The Call of Home — Melinda Cross

Underneath, she was a woman in need of love

Jessie'd had to make herself strong to cope with family obligations. But now she was free to pursue her wildlife painting.

She headed back to her childhood haunt, to the cabin on her father's old resort property in Michigan. She hadn't expected to meet anyone like Haveron Michels, the present owner -- a hard, uncaring man who welcomed no one.

Jessie had never known what it was like to be the kind of woman men felt they had to care for. Now, inexplicably, this strange man evoked that age-old feminine response.

Hero: Haveron Michels
Heroine: Jessica "Jessie" Loren