THE SECRET HEIR OF SUNSET RANCH – Charlene Sands
Slades of Sunset Ranch , Book 3
Harlequin Desire
November 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-373-73276-0
Contemporary Series Romance

Sunset Ranch, Western Nevada – Present Day

Eighteen months ago, Justin Slade enjoyed a one night stand with a beautiful woman; now, he finds that same woman living at his friend's home in Nevada, just miles from his own family's home.  Justin stops at Matilda Applegate's hog farm to explain why her nephew, Brett, is dead.  Instead, he finds Katherine Grady living there with her infant son, Connor.  In a mixed up twist of facts, Katherine believes that Justin is Brett.  Justin, shocked that she has a son, tells Kat the truth.  When he met her eighteen months ago, he introduced himself as Brett Applegate.  It was a joke.  He and Brett changed places on a bet. Brett took Justin's wallet and his name and his money and went out on the town.  Justin did the same, and each pretended to be the other for just for one night.  Kat has to come to terms with the fact that the man she thought she slept with was not Brett but Justin; and Justin has to absorb the fact that he is a father.

Katherine Grady grew up in a violent home, moving with her mother from shelter to shelter just to survive, always staying one step ahead of her abusive father.  Kat managed then, and she'll survive now.  But she refuses to tell Brett's Aunt Mattie the truth about Connor.  The woman has a bad heart and is only surviving the news of Brett's death in Afghanistan because of Connor, the boy she believes is Brett's son. Kat and the boy's appearance in her life have given her the hope to live.  So, with secrets unspoken, Justin and Kat have lots to talk about, and many tangled threads to unravel as they work through a compromise with their son and each other.

THE SECRET HEIR OF SUNSET RANCH is the third novel in The Slades of Sunset Ranch series; following SUNSET SURRENDER (January 2013) and SUNSET SEDUCTION (June 2013).  As Justin settles into life at Sunset Ranch after the horrors of Afghanistan, he works through the problems he and Kat are facing while trying to come to terms with Brett's death, for which he feels responsible.  With dynamic secondary characters, this story is passionate and fresh.

THE SECRET HEIR OF SUNSET RANCH is a story with lots of twists and turns, don't miss it!

Diana Risso