THE HEART WON'T LIE – Vicki Lewis Thompson
Sons of Chance Series
Harlequin Blaze #759
ISBN: 978-0-373-79763-9
August 2013
Series Romance

Last Chance Ranch, Wyoming – Present Day

Popular western fiction writer Michael Hartford has a dilemma. Despite writing about cowboys and ranch life, he's never set foot on one, let alone ridden a horse. With an upcoming video shoot on the horizon, he decides to get a crash course on riding horses and living on a ranch—at the Last Chance Ranch in Wyoming, where only ranch head Jack Chance initially knows his true identity. One of the first people Michael meets is housekeeper Keri Fitzpatrick, and an instant attraction develops. Soon she's helping Michael to learn the ropes by loaning him her copies of books by…Tom Ford…which happens to be Michael's pen name. Michael realizes that before she figures out the truth—and before they end up between the sheets—he's going to have to come clean with her.

Keri landed on the ranch after running away from her socialite life in Pennsylvania where she became notorious for a fight with another woman. She enjoys ranch life, but soon she'll be on her way, probably back to her hometown. In the meantime, Michael interests her like no other man has recently. She shouldn't get involved with a guest, but when Jack gives the go-ahead, it's a race to see how long before Keri and Michael make love. She's stunned when he tells her that he is Tom Ford, her favorite author. But that soon becomes water under the bridge when both realize the nights they can be together are ticking down and they daren't waste any time.

In THE HEART WON'T LIE, Michael has been living a lie as a writer of western fiction, and he wants to change all that on the Last Chance Ranch. He's managed to keep the truth of his identity and that he lives in New York City from the public, but now maybe it's time to come out of the closet (so to speak). He connects immediately with Keri, and it helps that their bedrooms are across from each other in a deserted part of the house. It gives them an opportunity to do some hanky-panky without others realizing it, though it's really not a big secret.

The chemistry between Michael and Keri scorches the pages in THE HEART WON'T LIE, and there are plenty of sex scenes that warrant keeping an ice cold drink nearby. Along the way, Michael learns about riding a horse and dressing as a cowboy, and it turns into something he begins to thoroughly enjoy. Meanwhile, Keri wonders if it isn't time to move on, because once Michael leaves, she's not sure she'll enjoy living here any longer. As the end to their time together draws closer, the harder they find it to say goodbye.

Readers who are familiar with the Sons of Chance series will get caught up on the Chance family, especially since the matriarch of the family, Sarah, is set to wed Pete Beckett at the end of the week and the ranch is abuzz with the preparations. But don't worry that this is the last in the series, because another tale is set for release this Christmas season. With an abundance of sexy cowboys walking around with their shirts off, Last Chance Ranch is the best place to ogle some man candy.

THE HEART WON'T LIE provides readers with a sexy and sizzling hot story that tingles with a touch of humor and makes this tale a winner.

Patti Fischer