master, Lauren Nichols, Muriel Valenta

When she leaves Chicago for Montana—where she is to take possession of Brokenstraw, an estate she plans to resell—Casey imagines the deal will be quickly settled. Why would she linger in these unfamiliar lands, in this man's world where she doesn't belong? But fate seems to have other plans for her. For, no sooner does she arrive than Casey has an explosive encounter: with Jess Dalton, a man with an incandescent gaze, dangerously seductive—the man of her life, perhaps? Alas, Jess is also the brooding co-heir of Brokenstraw. And as soon as he learns who Casey is, he unceremoniously throws her out and warns her: he intends to remain sole master of Brokenstraw and will not let her sell it. At first powerless and disoriented, Casey picks herself up—and clandestinely, at night, sneaks onto the property, determined to settle in...