Jude Barrington owns the Hideaway Ranch, where the caretakers frequently offer a place of refuge and solace to girls in need.
He, however, has had it with their "rescues", and he's already expressed his opinion. Bringing another girl here is not only against his better judgement; it's lunacy.
But as he rounds the corner and sees her, he suddenly stops.
And stares.
"Oh, god," he mutters. "Not this one."
Tessa Carr has been writing since she was a child, and entertaining her friends with stories about them. In the back of her mind, however, always lurked stories about romance, mystery, and adventure. Being a Navy brat and moving frequently to new places and meeting new people brought on new stories that hovered in her mind.
The excitement of it never went away. Even today, those stories still hover. She loves writing historical, and for many years has written romantic historicals as Pippa Greathouse, but recently has begun the new genre of Romantic suspense. Arms of Shelter also has a western flair as well.