Dear Reader,

I suspect there is a law, somewhere, that writers are not supposed to pick favorites. It would be like a mother choosing a favorite child!

I fall in love with all my heroes: princes, billionaires, businessmen, tycoons.

But I do have a confession to make. I have favorites. And they are the soldiers, the cowboys, the cops. They are the men who have been on the front lines of life and death, and who have emerged from their experiences—events that might have destroyed lesser men—scarred and wary, unwilling to trust anything they cannot control.

From the moment that Lancaster strode into His Convenient Royal Bride, I felt the same thunk that Sophie felt the first time she ever laid eyes on him. I knew he would have to have his own story, and that Sophie would be the one who rescued him from his self-imposed prison of solitude and self-reliance. It would be Sophie who helped him to see how his experiences had made him stronger than ever before.

I hope you’ll enjoy every second of Sophie and Lancaster as they tackle the greatest loss of control of all, the incredible roller-coaster-ride adventure of falling in love.

With warmest wishes,

Cara Colter