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Praise for the novels of New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author
DIANA PALMER
“Lots of passion, thrills, and plenty of suspense… a top-notch read!”
Romance Reviews Today
“Diana Palmer is a mesmerising storyteller who captures the essence of what a romance should be.”
Affaire de Coeur
“Diana Palmer is one of those authors whose books are always enjoyable. She throws in romance, suspense and a good story line.”
The Romance Reader on Before Sunrise
“A delightful romance with interesting new characters and many familiar faces.”
RT Book Reviews on Wyoming Tough
Also available by Diana Palmer
Wyoming Men
Wyoming Tough
Wyoming Fierce Wyoming Bold Wyoming Strong Wyoming Rugged Wyoming Brave Wyoming Winter
Untamed
A Husband for Christmas Invincible White Christmas Undaunted
And in e-Book:
Hunter
To Have and to Hold Miss Greenhorn Reluctant Father Betrayed by Love His Girl Friday Hoodwinked Heart of Ice Blind Promises Diamond Spur Eye of the Tiger Champagne Girl The Morcai Battalion The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit The Morcai Battalion: Invictus
Wyoming Winter
Diana Palmer
The prolific author of more than 100 books, DIANA PALMER got her start as a newspaper reporter. A multi–New York Times bestselling author and one of the top ten romance writers in America, she has a gift for telling the most sensual tales with charm and humour. Diana lives with her family in Cornelia, Georgia.
Visit her website at www.DianaPalmer.com
Contents
COLIE THOMPSON WAS in a mild panic. Her brother, Rodney, was bringing over his friend J.C. Calhoun. J.C. was thirty-two, pretty much at the end of his Army Reserve service—the cutoff age was thirty-two. He and Rodney had met in Iraq, almost four years ago. Both men were with the same Army unit. Rodney was serving his first tour of duty. J.C.’s Army Reserve unit had been called up for limited duty, and he was assigned to the same area as Rodney. In one of those wild coincidences, they started talking and discovered that they lived in the same Wyoming town, J.C. having taken a job with another Catelow resident, Ren Colter, whom he’d met during his first tour of duty. Rodney looked up to J.C., who was a little older. The older man had been a police officer before he went into the Army the first time, almost twelve years earlier.
Rodney left the Army before his tour of duty was officially up, never saying why. He’d been home for several months. After J.C. finished his overseas duty, he came home with him sometimes, although they’d grown apart since Rodney started a new job. They still went around together, but not often. One memorable visit to the Thompson home was on Colie’s birthday,
