Colorado Heart — Cindy Holby

As a hard winter on the Colorado mountainside finally yields to spring, more than snow is melting in Angel's End…

To Cassie Parker, Colorado is the farthest point on earth from the dusty, troubled life she left behind in Texas. Here she has a birthright -- her grandfather's land not far from town -- and a chance at a promising new start. And Jake Reece certainly is promising.

There's never been a day in Jake's life that he didn't work harder than anyone else, and he's got a thousand head of cattle and the ranch of his wildest dreams to prove it. Yet winter has a way of making even the most independent of men long for more. That must be why he's so drawn to the strange, secretive beauty who's taken up on the Parker land.

But when Cassie runs afoul of the local cattleman's association -- with Jake at the helm -- what started as sparks ignites into a full blaze. And things in Angel's End are about to really heat up…