A lot of the time a book will have one of the women who fall in love be a rough and tumble type and the other much more a city type. I thought that this novel and how it changed that story line was sorta cool.

Teal is a now infamous (unfortunately) former Senator's aide whose life was ripped to shreds when her affair with said Senator was outted to the media (now there's another novel right there. :))

August is a former lawyer whose entire life is blow up (figuratively at the beginning of the book) when she turns in her partner (romantic and law) for getting into bed with a drug lord type.

So August is hiding out at the ranch that she recently inherited, and Teal is trying to disappear across the country, get away from the media and her story. But she nearly croaks when her car breaks down and it's August who saves her. And so starts an interesting but pretty normal sort of romance.

I liked the characters, both main and secondary. And while I started out not totally liking August's ranch hands, by the end I had really started to like them and sorta wanted more info on them too.

It was a fun read and he, it's always good to read a book set in the super hot parts of the country when it is cold as hell outside.

I got this ARC through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )