In a classic case of mistaken identity, Blake Colter is tasked to find family friend Harper, a rich, spoiled brat, who has just been cut off from her finances and runs away right before Christmas.
Once Blake locates Harper in a Denver Women's Homeless Shelter, they are forced to stay at a cheap motel in the area instead of returning home due to a snow storm.
Despite having grown up together, Blake was never very fond of the mean spirited, bitchy, self-entitled Harper, so he's not only shocked to find himself attracted to the now legal Harper, but that Harper is attracted to him, too.
After a night of rolling in the hay, Harpers first time, Blake wants to continue seeing Harper. Until he drops her off at home the next day, and she calls him Marcus, his identical twin brothers name. Unable to correct her right away, Blake thinks nothing of it, but the following day, Harper sees Marcus in town with his girlfriend. Harper feels betrayed, and when Blake finally goes to her house days later, doesn't understand why she doesn't want to ever see him again.
This is a prequel novella to the larger novel-length story about Blake that will be published soon.
While this was a great lead in, I didn't quite buy the spoiled heiress suddenly seeing the error of her ways after spending a few nights on the street and getting to know one family who truly was homeless. I also didn't buy Blake's sudden about face from disliking Harper, and everything she was and stood for, to wanting to basically spend the rest of his life with her. I'm hoping in the full length story, the characters change in attitude is explained, but even if it's not, this was a hot little preview of what will surely be an explosive story.