Author Description

"Dakota Nakos has always been a resilient, strong-willed achiever. But when her father dies and she's entrusted with the family's casino, she feels vulnerable, scared, and more than a little emotional not exactly the best time to see an old lover she's never really gotten over. Dakota once meant the world to Shane Garrity. Then suddenly he left town to train as a U.S. Marshal, and their love for each other crashed into a memory. Now he's come home for her father's funeral, and one look at the girl he left behind stirs up both memories and regrets, and reignites a fire he feared he'd lost forever. Dakota may be the same driven girl she's always been, but she's also changed in ways neither could have anticipated. She's not just a young woman searching for her own identity in the Native American community in which she was raised, but one questioning her new life outside her father's shadow. Above all, she wonders whether Shane can push past her weakened defenses to rekindle what they once had, or the intense blaze between them will ultimately reduce her heart to ashes"--