The Contract — Ronnie Roberts

The last of the wedding dress promise girls, painter Hayley Spencer is still alone, still vulnerable, and living back on the family farm. Cash poor and land rich, she opens a Bed and Breakfast. As usual, life never unfolds as she'd imagined, and she finds herself signing a contract to cater exclusively to one very rich client and his frail father for one year. Jaded gazillionaire Sam Morgan flies his helicopter up from the city into Laurel Valley every weekend to stay with his recovering father. The fact that his shy, tender-hearted hostess is extremely agreeable to look at has nothing to do with his eagerness to get back to the farm each week. This is all about his father, right? Much to Hayley and Sam's surprise, a tentative working relationship - with benefits - begins to blossom. Was hope after ruin possible? Then Hayley's past bursts onto the scene, and like her paint pots, splashes garish colors across her carefully designed life plan. To add artistic interest, Sam's past stomps everything into a depressing mud brown. The contract Hayley and Sam signed should have come with a warning: "Dangerous Learning Curve ahead. Sign at your own peril." THE WEDDING DRESS PROMISE SERIES: Four Art School students chip and buy a vintage wedding gown just before graduation, with the promise they will each wear it, with her friends standing by her side - one day. How their lives would unfold, they could never guess at. Read all 4 of THE WEDDING DRESS PROMISE SERIES: Book 1: NO REGRETS. When fate forces free-spirited Goth-girl Darby Walker to past a summer at staid widower Joe MacKinnon's ranch, everyone is in for a wild ride. After falling in love with the entire MacKinnon family, Darby must face her worst nightmare to survive. Book 2: AFTER THE PARTY. Sculptor Laura Winthrop 's life is literally hijack at a company party, pairing her with hunky reporter Dean D'Angelo in an undercover operation to stop a madman. Too bad Dean is secretly working against her. Book 3: THE WISH LIST. When Darby publishes Maggie's 'man wish list' in the local paper's personal column, Maggie finds herself being escorted by her hunky neighbor, Quinn Carter to meet her prospective 'matches'. What a disaster; a disaster Quinn is enjoying too damned much Instead of romance, Maggie finds herself a stalker and nobody's laughing anymore. Book4: THE CONTRACT. Which you have in your hand. Yay you Maybe consider the first Book of my Poet, Oregon Series, entitled THE FIXER UPPER when you done?