Michelle is done with men after the way they have treated her. It takes a man who is desperately in need of money to convince her he doesn't want hers. He only wants her love.
Michelle, whose friends and family call her Mike, is the financial manager of her family's large tree farm. When she calls off her wedding and burns her wedding dress on the front lawn, she's done with men and thinks they're all after her money.
Could Glenn, a man who's down and out after selling everything but his truck to pay his late wife's medical bills, show her that some men aren't interested in her for her money?
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Michelle tossed her veil on the paper goods and stepped back. There was one more item she wanted to add to the pyre. Reaching behind her back, she slid a few satin buttons from their loopholes on her wedding dress until she could get a good hold of the fabric at the high neckline. Then she yanked at it and ripped open the remaining buttons until the dress hung loosely from her arms.
"Michelle, no! You're father paid a fortune for that dress," her mother pleaded. "That's French lace." She withdrew an embroidered handkerchief from her sleeve and began fanning her overheated face.
Stepping on the gathered lace overskirt and train to hold them in place, Mike ripped the snug-fitting sleeves off, leaving them inside out. She split the lace past her waist and stepped out of the designer-created overdress. Without a moment's regret, she scooped it up, train and all, and tossed in onto the pyre. Only decorum prevented her from pulling off the strapless satin under-dress and tossing it in, too.
She looked down at the engagement ring that sparkled on her finger. But when she began to twist it off, Lily demanded that she stop. "Your father paid for that, too."
In the predawn hours during a solitary ride on her ranch, Montana Freeborn collides with Seth Phoenix, centaur-turned-man and the embodiment of her psychic visions.
I loved him. At age twelve he touched my heart with his music. At age twenty he captured my heart when our eyes met as he sat on a stage and sang Four months later, he fractured my heart with his refusal to allow us to stay together. At age seventy
