Raised in a bawdy house, lovely young Jonty Rand had posed as a boy all her life to escape the notice of the rowdy cowboys who frequented the place. And to Jonty's way of thinking, the most notorious womanizer of the bunch was Cord McBain. So when her granny's dying wish made Cord Jonty's guardian, she despaired of ever revealing her true identity. Worst of all, Cord was determined to change her from a "sissy" into a rawhide-tough wrangler. In the rugged solitude of the Wyoming wilderness he rode his young charge relentlessly, assigning Jonty all the hardest tasks on his horse ranch and making her life a torment. Then one stormy night Cord discovered that Jonty would never be a man, only the wildest, most willing woman he'd ever taken in his arms, the one woman who could claim his heart...
Always a daydreamer, and often scolded for it by the grandmother who raised her, Norah Hess always wanted to be a writer. At eighteen, she was sent to Chicago to live with an aunt after her grandmother's death. It was there that she met her husband. After raising three children, Norah decided to write her first novel, and since then has had fifteen published romances. After her husband passed away, she and her two cats moved to Palm Springs, where the desert and mountains inspire her to write her Western romances.
