Dear Reader,

Welcome back to Rambling Rose, the town that has been turned on its ear by the Fortunes of Texas, and never more so than now, when the Hotel Fortune—after fits and starts—is finally open for business. But what kind of business is actually going on at the hotel?

For Jay Cross, who simply came back to Rambling Rose to get a break from the frenzy that his life had become, it’s a place to make an honest day’s pay where nobody has any expectations of him other than that he do his job. If not for the local law, who aren’t happy about the supposed “gaps” in his life when they look his way after one too many mishaps at the hotel, life is nearly perfect.

For Arabella Fortune, who came back to Rambling Rose with dreams in her mind directly related to the handsome Jay, the business of the day is to finally find out what he was going to tell her the night they’d met so many months ago. The night he’d been unable to finish his sentence, I think you should know that— She’s been dreaming about a romantic ending to that sentence for months now.

But will there be romance and love in store for them? Or has Arabella been fantasizing all of these months about a man who has more secrets than Texas has Fortunes?

Hope you’ll enjoy finding out!

Allison