The Arrangement

By Susan H. Spencer

Young, widowed Caroline Fowler never wants to see Ohio again. Fleeing a legacy of pain and betrayal, she moves to the Virginia hunt country with her young son and her old horse, and buys a lovely old house, with a history of which she is unaware. Planning to start a catering business, she expects to use her culinary skills and marketing savvy to beciome the next Martha Stewart.As she launches her new enterprise, friends launch her, straight into a new romance with Carter Burden, a kindly local doctor who is no threat to her hard-won emotional equilibrium. Rugged, magnetic horse vet Hank Gasden is a triple-edged threat with an edgy, possessive ex and a reputation, and everything about him sets off alarm bells for Caroline, who has walled off her heart ever since her husband broke it. And if that means living a boring, sterile existence, she is grimly determined to pay the price. But, from their first accidental meeting, Caroline is the only woman he wants. Although torn by temptation and regret, she defeats Hank's every effort to get close to her. Things go well, in an unexciting sort of way, and she convinces herself that life would be just about perfect, if only she could get her fiesty, teenaged son to stop acting out and start earning his usual A's at his exclusive private school. Ultimately, Hank hits on a strategy to overcome Caroline's defences. But, just when it looks as if he has no chance of winning her away from another man, unexpected events force her to take the chance of a lifetime and risk putting her heart on the line again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466266244
• ISBN13: 9781466266247
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"