Midnight Ryder — Joan Elliott Pickart

Ashley Hunt wasn't going to take her eviction notice sitting down! Whoever he was, Ryder Cantrell had no right galloping into her happy, orderly life and blowing it -- and the warehouse that was home to her plant business -- to smithereens! But when she steeled herself to confront the man, he pushed all her thoughts of fierce resistance aside with a stunning embrace that left her breathless... and yearning to know his heart. Ryder was a man with a past full of secret pain, she discovered, of hurts only she could soothe. But could the tender lover who'd whispered his dreams learn how to give his trust?