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Barbara Houlton is a best-selling romance author, known on her behalf achingly great love experiences. However, her own love life is little or nothing to send a letter home about. Raped on the eve of her high-school graduation, she was kept pregnant and scarred, both psychologically and physically. She's learned to cover up the physical scars, but the emotional scars that taint her soul become harder to cover up every day. Sarcasm, avoidance and denial have grown to be weapons to keep her monstrous past away. Barbara avoids her home town at all costs. She denies to all those who are concerned on her behalf that there is anything wrong. And the ones who make an effort to pass her protective boundaries are satisfied with her lowering sarcasm. Her emotional scars make intimacy a terrifying thing, and the ones who make an effort to understanding this beautiful rose are quickly satisfied with her thorns. Instead, she adores through her people, embracing her intimate dreams with every publication she writes, and convinces herself it is enough. When her daddy falls ill, she is forced to return home to Hamilton, New Mexico, a tiny town that comes with big problems, the largest which is Steve Meston. Steve has already established a crush on Barbara since senior high school. But he is no more the awkward, timid son from her junior. He's now confident, attractive and relentless in his pursuit of her, despite her best work to put him off. His patient and steadfast love back again her into a corner, and she sees that all her weapons are inadequate against his great love. Now she must stop preventing and confront her recent, or lose the one man who was able to see through her thorns.
