ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Many people helped with the research for this book. Any errors or omissions, however, are my own.
My thanks go to, in alphabetical order: The Honorable Barbara Buchanan, Rick Dalessio, Jake Druffel, Shane L. Greenbank, and Erika Iiams, for their help with country life, farming, drug-abuse issues, and legal issues. Thanks especially to Erika for the lentils.
As always, thanks to my awesome critique team: Barbara Buchanan, Carol Chappell, Anne Forell, Mary Guidry, Leslie Harlib, Kathy Harward, and Bob Pryor, for helping whip the book into shape.
And to my editors at Montlake Romance, Maria Gomez and Charlotte Herscher, for their assistance.
Finally, to my husband, Rick Nolting, and my sons, James Nolting and Sam Nolting, for helping me believe that I could and would write this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Photo 2015 Shoey Sindel.
Rosalind James, a publishing-industry veteran and former marketing executive, is the author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels published both independently and through Montlake Romance. She started writing down one of the stories in her head on a whim four years ago while living in Auckland, New Zealand. Within six weeks, she had finished the book, thrown a lifetime of caution to the wind, and quit her day job. She and her husband live in Berkeley, California, with a Labrador retriever named Charlie.
ALSO BY ROSALIND JAMES.
THE PARADISE, IDAHO SERIES.
Book 1: Carry Me Home.
Book 2: Hold Me Close.
THE ESCAPE TO NEW ZEALAND SERIES.
Prequel: Just for You.
Book 1: Just This Once Book 2: Just Good Friends.
Book 3: Just for Now Book 4: Just for Fun.
Book 5: Just My Luck Book 6: Just Not Mine Book 7: Just Once More.
Book 8: Just in Time Book 9: Just Stop Me.
THE NOT QUITE A BILLIONAIRE SERIES.
Book 1: Fierce.
THE KINCAIDS SERIES.
Book 1: Welcome to Paradise.
Book 2: Nothing Personal.
Book 3: Asking for Trouble.