Summary
She'd been watching the handsome rancher for a while, just a lone cowboy eating pie with an empty chair beside him. One night, Lizzie Wiles, Cowboy Café's feisty new waitress, went over and dared to interrupt his tortured solitude. Daniel Jefferson seemed shocked by her boldness as he buried himself in guilt over his wife's mysterious death. Lizzie tried to penetrate his gloom, but in the end, found herself falling in love. Having plans to leave town, she didn't want to think of these consequences. Worse, someone really wanted her to disappear--now! Attacked and warned to leave, Lizzie had every reason to go...but she had one undeniable reason to stay.
Carla Cassidy was born in Kansas. She is a popular American writer of over 80 romance novels since 1988. She also penned a fantasy novel as Carla Cook. Carla Cassidy grew up in a very small town in Kansas, where her father was an educator to children. She has been a professional cheerleader, an actress, and a singer-dancer in a show band before settling into her true love of writing.
She has won numerous awards for her writing. In 1995 she won Best Silhouette Romance from Romantic Times Magazine for Anything for Danny. In 1998 she also won a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine for Best Innovative Series. She was also nominated for Best Silhouette Romance for Pregnant with His Child.
Carla Cassidy is known for her First Kiss Series and The Sweet Dreams Series. Her titles include: 5 Minutes to Marriage, An Officer and a Princess, A Father's Love and Dead Certain.
(Bowker Author Biography)