Desert Heat: an Abandoned Places novel

By Lila Schow

Mike Ironhorse has made a promise he thinks will be easy to keep. He'll hire his best friend's ex-fianc? as a wilderness expert for his two-week desert survival course. And he won't hit on her. Easy, right? Then he meets her.Adaline Lopez, Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient, thinks her life can't get much tougher. In addition to being disabled, discharged, and depressed, she must also rely on her ex-fianc? to find an employer who will hire her in her present condition. Can't get much tougher, right? Then she meets her new boss.Working for Mike Ironhorse is a major SNAFU to her road to recovery. He doesn't trust her with the material, the students or himself, her ex keeps showing up to surprise her on the job, a neighbor kid has decided she's his new best bud and, worst of all, her four closest friends have enrolled in the course as a show of support.Not to mention she and Mike are fighting a very strong, and very unwanted, attraction. Just when they begin to trust each other, a local goes missing in the vast Arizona desert.The class volunteers to help the search, but Adaline finds herself in an awful state of affairs. Can she risk her new-found happiness and tender feelings for Mike to save a man in the same situation that nearly killed her during the war?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484934008
• ISBN13: 9781484934005
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"